Comic Strip Presents...

Series & Episodes

  • The Hunt for Tony Blair The Hunt for Tony Blair

    First broadcast: Friday 14 October 2011, 9PM on Channel 4

    The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof.

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  • Four Men in a Plane Four Men in a Plane

    First broadcast: Tuesday 04 January 2000, 12AM on Channel 4

    Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson and Nigel Planer are the four salesmen who share a flight from hell on their way to a conference. With so many egos and so much machismo on display, the first part of the journey is taken up with squabbles over airmiles and upgrades.

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  • Four Men in a Car Four Men in a Car

    First broadcast: Sunday 12 April 1998, 12AM on Channel 4

    The four salesmen - Adrian Edmonson, Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson and Nigel Planer - share the car journey from hell, on their way to a sales conference where only one of them will be selected for promotion. With so many egos stuffed in one vehicle little surprise they find themselves on the hard shoulder in a battered car without an AA phone in sight.

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  • Five Go Mad on Mescalin Comic Strip Presents: 5_go_mad_on_mescaline

    First broadcast: Tuesday 02 November 1993, 12AM on Channel 4

    While on their way to stay with Mrs French at Hot Turkey Farm the intrepid youngsters learn that their Uncle Quentin, a well-known scientist and homosexual, has escaped from prison.

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  • Funseekers Comic Strip Presents: Funseekers

    First broadcast: Saturday 26 March 1988, 12AM on Channel 4

    It's high season in Ibiza, and the18-30s holidaymakers have arrived for another annual binge. But the pace is so frantic no-one notices the pregnant maid ostracised by her nearest and dearest. What's more, there's an over-age man in the midst of all this frenetic pleasure-seeking - Tony (who is in fact 34, and therefore shouldn't be there at all).

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  • Didn't You Kill My Brother? didnt_you_kill_my_brother

    First broadcast: Saturday 19 March 1988, 12AM on Channel 4

    An everyday story of gangland folk, starring Alexei Sayle and Beryl Reid. Old rivalries are renewed when Carl Moss is prematurely released from prison. His new occupation leads him into conflict with his gangland brother and the head of the 'family firm', the notorious Mrs Moss.

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  • The Yob Comic Strip Presents: The Yob

    First broadcast: Saturday 12 March 1988, 12AM on Channel 4

    An illegal psychic teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, and pretentious promo director Patrick gets his genes mixed with those of a football hooligan. Slowly, he begins to change - taking on some undeniably yobbish tendencies.

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  • Mr Jolly Lives Next Door Comic Strip: Mr Jolly...

    First broadcast: Saturday 05 March 1988, 12AM on Channel 4

    The inappropriately named hit man Mr Jolly, played by Peter Cook, rents office space next door to the alcoholic incompetents Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, proprietors of Dreamy Time Escorts, London's seediest escort agency. Through a catalogue of mistakes and misunderstandings the deranged Mr Lovebucket, played by Peter Richardson, purveyor of wines and spirits to most London off-licences, finds he has paid Rik and Ade £3,000 to 'take out Nicholas Parsons'.

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  • More Bad News comic_strip_presents_more_bad_news_series_v2

    First broadcast: Saturday 27 February 1988, 12AM on Channel 4

    A rock journalist reunites the Bad News band, who parted company after a disastrous maiden tour, for a one-off gig. But all does not go according to plan...

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  • The Strike Comic Strip Presents: The Strike

    First broadcast: Saturday 20 February 1988, 12AM on Channel 4

    A young and innocent man from the Welsh Valleys pens a script about the miners' strike. When success comes calling, he and the script get the Hollywood treatment.

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  • Private Enterprise Comic Strip Presents: Private Enterprise

    First broadcast: Thursday 02 January 1986, 12AM on Channel 4

    A toilet paper delivery man steals a band's demo tape and gets the money when the 'mystery' band is a success.

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  • Consuela Comic Strip Presents: Consuela

    First broadcast: Wednesday 01 January 1986, 12AM on Channel 4

    A man brings his pretty new wife back to his ancestral home but she soon runs into trouble with the housekeeper, who seems to resent her.

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  • The Bullshitters Comic Strip Presents: The Bullshitters

    First broadcast: Saturday 03 November 1984, 12AM on Channel 4

    An affectionate tribute to TV tough guys, starring Keith Allen, Peter Richardson and Robbie Coltrane. Our two heroes, Bonehead and Foyle, have retired from active service and are running a training school for TV tough guys. But after the kidnapping of the daughter of DI5's Commander Jackson they are called out of retirement to save her - and the Western world.

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  • Slags Comic Strip Presents: Slags

    First broadcast: Saturday 11 February 1984, 12AM on Channel 4

    In the not-too distant future, the evil Slags confront the 'nice' Hawaiians, who control with goodwill and flower garlands, in a story of passion and shadowy violence.

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  • Eddie Monsoon - A Life? Comic Strip Presents: Eddie Monsoon

    First broadcast: Saturday 04 February 1984, 12AM on Channel 4

    A television biography of the most offensive TV star South Africa has ever produced, played by Adrian Edmondson.

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  • Gino - Full Story and Pics Comic Strip Presents: Gino

    First broadcast: Saturday 28 January 1984, 12AM on Channel 4

    The story of Gino the delinquent and Angie the party girl who, due to an excess of drink and drugs, passes out in the back of his taxi.

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  • Fistful of Travellers Cheques Comic Strip Presents: fistfull_of_travellers

    First broadcast: Saturday 21 January 1984, 12AM on Channel 4

    Two students go to Spain to do the 'whole spaghetti western thing' and run into a series of disparate and desperate characters.

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  • Dirty Movie Comic Strip Presents: Dirty Movie

    First broadcast: Tuesday 17 January 1984, 12AM on Channel 4

    Cinema manager Terry Toadstool has a plan to watch a porno movie at 9am, but certain people are out to thwart him.

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  • Susie Comic Strip Presents: Susie

    First broadcast: Saturday 14 January 1984, 12AM on Channel 4

    In a quiet village, a teacher is about to leave her husband for her lover, but the triangle is disturbed by the arrival of an aging rock star.

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  • The Summer School Comic Strip: Summer School

    First broadcast: Monday 31 January 1983, 12AM on Channel 4

    Dawn French's improbable expose of a university course in Iron Age Living, with Robbie Coltrane and Peter Richardson.

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  • Bad News Tour Comic Strip: Bad News

    First broadcast: Monday 24 January 1983, 12AM on Channel 4

    A day on the road with the most controversial heavy metal band in the history of the universe, man.

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  • The Beat Generation Beat Generation

    First broadcast: Monday 17 January 1983, 12AM on Channel 4

    A part-time hipster desperately wants to be part of the 'Beat' scene, but can he handle it? With Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

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  • War War

    First broadcast: Monday 03 January 1983, 12AM on Channel 4

    What if there were armies from Russia and America occupying Britain? With Rik Mayall, Robbie Coltrane and Peter Richardson.

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  • Five Go Mad in Dorset 5 GO_MAD_IN_DORSET

    First broadcast: Tuesday 02 November 1982, 12AM on Channel 4

    Keith Allen, Peter Richardson, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders from the Comic Strip have a ripping time on their summer hols.

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