The Comic Strip Presents Episode Guide

Episode Guide

The Comic Strip Presents: Season 4 (2001 - 2005)

• Season 4 Episode 6: Fun Seekers

  A holiday for 18 to 30-year-olds in Ibiza proves to be so much fun that people fail to notice one of them is 34. Comedy sketch, starring Keith Allen and Kathy Burke

• Season 4 Episode 5: Didn't You Kill My Brother?

  A man with more than 200 university degrees is released from prison, and tries to track down the brother he thinks was responsible for framing him. Comedy, starring Alexei Sayle, with Beryl Reid and Peter Richardson

• Season 4 Episode 4: The Yob

  An illegal psychic teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, and a pretentious music video director gets his genes mixed with those of a football hooligan. Slowly, he begins to change into an Arsenal supporter, taking on some pretty unsociable tendencies in the process. Co-written by and starring Keith Allen

• Season 4 Episode 3: Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door

  Two seedy would-be male escorts are oblivious to the fact that the man in the office next door is a hitman - leading to mayhem when they accidentally get one of his customers, demanding they 'take out' Nicholas Parsons. Starring Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson and Peter Cook, with Parsons appearing as himself

• Season 4 Episode 2: More Bad News

  Tongue-in-cheek rockumentary of the metal band too heavy for the turntable as they reunite to play Castle Donington's Monsters of Rock festival

• Season 4 Episode 1: The Strike

  A naive writer's screenplay chronicling his first-hand experiences of the 1984 miners' strike is snapped up by a ruthless Hollywood producer, who transforms it into an action movie starring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep as union leader Arthur Scargill and his wife. Award-winning comedy, starring Alexei Sayle, Peter Richardson and Jennifer Saunders

The Comic Strip Presents: Season 3 (1994 - 2000)

• Season 3 Episode 2: Private Enterprise

  When Keith makes a trip to a recording studio, he hears a band which is to change his life. Starring Peter Richardson and Adrian Edmonson

• Season 3 Episode 1: Consuela

  Hitchcock-esque satire on the story of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. The maid Consuela receives a new mistress. Will they get on, unlike Mrs Danvers and Rebecca in the novel? Cult comedy, starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders

• Season 3 Episode 1: Consuela

  A wealthy man returns to his ancestral home with his pretty young wife, only for things to turn sour. Starring Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Rik Mayall

The Comic Strip Presents: Season 2 (1994 - 2001)

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Comic Strip Presents: The Bulls***

  Former DI5 agents Bonehead and Foyle are called in to try to rescue a kidnapped girl. Parody of 1970s spy drama The Professionals, starring Keith Allen and Peter Richardson

• Season 2 Episode 7: Slags

  Street gang members Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, only to find that their psychotic group has disbanded in their absence. Nevertheless, they manage to get the Slags regrouped and begin planning a showdown with benevolent rivals the Hawaiians. However, matters become complicated when Little Sister falls in love with their leader. Comedy drama, with Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French

• Season 2 Episode 6: Eddie Monsoon -- A Life?

  Satirical comedy, starring Adrian Edmonson as Eddie Monsoon, a TV entertainer who following the failure of several pilot shows in his native South Africa faked his suicide and went to Brazil. He eventually arrives in England where he attracts notoriety with his explicit stage and media work, and later, while undergoing treatment of drug and alcohol addiction, agrees to sell an interview about his life and career

• Season 2 Episode 5: Gino: Full Story and Pics

  A small-time hoodlum inadvertently becomes a celebrity after stealing a taxi. With Keith Allen, Jennifer Saunders and Robbie Coltrane

• Season 2 Episode 4: Fistful of Travellers Cheques

  Two students go on holiday to the Spanish countryside, where they hope to indulge their gun-slinging Clint Eastwood fantasies to the full. Once there, they encounter a series of disparate and desperate characters. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French star

• Season 2 Episode 3: Susie

  A schoolteacher in a quiet village in Norfolk is torn between life with her boring husband and embarking on an affair with a pop star. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders star

• Season 2 Episode 2: Dirty Movie

  A postman is anxious to catch a morning showing of The Sound of Muzak at the local cinema. However, he is unaware a blue movie is actually to be shown and that his wife is its star. Comedy, written by and starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson

• Season 2 Episode 1: Five Go Mad on Mescalin

  The young adventurers return from their holidays to discover that Uncle Quentin : the well known scientist and homosexual : has escaped from prison, so they set out to unlock the mysteries of Love Island

The Comic Strip Presents: Season 1

• Season 1 Episode 5: Summer School

  A group of students recreates an Iron Age community as part of a university course - but things soon start to go wrong. Comedy, with Robbie Coltrane and Adrian Edmondson

• Season 1 Episode 4: Vintage Comic Strip: Bad News Tour

  Spoof rockumentary following the antics of a heavy metal band led by Vim Fuego (Adrian Edmondson) as they raise hell on their British tour, which features the 'classic ' songs Warriors of Ghengis Khan and Hey Hey Bad News. Cult comedy, starring also Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson and Nigel Planer

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Beat Generation

  Pretentious Alan, violent Kix and sex-mad Eleanor are part of a 1960s group of poets, artists and angry young men who convene for a weekend of amusement at a large villa overlooking the sea. Comedy, starring Peter Richardson, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Rik Mayall

• Season 1 Episode 2: War

  The year is 1985, and with England under the control of Russia, America and various underground armies, a young couple find themselves swept up in the chaos of a war-torn nation. Offbeat comedy, with Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Peter Richardson and Jennifer Saunders

• Season 1 Episode 1: Five Go Mad In Dorset

  Four children with a taste for adventure investigate a strange mystery in between lashings of ginger beer during a trip to the country. Spoof of Enid Blyton's Famous Five books that first launched the comedy series, starring Peter Richardson, Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French

The Comic Strip Presents: Special

• Sex Actually

  An attractive couple move to a seemingly quiet close, where they discover the previous occupants met a mysterious death involving a waterbed. It soon turns out their neighbours are part of a wife-swapping circle - but it remains to be seen whether any of them could be guilty of murder. Old Comic Strip faces Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer star alongside a new generation of comic talent

• Five Go to Rehab

  Sequel to The Comic Strip Presents: Five Go Mad in Dorset, made 30 years later to celebrate its anniversary. The young heroes have now grown up, but Dick in particular remains out of touch with the modern world. Anne is teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown, while George is struggling to stay off alcohol. Julian shares George's drink problem - as well as having a couple of shady characters on his tail. Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Peter Richardson star

• Four Men in a Plane

  One-off special. Squabbling and ego-clashes erupt between a quartet of seasoned sales professionals flying to a conference. Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson and Adrian Edmondson star

• Four Men in a Car

  Four salesmen share a hellish journey to a sales conference