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Name: The Comic Strip Presents
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1982-11-02
Cast: Alexei SayleSheridan SmithRik Mayall

1982
3 Seasons
7.8 (1,609)

The Comic Strip Presents is a British television comedy series, which was first aired on Channel 4 in November 1982. The show, which ran for a total of 39 episodes, featured a talented ensemble cast of comedians and actors, including Alexei Sayle, Sheridan Smith, Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Nigel Planer, and Ade Edmondson, among others.

Each episode of The Comic Strip Presents showcased a new and hilarious story, often featuring satirical takes on various aspects of contemporary British society, such as politics, television, and popular culture. Many of the episodes were directed by Peter Richardson, and they often featured a mix of live-action and animation.

One of the most memorable episodes of The Comic Strip Presents is undoubtedly "Five Go Mad in Dorset", which originally aired in 1982. The episode, which is a comedic take on Enid Blyton's classic children's book series, features Alexei Sayle, Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, and Peter Richardson as the famous Five, who set out on an exciting adventure to find some stolen diamonds.

Another standout episode of the show is "The Strike", which aired in 1988. This episode features a fictionalized version of the 1984-85 miners' strike in the UK, and it stars Peter Richardson, Robert Bathurst, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and others. The episode is a biting and satirical critique of the Thatcher government's handling of the strike, and it packs in plenty of laughs along the way.

Other notable episodes of The Comic Strip Presents include "The Beat Generation" (1987), which stars Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, and Jennifer Saunders in a hilarious parody of the Beat writers of the 1950s; "Dirty Movie" (1984), which features Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as two hapless filmmakers trying to make a sexy movie; and "Bad News Tour" (1983), which stars Ade Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, and Peter Richardson as members of a fictional heavy metal band on a disastrous tour of the UK.

Throughout its run, The Comic Strip Presents consistently delivered laughs and clever satire, thanks to its talented cast and writers. The show remains a beloved classic of British comedy, and it helped launch the careers of many of its stars, including Alexei Sayle, Jennifer Saunders, and Dawn French. Fans of the show continue to enjoy revisiting its hilarious episodes, which hold up surprisingly well decades later.

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13. Four Men in a Plane

April 1, 2000

The four salesman from the previous film go on a sales conference abroad and decide that rather than take a ten hour coach ride across the desert to the conference centre, they'll hire their own small plane, with its own mad pilot, to get them there. Unfortunately the pilot dies, crashes the plane and leaves them to fend for themselves in the desert.

12. Four Men in a Car

April 12, 1998

Four salesman share a hellish journey to a sale conference where only one of them will achieve promotion

11. Jealousy

May 27, 1993

A jealous husband is consumed to the point of madness with suspicions about his wife's extracurricular activities.

10. Demonella

May 20, 1993

a struggling music producer accepts a song from the Devil that is guaranteed to win him riches and fame. In exchange, he must obtain his mother's top-secret chicken soup recipe so the Devil can impress finicky dinner guest in Hell

9. Gregory - Diary of a Nutcase

May 13, 1993

In this non-too-subtle parody of the film The Silence of the Lambs, a rookie police cadet falls prey to the sexual allure of imprisoned cannibalistic serial killer dr. Ghengis; meanwhile, aspiring serial killer Gregory Dawson makes a video diary of his botched attempts to stalk and imprison a woman in his homemade torture chamber.

8. Queen of the Wild Frontier

May 6, 1993

Two escaped convicts hide in a country house owned by two women.

7. Space Virgins from Planet Sex

April 29, 1993

Beautiful space aliens on a mission to repopulate their planet use their feminine wiles to capture healthy, intelligent specimens of Earthmen as sex slaves. It's up to decidedly non-feminist secret agent James Blond to shut down the Space Rats' baby factory and free the captives from unspeakable sexual oppression.

6. Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

April 22, 1993

In a sequel to The Bullshitters, Bonehead and Foyle are called in to solve a 70s-style Murder. Unfortunately, so are 70s detectives Shouting George of the Weeney and Jason Bentley of Department Z, and 90s Northern detective Dave Spanker.

5. Wild Turkey

December 24, 1992

It's approaching Christmas and when a couple get their festive bird back home, they realize that all is not what it seems as the turkey is not dead! The bird takes them hostage demanding a ransom of freedom for all turkeys everywhere!

4. The Crying Game

May 5, 1992

All Roy Brush wants is to be the greatest footballer in the world. When he rises to national hero status after a young man from drowning and secures a European Cup Final trophy for England, it seems the sky is the limit to the fame he can achieve. But one painful secret- and one astute newspaper reporter from The Scum- stand between him and his goal.

3. Red Nose of Courage

April 9, 1992

John Major rises above his humble beginning as a mediocre clown in a circus family when he sets out to pursue his dream of becoming a Tory bureaucrat and forges a career in the political circus. Torn between two worlds, his life becomes a balancing act.

2. Les Dogs

March 8, 1990

A wedding between feuding upper-class families turns into an all-out war zone. In the midst of the chaos and bloodshed, the wedding photographer becomes enraptured by the bride's stunning beauty, and the story drifts into the surreal realm of his imagination, where the lines between fantasy, dream, and reality become hopelessly blurred.