The Comic Strip Presents...

The show that helped bring alternative comedy to the masses

Rik Mayall, Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French star in this comic 80s series that helped bring alternative comedy and a generation of bright young comedians to the masses.

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Spoof of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five characters, starring Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French.

Five Go Mad in Dorset

Alternative comedy series. Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Ade Edmondson and Peter Richardson star in an award-winning spoof of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five characters.

Alternative comedy starring Rik Mayall, Dawn French and Peter Richardson.

Alternative comedy starring Rik Mayall, Dawn French and Peter Richardson. England is a bizarre war zone with Mexican bandits playing Russian roulette, while real Russian soldiers wonder why there’s no Carnaby Street or girls in mini skirts.

Black and white spoof starring Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall.

The Beat Generation

Black and white spoof starring Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall. A group of early '60s hipsters are invited to a country house by sycophantic fan Desmond.

Spoof documentary about a hapless rock band, starring Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer.

Bad News Tour

Spoof documentary about a hapless rock band who acrimoniously break up at their first gig. Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer,  Adrian Edmondson and Peter Richardson star as the  would-be rock stars.

Alternative comedy. A motley band of suburbanites arrive at a summer school.

Summer School

Alternative comedy. A motley band of suburbanites arrive at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. Starring Robbie Coltrane, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Ade Edmondson.

Alternative comedy starring Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

Alternative comedy starring Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. The Famous Five meets flower power when they discover that Uncle Quentin has bought his own ‘Love Island’.

Alternative comedy starring Rik Mayall as a seedy cinema owner.

Dirty Movie

Alternative comedy starring Rik Mayall and Jennifer Saunders. A seedy cinema owner is pretending to his wife that he’s checking a movie called Sound of Muzak, but actually wants to secretly view a pornographic film.

Alternative comedy starring Dawn French as a Norfolk teacher with a hectic love life.

Susie

Alternative comedy starring Dawn French. A modern Thomas Hardy-style tale set on a Norfolk estate, where village schoolteacher Susie's hectic love life becomes even more complicated when pampered pop star Gary Dreadful buys the estate.

Rik Mayall and Peter Richardson star as two spaghetti western fans looking for trouble.

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

Rik Mayall and Peter Richardson star as two spaghetti western fans who head for Almeria in southern Spain looking for trouble, which they soon find. Meanwhile, two Australians in a VW camper have unwisely picked up a psychotic bullfighter.

Keith Allen stars as a fugitive on the run who seeks help from some Good Samaritans.

Gino: Full Story and Pics

Alternative comedy starring Keith Allen. A fugitive on the run seeks help, but discovers that his ‘Good Samaritans‘ have bigger problems of their own.

Alternative comedy about a drunken entertainer, starring Adrian Edmondson.

Eddie Monsoon - A Life?

Alternative comedy about a drunken entertainer, starring Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders star as gang leaders released from prison.

Slags

Alternative comedy. Gang leaders played by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are released from prison to find that their gang have joined a group of rivals - the Hawaiians.

S2, E8. The Bullshitters: Roll Out The Gunbarrel

A spoof of The Professionals, starring Keith Allen and Peter Richardson.

The Bullshitters: Roll Out The Gunbarrel

A spoof of The Professionals, starring Keith Allen and Peter Richardson. Bonehead and Foyle are brought out of retirement to solve a kidnapping case, but end up running fruitlessly through South London clutching a magnum and a bus pass.

S2, E9. Consuela, or The New Mrs Saunders

A parody of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca, starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

Consuela, or The New Mrs Saunders

A small-time crook finds a demo tape recorded by a defunct band and turns it into a hit.

Private Enterprise

A small-time crook finds a demo tape recorded by a defunct band and turns it into a hit, but complications arise when the record company organise a live tour for a non-existent band.

Peter Richardson stars in this Hollywood treatment of the 1980s miners' strike.

The Strike

Peter Richardson portrays 'Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill' in this Hollywood treatment of the 1980s miners' strike. Alexei Sayle, Jennifer Saunders and Rik Mayall also star.

The Bad News TV rockumentary is a hit and the band are invited to play at a festival.

More Bad News

Alternative comedy. Unexpectedly, the Bad News TV rockumentary is a hit and the band not only get a record deal but are invited to play the Monsters of Rock festival.

Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall star as the owners of an escort agency.

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall star as the owners of an escort agency who are mistakenly hired to ‘take out Nicholas Parsons‘ - unaware that a hit gang have plans to assassinate Parsons rather take him out for a boozy night on the town.

A pretentious promo director swaps personalities with an aggressive football hooligan.

The Yob

In this spoof of The Fly, a pretentious music promo director and an aggressive football hooligan simultaneously enter a transportation pod that they think is a portable toilet, with the result that both unknowingly swap personalities.

Alexei Sayle stars as criminal twins Moss and Stirling.

Didn't You Kill My Brother?

Former criminal Moss has gone straight and is helping youngsters improve their lives, but his twin Stirling needs some young criminals for his bicycle stealing ring. Alexei Sayle stars.

On the heady holiday island of Ibiza, 36-year-old Tony has lied about his age.

Funseekers

On the heady holiday island of Ibiza, 36-year-old Tony has not only lied about his age in order to join the fun, but upset all the wrong people along the way. Starring Nigel Planer, Kathy Burke, Keith Allen and Peter Richardson.

Two ornithologists working in the Falklands get captured in the Argentinian invasion.

South Atlantic Raiders

Alternative comedy. Two ornithologists working in the Falklands get captured in the Argentinian invasion. Four hapless men set out to rescue them, all to a Jeff Beck soundtrack.

S4, E2. South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!

South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!

Alternative comedy. Two ornithologists working in the Falklands get captured in the Argentinian invasion. Four hapless men set out to rescue them, all to a Jeff Beck soundtrack .

A socialist tale is given the Hollywood treatment in a Western-style siege of County Hall.

GLC: The Carnage Continues...

A socialist tale is given the Hollywood treatment with Robbie Coltrane playing ‘Charles Bronson as mayor Ken Livingstone' in a Western-style siege of County Hall.

A comedian is shooting a movie in Oxford, but there are dark forces at work in the city.

Oxford

While paranoid American comedian Steve Wild is shooting a movie in Oxford, his bored girlfriend secretly signs up for a poetry course with a fellow student. But there are dark forces at work in the city, and even Steve Wild is not who he says he is.

Nigel Planer stars in a story about an Italian banker who is on the run from the Mafia.

Spaghetti Hoops

Nigel Planer and Alexei Sayle star in a story about an Italian banker who is on the run from the Mafia having embezzled their money. Hiding out in  London, he is accidentally spotted by two Mafia hitmen. But can they bring themselves to kill him?

A Luis Bunuel-inspired surrealist film set at a Premier Inn wedding.

Les Dogs

A Luis Bunuel-inspired surrealist film set at a Premier Inn wedding, where the poisonous atmosphere turns into a shoot out. Despite the carnage, the bride and her tight-lipped mother do their best to make the guests feel welcome.

John Major (Ade Edmondson) runs away from the circus to become an MP.

Red Nose of Courage

John Major (Ade Edmondson) runs away from the circus to become an MP. But with the family circus on hard times, Major has to juggle between his clown act and his new job as Foreign Secretary - then Prime Minister!

Keith Allen plays a top premiership footballer with a secret.

The Crying Game

Top premiership footballer Roy Brush is so busy merchandising his career, he has little time left for football. But Roy has a secret - he’s gay and scared of the predictable chanting from the terraces.

An oversized turkey takes a couple hostage over Christmas.

Wild Turkey

An oversized turkey takes a couple hostage over Christmas. Starring Ruby Wax, Paul Bartel, Phil Cornwell and Jennifer Saunders.

S5, E1. Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

Bonehead and Foyle aim to solve an unusual murder with the help of a '70s detective.

Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

Bonehead and Foyle are joined by '70s detective ‘Shouting George of The Weeny' (Jim Broadbent). Summoned by the DI5 commander, their mission is to solve an unusual murder. The only clue being a platform boot found at the crime scene.

A team of Space Virgins are sent to Earth in search of men to propagate their planet.

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

In this sci-fi B movie, a team of Space Virgins led by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are sent to Planet Earth in search of men to propagate their planet. When Britain’s best sportsmen begin disappearing, James Blonde is sent to investigate.

A sheep farmer and her hippy sister give refuge to two escaped convicts.

Queen of the Wild Frontier

Alternative comedy. A tough moorland sheep farmer and her hippy sister give refuge to two escaped convicts from Dartmoor prison, but with such hard farming work in return for freedom, prison doesn’t look so bad.

A Silence of the Lambs fan wants to imprison women in his front room.

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

Gregory (Ade Edmondson), having watched Silence of the Lambs over 50 times, wants to imprison women in a dungeon that he’s built in his front room. Luckily for his intended victims, Gregory accidentally falls into his escape-proof hell hole.

A songwriter makes a deal with the devil in order to produce a smash hit record.

Demonella

A songwriter makes a deal with the devil in order to produce a smash hit record. Starring Jennifer Saunders, Robbie Coltrane and Miriam Margoles.

An insanely jealous man is convinced his wife is having an affair.

Jealousy

An insanely jealous man is convinced his wife is having an affair. Starring Jennifer Saunders, Miranda Richardson and Robbie Coltrane.

Four salesmen on the way to a conference in Swindon have the journey from hell.

Four Men in a Car

Four salesmen on the way to a conference in Swindon have the journey from hell when their car gets violently trashed in a snowstorm. Seeking shelter, the four men wind up in an isolated cottage with a shotgun-wielding woman.

Four men struggle to get back to civilisation when their plane crash-lands in the desert.

Four Men in a Plane

Four men attending a conference in North Africa decide to skip a 14 hour bus ride and hire a small plane. But the seriously-ill pilot crash-lands in the desert, leaving the men attempt to drive the plane like a car back to civilisation.

A young couple moving into a suburban backwater uncover some worrying secrets.

…Sex Actually

A young couple moving into a suburban backwater discover their neighbours are not only part of a wife-swapping circle, but that the previous occupants suffered a mysterious death involving a waterbed.

Prime Minister Tony Blair (Stephen Mangan) goes on the run to prove his innocence.

The Hunt for Tony Blair

In '60s-style black and white, Prime Minister Tony Blair (Stephen Mangan) goes on the run to prove his innocence. With the net closing in, Blair hides out with another famous prime minister - Margaret Thatcher (Jennifer Saunders).

A spoof of the Famous Five looks at their lives 30 years on.

Five Go To Rehab

A spoof of the Famous Five looks at their lives 30 years on, as Dick attempts to reunite them for a challenging trip down memory lane.

A satire on the phone hacking scandal set in the '70s Watergate era.

Redtop

A satire on the phone hacking scandal set in the '70s Watergate era, with Maxine Peake as Rebekah Brooks and Russel Tovey as Andy Coulson.

The Comic Strip Presents...

The Comic Strip Presents...

Series 1

1. Five Go Mad in Dorset

2. War

3. The Beat Generation

4. Bad News Tour

5. Summer School