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The Best Episodes of The Comic Strip Presents...

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  1. Background image for South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!
    8.5/10(407 votes)

    #1 - South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!

    S4:E2

    Having robbed a bank and hijacked a plane to travel to the South Atlantic to protect Frances, the woman he loves, Stan finds himself at the mercy of Argentinian soldiers plotting to recapture the Falkland Islands.

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  2. Background image for GLC: The Carnage Continues
    8.5/10(590 votes)

    #2 - GLC: The Carnage Continues

    S4:E3

    Charles Bronson (Robbie Coltrane) stars in a big-budget Hollywood film as Ken Livingstone, a man of the people and elected leader of the GLC. After successfully preventing the Tories from flooding South London to turn it into a yacht club, Livingstone makes it his one-man mission to stop ""The Ice Maiden"" Margaret Thatcher from beheading the Prince of Wales and taking over the kingdom.

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  3. Background image for Four Men in a Car
    8.2/10(174 votes)

    #3 - Four Men in a Car

    S8:E1

    Four rivals on their way to a meeting find themselves in a tricky situation

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  4. Background image for Bad News Tour
    8.1/10(492 votes)

    #4 - Bad News Tour

    S1:E4

    Fifth-rate heavy metal band Bad News is the subject of a rock documentary. Band members Vim Fuego, Den Dennis, Colin Grigson, and Spider Webb take to the road in search of lager, gigs, and schoolgirls.

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  5. Background image for A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
    8.1/10(290 votes)

    #5 - A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

    S2:E4

    Carlos and Miguel are Englishmen obsessed with the mystique of the Old West-- would-be gunmen ever in search of a brawl. Traveling the countryside by public rail on a fantasy holiday, in costumes straight out of a Spaghetti Western, they hook up with spunky Australian tourists, a hippie hitchhiker, and a mass-murderer who works in an abattoir but dresses as a matador.

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  6. Background image for Five Go Mad in Dorset
    7.8/10(323 votes)

    #6 - Five Go Mad in Dorset

    S1:E1

    Julian, Dick, George, and Anne are four children with a taste for adventure, as well as for lashings of ginger beer. They set out on a bicycle ride through the country, having picnics aplenty and exposing heinous crimes such as homosexuality.

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  8. Background image for Red Nose of Courage
    7.8/10(76 votes)

    #7 - Red Nose of Courage

    S6:E1

    John Major rises above his humble beginnings 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.

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  9. Background image for Dirty Movie
    7.6/10(163 votes)

    #8 - Dirty Movie

    S2:E2

    A theater owner waits for the mail to deliver his dirty movie

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  10. Background image for South Atlantic Raiders (1)
    7.6/10(207 votes)

    #9 - South Atlantic Raiders (1)

    S4:E1

    A security service driver for a British bank meets and falls in love over the radio with a woman stranded on a bird watching expedition in the South Atlantic. When he is tricked into thinking the Falklands are under attack by an enemy army, he takes drastic measures to finance a rescue mission to save his new girlfriend.

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  11. Background image for Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
    7.6/10(87 votes)

    #10 - Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    S7:E1

    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.

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  12. Background image for Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
    7.6/10(72 votes)

    #11 - Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

    S7:E4

    In this none-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.

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  13. Background image for More Bad News
    7.5/10(96 votes)

    #12 - More Bad News

    S3:E2

    Five years after their far-from-amicable break-up, the members of heavy metal band Bad News reunite when they are offered a record deal and a chance to play the festival at Castle Donington.

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  14. Background image for Four Men in a Plane
    7.5/10(106 votes)

    #13 - Four Men in a Plane

    S8:E2

    Stranded in the desert, some men will do whatever it takes to survive.

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  15. Background image for Queen of the Wild Frontier
    7.4/10(136 votes)

    #14 - Queen of the Wild Frontier

    S5:E3

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

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  16. Background image for Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
    7.3/10(64 votes)

    #15 - Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

    S5:E1

    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.

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  17. Background image for Five Go Mad on Mescalin
    7.2/10(156 votes)

    #16 - Five Go Mad on Mescalin

    S2:E1

    Child adventurers Julian, Dick, George, Anne, and their dog Timmy return to the countryside for the holidays, only to learn that Uncle Quentin, the well known scientist and homosexual, has escaped from prison. The children set out to unlock the mysteries of Love Island.

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  18. Background image for Space Virgins from Planet Sex
    7.2/10(55 votes)

    #17 - Space Virgins from Planet Sex

    S5:E2

    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 Earth men from unspeakable sexual oppression.

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  19. Background image for Gino - Full Story and Pics
    7.1/10(141 votes)

    #18 - Gino - Full Story and Pics

    S2:E5

    A small-time thief on the run from the law is pursued by over-zealous police officers masquerading as milkmen and postmen, framed for murder by a homicidal housewife, and built up by the media to sound like an infamous criminal mastermind. Every step he takes carries him further into a life of crime, and it looks like there's no way out for Gino, but when he teams up with a gutsy typist on the run from her own unfulfilling life, the two of them may find a way to turn the media attention to their advantage.

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  20. Background image for Eddie Monsoon - A Life?
    7.1/10(119 votes)

    #19 - Eddie Monsoon - A Life?

    S2:E6

    Relentless alcoholic, drug addict, and fame-obsessed TV personality Eddie Monsoon is the subject of a Channel 4 expose that looks back over his life and loves, while he lies bedridden in a rehab hospital.

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  21. Background image for The Bullshitters
    7.1/10(156 votes)

    #20 - The Bullshitters

    S2:E8

    Bonehead and Foyle reunite to find the police chief's kidnapped daughter. A parody of The Professionals.

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    6.9/10(104 votes)

    #21 - The Strike

    S3:E1

    Al Pacino (Peter Richardson) and Meryl Streep (Jennifer Saunders) star as Arthur Scargill and his wife in an overly-dramatized Hollywood epic about the 1984 miners' strike.

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  23. Background image for Oxford
    6.8/10(138 votes)

    #22 - Oxford

    S4:E4

    Hannah is a street-wise American woman with a passion for Lord Byron's poetry who is prepared to do anything it takes to get into a course at Oxford, and she means anything. Also eager to study Byron is Caroline, the quiet-natured girlfriend of narcissistic mega-star comedian Steve ""Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants"" Wild. When he disapproves of her aspirations, Caroline must go behind her boyfriend's back to take the course, unaware that she's not the only one doing the deceiving.

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  24. Background image for Jealousy
    6.8/10(109 votes)

    #23 - Jealousy

    S5:E6

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

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  25. Background image for The Crying Game
    6.8/10(66 votes)

    #24 - The Crying Game

    S6:E2

    All Roy Brush wants is to be the greatest footballer in the world. When he rises to national hero status after saving a young man from drowning and secures a European Cup Final trophy for England, it seems the sky's 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.

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  26. Background image for Demonella
    6.8/10(52 votes)

    #25 - Demonella

    S7:E5

    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 guests in Hell.

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Best Episodes Summary

"South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!" is the best rated episode of "The Comic Strip Presents...". It scored 8.5/10 based on 407 votes. Directed by Peter Richardson, Adrian Edmondson and written by Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Pete Richens, it aired on 2/8/1990. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "GLC: The Carnage Continues".