8.6/10580 votesLoading...#1 - GLC: The Carnage Continues
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 2/15/1990
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.
Director: Peter Richardson
Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson
8.5/10398 votesLoading...#2 - South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/1990
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.
Director: Peter Richardson, Adrian Edmondson
Writer: Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Pete Richens
8.3/10167 votesLoading...#3 - Four Men in a Car
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 4/12/1998
Four rivals on their way to a meeting find themselves in a tricky situation
Director: Peter Richardson
Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson
8.2/10478 votesLoading...#4 - Bad News Tour
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/1983
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.
Director: Sandy Johnson
Writer: Adrian Edmondson
8.1/10282 votesLoading...#5 - A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/21/1984
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.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Rik Mayall, Pete Richens, Peter Richardson
7.8/10312 votesLoading...#6 - Five Go Mad in Dorset
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/1982
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.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson
7.8/1073 votesLoading...#7 - Red Nose of Courage
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 4/9/1992
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.
Director: Peter Richardson
Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson
7.6/10161 votesLoading...#8 - Dirty Movie
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/7/1984
A theater owner waits for the mail to deliver his dirty movie
Director: Sandy Johnson
Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
7.6/10202 votesLoading...#9 - South Atlantic Raiders (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 2/1/1990
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.
Director: Peter Richardson
Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson
7.6/1087 votesLoading...#10 - Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 4/22/1993
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.
Director: Peter Richardson, Keith Allen
Writer: Keith Allen, Peter Richardson
7.6/1072 votesLoading...#11 - Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 5/13/1993
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.
Director: Peter Richardson
Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson
7.5/1093 votesLoading...#12 - More Bad News
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/27/1988
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.
Director: Adrian Edmondson
Writer: Adrian Edmondson
7.5/10105 votesLoading...#13 - Four Men in a Plane
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 1/4/2000
Stranded in the desert, some men will do whatever it takes to survive.
Director: Peter Richardson
Writer: Peter Richardson, Pete Richens
7.4/10131 votesLoading...#14 - Queen of the Wild Frontier
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 5/6/1993
Two escaped convicts hide in a country house owned by two women.
Director: Peter Richardson
Writer: Peter Richardson, Pete Richens
7.3/1061 votesLoading...#15 - Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 4/22/1993
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.
Director: Peter Richardson, Keith Allen
Writer: Keith Allen, Peter Richardson
7.2/10152 votesLoading...#16 - Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/1983
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.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson
7.2/1053 votesLoading...#17 - Space Virgins from Planet Sex
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 4/29/1993
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 Earth men from unspeakable sexual oppression.
Director: Peter Richardson, Keith Allen
Writer: Peter Richardson, Pete Richens
7.1/10137 votesLoading...#18 - Gino - Full Story and Pics
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/28/1984
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.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson
7.1/10117 votesLoading...#19 - Eddie Monsoon - A Life?
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/4/1984
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.
Director: Sandy Johnson
Writer: Adrian Edmondson
7.1/10153 votesLoading...#20 - The Bullshitters
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1984
Bonehead and Foyle reunite to find the police chief's kidnapped daughter. A parody of The Professionals.
Director: Stephen Frears
Writer: Keith Allen, Peter Richardson
6.9/10102 votesLoading...#21 - The Strike
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/20/1988
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.
Director: Stephen Frears
Writer: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders
6.9/10108 votesLoading...#22 - Jealousy
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 5/27/1993
A jealous husband is consumed to the point of madness with suspicions about his wife's extracurricular activities.
Director: Robbie Coltrane
Writer: Robbie Coltrane, Morag Fullarton
6.8/1065 votesLoading...#23 - The Crying Game
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 5/5/1992
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.
Director: Peter Richardson, Keith Allen
Writer: Keith Allen, Peter Richardson
6.8/1052 votesLoading...#24 - Demonella
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 5/20/1993
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 guests in Hell.
Director: Paul Bartel
Writer: Paul Bartel, Barry Dennen
6.8/10209 votesLoading...#25 - The Hunt for Tony Blair
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/2011
This 'Fifties Fugitive' movie,a clever pastiche of monochrome British B films,opens with the police arriving to arrest prime minister Tony Blair for murder
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Comic Strip Presents...
Every episode of The Comic Strip Presents... ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Comic Strip Presents...!
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic...
Genre:Comedy
Network:Channel 4
Best Episodes Summary
"GLC: The Carnage Continues" is the best rated episode of "The Comic Strip Presents...". It scored 8.6/10 based on 580 votes. Directed by Peter Richardson and written by Pete Richens, Peter Richardson, it aired on 2/15/1990. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!".