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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 583 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!".

  • GLC: The Carnage Continues
    8.6/10583 votes
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    #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

  • South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!
    8.5/10399 votes
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    #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

  • Four Men in a Car
    8.3/10167 votes
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    #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

  • Bad News Tour
    8.1/10481 votes
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    #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

  • A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
    8.1/10284 votes
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    #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

  • Five Go Mad in Dorset
    7.8/10313 votes
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    #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

  • Red Nose of Courage
    7.8/1074 votes
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    #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

  • Dirty Movie
    7.6/10162 votes
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    #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

  • South Atlantic Raiders (1)
    7.6/10203 votes
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    #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

  • Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
    7.6/1087 votes
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    #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

  • Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
    7.6/1072 votes
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    #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

  • More Bad News
    7.5/1093 votes
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    #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

  • Four Men in a Plane
    7.5/10105 votes
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    #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

  • Queen of the Wild Frontier
    7.4/10132 votes
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    #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

  • Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
    7.3/1062 votes
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    #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

  • Five Go Mad on Mescalin
    7.2/10152 votes
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    #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

  • Space Virgins from Planet Sex
    7.2/1054 votes
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    #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

  • Gino - Full Story and Pics
    7.1/10137 votes
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    #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

  • Eddie Monsoon - A Life?
    7.1/10118 votes
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    #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

  • The Bullshitters
    7.0/10154 votes
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    #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

  • The Strike
    6.9/10102 votes
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    #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

  • Jealousy
    6.8/10109 votes
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    #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

  • The Crying Game
    6.8/1066 votes
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    #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

  • Demonella
    6.8/1052 votes
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    #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

  • The Hunt for Tony Blair
    6.8/10209 votes
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    #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