The Best Episodes of The Comic Strip Presents...

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: Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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

Director: Peter Richardson

Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

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

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

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: Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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

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

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

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: Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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

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

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

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

Director: Peter Richardson

Writer: Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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

Director: Peter Richardson

Writer: Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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: Peter Richardson, Keith Allen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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