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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 Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.

Genre:Comedy
Network:Channel 4

Top Episode Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Comic Strip Presents..." is "GLC: The Carnage Continues", rated 8.6/10 from 571 user votes. It was directed by Peter Richardson and written by Pete Richens, Peter Richardson. "GLC: The Carnage Continues" aired on 2/15/1990 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!".

  • GLC: The Carnage Continues
    8.6/10 571 votes

    #1 - GLC: The Carnage Continues

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1990-02-15

    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!
    8.5/10 388 votes

    #2 - South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1990-02-08

    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, Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • Four Men in a Car
    8.3/10 162 votes

    #3 - Four Men in a Car

    Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 1998-04-12

    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
    8.1/10 467 votes

    #4 - Bad News Tour

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1983-01-24

    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
    8.1/10 270 votes

    #5 - A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1984-01-21

    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
    7.9/10 301 votes

    #6 - Five Go Mad in Dorset

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1982-11-02

    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
    7.8/10 71 votes

    #7 - Red Nose of Courage

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 1992-04-09

    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
    7.6/10 157 votes

    #8 - Dirty Movie

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1984-01-07

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

    Director: Sandy Johnson

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • South Atlantic Raiders (1)
    7.6/10 198 votes

    #9 - South Atlantic Raiders (1)

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1990-02-01

    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
    7.6/10 86 votes

    #10 - Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 1993-04-22

    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
    7.6/10 70 votes

    #11 - Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

    Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 1993-05-13

    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

  • Four Men in a Plane
    7.6/10 101 votes

    #12 - Four Men in a Plane

    Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 2000-01-04

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

    Director: Peter Richardson

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • More Bad News
    7.5/10 91 votes

    #13 - More Bad News

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1988-02-27

    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

  • Queen of the Wild Frontier
    7.4/10 126 votes

    #14 - Queen of the Wild Frontier

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1993-05-06

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

    Director: Peter Richardson

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
    7.3/10 57 votes

    #15 - Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1993-04-22

    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

  • Space Virgins from Planet Sex
    7.3/10 49 votes

    #16 - Space Virgins from Planet Sex

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1993-04-29

    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: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • Five Go Mad on Mescalin
    7.2/10 148 votes

    #17 - Five Go Mad on Mescalin

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1983-11-02

    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

  • The Bullshitters
    7.2/10 148 votes

    #18 - The Bullshitters

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1984-11-03

    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

  • Gino - Full Story and Pics
    7.1/10 134 votes

    #19 - Gino - Full Story and Pics

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1984-01-28

    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?
    7.0/10 114 votes

    #20 - Eddie Monsoon - A Life?

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1984-02-04

    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 Strike
    7.0/10 99 votes

    #21 - The Strike

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1988-02-20

    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
    6.9/10 107 votes

    #22 - Jealousy

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 1993-05-27

    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

  • Demonella
    6.9/10 50 votes

    #23 - Demonella

    Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 1993-05-20

    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 Crying Game
    6.8/10 64 votes

    #24 - The Crying Game

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 1992-05-05

    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

  • The Hunt for Tony Blair
    6.8/10 207 votes

    #25 - The Hunt for Tony Blair

    Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 2011-10-15

    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