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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Comic Strip Presents... Season 4 Episode 3 - GLC: The Carnage Continues
    8.6/10(620 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Peter Richardson
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  2. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 4 Episode 2 - South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!
    8.5/10(429 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Directors:Peter Richardson, Adrian Edmondson
    Writers:Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  3. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 1 Episode 4 - Bad News Tour
    8.1/10(528 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Sandy Johnson
    Writer:Adrian Edmondson

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  4. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 2 Episode 4 - A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
    8.1/10(305 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  5. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 1 Episode 1 - Five Go Mad in Dorset
    7.8/10(342 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  6. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 4 Episode 1 - South Atlantic Raiders (1)
    7.7/10(220 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:Peter Richardson
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  7. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 2 Episode 2 - Dirty Movie
    7.6/10(175 votes)

    #7 - Dirty Movie

    S2:E2

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

    Director:Sandy Johnson
    Writers:Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall

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  8. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 5 Episode 3 - Queen of the Wild Frontier
    7.5/10(139 votes)

    #8 - Queen of the Wild Frontier

    S5:E3

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

    Director:Peter Richardson
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  9. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 3 Episode 2 - More Bad News
    7.4/10(105 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Adrian Edmondson
    Writer:Adrian Edmondson

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  10. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 5 Episode 1 - Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
    7.4/10(68 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Directors:Peter Richardson, Keith Allen
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Keith Allen

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  11. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 5 Episode 2 - Space Virgins from Planet Sex
    7.4/10(59 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Directors:Peter Richardson, Keith Allen
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  12. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 2 Episode 1 - Five Go Mad on Mescalin
    7.2/10(166 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  13. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 2 Episode 5 - Gino - Full Story and Pics
    7.1/10(153 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  14. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 2 Episode 6 - Eddie Monsoon - A Life?
    7.1/10(129 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:Sandy Johnson
    Writer:Adrian Edmondson

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  15. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 2 Episode 8 - The Bullshitters
    7.1/10(167 votes)

    #15 - The Bullshitters

    S2:E8

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

    Director:Stephen Frears
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Keith Allen

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  16. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 5 Episode 6 - Jealousy
    7.0/10(116 votes)

    #16 - Jealousy

    S5:E6

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

    Director:Robbie Coltrane
    Writers:Morag Fullarton, Robbie Coltrane

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  17. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 4 Episode 4 - Oxford
    6.8/10(149 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:Peter Richardson
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  18. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 4 Episode 6 - Les Dogs
    6.7/10(78 votes)

    #18 - Les Dogs

    S4:E6

    A wedding between feuding upper-class families turns into an all-out war zone. In the midst of the chaos and bloodshed, the wedding photographer becomes enraptured by the bride's beatific beauty, and the story drifts into the surreal realm of his imagination, where the lines between fantasy, dream, and reality become hopelessly blurred.

    Director:Peter Richardson
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  19. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 3 Episode 1 - The Strike
    6.6/10(113 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:Stephen Frears
    Writers:Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

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  20. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 4 Episode 5 - Spaghetti Hoops
    6.6/10(104 votes)

    #20 - Spaghetti Hoops

    S4:E5

    Bank chairman Aldo Vini, who is suspected of embezzling $200 million from his bank in Rome, is pursued across Europe by incompetent assassins.

    Director:Peter Richardson
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  21. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 1 Episode 3 - The Beat Generation
    6.4/10(145 votes)

    #21 - The Beat Generation

    S1:E3

    A group of Beatnik artists and poets convene for a weekend of debauchery, destructive behavior, and clever conversation at the house of naive young wannabe Desmond while his parents are out of town.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  22. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 5 Episode 4 - Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
    6.4/10(66 votes)

    #22 - Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

    S5: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.

    Director:Peter Richardson
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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  23. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 5 Episode 5 - Demonella
    6.3/10(56 votes)

    #23 - Demonella

    S5: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.

    Director:Paul Bartel
    Writers:Paul Bartel, Barry Dennen

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  24. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 1 Episode 5 - Summer School
    6.2/10(141 votes)

    #24 - Summer School

    S1:E5

    Summer school students taking a course on the Iron Age construct a primitive village in the center of a university campus, where they must learn to fend for themselves without modern conveniences.

    Director:Sandy Johnson
    Writer:Dawn French

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  25. The Comic Strip Presents... Season 2 Episode 3 - Susie
    6.2/10(125 votes)

    #25 - Susie

    S2:E3

    A lascivious schoolteacher has grown hopelessly bored with her bland small-town existence. Her world takes a sudden turn, however, when a wealthy, impetuous pop star moves to town to get a taste of country life. Suddenly, she must choose between her tedious but adoring husband, her indifferent but steady lover, and this intriguing, unpredictable new man in her life.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

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Best Episodes Summary

"GLC: The Carnage Continues" is the best rated episode of "The Comic Strip Presents...". It scored 8.6/10 based on 620 votes. Directed by Peter Richardson and written by Peter Richardson, Pete Richens, it aired on 2/15/1990. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!".