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The Worst Episodes of The Comic Strip Presents...

Every episode of The Comic Strip Presents... ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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

Worst Episodes Summary

"Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door" is the worst rated episode of "The Comic Strip Presents...". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Stephen Frears and written by Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Rowland Rivron, it aired on 3/5/1988. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Yob".

  • Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door
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    #1 - Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 3/5/1988

    Two boozers who run the Dreamytime Escort agency are in for the night of their lives when they accept a job to ""take out"" popular TV entertainer Nicholas Parsons.

    Director: Stephen Frears

    Writer: Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Rowland Rivron

  • The Yob
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    #2 - The Yob

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 3/12/1988

    A trendy music video director has his brain crossed with that of a football hooligan in a freak accident resulting when he mistakes a cerebral teleportational machine for a portable toilet. He begins a slow and painful transition from artsy high-fashion connoisseur to violent Neanderthal thug, finding himself physically incapable of suppressing his newfound urges to drink lager and vandalize public lavatories. This episode pays tribute to David Cronenberg's film classic The Fly.

    Director: Ian Emes

    Writer: Daniel Peacock, Keith Allen

  • Didn't You Kill My Brother?
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    #3 - Didn't You Kill My Brother?

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/1988

    Carl Moss, a convicted murderer, is released early from prison and is confronted by his brother who framed him.

    Director: Bob Spiers

    Writer: Alexei Sayle, David Stafford, Pauline Melville

  • Funseekers
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    #4 - Funseekers

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 3/26/1988

    A social loser goes to a sleazy holiday resort in Spain for under-30s.

    Director: Baz Taylor

    Writer: Nigel Planer, Doug Lucie

  • Red Top
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    #5 - Red Top

    Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2016

    "The Sweeney" meets "Boogie Nights" as fact and fiction collide in this satirical take on the phone hacking scandal that brought down one of Britain's biggest tabloid newspapers.

    Director: Peter Richardson

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson, Brigit Grant

  • Wild Turkey
    4.6/1054 votes
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    #6 - Wild Turkey

    Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 12/24/1992

    A turkey that's about to become Christmas dinner takes hostages.

    Director: Peter Richardson

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • Queen of the Wild Frontier
    5.6/1048 votes
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    #7 - Queen of the Wild Frontier

    Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 5/6/1993

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

    Director: Peter Richardson

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • Slags
    5.8/10112 votes
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    #8 - Slags

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/11/1984

    Feared street leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, whereupon they learn that their gang the Slags has disbanded during their incarceration, having been driven out of its territory by rival gang The Hawaiians. Bent on revenge, they reunite the Slags for a rumble with The Hawaiians to reclaim their turf. This grim tale set in a bizarre, apocalyptic world is West Side Story with a gruesome twist.

    Director: Sandy Johnson

    Writer: Jennifer Saunders

  • Sex Actually
    5.8/1067 votes
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    #9 - Sex Actually

    Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 12/28/2005

    Colombian Luccio and his girlfriend Angie move into a respectable part of Berkshire,learning that Ron and Helen,the previous owners of their house,died mysteriously

    Director: Peter Richardson

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • War
    6.0/10147 votes
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    #10 - War

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/1983

    It's 1985 and the Communist Warsaw Pact countries have seized control of England. A young married couple retreats to a countryside cottage, but they soon find themselves hopelessly separated and swept up in the chaos of a war-torn nation

    Director: Bob Spiers

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • Susie
    6.1/10115 votes
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    #11 - Susie

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/14/1984

    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

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • Summer School
    6.2/10131 votes
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    #12 - Summer School

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/1983

    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

  • Demonella
    6.2/1053 votes
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    #13 - Demonella

    Season 5 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

  • Jealousy
    6.2/1054 votes
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    #14 - Jealousy

    Season 7 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 Beat Generation
    6.3/10131 votes
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    #15 - The Beat Generation

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/1983

    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

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
    6.3/1063 votes
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    #16 - Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

    Season 5 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: Peter Richardson, Pete Richens

  • Space Virgins from Planet Sex
    6.3/1067 votes
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    #17 - Space Virgins from Planet Sex

    Season 7 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: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • Five Go to Rehab
    6.5/1070 votes
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    #18 - Five Go to Rehab

    Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 11/7/2012

    The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famous Enid Blyton spoof - Five Go Mad in Dorset. These famous children's characters have again been brought back from the past to confront today's modern world. This time they are made to account for their racist and sexist views. But they seem blissfully unrepentant as they gather for a reunion on Dick's birthday in leafy Dorset - still a magical land of rolling hills, woods, ruined castles and of course dodgy villains in big black cars.

    Director: Peter Richardson

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • Spaghetti Hoops
    6.6/1095 votes
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    #19 - Spaghetti Hoops

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 3/1/1990

    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

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • Les Dogs
    6.6/1069 votes
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    #20 - Les Dogs

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 3/8/1990

    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

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • Oxford
    6.7/10136 votes
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    #21 - Oxford

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 2/22/1990

    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

    Writer: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson

  • 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