NaN/10 0 votes#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: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Rowland Rivron
NaN/10 0 votes#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
NaN/10 0 votes#3 - Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/1988
Carl Moss, a convicted murder, is released early from prison and is confronted by his brother who framed him.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Alexei Sayle, Pauline Melville, David Stafford
NaN/10 0 votes#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
NaN/10 0 votes#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
4.6/10 54 votes#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
5.6/10 48 votes#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
5.8/10 112 votes#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
5.8/10 67 votes#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
6.0/10 148 votes#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
6.1/10 115 votes#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
6.2/10 130 votes#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
6.2/10 53 votes#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
6.3/10 129 votes#14 - 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
6.3/10 63 votes#15 - 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: Pete Richens, Peter Richardson
6.3/10 67 votes#16 - 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
6.3/10 53 votes#17 - 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
6.5/10 70 votes#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
6.6/10 94 votes#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
6.6/10 69 votes#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
6.7/10 136 votes#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
6.8/10 65 votes#22 - 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
6.8/10 52 votes#23 - 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
6.8/10 209 votes#24 - 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
6.9/10 102 votes#25 - 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
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 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
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "The Comic Strip Presents..." is "Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by Stephen Frears and written by Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Rowland Rivron. "Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door" aired on 3/5/1988 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Yob".