The Comic Strip Presents...
The Comic Strip Presents...: Season 1
Season 2

Air Date

November 2, 1982

Episodes

5 episodes

The Comic Strip Presents...

Season 1

Episodes

Five Go Mad in Dorset

1. Five Go Mad in Dorset

November 2, 1982
30 min

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.

War

2. War

January 3, 1983
30 min

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

The Beat Generation

3. The Beat Generation

January 17, 1983
30 min

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.

Bad News Tour

4. Bad News Tour

January 24, 1983
30 min

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.

Summer School

5. Summer School

10.0
January 31, 1983
30 min

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.