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

Air Date

November 2, 1983

Episodes

8 episodes

The Comic Strip Presents...

Season 2

Episodes

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

1. Five Go Mad on Mescalin

November 2, 1983
30 min

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.

Dirty Movie

2. Dirty Movie

January 7, 1984
30 min

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

Susie

3. Susie

January 14, 1984
33 min

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.

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

4. A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

January 21, 1984
37 min

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.

Gino - Full Story and Pics

5. Gino - Full Story and Pics

January 28, 1984
30 min

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.

Eddie Monsoon - A Life?

6. Eddie Monsoon - A Life?

February 4, 1984
30 min

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.

Slags

7. Slags

February 11, 1984
30 min

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.

The Bullshitters

8. The Bullshitters

November 3, 1984
30 min

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