The Comic Strip Presents...
The Comic Strip Presents...: Season 3

Air Date

February 20, 1988

Episodes

6 episodes

The Comic Strip Presents...

Season 3

Episodes

The Strike

1. The Strike

February 20, 1988
59 min

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.

More Bad News

2. More Bad News

February 27, 1988
50 min

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.

Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door

3. Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door

March 5, 1988
49 min

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.

The Yob

4. The Yob

March 12, 1988
57 min

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.

Didn't You Kill My Brother?

5. Didn't You Kill My Brother?

March 19, 1988
53 min

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

Funseekers

6. Funseekers

March 26, 1988
48 min

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