Ended · 1981–2016

The Comic Strip Presents...

Comedy

The Comic Strip Presents... began airing on the launch night of Channel 4 in November 1982. The show aired a number of episodes and one-off satirical comedy specials over a number of years, including a move to BBC2 in the early 1990s. Since 2012, GOLD has begun airing brand new one-off episodes of the show with some of the original cast members. The cast who originally appeared in the show include Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, many of the cast members comedy careers launched due to the series popularity.

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Season 1 · 6 episodes

S01 Special · The Comic Strip - Julien Temple1981-04-11
S01 E01 · Five Go Mad in Dorset1982-11-02
S01 E02 · War1983-01-03
S01 E03 · The Beat Generation1983-01-17
S01 E04 · Bad News Tour1983-01-24
S01 E05 · Summer School1983-01-31

Season 2 · 12 episodes

S02 E01 · Five Go Mad on Mescalin1983-11-02
S02 E02 · Dirty Movie1984-01-07
S02 E03 · Susie1984-01-14
S02 E04 · A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques1984-01-21
S02 E05 · Gino - Full Story and Pics1984-01-28
S02 E06 · Eddie Monsoon - A Life?1984-02-04
S02 E07 · Slags1984-02-11
S02 Special · The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel1984-11-03
S02 Special · The Supergrass1985-10-01
S02 Special · "Consuela" (Or 'The New Mrs Saunders')1986-01-01
S02 Special · Private Enterprise1986-01-02
S02 Special · Eat the Rich1987-10-23

Season 3 · 6 episodes

S03 E01 · The Strike1988-02-20
S03 E02 · More Bad News1988-02-27
S03 E03 · Mr Jolly Lives Next Door1988-03-05
S03 E04 · The Yob1988-03-12
S03 E05 · Didn't You Kill My Brother?1988-03-19
S03 E06 · Funseekers1988-03-26

Season 4 · 9 episodes

S04 E01 · South Atlantic Raiders1990-02-01
S04 E02 · South Atlantic Raiders, Part II: 'Argie Bargie!'1990-02-08
S04 E03 · GLC: The Carnage Continues...1990-02-15
S04 E04 · Oxford1990-02-22
S04 E05 · Spaghetti Hoops1990-03-01
S04 E06 · Les Dogs1990-03-08
S04 Special · Red Nose of Courage1992-04-09
S04 Special · The Crying Game1992-05-05
S04 Special · Wild Turkey1992-12-24

Season 5 · 18 episodes

S05 E01 · Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown1993-04-22
S05 E02 · Space Virgins from Planet Sex1993-04-29
S05 E03 · Queen of the Wild Frontier1993-05-06
S05 E04 · Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase1993-05-13
S05 E05 · Demonella1993-05-20
S05 E06 · Jealousy1993-05-27
S05 Special · Four Men in a Car1998-04-12
S05 Special · Four Men in a Plane2000-01-04
S05 Special · Churchill: The Hollywood Years2004-12-03
S05 Special · ...Sex Actually2005-12-28
S05 Special · The Hunt for Tony Blair2011-10-15
S05 Special · Five Go to Rehab2012-11-07
S05 Special · The Comic Strip Presents... Red Top2016-01-20
S05 Special · First on Four (1)1998-04-08
S05 Special · First on Four (2)1998-04-15
S05 Special · The Comic Strip - A Retrospective2005-07-04
S05 Special · 30 Years of Comic Strip2012-11-03
S05 Special · Documentary - The Making of Five Go to Rehab2012-11-07

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