The Comic Strip Presents... Season 2 Episodes

Episode 1

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

Wed, Nov 2, 1983 30 mins

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.

Episode 2

Dirty Movie

Sat, Jan 7, 1984 40 mins

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

Episode 3

Susie

Sat, Jan 14, 1984 40 mins

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.

Episode 4

A Fistful of Traveller's Cheques

Sat, Jan 21, 1984 45 mins

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.

Episode 5

Gino

Sat, Jan 28, 1984 40 mins

Episode 6

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?

Sat, Feb 4, 1984 35 mins

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.

Episode 7

Slags

Sat, Feb 11, 1984 40 mins

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.