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The Comic Strip Presents Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1990 - 1990
Episode 1
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
30 mins
Billy and Stan are two security van personnel who go about their daily lives. Billy is a slow minded yet soft hearted guy while his friend Stan is an even more slow witted bloke who's behavior borders on that of an infantile delinquent. Stan has been having a romance with Frances, an Ornithologist who he has been speaking with on his CB radio. Frances is on a bird watching expedition in the South Atlantic on the Falklands with her partner Cathy, a selfish, vain woman who drives Frances around the bend. When Billy announces to Frances, a woman he has never seen that he wishes to marry her, all he hears from her end are panic stricken shrieks. Billy, believing that an Argentinian dictator and his soldiers have invaded the Falklands plans with the help of Billy to hold the manager of a Bank and his estranged wife hostage. It's an attempt to steal enough cash to mount a daring rescue mission. But a couple of hiccups means that things don't exactly run smoothly.
Episode 2
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
28 mins
In the conclusion of this special two-part story, Stan has somehow managed to make it to the Falklands, which have indeed been taken over by the Argentinians. He is tied to a stake alongside Frances, with whom he was captured after they met. The pair are sentenced to death by dictator, General Galtieri. In a desperate attempt to stall for time, Stan recounts how he and his fellow "South Atlantic Raiders" managed to make it all the way to the Falklands after just escaping from prison and making their getaway in an ice cream van.
Episode 3
GLC: The Carnage Continues...
33 mins
From the Hollywood production team that gave the world "The Strike" comes yet another blockbuster. In this one, Ken Livingstone, played by Charles Bronson, elected leader of the G.L.C., must prevent the evil Tories from flooding London in order to turn it into a yacht club.
Episode 4
Oxford
35 mins
When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a comedy film, his girlfriend Caroline goes behind his back to enroll in a poetry course. Meanwhile, Hannah Van Hosenstratt comes from New Orleans for the course and is tricked into believing she has a place by the dean, but the professor has other ideas.
Episode 5
Spaghetti Hoops
32 mins
In a monochrome city which is shamelessly London although everybody acts as if it is Rome, banker Aldo Vini is on the run from Mafia boss Corelli, from whom he has embezzled two million. Corelli hires Mig and Mog, two inept hitmen to go after Vini, killing any witnesses as they go, but when they finally catch up with him, they have no idea what to do with him and confuse Corelli's instructions with their shopping list.
Episode 6
Les Dogs
28 mins
Les Dogs are the band playing in a large marquee to celebrate the wedding of Geoffrey and Angela. During the reception, the fathers of the groom and bride exchange insults and a gun battle ensues in which many guests--and Les Dogs--are casualties, though the happy couple escape. Victor, who wandered in on the scene, is asked to take wedding photographs and has a series of dreamlike fantasies all based around his infatuation with Angela.
