The Comic Strip Presents
A series of self-contained television movies starring performers from London's "Comic Strip" comedy club and their friends. Noted for a high sense of parody of previous movies, literature, and generally everyone in sight.
- 1982-2016
- 9 seasons
- Comedy
A series of self-contained television movies starring performers from London's "Comic Strip" comedy club and their friends. Noted for a high sense of parody of previous movies, literature, and generally everyone in sight.
Season 7 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1993
Episode 1
Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
32 mins
The lead star of detective series "The Gourmet Detective" is found shot dead during an after-show party. The only clue is a spangly boot which leads the commander and chief of the local police force to suspect that the perpetrator of the crime is a 1970s-style criminal. Informing modern-day 1990s copper David Spanker that he must team up with a crew of various TV detectives from the 1970s, Spanker must reluctantly follow orders. The assembled team of maverick police detectives comprise of "Shouting" George of "The Weeny", Bonehead and Foyle of "The Bullshitters", and suave, flamboyant Jason Bentley. But as the law of hackneyed detective shows dictates, attempting to solve the mystery proves stressful. As the five egos and separate crime-fighting methods clash, solving the brutal slaying might be the least of the detectives' problems in this hilarious and anarchic spoof.
Episode 2
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
31 mins
A craft full of Space Rats--glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex--arrive on Earth desperate to find men to imprison in their sex factory so they can procreate with them in order to ensure the continuity of their race. Fortunately for the world, secret agent James Blond, a decidedly non-feminist secret agent, sets out to rescue the men and see off the Space Rats in his own inimitable way.
Episode 3
Queen of the Wild Frontier
31 mins
Convicts Mick and Gary are being escorted to the dentist when their prison van has an accident and they wind up at a remote farmhouse occupied by Fiona and Susie, two sex-starved sisters who have been waiting to have babies with the right men,and whilst these two may not be the right ones,they are certainly available.
Episode 4
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
38 mins
Governor Wilkins brings rookie cop Lucille Bromley to see the imprisoned cannibal Dr Genghis in order to gain information about a serial killer. At the same time the extremely boring Gregory Dawson,who is interested in serial killers,is building his own torture chamber and making a very mundane video diary about his life. However the two worlds are shortly about to collide.
Episode 5
Demonella
28 mins
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams,a piece called 'Demonella' he is anxious to fulfill his part of the deal,to give the Devil his mother's secret recipe for chicken soup to serve her celebrity guests in Hell.
Episode 6
Jealousy
30 mins
Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife Jane Margory and convinced she is having an affair with her handsome water aerobics instructor. Seeing a name and number in her diary he follows her in drag,only to find it is a transvestite club she is covering as a journalist and where he is embarrassingly chatted up. In the event his suspicions are correct but the proof comes as a cost.
