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  • 1990-02-01T22:00:00Z on Channel 4
  • 30m
  • 3h 8m (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

1990-02-01T22:00:00Z

4x01 South Atlantic Raiders (1)

Season Premiere

4x01 South Atlantic Raiders (1)

  • 1990-02-01T22:00:00Z30m

A security service driver for a British bank meets and falls in love over the radio with a woman stranded on a bird watching expedition in the South Atlantic. When he is tricked into thinking the Falklands are under attack by an enemy army, he takes drastic measures to finance a rescue mission to save his new girlfriend.

Having robbed a bank and hijacked a plane to travel to the South Atlantic to protect Frances, the woman he loves, Stan finds himself at the mercy of Argentinian soldiers plotting to recapture the Falkland Islands.

4x03 GLC: The Carnage Continues

  • 1990-02-15T22:00:00Z32m

Charles Bronson (Robbie Coltrane) stars in a big-budget Hollywood film as Ken Livingstone, a man of the people and elected leader of the GLC. After successfully preventing the Tories from flooding South London to turn it into a yacht club, Livingstone makes it his one-man mission to stop ""The Ice Maiden"" Margaret Thatcher from beheading the Prince of Wales and taking over the kingdom.

1990-02-22T22:00:00Z

4x04 Oxford

4x04 Oxford

  • 1990-02-22T22:00:00Z35m

Hannah is a street-wise American woman with a passion for Lord Byron's poetry who is prepared to do anything it takes to get into a course at Oxford, and she means anything. Also eager to study Byron is Caroline, the quiet-natured girlfriend of narcissistic mega-star comedian Steve ""Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants"" Wild. When he disapproves of her aspirations, Caroline must go behind her boyfriend's back to take the course, unaware that she's not the only one doing the deceiving.

1990-03-01T22:00:00Z

4x05 Spaghetti Hoops

4x05 Spaghetti Hoops

  • 1990-03-01T22:00:00Z31m

Bank chairman Aldo Vini, who is suspected of embezzling $200 million from his bank in Rome, is pursued across Europe by incompetent assassins.

Season Finale

1990-03-08T22:00:00Z

4x06 Les Dogs

Season Finale

4x06 Les Dogs

  • 1990-03-08T22:00:00Z30m

A wedding between feuding upper-class families turns into an all-out war zone. In the midst of the chaos and bloodshed, the wedding photographer becomes enraptured by the bride's beatific beauty, and the story drifts into the surreal realm of his imagination, where the lines between fantasy, dream, and reality become hopelessly blurred.

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