The Comic Strip Presents... - Season 3

Season 3

Episodes

The Strike
A young and innocent man from the Welsh Valleys pens a script about the miners' strike. When success comes calling, he and the script get the Hollywood treatment.

More Bad News
A rock journalist reunites the Bad News band, who parted company after a disastrous maiden tour, for a one-off gig. But all does not go according to plan...

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
The inappropriately named hit man Mr Jolly, played by Peter Cook, rents office space next door to the alcoholic incompetents Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, proprietors of Dreamy Time Escorts

The Yob
An illegal psychic teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, and pretentious promo director Patrick gets his genes mixed with those of a football hooligan

Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Old rivalries are renewed when Carl Moss - Alexei Sayle - is prematurely released from prison. His new occupation leads him into direct conflict with his gangland brother and the notorious Mrs Moss.

Funseekers
It's high season in Ibiza, and the18-30s holidaymakers have arrived for another annual binge. But the pace is so frantic no one notices the pregnant maid ostracised by her nearest and dearest.
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