Nigel Planer

A documentary about the legendary and influential comedian, actor and writer, who went out from the BBC to conquer Hollywood, but sadly the ...

Two security van personnel plan to rob a bank in an attempt to raise enough cash to mount a rescue mission when a dictator invades the Falklands.

In a monochrome city that is shamelessly London although everybody acts as if it is Rome, banker Aldo Vini is on the run from Mafia boss Corelli, ...

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 ...

The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style ‘fugitive’ film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and ...

In true Peter Richardson fashion, “30 Years Of Comic Strip” defies the conventional norms of a retrospective documentary. It brings ...

A tongue-in-cheek “behind the scenes” look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to ‘The Comic ...

Bernard Fripp is told by his doctor that he has only 30 minutes left to live. This sets Bernard bumbling off on a mission to live his final ...

1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but ...

A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock ...

A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of ...

Postman Bean is anxious to end his round early to catch a morning showing of ‘The Sound of Muzak’ at his local cinema. However, he is ...

In rural England, school teacher Susie Darling is planning to leave her boring husband Martin for lusty mechanic Dave when she meets romantic ...

Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. ...

While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she’ll go away on a trip with him ...

Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by the newly disbanded group Toy Department, ...

Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners’ strike. However, the Hollywood ...

Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back together again for another film of their ...

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 ...

When American comic actor Steve ‘Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants’ Wild arrives in Oxford to make a comedy film, his girlfriend Caroline ...

A clown is not happy with his job at his father’s circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John ...

Governor Wilkins brings rookie cop Lucille Bromley to see the imprisoned cannibal Dr Genghis in order to gain information about a serial killer. ...

Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil – a woman – supplies him with the answer to his ...

Four salesmen Alan, Ian, Steve and Tim are on their way to a conference where only one of them is guaranteed promotion. There is much bickering, ...

Salesmen Alan, Ian, Tim, and the pushy Tony are on a plane on their way to a sales conference. Alan joins the mile-high club with a model in the ...

A look back at the comedy series The Comic Strip Presents

The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famous Enid Blyton spoof – Five Go Mad in ...

A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.

imagine… profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a brand of comedy based on ...

After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put ...