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.
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Count Duckula is a vegetarian vampire duck, coming into the world as an accident. Unlike his family and ancestors, he has no bloodlust, as when he was reincarnated, blood was omitted and replaced with ketchup.
Hank and Dean Venture, with their father Doctor Venture and faithful bodyguard Brock Samson, go on wild adventures facing megalomaniacs, zombies, and suspicious ninjas, all for the glory of adventure. Or something like that.
Comedy series in which Rob Brydon plays himself as the host of a low-rent panel show
A comedic talk show from an alternate reality featuring unstable hosts, a variety of celebrities—both real and fake—and unusual studio action.
The League of Gentlemen is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC Two over three series from 1999 to 2002. In the fictional Northern England town of Royston Vasey—based on Bacup, Lancashire—the lives are explored of dozens of bizarre citizens, much of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the titular comedy troupe in 1995. The programme was followed by a film in 2005, and a three-part revival miniseries in December 2017 to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary.
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
LOOK AROUND YOU. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is?
A group of high-school teens are the products of government employees' secret experiment. They are the genetic clones of famous historical figures who have been dug up, re-created anew. Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, JFK, Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and more are juxtaposed as teenagers dealing with teen issues in the 20th century.
At Hekiyo Academy, all but one of the Student Council members are elected via popularity contests, and those seats are filled by the school's most beautiful girls! The lines between fact and fiction disappear at the STUDENT COUNCIL'S DISCRETION!
Series of 54 original televised plays and classic dramas produced by public television station KCET in Los Angeles, featuring all-star talent, was broadcast nationally on the National Educational Television (NET) network and its successor PBS between 1970 and 1978.
Nagasumi's in hot water after a beautiful, young mermaid named Sun saves him from drowning. The deep-sea sweetheart's dad is a merman yakuza prone to executing anyone who learns his family's scaly secret! Luckily, there's a catch - if Nagasumi agrees to marry Sun, he just might avoid sleeping with the fishes!
Daonuea had a crush on Khabkluen in high school and confessed his feelings on his last day at the school. However, he was gently rejected. Now starting University, Daonuea discovers that one of his dormmates is none other than Khabkluen. What will happen when you stop loving someone but they begin loving you?
Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.
"High Executioner to the King of England" Matt Berry and his assistant Rich Fulcher, spend their free time in a gentleman’s club for hangmen, competing for women, money and happiness, while engaging general depravity.
Investigative reporter Chris Morris puts modern Britain under the spotlight, and smacks the issues of the day till they bleed. He tackles weighty issues including animals, drugs, sex and skewered celebrities and politicians alike - and in a later episode in 2001, paedophiles.
The two Warner Brothers Yakko and Wakko and their Warner sister Dot had been (supposedly) created in the 1930's, but their cartoons were too screwy for the general public to handle. The three Warners were locked up in the studio water tower until they escaped in the 90's. There, they run wild, causing chaos everywhere!
Seven of One is a 1973 BBC2 comedy anthology starring Ronnie Barker. 7 of 1 is a series of seven separate comedies that would serve as possible pilots for sitcoms, three of which were picked up for a full series run. Originally called Six of One, which Barker planned to follow up with another series called Half Dozen of the Other.
The Armando Iannucci Shows is a series of eight programmes focused on specific themes relating to human nature and existentialism, around which Iannucci would weave a series of surreal sketches and monologues. Recurring themes in the episodes are the superficiality of modern culture, our problems communicating with each other, the mundane nature of working life and feelings of personal inadequacy and social awkwardness. Several characters also make repeat appearances in the shows, including the East End thug, who solves every problem with threats of violence; Hugh, an old man who delivers surreal monologues about what things were like in the old days; and Iannucci's barber, who is full of nonsensical anecdotes.
When the Hellmouth opens beneath Darkplace Hospital in downtown Romford, kiddy doctor, Vietnam veteran and ex-warlock Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. is the only man who can close it. Joined by best buddy Dr. Lucien Sanchez, fiery hospital boss Thornton Reed, and woman Liz Asher, Dagless must fight the forces of Darkness while dealing with the burden of day-to-day admin. From the chilling pen of best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi comes this lost masterpiece of televisual terror. Dare you enter Garth's Darkplace?
Twisted Tales is a dark and stylish comedy drama series. With intense scripts written by a mix of established writers and upcoming talent, each story is a self-contained episode with a mysterious twist. The tales set out to spook the brain and tickle the funny bone, so be prepared to expect the unexpected. The series is very closely related to Spine Chillers, an earlier BBC Three series. In effect, Twisted Tales is a rebranded second series of the earlier successful production.
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5 episodes • 1982Avg: 10.0Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five Go Mad in Dorset | Nov 2, 1982 | 0.0 |
| 2 | War | Jan 3, 1983 | 0.0 |
| 3 | The Beat Generation | Jan 17, 1983 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Bad News Tour | Jan 24, 1983 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Summer School | Jan 31, 1983 | 10.0 |
8 episodes • 1983
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five Go Mad on Mescalin | Nov 2, 1983 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Dirty Movie | Jan 7, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Susie | Jan 14, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 4 | A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques | Jan 21, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Gino - Full Story and Pics | Jan 28, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Eddie Monsoon - A Life? | Feb 4, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Slags | Feb 11, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 8 | The Bullshitters | Nov 3, 1984 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1988
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Strike | Feb 20, 1988 | 0.0 |
| 2 | More Bad News | Feb 27, 1988 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door | Mar 5, 1988 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Yob | Mar 12, 1988 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Didn't You Kill My Brother? | Mar 19, 1988 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Funseekers | Mar 26, 1988 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1990
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Atlantic Raiders (1) | Feb 1, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 2 | South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie! | Feb 8, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 3 | GLC: The Carnage Continues | Feb 15, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Oxford | Feb 22, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Spaghetti Hoops | Mar 1, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Les Dogs | Mar 8, 1990 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1993
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown | Apr 22, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Space Virgins from Planet Sex | Apr 29, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Queen of the Wild Frontier | May 6, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase | May 13, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Demonella | May 20, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Jealousy | May 27, 1993 | 0.0 |