mod_daze

Anyone else in to these?

cheers!

DB7

I watched a couple again recently, The Bullshitters and The Yob, and to be honest they've not stood the test of time well.

Steve Crook

What about Five Go Mad in Dorset or The Strike?
I always thought they were the best of the bunch

Steve

DB7

I was never taken with Five go Mad in the first place so I doubt my indifference to it has changed. Haven't seen The Strike for years (wouln't mind catching GLC and The Supergrass again too). Maybe they belong to the era of Frankie Says t-shirts, Maggie and the arrival of alternative comedy.

Some of The Young Ones episodes still hit the spot tho.

glyn horton

A bit of a hit and miss series looking back at them now but very much the 'in' thing at the time. They even got people like Kate Bush involved in a couple of episodes.

mod_daze

I thought the Supergrass one was a tad better than the others.

And then there was A Fist Full Of Travellers Cheques...hehe....

cheers!

Cuffy

I bought the boxed set because they were my favourite Friday night post-pub entertainment in the mid 90's when UK Gold repeated them.

I wholeheartedly agree with the comments that Adrian Edmondson himself makes in one of the included interviews - that is, that the good ones were great but the bad ones were truly awful.

Five Go Mad, Bad News, The Supergrass, Dirty Movie, Mr Jolly Lives Next Door, Consuela, Gino and South Atlantic Raiders are my favourites (possibly because in addition to the repeats, I also saw them when first broadcast).

Good but not great (in my opinion) were The Strike, GLC, Oxford, The Crying Game and The Strike.

There are however, some absolute horrors.... Les Dogs, Space Virgins, Spaghetti Hoops, Didn't You Kill My Brother, Funseekers. And as for Summer School - words defy me!

mod_daze

I am hoping to get my hands on a copy of the box set at a reasonable price, not the ridiculous ones being asked.

cheers!

faceoff

Yeah The Strike brings back great memories. Al Pacino's saying he had the ability to depict the whole troubled history of the Trade Unions - "just by the way I stand!"

The trouble was - that line wasn't too far fetched by the actors in those days and the powers they wielded. This was about the time certain thespians could write their own cheques for a part(Marlon Brando's mumbling in Superman - at about 100,000 dollars per syllable) and tended to ignore film director's if it suited them.

Tony Pendrey

And don 't forget some of the recent efforts - Three Men In A Car - Three Men In A Plane and Sex Actually.

How they ever got made is beyond me.

Although not Comic Strip, the 3 films, Guest House Paradiso, Churchill - The Hollywood Years and Stellar Street are all examples of total utter trash.

:blink:

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings

Tony Pendrey

I believe "The Bullshitters" wasn't a Comic Strip thingy. I remember that Peter Richardson was hauled onto "Right To Reply" to answer some the thousands of compaints that Channel 4 received just on the title alone.

He got really bolshy with Gus MacDonald and didn't do a very good job of defending it.

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings

Cuffy

It's definitely included in the 'Complete Collection' box set. It doesn't however include the usual 'Comic Strip Presents....' indent so I suspect that, strictly speaking, you are correct in that it wasn't the usual production team.

There does seem to be general ambiguity as to what constitutes a genuine Comic Strip Production - one of the biggest complaints in reviews of the box set is that it either excludes genuine articles and/or, it includes those that the aficionados don't consider part of the brand.

Personally, it doesn't hugely bother me - whilst there's an awful lot of dross included in the collection, I can't say that I found any of the best ones missing either.

Either way, The Bullshitters is included and, in my opinion, deserves to be so.