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The Comic Strip Presents...: Season 3

6 episodes Premiered Feb 20, 1988 Updated Oct 6, 2026
Previously on The Comic Strip Presents...

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Comic Strip Presents... Season 2.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (3): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

The Strike

Feb 20, 1988 · 59 min

Al Pacino (Peter Richardson) and Meryl Streep (Jennifer Saunders) star as Arthur Scargill and his wife in an overly-dramatized Hollywood epic about the 1984 miners' strike.

S3·E2 Core

More Bad News

Feb 27, 1988 · 50 min

Five years after their far-from-amicable break-up, the members of heavy metal band Bad News reunite when they are offered a record deal and a chance to play the festival at Castle

S3·E3 Core

Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door

Mar 5, 1988 · 49 min

Two boozers who run the Dreamytime Escort agency are in for the night of their lives when they accept a job to ""take out"" popular TV entertainer Nicholas Parsons.

S3·E4 Core

The Yob

Mar 12, 1988 · 57 min

A trendy music video director has his brain crossed with that of a football hooligan in a freak accident resulting when he mistakes a cerebral teleportational machine for a portabl

S3·E5 Mytharc

Didn't You Kill My Brother?

Mar 19, 1988 · 53 min

Carl Moss, a convicted murderer, is released early from prison and is confronted by his brother who framed him.

S3·E6 Mytharc

Funseekers

Mar 26, 1988 · 48 min

A social loser goes to a sleazy holiday resort in Spain for under-30s.

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