The Comic Strip Presents...
- TV comedy drama
- Channel 4 / BBC Two / U&Gold
- 1982 - 2016
- 41 episodes (5 series)
Periodic series of satires and spoofs that helped bring alternative comedy to the mainstream and forge a comedy reputation for then-new Channel 4. Stars Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and more.
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Series 5, Episode 2 - Space Virgins From Planet Sex
Notes
A Comic Strip Production.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 29th April 1993
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 35 minutes
Cast & crew
| Sara Stockbridge | Shaaron |
| Jennifer Saunders | Needle |
| Dawn French | Gaynor |
| Robbie Coltrane | Zorran |
| Robbie Coltrane | N |
| Peter Richardson | James Blonde |
| Keith Allen | Martin Aimless |
| Miranda Richardson | Miss Straugheim |
| Adrian Edmondson | K |
| Adrian Edmondson | Air Traffic Controller |
| Kevin Allen | Kevin |
| Gary Beadle | Gary |
| George Yiasoumi | Darren |
| Mark Caven | Colonel |
| Derren Nesbitt | Prime Minister |
| Phil Cornwell | Professor |
| Phil Cornwell | Jerry the Driver |
| Doon Mackichan | Daisy |
| Doon Mackichan | Zapping Space Rat |
| Kirkland Laing | Harry the Boxer |
| Jimmy Fagg | Nappy Lorry Driver |
| Martha Ross | Maggie the Cleaner |
| Robbie Carwithen | John (Air Traffic) |
| Gina Briony | Space Rat |
| Christine Chan | Space Rat |
| Jamunna Charles | Space Rat |
| Catherine George | Space Rat |
| Sarah Jardine Jordan | Space Rat |
| Debbie Mills | Space Rat |
| Alison Wilcox | Space Rat |
| Peter Richardson | Writer |
| Pete Richens (as Peter Richens) | Writer |
| Peter Richardson | Director |
| Pete Richens | Associate Director |
| Lolli Kimpton | Producer |
| Michael White | Executive Producer |
| Peter Delfgou | Editor |
| Beverley D'Souza | Editor |
| John Ebden | Production Designer |
| Simon Brint | Composer |
Press
When the two worlds of comedy and sci-fi collide, the recent is usually calamitous. In the cinema Mel Brooks's Spaceballs proved to be about as amusing and successful as the launch of Challenger, while on TV the lamentable Red Dwarf shows that four-dimensional space-time continuums do not comnpensate for one-dimensional characters. But last night on Space Virgins from Planet Sex Space Virgins from Planet Sex achieved a triumphant synthesis, with a dense, merciless parody of the excesses of Sixties and Seventies sci-fi movies - an absurd fantasy world full of intergalactic space craft shaped like cervical caps and futurist women in micro skirts and Mary Quant eye liner.
Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 30th April 1993