I'm going mad trying to find "Five go mad in Dorset"....?

Question

Can anyone tell me where I can find video clips on the net?

Answer 1

I downloaded a really poor quality copy of "Five go mad on Mescaline" from eMule, but I think it'd probably be better to wait until the Comic Strip boxset's reduced.

My dad used to let me watch them when I was 4. My mum went mad when she caught me watching Mescaline :D

Answer 2

It's available on the 'Comic Strip Presents......' box set available at amazon for £24.97 and includes all the 37 episodes.

Click this link to view: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/explorer/B0007LPLRY/2/ref=pd_lpo_ase/202-4094734-2517455?

The Comic Strip Presents was a series of occasional comedic films from Peter Richardson, Ade Edmondson, Rik Mayall and friends. The team parodied almost every genre of television and movies and provided some of the absolute finest British comedy of the late 1980s.

Production values were high, all the roles were beautifully played, and the shows were just damn funny. We're talking side-splittingly, pant-wettingly, gasping-for-oxygen funny.

"I think we're halfway between a Carry On film and a Joe Orton play," Robbie Coltrane told Radio Times in 1990. While many thousands of words have been written about the Comic Strip Presents TV films - mostly in praise but some vitriolic in their scorn - it is likely that no better description exists of these unique contributions to British TV.

All 37 films are distinct productions, self-contained from the others, their dialogue stuffed with dangerous lines, their action containing hefty quantities of seemingly gratuitous physical violence. By the same token, all the programs contain some wonderfully funny dialogue, creative ideas and perhaps the most astute film pastiches ever attempted on TV. Whether the results were good or bad, to have missed a Comic Strip production meant that you missed something of note.

The Cast
Adrian Edmondson
Rik Mayall
Peter Richardson
Dawn French
Jennifer Saunders
Nigel Planer
Robbie Coltrane
Daniel Peacock
Ronald Allen
Keith Allen
Alexei Sayle
Lenny Henry
Kathy Burke
Pete Richens
Miranda Richardson
Phil Cornwell
Fiona Richmond
Michael White
Tony Bilbow
Peter Cook
Nicholas Parsons
Gary Olsen
Peter Wyngarde
Beryl Reid
Jeff Beck
Leslie Phillips


EPISODES

• Five Go Mad In Dorset (1982) • War (1983) • The Beat Generation (1983) • Bad News Tour (1983) • Summer School (1983) • Five Go Mad On Mescalin (1983) • Dirty Movie (1984)
• Susie (1984) • Fistful Of Travellers Cheques (1984) • Gino - Full Story And Pics (1984)
• Eddie Monsoon - A Life? (1984) • Slags (1984) • Consuela (1986) • Private Enterprise (1986) • The Strike (1988) • More Bad News (1988) • Mr Jolly Lives Next Door (1988)
• The Yob (1988) • Didn't You Kill My Brother? (1988) • Funseekers (1988) • South Atlantic Raiders - Part 1 (1990) • South Atlantic Raiders - Part 2 (1990) • GLC (1990) • Oxford (1990) • Spaghetti Hoops (1990) • Les Dogs (1990) • Red Nose Of Courage (1992) • The Crying Game (1992) • Wild Turkey (1992) • Detectives On The Edge Of A Nervous Breakdown (1993) • Space Virgins From Planet Sex (1993) • Queen Of The Wild Frontier (1993) • Gregory - Diary Of A Nut Case (1993) • Demonella (1993) • Jealousy (1993)
• Four Men In A Car (1998) • Four Men In A Plane (2000)

Answer 3

You can get the Box set of all the comic strips series,its well worth it ,you get about 40 episodes for 30 quid.It has the sequel to Five go mad in dorset on there aswell.

Answer 4

Try Youtube

Answer 5

If you're going mad, too, doesn't that make "Six go mad in Dorset"?!