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'It's like a weird time capsule…'
Great Scott! It's been 30 years since Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, and Ade Edmondson first donned unhealthily high-waisted shorts to lampoon The Famous Five in the first The Comic Strip film, Five Go Mad in Dorset.
To mark the three decades worth of talent The Comic Strip has produced over the years, Peter Richardson has brought the original cast back together for this sequel, in which the Five are reunited.
We caught up with Peter, who wrote the original and this sequel, to learn what happened when those shorts were pulled on once more.
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Five Go To Rehab
At the heart of the alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, The Comic Strip Presents... remains one of the most influential programmes of recent decades.
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, stars Peter Richardson, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders reprise one of the best-loved stories, the Famous Five, in this all-new episode, Five Go To Rehab. As you'll see from our clip, the Five may be all grown up, but adventure is still at hand...