Four Men in a Car (The Comic Strip Presents . . . )

Date: 1998
Director: Peter Richardson
Production Company: Comic Strip Production, Tiger Aspect Productions

Stars: Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French. Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders
Location(s): Hertfordshire

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Storyline:

Four salesmen on their way to a conference end up on a remote farm with a shotgun-wielding woman.

Additional Information:

Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson

A television film from ‘The Comic Strip Presents . . . ‘ series.

A special episode broadcast in 1998.

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"This is stupid. Why don't we take our own cars? I could have been there by now. I don't like other people's cars." The A1 Barnet By-Pass at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire with the Moat House Hotel to the left.

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Tim (Nigel Planer), Steve (Peter Richardson) and Alan Sellers (Rik Mayall) discuss who Brian is going to promote to Area Sales while they wait for their colleague Ian. The Moat House Hotel at the corner of Rowley Lane and the Barnet By-Pass.

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The horn sounds as Ian's Toyota Avensis turns into the hotel car park. The Moat House Hotel was built on the site of the Thatched Barn, a location seen in numerous productions including 'Hysteria', 'Man at the Top', 'Mister Ten Per Cent', 'Intimate Games', 'Tomorrow at Ten' and 'Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World'.

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Ian (Adrian Edmondson) jokes as he opens the boot before an argument starts about who is sitting in the front. The Moat House Hotel at the corner of Rowley Lane and Barnet By-Pass in Borehamwood with houses on Newark Green in the left background.

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The Toyota joins the motorway and the journey to Swindon gets under way.

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Breaking a trip punctuated by bragging, moaning, wondering who's got the job and Steve feeling ill, Ian pulls into a service station.

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The four Middle-Managers head to the shop where Tim shoplifts a Twix while waiting for a microwave curry to heat up, Steve spends his time being sick in the toilet, Ian tries to use various credit and loyalty cards to buy a variety of items and Alan buys a "Sounds of the 80s" CD.

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On the road again, the weather turns to snow before Ian pulls into a lay by following a road rage incident with a Range Rover . . . and Steve is sick in the car.

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After Ian gets beaten up by the Driver of the Range Rover before Alan gets his arm broken by a passing vehicle and a lorry collides with the car writing it off, the four Men leave the lay by and walk across a field.

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As the light fades, the four Men approach a remote farm.

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Tim, Steve, Alan and Ian trudge through the snow towards the house.

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Finding a key on the doorstep, the Salesmen let themselves into the deserted house treading mud and slush into the carpet.

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Helen returns home on her motorcycle to find the Invaders who hold up their business cards when she points a shotgun at them.

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After a night during which Tim, Ian, Steve and Alan were fired by Brian and Helen suffered a diabetic faint, in the morning light the mysterious Stella (Dawn French) appears driving a car transporter.

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Giving them all a second chance, Stella hands out new white shirts, suits, mobile phones and Barclaycards to the Salesmen before handing a new car over to Ian.

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After injecting her with insulin, Stella tempts Helen (Jennifer Saunders) with a new mint green girly car with two Australian Beefcakes.

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The Beefcakes call Helen over to have some fun.

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Wearing their new clothes and talking on their mobile phones, Tim, Ian, Steve and Alan head off to their next sales. The road sign points the way to South Mimms, the M25, St. Albans and Potters Bar so this must be the A1(M) in Hertfordshire and the lamp posts indicate that this is looking north across the southbound carriageway.