The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel
The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel is a 1984 medium-length TV film directed by Stephen Frears. A spoof of the TV series The Professionals, it was first broadcast in 1984 on Channel 4. Although it was made by many people behind The Comic Strip, the film did not feature the Comic Strip title sequence, and is not considered by some to be part of the series. However, it was included in The Comic Strip DVD box set (2005), and its lead characters, Bonehead and Foyle reappeared in a later short Comic Strip film, Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown. It was also represented as an episode of the show on 30 Years of The Comic Strip. Synopsis
Commander Jackson, head of DI5, hears that his daughter Janie has been kidnapped and held for ransom. He calls in ex-agents Bonehead and Foyle (Peter Richardson) to save her. Since being kicked out of DI5, Bonehead works at a TV Tough Guys School, teaching others the "rules" of being a "TV tough guy", and Foyle is now an actor on stage. Jackson blackmails the two into working together. Cast

Keith Allen as Bonehead
Peter Richardson as Martin Foyle
Robbie Coltrane as Commander George Jackson
Alana Pellay as Herself 
Jimmy Fagg as Himself 
Fiona Hendley as Janie Jackson
Al Matthews as Admiral
George Khan as Thompson
Kevin Allen as KNOBS Student Chuck 
Gary Martin as KNOBS Student Stig
John Sarbutt as KNOBS Student Dean
David Farrington as KNOBS Student David Farrington
Anthony Sharp as West End Play Father 
Michael White as Himself 
Elvis Costello as Stone Deaf A&R Man

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Channel 4 comedy
The Comic Strip Presents... episodes
1984 British television episodes
1984 television films
1984 films

1984 short films
Films directed by Stephen Frears
Parody films