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The Comic Strip Presents...
 
This is how Dawn started out it started as a comedy club, but then turned into a TV series. Five go Mad in Dorset went out on the 1st night of Channel 4.
There were 41 episodes in total, 3 were feature films, Dawn starred in the following 28:
 
Five go Mad in Dorset 1982- George
War 1983-
Beat Generation 1983- Eleanor
Bad News Tour 1983- Tracey
Summer School 1983- Ursula
Five go Mad on Mescalin 1983- George
Dirty Movie 1984- Monica
Susie 1984- Susie
Fistful of Travellers Cheques 1984- Jackie
Gino full Story and Pics 1984- Frances
Eddie Monsoon, A life 1984- Veronica
Slags 1984- Passion
The Supergrass 1985- Andrea (feature film)
Consuela or The new Mrs Saunders 1986- Consuela
Private Enterprise 1986- Nayler
Eat The Rich 1987- Debbie Draws (feature film)
The Strike 1988- Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity
More Bad News 1988- Rachel
Mr Jolly lives next door 1988- Mrs Cooper
South Atlantic Raiders Prt 1 1990- Frances
South Atlantic Raiders Prt 2 1990- Frances
GLC Carnage Continues 1990- Joan
Oxford 1990- Caroline
Spaghetti Hoops 1990- Francesca
Red Nose of Courage 1992- Glynis Kinnock
Space Virgins from Planet Sex 1993- Gaynor
Four Men in a Car 1998- Stella

Dawn also co-wrote Summer School (Series 1) with Sandy Johnson.
This episode featured all of the original Comic strippers,Peter Richardson, Nigel Planer,Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson and her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders.
 
The plot is that the summer school students make a Iron Age style vilage on the university campus, and have to go back to basic style living.

Dawns other attempt at Comic Strip writing was in the episode 'Consuela', which she penned with Jennifer. It was the 1st episode in the 3rd series and was a spoof of the film Rebecca.

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