Taken from:The Guardian (London) May 19, 1988

 

Comic Strip's Hollywood send-up, The Strike, in which Mr Arthur Scargill's charcter was transformed into 'a mumbling ball of sexual tension from Brooklyn,' beat the strongly-tipped Blackadder III to win the Golden Rose of Montreux last night. Its victory in the light entertainment category was Channel 4's first.

 

The film was a satire of how Hollywood would have treated the 1984-85 miners' strike. Mr Scargill, played by its co-writer, Mr Peter Richardson, emerged as an Al Pacino of the pits.

 

The show also won the international press award.