Nigel Planer Neil as Neil …. Christopher Ryan Mike as Mike …. Ben Elton Baz as Baz …. Paul Bradley Warlock as Warlock …. Robbie Coltrane Bouncer as Bouncer …. Ruth Burnett Goldilocks as Goldilocks. Gareth Hale Gravedigger as Gravedigger …. Norman Pace Gravedigger as Gravedigger …. Peter Laxton Boy in chimney as Boy in chimney …. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Vyvyan Adrian Edmondson , Rick Rik Myall , Mike Christopher Ryan , and Neil Nigel Planer are four college students who share a house in North London: Vyvyan is a violent punk who smashes everything to pieces, Rick is a political fan of Cliff Richard, Mike is the serious and bossy cool person, and Neil is the depressed hippie who does most of the cooking and cleaning in the house, and his only desire is to commit suicide.
The world of this show is surreal, hilarious, and violent as the show also interacts with other characters, and featured live performances from bands. Did you know Edit. Trivia The reason for including a performance by a live band in each episode was that this caused the BBC to categorize the show as "Light Entertainment" rather than "Situation Comedy", which meant it got a budget, as no budget was available for further sitcoms.
Alternate versions The original episodes when first broadcast were 35 minutes long. Some repeat showings were edited versions running 30 minutes long, abridging various bits of material from each one. Connections Featured in Comedy Classics of the 80's Bennett Sung by the cast.
User reviews 73 Review. The Young Ones launched the career of Ben Elton as a major writer, and was the first situation comedy of the Alternative generation.
The series follows the lives of four dislikable social inadequates, each ostensibly studying at Scumbag College, but actually just doing whatever the hell they liked and having extremely strange, surreal adventures in the process. The series starring Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christoper Ryan ran from until for 26 episodes - not a bad airing for one of the most highly-charged, material-hungry British sitcoms ever made.
The Young Ones came into being partially as a result of the standup routines that then-Comedy Store regulars Mayall, Edmondson, Planer, Peter Richardson and others were creating, and which had already become the series which was to be known as The Comic Strip Presents.
Draft scripts from Mayall and Lise Mayer were full of the raw, punkish energy that the BBC were looking for, but it was Ben Elton who was responsible for making it all work.
The setup of The Young Ones seems childish, and the stories themselves extremely fragmented. In many episodes the actions of the main characters seem to do nothing except hate and victimize each other - with everyone bullying hippy Neil, ignoring the claims by self-styled anarchist Rick that he's the 'most popular member of the house', punk psycho Vyvyan hitting everything and saving his love only for his hamster.
Only cool dude Mike seemed above the fray in adventures that included Vyvyan discovering oil in the basement, an atomic bomb falling on the house, and everyone going through a time warp. Underneath the post-punk, rock culture insanity however, classic sitcom rules worked; Neil was a put-upon housewife in all but name, Rick and Vyvyan wayward teenagers with a penchant for on one hand fatuous semi-Marxism and on the other hitting people, with Mike the father figure whose plans for making money resemble an even-less-competent Del Trotter.
This wiki is fan-created which means that any visitor is free to edit. Note: This is currently a work in progress as not all episodes and characters have had a page added yet. Series 1. Series 2. The Young Ones was unlike any other previous sitcom. Instead of sticking to familiar story structures and neat resolutions, The Young Ones took an almost surrealist approach to sitcom, with the story frequently departing on random tangents to completely unrelated characters and jokes.
Just as Monty Python incorporated animated sequences, The Young Ones featured puppets, including the house's resident rats, and Vyvyan's pet hamster.
As well as sketches and stand-up comedy, most episodes also featured a musical number performed by then-current bands like Madness and Dexys Midnight Runners.
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