The Young Ones - BBC2 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
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Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan and Alexei Sayle
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Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, Lise Mayer and Alexei Sayle
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The Young Ones are misfit, house-sharing students at Scumbag College - Neil the hippy, Rick the "right-on" leftist anarchist, Vyvyan Basterd the punk medical student, and Mike The-Cool-Person. Only Mike attracts any respect: Vyvyan and Rick loathe each other, and all three look down on Neil, who acts as the unappreciated mother of the house.
Their dysfunctional relationships with each other, lack of money, squalid surroundings, reluctance to attend any lectures and violent landlord Mr Balowski regularly combine to create anarchy in and around the house, even - or perhaps especially - when they're all deathly bored.
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First broadcast
Tuesday 9th November 1982 at 9pm on BBC Two
Most recent repeats
- Saturday 27th July 2024 at 1:15am on Gold - Series 1, Episode 1
- Friday 26th July 2024 at 9:20pm on Gold - Series 1, Episode 1
- Friday 26th July 2024 at 1:15am on Gold - Series 1, Episode 6