
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1982 - 1984
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Episodes
- 12 (2 series)
- Starring
- Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan and Alexei Sayle
- Writers
- Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer
- Director
- Paul Jackson
- Producer
- Paul Jackson
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.
- Production company
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Tuesday 9th November 1982 on BBC Two at 9pm
- Last new broadcast
- Tuesday 19th June 1984 on BBC Two at 9pm
- Last repeat
- Monday 19th October 2020 at 12:40am on Gold
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