The Young Ones (1982 – 1984)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast:
Number of Seasons: 2
Total Number of Episodes: 12
Average Episode Running Times: 35 mins
Format: colour videotape
Sound: mono

PLOT SUMMARY

A group of horrible students move into a grotty new house and endure some strange and surreal misadventures.

Inevitably dated now, but still very funny, The Young Ones was the British cult comedy TV show of the early Eighties, launching the careers of some of the talents that would dominate British comedy throughout the rest of the decade. Politically committed, visually arresting and thoroughly anarchic, it owes a debt to Spike Milligan's Q series and of course the mighty Monty Python, but it fashioned its own unique identity that made it the must-see event of 1982.

EPISODES

SEASON ONE (9 November 1982 - 14 December 1982)
Demolition (9 November 1982)
Oil (16 November 1982)
Boring (23 November 1982)
Bomb (30 November 1982)
Interesting (7 December 1982)
Flood (14 December 1982)

SEASON TWO (8 May 1984 - 19 June 1984)
Bambi (8 May 1984)
Cash (15 May 1984)
Nasty (29 May 1984)
Time (5 June 1984)
Sick (12 June 1984)
Summer Holiday (19 June 1984)

Älypäät – Finnish title
Branchés débranchés, Les – French title
Unge, De – Danish title

1985
BAFTA Awards, UK
Best Comedy Series (Paul Jackson) - winner

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
100 Greatest TV Characters, The (2001)
History of Alternative Comedy, A (1999)
Omnibus: Laughter in the House: The Story of British Sitcom Part 1 (1999)
Omnibus: Laughter in the House: The Story of British Sitcom Part 2 (1999)
Night of a Thousand Shows (2000)
Seriously Funny: An Argument for Comedy (1996)
Top Ten Comedy Records (2000)

SEE ALSO
Comic Relief (1986)

KEYWORDS

anthropomorphism, hippies, politics, punks, sitcoms, students, surrealism, vampires, video nasties, videos

Last Updated: 1 March, 2009