See more at IMDbPro. Episodes Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Photos Top cast Edit. Rik Mayall Rick as Rick …. Adrian Edmondson Vyvyan as Vyvyan …. 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. 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. Home Explore the BBC. This page has been archived and is no longer updated.
Find out more about page archiving. Watch and Listen Vyvyan's having a baby! The Good Life? Also on bbc. Explore the BBC. BBC Homepage. Contact Us. In the final episode, the four students steal a red AEC Routemaster after robbing a bank Special Patrol Group dies during their escape , only to drive it through a billboard with a picture of Cliff Richard on it and then over a cliff, which the bus tumbles down until it comes to rest at the bottom, at which point they proclaim—in unison—"Phew!
That was close! Although Vyvyan and some of the others have had what should have been fatal accidents before without suffering any real effects, this time it really signified the end of the series.
Even so, it did not stop The Young Ones from occasionally appearing on TV afterwards for charity, such as in Comic Relief in with a video clip and live performance of Living Doll. Although the series was set in north London , many external scenes were filmed in Bristol , namely the suburb of Bishopston , where the student house is situated at the top of Codrington Road. All four characters attended the fictional Scumbag College. As Neil sometimes wore a University of London T-shirt, it seems likely that Scumbag is one of the University of London's constituent colleges, although they were never seen attending the institution and were rarely seen studying.
The end of the series was not the last appearance of The Young Ones. Alexei Sayle was not involved, as he felt collaborating with Richard was against the alternative ethos of the show, but had already achieved chart success in with " 'Ullo John! Gotta New Motor? Musical direction was by Canterbury scene keyboardist Dave Stewart.
At the Comic Relief stage show, The Young Ones performed "Living Doll" live following a short skit which involved Rick doing a comic song about showing his underwear and bodily parts, before being ejected from the group by Mike, and Vyvyan supposedly having backstage sex with Kate Bush with Neil as his contraceptive.
The skit climaxed with Neil claiming Cliff Richard could not perform with them and John Craven had been booked as a replacement, only for Bob Geldof to appear on stage. Ryan, for his part, was regularly recruited to play roles on associated series such as Happy Families , Bottom and Absolutely Fabulous.
Mayall, Edmondson and Planer have also appeared in episodes of Blackadder. Both series were repeated consecutively over twelve weeks in early , but went unrepeated for four years, when the second series was shown on BBC2.
In the mids all twelve episodes of The Young Ones were shown on BBC2 in a minute revised format, missing scenes and dialogue. The series was also shown on digital channel UK Gold throughout the s.
DVD releases were initially very basic: Only the US "Every Stoopid Episode" edition featured excerpts from existing documentaries, and no extra footage was included. Musical references proved difficult to clear so " The Sounds of Silence " one line and " Subterranean Homesick Blues " were excised from the US editions. A "bloopers" tape made for the amusement of cast and crew has, according to a BBC employee, gone missing from the BBC archives Template:Citation needed. A new DVD release of all episodes "Extra Stoopid Edition" was launched in November , containing new documentaries and two commentary tracks.
The music video "Living Doll" featuring Cliff Richard has not been included on any edition, and neither is the live performance done for comic relief in Not THEM! It featured Planer as Neil and Jackie Earle Haley , [13] and had a claymation opening credit sequence. Fox did not pick up the series. It was produced by David Mirkin. In the episode " Bambi ", the housemates appeared on University Challenge , where they played against Footlights College, Oxbridge , a reference to the Footlights drama club at Cambridge University.
The Footlights College team was played by show writer Ben Elton and three actors who were once members of the real Cambridge Footlights: Emma Thompson , Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry , the last of whom had actually appeared on the quiz show while at Cambridge.
The episode title is a reference to the show's presenter, Bamber Gascoigne , impersonated by Griff Rhys Jones. In the episode " Sick ", the quartet enter a scenario parodying The Good Life , after Neil's mother says the sitcom should be more like The Good Life and Vyvyan has an outburst against it. Christopher Ryan also made appearances as the character "Dave Hedgehog". All four main actors went on to gain reputations as both dramatic and comic actors.
Both series of The Young Ones have both been released on DVD individually and in a special edition boxset in both regions 2 and 4. The entire series is also available for download on iTunes ,. The original VHS releases were in a set of 4, each tape containing 3 episodes. There was also complete series 1 and complete series 2 VHS releases. The Young Ones is a video game based on the British comedy television series of the same name.
The game takes place in the students' home. The player can choose to play as either Mike, Neil, Vyvyan or Rick to explore the house and enter different rooms. The other characters become computer-controlled players. All characters can move around the house, pick up and drop objects, as well as break and fix things.
The characters often talk, giving the player clues as to what the character is intended to do. The aim of the game is to try and move out of the house with all the character's belongings in the shortest time possible.
This is not so easy, because these possessions are typically not in their preferred condition, or are hidden around the house, and players need various tools to get to them. The other characters will move around the house, behaving in-character, occasionally moving around or further damaging the possessions - making the task harder.
Due to difficulty in licensing the original series music from the BBC, an alternative music sound track was commissioned to sound similar to the original theme. Over 10, copies of the game were sold, mainly through Boots stores, Woolworths, and independent computer stores. Due to obscure bugs in the software, it was impossible to solve the game, although few users realised this at the time.
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