THE YOUNG ONES (1982 - 1984)

 












Directed by: Paul Jackson, Geoff Posner, Ed Bye
Starring: Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, Alexei Sayle, Paul Bradley, Christine Ellerbeck, Chris Ellis, Ben Elton, Gerard Kelly, Hilary Mason, Pauline Melville, Herbert Norville, Cyril Shaps, Anthony Sharp, Maggie Steed, Andy de la Tour, Chris Barrie, John Mangan, Tony Alleff, Robbie Coltrane, Barrie Cookson, Mark Ezra, Terry Medlicott, Patrick Newell, David Rhule, Mark Arden, Jim Barclay, Ruth Burnett, Jacqueline Clarke, Paola Dionisotti, Nick Dunning, Stephen Frost, Paul Gale, Peter Greene, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Pauline Melville, John Owens, Robin Parkinson, David Rappaport, Tony Moore, Kenn Oldfield, Peter Roy, Jean Campbell-Dallas, Clair Hill, Ceri Jackson, Peter Laxton, Tony Sympson, Roger Sloman, Keith Allen, Tony Allen, Nicholas Ball, Mark Dewison, Dawn French, Sadie Hamilton, David Lloyd, William MacBain, Kilian McKenna, Michael Redfern, Jennifer Saunders, Cindy Shelley, David Squire, Neneh Cherry, Pat Gorman, Linda Henry, Lise Mayer, Andi Oliver, Arnold Brown, Gareth Hale, Justine Lord, Norman Pace, Paul Jackson, Peter Wear, Tamsin Heatley, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson, Emma Thompson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Barbie Denham, Lee Cornes, Steve Dixon, Steve Kelly, Jan Prince, Kay Stonham, Alan Freeman, Peter Brewis, Simon Brint, Stewart Copeland, Chris Difford, Martin Dobson, Derek Griffiths, Jools Holland, Rowland Rivron, Bob Casale, Chris Andrews, Graham Cole, Ricky Newby, Helen Atkinson Wood, Vikki Chambers, Ron Cook, Damaris Hayman, Daniel Peacock, Barry Stanton, Terry Jones, Gary Beadle, Jonathan Caplan, Helen Lederer, Paul Merton, Julianne White, Steve Ismay, Rupert Bates, Anne-Marie Martin, Perry Benson, Hugh Cecil, Jean Channon, Brian Croucher, Carla Mendonca, David Rolfe, Brian Oulton, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Anthony Bettsworth, Lenny Henry, Mark Lambert, Norman Lovett, Joanne Pearce, Julia Sawalha, Harry Fielder
Musical guests: Amazulu, Ronnie Golden, Dexys Midnight Runners, Motorhead, The Damned, Nine Below Zero, Rip Rig + Panic, Ken Bishop's Nice Twelve, Radical Posture, John Otway, Madness

12 episodes
(TV-PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, surreal humor)

PLOT:
The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students sharing a house in Thatcher's Britain.

season 1 - 
Mike, Neil, Vyvyan and Rick learn that the council are going to demolish the house. Vyvyan decides to demolish the house from the inside and Neil wants to commit suicide. The boys move into their new house and Vyvyan discovers oil in the basement. Mike declares himself the president and then forces Neil and Rick into slave labor to dig up the oil. The boys are having a very boring day so they decide to go down to the pub, where they run into Vyvyan's estranged mother. When the guys find an atom bomb in the kitchen, Rick wants to use it to blackmail Margaret Thatcher, while Vyvyan tries to set it off. Meanwhile, the TV detector man shows up. The boys throw a party for their friends. Rick's liberal college friends clash with Vyvyan's rocker friends, skinheads try to crash the party and Neil's friend Neil goes missing. London is flooded and Vyvyan, Rick, Neil and Mike find themselves trapped in the house with Mr. Balowski, who has turned into an ax-wielding homicidal maniac.

season 2 -

After realizing they haven't done the wash in almost three years, the boys take a trip to the launderette and then Neil remembers that they have been chosen to be on "University Challenge". The boys are broke so they force Neil to get a job as a policeman to raise money for Vyvyan, who is pregnant. Mike and Vyvyan plan to watch video nasties but have trouble working the VCR, Neil has a bath and a vampire terrorizes the guys. After having a dream that he, Rick, Vyvyan, Mike and Mr. Balowski were in the American television program "Dallas", Neil awakens to find that Rick has been sleeping with an axe murderess. Vyvyan, Rick, Mike and Neil suffer with colds, then with being taken hostage by violent criminal Brian Damage Balowski. On top of that, Neil's parents are coming to tea. It's the end of the term at College, and Vyvyan, Rick, Mike and Neil are having a lazy summer holiday. But they end up getting evicted by Mr. Balowski and decide to rob a bank, before making a getaway on a bus.

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