There was Mike, the suave, sensible one; Vyvyan, the psychotic punk-metal mohican; Neil, the lentil-loving hippy and Rick, right-on anarchist revolutionary and Cliff Richard fan: four students - desperate for money, excitement, girls or just something to help fill the day - sharing a house. From this simple set up came an amazing speedball of comic caricature, slapstick, infantile humour, animation, musical performances, rants, violence, abuse and surreal jokes - leaving an impression as jaw-dropping as finding one of Vyvyan's steel-capped boots through our television screens. The Young Ones brought the irreverence, anarchy and energy of the new alternative comedy movement to situation comedy - and it would never be the same again.
Director: Geoff Posner
Writer: Ben Elton
Writer: Rik Mayall
Writer: Lise Mayer
Actor: Adrian Edmondson
Actor: Nigel Planer
Actor: Robbie Coltrane
Actor: Christopher Ryan
Actor: David Rappaport
Actor: Alexei Sayle
Actor: Keith Allen
Actor: Dawn French
Actor: Terry Jones
Actor: Gareth Hale
Actor: Norman Pace
Actor: Chris Barrie
Actor: Jennifer Saunders
Actor: Helen Atkinson-Wood
Actor: Andrew de la Tour
Director: Paul Jackson
Actor: Rik Mayall
Actor: Mark Arden
Actor: Stephen Frost
Actor: Ben Elton
Producer: Paul Jackson