EPISODE
SEASON
The Young Ones - Season 1
The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain.
November 4, 1954 in Greenwich, London, England, UK
28 May 1955, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
26 April 1940, Islington, London, England, UK
March 8, 1937 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK
1948, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
September 26, 1950 in High Ham, Somerset, England, UK
27 May 1959, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
31 October 1946, Windsor, England, UK
15 April 1959, Paddington, London, England, UK
11 April 1946, Leamington, Warwickshire, England, UK
21 July 1959
February 13, 1942 in Buckinghamshire, England, UK
23 November 1951, London, England, UK
7 March 1958, Harlow, Essex, England, UK
1936, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
19 January 1952, USA
31 July 1956
19 January 1957, Hertfordshire, England, UK
1948, Guyana
March 23, 1960 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK
September 14, 2018
Almost every line of the script is a quotable gem readymade for a cult following.
September 14, 2018
Heralding in alternative comedy's 80s boom, The Young Ones swapped plotlines for surrealism, dialogue for a hail of "bastards!" and the pretence of a structurally sound set for a load of kicked-in prop walls.
November 06, 2018
It was like an atomic bomb exploding all over television screens, the show combining slapstick and surrealism with jokes about politics, class and giant sandwiches falling from the sky.
September 11, 2018
The show's surreal humor, slapstick gags and frequent breaking of the fourth wall helped pave the way for more "alternative" comedy, and it even aired on MTV in 1986 as one of the network's first non-music shows.
