EPISODE
SEASON
The Young Ones - Season 1
The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain.
15 August 1946, London, England, UK
August 11, 1914 in London, England, UK
16 June 1929, Kensington, London, England, UK
28 May 1955, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
11 June 1959, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
4 September 1917, Birmingham, England, UK
1956, Manchester, England, UK
1957, Hackney, London, England, UK
1959, Brighton, England, UK
16 November 1953, Cardiff, Wales, UK
1967, London, England, UK
3 December 1952, Chiswick, London, England, UK
28 March 1960, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
November 4, 1954 in Greenwich, London, England, UK
30 March 1950, Rutherglen, Scotland, UK
28 December 1955
25 October 1929, Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK
February 13, 1942 in Buckinghamshire, England, UK
11 October 1957, Holyhead, Wales, UK
27 March 1932, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, UK
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.
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 14, 2018
Almost every line of the script is a quotable gem readymade for a cult following.
