EPISODE
SEASON
The Young Ones - Season 1
The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain.
1956, Manchester, England, UK
May 17, 1955 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK
1948, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
1957, Hackney, London, England, UK
30 March 1950, Rutherglen, Scotland, UK
28 March 1960, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
16 March 1952, Willesden, London, England, UK
1948, Colchester, Essex, England, UK
1946, Turin, Italy
November 4, 1954 in Greenwich, London, England, UK
24 January 1958, London, England, UK
20 June 1930, Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
1959, Brighton, England, UK
3 May 1959, London, England, UK
27 March 1932, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, UK
16 July 1952, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
August 11, 1914 in London, England, UK
September 26, 1950 in High Ham, Somerset, 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
Almost every line of the script is a quotable gem readymade for a cult following.
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
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.
