TVShowsOnDVD.com: "Yeah, shut up, Neil! We've got videos to talk about, haven't we, Mike?'
'The Young Ones' was a BBC show about 4 very different (and unlikable) college boys who shared a home: Mike 'The Cool Person', Vyvyan 'The Punker', Neil 'The Hippie', and Rick 'The Complete Bastard'. The basic premise was that these lads got into all kind of strange situations, and you never knew what would happen next. The producers got it classified as a 'variety show', in a clever move to get the series paid at a higher rate, simply by tossing in one live musical act per episode. The Young Ones lasted for two seasons (or 'series', in British terms): the first 6-episode run was in 1982, and the second set of six aired in 1984. The show found an enthusiastic USA audience (myself included) when, in 1986, MTV aired all twelve episodes with only moderate cuts for the American censors."
'The Young Ones' was a BBC show about 4 very different (and unlikable) college boys who shared a home: Mike 'The Cool Person', Vyvyan 'The Punker', Neil 'The Hippie', and Rick 'The Complete Bastard'. The basic premise was that these lads got into all kind of strange situations, and you never knew what would happen next. The producers got it classified as a 'variety show', in a clever move to get the series paid at a higher rate, simply by tossing in one live musical act per episode. The Young Ones lasted for two seasons (or 'series', in British terms): the first 6-episode run was in 1982, and the second set of six aired in 1984. The show found an enthusiastic USA audience (myself included) when, in 1986, MTV aired all twelve episodes with only moderate cuts for the American censors."
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