Category: The Young Ones
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Warden Walters
The final joke of Bomb, the fourth episode of The Young Ones, never gets the laugh I think it deserves. It’s not a bomb, it’s an egg the plane has laid. I wonder if the noise of the baby plane has been mixed too loud and drowns out the laugh. Anyway, here’s Rick’s exclamation when…
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Christopher Ryan Clippings
It’s been said enough to no longer really be insightful, but Christopher Ryan as Mike in The Young Ones was excellent. But he’s even better as Dave Hedgehog in Bottom, and his appearances in One Foot In The Grave and Absolutely Fabulous are marvellous too. It seems he has always been quietly getting on with…
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Punk Shocker!
A Rude, Crude Team Out To Make Mayhem Four months before The Young Ones was first broadcast, it was already making sensationalist headlines in the tabloids. Take this fabulous single page spread for example, from The Daily Mirror on Saturday 28th August 1982. Here’s the text if you can’t quite make it out. ONLY days…
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Contemporaneous The Young Ones Clippings
So much has been written about The Young Ones over the years, I thought it might be interesting to look back at what was being written about it during the first few weeks that it aired. On the morning of the debut of Demolition, this write up appeared in The Daily Mirror, written by Ken…
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The Young Ones Flash Frames
Ever wondered exactly where those flash frames in the second series of The Young Ones come from? Well, here we go then. In Bambi, there’s a frame from Carry On Cowboy. In Cash, it’s a frame or two from Ski Sunday. There’s two in Nasty, a shot of a dripping tap, and one of The…
