The Young Ones: The Complete CollectionNormalGenre: TelevisionLabel: BBCDescription: There was Mike the suave sensible one; Vyvyan the psychotic punk-metal mohican; Neil the lentil-loving hippy and Rick right-on anarchist revolutionary and Cliff Richard fan: four students - desperate for money excitement girls or just something to help fill the day - sharing a house. From this simple set up came an amazing speedball of comic caricature slapstick infantile humour animation musical performances rants violence abuse and surreal jokes - leaving an impression as jaw-dropping as finding one of Vyvyan's steel-capped boots through our television screens. The Young Ones brought the irreverence anarchy and energy of the new alternative comedy movement to situation comedy - and it would never be the same again.
