From: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Young Ones
Keywords: Niel, Vivian, Rick, Mike, that terrible Alexy Sayle guy.
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:14:22 GMT
Reply-To: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Distribution: rec

In article <1992Aug19.150344.6438@homebase.vistachrome.com>,
eric@homebase.vistachrome.com (Eric Brunson) writes:
|>I have been a long time fan of The Young Ones and have many recorded of
|>the episode they showed on MTV.
|>
|>Does anyone know how many episodes were made?  How many seasons the show
|>ran?  How well did it go over in the UK?  I saw one episode ( Flood ) while i
|>I was living in England in 82 or 83, was that when it was new?
|>Anyone else a fan?

   There have been 2 series. The first was "Demolition", "Oil", "Bomb",
"Boring", "Interesting" and "Flood". The second was "Bambi", "Cash",
"Nasty", "Sick", "Time" and "Summer Holiday". It went down very well in
the UK as I recall. I love it and watch the whole thing regularly. It's
a great Saturday night/Sunday morning marathon with lots of mates and
beer. 82 sounds like the first showing of the first series.

|>I know some of them went on to do the Comic Strip, anything else?

   God where to begin!! Okay I'll keep this limited to "Young Ones"-like
humour. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmonson and Nigel Player made a one series,
6 episode show called "Filthy Rich and Catflap", very like TYO humour.
Just as good. Then Rik and Ade did The Dangerous Brothers skit on
Saturday Night Live (this was just the odd 10/15 minutes sketch). Then
Rik and Ade began "Bottom" (6 episodes), just like TYO, almost as good.
A new series of Bottom is just about to start. Hoooray!

|>Also, is there any way to get ahold of any of the old Not the Nine O'Clock
|>News with Rowan Atkinson?  That was some of the funniest television I have
|>ever seen.  Is it still running?
|>
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|>
|>"Baconsandwich?  That's a funny name for a ferret."
|>"Ah, that's where we've got you... because it not a ferret... it's a pig."
|>"Have you had enough, Nazi, or do you want some more?"
|>
|>-----
|>
|>"Felicity Kendall is sweetly pretty, and I want to protect her."
|>"Well, I've never heard it called that before."
|>
|>-----
|>
|>"Well I don't mind being called a pig, actually, Rick, because, for your
|>information, pigs are really quite intelligent."
|>"Oh they are, are they?  Well tell me, Neil, who invented the internal 
|>combustion engine?  Was it Porky the Pig?  And what about the 
|>Theory of Relativity?  Was Pythagoras a pig?  So tell me, Neil, what
|>is the major piggy contribution to society?  Come on.............
|>It's _bacon_, isn't it.  Bacon and wallowing around in the mud." 
|>
|>-- 
|>Eric "Raa" Brunson      |
|>eric@vistachrome.com   |     These opinions are mine alone, but
|>brunson@math.fsu.edu   |   they could be yours for a low monthly fee.  
                                       
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