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The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain.
16 July 1952, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
July 6, 1927 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
March 8, 1937 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK
11 February 1908, Liverpool, England, UK
15 January 1953, London, England, UK
15 August 1946, London, England, UK
August 11, 1914 in London, England, UK
28 March 1922, New Zealand
1965, London, England, UK
28 December 1955
11 June 1959, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
24 January 1958, London, England, UK
15 April 1959, Paddington, London, England, UK
23 January 1942, Surrey, England, UK
22 February 1953, Westminster, London, England, UK
28 March 1960, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
25 January 1950, Bayswater, London, England, UK
9 April 1961, St Pancras, London, England, UK
1948, Guyana
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 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
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.
September 14, 2018
Almost every line of the script is a quotable gem readymade for a cult following.
