Category: The Young Ones

  • Wither The Young Ones Movie?
    Wither The Young Ones Movie?

    Here’s a great article from the Liverpool Echo, on Saturday 10th December 1983. ‘I want to do more theatre next year. There is an offer of a film, possibly about The Young Ones, but that’s still only an idea at the moment.’ Imagine the trailer, with voice over man growling ‘Once in every lifetime …’…

  • Warden Walters
    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…

  • Christopher Ryan Clippings
    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…

  • Punk Shocker!
    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…

  • Contemporaneous The Young Ones Clippings
    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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    Nineteen 90s Shows

    I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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