The Young Ones Episode Guide

Episode Guide

The Young Ones: Season 2

• Season 2 Episode 6: Summer Holiday

  The last episode of the sitcom sees the boys evicted from their bedsit as term comes to an end. Homeless and destitute, they are forced to resort to bank robbery. Featuring guest appearances from Jools Holland, Lenny Henry and Alan Freeman as God

• Season 2 Episode 5: Sick

  Neil falls ill, and Mike insists on isolating him in a plastic bag, while medical student Vyvyan demonstrates his unique bedside manner by suggesting a cure involving six-inch nails. Ben Elton's squalid student sitcom, starring Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Adrian Edmondson and Christopher Ryan

• Season 2 Episode 4: Time

  Rick can't believe his luck when he wakes up to find a girl sleeping alongside him in bed. Anarchic comedy, starring Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer

• Season 2 Episode 3: Nasty

  The squalid students give evil racketeer Harry a £500 deposit for a video recorder : and are beset by vampires, drunken priests and ghoulies while trying to return it. Ben Elton's anarchic comedy, starring Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan

• Season 2 Episode 2: Cash

  Drastic measures are called for when the students are in need of warmth

• Season 2 Episode 1: Bambi

  The squalid students face a team of toffs on University Challenge. Ben Elton, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry guest star. Part of Stephen Fry Night

The Young Ones: Season 1

• Season 1 Episode 6: Flood

  Mr Balowski becomes a mad axeman and chases the bachelor boys into Narnia as a flood of biblical proportions engulfs London. Anarchic comedy, starring Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan

• Season 1 Episode 5: Interesting

  The squalid students hold a party, while the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse get bored waiting for Armageddon and decide to have a sandwich. Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan and Adrian Edmondson star in the anarchic comedy

• Season 1 Episode 4: Bomb

  The squalid students get their hands on an atom bomb, and would-be moneybags Mike decides to try flogging it to Libya. Unfortunately for him, Vyvyan has other ideas - like blowing up the world. Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan star

• Season 1 Episode 3: Boring

  Squalid students Vyvyan, Rick, Neil and Mike try to liven up a boring day. Anarchic comedy, with special guests Madness starring alongside Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson

• Season 1 Episode 2: Oil

  The hard-up housemates strike oil in the basement, and think they've found the answer to their financial woes. However, super-smooth Mike decides the time is ripe for a coup, and declares himself house-dictator. Anarchic comedy, starring Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan

• Season 1 Episode 1: Demolition

  The bachelor boys plan a spectacular protest to prevent council officials demolishing their house. First-ever episode of the anarchic comedy series which brought punk influences to the world of the sitcom. Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan star, with Alexei Sayle and mod band Nine Below Zero