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I really love The Young Ones; it's definitely in my top five sitcoms of all time. We've just rewatched the two series and enjoyed them as much as ever. MY top three episodes would be Nasty, Cash and Flood.
I have to say that I like Mike. He's funnier than people realise, and he's a nice calm presence at the centre of everything, which stops things becoming too much. Christopher Ryan is excellent.
I love Alexei Sayle as the Belowski family, too.
The Young Ones features cameos by a lot of people who went on to success.
Some random facts about The Young Ones:
The excellent but largely irrelevent insert sequences were the work of Lise Meyer; Ben Elton apparantly didn't like them and tried to have them excluded.
The Young Ones had musical guests because that allowed them to class the show as 'variety' rather than 'comedy' and thus obtain a larger budget.
Madness are the only band to appear on the show twice. The second appearance was apparantly due to a scheme to make the band stars of their own Monkees-style TV show.
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