There was Mike, the suave, sensible one; Vyvyan, the psychotic punk-metal mohican; Neil, the lentil-loving hippy and Rick, right-on anarchist revolutionary and Cliff Richard fan: four students - desperate for money, excitement, girls or just something to help fill the day - sharing a house. It’s an extract from the 20th Century Coyote segment he did with Ade Edmondson, so it’s a pity they haven’t included all of it (but they do perform together in the second Boom Boom episode be Mike is relaxing and reading in a deckchair, Vyv is bored out of his skull, Rick is excited for the summer and Neil is depressed about his final exam. So they end up on the streets, listening to John Otway performing Body Talk, before a postman ( Lenny Henry) delivers their exam results.

The Young Ones 40th Anniversary edition blu-ray unboxing The Young Ones 40th Anniversary edition blu-ray unboxing

From this simple set-up came an amazing speedball of comic caricature, slapstick, juvenile humour, animation, musical performances, rants, violence, abuse and surreal jokes – leaving an impression as jaw-dropping as finding one of Vyvyan’s steel-capped boots through our television screens. The anarchic sitcom The Young Ones crashed on to our screens in November 1982, followed by a second series in 1984.

However, they’re well worth sticking with for some of the anecdotes and recollections they do come out with every so often, including Lise Mayer’s insights into the writing and how she responded to some of the BBC’s concerns, and the memories of Neil and Alexei about the filming, costumes, jokes, etc. There are "impromptu" performances throughout the show with bands like Madness, The Damned, Motorhead and others. They’re loosely shoehorned into the plot in some way, and were included so that the show could be classified as a variety series instead of a standard sitcom.

The Young Ones: The Complete Collection - Blu-ray

Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at ourwarehouse. The scene is included in its entirety here on the Blu-ray with all the slurs intact, unlike some of the older releases or TV repeats, which I think is perfectly fine as the scene is taking aim at the racist attitudes of the police at the time.There are just a couple of minor anomalies that I mention in my reviews below, relating to a flash frame in Time (which they couldn’t include) and a couple of amorous bears in Nasty (which are in the extras instead), but ultimately all the episodes are uncut, just as they were when originally broadcast. I've probably seen The Young Ones often enough over the years that the episodes will never be a jarring disappointment. The previous DVD release only had commentaries on the very first and last episodes, and they’re included here, while the commentaries on the other 10 episodes are brand new recordings exclusive to this set. Neil ( Nigel Planer) is a depressed vegetarian hippy who does all the chores and gets no respect from the others.