Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #63107 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-09-17
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: AC-3, Box set, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 400 minutes

Customer Reviews

Quoteable lines and endures rewatching
This is quite simply a unique comedy series. The spontinaety and nihilism displayed in this collection shows how politically correct the world has become in more recent times. The second series gets even more interesting as surrealist elements start to creep in further and further. In the end, the most disappointing episode is the last one - which comes across almost like a filler after some of the highlights of earlier pieces ("Sick" and "Bambi" being classic episodes). Alexi Sayles cameos and live bands playing as a mock intermission just add to the mahem. A great work which didn't make the mistake of taking a good yarn to too many episodes (12 altogether).

Class.
I was nurtured by The Young Ones through the eighties, they'd been one the few VHS we had. Mum always wondered if it had been a good move on her part, but god bless the woman. If I ever need cheering up all I need to do is hear Rick say '*******' and I'm fine.

Great series BUT ....
This NTSC version of The Young Ones series is cut. A highlight of each episode is the appearance of an 80's band (The Stranglers, Motorhead, Madness, etc) so be warned that Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues", as performed by Ken Bishop's Nice Twelve (Jools Holland and his chums), has been removed. I cannot be sure if this also applies to the British version, but I was very disappointed that this classic series had been tampered with on the Region 1 discs.