LET'S TALK ABOUT THE YOUNG ONES AND VISIT THE FILMING LOCATIONS!

The Young Ones is my all time favourite British TV show and while in the UK in 2002 I had to visit some of the filming locations in Bristol... and why not? I just found this archive tape so let's go!

[@jamesshanas7182]

I'm 51....the Young ones is one of my top 10 favorite shows!! Thanks so much for making this video!!

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

Thanks heaps for watching!

[@NostalgiaNicky]

Spot on, it definitely wouldn't be made now. I remember watching it on VHS in the late 80's as my older brother recorded it off the telly and I was mesmerised. The antidote to the middle class comedy that dominated at the time, The Good life, etc. It was the ultimate Gen X TV show. Great vid by the way

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

Thanks so much for watching. Still is my favourite UK comedy of all time.

[@thisworldaccordingtome9495]

In the laundry scene when the washer shoots the clothes out at Rik, it looks like he was injured, but tried hiding it so they didn't have to do another take.

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

I remember in the extras on the DVD they said that when the stove blew up, he actually did get hurt. Crazy! Such a wild show. Those guys weee troopers, that’s for sure.

[@controloz3310]

Dude thank you so much for this! It’s actually the first location scout vid for the young ones that I’ve ever seen!

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

No worries mate! I’d actually like to do a more recent one. This was filmed back in 2002 😂 just took me a few years to convert it and make a video. Hahahaha

[@trevorbrown6654]

The first episode was actually the pilot show and was filmed in London in January 1982 (hence the snow on the streets). The BBC greenlighted commissioning scripts for the other five episodes of series 1 and production was moved to Bristol as the BBC had lots of outside broadcast filming facilities based there (Only Fools and Horses was also film'ed in Bristol). However like Only Fools and Horses, the studio filming for The Young Ones still took place at the BBC studios in Shepherds Bush in London. I'm not entirely sure why the BBC insisted on exterior shooting in Bristol. Perhaps it was much easier to get filming permits to shoot there in those days or maybe it was to do with budgets. Interestingly enough the reason the show had musical acts in each episode was because the by doing so the show was classed as 'variety entertainment' and could use up the budget that had been allocated to the proposed 'Morecambe & Wise' series (that duo having recently defected to the commercial ITV network franchise Thames Television. As the budget for a variety show was higher than a comedy series, the producers made sure a music act was included to qualify for that extra money.

[@mebeme007]

Thank you for providing those interesting facts. I love how all these years later, I'm still learning new things about the show, behind the scenes, and so on.

[@trevorbrown6654]

@@mebeme007 you are welcome. I assume you know Christopher Ryan was a lady minute addition to the cast after the actor originally cast as Mike, Peter Richardson, quit the role after a disagreement with the producer. I think Ryan was suggested by Nigel Planer, who already knew him from the comedy store. Also, ex python Terry Jones turned up in the episode 'Nasty' because the team wanted to have a monty python link. Michael Palin were the only two who replied and Palin was interested but had to bail when filming in a movie he was cast in had to be rescheduled. Fortunately Jones said he'd do it.

[@Malegys]

Having a video recorder in 1982 was still quite a novelty to be honest. By 1984 though, loads more people owned them, where as before (in the UK atleast) alot of people used to rent the actual machines (Companies like Radio Rental for example)

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

That makes that whole scene about them getting the video player in Nasty even funnier now. I didn’t know about that. But it does make sense. Thanks!

[@nicks4934]

Have we got a video? 😂

[@Malegys]

@@nicks4934 "Great for making toast"

[@endlessrage4062]

My old man had to choose the format from VHS and Betamax. Fair play to him, he went for the best quality of picture etc… unfortunately that was the destined to fail Betamax. 😅 I’m 50 now and still have old Cosby Show episodes and films on tape but no player.

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

@@nicks4934 “YESSSSS WE’VE GOT A VIDEOOOOOOOOO!”

[@ruthbutler8985]

Hello!! I loved it to in the 80’s too!! I made my oldest boy watch it with me a few years ago & same thing…. He just didn’t get it…. I think you have to have watched & loved it in it’s time & place!! Thank you!! 💕🇦🇺💃

[@kashigata]

I still think it is hilarious, today, too. I LOVED the music as much as the comedy.

[@adrianstansfield]

Watching the young ones games me back to my childhood memories ☝😂😂😂😂

[@hypercomms2001]

I was an Aussie engineering graduate starting my first job in the UK in 1985 in a house in Essex with three engineers, another graduate Aussie engineering graduate, a scouser and a rather prim and proper upper class type whose misfortune in life was to land in the worst part of Essex... Laindon...but we religiously watched "The Young Ones" as soon as we got back from work....

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

Hahahahaa that sounds awesome!!!

[@nfkngd]

BOOMSHANKA!!!....😁👍

[@superspecky4eyes]

Me and my Dad still quote the Young Ones on a regular basis. "Even mindless violence is boring today" "Snow, Snow, bloody Snow, I'm sick of the bloody sight of it" "Crop rotation in the 14th Century was considerably more widespread after... John" "Don't be un cool and heavy Mike"

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

It’s the best show to quote… I always do the Woolly Mammoth quite. “They’re not hairy, they’re more like woolly… woolly mammoth!”

[@superspecky4eyes]

@@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow "Its only university challenge rick, its only university challenge!" 🤣

[@superspecky4eyes]

@@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow I need to dig out the dvd now.

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

@@superspecky4eyes “when you’re on the dole, go see Rol!”

[@superspecky4eyes]

@@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow Dear Fascist Bully Boy, Give us some more money, you bastard. May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman.

[@nicks4934]

Nice video. I was at uni there 84-87. Great years ❤

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

And was your uni experience similar to the show? Hahahha

[@StopAgenda21]

I lived in a town just outside of Bristol about 10 years ago and my work took me to alot of the locations where it was filmed. I even delivered to the house in Codrington Road :-)

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

That’s awesome!!!! It’s changed so much. But at least the house still looks the same. So cool!!!!

[@richardtownsend6996]

The swimming pool was also used in Only Fools and Horses.

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

You know, so many people have told me about that show and yet I have never seen an episode of it. So bizarre! I should fix that.

[@southportrocker]

Great sitcom. Excellent cast & that portrayed their characters spot on. Cool footage too. Not sure if you've ever shown me that. Maybe did a piece in LGL Mag. ??

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

I’ve been going through all my old travel footage finding stuff I totally forgot about. It’s pretty cool. It’s such a great show and I rewatched it all recently and still cracked up over each episode. Absolute genius stuff.

[@vahrzawofficialtracks]

Reading Ades book, the whole show was done in 14 weeks.

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

That’s incredible! I really need to read that book. Does he go into a lot of detail about the show?

[@kashigata]

I really enjoyed your travels! Thank you. 😊

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

Thank you for watching. I really appreciate it. I love that show so much so it was a treat to get there and see all those places.

[@mplsmark222]

Much of the slang and topical jokes and political comments are completely lost on young folks, especially in the USA. However, it is still comedy gold. “Have we got a video”?

[@solidsneakie]

The show's producers sneaked the Young Ones in under the BBC's 'variety entertainment' budget rather than their 'comedy' budget in order to get more money to produce the show. However, to qualify as 'variety', live music had to be included.....hence Motorhead, and Madness were shoehorned in. Great video you utter, utter, utter....

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

It’s amazing that it happened. Like I always say, Ben Elton was one genius mastermind to write and pull this off the way he and the guys did. Legendary!

[@patrickmcmanus5373]

Nice shirt. The blue meanies (magic mushroom) band came to our house several times in the nineties.

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

This shirt is for the Aussie band The Meanies. Awesome legendary band that if you don’t know them, look them up. They’re awesome!

[@patrickmcmanus5373]

@@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow I met the blue meanies who changed their name to the meanies in Brisbane Australia. I am Australian and live in Australia.

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

@@patrickmcmanus5373 I thought you were referring to The Blue Meanies out of Illinois. The ska punk band that were doing the rounds in the 90s and wound up on a bunch of those punk compilations and split singles back in the day. I didn’t realize there were two Blue Meanies bands. My bad.

[@patrickmcmanus5373]

@@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow I was living with the guys from Screemfeeder at the time. 91 - 93

[@nicks4934]

Neil in the bath is truly inspired 😂

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

“Oh wow, my bike!”

[@EvanKitchener]

Best laundrymat in the world!

[@JoelligerentTV]

Thanks for the Meanies shirt Spinning them next

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

They rock!!!! Awesome band.

[@necropink9200]

I've always loved The Young Ones and every few months I binge watch all the episodes. However I never liked Alexei Sayle in the show . He's was classed as alternative comedy. Well for me he was an alternative to being funny.

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

He was definitely an acquired taste and I honestly feel that he didn’t add anything to the show that made it better than it already was. Like his parts didn’t improve the show at all. But they’re a part of it and that’s just how I know them. I remember in the 90s, a mate of mine taped the episodes and just edited out his parts cos he feels the same way as you. Hahaha Ben Elton hosting Nosin’ Around still cracks me up. That bit was so freakin’ funny.

[@mebeme007]

I found a few moments with Alexi Sayle amusing. And other times I could take a quick loo break when he was on, or start to get tired (depending on the time of day I'm watching).

[@MrBurtonshaw]

Young Ones wasn't anti-woke ... it was part of the "alternative comedy scene" that didn't rely on sexism or racism like many of the older comedians did to try to be funny. The Young Ones was produced by those who were "woke" at the time. Ben Elton and Alexi Sayle would piss themselves at that comment.

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

I never said it was anti-woke… just that this type of show just wouldn’t get made today because times have changed. Even though I personally believe that they did not put those kinds of jokes in to offend but more as poking fun at those people who made those types of comments and had those beliefs. Like I said in this video, Ben Elton and his cohorts were absolute geniuses to pull this off in such a way. But like I also mentioned in the video, I have known people who just don’t get it. They didn’t like certain scenes at all. And that’s fine too. People don’t have to like everything just cos we do. That’s the beauty of life.

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

He didn't say The YO was anti woke. 🇬🇧👍

[@TopShelfMontana]

when i was 16 and watching this show it was funny, but it doesn't really hold up today.

[@trevorbrown6654]

Yeah, I think so too. It was hilarious when I was 12 but unlike Rik and Ade's series 'Bottom'' made ten years later, The Young Ones comedy has aged really badly. The episode where seventies sitcom The Good Life gets parodied is particularly ironic as whilst the writers were rebelling against sitcoms like that, The Good Life still holds up well today whilst The Young Ones was very much a product of its time and it shows.

[@Frank-Discussion]

3:01 I do love the young ones, but the Monkees did do this regularly in the 60s

[@TheLongGoneLoserRockShow]

I thought the context that the Monkees did it was quite different to the way the young ones did it. Like the young ones was totally messing with the idea of a set like when Vivian moves the actual wall of the set so they can plug in the VCR in Nasty. I love how they totally made fun of and acknowledged the fact they’re on a set, even though it was briefly, before taking you back into the context of the show. It was so fascinating. I don’t really recall the Monkees doing anything quite like that. I’ll have to go back and rewatch it again.

[@thesmf1210]

spent many a saturday getting off the train at bristol temple meads

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

The whole day? Did you always get your jacket caught on the door?