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The Young Ones: The Complete Collection [Blu-ray]

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He’s eventually lured into the room with the lions, but by this point the guys are now trapped by a flood that has engulfed the house, which gives them more reason to panic. Anyway, the guys end up working in the back garden, where Rick gets annoyed by Neil’s repetitive explanation of sowing seeds and knocks him out. That only causes more arguments of course, including outrage at the suggestion that they clean the toilet! Neil tries 3 times to draw attention to the fact that he’s got a cake – on the second occasion getting smacked in the face by the cricket bat – and reveals that it’s his birthday.

The Young Ones ‘We took the sitcom and blew it apart’: how The Young Ones

The Young Ones is to be released on Blu-ray next month, as the landmark sitcom celebrates its 40th anniversary on 9th November. The episodes aren’t in crisp high definition with every little thing visible in sharp detail of course, and we shouldn’t expect that given their age and the video tapes on which they were recorded (with occasional use of film instead).The damage to the floor is covered up, however, by a giant sandwich that is dropped onto the house by one of The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, which squashes a persistent preacher (played by Dawn French). It’s freezing with snow outside in this episode, so Vyv is burning everything in the house to keep everyone warm. So we were left with the terrible dilemma of whether we approached it because it was full of explosives. All surviving original film elements from the series have been newly scanned at HD resolution, whilst videotape segments have been thoroughly upscaled and professionally cleaned for the all-new remaster, with their original interlacing intact.

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

Richard Latto and his colleagues have really put a lot of effort into digging out as much as they can from the BBC archives. Likewise, the Blu-ray packaging contains images of each of the characters, 3 of them being revealed when you take out the discs. The only major musical number comes courtesy of Amazulu performing Moonlight Romance, as Helen attacks Mike while Vyv and Rick try to get Neil to change a light bulb. I guess I just want to enjoy the Young Ones with my children and let them witness the amazing physical comedy and puppetry and mad anarchic ideas without having to worry about stuff that was OK in the mid-eighties but completely unacceptable now.

An extensive array of deleted scenes that were filmed on location have also been recovered, and out-takes such as the initial failed explosion of the double-decker bus as seen in the final episode, Summer Holiday. 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. unlikely to consider another dip for a presumably-mostly-upscaled BD until it's cheap as chips, though! But the funniest moment for me is when Rick finds a tampon in a girl’s bag, not realising what it is until he reads the box it came from!

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