I can recall once placing my cassette recorder next to the telly and (audio) recording the very last episode (' Summer Holiday' in 1984).

In fact it was probably due to these financial circumstances at the time that made myself and my younger brother try to memorise every line from the shows and still do to some extent all these years later. Now these were the days before we possessed a video recorder so everything was watched and remembered keenly. Not one of Ben Elton's best but to an 11-year old boy this was comedy genius. Rat #1: Euripides the trousers, you mend-a these trousers. For some reason I always remember a very poor joke which was spoken by two puppet rats: Luckily for me I had started The Young Ones bang on the very first episode, Series 1, Episode 1 ' Demolition'. Little did he realise what groundbreaking act he was committing when he sat me down in front of the tv that evening with my sponge-like brain soaking up all these strange but ultimately funny lines that I would recount in the school playground the very next morning. My Dad had watched the first series already and thought I'd enjoy it when they were repeated. I grew up with Rik's antics all the way from 1983 when my Dad let me stay up to watch my first episode of The Young Ones. After all these years I still find his output amongst some of the best comedy I will ever see. Yes, I know that this is a little different from what I usually post but I felt that I had to mention this.Īfter the sad death of my comedy hero, Rik Mayall on 9th June I have been re-watching a lot of his tv work.

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