The Young Ones Series 1 features the lunatic exploits of four students of Scumbag College. Vyv, the punk (Adrian Edmonson),"socially aware" and "politically conscious" Rick (Rik Mayall), Neil, the hippy (Nigel Planer),and Mike, the well-dressed smoothie(Christopher Ryan). They share a dilapidated house in North London owned by their dodgy landlord Jerzy Balowski (Alexei Sayle).They are the least compatible house-mates it is possible to imagine and, when they are not tearing pieces out of each other, they manage to get involved in the most bizarre of comic escapades.
