Screenplays by Ben Elton (Book Guide) - The Young Ones, the Thin Blue Line, Blackadder: Back & Forth, Blackadder: The Cavalier Years, Beer (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (plays not included). Pages: 36. Chapters: The Young Ones, The Thin Blue Line, Blackadder: Back & Forth, Blackadder: The Cavalier Years, Beer, Ink and Incapability, Money, Duel and Duality, Bells, General Hospital, Blackadder's Christmas Carol, Dish and Dishonesty, Private Plane, Goodbyeee, Corporal Punishment, Major Star, Sense and Senility, Captain Cook, Amy and Amiability, Bambi, Summer Holiday, Chains, Potato, Time, Nob and Nobility, Cash, Sick, Flood, Boring, Head, Demolition, Nasty, Oil, Bomb, Interesting, Blessed, Ftumch. Excerpt: The Young Ones is a British sitcom, first broadcast in 1982, which ran for two series on BBC2. Its anarchic, offbeat humour helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. Soon afterwards, it was shown on MTV, one of the first non-music television shows on the fledgling channel. The main characters were four undergraduate students sharing a house: violent punk metal fan Vyvyan (Adrian Edmondson), pompous would-be anarchist Rick (Rik Mayall), long-suffering hippie Neil (Nigel Planer), and the suave and diminutive Mike (Christopher Ryan). It also featured Alexei Sayle, who played various members of the Balowski family - most often Jerzei Balowski, the quartet's landlord - and occasional independent characters, such as the train driver in "Bambi." The show combined traditional sitcom style with violent slapstick, non sequitur plot-turns and surrealism. These older styles were mixed with the working and lower-middle class attitudes of the growing 1980s alternative comedy boom, in which all the principal performers except Ryan had been involved. Although the series was set in North London, many external scenes were filmed in Bristol, namely the suburb of Bishopston, where the student house is situated. All four characters attended ...