Written by Rik Mayall, Ben Elton and Lise Mayer, The Young Ones came out of the early ‘80s Alternative Comedy scene, and featured many of the stars of the new stand-up clubs. Mayall, Ade Edmonson, Nigel Planer and Alexei Sayle played starring roles, but there were also bit parts for Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Robbie Coltrane, Lenny Henry and countless others. Watching it now prompts a lot of rewinding to see if that really was Paul Merton as a mediaeval peasant (yes it was).