'the Young Ones' starring Stewart Copeland

[HoleInMyLife]

Watched another rerun of 80's comedy the Young Ones recently.
Still fun to see Stewart fight with another drummer !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KORmxfOCdM

[Divemistress of the Dark]

Excellent. You know this is something of a lost video, right? It was removed from the DVD release of the series over some rights kerfuffle.

Thanks for posting it. I just Tubesocked it so we'll at least have a copy if the vid gets axed from Youtube.

ETA: Here's the verbiage from the clip...

This is a clip from "The Young Ones" episode "Cash", featuring a band named "Ken Bishop's Nice Twelve" performing Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". The "band" was really just a one-off conglomerate consisting of Squeeze members Jools Holland (conducting and wearing a yellow beret) & Chris Difford; plus Stewart Copeland of The Police and other musicians and comedians including Derek Griffiths, Martin Dobson, Simon Brint (as Ken Bishop), Rowland Rivron (as Duane Bishop) Peter Brewis (who also wrote TYO closing theme) and more (can anyone name the other fellows?).

This clip was edited from most subsequent DVD and VHS copies of "The Young Ones" due to copyright problems. (I found it on a Spanish copy.) Enjoy.

[Wombat]

Only thing extra to note is that Stewart's vocal (if it was ever actually recorded) has been dubbed. The voice on his lines sounds suspiciously like Rik Mayall.

Wombat

[DirtyMartini]

I was wondering whose voice that was. Thanks, Wombat. Nice to see you.

[Krokodyle]

It appears on some versions of the DVD sets. I have three (!) versions of the Young Ones DVD sets and it appears on at least one of the British pressings.

http://www.imeem.com/krokodyle/video/GJ ... es-on-the/

[Divemistress of the Dark]

I love it when the uber-Police-nerds show up in threads.

(bows in the general direction of wombat + krok)

[DirtyMartini]

[quote="Krokodyle"]I have three (!) versions of the Young Ones DVD sets[/quote]

How come three, Krok?

[Mrs. Gradenko]

OMG, haha love that video, I've been looking for it! Love that Artful Dodger hat. Didn't they voice over him?

[Krokodyle]

[quote="DirtyMartini"][quote="Krokodyle"]I have three (!) versions of the Young Ones DVD sets[/quote]
How come three, Krok?[/quote]

Because it's one of my favorite shows, and because I had worn out my vhs tapes.

I have the original US issue, 'Every Stoopid Episode', and the recent issues, "Extra Stoopid Edition" and "Complete BBC Series 1 & 2".

While the recent UK/US editions are more complete, they all have differences, even in the same reissue year. Some are missing musical performances (see above), some are missing musical bits (Neil singing *5* words from "The Sounds of Silence" in the tub is cut), and some jokes have been edited out (like the humping Teddy Bears in Rik's bed).

But the biggest difference is that the recent editions have been 'filmized', essentially using a filter on the mastering process that makes the original videotape look more like film rather than video...I guess they felt thet needed to make it look 'modern' if it is rebroadcast (They also did this to a recent reissue of Red Dwarf on DVD). And to be honest, it looks like sh*t. Both colors and movement resolution are compromised, as well as making the show look less 'in your face'. I would much rather watch the show as it was originally shot, even in the glare and harshness of 1982 BBC Studio video-camera technology, than this phony attempt at cleaning up the image. I want to see the spotty twerps in all their disgusting glory.

So that's why I still have the original US "Every Stoopid Episode" edition, even if parts are missing, since it did not have the film filter treatment done to it.

I seem to have found my way onto my soapbox somehow, but...well, you asked!

[DirtyMartini]

Hahaha, I definitely asked. Having seen Moeskido go round and round on different films or sets because X includes this but Y doesn't mess with that, etc., that's exactly what I was wondering about.