An uncredited Chris Barrie provided the voice of the male rat.
Filmed in December 1981/January 1982, this was the filmed pilot for The Young Ones TV series. The pilot was submitted to the BBC in early 1982, discussed by the light entertainment department who, with an eye on Channel 4 going on air in November that year and aware that if they didn't commission the young actors & writers quickly then they would lose their chance, okay-ed the rest of the series. The rest of the series was written in the first half of 1982, filmed over the late Spring & Summer and ready for transmission by the autumn of 1982. The show was actually first broadcast at a 9pm time-slot in November of that year, the same month as Channel 4 started broadcasting and was immediately a huge hit with university, college and school students. It was so successful the show was repeated the following year and still gained a big audience prompting the BBC to commission a second and final series in 1983 which was transmitted in the early summer of 1984.
Despite the grotesque caricatures and stereotypes depicted within the series, Ben Elton was surprised several years later when he heard from people who said they watched the series when still at school and it inspired them to want to go to University. He said it hadn't dawned on him that the working class non-conformist nature of the characters clicked with many teenagers who had previously thought of Universities as elitist and only for swots and posh kids.
The "Nozin Aroun'" television program is a parody of the pop music magazine TV programme "Oxford Road Show".
The Young Ones: Demolition (1982) was filmed in the British winter of early 1982. In the final scene you can see snow on the grass, the bushes, the walls and on the pavements.