all episodes of The Young Ones, the main four characters were student housemates Mike (Christopher Ryan); Vyvyan (Adrian Edmondson); Rick (Rik Mayall) and Neil (Nigel Planer). Alexei Sayle appears as a Benito Mussolini cabaret act and police recruitment officer. DJ Alan Freeman plays God, sitting at a radio mixing desk, on the first of two occasions in the series. Home video edits The episode features a performance from Ken Bishop's Nice Twelve, a one-off conglomerate of high-profile rock musicians and theme writers, including Jools Holland, Simon Brint, Stewart Copeland and Chris Difford performing "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan. For contractual reasons, this performance was edited out of most early home video releases in both the UK and US. On the original DVD releases, along with the edit, the scenes of the main cast that take place during the performance are also cut. The band's name is also edited out of the credits, but rather than simply erase the name, the portion of credits with the group name is cut, with the credits before and after that intersected by a thick orange line, which also shows two sets of footage playing. However, when a total list of all cast members of all twelve episodes of the series are in the credits for "Summer Holiday", the names of three of the musicians are not taken out. The entire performance is restored to its original unedited state on The Young Ones: Complete Series One & Two DVD set released in October 2007, released in the US as The Young Ones: Extra Stoopid Edition in November 2007. References The Young Ones episodes 1984 British television episodes Television shows written by Ben Elton