Summer Holiday (The Young Ones) Young Ones", the main four characters were student flatmates Mike (Christopher Ryan); Vyvyan (Adrian Edmondson); Rick (Rik Mayall) and Neil (Nigel Planer). The episode also features their landlord Jerzei Balowski (Alexei Sayle) for his only time during the second series, and for the third time in total. No explanation is given for how he survived being locked in Mike's room with man eating lions or reverted from being a homicidal ax-wielding maniac. A postman is played by Lenny Henry while Jools Holland portrays a bank customer (with outlandish punk hairstyle) and Stephen Frost makes an appearance without his comedy partner
The Young Ones (TV series) Life" where Neil is killed by Rick and covered with garden fertiliser only for several of him to emerge from the ground later on. As established in "Neil's Heavy Concept Album", Neil comes from Twickenham (his name punning on Eel Pie Island). His middle names ("Wheedon Watkins") are revealed in "Neil's Book of the Dead". He is a fan of Hawkwind, Marillion, and Steve Hillage. More information about his musical tastes was revealed when the character 'guest v-jayed' on the still young MTV network in ca. 1985, playing several videos (e.g. T. Rex, "Get It On"), including his own hit