Summer Holiday (The Young Ones) Mark Arden in playing the bank manager. DJ Alan Freeman plays God while sitting at a radio mixing desk, for the second time in the series. Summer Holiday (The Young Ones) "Summer Holiday" is the twelfth, and last, episode of British sitcom "The Young Ones". It was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, and Lise Mayer, and directed by Paul Jackson and Ed Bye. It was first aired on BBC2 on 19 June 1984. The quartet have taken their final exams and are enjoying the summertime, although Vyvyan is bored and begins wanton violence and destruction. Rick suggests Botticelli to
A Series of Psychotic Episodes full series. Elia's pilot first reached a shortlist of fifty, which was later reduced to ten finalists. Each finalist then recorded a new fifteen-minute pilot. The finalists' pilots were broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 7. Out of these, "A Series of Psychotic Episodes" was chosen as the winner and Elia awarded a series. One of the runners up, "Gus Murdoch's Sacred Cows" written and performed by Stephen Carlin, was also given a full series. After "A Series of Psychotic Episodes" was broadcast, it was nominated for the comedy award in the Sony Radio Academy Awards. This was seen as unusual,