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The main characters were four undergraduate students sharing a house: violent punk Vyvyan ( Adrian Edmondson ), pompous would-be anarchist Rick ( Rik Mayall ), long-suffering hippie Neil ( Nigel Planer ), and the suave and diminutive Mike ( Christopher Ryan ).

It also featured Alexei Sayle, who played various members of the Balowski family — most often Jerzei Balowski, the quartet's landlord — and occasional independent characters, such as the train driver in " Bambi " and the Mussolini-lookalike Police Chief in " Cash ".