
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1993
- Channel
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 6 (1 series)
- Starring
- Nigel Planer, Nicholas Woodeson, Polly Adams, Timothy Bateson, Victoria Carling, Robert Gillespie, David Troughton, Bryan Dick and others
- Writers
- Paul Smith and Terry Kyan
- Director
- John Henderson
- Producer
- Jamie Rix
Nigel Planer plays Laurence Didcott, new French teacher at London's Mansion House public school. Although undoubtedly and unfalteringly well-intentioned, he is actually rather feckless, and somewhat of a one-man disaster area. His constant unquestioning drive for change and improvement only serves to alienate him somewhat from the other teachers, who have long been resigned to a repetitive daily existence of educational mediocrity!
- Production company
- Soundtrack
- The theme tune was composed by Philip Pope and performed by the Choristers of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey, under the direction of Simon Over.
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 15th February 1993 on BBC One at 8:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Monday 22nd March 1993 on BBC One at 8:30pm
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes
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