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Summary

Jeremy Brown (Barry Evans) takes a job in a night school teaching English to a motley crew of assorted foreigners. He also has to contend with the formidable night school Principal, Miss Courtney (Zara Nutley).

Only Granada Television transmitted the final 13 episodes consecutively as a complete series. Some ITV companies didn't show any of the episodes made in 1986.

The programme was later remade for US television as What A Country!.

Cast List

  Barry Evans as Jeremy Brown
  Zara Nutley as Miss Courtney
  Francoise Pascal as Danielle Faure (Series 1-3)
  Dino Shafeek as Ali Nadim (Series 1-3)
  Albert Moses as Ranjeet Singh
  Ricardo Montez as Juan Cervantes
  George Camillar as Giovanni Cupello
  Jacki Harding as Anna Schmidt
  Jamila Massey as Jamila Ranjha (Series 1-3)
  Pik-Sen Lim as Chung Su-Lee (Series 1-3)
  Robert Lee as Taro Nagazumi (Series 1-3)
  Kerok Malikyan as Maximillian Popandrious (Series 1-3)
  Tommy Godfrey as Sid (Series 1-3)
  Iris Sadler as Gladys (Series 1-3)
  Zoltan Szabo as Gabor Vernon (Series 2)
  Anna Bergman as Ingrid Svensen (Series 2,4)

Production Details

Written by:
Vince Powell

Directed by:
Stuart Allen

Produced by:
Stuart Allen, Albert Moses

4 series, 42 episodes

Transmitted: 1977-86

TV Channel: ITV

London Weekend Television (1977-79)
Tri Films / ITV (1986)