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TV Shows We Used To Watch – 1970’s British TV show – Mind Your Language
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Mind Your Language is a British comedy television series, that premiered on ITV in late 1977.
Produced by LWT and directed by Stuart Allen, it is set in a school for adult students in London, focusing on the English as a Foreign Language class taught by Mr. Jeremy Brown, portrayed by Barry Evans, who had to deal with a motley crew of foreigners.
Three series were made by LWT between 1977–79, and the show was briefly revived in 1986 with some of the original cast.
The series focuses on the adult students of the English as a Foreign Language class in a London school. The classes take place in the early evening, and are taught by Mr. Brown, though on occasion other individuals take over the class if he is not available.
The class consists of foreigners with varying degrees of English proficiency. The humour of the show is derived from the students misunderstanding English words or terms, and plays up to the cultural stereotype of their individual nation of origin.
Season One takes place over a full school year, starting with Mr. Brown being hired by the Headmistress Miss Courtney, and ends with the students sitting for their Lower Cambridge Certificate.
Season Two begins at the start of the next school year, with all ten previous students returning after having failed their exam, and two new students joining them, for a total of twelve.
Season One and Two primarily took place within the classroom, but the later seasons explored settings outside of the school.
The show was cancelled in 1979 by Michael Grade, then-LWT’s Deputy Controller of Entertainment, who considered the stereotyping offensive (some public debate had established that many people found it racist).
Nevertheless the series was sold to other countries, including Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Singapore.
It was also one of the first British TV programmes shown in South Africa after the end of the boycott by Equity.
It was resurrected briefly for the export market by an independent producer in the mid 1980s. Some ITV companies didn’t show any of the episodes made in 1986. Only Granada transmitted the final 13 episodes consecutively as a complete series.
Various international television shows based on the premise of Mind Your Language have followed the original series. Among them are What a Country! (US), Zabaan Sambhalke (India), Zaban Sambhal Kai (Pakistan) and Second Chance! (Nigeria).
CAST
Barry Evans as Jeremy Brown
Zara Nutley as Miss Courtney
Dino Shafeek as Ali Nadim
George Camiller as Giovanni Capello/Cuppello
Kievork Malikyan as Maximillian Papandrious
Robert Lee as Taro Nagazumi
Jacki Harding as Anna Schmidt
Jamila Massey as Jamila Ranjha
Ricardo Montez as Juan Cervantes
Albert Moses as Ranjeet Singh
Francoise Pascal as Danielle Favre
Pi-Sen Lim as Chung Su-Lee
Iris Sadle as Gladys
Tommy Godfrey as Sid
Gabor Vernon as Zoltan Szabo
Anna Bergman as Ingrid Svenson
See video clip below
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb-KzlVos9k&NR=1
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