Please Sir!

[@ricko3k]

Deryck Guyler, absolute legend.

[@algie-t2w]

So sorry to see Please Sir episodes removed from KZbin. As a housebound person without a TV watching this lovely series on my phone was a great comfort.

[@shifty2755]

Big companies like KZbin don't care about you unfortunately

[@maxinevernon9391]

Try tv show “mind your language” similar comfort show on KZbin

[@Guvna07]

Back in the day when 'Kids' didn’t leave school until they were 40

[@ThePlataf]

Like in To Sir With Love. Some of the class looked about 24.

[@Wally-H]

Given the fact many kids left school aged 16 back in those days, you'd think they could have got some budding young actors to play the roles, wouldn't you.

[@Bulletguy07]

@@ThePlataf Peter Cleall who played Eric Duffy was 24 and David Barry who played Frankie Abbott was 25!

[@Bulletguy07]

@@Wally-H I left school at 15 in 1965 and already had a job waiting as did all the other lads who left. Back then if you didn't like a job you could easily walk out on a Friday and get another job elsewhere on the Monday. How times changed!

[@Wally-H]

@@Bulletguy07 Indeed. I was at secondary school from 1978 - 84 and many kids still left when they were 16. We had a sixth form but I would say less than a third of my school year stayed on for it and most that did were re-taking O Levels they had failed, or doing O levels because they only got CSE's. A select few did A levels with a view to going to uni.

[@susanduke9835]

I’d forgotten how funny it still is - think I was still at secondary school when this was on TV. The good ol’ days

[@annandrews3665]

I really enjoy these half hourly programs, so entertaining thank you so much..

[@sarahkorea]

Happy memories of a brilliant programme during my school days!

[@chrisnewman7281]

Doris😊 the teacher was on an episode of Fawlty Towers very funny

[@normanbloom]

I have the movie on Dvd and I watched it last night. Its quite good and cocky to see.

[@mordecaiesther3591]

This is when you had kids that acted right and wanted to learn and respectful to the teacher . No drugs and school shootings . Peace in Christ .

[@carlbelli7356]

You just can't beat English Comedy.

[@normanbloom]

I love the acccents in them all.

[@manchuriancandybar864]

Just like Mr. Brown's Mind Your Language class.

[@chopchung]

ALWAYS LOVED Duffy's accent in particular.LONDONERS.....WHERE is Duffy's accent from?. Also love that mighty 1970's BATTLEAXE joan Sanderson as Doris!. As this episode featured TV it reminded me that, for some reason never explained, the TV @ our school in Aldershot only had an indoor aerial so the teachers would spend ten solid minutes before the programme faffing around the room trying to get a decent signal!!. CAPTION: "The Next Programme (How We Used To Live/Picture Box/Merry Go Round/Seeing and Doing etc, etc)follows shortly"

[@flickdasher1775]

sanderson reprised this character in the fawlty towers episode 'mrs richards'.

[@chopchung]

@@flickdasher1775 She DID, and what a GLORIOUS battleaxe performance, one of her best!.

[@michellefalleur960]

Love your comment, yes, that IS just the way it was !!

[@chopchung]

@7:17 AMAZING how swiftly and accurately Potter "assumed the position".He may not have been watching TV when he was @ school but he might well have had a look @ "Mein Kampf".

[@Melbournelost66]

I loved this show when a kid in the 70s. Very popular in Australia. In my opinion the US series Welcome Back Cotter, of which I hated, was a rip off of Please Sir. The same thing happened with Steptoe and Son, US came out with Sanford and Son. British shows were much better!

[@patmckeane6588]

Preffered Penny Spencer in it ,anyone know why she left/was replaced ?

[@letsseeif]

They don't make these Television pearls like that anymore.

[@Kvbftng]

I think the girl who played Eric's girlfriend , left the series at the right ,I think to have a more normal life and career .than make a movie of the series.nearly all off them in there mid 20s . with grange hill there were mostly 11-16 when it started.please sir there were 20 -21

[@letsseeif]

@@Kvbftng Thanks for that information.

[@danielscott1423]

Why don't they ever show this series again on TV? On the buses & Rising Damp still get aired

[@Raider577]

Used to be shown on Forces TV up to around 2022 when the TV station closed down. The film Please Sir is regularly shown on TV. The film is better than the TV series in my opinion .

[@carljan57]

My high school clas fave tv show in 1970.

[@raysrox57]

Penny Spencer Was Gorgeous As Sharon

[@splinterbyrd]

She was also age 21, a bit old to be in school?

[@paulderyck2573]

My personal favourite, she reminds me of crush of mine-not in high school though🥰

[@OdaVenom]

@@splinterbyrd Steve McQueen say she's about 7 years too young.

[@mathewgrover6455]

The streaming service does not show, please, sir.

[@pikemeredith5604]

Why does Sir (aah John Alderton) always sneak look at the camera?

[@timpriddy349]

Gee those kids sure look eager to learn

[@splinterbyrd]

Why are the pupils all adults?

[@chopchung]

It was NEVER explained why that was the case.I watched this in 1971 and 72 when i was a kid of 6&7.I, just like everyone else in the UK, could SEE with my eyes they were adults but it simply didn't MATTER, we just accepted them as school kids and somehow it just.....WORKED!.

[@splinterbyrd]

@@chopchung tbh, it looks a bit creepy....

[@evelynwilson1566]

probably the same reason as Hollywood films do it, it's problematic to hire kids because of legistlation protecting them. Later on, they made a kids' soap called Grange Hill. The cast of Grange Hill was made up of real kids, so it must have been a logistical nightmare! Plus, they maybe wanted a cast of adults, so they could tell dodgy jokes and viewers could 'fancy' them😁

[@antoniabaker7770]

How old do you think the cast of Welcome back Kotter were? Most were 25 or 26. I believe John Travolta was the youngest at 21. Older than some of these "students".

[@MrMallorcaboy]

@@chopchung quite often in them days adults had to play the part of younger people, it was easier to have people with more acting experience. rhe film grease was the same, in that case many were in thier late 20,s and even in thier 30,s playing the part of people still at school.

[@kevinhenderson2019]

Needs Policing that one!

[@cameronrdonaldson]

30 year old school kids ' even back in the day we new it was daft 😋

[@johnrider5701]

They must have been the oldest school kids in history. They must have left school aged sixty five then retired

[@bernardcohen3245]

Not a whole lot of school Shootings or stabbing a back then

[@stratpluslover8391]

All the pupils look 20 + years old that seems so wrong and they wouldn't get away with it now Watch waterloo road and the students are teenagers all the right age

[@grahamgreatorix2124]

The "kids" all look like they are in their twenties! Ps where are the jokes?! So dated...

[@MisterSingh.]

orange sweater girl is hot af