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Please Sir! - A Picture of Innocence
episode 1.2
UK 1968
produced by Mark Stuart for London Weekend Television/ITV
directed by Mark Stuart
starring John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Richard Davies, Erik Chitty, Liz Gebhardt, Penny Spencer, Peter Cleall, Malcolm McFee, Peter Denyer, David Barry, Michael Burrell
written by John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
TV series Please Sir!, Frankie Abbott
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Since Class 5C are the rowdiest bunch in school and full of juvenile
pranks when they ought to learn, their teacher Mr. Hedges (John Alderton)
tries to get the whole class into at least one club at school - but is
shown the cold shoulder by all of his colleagues when he asks them to
accept his class ... all but Dowling (Michael Burrell), head of the arts
club, whom Hedges can somehow coaxe into accepting his class, then he
manages to coaxe his class into joining - and the results are ... well,
less than stellar. All but one, but that one shows one of Hedges'
students, Sharon (Penny Spencer), in the nude. Dowling thinks it's a
masterpiece, but the school's busybody Ms. Ewell (Joan Sanderson) smells a
scandal brewing, and she asks Hedges to find out who painted the
(unsigned) nude discretely - and of course, Hedges suspects all of the
school's bad boys like Duffy (Peter Cleall), Abbott (David Barry),
Dunstable (Peter Denyer) and Craven (Malcolm McFee) - but an indiscretion
on Dowling's part reveals the picture was done by Sharon herself. And
while she's now mocked for it by her fellow students, the school's top
brass suddenly feels it might be her key to going to college ... A
bit of an uneven episode, as on one hand it's a satiric take on double
standards amidst the shifting mores of the late 1960s, on the other hand
much of the humour in this one is pretty puerile - which is of course the
series' standard - and a bit hit-or-miss, especially when it moves away
from joke-for-joke's-sake territory and more into the satirical side of
things.
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