Mind Your Language (1977)

8.5	Listal rating
7.7	IMDB rating

Directed by

Stuart Allen

Starring (View all)

Barry Evans

Jeremy Brown

George Camiller

Giovanni Capello / ...

Jacki Harding

Anna Schmidt

Zara Nutley

Miss Courtney

Ricardo Montez

Juan Cervantes

Albert Moses

Ranjeet Singh

Robert Lee

Taro Nagazumi

Kevork Malikyan

Maximillian Papandrious

Written by

Vince Powell

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Diversity of ethnic humour...

6 years ago at May 12 7:20

KingFahtah

This show was set around a group of immigrants to Great Britain in an English as a second language class. It is a pretty funny show for it's time, although perhaps there a people today who would think it is full of too many ethnic stereotypes. Well it does a lot of playing on that for sure, but it allowed a large cross-section of the community (including native British) to laugh at themselves. Man... read more

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Barry Evans plays a put upon language teacher who tries to make a living by teaching immigrants English. With Indian, French, Chinese and many other pupils, his lessons do not always go as planned.

Release date : 30 December 1977

Foreigners (1), Ethnic (1), Funny (1), Comedy (1), Humor (1), British (1)

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British Comedy (watched) (69 tv items)

Jonathan added this to a list 1 year, 9 months ago

My TV Series Collection (22 tv items)

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MY FAVOURITE TV SHOWS (13 tv items)

KingFahtah posted a review 6 years ago

Diversity of ethnic humour...

“This show was set around a group of immigrants to Great Britain in an English as a second language class. It is a pretty funny show for it's time, although perhaps there a people today who would think it is full of too many ethnic stereotypes. Well it does a lot of playing on that for sure, but it allowed a large cross-section of the community (including native British) to laugh at themselves. Many of the faces will be familiar to fans of British comedy from other shows such as Barry Evans from the Doctor series as the teacher and Dino Shafeek from It Ain't Half Hot Mum. The interaction between his Indian character and the Pakistani student provide some of the funniest and somewhat topical moments. Also there are some great moments with Joan Sanderson as the college principal. You may reme” read more