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Decline and Fall
The series sees Paul Pennyfeather as an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s, who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club.
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Episode 1
Episode #1.1
58 mins
Unfairly sent down from Oxford for indecent exposure after the loutish Bollinger club have stripped him bare serious theology student Paul Pennyfeather ends up as a junior teacher at Dr Fagan's grim school in Wales. Nervous and under-qualified he finds allies in his colleagues, drunken ex-army Grimes, betrothed to Fagan's daughter Flossie, and wig-wearing Prendergast, along with school factotum Philbrook, a convicted criminal who has his own agenda. On the school's sports day Paul allows his only friend in the mischievous fifth form Peter Beste-Chetwynde to win, earning the respect of Peter's glamorous mother Margot, who arrives with her black musician consort Chokey and offers Paul a job with her.
