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8 Episodes 1979 - 1979
Episode 1
25 mins
Mr Brown takes in a new student, a feisty Scotsman who speaks in dialect - and is the bodyguard of a very rich Arabian emir. However, the Scot turns out to be more than anybody can handle.
Episode 2
26 mins
Au pair Danielle brings her employers' baby to the college and leaves him in the canteen, but when the class ends, he is gone; Miss Courtney found him and took him to her office--from which tea-lady Gladys took him to get a drink. But seeing an empty pram and an open window, Mr. Brown fears the worst and ends up dicing with death on the window ledge.
Episode 3
26 mins
When Juan has suspected appendicitis, Mr Brown takes him to hospital but is admitted himself after falling downstairs and breaking his leg. Juan rings to ask after him, but due to a mix-up in names it is assumed that he is dead and the students attend the other Mr Brown's funeral--only for the teacher to apparently rise from the grave and definitely fall into one.
Episode 4
25 mins
Mr. Brown is offered a new higher-paying job at a rival English school if he quits his job and starts work the next day, but when the new job falls through, he has to figure out how to get his old job back.
Episode 5
25 mins
In groups of two, all the students find themselves up court for causing breaches of the peace or riots. Flashbacks show how these came about but Mr Brown, defending his students, puts up such a good case that leading magistrate Miss Courtney dismisses all the cases. Unfortunately once outside the court Mr Brown has reason to believe he will soon be back in front of Miss Courtney, this time as a defendant.
Episode 6
25 mins
When German student Anna cannot stop crying, Miss Courtney tells Mr Brown that she suspects she is pregnant. In fact, Anna's visa is about to expire. The students decide that the solution is for her to marry an Englishman, and they get Mr. Brown--who still believes that Anna is pregnant--drunk so that he will offer to do the decent thing. Anna resolves the situation for herself, but Mr Brown still has a shock coming.
Episode 7
25 mins
The school hosts a charity bazaar and needs a celebrity to be the Master of Ceremonies. Max claims to be best friends with a popular British comedian, but eventually confesses to the class that he's never really met him.
Episode 8
25 mins
Jeremy Brown's responsibility as, and English teacher to, foreign students doesn't always end when he leaves the classroom.