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To Serve Them All My Days

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  • 1980-1981
  • 1 Season
  • Drama
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David Powlett-Jones has just returned to England from the trenches of WWI. He was injured and shell-shocked and, after a spell in hospital he gets a job teaching in a boys boarding school in S.W. England. He is not at all sure he can do the job, but the avuncular headmaster has faith in him. David, although well educated, is just a humble lad from the Welsh valleys at heart and has to fit himself and his ideas into the heart of the English establishment.

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John Duttine
David Powlett-Jones
Frank Middlemass
Algy Herries
Alan MacNaughtan
Howarth

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Episode 1

Part One

During WWI, an injured and shell-shocked David Powlett-Jones applies to teach history at an English boys' public school, but he is concerned about whether a lower-class product of the Welsh mines can fit in. The boys are alarmed by his unconventional teaching approach and the masters suspicious of his

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Awards

  • 1981 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Drama Series/Serial - nominated
  • 1981 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Television Cameraman - nominated
  • 1983 - Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Limited Series - nominated

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