![]() In Mind Your Language when he wrote to LWT bluntly informing them "I'm stillĪlso prominently featured in the series were former Top of the Pops dancerįrançoise Pascal Gabor Vernon, Hungarian compiler of Rothman's Football Hard up and on the dole, he was offered the starring role The screen since his earlier successes, barring appearances in a couple ofĭubious sex comedies. It ran for three series, was briefly revived in the mid-Eighties, and,Īpparently, even spawned a live stage show in Blackpool.īarry Evans is well cast as the amiable Mr Brown, still exploiting theīoyish innocence of his earlier roles in Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush (d.Ĭlive Donner, 1967) and ITV's Doctor series. Pretension, that made the programme such a big hit in 1970s' weekend schedules. Perhaps it was this likeable cast, serving up sizeable portions of ancientĪnd uncomplicated schoolboy humour, presented with an absolute lack of The failings of their material, they approach their performances with energy, Scripts and one-dimensional characterisations will allow. However, theĬast is more competent and accomplished than the limitations of the series' There is little to recommend it, and in retrospect it isĭifficult to discern the reason for the series' widespread appeal. Integration cannot but seem clumsy, banal, inept, wilfully ignorant andįrequently offensive. To modern audiences, Mind Your Language and its depiction of cultural Minimum, with the comedy firmly fixed on misunderstandings of English languageĪnd customs, and the relentless exploitation of obvious national stereotypes. Teach a class of diverse foreign students. Language classes taken by Mr Brown, and involved his frustrated attempts to Language proved hugely popular with the viewing public.Ĭheerfully basic and almost entirely devoid of subtlety, the programme wasīased around a simple premise that rarely varied. Promoted by the TV Times as 'the new multi-racial comedy series', Mind Your Further education lecturer Mr Brown attempts to guide his students through the minefield of the English language. ![]()
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