Bad Education - BBC3 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide

TV sitcom
BBC Three
2012 - 2024
33 episodes (5 series)

School-based comedy about the worst teachers to ever be involved in the British education system. Stars Layton Williams, Charlie Wernham, Mathew Horne, Vicki Pepperdine, Asha Hassan and more.

Christmas Special repeated Saturday at 1:55am on BBC3

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Bad Education. Image shows from L to R: Miss Gulliver (Sarah Solemani), Cleopatra (Weruche Opia), Rem Dogg (Jack Binstead), Chantelle (Nikki Runeckles), Stephen (Layton Williams), Alfie (Jack Whitehall), Grayson (Jack Bence), Joe (Ethan Lawrence), Jing (Kae Alexander), Fraser (Mathew Horne). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

2012 - 2024

Channel

BBC Three

Episodes

33 (5 series)

Creators

Jack Whitehall and Ben Cavey

Stars

Layton Williams, Charlie Wernham, Mathew Horne, Vicki Pepperdine, Asha Hassan, Anthony J Abraham, Bobby Johnson, Laura Marcus and more

Writers

Jack Whitehall and Freddy Syborn

Directors

Ben Gosling Fuller, Elliot Hegarty, Al Campbell and Freddy Syborn

Producers

Pippa Brown, Ben Cavey, Arnold Widdowson, Hussain Casey-Ahmed, Chris Sussman, Sophie Clarke-Jervoise, Jack Whitehall, Richard Ackerman and more

Companies

Bad Education initially follows Alfie, the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system. Alfie definitely has the best intentions for his class but the truth is he is a bigger kid than any of the kids he teaches so his good intentions always seem to end up out the window. He really does care though.

Despite his obvious shortcomings, Alfie's position at the school is stable thanks to Fraser, the school's headmaster, who tragically longs to be as cool as Alfie. He's the teacher who just wants to be everyone's 'best mate' and is prone to massive and very public mishaps.

The comedy ran for three series between 2012 and 2014, before being revived and rebooted nearly a decade later. A reunion special was broadcast in 2022, before Series 4 began in 2023. The latest series no longer features Alfie but instead focuses on Stephen and Mitchell, who have graduated from being students to becoming teachers themselves.