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Bonjour La Classe. Laurence Didcott (Nigel Planer). Copyright: Talkback Productions
Bonjour La Classe

Bonjour La Classe

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1993
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

Sitcom about a French teacher at the fee-paying and almost anarchic Mansion House school. Stars Nigel Planer, Nicholas Woodeson, Polly Adams, Timothy Bateson, Victoria Carling and more.

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Bonjour La Classe. Laurence Didcott (Nigel Planer). Copyright: Talkback Productions

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1993
Channel
BBC 1
Episodes
6 (1 series)
Stars
Nigel Planer, Nicholas Woodeson, Polly Adams, Timothy Bateson, Victoria Carling, Robert Gillespie, David Troughton, Bryan Dick and more
Writers
Paul Smith and Terry Kyan
Director
John Henderson
Producers
Jamie Rix and Peter Fincham
Company

Nigel Planer plays Laurence Didcott, new French teacher at London's Mansion House public school. Although undoubtedly and unfalteringly well-intentioned, he is actually rather feckless, and somewhat of a one-man disaster area. His constant unquestioning drive for change and improvement only serves to alienate him somewhat from the other teachers, who have long been resigned to a repetitive daily existence of educational mediocrity!

Additional details

Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Multi-camera
Picture
Colour
Soundtrack
The theme tune was composed by Philip Pope and performed by the Choristers of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey, under the direction of Simon Over.

Website links

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Monday 15th February 1993 at 8:30pm on BBC One

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