British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide

Pinkerton's Progress

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Two
  • 1983
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

School comedy. New deputy headmaster Pinkerton is shocked to find Lyttleton Old School is run not for the pupils but the teachers - he wants to run it for himself. Stars Geoffrey Whitehead, Eleanor Bron, Michael Elwyn, Clive Merrison, Derek Francis and more.

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