British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide
Whack-O!. Professor James Edwards (Headmaster) (Jimmy Edwards). Copyright: BBC
Whack-O!

Whack-O!

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1956 - 1972
  • 60 episodes (8 series)

Comedy starring Jimmy Edwards as the scheming headmaster of not-so-prestigious private school Chiselbury. Stars Jimmy Edwards, Arthur Howard, Kenneth Cope, John Garside, Arthur Bush and more.

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Whack-O!. Professor Edwards (Jimmy Edwards). Copyright: BBC Radio

Whack-O!

Sitcom series based on the popular television sitcom Whack-O! and film spin-off, Bottoms Up.

Bottoms Up. Professor J. Edwards M.A. (Jimmy Edwards). Copyright: Transocean Films Film

Bottoms Up

Feature film based on the TV sitcom Whack-O!, starring Jimmy Edwards as the headmaster of Chiselbury School, 'for the sons of gentlefolk'.

Please Sir!. Bernard Hedges (John Alderton). Copyright: London Weekend Television TV

Please Sir!

Teacher Bernard Hedges struggles to keep control over the unruly pupils at Fenn Street Secondary School. His form, 5C, are notoriously uneducatable.

Please Sir!. Image shows from L to R: Bernard Hedges (John Alderton), Maureen Bullock (Liz Gebhardt), Sharon Eversleigh (Carol Hawkins), Dennis Dunstable (Peter Denyer), Eric Duffy (Peter Cleall). Copyright: Rank Organisation / ITV Studios Film

Please Sir!

Movie spin-off from the popular TV sitcom, in which teacher Bernard Hedges takes troublesome class 5C to a holiday camp.

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

Bonjour La Classe

Sitcom about a French teacher at the fee-paying and almost anarchic Mansion House school.

Billy Bunter Of Greyfriars School. Billy Bunter (Gerald Campion). Copyright: BBC TV

Billy Bunter Of Greyfriars School

Sitcom inspired by the short stories about schoolboy Billy Bunter.

Fun At St. Fanny's. Image shows from L to R: Maisie (Vera Day), Cardew Robinson (Cardew Robinson) Film

Fun At St. Fanny's

Comedy starring Fred Emney and Cardew Robinson as headmaster and overgrown pupil at a boarding school.

. Copyright: BBC Radio

Take It From Here

Long-running comedy series starring Jimmy Edwards, June Whitfield and Dick Bentley.

BBC Two TV

Pinkerton's Progress

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.

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