Season 1

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  8.1/10316 votes

  The First Lesson

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/30/1977

  Jeremy Brown starts his new job as a teacher of English as a foreign language and meets his students for the first time, a diverse group of ten adults in London, hailing from nine different countries in Europe and Asia.

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  8.0/10226 votes

  An Inspector Calls

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/1978

  An inspector from the local education authority arrives at the school to observe the classes, but Mr Brown mistakes him for a new student.

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  7.5/10209 votes

  A Fate Worse Than Death

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/1978

  Ranjeet asks Mr Brown and the rest of the class to help him escape an arranged marriage with Surinder, the daughter of his father’s best friend.

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  7.8/10200 votes

  All Through the Night

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/1978

  Upset that his students’ English is not improving, especially in the presence of Miss Courtney who leaves disappointed, Mr Brown keeps them after class, to the extent that they get locked in the building.

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  7.9/10194 votes

  The Best Things in Life

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/1978

  Jamila is arrested for shoplifting a magazine due to her misunderstanding of the word 'free' in promotional material...

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  8.1/10190 votes

  Come Back, All is Forgiven

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/3/1978

  It is Mr Brown’s birthday, and everyone in the class has brought him a present - but it is not all happy returns when Miss Courtney informs him that his trial month is over and dismisses him, replacing him with a new teacher.

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  7.9/10175 votes

  The Cheating Game

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/10/1978

  In order to see how prepared they are for their upcoming exam, the students prepare to take a mock exam, failing miserably and angering Mr Brown. Seeing that their teacher has no faith in them, they decide to cheat!

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  7.7/10168 votes

  Better to Have Loved and Lost

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/17/1978

  Celebrations as Ali and Su-Lee announce that they are to marry... but he already has a wife!

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  8.3/10171 votes

  Kill or Cure

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/24/1978

  Poor Jeremy is sick with the flu, so his class decide to pay him a visit hoping to cheer him up.

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  7.5/10162 votes

  Hello Sailor

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/3/1978

  Juan brings his Russian sailor friend Boris to class, explaining that he wants to defect and stay in England, having fallen love with a girl he just met.

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  7.8/10160 votes

  A Point of Honour

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/10/1978

  Mr Brown finds himself in a lot of trouble when Danielle tells Mr Jarvis, a pestering woodwork teacher at the school, that she is engaged to her English teacher.

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  7.5/10140 votes

  How's Your Father

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/17/1978

  Could it be that Sid the Janitor is Jeremy's father ?

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  8.1/10158 votes

  The Examination

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/24/1978

  The students prepare to take their Lower Cambridge Certificate exam at the end of the first term. Meanwhile, Mr Brown has a disagreement with a couple in the pub, which comes back to haunt him when it turns out that the man (Mr Short, a former principal of the school) will be supervising the exam.

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