Season 1

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  10.0/101 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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  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...

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  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!

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  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!

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  How's Your Father

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/17/1978

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown