Bonjour la Classe (1993–1993)

TV ShowEndedBBC OneComedy1 season, 6 episodes
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Bonjour la Classe is a British television comedy series broadcast on BBC1 in 1993. Created and written by Paul Smith and Terry Kyan, the series centered on Laurence Didcott, a new French teacher at prestigious Mansion School. Didcott discovers a prevailing attitude at Mansion, among staff, benefactors and even students and parents, that places what's best for the school ahead of pupils' education and well-being. The scenes at the school were shot in the winter of 1992.

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Season016Episodes1993Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01New BoyFebruary 15, 1993—Bumbling but bright-eyed French teacher Laurence Didcott arrives for his first day at The Mansion School, full of enthusiasm and good intent
  2. S01E02Red CardFebruary 22, 1993—When Laurence gets too wrapped up in the school's Parents Evening, he finds himself trapped into spending the night at the home of the distr
  3. S01E03Vive la RevolutionMarch 1, 1993—After being nearly trampled by one of Laurence's classes reenacting the French Revolution, the parents of a prospective student bring it to
  4. S01E04Old DogsMarch 8, 1993—Laurence lands the head of his department, Donald Halifax, in the hospital with food poisoning after cooking him a meal of French cuisine. E
  5. S01E05Herring's MagnificatMarch 15, 1993—Temperamental eccentric Gilbert Herring, the school's head of music, has organized the annual student concert in the Swimming Hall for ten y
  6. S01E06I Love LucyMarch 22, 1993—When a distraught, love-stricken student gets drunk on a bottle of cold medicine from the school infirmary and causes a classroom disturbanc

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Martin ClunesMartin ClunesDr. ChambourcyElizabeth AlexanderElizabeth AlexanderBryan DickBryan DickDaniel NewmanDaniel NewmanCamilla PowerCamilla PowerDavid TroughtonDavid TroughtonNicholas WoodesonNicholas WoodesonNigel PlanerNigel Planer

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