Please Sir! is a London Weekend Television produced situation comedy, created by writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featured the actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies. The series ran for 55 episodes between 1968 and 1972.
Please Sir! (Season 3)
Ag Bow Rumber (Episode 1)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-09-20
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A new term starts at Fenn Street and this means even more trouble for Bernard Hedges. Apart from the day-to-day hazards of teaching 5C, he has to prepare his unruly bunch for their imminent launching on an unsuspecting world. As prospective school leavers, 5C have to consider their future prospects.
Stitches and Hitches (Episode 2)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-09-27
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Bernard gets engaged and Abbott gets appendicitis.
Knick Knack Taffy Whack (Episode 3)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-10-04
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Why does one set about weighing Fenn Street School? It seems that Bernard believes that acts like this will help prepare 5C for their entry into the great, wide world at the end of this term.
Enter Mister Sibley (Episode 4)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-10-11
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Duffy enters the embraces of the cold and harsh world outside school and finds it cold and harsh.
It's a St Bernard's Life (Episode 5)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-10-18
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: When Smithy falls ill in the country, Bernard sees Reigate in all its rustic glory. He is quite smitten and dreams of the idyllic married life there, but his fiance, Penny, dreams otherwise.
Two and Two Make Nun (Episode 6)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-10-25
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Maureen feels rejected, not only by Sir but now by Monsignor Sopwith.
The Honour of the School (Episode 7)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-11-01
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Bernard has an annoying habit of being honourable - even when playing golf. But what of his pupils? When Duffy invites Sharon to a half-term Majorcan holiday, will the habit be catching?
Cromwell's Last Stand (Episode 8)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-11-08
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: When "Hank" Abbott, private detective, goes into action, he opens the cupboards that let out the skeletons. One produces a rash of honesty from Potter. The other makes Cromwell feel that Miss Ewell might yet be won back from Mr Sibley.
Catch a Falling Drop-Out (Episode 9)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-11-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Bernard and 5C drop in at the Conservative Club and make new friends. Maureen also makes a new friend, but he is more interested in dropping out.
A Star is Born (Episode 10)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-11-22
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: It takes a face in a thousand to star in an advertising campaign, but Bernard and Potter make it a two-horse race.
The Facts of Life (Episode 11)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-11-29
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: When Bernard hears Abbott's version of the facts of life - which can only be described as high fiction - he feels that it is time to teach 5C the facts of life in an adult way.
Situations Vacant (Episode 12)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-12-06
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: With the end of the school term approaching, most of Fenn Street's form 5C are already fixed up with jobs, but animal-loving Dennis Dunstable still has no apparent future. Then Bernard has a brainwave which looks like the solution.
Peace in Our Time (Episode 13)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-12-13
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: As 5C break up for the very last time, they prepare to take life by the throat, the shirt, the vest or anything else they can lay their hands on.
And Everyone Came Too (Episode 14)
Writer: Bob Larbey
Air date: 1970-12-27
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Bernard and Penny dream of their wedding day: it should be the happiest day of their lives. However, Potter is chief usher, class 5C are guests, the meteorological department forecasts snow and there are those inevitable unforeseen problems.
Seasons
Episodes 7
Episodes 13
Episodes 14
Episodes 21
Episodes 1