Other college employees include Cockney caretaker Sid (Tommy Godfrey), and gossip-loving tea lady Gladys (Iris Sadler). In the first episode, Jeremy Brown (Barry Evans) is hired as a teacher of English as a foreign language at a college of adult education run by strict principal Miss Courtney (Zara Nutley). To this day it is still re-run on Comedy Central in India and elsewhere. Hilariously, it was outsourced abroad to great acclaim. It has been much criticized for its xenophobic outlook and heavy use of ethnic stereotypes, but at the time it was appreciated that the show gave actors of colour a bigger presence on TV. The show was about a hapless class of students learning English as a foreign language. Mind Your Language was a politically incorrect Brit Com that ran for four series, three on London Weekend Television between 19 and one on Granada in 1986.
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