The main source of ridicule in this show is the english language itself. Mind your language 19771986 is a british comedy television series set in a school for mature students and focuses on the english as a second language class. Mind your language on the spectator outside a theatre in shaftesbury avenue that offers a dubiously amusing entertainment a poster proclaims. Weve been trying to mind our language around the kids.
Get a printable copy pdf file of the complete article 445k, or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Mind your language is a british sitcom that premiered on itv in 1977. It was produced by london weekend television and directed by stuart allen. You mind your language, young lady, or youll be grounded for the weekend. Sid is hard of hearing, speaks with a cockney accent and often uses rhyming slang, which he sometimes teaches to mr. Mind your language season 3 episode 1 i belong to glasgow funny tv show mind your language is a british sitcom and television program.
An organisation must know how to leverage language and use it. It is the indian version of the british sitcom mind your language 1977 stars. Watch mind your language 01 goranr58 on dailymotion. Mind your language season 1 episode 11 english subs a point of honour comedy film.
The problem is that max doesnt really know him so he asks sid to phone up. Mind your language on the back of the inimitable jeeves the book with the great sermon handicap in it, stephen fry says. Queenie watts was in romany jones and its sequel yus my dear, while tommy godfrey played arthur in love thy neighbour and sid the caretaker in mind your language. Reverse therapy uk a radical new approach to health. Mind your language was a politically incorrect brit com that ran for four series, three on london weekend television between 1977 and 1979 and one on granada in 1986. Albert moses, kstj 19 december 1937 15 september 2017 was a sri lankan actor based in the united kingdom. It is a comedy show set on english spoken language that. This is the edited clip from the episode hello sailor from season 1.
Three series were made by lwt between 1977 and 1979, and the show was briefly revived in 1985 but this series was, in most itv regions, transmitted in 1986, with six of the original cast. Brown trys to make his students give him words starting with alphabetsbut u better know what is the result when. Full text full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. He first appears in all through the night and is played by tommy godfrey. Mind your language is often cited as an example of racist 70s british comedy. I personally think it is no more offensive than those american movies that depict the british either as plummyvoiced toffs or chirpy cockney sparrows. Mind your language might not have been smart comedy, but it was good comedy with the misunderstandings stemming from a valid observation of differing cultures. Mind your language season 1 episode 1 the first lesson. Sid called sidney by miss courtney is the caretaker of the school at which jeremy brown teaches. Read first language lessons for the welltrained mind. Brown offering to pay for him to wed his partner after hearing sid never married her. Sid the caretaker laments at length that twentyeight years ago he was married, despite having a whole previous episode hows your father from series two about mr. The idea was not dissimilar from other sitcoms of this time such as robins nest.
1101 3 423 123 1077 68 1223 1516 915 1010 256 754 193 1383 99 1148 1311 1131 318 294 830 323 211 894 697 727 1316 1135 708 1008 910 1432 1259 747 459 1347 141 1172 1156 342 1166