Hardwicke House - Episode 1 (Part 2 of 3) - banned UK comedy series
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- EDIT 2019: The whole series has now been uploaded by Mark Pickett, link here: • 1986 - Hardwicke House...
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Central situation comedy from 1986, set in an anarchic comprehensive school where the teachers behave worse than the pupils. It has a similar style of humour to other comedy series such as The Young Ones... it certainly isn't Grange Hill!
In his last role before his death, Roy Kinnear stars as the drunk and incompetent headmaster Mr Wickham, and other staff of the inner city school include a murderer, a teacher who is clearly attracted to the pupils and various other dysfunctional individuals.
It was written by Richard Hall and Simon Wright (both uncredited), directed by John Stroud and produced by Paula Burdon.
Recording took place at a disused school in Nottingham (St Bernadette's School), however Hardwicke House is based on Homerton House (later Homerton College of Technology, closed in 2007) in Hackney, London E9. Hall and Wright were both teachers at the school.
Only the first two episodes were shown on consecutive week-day evenings, before tabloid criticism and viewer complaints caused Central to pull the show before the other 5 episodes could be shown. Newspapers incorrectly described it as being "full of school teachers trying to get their pupils into bed".
No repeats of Hardwicke House have ever occurred, it has never been released on video and is now mostly forgotten. This is why Hardwicke House is generally described as "banned". (This video will be removed from RUclips if either it is released on DVD, or if I am contacted directly by Central requesting such an action be taken).
Stars:
Roy Kinnear ("Joe Jones" in Cowboys) as Mr Wickham
Pam Ferris ("Laura Thyme" in Rosemary & Thyme) as Ms Crabbe
Tony Haygarth ("Vic Snow" in where The Heart Is) as Mr Savage
Duncan Preston (currently "Douglas Potts" in Emmerdale) as Moose Magnusson
Gavin Richards ("Capt. Alberto Bertorelli" in 'Allo 'Allo) as Mr Flashman
Granville Saxton as Mr Fowl
Roger Sloman ("Insp. Victor Deffand" in Bergerac) as Mr Mackintosh
Nick Wilton as Peter Philpott
Also stars Deborah Norton, Nigel Pegram, Kevin Allen, Liz Fraser, Paul Spurrier, Micky O'Donoughue, Christopher Driscoll, Pat Doyle, Cindy Day, Chris Pitt, Mark Monero, Paul Darlow, Courtney Roper Knight, Clive Curtis, Stephen Arnold and members of the Central Junior Television Workshop.
Broadcast date: 24 February 1987 at 8pm on Central Independent Television. Episode 1 of 7 "The Visit".
I love this show! A forgotten classic. Need to see the other episodes!
They’re all up on RUclips now!!👍👍👍
Roy kinnear was such a bloody great talent... and this was actually like my high school or how i remember it
Thanks for uploading this,you are a hero.
@LLydarth Justine Thornton is awesome here! I admire her!! she must continue this acting career!!!
Bloody hell Les from Eastenders is in this! lol
not even roy kinnear could save this complete tripe.
6m 30s in... this is called "peer marking" and teachers and lecturers are expected to do it for real!
I do see why the plug was pulled - most of the acting would work fine in a studio sitcom but the new technology of the day let them take it on location, which kills it.
If this was a real school I would schedule it for demolition!
09:30 Erica is Justine Thornton - Ed Miliband's girlfriend!! XD
Yup it is as dire as I remember it, and the only reason I watched it was for Cindy Day as the sex pot schoolgirl in various outfits ;) it is interesting to see how thin Pam Ferris was back then and to be honest Roy Kinnear was wasted in this. The South African accent was truly awful and it was one of the factors that got this programme banned. Roger Sloman wore that same syrup(wig) in 'The Young Ones.'
Brilliant. It's a shame the po-faced educationalists and politically correct journos got it terminated.
Offence aside this just isn't funny. A poor attempt to replicate the success of the Young Ones.