New characters included Max's sister Maria Papandrious (Jenny Lee Wright), French student Michelle Dumas (Marie-Elise Grepne), Indian student Farrukh Azzam (Raj Patel), Chinese student Fu Wong Chang (Vincent Wong), tea lady Rita (Sue Bond), and caretaker Henshawe (Harry Littlewood). The characters of Jeremy, Miss Courtney, Giovanni, Anna, Juan, and Ranjeet all returned, as did Ingrid after having been absent for the third series.
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The second series sees the addition of two more students: nymphomaniac Swedish au pair Ingrid Svenson (Anna Bergman note Daughter of renowned Swedish director Ingmar Bergman by his second wife, Ellen Lundström.), who competes with Danielle for Jeremy's affection, and Hungarian Zoltán Szabó (Gabor Vernon), who has a strange tendency to burst into song.ĭespite drawing audiences of 18 million, the series had its plug pulled by then-LWT Director of Programmes Michael Grade in 1979 in response to complaints about the use of ethnic stereotypes, but it was revived in 1986 for a fourth series of 13 episodes. The Asian students include Indian housewife Jameela Ranjha (Jamila Massey), who is among the few students to make real progress in her English skills Indian Sikh Ranjeet Singh (Albert Moses), who works for the London Underground sporadically employed Pakistani Muslim Ali Nadim (Dino Shafeek), who constantly fights with Ranjeet Chinese embassy secretary Chung Su-Lee (Pik-Sen Lim), a fanatical Communist and Japanese electronics executive Taro Nagazumi (Robert Lee).
The European students include macho Italian chef Giovanni Cupello (George Camiller), who becomes the students' designated leader and spokesman nymphomaniac French au pair Danielle Favre (Françoise Pascal), who regularly flirts with Jeremy (who is too embarrassed to reciprocate) humourless German au pair Anna Schmidt (Jacki Harding), who tries to take the class seriously Spanish bartender Juan Cervantes (Ricardo Montez), who sports hilarious '70s sideburns and initially speaks very little English and Greek shipping company employee Maximillian Papandrious (Kevork Malikyan), whose rivalry with Giovanni turns to friendship in later episodes. In the first and third series, Jeremy has ten students, five from Europe and five from Asia. The other episodes focus on Jeremy's hit-and-miss attempts to help his internationally diverse class of students navigate the mazes of the English language and British culture. 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.