Bonjour la Classe is a British television comedy series broadcast on BBC1 in 1993. Created and written by Paul Smith

Paul Smith (writer)

Paul Smith is a British television writer best known as creator of the Dawn French series Murder Most Horrid , and as co-creator of the Mel Smith series Colin's Sandwich....

 and Terry Kyan

Terry Kyan

Terry Kyan is a British television writer best known for writing .These include sketches/episodes for such sketch shows as Not the Nine O'clock News, Spitting Image and Alas Smith and Jones, as well as the Dawn French black comedy Murder Most Horrid, and the sitcoms The Brittas...

, the series centered on Laurence Didcott, a new French teacher at prestigious Mansion School. Didcott discovers a prevailing attitude at Mansion, among staff, benefactors and even students and parents, that places what's best for the school (e.g. fundraising, school image) ahead of pupils' education and well-being. The scenes at the school were shot in the winter of 1992.

Cast

• Nigel Planer
  Nigel Planer
  Nigel George Planer is an English actor, comedian, novelist and playwright.Planer is perhaps best known for his role as Neil Pye in the cult BBC comedy The Young Ones. He has appeared in many West End musicals, including Evita, Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked and Hairspray...
  
   .... Laurence Didcott
• Polly Adams
  Polly Adams
  Polly Adams is an English actress best known for her work on the stage both in England and in the United States, and for her portrayal of Mrs. Brown on the television series Just William. She made her Broadway debut in the critically acclaimed 1975 revival of London Assurance as Grace Harkaway...
  
   .... Jean Halifax
• Timothy Bateson
  Timothy Bateson
  Timothy Dingwall Bateson was a British actor. The son of Dingwall Bateson, a solicitor later knighted, he was educated at Uppingham School and Wadham College, Oxford....
  
   .... Leonard Wigley
• Victoria Carling .... Harriet Humphrey
• Robert Gillespie
  Robert Gillespie
  Robert Gillespie is a British actor.He was brought up in Nantes until his parents moved to Manchester, having arrived in Plymouth in 1940...
  
   .... Gilbert Herring
• David Troughton
  David Troughton
  David Troughton is an English actor, best known for his Shakespearean roles on the British stage.- Biography :David Troughton was born in Hampstead, North London. He comes from a theatrical family: he is the son of Doctor Who actor Patrick Troughton, elder brother of Michael Troughton, and father...
  
   .... Eric Sweety
• Nicholas Woodeson
  Nicholas Woodeson
  Nicholas Woodeson is an English film and television actor.-Education:Woodeson attended Marlborough College and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Film:...
  
   .... Leslie Piper
• Peter Woodthorpe
  Peter Woodthorpe
  Peter Woodthorpe was an English film, television and voice actor who is best known for supplying the voice of Gollum in the 1978 Bakshi version of The Lord of the Rings and BBC's 1981 radio serial...
  
   .... Donald Halifax
• Rebecca Callard
  Rebecca Callard
  -Early life:The daughter of Coronation Street actress Beverley Callard, she was born Rebecca Jayne Atkinson, but took her stepfather's surname when her mother married Steven Callard in 1989. In her early roles she used her father's surname and was credited as Rebecca Sowden.As a child Callard lived...
  
   .... Lucy Cornwell
• Bryan Dick
  Bryan Dick
  Bryan Dick is an English actor, who has starred in multiple motion pictures, television series, and stage productions in both the United Kingdom and United States.-Background:...
  
   .... Adam Hunley
• David Larkin .... Clive Crotty
• Daniel Newman .... Hugo Botney
• Simeon Pearl .... Anthony Zalacosta
• Camilla Power
  Camilla Power
  Camilla Power is an Irish-born English actress who is most notably remembered in her role as Jill Pole in BBC's TV adaptation of the book The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis...
  
  .... Pamela Slotover