• Please Sir! is a British television sitcom created by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featuring actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Penny Spencer, Joan...
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  • Please Sir! is a 1971 British comedy film directed by Mark Stuart and starring John Alderton, Deryck Guyler and Carol Hawkins. Written by John Esmonde...
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    Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to...
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  • for playing the part of form 5C pupil Maureen Bullock in the LWT sitcom Please Sir! (1968–71) and in the subsequent spin-off show, The Fenn Street Gang (1971–73)...
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  • coquettish schoolgirl Sharon Eversleigh in the LWT television comedy series Please Sir! (1968–1970). She attended Coombe Girls School in New Malden, Surrey....
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  • English actor best known for his role as Peter Craven in the TV series Please Sir!, the film of the same name, and the spin-off TV series The Fenn Street...
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  • English actor who played Dennis Dunstable in London Weekend Television's Please Sir!, and its spin-off series The Fenn Street Gang, taking on the role of...
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  • wise-cracking Eric Duffy in the London Weekend Television comedy series Please Sir! which ran from 1968 to 1972, and its sequel The Fenn Street Gang from...
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    Sarah, Wodehouse Playhouse, Little Miss (original television series), Please Sir!, No, Honestly and Fireman Sam (the original series). Alderton has often...
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  • portrayal of officious, short-tempered middle-aged men in sitcoms such as Please Sir! and Sykes. Guyler was born in Wallasey on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire...
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    Hill 2008, pp. 49–50. Morris & Tenniel 2005, p. 344. Samuel S. Hyde, "'Please, Sir, he called me "Jimmy!' Political Cartooning before the Law: 'Black Friday'...
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  • intense Shakespearean roles. Her television work included the sitcoms Please Sir! (1968–72), Fawlty Towers and Ripping Yarns (1979) and Me and My Girl...
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  • avant-garde operas. His comedy appearances on TV include The Likely Lads, Please Sir!, Dad's Army, Curry and Chips, No, Honestly and The Upper Hand. Hughes...
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  • by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, it was a spin-off from their popular Please Sir! series. The series follows the lives of many of the pupils from Fenn...
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  • played the roles of Sharon Eversleigh in the film of the television series Please Sir! and Sandra in the BBC TV series Porridge, and starred in two Carry On...
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  • in the LWT sitcom Please Sir! and the spin-off series The Fenn Street Gang. He also appeared in two TV spin-off movies - Please Sir! (1971) and George...
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    is dished out and eaten, Oliver goes to the master and famously says, "Please Sir. I want some more". He is then branded a troublemaker and offered as an...
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  • Hopkirk (Deceased) and Father, Dear Father and a recurring role as Eddie in Please Sir! and its spin-off The Fenn Street Gang, before having his first regular...
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    1973, and had roles in several television series including Up Pompeii!, Please Sir! and On the Buses before appearing in Both Ends Meet, a sitcom about a...
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  • exasperated schoolmaster Mr. Price in the popular LWT situation comedy Please Sir!. He used a broad Welsh accent for much of his work, but had used other...
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    German TV, Focus on Britain and The Idle Bunch. His film work included Please Sir! (1971) and Professor Popper's Problem (1974). In 1983, he landed the...
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    Janitor (played by Deryck Guyler) from the television series of the 1970s, Please Sir!. Older adverts had Mortimer's voice responding to questions posed by...
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  • British sitcom Only Fools And Horses. It was also used in the 1970s sitcom Please Sir!. "Gordon Bennett" is said frequently by Terry McCann in Minder and Gerry...
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  • (1987). Her guest roles on TV include: Dixon of Dock Green, On the Buses, Please Sir!, Minder, The Gentle Touch, Just Good Friends, C.A.T.S. Eyes, Only Fools...
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  • have your name, please, sir? Abraham Zapruder My name is Abraham Zapruder. Watson Mister, ZAP-puh-dah? Zapruder ZAP-pru-der, yes, sir. Watson ZAP-pru-dah...
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  • (1966), Night After Night After Night (1970), the big-screen version of Please Sir! (1971) and the ITV sitcom For the Love of Ada (1970–71) amongst others...
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  • (1971) Gumshoe (1971) Melody (1971) On the Buses (1971) Percy (1971) Please Sir! (1971) The Statue (1971) Suburban Wives (1971) Up the Chastity Belt (1971)...
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  • popular sitcoms starting from the mid-1960s until the mid-1990s such as Please Sir!, The Good Life, Get Some In!, Ever Decreasing Circles, and Brush Strokes...
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    the well-known request from Oliver to the master of the workhouse: "Please, sir, I want some more". Another popular piece of workhouse literature was...
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  • Sebastiane. On television, he was best known for his roles in the sitcom Please Sir!, as one of the main character's teaching colleagues, and in the London...
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