Program Title
To Serve Them All My Days

Based On
The novel by R. F. Delderfield

Adapted By
Andrew Davies

Number of Episodes:
13

Description
David Powlett-Jones, invalided out of the Army by shell shock, arrives at Bamfylde School, unaware that his meeting with the Headmaster, Algy Herries, is about to alter the course of his life. Although David has never before been a teacher, he joins the boys' school faculty where his students are all from upper-class affluent families--unlike his own roots which are from a poor Welsh mining family. Set against the backdrop of social upheaval in the 1920's & 1930's, the series covers Powlett-Jones' teaching career for more than two decades. He becomes an excellent educator, inspiring the boys with his own qualities of insight and idealism, qualities that help prepare him to send off his students to fight yet another war in 1939.


Original broadcast date
1982-10-10

Cast	Characters
John Duttine	David Powlett-Jones
Frank Middlemass	Algy Herries
Alan MacNaughtan	Howarth
Patricia Lawrence	Ellie Herries
Belinda Lang	Beth Marwood/Powlett-Jones
Neil Stacy	Carter
John Welsh	Cordwainer
Charles Kay	Alcock
Kim Braden	Julia Darbyshire
Susan Jameson	Christine Forster/Powlett-Jones
Phillip Joseph	Emrys Powlett-Jones
Tim Wylton	Griff
Nicholas Lyndhurst	Dobson
Simon Gipps-Kent	Boyer
Matthew Waterhouse	Briarley
Grant Bardsley	Winterbourne
Marcus DÕAmico
Philip Franks	Blades
Warren Saire	Titterton
Lockwood West	Dr. Willoughby
Norman Bird	Alderman Blunt
Michael Turner	Brigadier Cooper
Adam Armstrong
Matthew Ryan
Andrew Bicknell	Irvine
Cyril Luckham	Sir Rufus Creighton
Alastair Wyllie	Molyneux

Credits

Producer: Ken Riddington
Director: Ronald Wilson





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