Whack-O!

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Jimmy Edwards stars as the irascible headmaster of Chiselbury School

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Scheming Jim needs the cost of an airfare from Australia.

Scheming Jim needs the cost of an airfare from Australia. Stars Professor Jimmy Edwards and Eamonn Andrews. From September 1961.

Scheming school Headmaster Jim needs the cost of an airfare from Australia. 

Starting life on BBC TV before transferring to radio, Chiselbury School is run "for the sons of gentlefolk".

Headmaster, Professor James Edwards, MA never misses a trick when it comes to exploiting the students and their parents. Sports pitches are given over to growing vegetables, which the boys nurture for their head to sell. Classes never exceed 95 pupils - 50 if private tuition is paid for at five guineas extra.

It's only thanks to the efforts of the devoted deputy head, Mr Pettigrew, that the school exists at all.

Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.

Adapted by David Climie.

Headmaster …. Jimmy Edwards
Matron …. June Whitfield 
Aubrey Potter …. Roddy Maude-Roxby 
Alfred Tennyson …. Frederick Treves 
O’Reilly …. Roy Dotrice 
Lumley …. Roger Shepherd 

With special guest:  Eamonn Andrews

Producer: Edward Taylor 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1961.

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