Please Sir!

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Please Sir! was a London Weekend Television situation comedy featuring Malcolm McFee, John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty, David Barry, and Richard Davies. The series ran between 1968 and 1972.

It was set in Fenn Street school and was noted for featuring several actors older than school age in the roles of the pupils. This was exacerbated as the series progressed. Notably, Carol Hawkins who played Sharon between 1971 and 1972, and was 23 years old when the programme finished.

A strong cast included John Alderton as teacher Bernard Hedges, Deryck Guyler as jobsworth caretaker Norman Potter, Joan Sanderson as formidable teacher Doris Ewell, and Richard Davies as the philosophical Welsh teacher Mr. Price. The students were played by actors obviously older than school age, including Malcolm McFee as the smooth Peter Craven, Peter Cleall as the rebellious, wisecracking Eric Duffy, Peter Denyer as the not too bright, but lovable, Dennis Dunstable, David Barry as wannabe tough guy cum mummy's boy Frankie Abbott, Penny Spencer/Carol Hawkins as sexpot Sharon Eversleigh, and Liz Gebhardt as lovelorn (she was in love with Hedges) Maureen Bullock.

The series later spun off into a film. The series' name is variously recorded as Please Sir, Please, Sir, and Please Sir!, but the last of these is the punctuation used in the Internet Movie Database

A spin-off series, The Fenn Street Gang, followed the adventures of a group of former pupils in the adult world after leaving their schooldays behind them. It ran for 21 episodes between 1971 and 1973.