Headmaster (Original title)
Date: 14 March 1974 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Anthony Page
Synopsis: Fisher is good at his job as headmaster, but finds that in new circumstances he has to face all the risks of competition. He has no degree and has successfully been headmaster of a secondary school for many years. However, the school is due to merge with a grammar school and become a comprehensive. He goes for the job of head of the new school, but loses out to a younger man with more progressive ideas. Fisher is disillusioned and faced with teaching within a new system he neither likes nor understands.
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 14 March 1974Broadcast channel: BBC1Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:25-22:25Runtime: 60 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Date: 14 March 1974 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Anthony Page
Synopsis: Fisher is good at his job as headmaster, but finds that in new circumstances he has to face all the risks of competition. He has no degree and has successfully been headmaster of a secondary school for many years. However, the school is due to merge with a grammar school and become a comprehensive. He goes for the job of head of the new school, but loses out to a younger man with more progressive ideas. Fisher is disillusioned and faced with teaching within a new system he neither likes nor understands.
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 14 March 1974Broadcast channel: BBC1Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:25-22:25Runtime: 60 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Credits
(6)
Production Company: BBC TV, Producer: Graeme McDonald, Script Editor: Ann Scott, Script: John Challen, Designer: Paul Allen
Cast
(18)
Frank Windsor (Fisher), Michael Byrne (Russell), Colin Douglas (Philips), Terence Burtenshaw (David), Paul Smithers (Gerry), Anthony Douse (Geoff Edwards), Mary Macleod (June Wade), Pearl Page (Mr Evans), Auriol Smith (Mrs Russell), Patricia Lawrence (Margaret Fisher), Kevin Hourigan (Peter), Gerald Sim (Carter), Hugh Thomas (Dickinson), Anthony Roye (Harvey), Perry Benson (Nicky), Arnold Diamond (Andrews), Alan Cullen (chairman), Margot Boyd (Miss Williams)