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Whack-O!

Season 6 1960

  • 1960-05-12T23:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 25m
  • 2h 30m (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
Whack-O! was a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards, written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and broadcast from 1956 to 1960 and 1971 to 1972. The series (in black and white) ran on the BBC from 1956 to 1960 and (in colour) from 1971 to 1972. Edwards took the part of Professor James Edwards, M.A., the drunken, gambling, devious, cane-swishing headmaster who tyrannised staff and children at Chiselbury public school (described in the opening titles as "for the sons of Gentlefolk").

6 episodes

Season Premiere

1960-05-12T23:00:00Z

6x01 The New Uniform

Season Premiere

6x01 The New Uniform

  • 1960-05-12T23:00:00Z25m

When Jim hears the boys’ detested new Eton suits have been stolen in a burglary, he smells a rat. Then the masters’ clothes are also pilfered, with the village ladies arriving any minute to hear a recital by the musical Moussaka Ensemble.

1960-05-19T23:00:00Z

6x02 The Quiz Game

6x02 The Quiz Game

  • 1960-05-19T23:00:00Z25m

An old boy now in commercial TV offers the Headmaster an appearance on the Break The Bank quiz show, with questions supplied beforehand. Jim chooses maths as his subject, relying on his top pupil to come up with the answers.

1960-05-26T23:00:00Z

6x03 The Dismissal

6x03 The Dismissal

  • 1960-05-26T23:00:00Z25m

A photo of a naked lady is found in the school magazine under the heading ‘Proposed new addition to hobbies room’, and Edwards is sacked! Mr. Foster takes over as Head, but, determined to clear his name, Jim stays on — as a schoolboy!

1960-06-02T23:00:00Z

6x04 The Old Lag

6x04 The Old Lag

  • 1960-06-02T23:00:00Z25m

Lady Westbury offers to halve Prof. Edward’s rent if he helps her humanitarian cause by accepting an ex-Pentonville inmate on the staff. Mr. Tozer gains the respect of the boys, but Jim is adamant that he must go.

1960-06-09T23:00:00Z

6x05 The Missing Sculpture

6x05 The Missing Sculpture

  • 1960-06-09T23:00:00Z25m

The Headmaster decides to accompany the boys on their form outing to the Tate Gallery. All his trepidations prove well founded when one pupil and a piece of sculpture disappear.

1960-06-16T23:00:00Z

6x06 The Variety Concert

6x06 The Variety Concert

  • 1960-06-16T23:00:00Z25m

As chief of entertainments, Jim books Max Bygraves to perform at the Chiselbury village hall Grand Variety Concert.

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