Mind Your Language

Mind Your Language
Title screen of the Series
Created by	Vince Powell
Starring	Barry Evans Dino Shafeek Zara Nutley Albert Moses George Camiller Jacki Harding Ricardo Montez Robert Lee Pik-Sen Lim Kevork Malikyan Jamila Massey Françoise Pascal Anna Bergman Tommy Godfrey Iris Sadler
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	42 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Stuart Allen Albert Moses
Camera setup	2.45
Running time	25 minutes
Production company(s)	London Weekend Television
Release
Original network	ITV
Picture format	4:3
Original release	30 December 1977 (1977-12-30) – 15 December 1979 (1979-12-15)

Mind Your Language is a British sitcom that premiered on ITV in 1977. Produced by London Weekend Television and directed by Stuart Allen, the show is set in an adult education college in London and focuses on the English as a Foreign Language class taught by Mr Jeremy Brown, portrayed by Barry Evans, who had to deal with a motley crew of foreign students. Three series were made by LWT between 1977–79, and the show was briefly revived in 1986 with six of the original cast.

The series was commissioned by Michael Grade, LWT Director of Programmes in 1977. Although the series was attracting some 18 million viewers, the programme was cancelled in 1979 by Grade, who considered the stereotyping offensive.

The series was sold to other countries, including Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and Singapore. It was also one of the first British TV programmes shown in South Africa after the end of the boycott by the British Actors' Equity Association. It was resurrected briefly for the export market by an independent producer in the mid-1980s, though most ITV companies did not show any of the episodes made in 1986, only Anglia, Central and Granada transmitted the final 13 episodes, while Border, HTV and Tyne Tees broadcast a handful of episodes.