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A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
Top billed cast
Jim BroadbentGeoff Figg
Robert StephensVic Griffiths
Bruce MyersTwentyman
Richard ButlerMr Griff
Fred PearsonMr Hodgeson
Peggy Ann CliffordMiss Martlett
William HoylandMr James
Bruce PayneBarratt
Ray MortWhittaker
Suzanna HamiltonAlison Cooper
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