King Street Junior was a Radio Comedy

Radio comedy

Radio comedy, or comedic radio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve sitcom elements, sketches and various types of comedy found on other media. It may also include more surreal or fantastic elements, as these can be conveyed on a small budget with just a few sound effects or some...

 about a junior school

Junior school

A junior school is a type of school which caters for children, often between the ages of 7 and 11.-Australia:In Australia, a junior school is usually a part of a private school that educates children between the ages of 5 and 12....

 aired by the BBC

BBC

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 from March 1985 to November 1998. A continuation of the series renamed King Street Junior Revisited started in 2002 and continued until 2005. The series is written by Jim Eldridge

Jim Eldridge

Jim Eldridge is a radio, TV and movie scriptwriter with hundreds of radio and TV scripts broadcast in the UK and across the world in a career spanning over 30 years....

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The cast has included Peter Davison

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984.-Early life:Davison was born Peter Moffett in Streatham,...

, James Grout

James Grout

James Grout is an English actor of radio and television.Grout was born in London, the son of Beatrice Anne and William Grout...

 and Karl Howman

Karl Howman

Karl Howman is an English actor and also a British voice-over artist.He is well known but notable to many television viewers for his work as Jacko in the mid-1980's and early-90's BBC TV sitcom Esmonde and Larbey's Brush Strokes and as the title character in the series Mulberry .However Howman first...

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All series have been repeated on BBC 7

BBC 7

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RadioHaha Summary

"An unassuming Radio 4 institution, this character sitcom-cum-light drama serial followed the working lives of a group of teachers at a small junior school in a multiracial area, and came from the pen of Jim Eldridge, himself a former teacher." 1

Source:Radiohaha, the online encyclopaedia of contemporary British radio comedy

Cast

• Mr. Eric Brown - Peter Davison
  Peter Davison
  Peter Davison is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984.-Early life:Davison was born Peter Moffett in Streatham,...
  
    First two series
• Mr. Harry Beeston - James Grout
  James Grout
  James Grout is an English actor of radio and television.Grout was born in London, the son of Beatrice Anne and William Grout...
  
  
• Mr. Philip Sims - Karl Howman
  Karl Howman
  Karl Howman is an English actor and also a British voice-over artist.He is well known but notable to many television viewers for his work as Jacko in the mid-1980's and early-90's BBC TV sitcom Esmonde and Larbey's Brush Strokes and as the title character in the series Mulberry .However Howman first...
  
    From series three
• Mr. Fred Holliday - Tom Watson
• Mrs. Dorothy Stone - Margaret John
  Margaret John
  Margaret John was a Welsh, BAFTA award-winning actress, best known for her role as Doris in Gavin & Stacey. She has been described, by fellow actress Ruth Jones, as "an absolute national treasure".-Early life:...
  
  
• Mrs. Lillian Rudd - Vivienne Martin
• Mr. Geoff Long - Paul Copley
  Paul Copley
  Paul Mackriell Copley is an award-winning English actor and voice-over artist.-Early life:Copley was born in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, and grew up beside a dairy farm there. His father, Harold, was involved with local amateur dramatic productions, as were the rest of his family...
  
  
• Miss. Glenda Lewis - Marlene Sidaway
• Mrs. Yvonne Patterson - Deidre Costello

Series 1

Broadcast in 1985
The cast included Peter Davison

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984.-Early life:Davison was born Peter Moffett in Streatham,...

 as Eric Brown.
James Grout

James Grout

James Grout is an English actor of radio and television.Grout was born in London, the son of Beatrice Anne and William Grout...

 as headmaster Mr. Beeston.

All episodes written by Jim Eldridge

Jim Eldridge

Jim Eldridge is a radio, TV and movie scriptwriter with hundreds of radio and TV scripts broadcast in the UK and across the world in a career spanning over 30 years....

• The New School Year Starts Here
• Redeployment
• Crime And Punishment
• The Principle Of The Thing
• Scale Points
• Language Units
• Christmas At King Street

Series 2

Broadcast in 1987

• Priorities
• Dispute
• Barn Dance
• Problem Parents
• The Sound Of Music
• Assemblies
• Parents' Evening
• The Outing
• Sports Day
• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Series 3

Broadcast in 1988. Peter Davison's character is no longer in the show, having taken a position at another school; from here on is Karl Howman

Karl Howman

Karl Howman is an English actor and also a British voice-over artist.He is well known but notable to many television viewers for his work as Jacko in the mid-1980's and early-90's BBC TV sitcom Esmonde and Larbey's Brush Strokes and as the title character in the series Mulberry .However Howman first...

 as Philip Sims.

• Back To School
• Fireworks
• The Spirit Of Christmas
• The History Game
• Pressures
• Facts Of Life
• Under Canvas
• The School Fete

Series 4

• It's Only Rock'n'Roll
• Closure
• Opting Out
• Fundraising
• Health
• The Succession
• It's Not Cricket
• That Old Time Religion

Series 5

Broadcast in 1990

• D-Day Minus One
• Is This A Career I See Before Me?
• Good Times, Bad Times
• Choices
• Bon Voyage
• Work
• The Reunion

Series 6

• In Real Terms
• Travellers
• Safety First
• A Good Read
• Emergency
• A Day At The Centre
• Thursday's Child
• The Games Children Play

Series 7

Broadcast in 1992

• Back In The Jug Again
• Witch Hunt
• Is There A Father Christmas?
• Fatal Attraction
• Horses For Courses
• Beside The Seaside
• Taking The Rap
• Endings & Beginnings

Series 8

Back after a few years in 1995

• Mr Chips - by Paul Copley
  Paul Copley
  Paul Mackriell Copley is an award-winning English actor and voice-over artist.-Early life:Copley was born in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, and grew up beside a dairy farm there. His father, Harold, was involved with local amateur dramatic productions, as were the rest of his family...
  
  
• Settling In
• Beginnings & Endings
• Left Out, Roped In
• Confusion - by Richard Stoneman
• Internal Enquiries

Series 9

• Responsibilities by Richard Stoneman
• Danger Zone by Jim Eldridge
• A Bridge To Afar by Paul Copley
• Relative Value by Andy Rashleigh
• With Love by Jim Eldridge
• Crossed Lines Richard Stoneman
• Financial Times by Paul Copley
• Gridlocked by Jim Eldridge

Series 10

Broadcast in 1998

• Proposals
• The Rivals
• Accusations
• Target Practice
• Incidental Music
• Final Thoughts

King Street Junior Revisited Series 1

• A Good Heart
• The Real Thing
• The System
• Oh No It Isn't
• Waiting for OFSTED
• Jour de Fête

King Street Junior Revisited Series 2

• Going Through the Roof
• The Spirit of Xmas
• Time
• Love All
• Priorities
• Play On

King Street Junior Revisited Series 3

• Half Term Blues
• Ice
• Filling In
• Rumours
• Flaming June
• This is your Life

King Street Junior Revisited Series 4

• Another Year, Another Head
• In the News
• It's Behind You
• To the Barricades
• Turning the Tables
• Centenary