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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 188578" data-attributes="member: 23">Imagine my delight on Saturday evening to discover I'd just watched Series Two's X Certificate exactly half a century after its original air day.Please Sir! is proving to be an absolute gem. I'm getting to know all the teachers who, as I'd expected, are proving great characters. Joan Sanderson, of course, always gives great value for money, while Erik Chitty is proving something of a scene-stealer as bumbling Smitty.A bigger surprise for me is the children. My initial fear of them being a homogenous mass, one indistinguishable from the next, has been well and truly allayed. Each brings something special and there's not one I don't enjoy, though I was rather surprised to see David Barry as the first billed of the children as I couldn't place him at all. He seems to disappear among the throng most of the time. My goodness, some of the "young" people look even older in colour than they did before. Peter Cleall in particular looks as though he could be one of the parents.The gritty side of the series is still appealing. It seems to delight in rebelling against what we now know as political correctness. It's there overtly, such as the head's sharp intakes of breath when a teacher uses a dated term to describe someone of a minority faith or ethnicity, but also feels written into the fabric of the series. It's been a treat to see a Sixties sitcom that's dropped the word "bastard" into the mix every once in a while, and included a sustained shot of a naked bum.I'd adjusted to the 40 minute running time, but the more standard length for the second series feels punchier and even more easy to devour.</blockquote>

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