Please Sir! (TV Series) Ag Bow Rumber (1970) User Reviews

Ag Bow Rumber

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 7 May 2021]

The third series of Please Sir. Class 5C look eligible to draw their pensions.

In fact it is their final term and Class 5C are missing school as they are in their last few weeks. Enjoying their last few days of their golden childhood.

Which might be a good thing as there is no furniture in the classroom.

Dennis has already got a job, a rag and bone man and Hedges thinks he is being exploited.

It turns out that Dennis's boss is actually paying Dennis good wages to give him a good start to his working life.

Some nice shenanigans with Hedges messing around with boats as he tries to coax Sharon back to school.

There is a nice comedic turn from Barrie Gosney as the rag and bone boss. Hedges goes to talk to him about Dennis and he seems to be happy to let him go back to school.

Dennis Does A Steptoe!

[ShadeGrenade · 9/10 · 1 July 2007]

Its the start of a new school term. Due to a monumental cock-up on Potter's part, none of the classrooms has desks or chairs.

Hedges has an even bigger problem - apart from Maureen, 5C has failed to turn up for lessons. He finds most of them in a café, while Sharon is sunbathing on a boating lake. Being so close to their graduation, they do not think it worth it going to school anymore.

Dennis has landed a job as a rag and bone man. Furious that someone should exploit 'child' labour, Hedges heads off to Clarkie's yard to have it out with him...

The penultimate series of 'Please Sir!' opens with a situation many pupils would have been familiar with. As soon as the end of a term was within sight ( say about one month ), no-one could be bothered to go in. Those who did usually wound up playing chess and draughts, because the teachers had no work for them.

The lovely Jill Kerman makes her debut as Hedges' girlfriend 'Penny Wheeler'. They are familiar to one another at the start. Fans would have to wait for the movie the following year to learn the full story of how they met.

Bob Todd is seen as the 'boating lake attendant'. He also played a bus conductor in the very first episode 'The Welcome Mat'. Hedges' encounter with totter 'Clarkie' is especially interesting; instead of uncouth and ignorant, he turns out to be rather intelligent.

The curious title is the strange cry uttered by rag and bone men as they go on their rounds.

Funniest moment - Hedges, in a boat, tries to get back to shore. The handle that works the paddles comes off in his hand. He throws it back to the red-faced attendant, who fails to catch it, and pitches headlong into the water.