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TV series / 1980
To Serve Them All My Days
To Serve Them All My Days is a 1980-81 British television drama serial, adapted by Andrew Davies from R. F. Delderfield's 1972 novel of the same name. David Powlett-Jones, a shell-shocked World War I veteran, becomes a teacher at an elite English boarding school, Bamfylde. The drama explores his personal growth, relationships, and evolving views on society over his 20-year career at the school.
The story
To Serve Them All My Days is a 1980-81 British television drama serial, adapted by Andrew Davies from R. F. Delderfield's 1972 novel of the same name. David Powlett-Jones, a shell-shocked World War I veteran, becomes a teacher at an elite English boarding school, Bamfylde. The drama explores his personal growth, relationships, and evolving views on society over his 20-year career at the school.
The seasons
Season 1
Miniseries
Season details
David Powlett-Jones, a shell-shocked World War I veteran, becomes a teacher at an elite English boarding school, Bamfylde.
Cast
John DuttineDavid Powlett-Jones
Frank MiddlemassAlgy Herries
Alan MacNaughtanHowarth
Patricia LawrenceEllie Herries
Neil StacyCarter
Susan JamesonChristine Forster
Cyril LuckhamSir Rufus Creighton
Phillip JosephEmrys Powlett-Jones
Charles KayAlcock
Kim BradenJulia · Julia (voice)
John WelshCordwainer
David KingBarnaby
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Simon Gipps-KentBoyer
Belinda LangBeth
Norman BirdAlderman Blunt
Michael TurnerBrigadier Cooper
John LineGarside
Nicholas LyndhurstDobson
Alastair WyllieMolyneux
Sonesh SiraKassava Major · Kassava
Peter ArneDr Farrington
Ann WriggDavid's Mam
Grant BardsleyWinterbourne
Andrew BicknellIrvine
Tim WyltonGriff
Eileen NicholasEsther
Matthew WaterhouseBriarley
Tony HalfpennyRigby
John GillFerguson
Stephen JennMeredith
Duncan JonesCodsell
Lockwood WestDoctor Willoughby
Norman ShelleyGovernor
Puneet SiraKassava Minor
Philip FranksBlades
Frederick AlexanderRidgeway
Edward Rawle-HicksGraves
Warren SaireTitterton
Danny SchillerMarty Lile
Toby HillCurtis
Richard AustinSanders
Kevin HartLetherett
Benjamin PickfordWatson
Daniel BeecherChatterton
Daniel RadiceChandler
Archie TewPoliceman
Richard ColsonPettigrew
Adam ArmstrongParsons
Matthew RyanPinkerton
David Carlton-YoungHarrington
Joshua Le TouzelFortescue
Daniel JefferiesHislop
Michael ParkhouseStoker Monk
Raymond BowersEvans
Daniel SlaterVesey
Stephen RayneWetherby
John RolfeRaunce
Timothy WillsonCuthbertson
John OwensHeckler
John AlkinChetwynd
Ian SearsUlrich Meyer
Simon HarrisonMarsh-Rhodes
Peter DoranNixon
Clive GehleChristopher
George BirkbeckHarrison
Gene FoadBoyer
Edward HaynesCharles Sprockman
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