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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.
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Andrew Davies
BBC One
“The BBC's classic story of an English schoolmaster's life of tragedy and triumph between the wars”

Clip from To Serve Them All My Days (1980, sub ENG)

Susan Jameson
Christine Forster

Cyril Luckham
Sir Rufus Creighton
Phillip Joseph
Phillip Joseph
Emrys Powlett-Jones

Charles Kay
Alcock

Kim Braden
Julia

John Welsh
Cordwainer
David King
David King
Barnaby

Simon Gipps-Kent
Boyer

Belinda Lang
Beth

Norman Bird
Alderman Blunt
Michael Turner
Michael Turner
Brigadier Cooper
John Line
John Line
Garside

Nicholas Lyndhurst
Dobson
Alastair Wyllie
Alastair Wyllie
Molyneux
Sonesh Sira
Sonesh Sira
Kassava