The Fenn Street Gang

March 2022

So here we have the "fenn street gang" a sort of follow on to "please sir" following the original students after they left school.

I actually didnt even know this existed but having just gone through please sir, i thought i would try these too.

The verdict is good but not great, better than please sir, truthfully they grew on me and the last series was the strongest, which mainly followed just 2 of the characters.

If you enjoyed please sir then its a must watch, if you didnt like that then you may find it more of the same.

6/6.5 out of 10.

When it became obvious that the pupils at Fenn St school were not believable as 16 year olds ( some were pushing 30 by this time) because of the success of the characters in Please sir they decided to continue the antics out of school in the real world where they could chance their arm trying to earn a living. (please sir actually continued for another season but without Duffy ( awhh rabbishhh sir!) and co it bombed and was axed shortly there after.) The problem is that they all went their separate ways and it was difficult to keep the chemistry together especially with so many plots going on. When the main characters all jell in the school environment it all falls apart when they are not together. As with the ill fated Tuckers luck in the early 1980's (a spin off from Grange Hill) high school pranks do not transfer well out off school. You can't get away with school shenanigans in the work place.! The Fenn st Gang did run for a respectable 40 episodes over a two year period but it was not as popular as please sir and found itself relegated to Sunday afternoons. It just goes to show that tinkering with a popular show is risky and even transferring the same characters into a different setting has it's limitations.

Not yet available on DVD, whether it will be is any bodies guess.