Mind Your Language

Fun Fact: Almost every actor/ actress from the 'foreigners' cast did not belong to the same race/ nationality of the character he/ she was playing. 1) The actor of the Italian character 'Giovanni' is British. 2) The actor of the Greek character 'Max' is British-Armenian. 3) The actor of the Spanish character 'Juan' was British-Jewish. 4) The actor of the German character 'Anna' is British. 5) The actor of the Japanese character 'Taro' was Chinese. 6) The actress of the Chinese character 'Su-Lee' is Malaysian. 7) The actress of the French character 'Danielle' is British. 8) The actor of the Pakistani character 'Ali' was Bangladeshi. 9) The actor of the Sikh (Indian) character was Srilankan. The only two 'foreigner' actresses who got a character of the same nationality were Jamila (Indian) and Ingrid (Swedish). However, the actress of 'Jamila' (also named 'Jamila' in real life) is Indian by birth, but a British citizen. The actress playing the Chinese character, Pik-Sen Lim, was born in Malaysia to Chinese parents.

In the last episode of Series Three, 'What a Tangled Web', Sid the caretaker laments at length that 28 years ago he was married, despite having a whole previous episode ('How's Your Father' from Series Two) about Mr. Brown offering to pay for him to wed his partner after hearing Sid never married her.

The series title is drawn by an animated Mr Brown on a blackboard. The intertitles have him write "End of Part One" and "Part Two", and at the start of the closing credits he cleans up the blackboard signifying the end of a class.

Featured in Open Door: It Ain't Half Racist Mum (1979)