This BBC children’s series followed the misadventures of bright and mischievous schoolboy Brian Arthur Derek (BAD) Boyes (Steven Kember), whose close friends were Bernetta Vincent (Nicola Greenhill) and “Weed” (Michael Diamond).
Brian frequently clashed with his ultra-strict form teacher, Mr Wiggis (Gregory Cox) and school bully Edward ‘Slug’ Slogg (Warren Brian). Christopher Owen was the well-meaning but ineffectual headmaster.
His kindly but weak-willed father (Dean Harris) was always completely fooled by his son’s innocent facade, but it rarely took his mother (Susan Jameson) long to get to the bottom of her son’s devilish plots.
Lila Kaye played Brian’s grumpy, mean-spirited Gran, and Helen Cotterill was Brian’s mother’s neurotic, decidedly oddball friend, Rose Moncrieff.
The series was written by the father-and-son team Jim and Duncan Eldridge.
Bryan Boyes
Steven Kember Mr Boyes
Dean Harris Bernetta Vincent
Nicola Greenhill Mr Wiggis
Gregory Cox Headmaster
Christopher Owen Mrs Boyes
Susan Jameson Edward ‘Slug’ Slogg
Warren Brian Weed
Michael Diamond Juggs
Nicholas Cox Bonnie
Anna Dawson Clyde
Berwick Kaler Herbert
Michael Deeks Wally
James Gilbey Rose Moncrieff
Helen Cotterill Gran
Lila Kaye Miss King
Linda Robson
Episodes
The Slug | The Slug Returns | On the Run | Money | Big Trouble | The Hero || The Disco | The Icing on the Cake | The Casino | The Holiday | Rose Arrives | In Danger | Under Observation | The Wedding | Boulogne – Part 1 | Boulogne – Part 2
Brian frequently clashed with his ultra-strict form teacher, Mr Wiggis (Gregory Cox) and school bully Edward ‘Slug’ Slogg (Warren Brian). Christopher Owen was the well-meaning but ineffectual headmaster.
