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    1 9 8 6 – 1 9 8 7 (USA)
    26 x 30 minute episodes

    Room 107 of Los Angeles High School is home to a group of mature foreign students studying for their citizenship tests. Taylor Brown (Garrett M Brown) is their English teacher.

    Taylor, who lives at 36 Whitney Way, is from Dakota and originally came to California to find a job as a high school coach. Principal Joan Courtney (Gail Strickland) first hired him as a one-night substitute teacher for the citizenship class but he became the permanent teacher when the earlier one resigned.

    The Citizenship Class students include Russian taxi driver Nikolai Rostopovich (Yakov Smirnoff) who is hoping to open his own retail appliance store; the gorgeous Spanish-born Maria Conchita Lopez (Ada Maris), who lives in Beverly Hills and is the maid to Lenny Feldman (Larry Gelman), the owner of Feldman’s Sofa Village; Yung Hee (Leila Lee Olsen), a beautiful but very shy Chinese woman who is hoping to become a nurse, and whose name means “petal of wildflower blossoming in sun . . . then withers and dies and is gone forever”;  African prince Robert (Harry Waters Jr) who is the son of Julius Muboto (William Marshall), the ousted King of Africa; Swedish bombshell Inga (Donna Dixon); Laslo (George Murdock) from Hungary; Ali (Vijay Amritraj) from Pakistan; and Victor (Julian Reyes) from Puerto Rico.

    Joan Courtney is eventually replaced as Principal by F. Jerry (Bud) McPherson (Don Knotts). Dani (Elaine Giftos) owns the after school hangout, ‘Dani’s Diner’.

    The series was based on the long-running British sitcom Mind Your Language (1977 – 1986).

    Taylor Brown
    Garrett M Brown
    Nikolai Rostapovich
    Yakov Smirnoff
    Maria Conchita Lopez
    Ada Maris
    Yung Hee
    Leila Lee Olsen
    Laslo Gabov
    George Murdock
    Victor Ortega
    Julian Reyes
    Robert Muboto
    Harry Waters Jr.
    Inga Betstrom
    Donna Dixon
    Ali Nadeem
    Vijay Amritraj
    Principal Joan Courtney
    Gail Strickland
    F. Jerry McPherson
    Don Knotts
    Dani 
    Elaine Giftos

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