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Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of series
  
4

Network
  
Channel 4

7.9/10
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Created by
  
Tim Loane

Original language(s)
  
English

First episode date
  
21 March 2001

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Starring
  
Andrew Lincoln Adrian Bower Raquel Cassidy Navin Chowdhry Nina Sosanya Gillian Bevan Ursula Holden-Gill Lloyd McGuire Ellen Thomas Tamzin Malleson Shaun Evans James Lance Vicky Hall Lee Williams Mathew Horne James Corden

Ending theme
  
The Boy with the Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian

Writers
  
Ed Roe, Jack Lothian, Charlie Martin

Cast
  
Andrew Lincoln, Navin Chowdhry, Adrian Bower, Raquel Cassidy, Nina Sosanya

Teachers is a British television comedy-drama series, created by Tim Loane and originally shown on Channel 4. The series follows a group of secondary school teachers in their daily lives.

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While the first series centres heavily around probationary teacher Simon Casey (Andrew Lincoln), later series have a more balanced ensemble approach. The cast changes dramatically over time, with few original characters remaining by the fourth series. While some of these disappearances are explained, others happen between series without explanation.

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The first three series are set in the fictional Summerdown Comprehensive, which merges with another school in the fourth series to form Wattkins School. The first three series were filmed at the former Merrywood Grammar School, while the fourth was filmed at the former Lockleaze school in Bristol, England.

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Teachers was nominated for six BAFTA awards between 2002 and 2004, and was nominated for Best Comedy Drama at the British Comedy Awards in 2003.

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In January 2005, after a muted reception to the fourth series, Channel 4 announced that Teachers would not continue for a fifth series. A short-lived U.S. version was aired in 2006.

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Soundtracks

  • Teachers: A Class Soundtrack
  • Teachers 2: Back To School
  • Teachers 3: A New Term
  • Teachers 4: Top of the Class

    • Themes

    Like many sitcoms Teachers had certain themes that it maintained through every episode. These included:

  • Appearances of animals, particularly donkeys, in unusual places. Others seen include lions, penguins and sheep. In all such appearances, the teachers and students are completely oblivious to these animals.
  • A staffroom scene early in the episode, usually with an announcement by Clare to set up one of the plots or premises of the episode.
  • The name of the day written in a variety of ways in the scenery, a prop or a bodily adornment.
  • Smoking is a very prominent feature in every episode. A lot of the scenes in all episodes, primarily through the first three series, feature members of the cast smoking as they banter
  • The pub is the setting where nearly every episode of Teachers starts, usually with the teachers having immaturely themed conversations.

    • Every episode featured contemporary music, usually with clips of at least five songs (regularly including the bands The Bluetones, Shed Seven, Feeder, The Dandy Warhols, Starsailor, Mercury Rev, The Hives, Athlete, I Am Kloot, The Libertines, Ash, and Supergrass), and the soundtrack to all four series has been released on CD by the Channel 4 shop. The theme tune is the solo section of The Boy With The Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian.

    References

    Teachers (UK TV series) Wikipedia
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