This is going to test your memories - back to the '60s TV

[Riley Blue]

Way back in the early 1960s a TV programme was made at my school, Hampton Grammar School in Middlesex.

I'm not sure if it was a one-off play, one of a series like Comedy Playhouse or even if it was made by or for the BBC. I think it was about a school master who went of the rails in some way and the name 'Fred Instance' has stuck in my memory. I recall the whole school being told at morning assembly not to look at the cameras - which of course we did. Other than that I've nothing to go on.

Any ideas how to find out about it?

[andrewcliffe]

Googling Fred instance play teacher took me to an actors wiki page. IMDb helped with the rest

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0924841/?ref_=nm_flmg_e...

[Ezra]

andrewcliffe said:

Googling Fred instance play teacher took me to an actors wiki page. IMDb helped with the rest

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0924841/?ref_=nm_flmg_e...

Top sleuthing!

[Riley Blue]

Looks like the right plot but definitely not the right production as I left that school in 1965. Thanks for the lead though, it gives me some more character names to check.

[andrewcliffe]

That IMDB page says that Hugh Whitemore is credited as the writer.

Also by him:

1963 - The Full Chatter.
An eccentric teacher dreams of finding fame as a novelist; but everything in his life seems to conspire against him.
Character Frederick Instance
BBC Sunday Night Play - S4 E37, aired Jun 16 1963.

[Riley Blue]

andrewcliffe said:

That IMDB page says that Hugh Whitemore is credited as the writer.

Also by him:

1963 - The Full Chatter.
An eccentric teacher dreams of finding fame as a novelist; but everything in his life seems to conspire against him.
Character Frederick Instance
BBC Sunday Night Play - S4 E37, aired Jun 16 1963.

That's the one! It's been bugging me for decades and for some reason more so in the last day or two.

A delivery of virtual beer is heading you way

[andrewcliffe]

Happy to put that niggle to bed.