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  • Unidentified children's TV show - early 90s?

    Hi,

    just trying to recall the name of a TV show from my childhood. Here is my recollection of the details:

    As per the topic heading, I believe it was from the early 90s;
    I believe that it was an English series;
    It was set in a school. To adults, the pupils appeared to be normal schoolchildren. However whenever adults weren't watching, the pupils would reveal themselves to be high-powered business-people. Each desk would flip open to display a hidden computer, and the pupils would immediately get on their mobile-phones and start making calls;
    The headmaster was a staunch environmentalist, who objected to textbooks because they contributed to deforestation;
    In one episode, something (presumably environment-related) upset the headmaster. He therefore asked for a cup of tea with 12 sugars;
    In one episode, one of the clever pupils is doing a deal with another dim pupil. The clever pupil says that he will pay a commission fee of 10% on the £10 deal, which is equal to "20p". The dim pupil concurs.

    Thanks for your help,

    wellwellwell

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    Could be Boot Street as well - I used to videotape the Sunday morning CBBC on BBC 2 in around October to December 1994 when I used to go to church, and coming back home and after Sunday lunch, I used to watch the early 1980s Grange Hill repeat which was followed by Boot Street on the same tape. Could also be one of those Central Junior Television Workshop series such as Palace Hill or something although that was late 1980s. One would rule out Hardwicke House as that was far from a children's TV series.
    I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
    There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
    I'm having so much fun
    My lucky number's one
    Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!

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    • #3
      It is The Boot Street Band. Thanks very much!

      N.b. you can see some (low quality) footage at

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSWN...8D8EAE2D83F510

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      • #4
        How strange I also answered this question yesterday and yet my answer has disappeared !?!
        Heather

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        • #5
          I also recently searched for information on this show, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything. Then I thought that probably everyone had forgotten about it, and who remembers about it not sitting on such forums. How glad that I was wrong. Thank you for sharing the name, I checked, and this is what I was looking for! You are my savior. It's a pity, of course, that they won't make a remake of this series now, or they won't come up with something similar. I would like to see it. And what's even more upsetting is that this show can no longer be on the Renewed TV Shows list, and I won't be able to enjoy it.

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