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To Serve Them All My Days

Broadcast: Oct. 10, 1982-Jan. 2, 1983. A teacher in a British boy's school between the two World Wars, David Powlett-Jones was a Welsh coal-miner's son, invalided out of the Army by shell shock. Embittered by his war experiences, he finds a post at a remote boy's school as a history teacher. Despite unpromising beginnings, he develops into an educator with uncommon perception and understanding. He finds romance with three different women.
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