A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
Jim Broadbent
as Geoff Figg
Robert Stephens
as Vic Griffiths
Bruce Myers
as Twentyman
Richard Butler
as Mr Griff
Fred Pearson
as Mr Hodgeson
Peggy Ann Clifford
as Miss Martlett
William Hoyland
as Mr James
Bruce Payne
as Barratt
Ray Mort
as Whittaker
Suzanna Hamilton
as Alison Cooper
Kay Stonham
as Miss Denton
Jesse Birdsall
as Barry