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(1969)

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Out of the Frying Pan
Prismark104 March 2021
Apparently we learn that the school dinners in Fenn Street have always been horrible.

Courtesy of the fearsome Mrs Savage the head cook who has put back British cooking to the stone ages.

Still Potter manages to keep the headmaster happy with the lunchtime meals. He substitutes them for something more edible. Potter has an arrangement with Mrs Savage as he gets free groceries from the kitchen by keeping her in the job.

For the rest of the staff and pupils. School dinners is something to best avoid. They are usually found in the pub.

Mr Hedges decides enough is enough and has words with Mrs Savage who walks out. The dinners have improved but Potter conspires to give the headmaster a meal that he rather forget.

A good episode showing up Potter's scheming. 5C decide to expose Potter but the downside is pub lunches go downhill.
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9/10
Food, Inglorious Food!
ShadeGrenade6 May 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Mrs.Savage is the chief cook at Fenn Street School, and the one thing that pupils and teachers can all agree on is that her food is absolutely terrible. The only person unaware of this is Mr.Cromwell, mainly because Potter has been substituting his meals with ones made by his wife Ruby. The wily caretaker has a scam going; in return for keeping Mrs.Savage in the job, he gets free groceries.

When Hedges ventures into the kitchens to confront the cook, she loses her temper and resigns. The new cook is far better. But once again Potter conceals the truth from the headmaster by swapping his dinner. Mr.Cromwell reinstates Mrs.Savage, much to the disgust of the school...

I was lucky. The standard of food at my school was uniformly excellent. We did not have a 'Mrs.Savage' slaving over our stoves. The lady herself is played by the late Pat Nye, the only woman who could conceivably have given Peggy Mount a run for her money in the 'battleaxe' stakes. 'On The Buses' fans may remember her as 'Mrs.Blake' from the Season 7 episode 'The Visit'. As well as being a bullying, bad-tempered cow, her lack of hygiene is deplorable. Note the scene where she shakes her hair all over the stew, before complaining there are hairs in it! Jo Rowbottom is seen as sexy barmaid 'Elsie'. A few years later, she would play James Beck's wife in the Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney scripted I.T.V. sitcom 'Romany Jones'.

Funniest moment - Hedges and Price looking forward to a pie in their local, only to discover the new cook is none other than Mrs.Savage!
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