TV Comedy: Chickens
Chickens is a British
television comedy – seen first on Channel 4 and then Sky in 2013 – about three men
who have stayed behind in a sleepy English village during the First World War who
earn themselves the reputation of being cowards among the local women. George
is keen to avoid the conflict, Cecil is unable to fight for medical reasons –
and Bert is simply too dumb to understand what's going on.
In this clip, George, played by Joe Thomas, does not want to cane the boys at the school where he teaches, but is forced to do so by the headmaster.
Picture and video credits: Big Talk Productions.
There is a different version of this clip with a different kid actor (Rudi Goodman) playing Archie the kid who gets the caning.
ReplyDeleteOn Vimeo as a promotional showreel for the kid actor (skip forward to 2 minutes 27 seconds): https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/rudi-goodman/videos
Same promotional showreel on YouTube (skip forward to 2 minutes 27 seconds):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xoQ_ZiZPfk&t=146s
Episode 2 of Chickens on YouTube (skip forward to 14 minutes 16 seconds):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew98PUQJJ_0&t=856s
(this youtube video seems to be region locked to try to stop people outside the UK watching it)
I prefer this version of the scene a lot because I think Rudi Goodman acts it really well.
Thank you very much for posting the information about this clip because I had seen it before but then couldnt find it. For some reason I kept thinking it was an old episode of Dr Who!
I posted about it two weeks ago on Alf's forum Perspectives on Boy's Spankings at https://www.voy.com/249907/340.html