Series

Whack-O!

1956 · 8 seasons

IMDb

7.7

Whack-O! was a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards, written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and broadcast from 1956 to 1960 and 1971 to 1972. The series ran on the BBC from 1956 to 1960 and from 1971 to 1972. Edwards took the part of Professor James Edwards, M.A., the drunken, gambling, devious, cane-swishing headmaster who tyrannised staff and children at Chiselbury public school. The Edwards character bore more than a passing resemblance to Sergeant Bilko as he tried to swindle the children out of their pocket money to finance his many schemes.

Jimmy Edwards

Professor Jimmy Edwards

Edwin Apps

Mr. L.J Halliforth

Harold Bennett

Mr. Dinwiddie

Austin Trevor

Brigadier Taplow

Sam Kydd

Ginger Perkins

Eric Dodson

School Inspector

George Woodbridge

Farmer

Margot Grahame

The Marchioness

• Douglas MoodieDirector

First aired

October 4, 1956

Last aired

December 15, 1959

Status

Returning Series

Original language

English

Episodes

35

• Season 16 episodes · 1956
• Season 210 episodes · 1957
• Season 37 episodes · 1958
• Season 46 episodes · 1959
• Season 56 episodes · 1959
• Season 60 episodes
• Season 70 episodes
• Season 80 episodes