Trivia / Mind Your Language

• Actor-Shared Background: In "How's Your Father?" from Series 1, Jeremy Brown reveals that he was left on the doorstep of an orphanage as a baby. Barry Evans, who played Jeremy, was also left on the doorstep of an orphanage as a baby, and never knew who his biological parents were.
• Creator Backlash:
  • Mind Your Language was commissioned by Michael Grade not long after he was promoted to Director of Programmes at LWT in 1977; he was equally instrumental in axing the series in 1979, and acknowledged in an interview at the Edinburgh Television Festival in 1985 that he agreed with the accusations of racism against the series, saying "it was really irresponsible of us to put it out."
  • Françoise Pascal thought the scripts for Series 4 were terrible and chose not to return to the series.
• The Danza: Jamila Ranjha was played by Jamila Massey.
• Fake Nationality: Though most of the cast comprised actors and actresses of the same ethnicity as their characters,^note  If they were not born in the same country as their characters, their family heritage was from that country; for example, George Camiller (Giovanni) was born in Britain to Italian parents, Pik-Sen Lim (Chung Su-Lee) was born to ethnic Chinese parents in Malaysia, while Francoise Pascal (Danielle Favre) was born in Mauritius (then a British colony) to French and Hungarian parents. there were exceptions.
  • Anna Schmidt, a German, was played by British actress Jacki Harding.
  • Ranjeet Singh, a Punjabi Sikh, and Ali Nadim, a Pakistani Muslim, were respectively played by Albert Moses, who is native to Sri Lanka (not only not part of India, but off the opposite end of India from the Punjab region), and Dino Shafeek, who was a Muslim but hailed from what is now Bangladesh.
  • The Japanese Taro Nagazumi was played by Chinese-born Robert Lee.
  • The Greek Max Papandrious was played by Kevork Malikyan, a Turkish-born Armenian.
  • Maria Papandrious, who replaced Max as a Greek representative for Series 4, was played by British actress Jenny Lee-Wright.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Season 4 was broadcast on Granada rather than London Weekend Television and has never been released on DVD.
• Twofer Token Minority: Max is a Roman Catholic, a minority among the Greeks (who are mostly Greek Orthodox).
• What Could Have Been: Françoise Pascal was asked to return for Series 4, but after a readthrough of the poor scripts, she refused.

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