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