Mr. Brown

Mr. Jeremy Brown is an English Foreign Language Teacher of an adult education college and the most main character of the sitcom, Mind Your Language. He is portrayed by Barry Evans (1943 – 1997).
==Personality==
Mr. Brown is a good-natured, earnest single man who is willing to do what is right. Brown loves his job as an EFL teacher as he is up to the challenge but often exasperated by the students' creative interpretations of the English language. He can get angry and snap from his students' arguing but he doesn't lose it as he stays true to his good nature. Mr. Brown is also not afraid to lie in order to get out of bad situations.
==History==
===Season 1===
In "The First Lesson"...
In "An Inspector Calls"...
In "A Fate Worse Than Death"...
In "All Through the Night"...
In "The Best Things in Life", Mr. Brown does his lessons until he finds out that Jamila is late because she was arrested for shoplifting a magazine due to her misunderstanding of the word “free” in promotional material. He goes with Ali and talk with the police sergeant and get away with a warning (even tho Mr. Brown had plan to bribe the policeman but Ali exposed him and the cop blackmailed him into using the money for charity). However Mr. Brown and Ali later find out that Jamila has shoplifted other things, so Mr. Brown and his class go to return the shoplifted things only for them to get caught by Ms. Courtney and the police. Mr. Brown's class gets taken for report but due to them mistaking "What is your name?" for "Watt is your name.", the policeman gets annoyed and cancels the report but on the condition that Mr. Brown keeps the students away from the cop. In the end, Mr. Brown is back to teaching the class only to find out that Jamila is still doing the same mistake.
In "Come Back All Is Forgiven", Mr. Brown comes to work gets surprised to find out that Gladys and his class know that today is his birthday. He gets gifts from his students (some of which are pens) and starts teaching his students on the vows until he gets called by Ms. Courtney who has also learned about his birthday but instead of giving him a gift (due to her not admiring birthdays), she informs Mr. Brown that his trial month is over and she dismisses him, replacing him with a new teacher named Miss Hardacre. Before leaving, Mr. Brown informs the class which makes his students sad, they suggest they force her to rehire him but Mr. Brown forbids it. He leaves saying goodbye to his students and doesn't come back until they call him as they request him to Ms. Courtney to rehire him and luckily for him Ms. Courtney rehires him and fires Miss Hardacre (because she doesn't like that Miss Hardacre has a more masculine and imposing attitude than many other men and is taking over the school). In the end Mr. Brown is happy to be back in his class even if his students have replaced all birthday pens with birthday wallets.
In "The Cheating Game"...
In "Better to Have Loved and Lost", Mr. Brown finds out that Ali is going to marry Su-Lee and his whole class celebrates, but later Mr. Brown meet Rehana who to his shock happens to be Ali's wife. He has a private chat with Ali about it and finds out that Ali is only marrying Su-Lee to have a baby due to Rehana being unable to conceive a child, he also finds out that both Su-Lee and Rehana already know about each other they're okay with that but Mr. Brown tells him that it's a bigamy which is illegal and England and that he can't keep his mouth shut about it. After this Mr. Brown has a private talk with Su-Lee and finds out that she doesn't want to marry Ali anymore as she doesn’t truly love him and she is just doing it so she won't upset him. He lies to both of his students that he already told them and that they were heartbroken, and that he used the phrase "Better to Have Loved and Lost Than Never Loved", and so the wedding gets cancelled much to his students' disappointment due to them reserving a pub. However Ali comes in announcing that his initial wife is pregnant and so the class leaves to celebrate despite school not being over, so Mr. Brown decides that he can't stop them then he'll join them which he does in front of Ms. Courtney.
In "Kill or Cure"...
In "Hello Sailor"...
In "A Point of Honour"...
In "How's Your Father"...
In "The Examination"...
===Season 2===
In "All Present If Not Correct", Mr. Brown is back, excited to teach new national students and so he meets Zoltan and Ingrit but gets shocked to find out that all of his past students failed the test and they're back for more lessons. He feels disappointed because of his failure and sends his class on a lunch break after hearing that he is called by Ms. Courtney. However Zoltan explains to Mr. Brown that he has a girlfriend and requests a love letter which he writes. After this Ms. Courtney comes in and tells the news about the failed tests and she rudely threatens him to put some efforts or she will fire him but he gets angered about her rude interruptions. During the lunch break, he finds out that he won enough money at the premium bonds to retire so he writes a nasty letter to Ms. Courtney which he give to Ali to send, but after this he finds out that there's an error in the newspaper, which means he hasn't won anything. Realizing he could lose his job so he tries stop Ali from giving the letter but he fails. Mr. Brown tries to stop Ms. Courtney from reading the letter but it doesn't work. But for his luck, it turns out that he accidentally swapped that letter with Zoltan's love letter. In the end Mr. Brown keeps his job but now he has to deal with the physically and emotionally hurt Zoltan.
In "Queen for a Day!"...
In "Brief Re-Encounter"...
In "Many Happy Returns"...
In "Don't Forget the Driver", Mr. Brown exams his entire class with Ingrit being the only one to answer correctly, after this Ms. Courtney arrives to announce the bus trip to Barkley Hall organized by Mrs. Hunter and the whole class agrees to come despite Mr. Brown not wanting to tag along due to Ms. Courtney going on the trip but he can't get away from it. On the bus trip day, his class arrives by groups carrying beer but they can't go due to getting only one bus that is already filled with Mrs. Hunter's class, so Mrs. Hunter's class goes without Ms. Courtney and Mr. Brown's class. After this Sidney arrives with a bus but they get another delay due to flat tire. While the bus gets fixed, Mr. Brown decides that the class should drew lots to see who will be sitting next to who and Mr. Brown gets to sit with Ms. Courtney. Before getting in the bus, Mr. Brown shows that he has map and he can orientate since Sidney doesn't know where to drive, however they get lost due to Mr. Brown being unable to use the map because of Sid's driving. They try to orientate but it doesn't work and they can't even continue to the bus being out of fuel. Mr. Brown tries to educate the students with the game "I spy" until Sidney comes back with the fuel. Later they arrive at Barkley Hall but Earl of Barkley doesn't let them in due to visiting hours being over making Mr. Brown feel frustrated for the failed trip and it even get worse when get lost again but after finding out that they've been there before, the bus gets a flat tire and the whole class gets in the bus due to pouring rain.
In "A Hard Day's Night"...
In "Take Your Partners"...
In "After Three", Mr. Brown finds out that his class have to prepare for the school's talent show. Before the auditions, Mr. Brown finds out that if his class fails the show it will cost him his job. Mr. Brown acts as a host and calls his students who individually do various performances in class in front of Mr. Brown and Miss Courtney, but they all perform badly and become rejected as Ms. Courtney decides to sign off the class from the show but Mr. Brown request a second chance so the students won't feel disappointed. In the end, the class sing the Mind Your Language opening theme together, dressed in their traditional outfits.
===Season 3===
In "I Belong to Glasgow", Mr. Brown prepares to start his class but gets informed that Ingrid is transferred to another school and Zoltan has left the class and went back home in Hungary. Soon after, an affluent Arab Sheikh named Sheikh El Hamid enrolls his Scottish chauffeur, Jock in Mr Brown's class, due to not being able to understand the Scots language. However this turns into a problem as Jock is obnoxious, hostile and confrontational causing Mr. Brown to snap. He complains about this to Ms. Courtney and demands that Jock should be expelled. After this Mr. Brown comes with a much simple solution which is teaching Sheikh El Hamid Scottish Language.
In "Who Loves Ya Baby?", Mr. Brown catches his students doing their homework in school and tells them to not do it again. Later he finds the baby that Danielle is babysitting and tries to keep it happy and protect it while risking his life.
In "No Flowers By Request"...
In "Just the Job", Mr. Brown meets H. C. English and gets offered a job at his that will pay a starting salary of £5,000, increasing to £7,500 by yearly increments, but warns him that he needs a response by tomorrow. Mr. Brown decides to take the job, but it turns out that the vacancy no longer exists. Disappointed, Mr. Brown tries to return to his old position, but he finds that it has been filled by a Mr. Wilkins. Luckily the students make Mr. Wilkins take a better job while Mr. Brown returns to his old job.
In "Guilty or Not Guilty", Mr. Brown appears in court with his class due to his students breaking laws and him being their barrister. The judge who is actually Ms. Courtney, finds out that the students' law infractions are caused by tasks given by Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown takes the blame and his students are confined not guilty unlike Mr. Brown is warned that if he breaks the law one more time he will be punished, which happens very quickly as he broke a parking law.
In "Repent at Leisure"...
In "The School Fete"...
In "What a Tangled Web"...
==Trivia==
* In "The Examination", he mentions to have a Siamese cat named Josephine as a pet but it never makes an appearance.
* Mr. Brown got his first name from Jeremy Street in which the orphanage he was raised in was located.
** He was also left at the orphanage when he was 2 weeks old on an Easter Monday.
* Mr. Brown is implied to be a smoker when he offers a cigarette to Sid in "Many Happy Returns".
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