History Trivia / MindYourLanguage

** 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.

* CreatorBacklash: ''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."

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Season 4 was broadcast on Granada rather than London Weekend Television, and has never been released on DVD.

* ActorSharedBackground: 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.

* OldShame: ''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."

* FakeNationality: Though most of 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.[[/note]] there were exceptions.

* OldShame: ''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."

** The Greek Max Papandrious was played by Kevork Malikyan, a Briton of Armenian descent.

** The Japanese Taro Nagazumi was played by Robert Lee, who was of Chinese descent.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Season 4 was broadcast on Granada rather than London Weekend Television, and has never been released on DVD.

* LostForever: Season 4, with combination of being broadcasted in a different channel (Granada) and the DVD not having released.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Most of the cast were character actors who turned up in various British films and television series across the 1970s and 1980s, but just to name a few examples:
** Jeremy Brown was played by Barry Evans, whom audiences at the time would have remembered as Michael Upton from ''Series/DoctorInTheHouse'' and ''Doctor at Large''.
** Pik-Sen Lim as Chung Su-Lee may be familiar to ''Series/DoctorWho'' fans as Captain Chin Lee in the Creator/JonPertwee-era story ''The Mind of Evil''.
** Ranjeet Singh was played by Albert Moses, who had roles in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' (the latter as undercover agent Saddruddin).
** Kevork Malikyan, who played Max Papandrious, may be familiar to ''Indiana Jones'' fans as double agent Kazim in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''.
** Dino Shafeek, who played Ali Nadim, also played ''chai wallah'' Muhammad in ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum''.
** Jamila Ranjha was played by Jamila Massey, who has appeared in recurring roles in both ''Series/EastEnders'' (Neelam Kapoor from 1997-98) and ''Series/CoronationStreet'' (Upma, aunt to Sunita Alahan).

** Jamila Ranjha was played by Jamila Massey, who has appeared in recurring roles in both ''Series/EastEnders'' (Neelam Kapoor from 1997-98) and ''Series/CoronationStreet'' (Upma, aunt to Sunita Alahan).

* ActorAllusion: 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.

* FakeNationality: Though most of 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, 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 Mauritian parents.[[/note]] there were exceptions.

** Maria Papandrious, who replaced Max for Series 4, was played by British actress Jenny Lee-Wright.

** Kevork Malikyan as Max Papandrious may be familiar to ''Indiana Jones'' fans as double agent Kazim in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''.
** Dino Shafeek, who played Ali Nadim, also played ''chai wallah'' Muhammad in ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum''.