Chalk (1997)

The honest outlier. Moffat's school sitcom sets its teachers' lounge disasters at Galfast High, a fictional comprehensive school, with David Bamber's deputy head Eric Slatt at the center and Nicola Walker as English teacher Suzy Travis. Critics were unkind during its 1997 BBC One run and comparisons with Fawlty Towers did it no favors: the farce is broader and the puzzle-box instinct mostly absent. Watch it as a completist, for the way one bad day spirals out of control, rather than as a starting point. Only the first of its two series has reached DVD.