To Serve Them All My Days is a British television adaptation of the 1972 novel To Serve Them All My Days by R. F. Delderfield. 13 episodes 50 minute in length were first shown by the BBC in 1980 and 1981.

As in the novel, the protagonist is David Powlett-Jones (John Duttine), a coal miner's son from South Wales, who has risen from the ranks and been commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in World War I. In 1918, after being injured and shell-shocked, he is hired to teach History at Bamfylde School, a fictional public school in North Devon, in the southwest of England, where he wins the respect and acclaim of colleagues and students. He serves under headmaster Algy Herries (Frank Middlemass), forms a friendship with Ian Howarth (Alan MacNaughton), engages in a rivalry with Carter (Neil Stacy), and marries Beth (Belinda Lang).

Cast

John Duttine..............David Powlett-Jones
Frank Middlemass..........Algy Herries
Alan MacNaughton..........Howarth
Patricia Lawrence.........Ellie Herries
Neil Stacy................Carter
Susan Jameson.............Christine Forster
Charles Kay...............Alcock
Kim Braden................Julia
John Welsh................Cordwainer
Cyril Luckham.............Sir Rufus Creighton
Simon Gipps-Kent..........Boyer
Belinda Lang..............Beth
Nicholas Lyndhurst........Dobson