This Man Craig Season 1, Episode 2: Patterson

With Luv from Rosie

Robertson, the Headmaster, gives Craig the unpleasant task of stopping an older woman teacher from using the strap on her pupils.

The Search

The death of a loved one is hard to accept at any age. For thirteen year old Hamish it is the beginning of a night of terror.

A Wise Father

Obsession can corrupt a man. Allied to jealousy it threatens to destroy Alec McGregor's whole way of life.

Dougie

The most popular boy at Strathaird School should have no problems, but Dougie Seaton has plenty. As a natural leader he does what he likes: shirks lessons, not pay his debts and lead others into trouble. Craig has the task of dragging the boy back to reality.

Girl in a Thousand

Through her outrageous schemes for bending school discipline, Chris Elliott clashes head-on with Ian Craig and the rest of the teaching staff.

Three's Company

The small American community at Strathaird becomes the focus of a 'Yanks - Go Home' campaign.

Live Like a Man

Davy Murchie is a late developer, though hitherto he has been as much of a 'rough diamond' as the rest of Lower Four. Now, at fourteen, he is showing a passion for mathematics, coupled with a brilliant ability. He is confused and his family and friends don't understand what has happened to him. The only person who can help him is his Maths teacher, Miss Dougall.

A Lower Deep

On the face of it Mr. Griffin seems a fine acquisition to the teaching staff. But before he can settle down he clashes violently with a bright boy called Innes. His savage reaction to the boy makes Ian Craig doubt his suitability.

Sticks and Stones

When Keith Mitchell keeps having one cold after another, Ian Craig's suspicions that he is playing truant are well founded - but the reasons go deeper than he suspects.

Big Fall

The death of one of the pupils creates an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust at Strathaird School.

The Bike

Angus Galbraith works a neglected farm. Because his poverty is masked by pride he rejects as charity Craig's efforts to provide his son with a bicycle.

Time For Protest

Craig is in trouble after accepting an invitation to speak at a political meeting.

The Key to it All

A probationer teacher cannot control a difficult class. How far has the school the right to protect her from publicity?

Tall, Fat and Ugly

Wallace Welton is bullied by the other boys, given a nickname and generally knocked around.

A Rough Passage

Charles Houston, an undergraduate, comes to Strathaird as a temporary teacher. He is given a rough passage before he learns how to translate his idealist theories into practice.

The Expedition

The Romantic

Sixteen-year-old Jane Brewer has a row with her history teacher which brings her to the notice of Ian Craig, her Housemaster. He treats her sympathetically, but in doing so becomes the victim of a crush.

Certain Standards

Brenda Graham returns to Strathaird as housekeeper at the Big House, once her family home. Extravagant and condescending, she insists on maintaining 'certain standards'.

Two Thousand a Year

Alec McKinlay, a miner's son, is one of Craig's brighter pupils. Opposition to his going to University comes from an expected source - and an unexpected one.

A Question of Biology

Sally Scott is both precocious and vulnerable, hiding her shyness behind a facade of extrovert gaiety. One day when she writes a poem she is surprised to find that it shocks Ian Craig. His show of puritan disapproval makes Sally withdraw into a shell of resentment.

Mates

Francis Cook, nicknamed 'Wee Bonkers' by his classmates because of his bookishness and old-fashioned manner, is moved to another form. Here he teams up with Fisher, one of the School's wilder spirits, with surprising results.

The Rubbing Rag

Whose Pigeon?

Robin Kyle runs off to the Highlands. Who is responsible for his disappearance? His Parents? The garage where he has been sent on an educational scheme? Or the School itself?

The Golden Key to Knowledge

Arriving quietly in Strathaird, Ivor Fallon, an apparently charming man, singles out a woman teacher as his natural victim for a particularly ruthless venture.

Old Flame

Kenneth Woodburn is preparing a glossy tourist film in Scotland. An old flame of Margaret Craig, he stirs up not only the school, but Craig's family life as well.