Picks and Pans Review: To Serve Them All My Days

UPDATED 10/11/1982 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 10/11/1982 at 01:00 AM EDT

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Masterpiece Theatre kicks off its 12th season with a 13-part dramatization of R.F. Delderfield's semi-autobiographical novel. British TV star John Duttine plays the war-shocked Welshman turned prep school headmaster in this colorful chronicle of post-World War I England that never crosses over to the gooey side of sentiment.