Waterloo Road

First aired

March 9, 2006

Returning Series

Avg. episode: 60m

EnglishDrama

Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in 2021, and resumed starting 9 January 2023. At the failing comprehensive school, and later academy of the same name, the professional and personal lives of the students and staff are examined. Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?

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Cast

Adam Thomas
Donte Charles
Neil Fitzmaurice
Neil Guthrie
Shauna Shim
Valerie Chambers
JC
Jo Coffey
Wendy Whitwell
ST
Scarlett Thomas
Izzy Charles
LS
Liam Scholes
Noel McManus
SB
Summer Violet Bird
Tonya Walters
CU
Chiamaka Ulebor
Shola Aku
Saira Choudhry
Nisha Chandra
Danny Murphy
Luca Smith
Miya Ocego
Lois Taylor-Brown
JB
James Baxter
Joe Casey
HD
Hattie Dynevor
Libby Guthrie
MR
Maisey Robinson
Portia Weever
TA
Tillie Amartey
Stacey “Stace” Neville
Cory McClane
Ashton Stone
Sonya Nisa
Aleena Qureshi
NB
Niamh Blackshaw
Agnes Eccleston

Media

Seasons 17

Series 1

20068 Episodes

Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

Series 2

200712 Episodes

Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

Series 3

200720 Episodes

Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

Series 4

200920 Episodes

Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

Series 5

200920 Episodes

War breaks out in the playground after the closure of a local private school leads to an influx of middle-class pupils at Waterloo Road.

Series 6

201020 Episodes

New head teacher Karen Fisher sets out to revolutionise Waterloo Road but her steely exterior masks a dark personal tragedy which threatens to derail her leadership.

Series 7

201130 Episodes

A gang war breaks out at Waterloo Road, threatening to derail Michael's efforts to turn the school around, and Josh struggles with an escalating drug problem which is masking a more serious illness.

Series 8

201230 Episodes

Waterloo Road benefactor Lorraine wants a return on her investment but super head Michael insists that you can't make money from education. Will Lorraine listen, or is the school heading for disaster?

Series 9

201320 Episodes

Christine settles in as head of Waterloo Road but quickly finds new deputy Simon is after her job. As well as unruly students and her drink problem, old friend George is not all he seems.

Series 10

201420 Episodes

New head Vaughan Fitzgerald arrives with his partner Allie and her two children. When his two teenage sons from a previous marriage arrive unexpectedly to live with them, it all gets very complicated.