What a Country: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

"What a Country!" revolves around a ''citizenship class'' with a neat little cross section of foreign students: imperious Robert the African; grumpy Laszlo the Hungarian; fiery Maria and Victor the Hispanics; sweet little Yung Hi the Asian; trusting Ali the Pakistani, and shrewd Nikolai the Russian. Overseeing this determined brood is a nice-guy teacher Taylor Brown and an at-wits'-end school principal Joan Courtney, who is not quite sure what to do with ''these wonderful people from God knows where.''

Series details

• Title: What a Country
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy
• Premiere date: 1986-09-27
• Final broadcast date listed: 1987-05-23
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Syndication
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 24 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 67090
• TVDB ID: 424197

Cast and credited roles

• Garrett M. Brown — Taylor Brown
• Yakov Smirnoff — Nikolai Rostopovich
• George Murdock — Laszlo Gabo
• Vijay Amritraj — Ali Nadim
• Harry Waters Jr. — Robert Muboto
• Ada Maris — Maria Conchita Lopez
• Julian Reyes — Victor Ortega
• Leila Hee Olsen — Yung Hi
• Gail Strickland — Principal Joan Courtney
• Don Knotts — Principal F.J. "Bud" McPherson

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1986-02-28; final listed air date 1987-05-23.

Source and licence

Adapted from What a Country on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.