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Grange Hill
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This children's Soap Opera ran on The BBC from 1978 to 2008. The series was set in the fictional school of the title in the fictional London borough of Northam, until 2003, when the entire school magically moved to Merseyside. It was eventually discontinued in 2008 after running 30 years.The original circus-beat theme tune continues to be used as the soundtrack to any appearance by school children or a class room, regardless of the fact that it was used for less than half of the 30-year run. | |
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This Is What the Building Will Look Like | |
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This Is What the Building Will Look Like: At the end of series 2, the grumpy caretaker Mr Garfield brings in a wooden model of a future plan for the school, on loan from the town hall, to place alongside the models of "Grange Hill today" made by the pupils, and what the site might have looked like hundreds of years ago. | |
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Tear Up the Contract | |
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Tear Up the Contract: When the Reasonable Authority Figure Mr Mitchell catches Benny and Trisha skipping school, and has discussed it with them, he draws a line under the matter by tearing up the note he had given Trisha to take to her parents. | |
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The Bully | |
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The Bully: There were many bullies in Grange Hill, the most feared being Gripper Stebson. He was so notorious that his actor Mark Savage received death threats. | |
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Abandoned Area | |
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Abandoned Area: When not in school, scenes of pupils wandering off away from anybody else are often in building sites, or run-down houses. | |
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Broomstick Quarterstaff | |
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Broomstick Quarterstaff: In the 1979 series, the caretaker Mr Garfield catches Cathy, Madelin, Jackie and Brenda smoking behind the bike sheds. When they run off, Mr Garfield and his colleague block the girls' path with a broom. | |
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Long-Runners | |
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Long-Runners: And how. Lasted for 31 years, from 1978 to 2008. The only longer-running show on CBBC is Blue Peter. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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In the 1984 series, Annette reveals that her mother caused the bruises on her arm. She has been suffering the pain from her divorce, and often takes her anger out on her daughter, buying her expensive gifts to make up for it. It also explains why Annette herself has been something of an Alpha Bitch for three years. | |
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Generation Xerox | |
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Generation Xerox: Peter "Tucker" Jenkin's nephew, Patrick "Togger" Johnson is surprisingly similar to him, having a similar name, having many of the same misadventures, and his classmates even all have a suspiciously similar counterpart in Tucker's own class, to the point where many even have the same initials, e.g. Trisha Yates/Tanya Young, Justin Bennett/Jeremy Bishop, Anne Wilson/Annie Wainwright, etc. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: As Cathy and Madelin are led away having been caught shoplifting, a poster is visible saying "Shoplifting: fine, prison, is it worth it?". | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Road-Sign Reversal: This happens on several occasions, when an arrow has been attached to a sign so it can be rotated, and a sneaky pupil changes the direction of the arrow. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Cathy Hargreaves had never known her father, and believed him to be dead. Trouble ensues when he suddenly turns up, wanting to see Cathy and her brother Gary. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Raymond Haynes lives with just his brother. A father is mentioned in his first few episodes, but never seen, and this appears to have later been retconned, as in a later series it is a major plot point that there's no-one to come to Kenny Haynes's wedding, as the brothers have no family outside of each other. A mother is never even alluded to, and no explanation is ever given as to where their parents are and how an admitted criminal became the legal guardian of his teenage brother. | |
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Sadist Teacher | |
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Sadist Teacher: Mr Bronson, who had very rare Pet the Dog moments. Mr Bronson's actor, Michael Sheard, also played Adolf Hitler in four films (including Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) and a TV series, Himmler in two films and a mini-series, Goering's double in 'Allo 'Allo!, an Imperial Admiral in The Empire Strikes Back and a villainous headmaster in the classic Doctor Who serial "Remembrance of the Daleks''. He clearly just had one of those faces. In a poll run as part of Comic Relief 1988, viewers were asked to nominate someone, out of all the people appearing on BBC Children's TV, to be dropped into a "gunk tank" on Red Nose Day. Mr Bronson swiftly became the top choice. But then he appeared with the link presenter during one of the links between the shows, and sternly warned the nation's children to stop voting for him. And it worked. Or... more likely, Sheard just made it known to the Powers That Be that he would not actually sit down and allow himself to be gunked, and since there was no clause in his contract that could force him to do this, they had to fudge things so that someone else ended up in the hot seat. The countdown of the top ten finishers showed him in third place. If he actually topped the poll, he may have been listed at No.3 to put Phillip Schofield in second place and give greater prominence to Schofield's joyous celebration at escaping being gunked. An early 2000s storyline had "Mr. Deverill", who was actually an impostor who had already been banned from teaching for his behaviour. He developed a grudge against one of the school's top football players due to accidentally being given inaccurate directions to the school on the first day (the road was closed off for maintenance and he should've gone around instead), and started a vendetta against said boy that led to him being suspended, temporarily expelled, being rejected by the Army (his chosen career path), and very nearly driving him to suicide. And then when he was exposed as a fraud at the end, he started a fire and fled the school right before half of it exploded! Mr Bronson also had a moment of being a Straw Misogynist, when he apprehended a crane operator lowering a temporary classroom on top of his car (which he had parked in defiance of "no parking" signs). In another episode a student was late to one of Mr Bronson's classes because another teacher had sent them on an errand. Bronson immediately gave the child a detention and refused to listen to why he had been late, further punishing him for objecting. When Bronson was confronted about the matter, he claimed the child should have accepted the detention without question. | |
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Misplaced Retribution | |
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Misplaced Retribution: In one mid-'90s episode, a guy and a girl try to escape from a fire by climbing out of a window. She slips, falls to her death, her boyfriend blames the guy who was with her and spends the rest of the season stalking and harassing him. | |
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Out of Focus | |
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Out of Focus The pupils in Tucker and Trisha's year group are prominent throughout the first four series. Come series 5 and they get a single prominent episode plus a handful of cameos. | |
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Dean Bitterman | |
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Dean Bitterman: Mr Bronson. | |
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Ignorant About Fire | |
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Ignorant About Fire: In series 2, Tucker, Benny and Simon knock over some lighted candles when they sneak into the school one evening, setting fire to the room. In series 3, Andrew Stanton and Alan Humphries sneak off for a cigarette during a school trip, accidentally setting fire to dry grass, necessitating a human chain of buckets of water to put it out. | |
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HotForStudent | |
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Hot for Student | |
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Teen Pregnancy | |
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Teen Pregnancy: Grange Hill was one of the first British soap operas to deal with it although beaten by EastEnders. | |
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Mathematician's Answer | |
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Mathematician's Answer: During an end-of-term quiz: | |
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Vote Early, Vote Often | |
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Vote Early, Vote Often: In one episode, a student helping to tally the votes in a student referendum is introduced to the concept of 'spoiled ballots'. He then proceeds to destroy a large number of ballots in an attempt to grant his favoured option the win. He is found out because his number of spoiled ballots is much higher than with any other teller. Made more hilarious by the fact his actions prove to be in vain anyway as his choice ends up winning regardless. | |
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Ransacked Room | |
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Ransacked Room: The Students' Action Group stage an anti-uniform protest in the secretary's office. When they refuse to leave, the headmaster locks them in. They then telephone the local paper; but when the headmaster persuades the reporters to leave, the rebellious pupils angrily ransack the office. | |
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Frantic Object Concealment | |
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Frantic Object Concealment: Jenkins hides a "chicken's foot" prank item behind his back, just as Mr Baxter enters. When Mr Baxter asks what he is hiding, Humphries stealthily takes the chicken's foot, so Jenkins can show his empty hands. | |
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Girls vs. Boys Plot | |
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Girls vs. Boys Plot: In S4E18, tensions between the sexes come to a head. A boys vs girls contest is planned, with various sporting, practical and academic competitions. Boys just win the quiz (with a suspicion of cheating), but are thrashed at netball, also not without some cheating. Meanwhile, the cake baking of Mr. Sutcliffe leaves a lot to be desired, as does Miss Mooney's metalwork. Their respective assistants though have bought ready-made versions as a backup. Mrs. McClusky declares the contest a draw! | |
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Vigilante Injustice | |
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Vigilante Injustice: After the school bully Gripper Stebson's long reign of terror, a group of pupils plot to ambush him in the school toilets. Mr Baxter intervenes just in time, saying that vigilantism cannot be tolerated, no matter how justified one feels; but as he loathes Stebson as much as everybody else, he adds that he was very tempted to remain outside. | |
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Slipping into Stink | |
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Slipping into Stink: On a trip to the Isle of Wight, Mauler takes fright at a group of cows, slips and falls in a cowpat. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Wayne Sutcliffe is a very dramatic example of this. In his first two series he was a terrible bully, who was even involved in gun crime, but suddenly he had a change of heart, and became a bully councillor and generally nice guy. | |
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Fooled by the Sound | |
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Fooled by the Sound: During a school trip, Doyle makes the sound of wild animals to scare the girls, Penny and Susi, who run into the forest and get lost. | |
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Gym Class Hell | |
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Gym Class Hell: Mr Hicks, who victimises one pupil, throwing him to floor so he cuts his head, telling the head teacher that the boy slipped on the wet floor. Later, Mr Baxter sees Mr Hicks doing the same to another boy, and puts him in his place: | |
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Toast of Tardiness | |
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Toast of Tardiness: One episode in series 2 begins with Jenkins running out of his front door with toast in his mouth. | |
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Disturbing Statistic | |
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Disturbing Statistic: Martin thoughtlessly mentions that Britain had the highest divorce rate in Europe to a girl whose parents are divorcing, which at the time, was quite a novel and outrageous thing to do. | |
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Glasses Pull | |
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Glasses Pull: The stern middle-aged maths teacher Mr Keating does this to silence the cocky Tucker Jenkins, and does so with Doyle in the same episode. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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Christmas Episode: Two, one in 1981, and one in 1985. | |
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Eating Pet Food | |
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Eating Pet Food: Trisha Yates asks Simon Shaw how he buys sweets if he can't read the names. Simon says he remembers the colours, but adds that he once went to the wrong counter, and ended up eating a packet of birdseed, which didn't taste too bad. | |
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"Silly Me" Gesture | |
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"Silly Me" Gesture: Played for laughs when Stern Teacher Mr Mitchell slaps his own wrist when talking to Tucker Jenkins, with whom he has a love-hate relationship. | |
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New Transfer Student | |
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Danny Kendall is introduced as part of a class of previously unseen third years with no indication that he's new that year. His troublesome disinterest in life and frequent truanting but also his artistic talents only then seems to be noticed by the staff. | |
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Radish Cure | |
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Radish Cure: When the Students' Action Group stages a sit-in in the secretary's office, the headmaster gives them ten minutes to leave the room. After this time, he does not ask them if they want to come out, but locks them in, and leaves them there for some time, almost causing one pupil to have a Potty Emergency. | |
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Token Minority | |
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Token Minority: As one of the earlier children's TV shows to tackle racism, characters such as Benny Green and Sudhamani Patel appeared in early series. When Trisha and Benny have both skipped school one afternoon, Benny because of being insulted for his skin colour (being called "golliwog", "chocolate" etc.), there is a memorable scene with the two of them discussing this, using then-accepted terms: | |
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Remember the New Guy? | |
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Remember the New Guy?: Happened a few times, the most obvious example being in Series 3/4. Duane Orpington's best friend in Series 3 was a girl called Tracy Edwards and was seen with her in every episode that featured him. In Series 4, Tracy had vanished and his 'new' best friend was Claire Scott, who was virtually the same character as Tracy personality wise and was treated by everyone as having always been there. Danny Kendall is introduced as part of a class of previously unseen third years with no indication that he's new that year. His troublesome disinterest in life and frequent truanting but also his artistic talents only then seems to be noticed by the staff. Freddie Mainwaring is first shown when he's already in the fourth year and his form group had been introduced the previous year. His character as a total ladies' man who has worked his way through numerous girls in the school, not only those in his own year, makes it hard to believe he was always just off camera in earlier years. | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: When Mr Baxter confronts a suspiciously loitering pupil. | |
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Grange Hill / int_7a2d9301 | |
| Grange Hill / int_7ab17528 | type |
Waving Signs Around | |
| Grange Hill / int_7ab17528 | comment |
Waving Signs Around: In series 2, the Students' Action Group hold protests against school uniform, complete with demonstrations, and makeshift signs. In a gesture of Defiant to the End, they stage a sit-in protest in the secretary's office. Unconcerned, the headmaster locks them in. The group put sheets of paper with big letters in the window, saying "S. A. G. Sit-in No. 1". The end of series 6 sees a mass demonstration organised to reinstate popular teacher Mr "Sruffy" McGuffy, complete with hand made signs and banners. Despite the staff seeking to lock them out of the school they manage to enter and assemble in the main hall... only to discover that Mr McGuffy was reinstated the previous day and that they were just projecting all their frustrations with the school onto his cause. | |
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Grange Hill / int_7ab17528 | |
| Grange Hill / int_7d260070 | type |
Corporal Punishment | |
| Grange Hill / int_7d260070 | comment |
Corporal Punishment: In the early series, corporal punishment is often mentioned "If I have any nonsense from you, you won't be able to sit anywhere"; and in the first series, one episode ended with Tucker and Benny being called into the head's office to take their punishment. In a later series, there was a very brief scene in which Cathy Hargreaves was seen being caned by Mrs McClusky. | |
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Grange Hill / int_7d260070 | |
| Grange Hill / int_7ebb1b7b | type |
Anti-School Uniforms Plot | |
| Grange Hill / int_7ebb1b7b | comment |
Anti-School Uniforms Plot: This happens in the second series, with an anti-uniform pressure group causing trouble in the school, forcing pupils to boycott sports matches, Waving Signs Around, and finally occupying the secretary's office. | |
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Grange Hill / int_7ebb1b7b | |
| Grange Hill / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
| Grange Hill / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Michael Sheard plays an absolutely enormous one with Mr Bronson. | |
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Grange Hill / int_823c6e3e | |
| Grange Hill / int_8797239c | type |
Bait-and-Switch | |
| Grange Hill / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: In the 1979 series, episode 8 is about a "prowler" following girls home from school. When Cathy and Trisha walk home, a man is seen in the background following them, who has been seen throughout the episode; this man then runs after Cathy. He turns out not to be the prowler, but Cathy's estranged father, wanting to reunite with her. The true prowler is caught, but never seen. | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_8797239c | |
| Grange Hill / int_884c48a6 | type |
Non-Answer | |
| Grange Hill / int_884c48a6 | comment |
Non-Answer: When Tucker and his mates sneak into the rival school Brookdale, and pretend to be pupils there, Tucker deflects the question asked by a teacher who confronts them. | |
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Grange Hill / int_884c48a6 | |
| Grange Hill / int_8beee2f2 | type |
Wardrobe Wound | |
| Grange Hill / int_8beee2f2 | comment |
Wardrobe Wound: In series 2, Jackie Heron destroys almost the entire wardrobe of the school play by throwing silver paint over it, to spite Miss Summers, who is shocked and horrified. | |
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Grange Hill / int_8beee2f2 | |
| Grange Hill / int_927b2f11 | type |
The Bus Came Back | |
| Grange Hill / int_927b2f11 | comment |
The Bus Came Back: Happened a few times. Penny Lewis was absent from series 4 with the explanation she had broken her leg. She unexpectedly reappears one final time in series 5 for the School Revue episode which is her year group's last appearance. Gripper is expelled during series 6 but made several one-off return appearances over the next few years. Fan favourite of the 90s era of the show, Ray Haynes, returned unexpectedly three years after leaving the school, and consequently stayed on for a further six years as a café owner, having matured from a juvenile delinquent into a Big Brother Mentor to all the current students. | |
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Grange Hill / int_927b2f11 | |
| Grange Hill / int_9335b4ba | type |
Safe Behind the Corner | |
| Grange Hill / int_9335b4ba | comment |
Safe Behind the Corner: This sometimes happens when pupils are hiding from teachers, or the caretaker. Played straight in the second series, when Singer hides in a changing room. Mr Baxter enters the room in the background, while Singer is hidden around the corner; Mr Baxter then leaves again. | |
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Grange Hill / int_9335b4ba | |
| Grange Hill / int_939de546 | type |
Copycat Mockery | |
| Grange Hill / int_939de546 | comment |
Copycat Mockery: Often employed by the Deadpan Snarker Mr Baxter, the sports teacher. In series 2, the leader of the anti-uniform group mimics the headmaster, out of his hearing, after he has said "One thing you have yet to learn about me, Jessica Samuels, is that I stick to my decisions." | |
| Grange Hill / int_939de546 | featureApplicability |
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Grange Hill / int_939de546 | |
| Grange Hill / int_93ef81aa | type |
Transfer Student Uniforms | |
| Grange Hill / int_93ef81aa | comment |
A mass example occurs at the start of Series 8 when Grange Hill merges with Brookdale and Rodney Bennett, suddenly thrusting together many pupils in the higher years. To add to the problems pupils from Rodney Bennett still wear that school's uniform whilst pupils from Brookdale continue that school's latterday no uniform policy. The staffroom also experiences the effects, with teachers from the different schools struggling to assimilate. | |
| Grange Hill / int_93ef81aa | featureApplicability |
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Grange Hill / int_93ef81aa | |
| Grange Hill / int_99f7cf50 | type |
High-School Hustler | |
| Grange Hill / int_99f7cf50 | comment |
High-School Hustler: Many pupils tried their hand at this including Douglas "Pogo" Patterson, Luke "Gonch" Gardener and Russell "Jacko" Morgan. The results were never profitable. | |
| Grange Hill / int_99f7cf50 | featureApplicability |
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Grange Hill / int_99f7cf50 | |
| Grange Hill / int_9d13914e | type |
Apple for Teacher | |
| Grange Hill / int_9d13914e | comment |
Apple for Teacher: Played with when Trisha Yates tries to teach her fellow pupil Simon Shaw to read. She quips that as his teacher, he has to call her Miss Yates, and bring an apple for her. | |
| Grange Hill / int_9d13914e | featureApplicability |
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Grange Hill / int_9d13914e | |
| Grange Hill / int_9dacc566 | type |
Leitmotif | |
| Grange Hill / int_9dacc566 | comment |
Leit Motif: A very rare example in the second series: there is quiet dramatic music when Tucker, Alan and Benny sneak into nearby Brookdale school, to retrieve a stolen blazer. | |
| Grange Hill / int_9dacc566 | featureApplicability |
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Grange Hill / int_9dacc566 | |
| Grange Hill / int_9dd2cbc2 | type |
CloudCuckooLander | |
| Grange Hill / int_9dd2cbc2 | comment |
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Best friends Dudley Wesker and Josh Davis were both different flavours of this. Ever enthusiastic Dudley enjoyed rummaging around in bins, gleefully keeping a single shoe found in a dustbin for reasons unknown, as well as eating incredibly bizarre food combinations, yet thinking Worcester sauce akin to poison. Josh meanwhile wandered around in a daze, barely expressing any emotion and talking in a monotone voice, and collected war memorabilia, calmly buying a live grenade and not seeing any possible problems with this. | |
| Grange Hill / int_9dd2cbc2 | featureApplicability |
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Grange Hill / int_9dd2cbc2 | |
| Grange Hill / int_ab17f66 | type |
Big Brother Mentor | |
| Grange Hill / int_ab17f66 | comment |
Fan favourite of the 90s era of the show, Ray Haynes, returned unexpectedly three years after leaving the school, and consequently stayed on for a further six years as a café owner, having matured from a juvenile delinquent into a Big Brother Mentor to all the current students. | |
| Grange Hill / int_ab17f66 | featureApplicability |
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Grange Hill / int_ab17f66 | |
| Grange Hill / int_abc28948 | type |
Straw Misogynist | |
| Grange Hill / int_abc28948 | comment |
Mr Bronson also had a moment of being a Straw Misogynist, when he apprehended a crane operator lowering a temporary classroom on top of his car (which he had parked in defiance of "no parking" signs). | |
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Grange Hill / int_abc28948 | |
| Grange Hill / int_ac12cde1 | type |
Bully Hunter | |
| Grange Hill / int_ac12cde1 | comment |
Bully Hunter: Tucker had this reputation in the early seasons. | |
| Grange Hill / int_ac12cde1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_ac12cde1 | |
| Grange Hill / int_acf33d00 | type |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
| Grange Hill / int_acf33d00 | comment |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When Tucker, Benny and Alan sneak into Brookdale School to retrieve a stolen blazer, as they try to leave, they are confronted by a teacher, who realises that something is wrong. Just then, their bullies arrive and chase them, distracting the teacher, and the heroes escape. | |
| Grange Hill / int_acf33d00 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_acf33d00 | |
| Grange Hill / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| Grange Hill / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Mr Baxter, the sports teacher. | |
| Grange Hill / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_ae3d6438 | |
| Grange Hill / int_b11ac9f5 | type |
Abusive Parents | |
| Grange Hill / int_b11ac9f5 | comment |
Abusive Parents: In the 1984 series, Annette reveals that her mother caused the bruises on her arm. She has been suffering the pain from her divorce, and often takes her anger out on her daughter, buying her expensive gifts to make up for it. It also explains why Annette herself has been something of an Alpha Bitch for three years. In the 1988 series, Matthew suffers this treatment when he stays with his alcoholic father, who is separated from his mother. | |
| Grange Hill / int_b11ac9f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_b11ac9f5 | |
| Grange Hill / int_b5049d76 | type |
Added Alliterative Appeal | |
| Grange Hill / int_b5049d76 | comment |
Added Alliterative Appeal: The headmaster Mr Llewellyn, to the anti-uniform pressure group: | |
| Grange Hill / int_b5049d76 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_b5049d76 | |
| Grange Hill / int_b62ea95 | type |
Doomed New Clothes | |
| Grange Hill / int_b62ea95 | comment |
Doomed New Clothes: Freddie Mainwaring insists on wearing fashionable, rather than practical, clothes on a canal boat trip. They don't come through the ordeal very well. | |
| Grange Hill / int_b62ea95 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_b62ea95 | |
| Grange Hill / int_b76f6cb2 | type |
Little Stowaway | |
| Grange Hill / int_b76f6cb2 | comment |
Little Stowaway: On a ferry trip to France, two boys try to take a boy on the trip who does not have a passport, by smuggling him through the coach emergency exit. | |
| Grange Hill / int_b76f6cb2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_b76f6cb2 | |
| Grange Hill / int_bf2a09c1 | type |
Five-Finger Discount | |
| Grange Hill / int_bf2a09c1 | comment |
Five-Finger Discount: A regular pass time of some pupils. Cathy Hargreaves shoplifts during an unexpected day off school, egged on by Madelin Tanner. They get caught quickly. Ronnie Birtles discovers that Helen Kelly, Georgina Hayes and Calley Donnington regularly shoplift with ease and, facing money problems, succumbs to trying it. She gets caught and a police caution on the first attempt. Feeling guilty about the situation the other three confess their actions and get away with a telling off by the school, shop and police. | |
| Grange Hill / int_bf2a09c1 | featureApplicability |
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Grange Hill / int_bf2a09c1 | |
| Grange Hill / int_c0b53073 | type |
Rugby Is Slaughter | |
| Grange Hill / int_c0b53073 | comment |
Rugby Is Slaughter: Lampshaded in an early episode, when the Deadpan Snarker teacher Mr Baxter gives the first years a lesson in rugby, causing Justin Bennett to have a nose bleed. Alan Humphries excels in this lesson, and brings Mr Baxter to the ground, who smiles and says "that's more or less the idea". | |
| Grange Hill / int_c0b53073 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_c0b53073 | |
| Grange Hill / int_c33ba0a8 | type |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
| Grange Hill / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Highly prevalent throughout the show's run, there were at least a dozen schoolkids that disappeared without trace and were never mentioned again by any of the schoolkids, which included previously major characters such as Tracy Edwards, Kevin Baylon or Neil Timpson (even though his elder brother Barry was still around for a couple more years) and several teachers came and went without trace too, often replaced with identical personality replacements. This sometimes extends to entire year groups. Before series 14 the Upper Sixth form was never shown, and sometimes not the Lower Sixth form either. Consequently many pupils were not shown completing school at all. | |
| Grange Hill / int_c33ba0a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_c33ba0a8 | |
| Grange Hill / int_c6eabb03 | type |
Gosh Dang It to Heck! | |
| Grange Hill / int_c6eabb03 | comment |
Goshdang It To Heck/Curse Cut Short: "We're the only kids in the country who never say fu..." | |
| Grange Hill / int_c6eabb03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_c6eabb03 | |
| Grange Hill / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Grange Hill / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: One 1980s storyline has Grange Hill students attending a Model United Nations as Tanzania. | |
| Grange Hill / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grange Hill / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_c75df49a | |
| Grange Hill / int_cd8c578c | type |
My Eyes Are Up Here | |
| Grange Hill / int_cd8c578c | comment |
My Eyes Are Up Here: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Tucker Jenkins glances at Trisha Yates's chest. She snaps back "I'm talking to the man, not your shirt button". | |
| Grange Hill / int_cd8c578c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grange Hill | hasFeature |
Grange Hill / int_cd8c578c | |
| Grange Hill / int_d2431598 | type |
Asleep in Class | |
| Grange Hill / int_d2431598 | comment |
Asleep in Class: A boy in the 1979 series regularly fell asleep in class, as his restaurateur father made him work late into the night. | |
| Grange Hill / int_d2431598 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_d2431598 | |
| Grange Hill / int_d24f72d2 | type |
Police Lineup | |
| Grange Hill / int_d24f72d2 | comment |
Police Line Up: A downplayed version would have happened in series 2. The headmaster tells the school that the caretaker had reason to speak to four boys; he does not know their names, but is sure he will recognise them again. The headmaster offers the boys a chance to step forward, or for everybody to form a line; the boys choose to step forward. | |
| Grange Hill / int_d24f72d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_d24f72d2 | |
| Grange Hill / int_d727a8b1 | type |
Unknown Relative | |
| Grange Hill / int_d727a8b1 | comment |
Unknown Relative: Two years after Natalie Stevens first appeared the show saw the arrival of her previously unmentioned twin sister Natasha, who had gone with their father in their parents' separation some years before. The sisters have spent the last few years in very different circumstances which leads to confusion and multiple conflict to the point where their younger sister Becky declares they're as bad as each other. | |
| Grange Hill / int_d727a8b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_d727a8b1 | |
| Grange Hill / int_d7e73aea | type |
Mustache Vandalism | |
| Grange Hill / int_d7e73aea | comment |
Moustache Vandalism: On a gallery of the teachers, the pupils use putty to give Mr Keating a moustache, and Mr Baxter horns. | |
| Grange Hill / int_d7e73aea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_d7e73aea | |
| Grange Hill / int_d9ee7048 | type |
Spin-Off | |
| Grange Hill / int_d9ee7048 | comment |
Spin-Off: Tucker's Luck followed Tucker Jenkins after he left school. It lasted for three seasons. Given the amount of former Grange Hill cast members who end up on EastEnders... And this includes Tucker himself, AKA Todd Carty. | |
| Grange Hill / int_d9ee7048 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_d9ee7048 | |
| Grange Hill / int_dcca89a1 | type |
Gym Class Rope Climb | |
| Grange Hill / int_dcca89a1 | comment |
Gym Class Rope Climb: When Miss Peterson puts the girls through a gruelling obstacle course, Sally Forsyth falls to the floor during a rope climb. It turns out she had a weak heart. | |
| Grange Hill / int_dcca89a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_dcca89a1 | |
| Grange Hill / int_dd45df38 | type |
Unfortunate Names | |
| Grange Hill / int_dd45df38 | comment |
Unfortunate Names A new teacher struggles to gain respect from his class and is subject to multiple practical jokes on a single theme all because of his surname - Parrott. | |
| Grange Hill / int_dd45df38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grange Hill | hasFeature |
Grange Hill / int_dd45df38 | |
| Grange Hill / int_dfa40c1b | type |
Didn't See That Coming | |
| Grange Hill / int_dfa40c1b | comment |
Didn't See That Coming: The pupils (especially the boys) are delighted to learn that there will be a naked model at the after-school art class - but they had not expected the model to be an elderly man. | |
| Grange Hill / int_dfa40c1b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grange Hill / int_dfa40c1b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grange Hill | hasFeature |
Grange Hill / int_dfa40c1b | |
| Grange Hill / int_e9a3a1ed | type |
Never Learned to Read | |
| Grange Hill / int_e9a3a1ed | comment |
Never Learned to Read: This affects a number of pupils over the years. Simon Shaw in an early series, and this seems to go unnoticed by his unseen parents, and teachers; every time one of them asks him to read, he invents an excuse, such as not having his glasses (which nobody has seen him wear). Simon confesses being unable to read to fellow pupil Trisha Yates, who very kindly tries to teach him to read, but it does not go well. Tegs Ratcliffe in series 11 has spent his time engaged in petty crime and evading school work so teachers have never really noticed he can't read. Justine Dean forces him to go for remedial lessons despite his belief they will be patronising using books for very young children. | |
| Grange Hill / int_e9a3a1ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_e9a3a1ed | |
| Grange Hill / int_edce12ef | type |
Two-Teacher School | |
| Grange Hill / int_edce12ef | comment |
Two-Teacher School: Averted; there's about the same amount of teachers you'd expect in a British secondary school. | |
| Grange Hill / int_edce12ef | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Grange Hill / int_edce12ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grange Hill | hasFeature |
Grange Hill / int_edce12ef | |
| Grange Hill / int_f1c3907 | type |
Jingle the Coins | |
| Grange Hill / int_f1c3907 | comment |
Jingle the Coins: A bully makes Justin Bennett jump up and down to find out if he is carrying money, before intimidating him into handing over the coins jingling in his pockets. | |
| Grange Hill / int_f1c3907 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_f1c3907 | |
| Grange Hill / int_f329f2a2 | type |
Got Volunteered | |
| Grange Hill / int_f329f2a2 | comment |
Got Volunteered: In series 2, Mr Mitchell asks Trisha Yates (in a highly brusque tone) to knock on Simon Shaw's door every morning to make sure he is awake; she reluctantly agrees. Her mother quips that she's a real muggins, and gets landed with everything. | |
| Grange Hill / int_f329f2a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_f329f2a2 | |
| Grange Hill / int_f791e275 | type |
Roadside Wave | |
| Grange Hill / int_f791e275 | comment |
Roadside Wave: In the 1990 series, Georgina (who's trying to get into modelling) gets soaked by a passing car on her way to a tryout. | |
| Grange Hill / int_f791e275 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grange Hill / int_f791e275 | |
| Grange Hill / int_fa5381d4 | type |
The Good Old British Comp | |
| Grange Hill / int_fa5381d4 | comment |
The Good Old British Comp: Probably the definitive example. | |
| Grange Hill / int_fa5381d4 | featureApplicability |
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Conspicuous in the Crowd: when Mr Keating is addressing the school about bicycle thefts, the camera pans over the pupils' faces, most of whom are looking attentively up at Mr Keating. One of the perpetrators, Madelin Tanner, tries to look away casually. | |
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Mr Bronson, who had very rare Pet the Dog moments. Mr Bronson's actor, Michael Sheard, also played Adolf Hitler in four films (including Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) and a TV series, Himmler in two films and a mini-series, Goering's double in 'Allo 'Allo!, an Imperial Admiral in The Empire Strikes Back and a villainous headmaster in the classic Doctor Who serial "Remembrance of the Daleks''. He clearly just had one of those faces. In a poll run as part of Comic Relief 1988, viewers were asked to nominate someone, out of all the people appearing on BBC Children's TV, to be dropped into a "gunk tank" on Red Nose Day. Mr Bronson swiftly became the top choice. But then he appeared with the link presenter during one of the links between the shows, and sternly warned the nation's children to stop voting for him. And it worked. Or... more likely, Sheard just made it known to the Powers That Be that he would not actually sit down and allow himself to be gunked, and since there was no clause in his contract that could force him to do this, they had to fudge things so that someone else ended up in the hot seat. The countdown of the top ten finishers showed him in third place. If he actually topped the poll, he may have been listed at No.3 to put Phillip Schofield in second place and give greater prominence to Schofield's joyous celebration at escaping being gunked. | |
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