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The Grimleys

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	The Grimleys	comment	The Grimleys is a nostalgic comedy-drama television series set on a council estate in Dudley, The West Midlands, England in the mid-1970s. It was first broadcast by Granada TV for ITV in 1999, following a pilot in 1997, and concluded in 2001 after three series.The show follows the ups and downs of the dysfunctional Grimley family. Gordon, the main character, is an intellectual but feeble schoolboy who has a crush on his teacher, Geraldine Titley. His younger brother Darren, who is sympathetic to Gordon yet frustrated by some of his character traits, narrates the storyline. Their father, Baz, (played by The Young Ones actor Nigel Planer) is a bone-idle British Leyland car worker who has been on strike for years and hardly ever moves from his armchair, spending his days watching television. He is particularly infuriated by Gordon's intellectual leanings, preferring that he leave school and get a "man's job" rather than go to university. Hard-working mum Janet despairingly tries to hold it all together.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Other domestic characters are Gordon and Darren's older sister Lisa and their Nan, who seems to be obsessed with a family curse. Next-door neighbours are the Titley family - Reg (a plumber), the aforementioned Geraldine (his niece) and his son Shane, a Bay City Roller lookalike and self-styled ladies' man.To complicate matters, Shane is dating Lisa, while Janet and Reg obviously carry a torch for one another. Reg's sensitivity and surprisingly poetic tongue give rise to the question of Gordon's parentage (it being revealed at the end of the third and final series that he is actually Gordon's father).Much of the show is set at the school that Gordon and Darren attend, and where Geraldine works as a teacher. Also on the staff is sadistic PE teacher "Dynamo" Doug Digby, who actually lives in a corner of the school gymnasium. He's in a relationship with Geraldine, leading to increasing tensions between him and Gordon (naturally, Gordon always comes off worst, their rivalry leading to ever more vindictive and bizarre punishments meted out by Digby).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Stealing the show was former Slade lead singer Noddy Holder, who played music teacher (and later headmaster) Neville Holder note Noddy's birth name. There were also a number of inspired cameos, notably Lewis Collins from The Professionals who appeared in one episode as Doug's father, Stephen Lewis from On the Buses as a coach driver and 1970s glam rocker Alvin Stardust, who played a pub landlord. The latter led to a series of clever in-jokes, such as Noddy and Alvin bemoaning the lost opportunities of their youth over a pint of beer; it's implied by the title of the second episode, "The Road Not Taken" (which ends with Holder mournfully strumming out a Slade song in the school hall) that The Grimleys takes place in an alternative 1970s in which Holder and his friend abandoned their rock music dreams in favour of more sensible jobs long before they became famous.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The first episode may be seen hereTropes you siy in the Midlands town of Duddel-liy include:
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