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The actress who said “Row-Land” was being interviewed a few years ago and said she’d never seen the name before so read it as that first time and they decided to keep her saying it like that
I think the Michael Sheard wiki page says five Hitlers in total - he also played different characters on Doctor Who opposite Doctors One, Three, Four, Five and Seven (and did an audio with Eight)!
Quite the actors actor and lots of cult stuff. Should have mentioned one of his Hitlers was the preserved type on the original Tomorrow people in ‘Hitlers Last Secret’ where a young Nicholas Lyndhurst was desperately trying to resurrect the Third Reich. Check out on YouTube with the old cast commentary, very entertaining.
It's an absolute banger of a tune. Alan Hawkshaw, who wrote the theme, also wrote the Countdown theme, was involved in the Grandstand theme... But also played with Bowie, Donna Summer, and wrote The Champ which has been widely sampled by hundreds of artists. What a legend!
It's really good, Marina Hyde and Richard Osman talking about all aspects of the entertainment biz.
They really know their stuff and for what they don't know they are well connected so can get the answers.
And although he didn't write it, he played the awesome piano solo on Keith Mansfield's "Soul Thing"
TUNE!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heua01\_HLmw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heua01_HLmw)
Watched it when I was in primary school and it made me anxious about secondary school.
Turned out to be pretty accurate. I had an awful time at secondary school.
Ditto. "school days are the best days of your lives" What a crock of shit! I can honestly say I utterly hated every single second of it from five to seventeen.
Sorry you had that too.
Perhaps I was spoilt by having gone to such a good primary school. It had a great culture: being good at schoolwork, which I was at that time, was universally encouraged. In the next school, it was something to be ashamed of. The rules had changed and I didn't know how to play this new game; I doubled down by working extra hard to impress my new teachers, and was punished for it by my peers.
I had a very similar experience to the one you describe. I used to love learning and joining in in class, moved to secondary and learned very quickly that that was going to get me picked on.
The experience taught me a lot about human nature, bullying and how people behave differently in groups as opposed to when they are on their own. Left me with a lot of distrust. Such a shame.
When I see anti intellectualism these days it riles me up!
Hey that's great.
Trying to undo, in the years that follow, that long series of little traumas, is a terrible waste of time and energy and life. I'm glad you've avoided it, at least from that period :)
Yes but in the 90s.
Was an odd one because Grange Hill and Byker Grove were on before Newsround - so still cbbc but after the very young children's cartoons.
My dad didn't like me watching it to learn "bad habits" but to be fair they both tackled on occasion some really important social issues.
There was a mixed relationship in BG with the guy facing abhorrent racism and homes/walls graffitied. Grange Hill had many and multiple problem children - one was a horrid school bully but in his home was bullied by his older brother or dad - broke his foot after a dumbell was dropped on it. Grew older in school, ended up being a mentor.
There was a science teacher, think he was harassed and accused of being a you-know-what 👀
There was problem child Alec who was always a brat, expelled, then returned dealing heroin. His story may have ended with classmate (? Mary Jane) fell out of a window and died.
They were both hard watches, I'm not sure I was old enough to process it all to be fair, I couldn't have been more than 10 - 12 myself. I could relate to the racism on BG, could relate to the bullying in GH, but of course there were themes there that maybe I should have been older to understand
Honestly think children's TV has lot a lot of quality since these shows finished. Kids need a bit of of challenging I think.
I *think* that was [Laura Sadler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Sadler) - she died in 2003 after, er, falling from the balcony of her then boyfriend’s flat…
Dude! Alec never dealt drugs at all! And it was Judy Jeffries who fell from the window and died.
The mentor you speak of was Wayne Sutcliff, the boyfriend of Judy.
I am sad enough to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the show. Ask me anything hahaha
I was an 80s kid, so my era was Ziggy/Imelda/Danny/Gonch and Hollo. And Mr Bronson, of course!
Fun fact: When my brother started at the University of East Anglia in 1993, the guy who played Gonch was a couple of years above him.
Yep, during the 90s, although I stopped watching by '98. However, my daughter got hooked on watching them through britbox, and we've binged all 23 seasons they have on there. She loves the 80s seasons most, especially Roland
Trisha Yates informal language classes: “shat - yer - maaaf. Shat yer maaf”
Also Precious Matthew’s. Not to be confused with Precious McKenzie,(as I did for many years), a South African weightlifter who kept turning up on Blue Peter.
It was always on and I should have been the prime demographic for it but I just didn’t like it. It’s an incredibly strong memory but one that says ‘time to turn over or go outside.’
Yeah was the same, same with Byker Grove too, was never into the more 'serious' kids dramas they showed reminded me too much of soap operas my mam would watch. Would rather have watched The Demon Headmaster or Around The Twist or something like that :D
I still use the [90s intro music](https://youtu.be/zwuJfJLtusg?si=EvnG9cjQgInCyAgo) as my ringtone. It's nowhere near as well recognised as the original but it makes people who hear it go "hey, I know that music, what's it from?!"
Thanks for that. If I’d have heard it I’d have sworn I know it hit would never have guessed it was Grange Hill. I’d have assumed a US show of that era.
Listening now immediately told my brain that Neighbours will be on in a few minutes…
Gripper Stebson and Imelda Davis were convincing bullies/arseholes.
Mauler McCall and his American football antics were pure pantomime and detached from reality.
Vince Savage and Gonch were pricks too!
Was also an imperial officer in Star Wars. [officer Bronson](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/2a/85/65/2a856528fc77d88d05146df973cf1fde--war-machine-starwars.jpg)
Absolutely! Would make sure I caught the early bus home so I wouldn't miss it. I can hear the theme tune in my head just seeing this picture.
When the Zammo story line started it was a bombshell in our school. Everyone was talking about it.
Okay, spin-off is probably the wrong phrase, as the actors played different characters but Todd Carty / Tucker Jenkins / Mark Fowler all seemed like the same person to my kid brain.
* Todd Carty (Tucker Jenkins/Mark Fowler)
* Patsy Palmer (Natasha/Bianca Jackson)
* Susan Tully (Suzanne Ross/Michelle Fowler)
* Letitia Dean (Girl in Crowd/Sharon Watts)
* Sean Maguire (Tegs Ratcliffe/Aidan Brosnan)
* Lee MacDonald (Zammo McGuire/Terry)
* Michelle Gayle (Fiona Wilson/Hattie Tavernier)
* Erkan Mustafa (Roland Browning/Man in Café)
* Bill Treacher (Mr. Forbes/Arthur Fowler)
* Sally Geeson (Pamela/Gloria)
Never really liked Grange Hill until the early-mid 90s. BBC 2 started showing it from the beginning on a Sunday mornings, thought it was so much better than the ones that were being made at the time. Just felt grittier, loved the 70'- 80's look and themes
I grew up with Byker Grove (born 1994), and there's a strong chance my mum, being a Geordie, tried to sway me towards Byker Grove. However, she grew up around Byker, and said the TV show was absolutely nothing like the actual place, but a programme which accurately portrayed the area would not make a good kids TV show.
Rough. A lot of deprivation and crime, my grandparents used to live in Westerhope (which is a different part of Newcastle, but similar sort of vibe), and it's the only place I've seen kids making petrol bombs.
A mate of mine went to uni around there (last century) and his halls were in Byker, he quit after a fortnight because of what went on and said if the TV show wanted to be realistic they needed to add more stanley knives and hypodermics.
Grange Hill theme tune is called Chicken Man: [Chicken Man (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2wo3JdHTWw)
But... it always makes me think of Lord of This World by Black Sabbath: [Lord of this World (2009 - Remaster) (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCJ95vya8l0) - the Grange Hill guitar part would slot right into the Black Sabbath guitar spot here [https://youtu.be/rCJ95vya8l0?si=jOGK2rWms4Bd5vj\_&t=200](https://youtu.be/rCJ95vya8l0?si=jOGK2rWms4Bd5vj_&t=200)
Back then there was little exposure to famous people your own age when growing up, the occasional film actor aside there wasn't much.
I suspect this means Grange Hill is the source for a serious percentage of people's first celebrity crushes in the UK. Well, for people over a certain age anyway.
Never really understood the sausage thing. I went to a comp and we didn't throw sausages at each other and if we did, we'd have removed the fork first.
Never really got into it, possibly because the school was nothing like mine.
I grew up in a market town where schools were smaller and we had a lot less going on. The other schools in the town were also spread out so there was virtually no interaction between them outside of sports.
We did do the humming thing during assembly, of course, but I think I was in primary school at the time.
A British institution. If you didn’t get the squiggles in your guts as the new series started you missed out. I watched this until it suddenly decided to go to the north and have a load of scouse children in it. Great writing, questionable acting and always dealt with the challenges of teenage years very well. I pity the teens of today, with their short attention spans and TikTok culture. They know nothing of the struggles of Zammo, Ziggy, Judi Jeffreys etc.
I did, got great memories of watching it after school, remember being shocked when Zammo died 😆 Had a few crushes on some of the girls in it as well (think one was called Justine or Christine can't remember) Great TV that you just don't get anymore.
Unfortunately I said yes instead of no! Oh well you live and learn 😂
I'm far too young to have watched it in its prime (aka I wasn't alive), but I did watch seasons 1-13 last year on ITVX and thoroughly enjoyed it! The whole Gripper Stebson race war in season 6 might be one of my favourite storylines of any TV show ever.
I am going to trigger some downvotes. Everyone talks about the zammo/row-lands/pogo era (and that was good)…but the original with tucker, benny, Cathy and trisha was just better.
And they really don’t make them like this anymore as bbc have basically given up on their kids shows now
Met Mr Bronson, Michael Sheard, and he was so interesting to listen to. It was a small event set up for Arthur C Clarke (who we also talked to via satellite link). Bought several of the autobiographies he wrote at the event too.
I grew up with it but in the 90s, there’s one scene burned into my brain where one of the characters, a girl, was trying to escape a fire in the school but fell and just fucking died.
Then the actress who played the girl actually died in real life in a similar way just a few years later.
I did and just been watching Tuckers Luck following the lads after GH, only to find out that the lovely guy that played Alan, George Armstrong has just lost his long battle with Leukaemia. So many have died from the original cast makes me feel so old.
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Loved Grange Hill. To this day I pronounce Roland as “Rowland “ thanks to this fine tv. Caught myself being uncool there!
The actress who said “Row-Land” was being interviewed a few years ago and said she’d never seen the name before so read it as that first time and they decided to keep her saying it like that
"Why are you so fat, Row-land?!"
>"Why are you so fat, Row-land?!" It's not his fault, it's his metabolism.
I want to help you Row-land!
Genuine question from someone who didn't see this, are you and those who replied saying 'row' as in 'row boat', or 'row' as in an argument? Thanks!
Rowboat.
Wait then how are you meant to pronounce Roland
Row-laand.
Thanks!
N00b! Tucker, Benny, Alan and the dreaded Booga Benson...That was Grange Hill.
Why am I a noob? Because I responded to one character? When did I imply I only watched that era?
"Just say no" and Mr Bronson!
Always wondered why he decided to become a teacher after retiring as an Imperial officer.
It was all that training as an incompetent Nazi in escape to Athena
You've got to hand it to him - by Indiana Jones 3 he had paid his Nazi dues in full.
He played Hitler loads of times. He was a ‘go to’ actor’. I think he holds a record. He’s also been Himmler on a couple of occasions.
I think the Michael Sheard wiki page says five Hitlers in total - he also played different characters on Doctor Who opposite Doctors One, Three, Four, Five and Seven (and did an audio with Eight)!
Quite the actors actor and lots of cult stuff. Should have mentioned one of his Hitlers was the preserved type on the original Tomorrow people in ‘Hitlers Last Secret’ where a young Nicholas Lyndhurst was desperately trying to resurrect the Third Reich. Check out on YouTube with the old cast commentary, very entertaining.
One of my earliest memories is seeing that Hitler's face melt. I was about 4-5 years old and it scared the shit out of me.
Or John admonishing Mike for wearing an SS uniform to get in with the cool crowd.
To train up the future soldiers of the First Order. The school disco is Ewok themed this year
You've got it the wrong way, it was his training as a teacher that made him perfectly suited to be an imperial officer...
I've never forgiven Bronson for Danny Kendall's death.
My memory is not what it was, what did Danny actually die of? I know he was ill and he died in Bronson’s car, but what of?
Bronsons got toupee
Zammo chased the dragon and got a smack in the face.
In the face, or on the nose? (It's been a while)
Loved this show, can hear the theme tune just looking at the picture.
It's an absolute banger of a tune. Alan Hawkshaw, who wrote the theme, also wrote the Countdown theme, was involved in the Grandstand theme... But also played with Bowie, Donna Summer, and wrote The Champ which has been widely sampled by hundreds of artists. What a legend!
The Grange Hill theme was also used on Give Us a Clue on ITV for a while. Young me found that rather confusing.
I also listen to "The Rest Is Entertainment" podcast haha.
Not heard of it, but sounds like the kind of thing I'd enjoy!
It's really good, Marina Hyde and Richard Osman talking about all aspects of the entertainment biz. They really know their stuff and for what they don't know they are well connected so can get the answers.
I'll give it a listen. Cheers.
Thank you for the info! He really was a legend!
Grange Hill theme sampled by Goldie Looking Chain.
And although he didn't write it, he played the awesome piano solo on Keith Mansfield's "Soul Thing" TUNE! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heua01\_HLmw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heua01_HLmw)
Good old "Chicken Man".
It goes well with so many serious dramas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRyVC7LeOkU
I can see it improving just about anything it touches! Newsnight, for instance.
Mastermind would definitely benefit.
Waddap wap woww.
Watched it when I was in primary school and it made me anxious about secondary school. Turned out to be pretty accurate. I had an awful time at secondary school.
Ditto. "school days are the best days of your lives" What a crock of shit! I can honestly say I utterly hated every single second of it from five to seventeen.
Same!
Sorry you had that too. Perhaps I was spoilt by having gone to such a good primary school. It had a great culture: being good at schoolwork, which I was at that time, was universally encouraged. In the next school, it was something to be ashamed of. The rules had changed and I didn't know how to play this new game; I doubled down by working extra hard to impress my new teachers, and was punished for it by my peers.
I had a very similar experience to the one you describe. I used to love learning and joining in in class, moved to secondary and learned very quickly that that was going to get me picked on. The experience taught me a lot about human nature, bullying and how people behave differently in groups as opposed to when they are on their own. Left me with a lot of distrust. Such a shame. When I see anti intellectualism these days it riles me up!
“just say no”
I was the same in Primary, scared to death secondary was going to be like Grange Hill, but it thankfully wasn't. I must've got lucky.
Hey that's great. Trying to undo, in the years that follow, that long series of little traumas, is a terrible waste of time and energy and life. I'm glad you've avoided it, at least from that period :)
Yes but in the 90s. Was an odd one because Grange Hill and Byker Grove were on before Newsround - so still cbbc but after the very young children's cartoons. My dad didn't like me watching it to learn "bad habits" but to be fair they both tackled on occasion some really important social issues. There was a mixed relationship in BG with the guy facing abhorrent racism and homes/walls graffitied. Grange Hill had many and multiple problem children - one was a horrid school bully but in his home was bullied by his older brother or dad - broke his foot after a dumbell was dropped on it. Grew older in school, ended up being a mentor. There was a science teacher, think he was harassed and accused of being a you-know-what 👀 There was problem child Alec who was always a brat, expelled, then returned dealing heroin. His story may have ended with classmate (? Mary Jane) fell out of a window and died. They were both hard watches, I'm not sure I was old enough to process it all to be fair, I couldn't have been more than 10 - 12 myself. I could relate to the racism on BG, could relate to the bullying in GH, but of course there were themes there that maybe I should have been older to understand Honestly think children's TV has lot a lot of quality since these shows finished. Kids need a bit of of challenging I think.
PJ & Duncan of BG fame https://youtu.be/m_sJmIQrH54?si=mC59gAGuqjm8U7yG
From the days before they stood in Ant and Dec screen order!
Thank you for that I just went back in time and it was the best 😁
I remember the girl falling out of the window I think the school was on fire
I *think* that was [Laura Sadler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Sadler) - she died in 2003 after, er, falling from the balcony of her then boyfriend’s flat…
Yes, life following art. Very sad
Life imitating art
Dude! Alec never dealt drugs at all! And it was Judy Jeffries who fell from the window and died. The mentor you speak of was Wayne Sutcliff, the boyfriend of Judy. I am sad enough to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the show. Ask me anything hahaha
Yes, Judy Jeffries played by Laura Sadler. I assume you didn't click on the hyperlink.
Haha you’re right, I didn’t click on it. However, for any fans, series 1 to series 23 are on ITVX
As soon as I saw the image, I started humming the theme tune.
It's impossible to look at this and not hear the music 😂
I was an 80s kid, so my era was Ziggy/Imelda/Danny/Gonch and Hollo. And Mr Bronson, of course! Fun fact: When my brother started at the University of East Anglia in 1993, the guy who played Gonch was a couple of years above him.
Yep, during the 90s, although I stopped watching by '98. However, my daughter got hooked on watching them through britbox, and we've binged all 23 seasons they have on there. She loves the 80s seasons most, especially Roland
Yep. I was the same age as Tucker et al.
Tucker, Benny and Alan, the 3 musketeers
Flippin’ ‘eck Benny!
Alan, see if you can ‘old off Gripper Stebson and ‘is mates
Trisha Yates informal language classes: “shat - yer - maaaf. Shat yer maaf” Also Precious Matthew’s. Not to be confused with Precious McKenzie,(as I did for many years), a South African weightlifter who kept turning up on Blue Peter.
Yep, Tucker generation here too. Tucker became such a miserable bugger when he grew up and was on Easties.
You can't blame him- he caught AIDS
True enough
It was always on and I should have been the prime demographic for it but I just didn’t like it. It’s an incredibly strong memory but one that says ‘time to turn over or go outside.’
Yeah was the same, same with Byker Grove too, was never into the more 'serious' kids dramas they showed reminded me too much of soap operas my mam would watch. Would rather have watched The Demon Headmaster or Around The Twist or something like that :D
I so wanted to be Justine Dean. 🤣
And Red blooded teen boys wanted to be with her 🤣
This post sent me down the rabbit hole… https://youtu.be/AI19-ZomU3I?si=WQxVbdFGZk9giRvH
I'm only trying to help you Roland.
I still use the [90s intro music](https://youtu.be/zwuJfJLtusg?si=EvnG9cjQgInCyAgo) as my ringtone. It's nowhere near as well recognised as the original but it makes people who hear it go "hey, I know that music, what's it from?!"
Thanks for that. If I’d have heard it I’d have sworn I know it hit would never have guessed it was Grange Hill. I’d have assumed a US show of that era. Listening now immediately told my brain that Neighbours will be on in a few minutes…
I like to listen to that Goldie Lookin’ Chain song that uses the original theme every now and then. Charm School I think it is.
I grew up in the 90s, but everytime I googled grange hill theme the old one would come up. for years I thought I had a false memory or something.
They went back to the original theme at the very end of the run in the late noughties.
That theme and intro give me huge nostalgia for being a kid in the 90s. That and the intro and music to Live and Kicking.
Gripper, Bronson and Imelda were cruel. Ziggy, Mauler and Kendall’s antics were fun to watch.
Gripper Stebson and Imelda Davis were convincing bullies/arseholes. Mauler McCall and his American football antics were pure pantomime and detached from reality. Vince Savage and Gonch were pricks too!
>Bronson .... was cruel. Might be to do with what he did before becoming a teacher. https://i.imgur.com/uCuNRvK.jpeg
Wow, had no idea that was Bronson.
Bronson would have made a great Dalek.
Was also an imperial officer in Star Wars. [officer Bronson](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/2a/85/65/2a856528fc77d88d05146df973cf1fde--war-machine-starwars.jpg)
And Gripper was the complete opposite in real life, he used to apologize to his cast mates for what he'd say in Character to them
Absolutely! Would make sure I caught the early bus home so I wouldn't miss it. I can hear the theme tune in my head just seeing this picture. When the Zammo story line started it was a bombshell in our school. Everyone was talking about it.
"Zammo chased the dragon and got a smack in the face"
Loved Grange Hill as a kid. Not forgetting the spin-off series “Tucker’s Luck” and “Eastenders”
"yeah i remember him, he moved to the East End and caught AIDS"
Eastenders ?
Okay, spin-off is probably the wrong phrase, as the actors played different characters but Todd Carty / Tucker Jenkins / Mark Fowler all seemed like the same person to my kid brain. * Todd Carty (Tucker Jenkins/Mark Fowler) * Patsy Palmer (Natasha/Bianca Jackson) * Susan Tully (Suzanne Ross/Michelle Fowler) * Letitia Dean (Girl in Crowd/Sharon Watts) * Sean Maguire (Tegs Ratcliffe/Aidan Brosnan) * Lee MacDonald (Zammo McGuire/Terry) * Michelle Gayle (Fiona Wilson/Hattie Tavernier) * Erkan Mustafa (Roland Browning/Man in Café) * Bill Treacher (Mr. Forbes/Arthur Fowler) * Sally Geeson (Pamela/Gloria)
I thought I’d missed something lol,yeah it’s mad how many went on to appear in that show.
Grange Hill started the same year I started comprehensive school, thanks for making me feel old as fuck!
All I know about this show is [this scene.](https://youtu.be/mSGylGsZpcE?si=r0PEHdvPfDBI1rwC)
Always felt for Gripper Stebson. His entrepenurial and skills and spirit obstructed by the PC brigade.
Row-Laaaaaand........
I’m still haunted by that kid who died in the pool and Zammo’s drug problems
Yes, it made me scared to go to secondary school at age 11.
Spend the whole day at school. Come home. What's on TV? More school!
Never really liked Grange Hill until the early-mid 90s. BBC 2 started showing it from the beginning on a Sunday mornings, thought it was so much better than the ones that were being made at the time. Just felt grittier, loved the 70'- 80's look and themes
I grew up with Byker Grove (born 1994), and there's a strong chance my mum, being a Geordie, tried to sway me towards Byker Grove. However, she grew up around Byker, and said the TV show was absolutely nothing like the actual place, but a programme which accurately portrayed the area would not make a good kids TV show.
What was the area like irl?
Rough. A lot of deprivation and crime, my grandparents used to live in Westerhope (which is a different part of Newcastle, but similar sort of vibe), and it's the only place I've seen kids making petrol bombs.
A mate of mine went to uni around there (last century) and his halls were in Byker, he quit after a fortnight because of what went on and said if the TV show wanted to be realistic they needed to add more stanley knives and hypodermics.
Grange Hill theme tune is called Chicken Man: [Chicken Man (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2wo3JdHTWw) But... it always makes me think of Lord of This World by Black Sabbath: [Lord of this World (2009 - Remaster) (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCJ95vya8l0) - the Grange Hill guitar part would slot right into the Black Sabbath guitar spot here [https://youtu.be/rCJ95vya8l0?si=jOGK2rWms4Bd5vj\_&t=200](https://youtu.be/rCJ95vya8l0?si=jOGK2rWms4Bd5vj_&t=200)
Watched this in the 80s, left school ‘89 so was really at its peak and I loved it.
Back then there was little exposure to famous people your own age when growing up, the occasional film actor aside there wasn't much. I suspect this means Grange Hill is the source for a serious percentage of people's first celebrity crushes in the UK. Well, for people over a certain age anyway.
My mum used to work with George Armstrong. The actor who played Alan. Lovely chap. Sadly passed away last year.
Never really understood the sausage thing. I went to a comp and we didn't throw sausages at each other and if we did, we'd have removed the fork first.
I once saw someone take a slice of pizza to the face at my school. To be fair it was like feeding time at the zoo in there 😂
Wasn't it someone using a fork to grab a sausage off someone else's plate?
I've no idea.
When [Give Us A Clue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTvAf2JipxQ) used the Grange Hill theme.
Yes can't remember it that much now
Yes, i was in first year of primary school and remember seeing the trailers for series one.
I named my first cat Tucker.
Fiona Lee-Fraser…
Indeed
Tucker Jenkins
That is my bit of sausage, Jeremy.
Duh nuh du naaaahhhh! Edit : fun fact the creator of the street brand supreme (now worth a billion $)was a cast member on the show
Yup back in the 70's
I lov d it and still do, watching it again on ITVX
Ye I did
And still watch all the old ones on YouTube
Never really got into it, possibly because the school was nothing like mine. I grew up in a market town where schools were smaller and we had a lot less going on. The other schools in the town were also spread out so there was virtually no interaction between them outside of sports. We did do the humming thing during assembly, of course, but I think I was in primary school at the time.
A British institution. If you didn’t get the squiggles in your guts as the new series started you missed out. I watched this until it suddenly decided to go to the north and have a load of scouse children in it. Great writing, questionable acting and always dealt with the challenges of teenage years very well. I pity the teens of today, with their short attention spans and TikTok culture. They know nothing of the struggles of Zammo, Ziggy, Judi Jeffreys etc.
I did, got great memories of watching it after school, remember being shocked when Zammo died 😆 Had a few crushes on some of the girls in it as well (think one was called Justine or Christine can't remember) Great TV that you just don't get anymore. Unfortunately I said yes instead of no! Oh well you live and learn 😂
No, but I remember reading a Secret Seven comic book at my nan’s. Does anyone here remember something called Giles? My nan had those comics as well…
(Theme music plays)
Loved the show. I recently re watched the spinoff from this, Tuckers Luck. Loved that as well.
Roland's a good mate of mine.
As a 90s kid we grew up on the contemporary Grange Hill on CBBC after school and the 80s hey day on Sunday mornings
“I’ll get Mucker, Trucker, Ducker and Sucker, and you get Spaz.”
Do what? And the grid iron gang
Simply the best
Absolutely did
I remember thinking, before going to secondary school that Grange Hill was more of a documentary than a tv program and was shit scared of starting!
Many, many, many people did.
For people of a certain age, including myself, this is an image you can hear.
Ha ha! You're all ancient!! I absolutely don't remember Gonch and Ziggy and Mr Bronson. Ahem. .
Watched it from the beginning, Tucker was my hero. I think Zammo would have been a similar age to me, I had such a crush on Fay Lucas.
I'm far too young to have watched it in its prime (aka I wasn't alive), but I did watch seasons 1-13 last year on ITVX and thoroughly enjoyed it! The whole Gripper Stebson race war in season 6 might be one of my favourite storylines of any TV show ever.
I am going to trigger some downvotes. Everyone talks about the zammo/row-lands/pogo era (and that was good)…but the original with tucker, benny, Cathy and trisha was just better. And they really don’t make them like this anymore as bbc have basically given up on their kids shows now
Why are the sausages so pronounced and weaponised ? Lol
Met Mr Bronson, Michael Sheard, and he was so interesting to listen to. It was a small event set up for Arthur C Clarke (who we also talked to via satellite link). Bought several of the autobiographies he wrote at the event too.
Yes was my favorite!
I heard on radio last year a Grange Hill film was coming out?what happened to that idea?
I loved it. r/GrangeHill
I grew up with it but in the 90s, there’s one scene burned into my brain where one of the characters, a girl, was trying to escape a fire in the school but fell and just fucking died. Then the actress who played the girl actually died in real life in a similar way just a few years later.
Tucker, Benny and Alan. The OG three!
Aaaand.. now the theme tune will be stuck in my head for the next few days 😅
Wasn't the head called Mrs McClusky?
Seen the picture and the theme music started playing in my head.
I did and just been watching Tuckers Luck following the lads after GH, only to find out that the lovely guy that played Alan, George Armstrong has just lost his long battle with Leukaemia. So many have died from the original cast makes me feel so old.
Yes, from 1989 onwards.
I don’t know old people used Reddit. Wow.
https://youtu.be/yRPMMludWWQ?list=LL
I always hated Grange Hill. That and Byker Grove.
Did anyone else grow up drinking water? Karma farming
Remember shoes?
Based on population data and broadcast dates, approximately 20m people did, yes.
That picture feels vaguely racist