Tag: Grange Hill
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Pop Culture References In Grange Hill
I’m on to series eight of Grange Hill, and it struck me just how few pop culture references there have been in the show until now. Then along came a couple all at once. I find it funny that they explain the joke in such detail.* And later on, we get a Terry & June…
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You Have Been Watching …
At the end of series seven of Grange Hill, something unusual happens. The end credits look like this. Ordinarily, the credits look like this. Usually a bold colour background, and a complementary colour for the text. And rarely, if ever, the same combination twice between episodes. But for this episode, they proceed in a sort…
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That Time Pogo Patterson Dated Sharon Watts
The crossover of actors from Grange Hill to Eastenders is quite lengthy, including the obvious ones of Todd Carty, Susan Tully, and Gary Hailes. I didn’t know though that Letitia Dean appeared in Grange Hill, only a year before she began on Eastenders. And she dated Pogo Patterson. Except, she uses a different stage name…
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The Death Of A Grange Hill Storyline
What could have been? Storylines are complete. Everything’s ready to go, and then, the actor doesn’t like what they’re reading, and decides to quit the show instead. That’s what happened to series seven of Grange Hill, according to this article on Grange Hill Gold. The scriptwriters set about drafting a dramatic exit that saw Jonah,…
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Is The Grange Hill Set Used In The Young Ones?
You may have noticed that I’m on a slow binge-watch of Grange Hill from the beginning. I’m two thirds of the way through series six, and the sets are starting to look like the sets I most remember. Whether that’s because this was the era I watched most as a kid, or because of this,…
