Tucker's back!! Last ever Grange Hill

[insomnia]

I'm guessing that most of us grew up with Tucker/Zammo/Gonch etc
Now its the last time out, first time i'm recording something from CBBC

From BBC

Grange Hill ready for final bell

The last episode of long-running BBC school drama Grange Hill is to be shown on BBC One on Monday.

The programme, which first hit screens in 1978, will feature the return of one of the original characters, Tucker Jenkins, played by actor Todd Carty.

The drama has tackled tough issues such as drugs and teenage pregnancy, but was axed after TV bosses said it no longer reflected modern children's lives.

The final episode will be shown on BBC One at 1635 BST


So cmon post your fav moments, and i demand an adult farewell show from the Beeb this isn't a kids program it was the first "kids" programme i ever saw that tackled bullying/racism/drugs/sex

 

[Flashman]

Row-land

Didn't Benny Green run with the Spurs firm or is that myth?

Trisha Yates ftw

I'm taping this.

 

[Griff]

What about Gripper.

 

[Flashman]

Danny Kendall

 

[Belushi]

The drama has tackled tough issues such as drugs and teenage pregnancy, but was axed after TV bosses said it no longer reflected modern children's lives.

Eh? kids still go to school dont they?

 

[insomnia]

Danny Kendall

Didn't he die of AIDS? or was it drugs or was it because of drugs he got AIDS..aaaaaaaaaaaggggggggghhhhhhhhhh

 

[Vintage Paw]

Dude, I'm so watching this

 

[JohnnyOrange]

Tucker's the wrong person to have brought back for the last episode.

Zammo should have come back, still off his head after all these years, and put a torch to the place.

 

[danny la rouge]

How can he come back? The school he is an FP of was in London! I understand the series is now set in Luddypool...

Makes no sense at all.

 

[Boczkowski]

Didn't he die of AIDS? or was it drugs or was it because of drugs he got AIDS..aaaaaaaaaaaggggggggghhhhhhhhhh

do you mean the character
or the actor?

 

[Melinda]

 

[Flashman]

 

[Flashman]

Didn't he die of AIDS? or was it drugs or was it because of drugs he got AIDS..aaaaaaaaaaaggggggggghhhhhhhhhh

"unnamed neurological disorder" apparently.


http://www.grangehillfans.co.uk/schoolreport/dannykendall.php

 

[Melinda]

Mr Bronson made me terrified to go to High School. My mum stopped me watching it for a while.

 

[skyscraper101]

 

[Flashman]

"YOU BOY!!"

Some of our teachers were far worse than Bronson.

 

[Melinda]

"YOU BOY!!"

Some of our teachers were far worse than Bronson.

Where the hell did you go to school that had worse staff than Bronson!

 

[Griff]

What was Tucker's mate's name? Was the actor Paul/Andrew McCarthey or something?

He did our school disco in around 1979, and played some really shit music.

 

[Flashman]

Where the hell did you go to school that had worse staff than Bronson!

Seriously!


Mr Gaffney was the worst, lost count of the amount of times he caned me. And he used to love prodding my chest violently, with his fingers. If you talked once in class he'd make you kneel down for the rest of the lesson. Another good one was
banging
your
head
on
the
black
board
in
time
with
every
word
he
said!

Mind you, I was a right little cheeky fucker

 

[Boczkowski]

dunno how out of date this list is, but:

Peter Moran (Pogo Patterson) now runs a pub in London.
Lee Macdonald (Zammo Maguire) now runs a key cutting shop in London.
Erkan Mustafa (Roland Browning) appeared in Blackadders Christmas Carol playing the role of "enormous orphan" and also played Otto in the BBC TV comedy series "Chef". He is now rumoured to run his own restaurant in London.
Alison Bettles (Fay Lucas) is now a qualified beauty therapist and has three children.
Mark Savage (Gripper Stebson) has been in a legal battle with his landlady and local council and could face being homeless.
Gwyneth Powell (Mrs McCluskey) and Fraser Cains (Scruffy McGuffy) have continued to work in acting and have regularly appeared on TV and in several films.
John Holmes (Gonch Gardener) went on to study Politics and Economics at the University of East Anglia and was the student union president. After graduating he went travelling and is now a trainee manager at the Golden Horseshoe Casino in Bayswater in London.
Jonathan Lambeth (Danny Kendall) is now a journalist for the Financial Times.
Fleur Taylor (Imelda Davies) runs an estate agency in Surrey.
Michael Sheard (Mr Bronson) has continued to work on TV and has also appeared in a number of films, including playing Adolf Hitler in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".




fae: http://www.thebubbleburst.co.uk/bb.php?entry=Grange Hill

 

[Boczkowski]

danny kendall in 2006

vs

 

[Awesome Wells]

Tucker returns but only because he's embraced fundamental Islam and is now known as Sheik Tukkha. He straps a ton of semtex and takes the school out along with Gripper Stebson whose inherent stupidity as school bully saw him eminently qualified for a career in international politics.

 

[Melinda]

Seriously!


Mr Gaffney was the worst, lost count of the amount of times he caned me. And he used to love prodding my chest violently, with his fingers. If you talked once in class he'd make you kneel down for the rest of the lesson. Another good one was
banging
your
head
on
the
black
board
in
time
with
every
word
he
said!

Mind you, I was a right little cheeky fucker

That is straight out of sadistic nightmare. He probably LOVED it, fapping off at break time.

I remember a nursery teacher who pulled me out of assembly to smack me once. I dont remember what for, but I do remember crying after the walloping.

I went to a highschool which believed in education through snidey self-esteem ripping humiliation, thinking about it Mr Bronson probably would have been a blessing.

Mr Bronson died recently didnt he?

 

[Flashman]

Dies in 2005 apparently, fuck I didn't know that.

 

[zoooo]

Danny Kendall was the bestest.
He topped himself, wasn't a disease.

(not the actor, obviously, the character.)

Loved Gonch and Ziggy too.

 

[fubert]

Just like real school. Except we all said "fuck" a lot more.

 

[JTG]

Michael Sheard (Mr Bronson) has continued to work on TV and has also appeared in a number of films, including playing Adolf Hitler in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".

He was also a headmaster under the control of the Daleks in Remembrance of the Daleks in 1989 and was killed by Darth Vader in Empire Strikes Back.

His autobiography was great, comes across as a lovely bloke.

 

[insomnia]

and no-ones mentioned the beautiful Susan Tully who lit up our lives as busty vixen Michelle from enders (in some parallel universe)

 

[DJ Squelch]

Ahh, I had to watch the start of the last ever episode but was a bit sad to see no sausage chucking pic in the opening sequence. RIP Grange Hill, end of an era

 

[andy2002]

I was a bit surprised Tucker wasn't confused by the fact his old school had moved hundreds of miles from East London to Liverpool. He carried on like it was the exact same place.