Tucker's back!! Last ever Grange Hill

[Griff]

So what did Tucker do in it then?

*for the benefit of people still at work at that time of day*

 

[Melinda]

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.

What happened in the end then, I missed it.


Moving the school was the frigging death nell.

Phil Redmond has done some great work for teens, but also returns to his seminal works and ruins them- Brookside, Grange Hill, Hollyoaks.

 

[Ranu]

Some pics here of some of the cast from a couple of years ago

http://www.grangehillfans.co.uk/history/reunion2006_1.php

 

[andy2002]

What happened in the end then, I missed it.

Tucker turned up to persuade his nephew Togger (really) that he should fight to stay at Grange Hill (he was going to be expelled); there was some dreary gubbins about an unexploded bomb beneath the school and the fat kid with a prominent cold sore/birthmark on his lip copped off with the best looking girl in the school. It was fucking terrible but maybe it always was...

Phil Redmond has done some great work for teens, but also returns to his seminal works and ruins them- Brookside, Grange Hill, Hollyoaks.

I interviewed Redmond once about Brookside for a magazine I used to work on and he was enthusing about how they were going to have some big helicopter crash etc etc. I remember thinking that ridiculous shit like that was precisely the reason Brookie ended up as such a joke. I was surprised he didn't blow Grange Hill up at the end to be honest with you...

 

[Melinda]

Some pics here of some of the cast from a couple of years ago

http://www.grangehillfans.co.uk/history/reunion2006_1.php

Zammo and Row-land!

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Is that Zammo!

I was looking at the photos and I couldn't recognise any of them

 

[1927]

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.

Tucker " It's not like it was back in my day"

Hardly bloody surprising is it?

Having not watched in for probably 20 years I thought that it was now filmed in Lpool, not that the whole thing was set there. By what amazing plot device did that happen?

 

[RicardoOP2SG]

what crap are the bbc replacing this legandry program with?

 

[Belushi]

They should have ended it with Rowland returning, but this time fifty foot tall like the Marshmallow man from Ghostbusters

 

[Vintage Paw]

It was a bit shit wasn't it

I thought for sure the school would blow up. I was well disappointed when it didn't They even left Princess and the frog in the disco alone. Perfect for a bit of Romeo and Juliet-type devestation I thought.

 

[RicardoOP2SG]

id also like to know the awnser to 1972 question

 

[Bungle73]

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

(not the actor, obviously, the character.)

Are you sure about that? As I remember it he basically didn't care about school and kept bunking off and was always in trouble with Mr. Bronson. Then in the end it turned out that he had a terminal disease.

 

[zoooo]

Well I suppose I'm not positive. But the way I remember it was he gassed himself in a car... possibly even Bronson's?

Maybe I just invented it in my twisted mind.

 

[silver]

Well I suppose I'm not positive. But the way I remember it was he gassed himself in a car... possibly even Bronson's?

Maybe I just invented it in my twisted mind.

I'm sure he was found dead in a car, I remember that

And I used to love Gonch Gardner - who remembers him selling toast in teh playground? And he was mates with that kid who then was in London's buring and then got done over by a Fake Shek by the News of the World (did I make up that last bit, pls help me someone??)

My nan bought me the Just Say No record