Tag: Grange Hill
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It Goes Deeper Than You Think
There’s An Extra Layer To The Young Ones Grange Hill Bit I like stumbling across things that add an extra dimension to something I already know so well. Take this moment, from The Young Ones, for example. I’ve explored this clip before, in an effort to try and work out if the set-pieces are from […]
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Take Two Grange Hill Special
There’s some interesting stuff in this Take Two special about Grange Hill from 28th May 1986. Rumbelows is such a perfect 80s reference too. This is behind the scenes filming for series 10, and the show had been an OB production since the move to Elstree in series 8.
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Movies In Grange Hill
Movie buffs assemble. I need your help identifying some films that were featured in a couple of episodes of Grange Hill during series 8. You see, Gonch has hit upon a money-making wheeze, and he’s charging his schoolmates to watch rental VHS tapes during lunch hour. This is what they’re watching. Starts with a high […]
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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 […]
