Grange Hill Cast Then And Now
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2024
- Grange Hill is a BritishTv Childrens drama series that ran from 1978-2008. Here is most of the memorable cast members up to 1990.
This was a difficult one to do, so their is a few missing due to the fact of no adult picture and info available.
Just wanted to say doing this brought back so many fond memories. I was lucky enough to have a happy childhood, poor with money but rich in spirit and kindness. Being the youngest of 5 brothers we got up to so many memorable adventures! We wasnt greedy kids and learnt that you didnt need the latest gadgets to have a good life. These were the days of a clip round the ear and a lesson learnt. From great memories with my school mates, playing football, scrumping and just generally being cheeky and boistrious, to your out of school mates and your little gangs and meeting girls. Finally to getting on the train and camping sneaking a few beers in for the adventures. Ive meet so many great brothers, mates along the way. life was good to you because you were good to life.
News round at 5 with John craven, then Grange Hill, wonderful innocent days before multiple channel choice and social media.
And here is the news, a Panda at London zoo has taken an unusual liking to a baby squirrel. It keeps it in its enclosure and tries to feed it bay leaves.
I was happy with four channels. Then again we didn’t know any other channels. So what we didn’t know we didn’t crave. Thankgod. Kinda innocent times I guess. 🤷🏽♂️
spot on!
... and the smell of dinner being cooked in the kitchen as Grange Hill came on... and the multiple power cuts... candles at the ready... those were the days, for good or bad... nice to have experienced those times though... the world was a different place
@@clavichord in our case, we were so poor, it would be no 50p for the meter...😄. Yes, you're right, we would be sitting eating our dinner watching from the table! Happy times!
Oh my words. The good old school days. I can remember finishing school, then try to get home quickly just to watch Grange Hill.
Who else smiled and said “Ro land” when Roland appeared. Loved watching this when came in from school (born 1973) 👍
Whenever I hear the name I have to say it in her voice, it's involuntary. Younger people must think I'm nuts.
I used to fancy Laura...She still looks fit!
Who was the girl who called him 'Ro land'? Black girl. Can't remember her name, but she was the only person who called him that.
janet 6:08
simon pollard Jackie still looks good also.
@@ChrisBrown-dy8ts yes, a very close second. Anyway I'll stop there as I don't want my wife telling me how sad I am if she sees this thread!
Grange hill made you feel like it was your school, r.i.p those actors who have passed.
My uncle was mark farmer. Unfortunately he lost his battle to cancer in 2016. It’s nice to see stuff on here about him ❤️
sorry mate! yes great character just i couldnt find much about him from 1989
So sad. I had a huge crush on him. I'm sorry for your loss
@sarah farmer i thought your uncle mark was a brilliant actor.He was in a few episodes of minder too a few years after his grange hill role.I also met him a few times whilst i was working in london in the late 90s when he was gigging with his band littlehouse.Nice guy sadly missed.
I thought he was great as Johnny Jarvis. An excellent series.
I remember him in the brilliant "Johnny Jarvis" he was a good actor.
Very fond memories of Grange Hill, when I was growing up in the 1980's. Would love to turn the clock back to those happy times. Awful times we are living today!
Agreed and the music is crap!
Agreed Ian, I don't know what happened to the music around 1990/91 but it really did go down hill about then and seems to have got worse ever since, and I was like 25/26 so not as if I was old then. And yes like you what wouldn't I give to go back to the 70s/80s and know what I know I now lol .
Absolutely 3-4 TV Channel’s but there was always something good and many times something GREAT to watch on them because we had so many many GREAT writers and Actors and Actresses all unique and with character and yes the same can be said for Music it was great back then, But Music just like TV is just Ear and Eye Sewage now a days, What I’d give to take the kids back to those days just for a week.. I really do feel sorry for them they don’t know how much fun it all was 🤦♂️ …
Agreed. I went to High School in Sep 1980. Definitely the best years to have been a kid.
You can't even call pupils boys and girls anymore. The nutters are running the madhouse.
If you grew up on Grange Hill the feelings & memories of innocence will be forever buried deep in your heart. Every kid from every class room loved Grange, they were like heroes to all us young kids because we were the same age. How Grange Hill made us feel can never be explained. Thank you for this.
Welcome 👏
@@MarkMahoney Thanks Mark
I agree completely with you, never really thought about it but yes you’re right it made us real something untangable (sp?!) xxx
Yeah. I remember in Grange Hill the kid taking heroin and thinking in my school, no one (of 1400 kids) was taking that stuff, but maybe in London schools they did. I watched it all through secondary school.
6:05 ranks up there with funniest cheesiest singing ever
It really did reflect school life back in the 80s , i often watch episodes on youtube now , just to remember when life was a happier time , kids out playing , football or on bikes , I even remember playing marbles , dig a little hole and try and beat a gobby with a steely 😀
No Internet, no mobile phones , people actually watching bands at gigs and not just filming it.
I really would go back in a heartbeat
Me too happy days marbles , penny sweets fresh air hours of playing with freinds knocking on doors no phones
Exactly! And bk then we were told post 2000 how much easier/ better life would be! Yeh right! 🤦♂️😂
Don't forget top trump ,and kon kers.and the new Parker coats, Fred Perry, and changing your flare trousers at the time Grange hill was showing to trying to afford buying new straight ones, was a problem
"people actually watching bands at gigs and not just filming it". Amen to that.
@@StonefieldJim4 I agree why would you want to have your arms in the air for two hours between songs, or all the time, groups need to copyright streaming online pirates,which I think they do or have a device that blocking signal of the contents of the shows or delayed action to block it
My dad was part of the film crew, he’s going to love seeing this, sadly he has dementia but these little things trigger memories.
Yes i get you donna, my mum was the same, hope he's doing ok 💕
Mark Mahoney thank you, he’s in his own little world most of the time, he’s happy and well which is the important thing. It’s a dreadful disease x
@@donnaheirene2628 yes its not nice at all x here if you ever need to talk 😊
I'm so sorry ❤️. My mum passed away 5yrs ago after suffering with Alzheimer's
@@QBtracksandstuff sorry to hear this xx
Makes me tearful to see how life has changed bring back the old days much better xx
Such a long time ago now since it first started even though it doesn't seem like it. I watched Grange hill religiously up until when Ziggy and Gonch left, by which time I was coming to the end of my school years myself :)
I completely agree! Unfortunately the world has gone mad.
Good old days fancy Trisha big time my queen 👑
Please don't judge me I was only 15 😍
*Mostly White People! HECK!*
Stay free, N A. R 🍻 😎 👋
I agree that life seemed much better days back then. Perhaps it's because we were younger, but I preferred things before technology took over (ironically as I'm watching this on TH-cam!!). Frightening to think how long ago this was and I look back with both happiness and sadness.
This felt like a school reunion to me, It was like seeing old friends again, Thank you.
your welcome!! yes i get you i felt the same way to!
Wow,brought back memories alright....also reminded me my imminent half century coming up!
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Michael Tuffs: The strange thing is, It genuinely was for me!!!, lol.
Love you then and now videos. When I see the actors who are only a few years older than me looking so old now I am scared to look in the mirror anymore 😆
Mark Mahoney: As an Actor in the Grange Hill , I wanted to say I enjoyed this, nice seeing some of my fellow Grange Hill cast, I was in this back in 1978 Series one (extra & Grange Hill football team Goal Keeper). & Series Two EP 14, 1979 on screen Credited part "Gregson's Gang), " Keith Macey", we had such a great time filming this series, and I know we all very much appreciated the support for the show from the fans, ( I even had kids coming up to me asking for autographs, back in the day). The cast came from different "Stage Schools" but we all got on so well, and I met up with Todd Carty on the set of Eastenders years later and he said it was funny how many of us that had been in Grange Hill ended up working together on that series too, My Favorite Director on GH was Colin Cant, a great guy and a Joy to work with, seeing so many of my (real school) friends and fellow actors brought back found memories, so thanks for that, and if any of the fans of the show see my comment I genuinely want to say on behalf of the entire cast & crew a MASSIVE "THANK YOU" to each and every one of you that watched & liked the show, It means a great deal to me, and so I know it will to them.
Tell us more!! 👌👍and your welcome mate! i saw on IMDb you did other work? Regards
You, your cast members,friends etc, were a massive part of mine and many many others childhoods. Who didn’t rush back from school to watch Grange Hill ?. So thank you ! 👍
@@markwhitehouse1698 nice one mark 👍
Cortinaman63 - 'As an actor in the Grange Hill'? Odd way of putting it.
@@markfox1545 Opps. I was falling asleep as I wrote these,comments ( been a long day), so I changed the way I worded the comment, but missed the mistake when I re wrote it, from (As an Actor in THE Grange Hill SERIES) to (As an Actor in Grange Hill) so missed removing the word "the", so well spotted, (I must get more sleep before typing)!!!!!! lol., and thank you for pointing that out. ( But did you or others spot the mistake in Episode 14, I wonder???), I did at the time of filming, and told the crew, but the director said it was fine and would not notice on screen, but it did, when Tucker & friends go up the stairs in Brookdale you can clearly see a big black Camera cable on the stairs, by the railings, In Series one, there is a wide shot of the school playground and in the background you get to very clearly see the lighting rig and stand, again I told the crew I spotted it on the monitor, and they did another "take", but the editing rooms used the "take" that showed the lighting rig, in the end,
Back when television was actually about quality and entertainment.
Saturday morning was the morning for kids!!!. We owned that Tv!!! Don’t forget we also had “Magpie “, why don’t you!!! I did the shrink a bag of crisps in the oven!!!, and it actually worked....I used too love “Jim will fix it “ so glad we’re we never got picked!!, it was a good time to be fat and ugly,🙈🙉🙊 oh, don’t get me on to Rolf Harris,!!!💩💩💩👍
@@karinadebbage5452 Hahaha yes I actually loved Jim'll Fix It as a program, such a tragedy the presenter turned out to be a horrible vile human.
@@DjNikGnashers oh thanks for liking my ranting on TV at that time..!!!.of cause there’s “blue peter..I also made a copy of a cardboard box,which was meant to be a shop...I spent ages,trying to make it look like a clothing..store for Cindy , it took me ages to make...I was so happy that I’d done it..took it down stairs to show my mum, she looked at it and said “you have spelt “clothes wrong “ , But it’s all good...Ioved Jonny Morris, Animals it was for me..that changed everything for me..my love for them....what actually happened to “morph “ and
His naughty little buddy..?well it was a really good time..and I could love that experience all over again..🥰😻🤝
Reading all the comments, they are mostly about memories, it seems like we all grew up in the same era.
3 channels didn't mean we had less choice.
No, we had more, much more.
Thanks for sharing.
Yess its the little things!
Better quality programs
Yes im inclined to agree. Also went out over local park and played football etc, kids seem to want to look at phones, be on social media and play computer games all day long. Didn't always seem it at the time, but looking back, glad i was a kid at that time!.
@@mattmallard7712 yes. And it's strange to try to explain it to the youth of today. We actually used to play football for hours in the park..
They just look at you... 😂
Then go back to their xbox or ps4, or tablet and play fifa.
@@Bull_sheet_Bob hahaha so true 😆😂🤣
Fucking hell....it's like being at an old school reunion! I started at my awful Dickensian-like grammar school the same year that Grange Hill started. I watched it for years even after I'd left. I wish all the best for all these people that made this show such a joy to watch.
I'm sure every generation will say the same but my childhood was magical. And to think we only had 3 channels. Thanks for the memories
yes mine to, your welcome
Yeah, and only one of them had commercials.
I mine was as well good days
we had kind of five in the west country at the time BBC! BBC" HTV HTV Wales AND ATV midlands some areas in the 70,s got more than one ITV channel
sean sands we used to get Granada and htv wales on holiday in north wales in the 70s.
The sausage on a fork in the face on the opening credits - I'll never forget laughing at that each time.
Where on earth has that 40 years gone??!!
Great series though 😎👍🏻
Thank you for reminding that I’m now old! 😂 Well, 48. 🤦♀️
@@sarahwhetstone-james4290 We’re not old, we’re just maturing 😂😂
48 not old! Just blossoming! 😊
Tell me about it
Great memories. Anyone remember Tucker's Luck?
Yesss another good show
Yes....remember his kwaker......Kawasaki bike..
@coffeeguy 66 PMSL I still utter those words to this day...........
@@seankirk333 Yes he did
I think he ended up with his arch nemesis from Grange Hill, Trisha 'Pongo' Yates but we sadly never saw where that went as the series ended at that point
RIP to all the cast that have passed on, I used to watch Grange Hill and loved this programme. Was a favourite after school watching it after Newsround and Blue Peter.
I bet most people who watched this all that time ago are now wearing glasses to watch this now. I know I am.
Yes, not only one pair for reading but another pair for driving as well. No fun this getting old lark :-(
Nope
Your one of the lucky ones Jean 😉
Trisha looks even better with my glasses on now
love Trisha long time 💘🤓
Yup😂😂😂😂
This has made me feel so OLD! Fascinating to see the young cast members as adults. RIP to the ones we've lost.
I am back in the 1970s, its Friday afternoon and I am whatching this at my Nan and Grandads with my younger brother. My own Grange Hill turned out to be hell on earth.
I started secondary school in 1978 as an 11 year old. I believe Grange Hill started that year as well. Those were the golden years of kids tv. Nothing like it today. It’s almost as if I went to the same school as those in Grange Hill.
David you're right - I started secondary school in 78, too. You could really relate to it. Interesting to note that Todd Carty and George Armstrong were playing roles four and five years younger than they were - an amazing age gap when you consider they were fifteen and sixteen !
Even from Australian TV, Grange was easy to relate to. It sometimes took a bit to get the accents and mannerisms. Don't worry, I'm sure it's mutual though. :-) Better than a deep southern US accent.
Yes I could certainly relate to Grange hill at the time as well. Our school was like a TV show in itself lol
@@gorillaau true.nothing like this or degrassi or ready or not or heartbreak high or sweet valley high or clueless exists today.i FEEL bad for modern day young people in the UK who have to rely on Neighbours or Home and Away.
@@franzchong5889 Oh Yes, Degrassi. I had kind of forgotten about that episodic series. Tackling the tough topics such as teenage sexual intercourse, to Teenage Pregnancy and not portraying a fairy tale view, to AIDS from the perspective of someone who contracted it through blood transfusion. There were some other big social issues which it dealt with head on, no pandering nor sugar coating. "Joey Jeremiah, Chairman of the Welcoming Comittee"
The world needs that format of program again. Something that doesn't talk down to the young people but also delivers the facts and ideas required for the youn indviduals to feel informed and empowered to make the right decisions for them. Trouble is how to leave the politics of the day out of it.
This was so nostalgic. I grew up watching this. Time flies!
Mega TV series, Grange Hill was a huge part of my childhood growing up, and always remember rushing home from school each day to watch it.
Those were the days of no technology or mobile phones, just pure innocent fun.
Bring back those great times.
golden days!
Me to use to rush home just to watch it miss those days
Definitely this was an awesome show back in the day, I myself watched this from 1983 up until 1991, all the characters and storyline's seamed more realistic to about 1989 or 1990, after that the show lost it's spark just wasn't as good.
@@metheusdeacon1326 i agree! 👍
Nine million viewers per episode in its golden period....
I loved Grange Hill growing up. After the 80s and 90s, it went down hill.
From Grange Hill to Down Hill! 😁
Same here, got in from school then loved to watch it before my mum had our tea ready. So sad to see even some of the child cast are no longer with us RIP. If Netflix reran the episodes I would watch them :)
Hell 👍...🙀
Haha hill
The last great grange hill era was with Ziggy and Gonch. Was pants after that.
Growing up in the 1980s into the 1990s with Grange Hill; it was like we were at school with these characters and as we developed, they did too. As we moved school years, so did they. It was real escapism from our own school worlds but something we could relate to.
I'm 50 now, Grange Hill was like an extension of my own school, couldn't wait to get home from school and enjoy it. Even used to watch Tucker's Luck. We even had a 'Gripper' at our school. Sad to hear some of the teachers past away, they were like my own teachers.
Well done to the author for putting this video together, brings back memories of childhood days
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A real trip down memory lane, I vividly remember watching the very first episode. So sad to see that many of the cast have passed away.
Grew up with the show and know so many of those faces. Best kids show ever tackling real issues of the time. Miss those days as most of you here are commenting
yes nice one, the show tackled brilliant issues
So true. As a kid in New Zealand this was a favourite show back then. Relatable.
Great stuff. Everyone remembers Grange Hill after John Craven's News Round. I'm 51 now. RIP to those no longer with us. I guess we're showing how much older we all are now. Anyway, thanks for posting.
Makes wish I could go back. Times seemed easier. Happy days
One of the best children's TV shows ever.
Tucker, Alan and Benny initially, they were the naughty boys we daren’t be. Later on Robbie Wright and Ziggy were a great duo, very funny characters. Such a trip down memory lane, sadly too many people have passed away, such is life when you’re in your 50’s. Imagine having been in Grange Hill, reading the comments here knowing you had such a profound impact on other people’s lives. Some of these names/faces I haven’t seen since my own school years. Sadly a guy from my school got hit and killed 3 weeks ago whilst walking to work, he never made it to 50, make the most of your time folks, we just get one chance...............
Thanks for taking the time and considerable effort I’m sure this took.
Grange hill one of my all time favourite programs ever I was 7 when it started and 37 when it finished. Loved the zammo drug episodes made me stay away from that stuff and had a crush on zammos girlfriend Jackie wright 😍❤️ r.i.p benny Terry Sue Patt
Grange Hill was very relatable and realistic. I remember so many storylines because they were believable topics as to what could happen at any school - bullies, drugs, even crushes on teachers! The teachers themselves reminded me of the diverse personalities and teaching styles in my own school. I wouldn’t want to relive my own school years, but I would watch the Grange Hill series again for some great nostalgia.
I don't want to relive my own school days either. I hated my time at school. I had nice mates and we had fun but the day I left school I felt FREE! My life just got instantly better. I went to college, got a job in computing and made even better, nicer mates and just had such a laugh. I will never understand people who say "Ah, school days - the best years of my life." For me, they just weren't.
Got to be one of my favourite tv shows ever,watching this has brought back so many memories and realising what great times they really was
Yep as someone said like a school reunion - a damn better one than the reality of my school.
I grew up with first Grange Hill series and loved it - better days in the 80's definitely
I loved grange hill as a kid. Im 54 now so similar age to some of these actors. This takes me back to such innocent carefree times , wish i was back then
Tucker, gripper and Michelle... My favourite characters..
Those were the days
I'm sure every generation will say the same but my childhood was magical. And to think we only had 3 channels. Thanks for the memories
Booga Benson lol
The series when zammo had his drug problem and then Danny Kendall's weirdness and ultimate death was gripping stuff to watch as a young teenager, absolutely loved Grange Hill.
Yep!... P.s AFC!👈
song made me cry a bit
Just Say No🤣🤣🤣. Certainly worked for me, not 🤣🤣🤣
Yes Danny Kendal I remember that story line. It was very much breaking barriers even back then. That’s what I liked about the show living in a rural area you got to see what’s really happening in the real world
It got a good run, even here in Australia. The cast may not have been the most photogenic lot, but together felts like a school yard next door, if that's a thing.
i remember rushing home from school to watch grange hill. where have all the years gone ?
I remember this back in the day. The 1980s was the Golden era of GH. A shame some of them have passed on.
Quite a shock finding out a few of the cast died so young.Great show in my day.If you never watched Grange Hill you never had a childhood!!....Great upload Mark...
Loved this show, Tucker was my favourite, kids now a days have no idea what they missed. We would run home from school to watch this. Thanks this brought back some great memories.
Without a Shadow the most Iconic British TV Kids show, of all time.........Thanks 4 the Memories Pal.
I used to watch this with my children.
Its amazing how many are no longer here.
I used to be GLUED to that show, when I was a kid ... So sad to see that some of them are no longer with us ☹
Grange Hill was so gritty and real. You lived vicariously through the characters.
So true!!👏👏
I watched it from the days of Tucker to well after I left school, I think we all wanted to go to Grange Hill.
Magic trip down memory lane
Grange Hill was considered very close to the knuckle by parents when it began. I enjoyed watching for many years. I am not sure why parents were so fearful as, it accurately depicted secondary school and late 1970's and 1980's life for teenagers. I can understand how latterly the relevance to school age children's lives began to dissipate as with the incursion of internet, social media and smart phones... all this technology suppressed story lines. Thank you for this memory and thought provoking video and it is so sad to see how many cast members have left us for the great detention in the clouds... Rest in peace.
I was the same age as Tucker. Loved watching the show after getting home from school. One day after school, I got on the train to go home and in the same cabin was Tucker and a couple of the other actors.
Great times. Enjoy life. Time flies.
Nice one mate!
Thank you to all of them for entertaining us during our school days and beyond.
These people are the same age as me 50 years old, I'm very pleased to see them all on youtube on what they look like now and then.
Loved Grange Hill... Used to talk about it the next day at school
Thank you for posting this, it has brought back so many happy memories. Clark’e
Loved Grange Hill, used to watch from the late 70’s until early 90’s. Imelda (Davis?) was probably my first crush. Brought back so many memories, thank you ❤️🙂
Enjoyed that. They are mostly my age at 50. Very nostalgic. Fond memories.
yes great memories
Well lots of them now look much older than 60
@@rossspenser8314 Some of the cast like myself are not that far awat from 60, all those early mornings at studio, and late nights filming over the years I not surprised some of us look older, lol.
I was born in 1970 and have fond memories of watching this show, ah the days of 3 channels eh! Great days 😊
Brilliant! Jacqui looks good then and now❤❤
Everyone who watched Grange hill are roughly in there 50s bring back so many memories wish I could go back to my school days ..everyone stay safe
Nice to see most of them still with us! Thank you for my childhood soap operas!
Nostalgia is such a bitter sweet experience. I loved this show it was a must watch after getting home from school late 70s early 80s. Thank you Mark for bringing this to all us old kids.
👏👍bitter sweet! you hit the nail on the head!
It is kind of unsettling to realise that the world we grew up in is now a bygone age. I do mourn it a bit. I feel the same when I watch old Minder episodes.
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Long live Grange hill!!!
Long live Grange hill!!
Used to love Grange hill as a kid.
Can remember the teachers and most of the students.
We had our own Mr Bronson at school, and Gripper too, but I can imagine most schools did!
Seeing the faces brings back so much memories of the Grange Hill cast.
I distinctly remember all the girls or a vast number having that Trisha hairstyle at my school in the late 70s.
I used to run home from school to watch Grangehill, I remember tucker Jenkins and Tricia Yeats
Same here. Today's kids don't know what they missed
Thank you for the trip down memory lane one of my favourite children’s tv programs during my childhood. Seems like such a long time ago how everyone has changed, I’m now 49. They don’t make them like that anymore. Thanks for sharing 👍
Why did they end this iconic program, it put so many future stars on their 1st path to fame, dealt with the harsh realities of everyday life in school, and outside of it, and gave kids a voice, it was really the only program I could relate to personally, as a young child back then, long live the memory and the remaining cast of Grange Hill, R.I.P to ALL the cast that we've lost along the way, Angel up in heaven above.....🙏🙏🙏💯💯
It ended because television itself changed. It lasted far longer than it should have. Sad, but that's how it goes.
A brilliant homage; well researched & clearly done with affection for the programme. Great to see how the characters have grown up with so many making their careers in television & R.I.P to those that have passed away....
Loved Grange hill!!!
I was thinking about this program today, what a coincidence, I loved this.
Fantastic..........brought back so many memories as a kid in the late 70s. The best era. Thank you.
Coming home from school and watching this memories 😢
Groundbreaking programme dealt with stuff that still hasn't been sorted today.. Bullying racism drugs etc etc outstanding cast and writers loved it at the time brilliant memories
Just realised I still fancy Fay after 40 + years .
You’re not the only one lol.
Everyone loves fay
Think we all fancied the pants off fay. One of my first stirrings at primary school, after Linda Hayden, Debbie Harry and Kate Bush..lol
@@danw1374 It was Lisa York I fancied.
Omg. How I loved Grange Hill. Pls bring it back and do it well!!!
Best 10 mins I've spent in a long time..So good..so many era's and memories....
nice one mate
Brings back so many memories. Remember the Zammo storyline like it was yesterday scared the hell out of me.
yes quite incredible for its day!
just say no lol
Who Knew 22 I couldn’t quite. 🤦🏻♂️
Zammo looks like a smack head now lol
Is Zammo still a bag head? 🤣
4:08 didn't expect Susan Tully to look like Pauline Quirke!
@yortzandat Not really. Pauline Quirke has always looked like Pauline Quirke! 😂
She looks like a completely different person, even from her eastenders days.
I really liked Susan as Suzanne in GH and Michelle in EE. She always seemed to sport that 80's flick.
I thought that too!! 😂
Awesome. Was a child of that generation, great to see some of my first "crushes" grew into beauties. Sad to see some of the actors who played charecters I knew so well have passed.
Thanks for the blast from the past.
your welcome
Just heard a podcast which interviewed Erikan (Roland). What a top guy he is! Turned into a superb gentleman.
I was also in a band with him briefly in the eighties (he played drums).
Oh to be able to turn the clock back. One day it was the last time we'd watch Grange hill, but we didn't know it.
I was born in 71, so I stopped watching it at some point, long before the show ended for good.
Mauler looks like the beast off the chase
Anybody else?
Yes. I thought that as well. Glad it wasn't just me.
My thoughts exactly. I half expected it to come up as him!
Ha ha was racking my brains trying to think who he looked like! Nice one! It's 'the beast'!
What a wonderful blast from the past, I loved this. Thanks for stiring great memories.
Thank you. You have taken me back to my childhood when growing up was so magical and wonderful.
This was my favourite kids TV series, when I was at school. School was never as exciting as Grange Hill was, I felt 'short changed'!
I could never understand why all my mates at school rushed home to watch Grange Hill. A program about school, after spending all day at school.
Escapism from the humdrum of a normal school day. 😄
I couldnt deal with bullying at school. So used to get tips from GH lol
ymo1965 why do you need a tip to headbutt a bully?
@@Eleventhearlofmars lol. I was only 13
@@Eleventhearlofmars yeah its not that simple, people get paralysed with fear.
Great memories...seems like yesterday, coming home from school to watch another more exciting school... where has time gone
So true nice one mate
Honestly made me smile and a little emotional,some great memories.
What a great trip down memory lane. Grange Hill was such an iconic children's tv drama. It so often handled controversial subjects sensitively and informed the viewer. I think this was the reason why it was eventually cancelled as of around the 90's society's sensibilities were changing and hard-hitting children's drama no longer had a place on the telly. Was that the beginning of the snowflake generation? Anyways, the most memorable character for me was Tod Carty as Tucker.
@Debbie Smith: Todd Carty went on to play the second Mark Fowler in Eastenders until 2004 [ his character dying of AIDS off screen in 2005 ] and Sue Tully ended up playing his sister, Michelle [ replaced by another actress briefly a couple of years ago ]. The series was axed in 2008 as the BBC felt it had run its course, I don't think that's to do with society as such, programmes and their writers kind of run out of material. Plus one of the writers, Anthony Minghella [ a very good screen writer, he did film and tv namely, Inspector Morse, Truly Madly Deeply and The English Patient ] died in 2008. So that could have swung it, like with E.R when its creator Michael Crichton [ Jurassic Park ] died, they felt it was wrong to continue. Here is the article about: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7230566.stm No doubt what they replaced with was dumbed down garbage. Flake Gen, started in America around 2010, and somehow wormed its way over here.
The other stand out was Degrassi (Canadian?) for tackling discrimination, and issues such as HIV (with a student getting it through blood transfusion).
without that show do you think we would have had ready or not which was also canadian and the rather controversial by UK Standards for the teen market Australian Heartbreak High.
something kids today will never know. how lucky we are to have had good kids tv in the 70's and 80's. Remembered more than a few also sad to see some are no longer with us. but such a cracking trip down memory lane. Grange hill, the only school I wanted to goto. I also went to a primary school called St joesphs. And laughed when they are the mortal enemies...
Great video. I remember all of these and I'm so happy that the most of them are still with us. I also have thanks and sadness for the ones that we have lost. They will always be with us in our memories.
Rushing home from school to watch it. Ahhh memories x
Used to love watching this as a kid. Some are the same/similar age to me. Related to it well back then. So much fun!
Fantastic memories of my childhood when kids were kids!!!
@Karina the hole world was just a better place back then
Remember my primary school days watch every week day in evening great show ❤❤❤
1984-1989 was my time period watching Grange Hill. I recently watched every single episode again over lockdown from 1978-1987 on DVD. Can't wait for the next season to be released 1988-1989! Thanks Mark for sharing this clip. Loved it and sad to see one or two are no longer with us.
That theme tune still pops into my head every now and again.