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Article: Growing up with the kids of Grange Hill; Phil Redmond's Grange Hill is back on the box. Penny Fray compiles 50 things you need to know about the BBC's award-winningchildren's drama.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- January 7, 2004
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Byline: Penny Fray
1)The first episode of Grange Hill was broadcast on February 8 1978.
2) It was devised by MerseyTV mogul Phil Redmond.
3) In 1976 Redmondhad the idea for a drama that would take a gritty and realistic look at what goes on in British schools.
4) Redmond,back then a screenwritwer, went on to produce popular soaps such as Brookside and later Hollyoaks.
5) The first roll call in Grange Hill saw school joker Tucker Jenkins lined up along his cohorts Alan Humphries and Benny Green. A bolshy Trisha Yates was his rival. And like Tucker himself, she was prone to mischief but had a heart of gold. Despite their ...