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Parents and Grange Hill

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dottypotter · 24/01/2023 20:36

For those who were growing up when Grange Hill started in 1978.
Did you parents try to stop you watching it?

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UnctuousUnicorns · 25/01/2023 00:30

We watched it, Young Ones as well. I went to a convent school where we all stood up when a teacher entered or left the room etc., so G.H. seemed very far removed from my own school experience. I think I'd have hated it tbh.

Findyourneutralspace · 25/01/2023 00:31

Grange Hill was fine because it was on the BBC. Tizwas, however….

pigsinoodies · 25/01/2023 00:32

kindlyensure · 25/01/2023 00:24

I was in it! (Am not Tucker or Trisha). Mr Bronson seemed ancient to us and he could never remember his lines.

Is that you Pogo?

Myotherpetisamouse · 25/01/2023 00:41

I wasn’t allowed and my dad was a teacher.

Melliphant · 25/01/2023 00:45

GerronBuzanDoThaWomwok · 25/01/2023 00:17

Snap!!!!!!🙃Was it Anthony Karamanopolis who fell off a tall building????

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That's uncanny. DS and I watched Anthony fall off that tall building only this evening. Surprisingly unmessy for such a tall building. Rather a fabulous episode - Bullet Baxter caught looking under a public toilet door: "I'm looking for some boys". The security guard watches 4 boys troop out of the same cubicle a bit later and Tucker quips "it's like Piccadilly Circus" - a cottaging reference in Grange Hill!

shiningcuckoo · 25/01/2023 01:29

I watched it cos mum and dad were still at work. I don't think they'd have been bothered anyway. My own school was a bit Grange Hill, although being in that there London, Grange Hill seemed more glamorous. I also recommend the podcast Sausage on a Fork. The interviews are great.

realmsofglory · 25/01/2023 01:39

Yes, but no ITV!

gabsdot45 · 25/01/2023 02:26

We weren't allowed to watch it. My mum saw a bit of an episode where one girl called another girl a bitch and they had a fight. That was the end of that.

Rubyupbeat · 25/01/2023 06:20

No and I loved it.
I sometimes watch old episodes on youtube.

icanneverthinkofnc · 25/01/2023 06:23

Surprisingly, we were allowed to watch, loved GH!!!

Chimchar · 25/01/2023 06:52

kindlyensure · 25/01/2023 00:24

I was in it! (Am not Tucker or Trisha). Mr Bronson seemed ancient to us and he could never remember his lines.

Omg! That's so cool! Will you tell us which era you were?

I wasn't allowed to watch until the Zammo time. I tweeted once in response to a question a few years ago that I used to fancy Zammo, and the actor replied to me! I was so embarrassed. BlushGrin

ThePoshUns · 25/01/2023 06:53

The actor that played Danny Kendall ended up on my degree course at uni.

PriamFarrl · 25/01/2023 07:05

pigsinoodies · 25/01/2023 00:07

I've just watched it, Series 5 Episode 3.

The story is that he's a late developer who's not been told the facts of life yet. He's a bit shy and he's been bullied by Gripper and ribbed a bit by his older sister. The bit where he's reading the medical book is before he's had the sex education lesson and Gripper's bullying has made him feel he'll never grow up like the other boys are doing. I can't see hint of a gay storyline being planned there.

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I never thought it was about being gay. It just seemed odd that he said it wouldn’t happen to him.

ReneBumsWombats · 25/01/2023 07:13

kindlyensure · 25/01/2023 00:24

I was in it! (Am not Tucker or Trisha). Mr Bronson seemed ancient to us and he could never remember his lines.

You've got to say who you were!

Singleandproud · 25/01/2023 07:16

My dad was very protective and I wasn't allowed to watch Grange Hill or Byker Grove in the 90s nor the News. Last night my dad was complementing my 13 year old on her knowledge of current affairs 🤣

MrsBennetsPoorNerves · 25/01/2023 07:19

No. My mum watched it with us and we discussed the issues it raised.

My best friend wasn't allowed to watch it. I always thought that was ridiculous. It didn't corrupt us in the slightest.

My parents were pretty wise about a lot of things, I reckon.

Zanatdy · 25/01/2023 07:34

No, but I never really got into it

ImBlueDab · 25/01/2023 07:40

No

PlaitBilledDuckyPuss · 25/01/2023 07:41

Yes - the first episode I remember was the Claire 'diary' episode, where she wrote a diary detailing her romantic fantasies about Mr Hopwood, her parents found it and thought it was real and all hell broke loose. I was entranced!

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 25/01/2023 07:42

Yes, I loved it though.

Testina · 25/01/2023 07:44

Yes… because they dropped their aitches and my parents thought we’d all copy 🤣

PlaitBilledDuckyPuss · 25/01/2023 07:45

PlaitBilledDuckyPuss · 25/01/2023 07:41

Yes - the first episode I remember was the Claire 'diary' episode, where she wrote a diary detailing her romantic fantasies about Mr Hopwood, her parents found it and thought it was real and all hell broke loose. I was entranced!

Sorry, I meant yes they let me watch; no they don't stop me although I was another who wasn't allowed ITV.

KatherineJaneway · 25/01/2023 07:46

No. It scared me as a young child though.

FrenchandSaunders · 25/01/2023 07:50

I was 10 in 1978 and my mum hated Grange Hill but reluctantly let me watch it.

Zammo lives near me and runs a shop.

Mum also couldn’t bear me playing Boomtown Rats, Another Brick in the Wall …. she’d visibly cringe at “we don’t need no education” 🤣

Coxspurplepippin · 25/01/2023 07:58

We watched it - Mum caught the occasional episode 'Is school really like that?' Our semi rural school was nothing like Grange Hill, we were all very well behaved in comparison! I remember talking to a former teacher about ten years after leaving school and he very firmly blamed Grange Hill for the rot setting in.......

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