Grange Hill

Episode #7.18 - S7-E18

Continuity mistake: Mr McGuffy is walking down the corridor - behind him is a girl dressed in pink, and walking towards him is a boy in a black jumper with a white stripe on it. Mr. McGuffy enters the classroom to speak to Pogo - when the angle changes to inside, the girl in pink doesn't walk past the open door but the boy does, even though he had already passed the door in the previous angle.

Episode #7.18 - S7-E18

Continuity mistake: In the first scene of the disco with Glenroy as the DJ, some of the kids dancing can also be seen in the next shot of kids waiting in the queue to pay to get in.

Episode #4.13 - S4-E13

Continuity mistake: In the second scene in the school corridor two girls are walking in front of Alan and Tucker, one wearing a black skirt and a black and white top and the other wearing a blazer and a black skirt. They walk up the stairs as Alan and Tucker stop and chat, a few moments later the same two girls are now behind Alan and Tucker and walk past them in the corridor.

Episode #2.16 - S2-E16

Continuity mistake: While they are lost in the forest, Penny and Suzi fall in a pond, soaking their clothes, but in following shots their clothes have dried really quickly.

Episode #2.15 - S2-E15

Continuity mistake: When Mr Styles is telling everyone the hostel's rules, Penny's head moves between angle changes from leaning over to her left, then upright, then leaning over to her right.

Episode #12.9 - S12-E9

Continuity mistake: Ronnie arrives at school on her moped and parks next to a blue car that Vince is hiding behind - she removes her helmet, the camera cuts to Ziggy shouting at Vince, and when the camera cuts back to Vince, Ronnie takes her helmet off a second time.

Episode #28.19 - S28-E19

Continuity mistake: When Alex and Alison get out of the limousine at the premiere, Alison drops her purse and Alex bends down to pick it up, splitting his trousers. The purse is in his right hand, the angle changes and the purse is now in his left hand, then another angle change and it's back in his right.

Episode #22.6 - S22-E6

Continuity mistake: Kamal and Becky kiss in the last of the four photos that the booth takes but when Kamal, Colin, Arnie and Nathan are looking at the strip of photos, Kamal and Becky are kissing in the third photo.

Episode #15.12 - S15-E12

Continuity mistake: In the final scene when Justine and Chrissie arrive to break up the fight, Chrissie walks in front of the boys while holding her baby. A boy in a blue shirt is standing between Justine and Nick, but when the angle changes the boy in the blue shirt is now standing behind Justine and Nick, and the two boys that were standing between Ray and Richard have disappeared.

Episode #13.6 - S13-E6

Continuity mistake: During the demonstration outside the chemist's shop, when Frances is explaining to Calley the reasons for the protest Frances is facing Calley, but when the angle changes when Mrs McCluskey arrives, Frances is facing away from Calley.

Episode #13.6 - S13-E6

Continuity mistake: When Mr Griffiths is pushing the trolley across the playground with the boxes on it, it is hit by a football. The position of the football changes between shots.

Episode #10.24 - S10-E24

Continuity mistake: In the final scene at the party when the conga starts, Julie is at the front followed by Freddie, Jackie, Zammo, Mrs McClusky, Ronnie, Gonch, Louise, an extra, Calley, Robbie wearing an orange and green party hat and Trev. Then when the conga goes through the door and out into the playground the first 5 are the same, followed by Ronnie (who is now wearing a party hat), Gonch, Mrs Reagan, Jane, Hollo, Calley, Robbie (now wearing a yellow party hat), Cheryl and Trev (who is now wearing the hat Robbie was wearing). As the conga goes round the playground Hollo disappears from the line up and Louise moves further back.

Episode #9.24 - S9-E24

Continuity mistake: Ziggy and Robbie throw bags of flower over Imelda, Helen and Sharon, making a mess of their shirts when they take a break from the race. When Banksie and Mr Kennedy come over the finishing line together, Imelda and Helen can be seen behind them, back in the race with clean shirts.

Episode #9.23 - S9-E23

Continuity mistake: In the final scene when Ziggy and Robbie confront Ant, Ant is holding his jacket at his waistline. When the angle changes Ant is holding his jacket over his shoulder, and the position of Ziggy and Robbie's hand change as they try to restrain him.

Episode #9.6 - S9-E6

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the second years are cleaning the tables in the canteen that ends with Ronnie throwing a cloth at Mr Griffiths, Ronnie's hair keeps changing position between shots, from being over the front of her shoulders to over her back.

Episode #8.17 - S8-E17

Continuity mistake: Annette is wearing a black and white patterned top in registration, when she's sitting an exam and when she goes home, but when she's at the meeting about the school play she is wearing a plain black top.

Episode #8.14 - S8-E14

Continuity mistake: Just before Jean-Paul crashes the car the shots inside and outside of the car do not match, inside the car it is nearer the crash scene than it is outside.

Episode #4.4 - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: When Mr Hicks says "I said I didn't want to see these rags again, Marks", you can see that there is nothing behind Marks, but in the next shot a white shirt is behind him.

Field Trip - S6-E6

Continuity mistake: When Roland plays his tape recorder on the coach, the woman on the tape says "lightest lemon sponge I've ever tasted - she used to bake, yes I remember, mind you she worked hard that woman..." But in the cafe Roland didn't start recording until she said "mind you she worked hard..."

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Episode #9.11 - S9-E11

Imelda: I'm gonna get my dad down here to sort you out.
Mr Baxter: You do that, get your whole family down here, I expect they'll be glad to hear you've been nicking money off first year students. You get them all down here, tell them to wear a funny hat and we'll have a party.

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Trivia: The main entrance and car park of Grange Hill school used from series eight until series eleven are the same ones that are currently used for the BBC1 series Holby City, they are on site at the BBC Elstree Centre.

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