Grange Hill

Grange Hill (1978)

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Episode #3.13 - S3-E13

Revealing mistake: Doyle is making a chair in woodwork, but as he is fitting one of the legs he hits the chair with a hammer too hard and splits the wood then gets a telling off from Mr Hopwood, the wood was already split before Doyle hit it.

Diary - S5-E14

Revealing mistake: When Mr Scott storms into the woodwork room and starts attacking Mr Hopwood, Duane and Stewpot rush out to fetch Mr Baxter and Stewpot tells Pogo to stay. Pogo then falls backwards against the wall and the whole set moves.

Episode #23.19 - S23-E19

Visible crew/equipment: Colin and Nathan intervene when the two older bullies are being abusive to Spencer, Calvin and Anika. After the bullies have gone a boom mike shadow can be seen on Colin's coat.

Episode #17.7 - S17-E7

Continuity mistake: When Arnie and Sam are following "animal man"'s blue van on their bikes down the busy road the vehicles on the road around the van change between shots.

Episode #17.8 - S17-E8

Visible crew/equipment: Martha Jordan enters the room when Mr Robson is interviewing Brian about the assault on Jessica. As Brian leaves the room she walks towards Robson and a shadow of the camera and a sound man holding a boom mike can be seen on her green jacket.

Episode #11.4 - S11-E4

Continuity mistake: When Justine intervenes when the grid iron crew are ganging up on Tegs, one crew member wearing a yellow T shirt with the number 55 under an unbuttoned white shirt drops his black helmet, which Ted picks up. When the crew run after Justine and Tegs as they run off, next shot on the stairs "number 55" is wearing the helmet, then as the crew chase after Justine and Tegs, as they leave through a fire door "number 55" is holding his helmet in his right hand.

Exams - S5-E18

Visible crew/equipment: There is a boom mike shadow on Mr Hopwood's shirt when he says "come on you lot, inside" to Pogo, Stewpot, Gripper and Denny, after Gripper and Denny threaten Pogo and stewpot in the corridor.

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Visible crew/equipment: After Rosie and Suzi come out of Mrs Mccluskey's office, as Suzi says "hey Rosie" there is a boom mike shadow on the wall to the left of the door, then when Suzi goes back into Mrs Mcclusky's office there is another boom mike shadow on the wall.

Episode #3.13 - S3-E13

Continuity mistake: In the canteen Doyle is next to Tucker, and puts his plate on the table before sitting down. The angle changes and Doyle puts his plate down a second time.

Episode #3.1 - S3-E1

Continuity mistake: In the second scene when Tucker, Alan and Dukesie are waiting for the bus, a London transport official removes the bus stop sign and tells them that the bus route has been redirected along another road. As the angle changes the parked vehicles in the road have also changed.

Episode #2.7 - S2-E7

Visible crew/equipment: When Mr Sutcliffe returns to his class after telling Mr Llewellyn that he has a problem with Simon Shaw, a boom mike shadow can be seen on the back of the heads of the two pupils nearest the camera.

Episode #2.1 - S2-E1

Visible crew/equipment: In the changing room after the football match, when Joey Singer and Simon Shaw are arguing a shadow of the camera can be seen on the wall behind Simon.

Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Visible crew/equipment: There is a boom mike shadow on the wall in the entrance passage when Tucker, Alan, Benny and Tommy return to the swimming pool to look for Benny's medal.

Episode #1.2 - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: As Mr Mitchell is driving through the school gates he has to brake sharply to avoid Benny Green who is playing football in the car park. Mitchell gets out to tell Benny off, the angle changes and the car has moved forward.

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: When Mr Sutcliffe asks Tucker if he knew who was responsible for the vandalism, Tucker's jacket is only on his left shoulder. In the next shot, Tucker now has the jacket fully on.

Episode #18.9 - S18-E9

Visible crew/equipment: In the girls changing room before the rugby match when Jessica and Paula are bickering, the shadow of a camera and its operator moving can be seen on the lockers.

Season 17 generally

Continuity mistake: The final two episodes of this series are filmed in east Germany and are set in July. The snow on the ground comes and goes between scenes, plus why is it snowing in July?

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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