Grange Hill

Grange Hill (1978)

367 mistakes

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Episode #3.1 - S3-E1

Revealing mistake: Karen Stanton supposedly hits Michael Doyle in his nether region with her satchel but she actually hits him below the knees.

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.

Season 27 generally

Other mistake: All throughout this series Grange Hill is celebrating 125 years on the same site, but Grange Hill didn't move to this site until series eight in 1985, when the school merged with Rodney Bennett and Brookdale schools, this being the former Rodney Bennett site.

Episode #13.4 - S13-E4

Visible crew/equipment: During the yoga sequence in the gym when Mr Robson goes to speak to Brian and Neil, the shadow of the camera can be seen on the backs of the two boys in the back row.

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 #12.9 - S12-E9

Visible crew/equipment: Early in this episode, when the pupils are coming into school, Calley calls out to Vince "oi Vince, there's a lot of people looking for you" there is a reflection of a sound man holding a boom mike in the window of the blue car next to Vince.

Episode #26.1 - S26-E1

Factual error: Shannon asks Leah if she knows what happened to Tom Smith - she replies that Tom has gone to university, but in the previous series Tom was only in his first year of sixth form, and it takes at least two years in the sixth form to study for the A levels required for a university place.

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Suggested correction: Although normally A-levels are taken after 2 years, it is possible (and often done) to study them in one year.

Andy Benham

Episode #11.9 - S11-E9

Visible crew/equipment: Towards the end of this episode when Calley, Ronnie and Fiona are walking through the car park you can see the boom mike reflected in the window of the black car.

Episode #9.8 - S9-E8

Visible crew/equipment: When Ziggy knocks the ladder causing the bucket to fall and tip the liquid over Mr Griffith's head, you can see someone's hands holding the bucket.

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 #22.6 - S22-E6

Visible crew/equipment: In Becky's garden, when she has tricked Kamal into wearing the dress, you can see a crew member reflected in the windows of her conservatory when Dill brings Nathan, Colin and Arnie into the garden.

Episode #17.18 - S17-E18

Maria: Do you know what you are, Parrott?
Mr Parrott: Mr Parrott to you.
Maria: A complete prat. The kids know it, the teachers know it, and now it looks like your ex-fiancée has got the message as well.

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Episode #8.14 - S8-E14

Trivia: When Banksie, Jackie, Jean-Paul and Sarah first arrive at the disused factory to drive Phil's car, the scaffolding in the background is on the Eastenders set which was under construction when this series was being filmed. From 1984 until 2001 Grange Hill was made at the BBC Elstree studio's, where Eastenders has been filmed since 1985.

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