Grange Hill

Grange Hill (1978)

48 mistakes in season 2

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Episode #2.8 - S2-E8

Continuity mistake: When Mr. Mitchell is comforting Cathy after the police have arrested the man who was following her, a row of parked cars that were parked behind them have disappeared.

Episode #2.14 - S2-E14

Continuity mistake: When Tucker, Alan and Benny ambush the Brookdale boy, Alan is sitting on top of the Brookie pining him down. When the angle changes Alan is sitting beside the Brookie - he has not had time to move.

Episode #2.4 - S2-E4

Visible crew/equipment: When Trisha is asking Sudhamani if she is going to the disco, when Sudhamani says "well if I'm late my father will want to know where I've been" you can see the shadow of the camera moving on the blackboard.

Episode #2.2 - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: When Andrew and Justin are walking home a white car on the road behind them slows down to go through the width restriction and then disappears, as it does not drive past them when the angle changes, and there was nowhere else for it to go.

Episode #2.1 - S2-E1

Other mistake: At the football match Simon Shaw complains to Mr Baxter that he was driving the minibus too fast, but when they left school another teacher was driving the minibus and Baxter was sitting in the passenger seat.

Episode #2.8 - S2-E8

Plot hole: In this episode Cathy's father comes looking for her, he walked out on his family eleven years ago and had no contact with them during that time. Cathy's mother always told her that her father had died when she was a baby so A) How did Mr Hargreaves know which school Cathy attended? and B) how did he recognize her straight away when he hadn't seen her since she was a year old baby and she was now twelve years old?

Episode #2.3 - S2-E3

Plot hole: Miss Summers tells her class that they have the afternoon off school due to an emergency staff meeting. Penny and Suzi leave the room with the other pupils, Miss Summers stays sitting at her desk. As the two girls are walking down the corridor out of school they stop outside the room that the meeting is in to listen. Miss Summers opens the door and tells them to go away - how did she get to the meeting when she was still sitting at her desk when Penny and Suzi left the room?

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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