Grange Hill

Grange Hill (1978)

32 mistakes in season 8 - chronological order

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Episode #8.1 - S8-E1

Continuity mistake: Trevor Cleaver gives Hollo his bag and tells him to put it on the seat furthest away from the teacher. In the first two shots Hollo is holding the bag the right way up, but in the third shot Hollo is holding the bag on its end.

Episode #8.3 - S8-E3

Continuity mistake: First year Calley Donnington says she was born in 1974 but to be in this series' first year intake she would have to been born between September 1972 and August 1973.

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Episode #8.8 - S8-E8

Continuity mistake: Miss Washington leaves her class and asks them to mark themselves in the register, the red haired girl sitting in the front row stands up, the angle changes and she is still sitting down and then she stands up again. (00:04:44)

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Episode #8.12 - S8-E12

Continuity mistake: As the six pupils who visit the closed down Brookdale school find an unlocked door to enter Fay, Jackie and Banksie are the last three of the group in that order, but when the angle changes Banksie is ahead of Jackie and Fay, who have swapped places.

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Episode #8.13 - S8-E13

Continuity mistake: When the first years are walking down the road there is a blue Ford Transit van parked behind a Land Rover. When the pupils are crossing the road the Transit has disappeared.

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Episode #8.14 - S8-E14

Revealing mistake: In inside shots of the car it is being driven by either Banksie or Jean-paul, but in outside shots there is another man driving the car.

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 #8.14 - S8-E14

Visible crew/equipment: When Phil tells Banksie to stop his car which is being driven by Jean-Paul, Banksie jumps in front of the car but jumps out of the way when Jean-Paul refuses to stop - you can see the crew reflected in the car's side windows.

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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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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