Grange Hill

Grange Hill (1978)

14 continuity 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

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 #8.17 - S8-E17

Continuity mistake: The first years walk off to their next lesson after Mr Bronson has come out of the exam room to tell them off for being noisy, the pupils walking behind Gonch, Hollo, Ronnie and Calley change position when the angle changes.

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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 #8.17 - S8-E17

Continuity mistake: When Jackie and Banksie are sitting on the roundabout in the park, in the the row of parked cars behind them there's a brown Vauxhall Viva which appears and disappears when the angle changes.

Episode #8.18 - S8-E18

Continuity mistake: When Banksie and Loop are crossing the road outside the cafe the traffic has come to a standstill, but as soon as they are inside the cafe the traffic is flowing freely.

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Episode #8.18 - S8-E18

Continuity mistake: When Mrs McClusky is in the playground with Mr Bronson, Miss Booth, Banksie and Kevin discussing the alternative end to the school play with the bikers there is a white Lada estate car parked on the road outside the school that appears and disappears between shots.

Episode #8.18 - S8-E18

Continuity mistake: Stewpot arrives on stage for the play's finale on a motorbike, but when Banksie and Kevin open the hall doors only the rider is on the bike. As soon as the angle changes when the bike is through the hall doors Stewpot has appeared on the pillion.

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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