The seventh series of the British television drama series Grange Hill began broadcasting on 3 January 1984, before ending on 2 March 1984 on BBC One. The series follows the lives of the staff and Students of the eponymous school, an inner-city London comprehensive school. It consists of eighteen episodes.
Cast and characters
Students
Teachers
Episodes No. Episode Writer(s) Director Original airdate 1 Episode One Phil Redmond and Barry Purchese Carol Wilks 3 January 1984It is the first day of a new term and Zammo collects girlfriend Jackie on the way to school. Suzanne is nearly 16, and is desperate to leave. Mr. Hopwood has left Grange Hill and Mr. Smart finds out he is H5's form tutor. Zammo leaves Jackie at her school, Brookdale, and makes some new enemies with the other Brookdale boys. Jonah has moved away and his cousin Jeremy Irving is now going to Grange Hill. Jeremy tells Zammo that Brookdale is merging with Rodney Bennet and that is why he moved. Stewpot's impression of Mr. Smart goes down well and Mr. Smart turns up and overhears it. Annette's first incident with Miss Gordon, who is Miss Mooney's replacement, is not good. Jeremy finds the print room is an excellent place to make fake bus tickets. First appearances: Miss Gordon and Jackie Wright 2 Episode Two Phil Redmond and Margaret Simpson Carol Wilks 6 January 1984 Randir starts a chain letter but Pogo uses the scheme for himself to make money, but the maths side of it is too difficult. Claire gives out biorhythm readings to her classmates of H5. She tries the staff, but some will not co-operate, like Mr. Smart. Stewpot and Pogo spend the maths lesson trying to get around the chain letter idea. Miss Gordon seems to be getting the attention of the male teachers and the female Students are shocked to see her in Mr. Smart's car. 3 Episode Three Phil Redmond and David Angus Nic Phillips 10 January 1984 Zammo is waiting for Jackie to arrive, but Jeremy convinces Zammo he saw Jackie get in a car with an older man. A few moments later, Jackie appears and sees Zammo walking with Jeremy. Zammo and Jeremy are stopped on their way to school by the Brookdale lads who had seen Zammo with Jackie—who goes to Brookdale—and they tell Zammo to stay away from Jackie. Jeremy uses his fake bus pass and gets away with it. Annette bets with Fay and Julie she can wear eye makeup without being spotted—by wearing sunglasses and it actually convinces one teacher until she encounters Mrs. McClusky. Roland seems to be in the money, and starts lending it to others—with interest added. Jeremy uses his fake bus pass but then gets caught out by a bus inspector. 4 Episode Four Phil Redmond and David Angus Nic Phillips 13 January 1984Jeremy has been suspended due to the fake bus pass. Fay feels hurt when her hockey teacher criticises her. Jackie gives Zammo strict instructions to stay clear of Brookdale bully Gluxo. Janet follows Roly home, nagging him about his weight whilst trying to find out what is up with him. Annette plans to enter a fashion competition by sending in photographs of herself and tells her friends that she is going to get them done professionally. However, she goes to a photo booth and does them. Mrs. McClusky calls Zammo to her office because she believes he has something to do with the fake bus-pass business. 5 Episode Five Phil Redmond and David Angus Nic Phillips 17 January 1984 Pogo's chain letter scam starts to lose interest as they do not feel as they are getting anything out of it. Pogo uses one of the computers to work out the chains. An epidemic of head lice sweeps the school. Pogo is getting grief from his unhappy customers, but Miss Lexington and Mr. Howard save his bacon—until he gets out to the playground. Final appearance: Miss Lexington 6 Episode Six Phil Redmond and Barry Purchese Carol Wilks 20 January 1984 Jeremy is being obnoxious when he returns from suspension. Annette has got a letter from the fashion competition, because she has made it through to the finals, but Miss Gordon tries to persuade her that modelling is a shallow career and will not give her the afternoon off to go. In biology, dissection of a rat is the order of the day, and some of the more squeamish members of class stay in the other room. Jeremy puts the dissected rat away into a cupboard afterwards and then puts Diane's bag in there, too. Diane screams and is allowed to go home but Annette uses this as an excuse to get out of school. She turns up for her modelling final—and finds a huge queue of girls waiting. At the pool, Jeremy seems determined to be as annoying as possible. The swimming teacher, Mr. Devereux, insists everyone stays out the water but no one listens and Annette's behaviour keeps Miss Hartley away. Jeremy throws Fay's bangle in the water and goes to retrieve it. The second time he does it, people assume he is showing off when he takes a long time at the bottom of the pool. The alarm is called and Mr. Devereux dives in and tries, with Mr. Baxter's help, to resuscitate Jeremy, but it is too late. Final appearance: Jeremy Irvine 7 Episode Seven Phil Redmond and Frances Galleymore David Bell 24 January 1984 N3 are struggling to come to terms with the shock Jeremy's death. Miss Gordon tries to reassure the class that it was his heart that gave out. Annette comes to school late, and seems calm and easy. Mr. Baxter offers his resignation because he feels responsible for Jeremy's death but Mrs. McClusky refuses to accept it. The United Nations weekend is looming, but Suzanne is unhappy to find she must wear school uniform. There have been fights with Brookdales again and more talk of merging the schools. Annette finally breaks down in tears when the reality of Jeremy's death sets in. Precious's hairdressing skills are put to the test on Christine. 8 Episode Eight Phil Redmond and Margaret Simpson TBA 27 January 1984 It is the weekend of the UN association's conference and Grange Hill are representing Tanzania. It does not take long for Stewpot and Duane to find female company. Pogo and Stewpot both show an interest in Trudy. Glenroy gets involved with other black kids and Suzanne finds herself left out. David Bellamy gives a speech on the World Food Problem and then the other countries have their say. Afterwards, Glenroy tells Claire she should "tell it like it is" rather than dressing up her speech with fancy words. Suzanne and Claire go off for lunch with the 'Russian' delegates. Featuring Gina Bellman as Trudy 9 Episode Nine Phil Redmond and Margaret Simpson TBA 31 January 1984 The UN association weekend continues and Claire has not turned up for the afternoon session because she is out with a boy who is from a public school. In a discussion about trade, Glenroy gets carried away on his rant about poverty, and Grange Hill's chance to talk is shortened. Glenroy is about to pack his bags and go, but is persuaded to stay. At the dinner dance, Claire waits for Guy whilst Stewpot waits for Trudy and then they find that their partners are an item. Fed-up Claire dances with upper-class twit John Eastlake, then runs off to her bedroom. Stewpot goes to find her, and persuades her to come back to the dance. Featuring Gina Bellman as Trudy 10 Episode Ten Phil Redmond and Barry Purchese Edward Pugh 3 February 1984 The girls have taken over the gym for gymnastic trials and Fay is fantastic at it. Sarah and Mandy are jealous of Fay and suggest that she prefers girls, especially Miss Gordon. This causes Fay a lot of upset and she runs away. Meanwhile, the boys run round the school to practice for the sponsored walk. Mr. Baxter finds them behind the bins and makes them do 10 laps. While running round the block, Zammo and Kevin read a newspaper headline that confirms that Grange Hill will merge with Brookdale and Rodney Bennet. Miss Gordon tells Fay that she has been selected for the gymnastic team and cannot understand her lack of enthusiasm. 11 Episode Eleven Phil Redmond and Jane Hollowood TBA 7 February 1984 Roland is taking bets on the participants of the sponsored walk. Stewpot asks Pogo to chat up Christine so can talk to Claire on her own. Jackie is walking with Zammo, but only just avoids meeting Gluxo. McClaren steals a butcher's boy's bike belonging to Gripper. Claire has a talk with Fay about the rumour of her having a crush on Miss Gordon and to put her at her ease talks about the time she used to write secret diaries about her and Mr. Hopwood. Pogo runs off during the middle of the walk when he spies his St. Mary's girlfriend, Lucinda. He takes her to a café, but she is more interested in eating cream cakes than talking to him. Zammo and Jackie come across a depressed Roland, and then McClaren turns up, hotly pursued by an angry Gripper. Everyone goes their separate ways—including McClaren, who has a dog on his trail. Guest appearance: Gripper Stebson 12 Episode Twelve Phil Redmond and Barry Purchese Nic Phillips 10 February 1984 Zammo has not given Gluxo's note to McClaren because Jackie has prevented him to get involved in the gang trouble. Suzanne feels she is growing out of school life and Mr. McGuffy sympathises with her situation but Mr. Smart's harsh attitude causes her to walk out of school. Roland's father tells Janet that Roland's mother has left them and tells her to leave. Grange Hill go to the gangfight arranged between them and Brookdale at a warehouse and await for them to turn up. Suddenly, the front doors slam shut and a note from Gluxo is pushed underneath—it tells them that they are trespassing on private property. The sound of police sirens are heard shortly after.