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1、 （although when filming moved to Liverpool in 2003, it ceased to have any specific location）, and follows the lives of the students as they progress through school. The series was to have originally been called Grange Park, which would go on to be used as the name of the school in another Redmond cr

2、eation, the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside （19822003）edit Series historyGrange Hill was originally conceived by ATV comedy writer Phil Redmond, who first approached various television companies with the idea in 1975, unsuccessfully. In 1976, he managed to sell the idea to the BBC, and the drama exec

3、utive Anna Home gave the series a trial run of nine episodes, the first being broadcast on 8 February 1978.56From the start, the series caused controversy for its real-life, gritty portrayal of school life, rather than the more idealistic school dramas that preceded it. Redmond has said that he wasn

4、t really able to start pushing the boundaries until later series.citation needed This led to Redmond being summoned to lunch by BBC bosses and forced to agree that there would be no further series unless he toned things down. Grange Hills highest profile period was undoubtedly the mid-late 1980s. On

5、e of the most famous storylines during this time was that of Zammo McGuire and his addiction to heroin. This storyline ran over two series （198687） and focused on Zammos descent into drugs and how it strained his relationship with girlfriend Jackie and friend Kevin. The shows other favourite charact

6、ers during this period were Gonch and Hollo played by John Holmes and Bradley Sheppard. During his time at the school （198589） Gonch partook in many money-making schemes, most unsuccessful. There was a comedic element to the duos relationship that worked well with viewers. Script editor Anthony Ming

7、hella, who worked on the series for several years during the 1980s, later won an Academy Award for Best Director for the film The English Patient in 1996.During the 1990s, Grange Hill did not receive the same media attention it did just a few years previously. The teachers were now equals in the nar

8、rative with their personal lives taking up almost as much time as those of the pupils. In 1994, two characters were introduced with disabilities, Denny Roberts （Lisa Hammond）, who suffered from dwarfism, and Rachel Burns （Francesca Martinez）, who had cerebral palsy. Both characters were presented as

9、 one of the gang and hated any special treatment because of their circumstances. This prompted the BFIs 2002 publication The Hill And Beyond to comment that Grange Hill had perhaps become politically correct.7 Beginning on 4 April 1993, to celebrate Grange Hills 15th anniversary, the first fifteen s

10、eries of Grange Hill were repeated during CBBCs Sunday, and later Saturday morning slots on BBC1 and BBC2. The repeats ended with Series 16 in 1999. Interest in Grange Hill renewed in the late 1990s and the series celebrated its 20th anniversary with the introduction of sinister Scottish bully Sean

11、Pearce （Iain Robertson）, who carried a knife and slashed the face of a female classmate. Cast member Laura Sadler, who was heavily involved in this storyline, died after falling out of a building in June 2003; four years earlier her Grange Hill character Judi Jeffreys was killed after slipping and f

12、alling out of the window of a burning storeroom in the school.By 2001, the series was almost entirely issue-led and the decision to tackle the subject of rape upset some parents. But when Phil Redmond took over production of Grange Hill in 2003, his plan was to get the show back to its roots and the

13、 issues were toned down as Redmond skewed the show towards a younger audience. In early 2006, it was announced a film of Grange Hill was to be released in late 2007 focusing on the lives of former pupils8 but has not yet appeared.Grange Hill returned on 14 April 2008 with its final series, including

14、 a return of the original theme music. Series 31 returned to BBC1 after the 2007 series was shown exclusively on the CBBC Channel.9edit Production historyFor its first 25 years Grange Hill was produced in-house by the BBC, then the show was made independently for the corporation by Lime Pictures, th

15、e production house founded by Redmond （and formerly known as Mersey Television）, hence the reason for the production move.edit Television Centre years: 197885Grange Hill was originally filmed at real schools in London. The first of these would be Kingsbury High School in North London, which was used

16、 as the Grange Hill setting for the first two series. For the series 3, in 1980, exterior filming moved to Willesden High School in Willesden Green, which was similar in looks to Kingsbury and was also situated in a residential area of the capital. In 1981, Grange Hill moved to Holborn College （now

17、Fulham Preparatory School） in Greyhound Road, Hammersmith. This school looked very different from the two that had been used previously, and it was also in a built-up area of London. Holborn College was the longest serving of the real schools, remaining on screen until 1985. Up to and including 1985

18、, studio scenes were shot at BBC Television Centre in London. The school used for filming Grange Hill is now being re-used as the setting of Hollyoaks High School, the school in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.edit Elstree years: 19852002Popular rumour suggests Grange Hill was forced to move betw

19、een real schools so often because fans disrupted filming. In 1985, this problem was resolved when the BBC purchased the former ATV studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The studios would become known as BBC Elstree Centre and from Series 8, some exterior filming was switched to the closed Elstree s

20、et. A 1960s office block, Neptune House, would double as Grange Hills lower school.The change was explained on screen with an elaborate storyline whereby Grange Hill merged with rival schools Brookdale and Rodney Bennett to form a new school, Grange Hill. In Series 8 the merger had taken place and G

21、range Hill operated as a split-site school; the former Rodney Bennett building （Neptune House） being the lower school and the original Grange Hill building （still Holborn College） the upper school.In Series 9, the Upper School building was condemned after a fire, allowing production of Grange Hill t

22、o fully move to Elstree including studio work. Grange Hill was, at this time, made as an outside broadcast in the same way as its stablemate, EastEnders. New producer Diana Kyle switched filming to a single camera format from 1999, at which time a filmic effect was also added, to the displeasure of

23、some fans.A new school entrance set was unveiled in 1990 and remained in use until 2002, with cosmetic modifications along the way.10 However, as the 1990s progressed more use was made of real schools including the Nicholas Hawksmoor School and Bushey Meads School, and St Audreys School in Hatfield.

24、 The headmistress of Bushey Meads School was said to be delighted Grange Hill was moving to Liverpool in 2002.edit Liverpool years: 200308Early in 2002 it was announced that Grange Hill creator Phil Redmond had signed a deal for his production company Mersey TV to produce the next three series of th

25、e programme. Production moved to Mersey TVs studios in Childwall, Liverpool, from Series 26 onwards and for the first time in many years, the appearance of Grange Hill School itself would change radically. On screen, an explosion ripped through the school at the end of Series 25 and during Series 26

26、, tarpaulins covered most of the new school to mask the fire damagePhil Redmond originally wanted children from all over the country to participate in the relaunched Grange Hill, having a variety of regional accents in the series as opposed to just the London area voices which had become associated

27、with the programme. In the event new characters were almost exclusively cast from the north west of England due to the logistics of the child employment laws.Real schools in the locality were also used including Croxteth Comprehensive, Holly Lodge Girls School and St Hildas C of E High School in Liv

28、erpool.11 In 2005, the former Brookside Parade set at Mersey TV was redeveloped to benefit Grange Hill and the new Creative Learning Centre has been an integral part of the show since. With the cancellation of Grange Hill, the CLC exterior set has now been turned in to skateboard park set for Grange

29、 Hills stablemate show Hollyoaks while the former Grange Hill school frontage has now become a permanent exterior for Hollyoaks High.edit Issues coveredThe programme has covered many controversial storylines, ranging from students throwing benches into the swimming pool （1978; as a result of which,

30、following letters of complaint from teachers and parents, the episode was withdrawn from the repeat season）, rape （2001）, heroin addiction （1986）, Asperger syndrome （2001）, knife crime （1998） and attempted suicide （2005）, prompting many complaints from viewers. Grange Hill broke new ground by the in

31、clusion of a gay teacher, Mr Brisley, who was in the cast from 1992 to 1999.In 2005, the character Holly Parsons was wrongly heralded as Grange Hills first deaf character. While it is true that the actress who played her, Rebecca-Anne Withey, is the series first deaf cast member, Grange Hill first featured a deaf charac