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Grange Hill Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
19 Episodes 1981 - 1982
Episode 0
Christmas Special 1981
Christmas looms, but Tucker and his mates don't escape the vigilant Mr. Sutcliffe when they arrive at school late. Tucker tells Mr. Sutcliffe that he's looking pale, as a distraction, but the observation is echoed by Miss Mooney, and Mrs. McClusky a bit later. Mrs. McClusky tells the assembly that some videos have gone missing, and also that there's an end of term disco. Mr Sutcliffe is volunteered into making the arrangements for the disco, and talks to Tucker, Alan and Tommy. Tucker suggests his brother does the music - he's able to lay his hands on the necessary equipment. Tucker fails to persuade the teacher to give him £20 for expenses, but does compromise by getting the detention cancelled. Meanwhile Trisha and Cathy go shopping for clothes, and Trisha is driven mad by Cathy's indecision. Alan gets some stick for his neat suit - just what did Susi promise him to persuade him to wear it!? The disco equipment is put into place, with Tucker highly nervous about damaging it, and himself getting damaged by his brother. When the disco starts, Tucker seems glued to the stage - even when he sees Pamela Cartwright being chatted up. At the entrance, Justin turns away people from another school. Miss Mooney observes Mr. Sutcliffe dancing with someone else, so grabs herself a partner not to be outdone. Doyle appears on the scene, but his aggro with Tucker is short lived once Mr. Baxter intervenes. As Justin counts the takings, a couple of Brookdale kids watch with interest, but Tucker notices them. As the Brookies make a grab for the cash box, Tucker, Tommy and Alan give pursuit, and seize it back. A short fight ensues, and the Brookdale lads run off. After they've dusted themselves off, Alan notices the music has stopped - the Brookdale kids are helping themselves to the disco equipment. Doyle stands in the way of the equipment being removed from the building, and there's more confusion and fighting, until finally Mr. Baxter and Mr. Sutcliffe put and end to it. Tucker thanks Doyle, but they agree their truce is just because it's Christmas. The music is restored, and Mr. Sutcliffe hands out drinks - telling Tucker that he looks a bit pale. Tucker shakes up his can violently, opens it to spray the crowd, and wishes everyone Merry Christmas...
Episode 1
Episode #5.1
The first day at Grange Hill for class N1 - Fay, Annette, Zammo, Jonah, Gripper and Roland. Roly gets off to a bad start on his first day, encountering Gripper Stebson. Jonah's stink bomb causes an unexpectedly early end to Miss Mooney's class. Gripper's bullying of Jonah and Zammo is short-lived - relieved by the appearance of Tucker and Alan. Roly is hounded from pillar to post by different pupils and teachers and goes home in desperation. He is caught on his return by Mr. Baxter, and Miss Mooney takes him to the headmistress, but he escapes into the toilets. No-one can persuade him to leave the locked cubicle, but Jonah has an idea involving his last stink bomb and the open window...
Episode 2
Episode #5.2
Roland avoids "GCE" (Gripper's Cash Enterprise) by accompanying Miss Mooney through the school gates. Gripper nabs Zammo and Jonah's cash, but they have no intention to continue paying him indefinitely. Roly cuts himself in woodwork - did he do it on purpose so he could go home? Annette wants revenge against Zammo and Jonah for their stink bomb damaging her shoes, and buys her own stink bomb. Jonah and Zammo goes to see Mr. Hopwood to try to get something done about Gripper, but without confrontation. Mr. Hopwood accuses Gripper, who denies it, but is forced to empty his pockets and donate the sizable amount of money to the school fund. Roly's mum finds Roly at home, and angrily brings him back to school to talk to Mrs. McClusky. Annette lies in wait for Zammo with her stink bomb, she throws it, but her aim is off and she gets Gripper instead.
Episode 3
Episode #5.3
A lesson on human biology is announced, with a letter to be taken home for permission to be sought. Can H3 be sensible about the subject? What will Anita Unsworth's Gran say? Matthew Cartwright would rather not do the lesson, and takes some stick from older sister Pamela. Pogo tries to make a few bob out of the biology textbook's "disgusting pictures". Claire's mother speaks to Mrs. McClusky concerned that her daughter is too innocent for the forthcoming biology lesson. How did Matthew Cartwright lose his trousers? It's all chaotic until Mrs McClusky asks the form on their opinion, and the conclusion is they do want sex education. Pogo and Gripper are interrogated by McClusky about their bad behaviour.
Episode 4
Episode #5.4
School cuts are being noticed, what with the lack of a Technical Drawing teacher, and book shortages. The Computer Club wants to buy a new computer for £1200, and the PTA tries to come up with some fund-raising ideas. A "Sponsored Spell" is on the cards. Can Gripper spell any other word than "G.B.H"? Gripper sees the text book shortages as a way of earning money, getting his supplies from St. Mary's girls. He ropes in Pogo as an unwilling accomplice to sell them. Unfortunately, Gripper's muggings have not gone unreported, and a spot inspection by Mr. Keating brings the sorry business to an end. The money raised towards buying a computer gets used instead for buying new text books.
Episode 5
Episode #5.5
Belinda starts learning the Clarinet, an expensive instrument that she becomes paranoid about getting damaged. Annette hides it in the boys' changing rooms for a laugh, but Belinda is not amused, and nor is Pogo when she bursts in while he is changing. Annette's joke backfires when they find the clarinet gone, and Mr. Baxter tells the girls off when he finds them skulking around. Belinda's mum is annoyed when she finds out the loss, but the clarinet is insured: Fay and Annette have to fork out the first £20 from their savings.
Episode 6
Episode #5.6
Why has Annette brought two eggs to cookery? Benny Green has inspired Zammo to take the Athletic Trials. Fay is pleased to be selected for the hockey team against Brookdale. Mr. McDuffy is holding auditions for the "school review". Annette's launching of an egg aimed at Roland isn't helping his self-esteem, but he is at least trying to join in. Gripper's back to demanding money from Roly, but Benny intervenes. Roly's entry in the shot putt is a disaster. Fay is praised for their team winning the hockey practice, but Belinda has a clash of interest between hockey and her music. Roland can't believe it - he is on the list for the school review!
Episode 7
Episode #5.7
Gripper fools Mr. McGuffy into believing he has the wrong room by locking the door. Teachers are noticing that Suzaane Ross is bunking off and Mr. Hopwood gives her a warning. Mr. McGuffy shows off his performing feet to the amusement of Pogo, who gives a weak comedic performance. The teacher is more impressed with the natural humour of Stewart and Duane. Mr. Hopwood catches Suzanne working for a boutique and puts an end to it: she promises to attend school in future.
Episode 8
Episode #5.8
Pogo is determined to profit from selling tickets for the School Review. Matthew Cartwright has written a piece for the school magazine, but the editors have doubts about publishing it. Gripper offers Matthew protection against possible damage to his new digital watch. Suzanne comes to school in a chic dress and has an audience with Mrs. McClusky. Mr. 'Scruffy' McGuffy finds himself defending his "sartorial style", and loses control of his class after an outbreak of humming. Unfortunately, Matthew's digital watch chooses to go off, and he falsely accused, and told to see the Head. Duane and Stewart have a word with Mr. McGuffy who realizes his mistake. Waiting for Mrs McClusky, Matthew has a heart to heart with Suzanne, who's also waiting, and it turns out that his magazine article is about bullying. Mr. McGuffy intercepts Matthew before Mrs. McClusky meets with him, and she gives him an ear bashing about his shabby appearance.
Episode 9
Episode #5.9
Jonah comes to school plastered with badges, but Mr. Hopwood insists that they are all removed. Placing yellow stickers on different places and unsuspecting people becomes a new hobby, much to the caretaker's disgust. Who can put a sticker in the most daring place, the boys or the girls? Roland is seeing an educational psychiatrist, but Gripper has found out and gives him some grief about it. Gripper catches Zammo and Jonah placing a sticker in Mr. Keating's room, and implicates Roly in grassing on them. Gripper hands over the pair to Mr. Hopwood, who is losing patience with him. Mr. Sutcliffe is getting fed up waiting for the ever-late Miss Mooney, but his pompous outburst against her is burst when she points out that he has a sticker on his back.
Episode 10
Episode #5.10
Zammo and Jonah have been cleaning up the stickers, including ones mysteriously found on the school trophies. Fay, Annette and Belinda are told tales about the service tunnels by the workmen. Annette has a go at Fay for being too goody-goody. She challenges Fay to go spelunking with her in the service tunnels. After school, the girls have a row, and Fay storms off, but Belinda stays to follow Annette. Once underground, it's Belinda who seems to have taken charge. While the girls get lost, thieves have broken in under Gripper's instructions, in search of the trophy cabinet. As the girls finally escape, they leave the floor hatch open - and the thieves fall through and are trapped...
Episode 11
Episode #5.11
Miss Mooney announces a scheme of collecting "Minto bar" wrappers to raise money for science, but some are cynical about the chocolate bar's promotional gimmick. It's girls versus boys, so surely having Roly on your team is going to be an asset? Roland wants to be popular, and finds out that his Dad carries Minto bars in his van. In the middle of the night, Roland grabs a pile of Minto bars from his dad's van. In the morning, the girls think they've won, but the boys take the lead thanks to the vast collection from Roland. Roly's dad turns up at school to complain at the same time as the obnoxious Minto Bar representative does, complete with a local press cameraman, not to mention a "Miss Minto Bar"! Mrs. McClusky puts an end to it, and Roland's dad will have to be refunded from the money given by the Minto Bar company. After all the kafuffle neither Minto bars, nor Roland, are flavour of the month.
Episode 12
Episode #5.12
A trip to the zoo is off to a bad start when Roland can't fit through the turnstiles. Even Miss Mooney is finding the loud teacher from a rival boys' school hard to bear. Annette chats up Carrots Garvey, a pupil of Westerfield School, and a friendly little war breaks out. A polar bear seems to enjoy Zammo's lunch, thrown by 'Carrots', and Zammo's told off for feeding the animals. Annette gets 'Carrots' into trouble, by pretending to be stuck on a dinosaur statue, but she is dismayed when he is walloped for his gallantry. After a fight, Jonah loses his satchel - but hang on, there it is inside the sea lion enclosure! He won't listen to reason, and goes in to fetch it - all would have been okay, if a keeper hadn't shouted at him, and he falls into the water. Jonah and Zammo escape onto the ghost train of the adjacent fair. Janet ("Row-land") St. Clair begins her nagging campaign against Roland, which she will continue to do for years to come! Zammo tries to get Jonah dry, but it's an uphill struggle. Carrots Garvey is smitten, and wants Annette's name and address, but she gives a fake name. Finally it's time to go home: Roland is missing, and Mr. Sutcliffe has to have a little heart-to-heart to bring him back.
Episode 13
Episode #5.13
It's time for rehearsals for the school review. Suzanne's sketch is about conformity. The School Council meeting seems unsatisfactory - Mrs. McClusky won't even discuss censorship of the School Magazine. Suzanne Ross turns to graffiti as an uncensored way of expressing her views. She comes across Gripper playing Space Invaders in a café and forms an unlikely alliance. Clare sees Suzanne get money off of Roly on Gripper's behalf, and can't believe what she's seen. There's a parents evening, and Mr. Hopwood has a quiet word in the ear of Suzanne's mum, about her daughter's errant behaviour. Gripper's none too pleased, because Suzanne's used Roly's 'donation' on Space Invaders, and he pushes her, and she gets a cut lip. Clare gets upset when Suzanne bites her head off - Suzanne is fed up being a girl! Will Suzanne listen to Clare's warnings?
Episode 14
Episode #5.14
Clare seems to be hanging around Mr. Hopwood a lot. The student biology teacher has difficulty controlling the third formers, what with Duane's laughter box and Pogo's bleeping watch. Clare is writing a diary, in which she fantasizes situations with her heartthrob Mr. Hopwood. Her mother finds the hidden diary and reads the romantic entries, and becomes convinced something is going on. Clare, incensed that her mother's read it, runs off without denying anything. Clare's father bursts in on Mr. Hopwood, in a threatening manner, and shows him the diary. Mr. Hopwood proclaims his innocence, saying she's just a spotty schoolgirl, but there still seems some doubt in her parents' mind. Clare has dug herself into a hole, and in Mrs. McClusky's office, she elaborates details of her fantasy. To Mrs. McClusky, the tale does not ring true. Later, Suzanne visits Clare in her bedroom, and persuades her to tell the truth. Finally, she goes to the headmaster, and admits she had made up the story.
Episode 15
Episode #5.15
Roly has a session with his educational psychiatrist and is told he has to go and see a dietician. At the rehearsals for the School Review Janet tries to talk to him, but in backing away from her evil clutches, Roly steps through the scenery. Gripper tries to see if Roland really can roll, and then Roly gets grief from his mum over the state of his clothes. Gripper's demands for cash have now reached the point beyond Roly's means. He tries to fight the bully, but his blows are ineffective. Someone writes a message about Roland being going to a shrink on the blackboard, and he slinks off home. The following day Roly feigns sickness, but he's not fooling anyone. School seems a formidable place, and Roland turns round, and stays at home. His mum turns up, and angrily escorts him back to school. Once again, Roly bunks off walking home despondently. Oblivious to the world, he steps out in front of a car...
Episode 16
Episode #5.16
Pogo is appointed as a replacement for one of Suzanne's team in the School Review - but is lacking what Mr. McDuffy calls 'Elegance'. Tucker and Alan buy some cheap champagne, paying in small change, for a prize in a raffle - Mr. McGuffy's not entirely happy about this, but it does seem to have boosted ticket sales. The Review starts with an introduction by Penny Lewis, followed by a song and dance routine with Precious, Suzanne, Clare, supported by Duane, Pogo and Stuart. It goes well, despite some heckling against Pogo. The second item is a comic skit by Trisha Yates which lampoons the teachers, one by one. Following this is a rather impressive Margaret Thatcher impersonation (by Cathy Hargreaves), with Victorian urchins, who get a little carried away with a gruel-fight - Mrs. McClusky does not look amused! As Mr. McDuffy goes out in front of the hastily dropped curtain to apologise, Tucker and Alan pull another trick. Using a cardboard cutout of Eamonn Andrews, Alan appears to announce "Mr. Bill McDuffy, this is your Life", and Tucker's band performs a tribute to the teacher. After the show, the champagne is handed out to the School Governors, and Alan lets slip that Tucker conveniently "won" the raffle competition. Just when things look like they might be ending happily, Mrs McClusky finds out that the takings have gone missing...
Episode 17
Episode #5.17
Mrs. McClusky announces that Roland's out of danger, but won't be back for a while. She suggest that N1 creates a get-well card and Annette is appointed artist. Belinda tells Fay and Annette that she has to leave, because she's going back to Canada, and Fay decides that they'll buy a present for her. Jonah is annoyed at having to cough up for Belinda's present, so concocts a fake collection for Roly's present, thinking he'll recover his donation - but then realises he'll have to go through with it, so he's worse off. Gripper grabs the ongoing collection in passing, leaving Jonah and Zammo with just 10p, so how can they earn some money in a hurry? Zammo reveals that his mother is able to get broken biscuits from the factory where she works. They decide to pull a stunt where they send back a box of broken biscuits to the factory in return for a good box, and then intend to sell the good box. Imagination proves lacking: Fay and Annette simply give Belinda the money, and Zammo & Jonah are going to buy fruit with their money. Zammo's mother is furious - the returned biscuits were traced back to her, and she had to pay for them, and almost lost her job. Zammo improvises with food from home, but a lemon and half a bottle of squash don't look like much to Fay and Annette. A last desperate bit of thinking makes Jonah announce that they also bought the huge vase of flowers present on the table. A nurse tells them that Roly is not well enough to receive visitors, and then blows the gaffe on Jonah's lie about the flowers.
Episode 18
Episode #5.18
It's nearing the end of term, and it's exams, exams and more exams. Pogo has written some notes on his sleeve, but they aren't particularly helpful. H3 discusses exams - why aren't they held in winter? Suzanne goes to Clare's house and meets her strict mother. It's the end of the engagement for Miss Mooney and Mr. Sutcliffe, because Mr. Sutcliffe won't name the day. Pogo and Stewpot find what appears to be exam papers - has his luck changed for the better? As usual, Pogo wants to make some money out of the situation, and sell the questions - but where can they hide the answers? Chewing gum wrappers prove the answer, and Pogo does a brisk business. Mr. Sutcliffe grabs one of Pogo's spare chewing gums, and finds notes on its wrapper, so the game's up. Gripper gets shirty with Pogo (even though he didn't actually pay for his wrapper) - but there's a sudden and unexpected stand against Gripper, and a tense silence. Mr. Sutcliffe comes back and breaks the news that Pogo's exam paper was from last year, and the exam starts again.
