#grange hill

[elegancebeautycharm]

Melissa Wilkes

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[gone2soon-rip]

STUART ORGAN (1951/52-Died February ? 2024,at 72).British tv and theatre actor.Organ was best known for his portrayal of the character Mr. Robson in the children's television drama Grange Hill. Organ portrayed the series' longest-serving teacher, arriving in 1988 as the new head of PE. In 1998 he finally landed the headmaster's job, but left the series in 2003.He has appeared in numerous UK television series such as Law & Order:UK,Down to Earth,Holby City,and Doctor Who cares. Stuart Organ - Wikipedia

[canmking]

G r a n g e H i l l

[partywithponies]

Grange Hill: The Album is one of the most insane tie-in albums for a kid's show ever made. They really said it's okay I know what the CBBC-watching kids want, here's the plan: Funky upbeat original song about industrial strife and union strike action. Silly upbeat original song full of school-based puns and wordplay. Really creepy original song about a teacher secretly dating his 16 year old student. Song about how you shouldn't ever do drugs immediately followed by a cover of a song by a band well known for doing lots of drugs. Surprisingly good cover of a song about school shootings, but sung entirely by actual schoolkids to make it way creepier. Charmingly bad Cyndi Lauper cover. And finish the whole thing off with an extra long version of the theme tune.

It's the most accurate summary of what it feels like to watch the show they ever could’ve made in album form honestly.

[watcursart]

Trying to get into drawing again. Here are some recent portraits that I did for fun. In order:

Nancy Thompson (Nightmare On Elmstreet)

Sally Hardesty (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

Harold Chasen (Harold And Maude)

Tom Finnan (The Old Guys)

Sully (The Warriors)

Danny Kendall (Grange Hill)

[emotionalsupportbastardmen]

Round one of the Bastard Man (affectionate) championshionships is complete!

Let's take a moment to appreciate everyone who got knocked out in round one, and everything I like about them.

Mammon (Obey Me)

Mammon the love of my life Mammon. </3 Yes he's a demon, yes he's the avatar of greed, yes he's "the scummy brother", but with a heart of gold, deep down inside. Very deep down. Plus he's funny and secretly sensitive and he likes to cuddle. <3 I'm honestly shocked he got knocked out in round one, I always thought he was quite a tumblr darling.

Hercule Flambeau (Father Brown)

Everyone loves a gentleman thief, don't they? Especially one with a homoerotic relationship with his narrative foil? A master of disguise? A secret sadboy with a tragic backstory? A man who broke out of prison? World's sluttiest absent father? When will your man ever.

Inspector Mallory (Father Brown)

I LOVE HIM SO MUCH YOU HAVE NO IDEA. He's such a funny character. Little angry northern bastard man. He's awful, and should be easy to hate, but he just suffers so often and suffers so beautifully, you can't help but root for him to win, just once. And he loves his kids! A short king and a DILF.

James E. Negatus (Yonderland)

Listen. Listen. I could never love anyone like I love Negatus. He occupies a special and unique part of my heart just for him. He's babygirl. He's daddy. He's cringefail. He's badass. He's gender. He's really really kinky. I cannot understate this, this is the fetish fuel show and it's like 70% his fault. He's on a mission to kill the hero but he's also sort of in love with her. I'm never not going to go feral for that. He has a tragic backstory and a softness for small children and small animals. He's canonically committed multiple warcrimes, several murders, and also demon-genocide. He's done nothing wrong ever in his life <3

Louis Fairhead (Casualty)

My sweet prince when will he return from war? It's been so long since the show ever even so much as acknowledged him. He wasn't even at his own father's wedding to a woman Louis was practically part-raised by. I think he's fallen into a crack in space and time. Anyway I love Louis. I don't even think he's a bad guy. He's had the most traumatic life imaginable. His mother died in a car accident while he was in the car. He got kidnapped once. One time he nearly got blown up. This was all before he was ten. Then as a teenager he became a drug addict. And as a young adult he had a heroin overdose. I think he's within his rights to be an angry and emotionally distant man. I would defend him to the death. I just want him to be safe and happy and healthy. Feel like pure shit just want him back.

Aristide Valentin (the Father Brown books)

First of all Aristide Valentin did nothing wrong so jot that down. YES he committed murder. But he murdered a Catholic pro-guillotine billionaire so it barely counts. He also stole human remains but this is tumblr, we're used to that. He's a skilled swordsman with a vast sword collection which is just the sexiest thing imaginable. YES he's rude to everyone but you don't UNDERSTAND, he's a genius surrounded by idiots, he gets frustrated. Also he's Parisian, they're just like that I think, he can't help it. Honestly his only real crime is smoking while on the underground platform at Liverpool Street station. That's unforgivable.

Barclay Beg-Chetwynde (BBC Ghosts)

Honestly one of the funniest characters in the show, I don't even care. Every episode he's in is a delight. Every single line delivery is so deliciously bastardly. And he makes a brilliant foil to my two favourite characters, Julian and Alison. He's great.

B.Z. (Santa Claus The Movie)

I love this movie. I love this movie a lot. I've watched it at least twice a year every year since I was a toddler. Often more. I could quote the whole film by heart. And my guy B.Z. is by far the most quotable character. Highlight of the whole film. Every single line of his lives rent free in my head. He has beef with Santa Claus for literally no good reason. He chained up a child for even less good reason. He invented Christmas 2. He exited the movie by eating too many magic flying lollypops and floating away into the stratosphere. Utterly unhinged from first scene to last. Literally no-one could ever compare.

Kerr Avon (Blakes 7)

Ah, Avon. I was obsessed with him as an edgy teen. I think in many ways he is the edgy teen appeal character of his genre. He's like the Shadow the Hedgehog of dystopian sci-fi. I mean this as a sincere complement. And he's once again by far the most quotable character in the show. I feel like that's a very important factor for a good bastard man. Quotability.

I won't say I could fix him, because I don't think anyone could. But I wish someone could.

Cat (Red Dwarf)

My sweet underappreciated boy. In many shows he would be the beloved bastard man. It's not his fault he shares a show with Arnold Rimmer, and you simply can't outdo the do-er.

But everything he does, he does it in ~ style ~

Randal Graves (Clerks)

This character means such a lot to me. He's the worst, of course. He sucks. You wouldn't want to know someone like that in real life. But that's part of what's so tragic about him. He's already resigned himself to the fact he's an unlikeable asshole loser, and has long since given up even trying to make new friends, and now he's a deeply lonely weirdo trapped in a toxic co-dependant relationship with the only real friend he has, who he's simultaneously obsessed with and sort of in love with (no homo) (maybe homo) and would die for, but also treats terribly. He's just such a sad odd man. I think about him often.

Ray Carling (Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes)

Ray my best friend Ray. Yes okay so he's wildly homophobic and misogynistic, but like. Underneath that he's a very sweet and compassionate man, I promise. He's just trapped under the crushing weight of insecurity and self-loathing and societal expectations of masculinity. His backstory is heartbreaking. Absolutely devastating. I won't go into details because spoilers but Jesus Christ. He's the world's number one most single man, being the only one left not paired up out of the seven main characters across both shows, which hardly seems fair. He deserves a nice love interest I think. Give him a nice girlfriend, or lean into the "Ray is suffering from internalised homophobia" implications that Ashes to Ashes leant into occasionally and give him a nice boyfriend if you want, I don't care which, just give him someone.

Mentally I am holding his hand and buying him a pint right now.

Julian Cantley (literally one single episode of Heartbeat)

Choo choo, all aboard the brainrot express. Get in loser we're forming deep emotional attachments to characters with like 20 minutes total screentime. Anyway I'm obsessed with him right now. It's disrupting my drive to create content for characters with actual fanbases because I just keep thinking about Brooding Spy Man Whomst Only I Care About instead. He's just so quiet and angry and brooding. I have so many headcanons for him. I've even headcanoned what his entire flat back in London looks like. Send help.

Ryan Reeves (The Dumping Ground)

Ah he's just a baby. Just a little guy. Who could stay mad at him. Yes the way he'd learn his lesson only to go back to being evil again 2 episodes later got frustrating, but like. He loves his sister and he rescued Harry and Finn. He's not all bad. Apart from when he's being a teenage supervillain lurking in the shadows for no reason. But it's all because he's SAD, you don't UNDERSTAND,

Michael Doyle (Grange Hill)

Look. He stopped being racist after he turned like 13, okay? He just became a petty criminal and politically corrupt instead. And his dad sucks, his dad says worse stuff than Mickey ever did, he was clearly just parroting his dad when he was wee. And there's something so sad and lonely about him. The way he always tries to join in with the group only get pushed out because everyone finds him unbelievably awful. The way he so wants to be Alan's friend. The way he only has the two friends he's got because he pays them to be his friend. Poor little guy. I have to believe he got it together eventually. I have to believe him and Justin were pals by the time they went to sixth form together. I have to.

Ralph Passmore (Tucker's Luck)

It's Mr Passmore! He means such a lot to me. I'm so happy they started portraying him sympathetically in series 2 because honestly? His rage is so justified. He's unemployed and he's already been cast aside as unemployable. His family have already given him up as a lost cause. His only friend and ally in his family is his younger sister, who ends up leaving home to get away from how verbally abusive their parents are. He drinks to cope and joins a gang for the companionship. He finally gets a job after years of unemployment but finds out it's exploiting vulnerable fellow working class people in his community so he angrily and aggressively quits, after befriending and supporting an old lady. What a king.

[80sheaven]

Trisha Yates (Michelle Herbert) and Tucker Jenkins (Todd Carty) - Grange Hill

[all-action-all-picture]

Wonderful Land by The Shadows. One of their record 5 UK instrumental Number 1's. Written by Jerry Lordan and originally released by The Shadows in 1962, staying at No. 1 for 8 weeks. After Apache, which was also written by Lordan, this was probably The Shadows best known hit (although I think they should also have tried to get a catchy one word title for this).

This performance was broadcast 31 January 1970 and sees The Shadows using their 'other guitars'. Hank Marvin is most closely associated with his red and white Fender Stratocaster but here he and bassist John Rostill are seen with their black and white Baldwin-Burns Guitars. If you watch John, on the left, at the start of the clip it looks as if he wasn't expecting the backing track to start when it did. As far as I can tell Hank is playing live but its hard to tell at times as he can just play note perfect every time.

Rhythm guitarist Bruce Welch is missing as he had temporarily left the group. Other long time member Brian Bennett is on drums.

Completing the line-up is Alan Hawkshaw seated at the piano. Many won't realise he was in The Shadows for a while but may be familiar with his name and the music he composed for UK television shows such as the music from Countdown, the theme to Dave Allen's comedy shows and the library music that was used as the themes to both Grange Hill and Give Us A Clue.

John Rostill died in 1973 and Alan Hawkshaw in 2021.

[mariocki]

RIP Gwyneth Powell (5.7.1946 - 8.9.2022)

"I've always enjoyed comedy because it feels more like playing than working really, although it is quite tricky to do, and you have to have a lot of concentration. Sometimes if you have to do a scene 10/15 times over from different angles, or for technical faults, then it can be quite difficult to still be finding the bubble that you need for comedy."

[thethousandthhaunt]

I do wonder about Grange Hill’s form system. Tucker was in form Alpha, so you’d maybe think they were following the NATO phonetic alphabet or something, but then Zammo and co. are all the way in form N. It seems kind of unlikely there are forms from A-N, so then what’s the naming system? Maybe I’ve missed something or eventually they give an answer, for now I’m quite confused.

[forensicated]

Dom in Love Lies And Limos (07)

Dom as Leon Taylor (08-10)

The difference a beard can make on a man!

(it gets even more wow when you compare him with young!Dom from Grange Hill or Maisie Raine)

[wat-the-cur]

Calley Donnington is a character I want to like, because the actress seems to have this inherent likability, but honestly I feel like being friends with her is such a chore and she’ll turn nasty on a knife edge. Like, she’s nowhere near as bad as Cathy Hargreaves in this respect, but she’s annoying me more than she probably should.

[weaversweek]

In memory of Gwyneth Powell

Sausages at half-fork today, in memory of Gwyneth Powell. The actress, best known for playing Mrs. McClusky in Grange Hill, died one year ago.

[partywithponies]

Hello there! Sorry, but at the moment Grange Hill is the show I can think of that we both like, so I hope it’s okay to send ships from there? Jackie/Zammo, Tucker/Trisha and (explanation will be given if wanted, because this is a crackship that came from some “where did they go after Grange Hill” musings) Penny Lewis/Jessica Samuels.

OH I'm SO into that last one so I'll do that one first! I am a lesbian Penny truther and I also really love Jessica (love an angry revolutionary) so I'm instantly interested.

Next Zammo/Jackie. They are the SWEETEST, I love them and I want good things for them and I believe in my heart they stayed together, but also I probably wouldn't read fic about them because they're SO sweet that I can't see the fic being interesting to me. I need a bit of spice. (Make it an OT3 with Banksie on the other hand and I'm THERE)

And then Tucker/Trisha is just complicated. I LOVE Trisha, one of my favourite characters, while I don't really like Tucker at all until Tucker's Luck, but then their scene together in Tucker's Luck IS really sweet, but then I am lowkey also a lesbian Trisha truther, but then I do like the rivals to lovers angle. I think I like the idea of them dating for a short while after the Tucker's Luck finale, having a good time while it lasts, but then deciding to just be friends and parting on amicable terms.