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Grange Hill
A CBBC Show
Grange Hill
Genre Teen drama
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of Series 31
No. of Episodes 601
Run Time 25 Mins
Network BBC One (CBBC)
Duration 8 February 1978 –
15 September 2008

Grange Hill is a British children's television drama series, made by the BBC (for CBBC), and portraying life in a typical comprehensive school. The show began its run on 8 February 1978 on BBC1, and was one of the longest-running programmes on British television when it ended its run on 15 September 2008.

It was created by Phil Redmond, who is also responsible for the Channel 4 dramas Brookside and Hollyoaks; other notable production team members down the years have included producer Colin Cant and script editor Anthony Minghella.

The show, along with Byker Grove, is one of the longest running Children's BBC shows to run over the years. Like Byker Grove, the show is known for regularly changing its characters and for covering serious issues. The CBBC Annual, released in the year 2000, featured a Grange Hill behind the scene report.

Plot[]

The drama was centred on the fictional comprehensive school of Grange Hill in the (equally fictitious) borough of North London called "Northam" (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 creation, the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1982–2003)

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