Series 4 (Episode 19) (Christmas Special)

Episode 19 is the 19th episode of Series 4 and the 1981 Christmas Special. It originally aired on 28th December 1981.

Summary
Tucker has been up late watching videos because his brother has a job at an electrical wholesalers and is able to sneak tapes home to watch in the evening then return them in the morning. Along with Alan and Tommy he is late for school and gets caught sneaking in by Mr Sutcliffe who gives a detention. Throughout the day multiple pupils and staff point out how pale Mr Sutcliffe looks. At assembly Mrs McClusky announces she has agreed to an end of term school disco on the penultimate day of term, with Mr Sutcliffe organising it. When the English teacher is finally told this he is none too happy at always having to organise things. He asks Tucker and friends if there is a school group who can provide the music. Tucker suggests using equipment from his brother's wholesalers and Mr Sutcliffe agrees to use it and revokes the detention. Trisha and Cathy go shopping for new outfits for the disco but Cathy is distinctly more enthusiastic for it than Trisha. Alan wonders what Susie will be wearing but she keeps it a surprise and persuades him to wear a suit, which Tommy teases him for.

At the disco a number of non-Grange Hill pupils try to get in but Justin and Andrew deny them entry. Mr Baxter and Mr Sutcliffe are on door duty when the latter makes an excuse to go and dance with a random woman, to Miss Mooney's frustration. She accepts another offer. Tommy manages to drag Tucker away from the stage to get drinks. Tucker and Doyle have a brief confrontation on the hall floor which is broken up by Mr Baxter who then goes to the loo. With Justin distracted by counting the takings some pupils from Brookdale School sneak in and Tucker and Tommy soon recognise them. The Brookdale pupils try to steal the takings but Tucker, Alan, Tommy and Benny confront them and save the money. The Brookdale pupils then try to steal the disco equipment but a fight soon breaks out with Doyle intervening to help Tucker and the Brookdale pupils are driven out. Mr Sutcliffe gives Tucker and friends cans, with Tucker shaking his up before opening it and declaing "Merry Christmas!"

Cast

 * Michael Cronin as Mr. Baxter
 * Lucinda Gane as Miss Mooney
 * Robert Hartley as Mr Keating
 * Gwyneth Powell as Mrs. McClusky
 * James Wynn as Mr. Sutcliffe
 * Tommy Windward as Bus Driver
 * Rene Alperstein as Pamela Cartwright
 * George Armstrong as Alan Humphries
 * Lindy Brill as Cathy Hargreaves
 * Todd Carty as Tucker Jenkins
 * Mark Eadie as Andrew Stanton
 * Vincent Hall as Michael Doyle
 * Michelle Herbert as Trisha Yates
 * Paul McCarthy as Tommy Watson
 * Robert Craig Morgan as Justin Bennett
 * Terry Sue-Patt as Benny Green
 * Neil Rogers as Robo
 * Linda Slater as Susi McMahon
 * Graham Fletcher Cook and David Nunn as Brookdale boys
 * Tony London as Grange Hill boy
 * Miles Roiss as Roger
 * Helen Titmus as Grange Hill girl