Danny Kendall Tribute

We pay tribute to Grange Hill's finest - Danny Kendall. Classic moments from his life.

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[teabagbob]

What many of you are missing is that Kendall and Bronson needed each other. They bounced off each other. They were the Yin and Yang of Grange Hill and made it the compulsive viewing that it was.

Of COURSE it's dated and wooden. But how many kids programmes were as hard-hitting (of it's day) before it?

Stingray? Thunderbirds? Muffin The Mule? Do me a favour.

Grange Hill broke into new ground and paved the way for a lot of programmes, not just kids tv.

[suckyamomma30]

I think it was the shock value of watching Danny slumping out the car and that dark music after it happened.I had nightmares after watching that.This is the first time in over 20 years ive seen this cheers.

[mytube01707]

Where is the location of Danny's tree?

[TheHendonKissArmy]

Brilliant footage and memories. I had started work in the 80's but still recorded Grange Hill. Can't believe it's so long ago.

[rippleway123]

@bunglebonce Danny Kendall was played by Jonathan Lambeth.

[SinkVortex]

@teabagbob Nah, Bronson wanted to fuck him.

[bunglebonce]

Factoid: When Danny Kendall died in Grange Hill, the actor who played him, Griffin Dunne, by coincidence ,died at the same time (give or take 20 years). Although he didn't die of car-related cot-death as his character did, he actually passed away from anaemia!

[Glenn1967ful]

In real life Kendall would have probably twatted Bronson and got expelled and then made some serious cash in street art or whatever he was into and then spotted Bronson in the street and told him, " Remember me, you old wanker, I make twenty times as much a year as you did as a teacher, so nahhh, you old bastard." It would probably be Bronson who died of shock.

[thinkingbridge]

This should have been renamed the Danny Kendall & Mr. Bronson tribute!

[gavinpow77]

And by that, I'm not saying Prisoner Cell Block H was kids' TV - far from it - but it WAS vaguely similar to 80s kids's shows like Grange Hill in its moral stance, which always conveyed fairness and why wrong was right sometimes!

In today's cotton padded world, children don't get gritty realism as was the case in TV when I was a kid, yet they can easily turn to the net, which is filled with every kind of dirt imaginable. I'm not being a prude there, I just mean there's been a very big shift.

[gavinpow77]

When kids' TV was good! I'm sure millions would agree with me. It's weird though. A pupil's dead body with head hanging from a car seat was acceptable then. Good education and realism for young viewers. Yet now, I doubt that would make it to air in a kids' TV slot. In the same way Prisoner Cell Block H was far more gritty than it's 'children' like 'Neighbours'.

I'm no expert on modern kids' TV, but Grange Hill was part of my growing up. I see nowt like it now on TV.

[jhangirk]

One thing I miss terribly about my primary school days was being hooked into the whole "Kendell & Bronson" conflict.

If anything that was Oscar worthy when the two clashed, it's such a shame that there is nothing memorable today like before.

Especially when you had well written characters that still echo to this day.

Long live the 80s!