The Grimleys was something very rare, it was a good ITV sitcom! The first two series were brilliant. The third lost some as - in my opinion - Doug 'Dynamo' Digby was the best thing on the show. The way he'd bully the kids during PE. Those days were before my time but i could see reflections of my own PE teachers and their superior attitudes in Doug Digby. The Brum (Birmingham) accent is always good for comedy - no offence - and classic lines of "ave yow been drinking ribeenah" said by Ms Titley to Gordon when he tried to grow a moustache, will live with me forever. It's not just the brilliant performances by Connelly (whom i could not stand before this), Holden and James Bradshaw, but there's several other characters who stand out. Noddy Holder as the nice teacher, Planer as the bone idle striking miner (or whatever he was supposed to do) and Darren cartwight as Gordons brother Darren were great characters and great performances.
Series 3 was funny but not a patch on the first two. The show had moved into the punk era, Ms Titley wasn't the innocent of the first two series, Doug Digby had died - a brilliant death sequence where effectively Gordon kills him (not deliberate, was in a sports challenge of some sort) and celebrates (not much sense there). Doug is replaced by Trebilcock who's a woodwork teacher and isn't very funny - i recall he always made his class make pencil boxes and for a coffin made them make a huge one. I didn't watch all of series 3 because it just wasn't the same. Still funny but when you consider what had come before it was hard to watch.
Series 3 was funny but not a patch on the first two. The show had moved into the punk era, Ms Titley wasn't the innocent of the first two series, Doug Digby had died - a brilliant death sequence where effectively Gordon kills him (not deliberate, was in a sports challenge of some sort) and celebrates (not much sense there). Doug is replaced by Trebilcock who's a woodwork teacher and isn't very funny - i recall he always made his class make pencil boxes and for a coffin made them make a huge one. I didn't watch all of series 3 because it just wasn't the same. Still funny but when you consider what had come before it was hard to watch.