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1333:, a feud develops between him and Lynda. Lynda challenges them to compete, to be the first one to get the big scoop on a story about a local company using food past its sell by date. But Spike is more deeply affected by his experience in the gas blast than he's willing to let on, and could have permanent consequences for his relationship with Lynda. 1406:) arrives with news that the team could be replaced, it looks as if things may never be the same again at the Junior Gazette. Things are set to come to a head on the day of Kenny's big concert lined up, Spike is set to return to America unless Lynda tells him that she loves him, and Lynda awaits news about the 1804:
as the voice of "Cool Cat") arranges a reunion between Lynda and Spike, who has just arrived back again from the US. As a result of the subsequent controversy the couple cause on live TV, Lynda agrees to hire Julie as Kenny's replacement as assistant editor. Colin exploits the incident to enhance the
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praises the continuity in this series, beginning with Lynda hiccuping in "The Big Hello", a reference to "At Last a Dragon". The same actress (Aisling Flitton) who played a wrong number in "Love and the Junior Gazette" reprised her character for "Chance is a Fine Thing". "Attention to detail" such as
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Bobby Tweed, a school thug, is accused of stealing ÂŁ30 from the judo club. Sarah is certain that he is guilty, while Billy believes that he did not do it, so Lynda assigns them both to work on the story. Meanwhile, in the newsroom, which is overrun with pigeons, Tiddler tries her hand at match-making
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called "Deadline" was planned. It was set a few years after the series and aimed at a more adult audience. At one stage in 1992, series 4 was intended to be the last, and the movie was proposed as a follow-up. However, making of the film fell through when a fifth series was commissioned instead. The
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Lynda has flashbacks to ten years previously when a sinister carved wooden figure gives her nightmares. As a young girl, she had run away from her mother on Kenny's birthday, and in the present, she has a feeling that there is a promise that she had made that she has forgotten about. Meanwhile, Ruby
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celebrate printing a big edition announcing how they have saved the local community centre from closure, it emerges that it is set for closure after all. Lynda orders a whole new edition to be produced overnight to replace the scrapped edition - much to the anger of the parents and the school. Spike
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is fast approaching its first edition and the team are still desperate for a lead story. American delinquent James "Spike" Thomson is forced to work on the paper, but immediately clashes with editor Lynda Day, whom he can't help but be attracted to. It looks like they have their lead story when a Mr
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to underage customers. The penultimate episode, "Monday-Tuesday", sees a character commit suicide after being rejected from the writing team and told some home truths by Lynda. However, the series also features many comedic elements, some of which are referred to in later years. Colin's inadvertent
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There has been a huge explosion at a local block of flats which has a busy record shop underneath. Lynda motivates the team into hurrying to report the breaking news, until she notices that Spike is not present. Lying amongst the rubble, Spike talks to a girl called Mary Brien (Abigail Docherty),
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staff try to work out what led from a disliked rich boy, David Jefford (Alex Crockett), attempting to blackmail Lynda into promoting him on the writing team, to a terrible event. It is set against the more light-hearted backdrop of Colin trying to get Spike's help in asking out a girl he fancies.
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While Lynda goes out of her way to try to keep her relationship with Spike a secret, oblivious to the fact that everyone knows about it, an eleven-year-old girl called Cindy Watkins makes herself known to Colin by claiming to a local thug that he is her brother. As Colin finds out more about the
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Colin sets his money-making sights on Suzy Norton (Abigail Docherty), a brilliant schoolgirl chessplayer, by persuading her to take part in a grand tournament against Frazz. One drawback - Frazz can't actually play chess! Elsewhere, after Spike is excluded from school and risks his place on the
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Most of the episodes in the first and second series had closing voice-overs featuring typically two characters. These are noted with each episode synopsis. The voice-overs were dropped for the third series onwards, as Moffat felt they were not working as well any more. Producer Sandra C. Hastie
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Spike is angry when Lynda orders him to take the Saturday evening shift working on the paper. Tiddler observes as the drama between Lynda, Spike and Kenny unfolds through the evening. Meanwhile, Colin has an important business meeting - but does not realise that he is dressed in a pink rabbit
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Lynda becomes suspicious when the team suddenly win a writing competition and are given a computer as a prize. Her curiosity grows when they start receiving well-written by anonymous contributions to the newspaper. They decide to make a big selling point of the mystery writer - but Lynda is
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Lynda is investigating a crooked but influential property developer - which sees her by chance bumping into Spike, who has not announced to anyone that he is on a visit back from America, and has his new girlfriend, Zoe, in tow. Lynda and Spike end up working on the story together, but the
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On the 15th of each month, the outline of a dead body is drawn outside a block of high rise flats, from where several years earlier a boy had fallen to his death. Kenny convinces Lynda to let him investigate, thinking there could be a big story. He manages to trace the girl
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Kenny is oiling the running of the paper even more than usual in the wake of Spike quitting, leaving Lynda even more difficult than usual. But Colin has discovered that Kenny is an aspiring singer and guitarist, and has big plans for him, whether Kenny likes it or
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Cornell remarks that this series is a "strange beast, somewhat cynical, with a tired acceptance of growing up that produced more pain in the drama than previously." It opens with a funeral, and later features the death of one of the central characters' father.
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Colin tries helplessly to do something to stop Cindy's father from sexually abusing her, but his efforts come to nothing with everyone thinking he is just up to his latest scheme, until Lynda of all people offers to help, producing a special edition of the
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This final episode features many references to previous storylines and characters. The clearest reference is to the events in the "Monday-Tuesday" episode in series one, with some footage being reused. Julie mentions former assistant editor Kenny
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The mock exams are a fortnight away. Sarah in particular is feeling the strains and pressure of the heavy workload. Naturally, Colin is trying to cash in with his latest money-making scheme. Lynda struggles to find a way around the headmaster's
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Lynda and Spike go on their first "date" together, to the cocktail party hosted by the paper's wealthy and influential owner, Cameron Campbell. Lynda is very nervous, and Spike sees that she isn't all as headstrong as she makes out to
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through guilt for David's suicide, Lynda has gone away to spend some time by herself. In her absence, Colin beats a reluctant Kenny in the election for the new editor, and revamps the paper (now called
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After a disastrous football game against a rival newspaper, Lynda and Spike find a body in the toilets. The news that a team member has died from a drug overdose could mean the end of the
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When he finds an old unread letter underneath a floorboard intended for his grandfather, Kenny begins thinking about chance and the wrong number in Dublin. Colin takes the new girl, Judy (
1967:) to make him leave. However, he is still in the room when the actor's girlfriend, Judy Wellman, who Colin had dated in "Chance is a Fine Thing", turns up. A lady called Katherine Hill ( 450:), who struggles to control his classes. The others are in the dark about her concern until they learn that she is his cousin. When they discover that Mr. Knowles may lose his job, the 48:. The first episode was transmitted on 16 January 1989, and the final transmitted on 21 May 1993. The show gained an adult audience in an early evening slot when repeated on Sundays on 2331:
between 2005 and 2006. Each series was released periodically, culminating in a complete boxed set. The main difference in the packaging of each series was the varying colours of the
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Series three and four were filmed together as one block. However, Lee Ross, who played Kenny, was unable to commit to the second half of the block. Therefore, Kenny has left for
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Sarah meets a nervous man named Archie Pressman (Jay Simpson) whilst recording an interview. He is the only person not to be surprised when there is a huge explosion in town.
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With Kenny AWOL, Lynda assigns Spike as temporary assistant editor. But when Kenny returns, with the solution to the circumstances in which Jenny's brother died, the
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Linda reluctantly agrees that Spike's story about a popular local club possibly being closed down to make way for a supermarket is the big opening headline that the
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All episodes were released on DVD between 2004 and 2006. Network released the series in the UK between 2004 and 2005, and Force Entertainment released it in
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s issue-led episodes served to develop the main characters, so that "Something Terrible" is more "about Colin's redemption , rather than Cindy's abuse."
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accounts, and tries to find something to blackmail her with. Spike and Tiddler are assigned to interview grouchy local children's author (
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The show addressed its first serious issue in the two part story "How to Make a Killing", in which the team expose shopkeepers who sell
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Vader tells them of government plans which could endanger children all over the world. Spike, however, has found an alternative story.
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Later in the series, Abigail Docherty performed the voice for the character of Mary Brien in the episode "The Rest of My Life".
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to refer to an off-screen pupil. It is implied, though, that the two characters are different, since the latter is still alive.
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idea of the follow-up film was reconsidered several times during the 1990s, but fell through every time for various reasons.
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when he beats up a sixth former for writing something on the common room wall, Lynda goes all-out to provide his defence.
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to attend university. She reads out a letter to Spike detailing the origins and evolution of her friendship with Lynda.
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needs, but she is determined to get the big scoop before him. Meanwhile, Colin has had a phone put in using the main
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As Spike searches the newsroom for his passport, Sarah receives a number of phone calls from a desperate young man (
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this is, according to Cornell, "one of the numerous ways that the series respects the intelligence of its viewers."
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The first series established the characters and the style of the series. The first two episodes were directed by
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attendance at a funeral dressed as a pink rabbit in "A Night In" is referenced in "Something Terrible: Part 2".
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Almost immediately after turning up at Julie's flat for their date, Colin manages to let her pets (including a
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Spike and Lynda are unable to let go of each other's hands after being hypnotized by a stage magician (
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Grogan has an unrequited crush on Spike - much to the annoyance of Colin, who has designs on her.
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This story flips back between the events of yesterday (Monday) and the present (Tuesday), as the
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team find themselves on top of a very big story - local shops selling solvents to underage users.
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team come up with a plan to try to save his career. Meanwhile, Colin buys 100,000 defective half
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elusive Cindy, he begins to get the feeling that she is trying to tell him something terrible.
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printed. There is one problem: they must try and predict next week's news before it happens.
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Colin and Julie have a heart-to-heart, in which she agrees to go out on a date with him.
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team has been killed during a siege. In the story, told in flashback, a gun enthusiast (
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paper's dwindling sales and prevent it from being sold by new owner Bobby Campbell (
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investigation could land Lynda in deep trouble and cost her the editorship of the
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wr. Steven Moffat, dir. Bob Spiers (8 March 1990). "Something Terrible: Part 2".
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to take an evening writing class. The team try to delay pop star Jason Wood (
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Sarah finally plucks up the courage to tell Lynda that she is leaving the
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Sarah is concerned about the school's new English teacher, Simon Knowles (
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wr. Steven Moffat, dir. Bob Spiers (3 April 1989). "Monday-Tuesday".
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The siege continues. The team attend the funeral of a member of the
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was the on-off romance between the newspaper's editor Lynda Day (
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their table, but jealous Lynda insists on being their waitress.
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While sleeping in the newsroom, Mr Sullivan appears as Lynda's
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Frazz encounters the eponymous fictional character, Colonel X (
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Kenny keeps getting a mis-routed line when phoning his aunt in
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Moffat used the name "David Jefford" again in his 1997 sitcom
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reported that Moffat and Sawalha are interested in reviving
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network in its regular weekday afternoon children's strand,
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is now running commercially, although still under the main
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The subject of a breaking news story, Phillipa Prescott (
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shows off his new girlfriend to make Lynda jealous.
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