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Benny Green will always be the first boy into Grange Hill (video)

by | 23rd, May 2015

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RIP Terry Sue-Patt, dead at the too-young at 50. You played Benny Green in TV’s brilliant (well, in the early day it was) Grange Hill. You stood up to Gripper in 1978.

I’m not going to investigate Mr Sue-Pratt’s life. When an actor dies, there’s no need to pick over the bones of somebody most of us never knew and didn’t care about. Better to recall what made him famous, and what pleasure he gave us.

This is episode 1 of Grange Hill. It’s shamless nostalgia.

For anyone who was at school in those days, this was must-see TV. And, to say it again, it was brilliant:

 



Posted: 23rd, May 2015 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio Comment | TrackBack | Permalink