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Overview

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Creator:
Bill Moffat
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Contact:
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Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 full episode list
Release Date:
16 January 1989 (UK) more
Genre:
Family | Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
A bunch of kids are to make a newspaper for the young, named "Junior Gazette". The series follows these kids both on job and in private.
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Awards:
3 wins & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
'Press Gang' to be made into movie?
 (From digitalspy. 27 August 2008, 1:26 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
"Your lips are big." more (27 total)

Cast

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Julia Sawalha ... Lynda Day / ... (43 episodes, 1989-1993)

Dexter Fletcher ... Spike Thomson / ... (43 episodes, 1989-1993)
Paul Reynolds ... Colin Mathews (43 episodes, 1989-1993)
Mmoloki Chrystie ... Frazz Davis (41 episodes, 1989-1993)
Kelda Holmes ... Sarah Jackson (40 episodes, 1989-1993)
Joanna Dukes ... Tiddler / ... (33 episodes, 1989-1993)
Lee Ross ... Kenny Phillips (30 episodes, 1989-1991)
Lucy Benjamin ... Julie Craig (23 episodes, 1989-1993)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
25 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono | Stereo
Certification:
Australia:PG | Australia:M (some episodes)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Season 1 was filmed on location. However season 2 was filmed at Pinewood Studios in a reconstructed set. Which is also why you do not see the exterior of the building from here onwards more
Quotes:
Kenny: Do you really want to hear about a mad old lady who keeps thirty-two cats?
Lynda: That's not so mad.
Kenny: Oh yeah? She says she's saving them up for a coat.
Lynda: Sick.
Kenny: She's got names for them, too: Sleeve, Pocket, Collar...
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Movie Connections:
Featured in The 100 Greatest Kids TV Shows (2001) (TV) more

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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
"Your lips are big.", 20 May 2003
Author: cyclonev from Perth, Western Australia

Ah yes - Lynda's classic comeback: the only bad thing she could say about Spike *sigh* And who doesn't remember that eventual declaration: "I vole you."

Oh dear, I'm gushing like everyone else! This, as far as I'm concerned, wasn't a show for "young adults". It could be watched by "young adults", for sure, but the wildly comic and consistently excellent script and acting made it a delight for anyone. I guess I was around 20 when I first caught sight of it. My boyfriend at the time was 32 and he loved it too.

So many of the actors who started off in this, eg Julia, Dexter Fletcher (ok, he was in the Elephant Man as a kiddie, but surely this was his first romantic (!) adult role?), Gabrielle Anwar, Paul Reynolds (I) have gone on to... I can't say greater things necessarily, but many other excellent things at least.

I'm just desperately sad that my videos of PG, incomplete to begin with, have self-destructed over the years. I wish the ABC (Australia) would repeat the whole dang lot of it but knowing them it's gone for good.

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