• Francesca Martinez: Grange Hill's Comedy Sensation • Grange Hill For Christmas • The Gripper Stebson Years • The Michael Sheard Interview • Laura Sadler: 1980-2003 • Sportsmaster to Headmaster: 15 Years of Mr Robson • Flying High with Grange Hill CLOSE UP SPECIALS • The Curtain Comes Down: the demise of Grange Hill • Grange Hill Reunited • Grange Hill Moves North
If you're running a homework service, never mess up anything for Gripper! FROM TOP: Gripper corners Pogo in the common room - Pogo defends himself with a cricket bat, then a chair. As they grapple on the floor, Mr Hopwood arrives to break them up, and Pogo is left to lick his wounds.   GRIPPER'S LAST STAND     Baxter pushes Gripper's face in the sink after Stebson calls him "Paki lover".   Undeterred, Gripper attacks Clare with a mopful of dirty water after she criticised him in the underground school magazine   Zammo and Jonah raise the alarm but it's too late and Precious arrives to see the result of Gripper's handiwork.     So, having had as much as they can take, the lads prepare to lynch Stebson in the toilets.   Bullet senses something's brewing and arrives just in time to stop vigilante justice, then...   Gripper is sent to Mrs McClusky's office for expulsion proceedings. The lads cheer. Life after school - in 1984 Gripper was a butcher's boy - determined to catch up with Jimmy McLaren who'd stolen his bike. Gripper made one final on-screen appearance in the 1985 Christmas special. Back to The Gripper Stebson Years