Colin Rogers
Director
A Bunch of Fives (1977)
Season 1
A Bunch of Fives is an English children’s television show broadcast in the 1970s on ITV. A precursor of Grange Hill, it starred Lesley Manville and Jamie Foreman as Fifth formers who start a school newspaper. The show spawned one paperback tie-in.
Released May 18, 1977
Episode 25 min
7+
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Production Companies: Associated Television (ATV)
Network: ITV1
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Do It Yourself
Taylor is accused of stealing a lighter from the local newsagent, and is sent to the headmaster at the fictional Oxford Lane School. Having to write an apology letter inspires him and some other 5th formers to start a new school magazine.
May 18, 1977, midnight
S1E2 - The Critic
The boys launch an investigation into why Helen didn't get the shop job which she had been promised.
May 25, 1977, midnight
S1E3 - The Gig
The investigation continues, but people have things to hide, and someone vandalizes reporter Philippa's bike.
June 1, 1977, midnight
S1E4 - Cry for Help
The investigation starts to worry people at the top of the corruption. The students are all organized into individual assignments.
June 8, 1977, midnight
S1E5 - The Chip Shop Mafia
June 15, 1977, midnight
S1E6 - Proof
June 22, 1977, midnight
S1E7 - The Sell Out
June 29, 1977, midnight
ITV1
25 min/ep
25 min
May 18, 1977
May 24, 1978, midnight
Ended
NR / 7+
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