Grange Hill - Bronson's Best Bits (Part Three)

A selection of clips featuring the wonderful Michael Sheard as Mr Bronson in the Children's BBC series.
In memory of Michael Sheard 18 June 1938 - 31 August 2005.
Grange Hill was created by Phil Redmond and Produced by Ronald Smedley for BBC Television ©

[@jaredjackson8526]

A fine actor. If an actor can make you hate the character as though they were real is truly doing a good job.

[@barjumbo1969]

One of the most iconic clips in GH's history; Mr Bronson - standing in the space where his car was - shouting 'KEN-DAAAAAALLLLL!'🤣

[@kevinprior3549]

That row between Bronson and Kendal was amazing. So powerful

[@richardcrew417]

One of the best scenes in GH, the feud between Bronson and Danny was must see TV of the time

[@GnCFilms]

Michael Sheard, you were a wonderful actor. Anything you were in was a joy to watch. Thank you for the memories.

[@superteacher1000]

Best ever Grange Hill character!

[@kevinprior3549]

That bicycle scene is hilarious. Brilliant stuff from Bronson

[@lisamorris7491]

Mr Bronson will always be a classic 🤘😄

[@Glenn1967ful]

Michael Sheard on top form as Mr Bronson and he was the best adult character in Grange Hill by far. Only thing is, all that shouting and storming about isn't good for you.

[@nickbarnes9027]

Yeah he died of a stroke secondary to high blood pressure

[@Agui007]

You won't see talent like Michael's anymore. Hard to find acting now.

[@barnabyhoofer8044]

He was great as Herr Grunwald in Auf Wiedersehen Pet.

[@guineagirl5078]

Put your things in your hut 😂

[@piledriverpotter9847]

@barnabyhoofer8044. It is not good to be late First served first come Englanders are the problem.They always are. It is your friend Magowan You can get Osbourne back For what reason do I sack Magowan. He is good worker.

[@davidfoxall3344]

Whilst Bronson went about dealing with Kendall the wrong way (by showing that he’s getting to him) he was right to want to bring him into line. As he said school is not a restaurant where you pick and choose from a menu, what makes him so special that he feels he shouldn’t follow the rules that everyone else has to. He is rude, disrespectful and insolent to Bronson. And if he just walked in and out of a job as he pleased he’d have got the sack so a bit of cold water that you can’t just do what you want in life

[@sarah6557]

Get a GRIP and a LIFE...essay COMMENT 🙄🙄

[@davidfoxall3344]

Sarah sankey I wrote this in April, getting a life then wasn’t an option. Also you’re spending your time replying with a TLDR variant.

[@scottpeacock5492]

I think when the UK Government banned canning in Schools in the 80's, Kids then got away with murder being rude to teacher etc, I think they should bring canning back and teach them kids today a lesson.

[@eugenefarrar1959]

@@scottpeacock5492 are totally bonkers?

[@cosmic4795]

​@@scottpeacock5492are you serious? Caning was barbaric back then, it was abuse.

[@clairemcmahon9392]

Bronson & Kendall were brilliant together. I had a Maths teacher that used to shout “ You Boy” Mr Beastie Bryden 😝

[@mattbod]

Mr Bronson saying "Damn the rules." That was a classic though I went off him with his victimization of Kendall. Michael Sheard was pure class though I still enjoy his performances looking back: made me terrified of senior school. I did have a few old style masters but their bark was worse than their bite.

[@craigmullen9046]

Maybe so but Kendall had an Attitude and thought he was above the rules no one is and no one should have preferential treatment like Mcluski gave him so I could see where Bronson was coming from.

[@kirrithkovacs5097]

I love the Bronson character but I wish they'd done more with the strict disciplinarian being misunderstood rather than a vengeful bully. (more like J.k Simmons in Whiplash). I suppose a sympathetic angle would have been seen as justifying his grammar school approach, and they wanted to promote comprehensives. They seem to try this later on a bit, but it was too little too late.

[@Some-kid-called-David]

@@craigmullen9046 you don’t treat everyone the same, you treat everyone fairly

[@veganliving6255]

Thanks for uploading. Loved Grange Hill when I was a a kid. Bronsosn is great.

[@kirrithkovacs5097]

1:56 Love how he slips in the French pronunciation of restaurant

[@mrbronson5333]

You have not defeated me Kendall!

[@rajnirvan3336]

Awesome character Maurice Bronson.

[@steely666]

He was like a real teacher. prob get stabbed these days, with the wannabe gangster brats.

[@Glenn1967ful]

Even then, he'd be told to f off by someone like Danny Kendall. I went to school in the eighties and you still had kids who would have a go at teachers. Probably not stab them, but would answer back or offer them a fight.

[@andrewc4612]

Re that rather memorable row between Mr Bronson and Danny. I think if Mr Bronson had got any angrier/more wound-up, his head might have exploded!😄

[@trueblue374]

On The Buses....Michael Sheard played the manager of the depot

[@scooby1992]

He played unlikeable characters in Grange Hill , On the Buses and also my favourite 1980s dram comedy Auf Weidersehen Pet when he was in charge of the building site in Germany in Series 1.

[@adiejam]

Brilliant!

[@richardpearson9351]

If I was the caretaker I have would have had Bronson up for insubbordination

[@barnabyhoofer8044]

Yes. Who does Bronco think he is? Danny Kendall?

[@andrewc4612]

"Kendddaaalll!!" Mr Bronson's "trademark rant."😁

[@summerteeeth]

4:27 - KEN-DAAALLLLL!!!!

[@richardpearson7775]

That bronco is mental.

[@richardcrew417]

A legend

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Mrs Mc Clusky was the best headteacher!

[@MEECHIO]

'OUT OF MY WAY'......😂😂😂

[@nickfensome8855]

Michael heard played the part of bronson so well we had a horrible headmaster like him so much so he even wore a wig his name was Mr Hooley

[@TinaLouise73]

Wen u got a certain teacher against u like Danny did with Bronson it can really damage u emotionally and erode ur self esteem which can stay with u for years well into ur adult life and i know only too well myself from my own unfortunate personal life experiences thst a bullying adult towards a chikd can and does has severe repercussions in later life 😐

[@marksparks4787]

Same as me, goes on all the time.. but the teachers stick together so you don't get anywhere when you complain..

[@TinaLouise73]

@@marksparks4787 nope u don't! All a lil "club" so to speak! Yet some are nasty nonces and covert child abusers only too quick to point their dirty guilty fingers at innocent loving parents!

[@littlejohnnyturtle8770]

General Ouzzel.

[@PeaceDweller]

Kendall looked a cross betwen Gary Lineker and Gary Neville

[@kevinprior3549]

What about Peter Beardsley

[@cotters1]

Defo in my top 10....I'd have to say Roland Browning was my top pick....

[@kevinprior3549]

At 3:33 wow what a row

[@johnbeck5795]

Why work with kids if you hate them? .. the bizarre aspect of the education system from decades past.

[@timrollpickering]

It's more this particular sort of school and children. Mr Bronson came to Grange Hill when it merged with Rodney Bennett (and also Brookdale). Rodney Bennett appears to have been a grammar school that kept up the ethos post the abolition of selection but the merged school was a super comprehensive. Bronson bitterly hated the changes but doesn't seem to have had other options - he looks the age where teachers are nearly always in their final school and looking only for internal promotion and eventual retirement rather than relocating (especially as his primary subject - Latin - was going out of fashion).

[@johnbeck5795]

@@timrollpickering Regardless of the school, teachers are working with kids. Discipline of course is an element of education but to conduct yourself so the kids you teach loathe you does not inspire respect from them. My school days were the 70s/80s and some of the teachers simply should not have been in the education profession. One teacher for example enjoyed disciplining kids by humiliating them if they stepped out of line.

[@timrollpickering]

@@johnbeck5795 The problem is there was a generation and a category of schools where the prevailing attitude was that respect for teachers was *automatic* and not something that had to be earned. And so such teachers didn't care what the pupils thought of them - only that they did what they should. (And not just the kids - in Bronson's very first episode he bluntly tells Mr Smart to "Give place to your betters" in an argument over room bookings.) It's a real problem but as long as it prevailed (and in some places still prevails) it went well beyond individual teachers and into the whole ethos of a school.

[@johnbeck5795]

@@timrollpickering At the school I attended, it extended to violence by teaching staff. Slapping and one teacher was willing to kick. When he threw a kid out of a class, he actually physically pushed them all the way out. Shouting for effect to maintain control is acceptable but when teaching staff use violence, that's when they should be disciplined.

[@davidrobins1021]

KENNNDDDAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL

[@nickbarnes9027]

The thing is, I think Bronson only wanted the best for Kendall

[@nickbarnes9027]

That's why he put the effort in

[@Djarra]

Thing that gets overlooked is McCluskey was hauled over the coals by the LEA the series before for basically failing Imelda and just kicking her out so they had to make more of an effort with Danny which is what put Bronson's back up.

[@peterprice-patrickofpenkri1898]

Did you not see the final episode with Danny and him?

[@andrewnorth170]

"Damn the rules" ha ha

[@annehornby592]

But he was a billed actor rip Mr bronson ( Michael heard)

[@richardpearson7775]

Darth Vader would have murdered him if spoke like that to him. good show.

[@eamonnca1]

Ha!

[@gavinwilliams3684]

Bronson wig ??????

[@kevinprior3549]

Was Cally the sexiest of all the girls that was in Grange Hill?

[@Vicki-stfc]

Poor Mr Griffiths

[@themadmgtow5196]

Bronson vs Birtles 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MEECHIO]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kennysyt]

Some great Grange Hill postcards here! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143247205986?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

[@annehornby592]

Sorry Micheal sheard

[@annehornby592]

1st zamon 2rd ant 3rd Danny 4th Ronnie am sorry he was just a bully

[@neilrennie4677]

this school is a Dump thankyou Robert LOL

[@kenianpark2216]

I never liked Kendall, he had an attitude problem which only Bronson seemed to address...

[@philiprossiter3043]

What about you sir

[@chrishenniker5944]

I bet this was the first taste of institutionalised hypocrisy most kids noticed. A girl rides in on a scooter, only for her boss to castigate her for bringing a motorcycle on the premises, when they have a car park.

[@KKAkuoku]

Sorry, I'm rooting for Kendall

[@philiprossiter3043]

Oh dear that wasn't good enough

[@robosborne7103]

I had a teacher like Mr Bronson called Mr Sutherland , another Autocratic officious prat , If only Kendall gave Mr Bronson a slap , like my mate at school did to the Art teacher !!! Ha !!

[@trident1314]

I think everyone who went to school at this time had a teacher like bronson at some point

[@robosborne7103]

@77MrAH indeed he use to say that all the time , he was a PE teacher , Prat par excellence

[@Mishima505]

Hamish MacSporran mine was Mr Kennett (English) who was also a deputy head (my school had three) like Bronson.

[@pauljordan4452]

We had a male art teacher who wore eyeliner!