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Dark nostalgia

The watcher in the woods was another scary Disney film... NARAK!!!
 
As stated in another post.

I have recently been watching Byker Grove. I have just got to that episode. PJ versus the paintball guns.

I did watch it live at the time, the episodes of byker never got repeated until now. My memory of it is vague. I always thought he shouted Debbie just before. It was in fact Noddy. I memory is vague about who fired.

For a show aimed at teenagers it was very well done. Would something like this be done now, the audience wouldn't be there. At the the time, very hard hitting. Can imagine it freaked a few teenagers out.
 
Out of curiosity, what happens in this episode?

I wasn’t alive when Byker Grove aired (to my knowledge); I think it was on more when my parents were young (now 51 and 50, for reference).

Is it Byker Grove that starred Ant and Dec?
 
I actually watched it too, and all I can remember is Ant McPartlin getting shot in the eyes and blinded with a paintball when taking part in a paintball fight when he'd taken his goggles off for some reason.
 
Truth be told, I get Byker Grove and Grange Hill (another programme my parents talk about from their youth) mixed up.

I mainly know that one of them starred a young Ant and Dec and my dad ate breakfast with the cast of the other one when he was on Blue Peter as a child.
 
The story so far

An illegal game of paintball is set up between Byker Grove and rival youth group Denton Burn. Previously, they would do lazer quest. But speedie from byker has joined the army, so the rest feel its time to be more grown up.)

Game is organised by an unpopular lad at Byker and a random bloke who has thr equipment. Lad gets £5 off each participant

PJ (or Ant to you and me) has been stringing along two woman in previous episodes. Debbie and Amanda. He deflowers Debbie in the cellar of Byker Grove one night. (Debbie's family lives next door and enter the ground to the club via a broken fence in their back garden.)

Next night he tries a similar move with Amanda. Debbie's mum comments about light on in the cellar to Debbie. Who goes to investigate. Sees PJ (Ant to you and me) doing a similar thing with Amanda. Debbie's runs off, before we see Amanda rejecting PJ (Ant to you and Me) saying "I'm not that type of girl." To which PJ responds "yes you are."

Debbie, runs off to her sister (played by Jill Halfpenny.) Who because of some plot, has married an eco carrier and moved to a Forrest, so he can work in tye forest cutting tress and replanting, which involves the actor riding round on quad, trying not to look like he hasn't done it before. Ant (or PJ as he was then) finds out why she run off, finds the house, and arrives in the middle of a storm, as a local is having a baby. Debbie tells him to do one. He goes back to Byker tail between the legs.

Debbie is now seen as a ****. Although it's never said outright why, the general feeling is she is being rejected by the the others for having sex at the age of 15 with PJ/Ant.

Now we have the basic plot. Now for the episode.

Amanda is upset as to the situation with Debbie and they become friends after explaining nothing happened. This after chasing her around the city the Newcastle in 3 scenes. Neither had got on, because both fancied PJ and Debbie sees her as a roval. They both decide at the last min to join the game paintball, with the intention of shooting Ant/PJ, to eliminate him from the game.

Byker Groove kids are taken to a castle, in the back of military type van where they meet Denton Burn. All are suited in blue overalls for Byker. Grey for Denton. The rules are explained. Shot and out (To which no one ever leaves the battle when shot.) Horn sounds game starts. Much

Jeff/Geoff finds out about the game back at Byker, from a character that is religious. She deep down, knows something bad will happen. Hence why we sir her praying alot walking around with a converted luck. Jeff/Geoff drives off at and indicated 75mph in a ford escort style transit van (which must have been shaking) using only a map as reference to this site.

After much running, shooting and shouting at each other. Plus, foreshadow of what to happens with each side taken some other out because of some plot. PJ/Ant runs out into a cloister and see's Noddy ( not the one with the little toy car) on the wall above, after seeing a lad in grey take aim, he takes off his mask and shouts "Noddy?" ( I always thought he shouted Debbie.) Debbie and Amanda now enter the cloister behind him. PJ/Ant turns, and takes 4 shots from Debbie and Amanda in the eyes.

He falls, with now what appears to be egg yolk pouring from his eyes. Jeff/Geoff arrives as does the rest of the group. He sends Duncan (or Dec to you and me) to go and phone an ambulance. Dec (or Duncan at the time) runs off, he stops at a door and speaks the line he will always be remembered for. "He canny see."

The end.

There, I am now watching him come to terms with what's happened. I can remember most of that from memory, as I was abig watcher of Byker. Some aspects I thought were wrong. I didn't know it was Debbie and Amanda that shot, I thought it was one In grey taking aim at Noddy, and he ran off. Furthermore I thought he was shouting Debbie as he wanted to talk her. Dec and Debbie later have a fling in plain sight of PJ, who doesn't Notice because "He canny see."

It was traumatic at the time, especially when you went paintballing for the first time.
 
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