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Hello, Junior Gazette! Series 1 #PGat35 (updated)
The single most important uncredited star of Press Gang was the telephone.
Photo Finish marks the introduction of the illicit newsroom phone (a BT Tremolo model, in red), and signals the beginning of repeated and persistent phone use throughout the entire series…
One Easy Lesson… in trying to hide your illicit telephone. Too bad Mr Kerr is dead smart. After her initial shock, Lynda appears very happy to hear from him…
It’s a good job Matt Kerr let them keep the phone. It gets an exhausting work-out in Deadline.
Poor Spike. Lynda uses the phone as a deadly weapon in A Night In.
The telephone gets a brief respite and lets the megabyte modems do the heavy-lifting in Interface.
Kenny is forced to speak to a girl on the phone in How To Make A Killing Part 1.
Lots of legwork and more Kenny/Jenny phone angst in How To Make A Killing Part 2.
Watch out! Tony Nolan Phone Ranger is in town, in Both Sides of the Paper…
Lots of legwork and a virtual changing room in the car park means the telephone gets a well-earned rest, but it’s a phone call to the speaking clock which ensures that Sherlock Homer and Miss Jackson ultimately get their men in Money, Love & Birdseed.
The phone keeps ringing but Lynda’s not answering, and Colin says “Heil!” in Monday-Tuesday.
Who needs an Assistant Editor when you’ve got a phone?
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Character Gallery: Series 1 #PGat35 (updated)
Lynda Day
Kenny Phillips
Frazz Davis
Sarah Jackson
Godfrey Hunter
Jeff
Julie Craig
Chrissie Stuart
Danny McColl
Matt Kerr
Bill Sullivan
Spike Thomson Jr
Mr Vader
Colin Mathews
Jack Slade
Czar
Anastasia & Czar
Terry, Andy and the gang
James Armstrong
Mr Supermarket Manager
Councillor Amanda Swanson
Two Rubbish Arsonists
Copper
Inspector Hawkins
New Recruit
Tiddler
Simon Knowles
Miss Hessope
Mr Winters
Gary “Basingstoke” Morris
The World Famous Tommy Anderson
Colin’s Great Auntie
Mr Sullivan’s Date
Douglas Homer
Punk
Old Lady
DaBoss
Billy Homer
Jenny Eliot
Peter’s Market Dude (aka Duane Orpington)
Maria the Waitress
Kate Roberts
Newsteam x 2
Peter Off of Peter’s Market
Dodgy Shopkeeper
Miss Trench
Mr Harvey
Tony Nolan, Phone Ranger
Lynda’s Mum
Bobby Tweed
Mr Prescott
Ian Brown
Keith Evans
Gerry Hardie
David Jefford
Ethel Stuttgart
Sophie Jenkins (I)
Laura Wilmot
Paralysis
LYNDA DAY ABDUCTED BY ALIENS! #PGat35
Documents released this week, which have been sealed for 35 years in the interests of National Security, have finally confirmed the truth: there is not one single shred of proof that Lynda Day was not abducted by aliens for more than a week in the spring of 1989.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE NORBRIDGE KIND
Although the authorities did their best to bury the story at the time, The GAZ is at last able to reveal the shocking and quite frankly unbelievable truth: that Lynda Day was spirited away from Norbridge as part of a fiendish alien plot, and was subsequently subjected to a complex, mysterious and exhaustive battery of retail therapy experiments. We have recently learned from an eye-witness source close to Ms Day that the entire contents of her wardrobe was simultaneously transported away for sartorial spectrographic analysis.
ALIENS STOLE ALL HER CLOTHES
History lovers will recall that Lynda subsequently staged a miraculous and daring escape, and returned quite unexpectedly to the newsroom, where ever-generous proprietor of The GAZ threw an impromptu party in order to celebrate her safe return, with Quilla provided for everyone at the heavily-discounted rate of just 29p per unit.
ALIEN PROBE
Press Gang @ 35 