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The activities of the staff at The Junior Gazette, a children's weekly newspaper produced by a group of school pupils.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Press Gang Season 1 Episode 1 - Page One
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    #1 - Page One

    S1:E1

    Lynda and Spike are both head to head as they compete to come up up with the best front-page headline for the gangs first edition of The Junior Gazette. But are their stories what they seem?

    Director:Colin Nutley
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Press Gang Season 1 Episode 2 - Photo Finish
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    #2 - Photo Finish

    S1:E2

    Lynda is desperate to finish her story before the deadline. The first edition is released, with much outrage from the public. But luck happens to save the day with a chance encounter.

    Director:Colin Nutley
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Press Gang Season 1 Episode 3 - One Easy Lesson
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    #3 - One Easy Lesson

    S1:E3

    There's a new teacher in school having a tough time and Sarah decides to help him on a little when she discovers something about him. Meanwhile at the office the gangs first ""journalistic expedition"" gets off to a surprising start.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Press Gang Season 1 Episode 4 - Deadline
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    #4 - Deadline

    S1:E4

    The gangs first series of serious dilemmas! There's a printer strike and they are forced to have to write the following weeks edition as well, and in only a few hours. Is it possible to write the news before anything actually happens? Sarah is needed back in the office, urgently and Colin gets himself into a tricky financial situation with a photo he hasn't got.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Press Gang Season 1 Episode 5 - A Night In
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    #5 - A Night In

    S1:E5

    The gang get suspicious when a moody Lynda makes everyone stay behind to work late, and of course nobody wants to. As for Colin he has a very important meeting with the towns richest man, or does he? The excuses go flying as the gang work out what is really wrong with Lynda and why Spike is acting up.

    Director:Lorne Magory
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Press Gang Season 1 Episode 6 - Interface
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    #6 - Interface

    S1:E6

    A Ghost Writer turns up at the office, producing written articles and television reviews. Who is he? Lynda and Spike work together after Colin comes up with a lead.The gang also enter a competition to win a computor and printer set. Something they desperately need. Colin comes up with an incredible brainwave.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Press Gang Season 1 Episode 7 - How to Make a Killing (1)
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    #7 - How to Make a Killing (1)

    S1:E7

    Kenny investigates a mysterious girl called Jenny, who draws chalk outlines on the pavement outside the Highpoint Flats. He soon finds himself in hot water after finding out more then he intended to...

    Director:Lorne Magory
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Press Gang Season 1 Episode 8 - How to Make a Killing (2)
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    #8 - How to Make a Killing (2)

    S1:E8

    Kenny continues to pursue the girl in order to solve the mystery, but Lynda needs him back at the Junior Gazette. She is eventually forced to take on Spike as her assistant for the day much to her un-delight. Kenny's mystery provokes the teams biggest under cover operation campaign yet, just what is going on?

    Director:Lorne Magory
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Press Gang Season 1 Episode 9 - Both Sides of the Paper
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    #9 - Both Sides of the Paper

    S1:E9

    The Junior Gazette is in danger of being suspended by the headmaster as school exams approach and pressure builds. Lynda has serious ambitions much to Sarah's worry, as the gazette starts gaining interest. And the team interview The Phone Ranger. But will Mr Harvey have any of it?

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Press Gang Season 1 Episode 10 - Money, Love and Birdseed
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    #10 - Money, Love and Birdseed

    S1:E10

    Tiddler has a plan to get Lynda and Spike together. Pigeons crowd the gangs newsroom, is this another one of Colins scams? Money goes missing from the schools Judo club. Has the schools known criminal Bobby Tweed stolen it or is he being framed?

    Director:Lorne Magory
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Press Gang Season 1 Episode 11 - Monday, Tuesday
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    #11 - Monday, Tuesday

    S1:E11

    School, life, The Junior Gazette it all seems to be going perfect, everythings going the way you want it to. Then something happens and the next day getting out of bed is the worst thing you could have done. Are Lynda, Spike, Kenny, Tiddler caught in some weird surreal dream or is life really like this?!

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Press Gang Season 1 Episode 12 - Shouldn't I Be Taller?
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    #12 - Shouldn't I Be Taller?

    S1:E12

    Lynda's absent from the newsroom, Colin has got his sights on the editors job and plans to run it HIS way. Can Spike convince depressed Lynda to return to The Junior Gazette and save them from going down the toilet?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 1 - Breakfast at Czar's
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    #13 - Breakfast at Czar's

    S2:E1

    The local leisure complex is being threatened with closure and The Junior Gazette come up with a great campaign to save it, or so they originally thought. The facts are wrong and the team are forced to write another edition of the paper. Much to Lynda's delight as she uses her own initiative to back the council into a corner. Does she succeed in getting the whole story and revealing the true facts.

    Directors:Bob Spiers, Gerry O'Hara
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 2 - Picking up the Pieces
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    #14 - Picking up the Pieces

    S2:E2

    Spike is in trouble with the head when he hits another student, but he won't let anyone help him. Frazz discovers Colin's little plan that involves him as his pawn in his newest venture. Kenny suffers a broken heart when a girl rejects his advances.

    Director:Gerry O'Hara
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 3 - Going Back to Jasper Street
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    #15 - Going Back to Jasper Street

    S2:E3

    A Creepy statue gives Linda nightmares and determined to work out why, she and Kenny delve into there childhoods, to discover a broken promise to an old lady is the key. Meanwhile Spike is being stalked by a girl Colin wants to date

    Director:Bren Simson
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 4 - The Week and Pizza
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    #16 - The Week and Pizza

    S2:E4

    Colin is in trouble with Lynda over the Junior Gazette accounts, and tries to find something to blackmail her with. Spike and Tiddler are assigned to interview grouchy local children's author. Sam, and then Kenny, find it hard to tell a member of the newsteam that she is fired.

    Director:Bren Simson
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 5 - Love and the Junior Gazette
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    #17 - Love and the Junior Gazette

    S2:E5

    Kenny keeps getting a mis-routed line when phoning his aunt in Glasgow and strikes up a friendship with a girl in Dublin. Raymond Adams, a local amateur actor that Sam fancies, sets his sights on a nervous Sarah, who is about to publish her scathing review of his performance in An Inspector Calls. Matt Kerr has decided that Lynda should go with Spike to an important cocktail party hosted by the owner of the newspaper.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 6 - At Last a Dragon
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    #18 - At Last a Dragon

    S2:E6

    Lynda and Spike go on their first date - a cocktail party for the paper's owner. But Lynda's fears of a social event may be a problem - not to mention a surprise visit from an Arab trying to sell the oilfields under the school.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 7 - Something Terrible (1)
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    #19 - Something Terrible (1)

    S2:E7

    A young girl called Cindy makes trouble for Colin, yet she seems to like Colin and his crazy ideas. But she never wants to go home and shies away from being touched. What is her secret? Meanwhile, Lynda and Spike are going to extreme lengths to hide their relationship from the newsteam, when all at the Junior Gazette are aware of their relationship. Tiddler even re-names her 'productive' pair of rabbits, Henry and George, Lynda and Spike.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 8 - Something Terrible (2)
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    #20 - Something Terrible (2)

    S2:E8

    Colin thinks he has worked out Cindy's secret, but what can he do about it? Lynda convinces him to confide in her, as she is concerned that Colin's melancholia may affect the paper's finances, and helps Colin find a way of addressing the terrible issue at hand.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 9 - Friends Like These
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    #21 - Friends Like These

    S2:E9

    A pop star has been stranded at the train station and Lynda knows that it would make front page news at The Junior Gazette. Her only chance is to ask Sarah, but Sarah isn't feeling to good about herself. Lynda's desperate for the scoop and goes to lengthly measures to make sure it happens. Leaving poor Sarah questioning herself emotionally.

    Director:John Hall
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 10 - The Rest of My Life
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    #22 - The Rest of My Life

    S2:E10

    There has been a huge explosion at a local block of flats which has a busy record shop underneath. Lynda motivates the team into hurrying to report the breaking news, until she notices that Spike is not present. Lying amongst the rubble, Spike talks to a girl called Mary Brien, buried deeper below the debris and badly injured.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 11 - Yesterday's News
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    #23 - Yesterday's News

    S2:E11

    Spike's out of hospital, but he's not recovered. Lynda, however, would rather compete for a story with him - who is selling the out of date food to the school canteen ?

    Director:Lorne Magory
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 12 - Rock Solid
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    #24 - Rock Solid

    S2:E12

    Kenny is oiling the running of the paper even more than usual in the wake of Spike quitting, leaving Lynda even more difficult than usual. But Colin has discovered that Kenny is an aspiring singer and guitarist, and has big plans for him, whether Kenny likes it or not.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Press Gang Season 2 Episode 13 - The Big Finish?
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    #25 - The Big Finish?

    S2:E13

    The future of the Junior Gazette is uncertain. As the staffers on the paper are finishing school, the owners want to turn the paper over the the next lot of kids. The Junior Gazette was meant to be a school newspaper, but Lynda and Kenny want to run the paper commercially, employing any staff that wish to remain. They draw up a proposal and submit this to the paper's owners. Colin has groomed Kenny for rock stardom, but his big concert is the same night as the proposal. Spike expresses his feelings for Lynda, but does Lynda feel the same way for Spike? Can she bring herself to say those three little words that Spike wants to hear? Spike threatens to go back to America - but can Lynda decide between Spike and her paper?

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Page One" is the worst rated episode of "Press Gang". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Colin Nutley and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/16/1989. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Photo Finish".