WANTED: A chance for youth to channel its energy productively. RESULT? The Junior Gazette. Press Gang is the story of a teen newspaper and the staff who run it. Sounds innocent enough, right? This BAFTA award winning series features dragons, cruelty to teachers, exam pressure, solvent abuse, bathwater as a beverage,  shotgun suicide and giant pink bunnies – all in the first 12 episodes. With the tear-jerking drama of The Rest of My Life, the classic farce of In The Picture, the heart-stopping tension of A Quarter To Midnight and the nerve-jangling tease of There Are Crocodiles, Press Gang fully deserves its reputation as one of the finest Children’s dramas ever made.

SM.net will be celebrating 20+ years of The Junior Gazette by revisiting every  episode of Press Gang. We will also be posting character profiles and exclusive new content, including a special 20th anniversary interview with Steven Moffat.

First transmission: 16 January 1989

Last transmission: 21 May 1993

A Richmond Films & Television production for Central/CITV, 43 x 25'

  SM.net will be celebrating Press Gang throughout 2011, but we are still suffering significant delays in delivering our new content, due to a certain Mr Mathews absconding with our passwords and petty cash, and muttering something unintelligible about crunchy credits...

  However, we'd like you to share the vole, so please feel free to email lynda@juniorgazette.net with your memories of Press Gang. We will publish our favourites on the site. The Editor's decision is final!