I'd you were around at the point in time this programme went out you then you would have known that any series about youths in the early eighties meant you could pretty much predict the set up and themes.
They usually involved unemployment , tenuous relationships with dodgy girlfriends and their families , fights with the local skinhead bullies and lots of running battles around naff shopping centres and numerous arguments with middle aged parents etc.
Tuckers luck was a spin off from the very successful Grange Hill and followed the popular character life after school with his pals Alan and Tommy.
The subject matter is rather downbeat and the feel of Grange Hill has been lost from the optimism of their past youth to the gloom of early Adulthood in Thatchers Britain which back then was pretty much felt across the country.
It was passable but did feel rather soapy by series 2 and 3 and the stories around youth unemployment, girlfriends and bullies can only stretch so far before becoming tedious and dramas like this were ten to a penny back then.
They usually involved unemployment , tenuous relationships with dodgy girlfriends and their families , fights with the local skinhead bullies and lots of running battles around naff shopping centres and numerous arguments with middle aged parents etc.
Tuckers luck was a spin off from the very successful Grange Hill and followed the popular character life after school with his pals Alan and Tommy.
The subject matter is rather downbeat and the feel of Grange Hill has been lost from the optimism of their past youth to the gloom of early Adulthood in Thatchers Britain which back then was pretty much felt across the country.
It was passable but did feel rather soapy by series 2 and 3 and the stories around youth unemployment, girlfriends and bullies can only stretch so far before becoming tedious and dramas like this were ten to a penny back then.