Waterloo Road

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Waterloo Road

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Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in 2021, and resumed starting 9 January 2023. At the failing comprehensive school, and later academy of the same name, the professional and personal lives of the students and staff are examined. Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?

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Series 1

8 Episodes2006

Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

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Series 2

12 Episodes2007

Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

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Series 3

20 Episodes2007

Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

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Series 4

20 Episodes2009

Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

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Series 5

20 Episodes2009

War breaks out in the playground after the closure of a local private school leads to an influx of middle-class pupils at Waterloo Road.

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Series 6

20 Episodes2010

New head teacher Karen Fisher sets out to revolutionise Waterloo Road but her steely exterior masks a dark personal tragedy which threatens to derail her leadership.

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Series 7

30 Episodes2011

A gang war breaks out at Waterloo Road, threatening to derail Michael's efforts to turn the school around, and Josh struggles with an escalating drug problem which is masking a more serious illness.

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Series 8

30 Episodes2012

Waterloo Road benefactor Lorraine wants a return on her investment but super head Michael insists that you can't make money from education. Will Lorraine listen, or is the school heading for disaster?

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Series 9

20 Episodes2013

Christine settles in as head of Waterloo Road but quickly finds new deputy Simon is after her job. As well as unruly students and her drink problem, old friend George is not all he seems.

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Series 10

20 Episodes2014

New head Vaughan Fitzgerald arrives with his partner Allie and her two children. When his two teenage sons from a previous marriage arrive unexpectedly to live with them, it all gets very complicated.

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