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Waterloo Road

Created by Ann McManus, Maureen Chadwick

2006–present

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?

First aired
9 Mar 2006
Episode length
60 min
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Writers
Carol Ann Docherty, Chris Murray, Jess Williams and 3 others
Cinematography
Ernest Vincze
Executive producers
Cameron Roach, Gaynor Holmes, Jo McClellan and 3 others
Producers
Adam Leatherland, Alexander Lamb, Claire Burgess and 6 others
Elsewhere
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Seasons · 254 episodes

  • Series 1

    Season 1 · 2006

    Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

  • Series 2

    Season 2 · 2007

    Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

  • Series 3

    Season 3 · 2007

    Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

  • Series 4

    Season 4 · 2009

    Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

  • Series 5

    Season 5 · 2009

    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.

  • Series 6

    Season 6 · 2010

    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.

  • Series 7

    Season 7 · 2011

    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.

  • Series 8

    Season 8 · 2012

    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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