The series was only intended to run for six episodes.
PJ being shot in the face during paint-balling in (#4.20) and Jemma Dobson electrocuted to death by a faulty TV in (#6.6) are Byker Grove's most shocking moments.
In 1994, the series featured the first gay kiss seen on British children's television. According to a 2015 interview, producer Matthew Robinson has meticulously catalogued the complaint letters he received in his Phnom Penh office in Cambodia.
The Ant & Dec Show (1995) (TV Series) is considered to be a spin-off of Byker Grove (1989) (TV Series) although Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly don't play their characters PJ and Duncan in that show.
Byker Grove follows the lives and relationships of a group of young people who are members of a youth club.