He would later guest appear in the show throughout its thirty-series run and would feature in his own spin-off Tucker's Luck.
[2] The same day, Tucker met Justin Bennett, a quiet, posh boy who seemed unimpressed by the comprehensive school.
Receiving a banishment from swimming lessons and detention, Benny then stole Tucker's trousers and hung them from the form window in a similar fashion.
Hearing of this from Justin's father, Tucker and Benny would receive the first corporal punishment Grange Hill had ever enacted.
Tucker would later run for school council, but lost out on votes due to his boisterous behaviour with other members of the class and being the only one to ever receive corporal punishment.
Despite avoiding punishment, Tucker volunteers to fix the damage the fire caused to the students work on the school play.
Instead, he focused on the abolition of a separate table for the poorer children who were forced to sit segregated from the others in the lunch hall, due to them getting free dinners.
Angered and supported by School Uniform Abolition head Jess, Tucker joined in a protest to allow for all students to sit wherever they wanted in the lunch hall.
Near the end of the series, Tucker begins work experience at a building site owned by his best friend Alan Humphries' father.
Roping Mr Humphries into their investigation, the rogue employee is eventually caught and Tucker, along with his friends, are rewarded.
[13] Tucker also joins the rest of the third years to help build an outdoor centre where Cathy injures her foot.
[19] After a lengthy stay at home, Tucker finally rejoins Grange Hill in time for the school trip to France.
An attempt by Brookdale kids to break the stereo ends the disco in a large fight, one in which Tucker's nemesis Doyle defends him.
[25] Tucker also returns with the original cast in the episode "School Revue", where he single-handedly saves the talent showcase, by buying a champagne bottle for the showcase's raffle, much to teacher Mr McGuffey's ire (though as a result of this purchase, the raffle turns out to be an enormous success), and performs a song in praise of the latter with his band as part of the show.
[27] He returned one final time for the show's last episode in 2008, when telling his nephew not to make the same mistake as he did and leave school early, which led Togger to staying on.
His speech consisted of the importance of comprehensive schools, which were a leading effort to improve equality in class divisions in Britain.
Carty attended a Saturday morning acting class at Phildene Stage School from the age of four, which had an attached agency.