Crossroads (1964–1988)

Name: Crossroads
Genre: Drama
Released: 1964-11-02
Rating: 3.8
Cast: Noele Gordon, Roger Tonge, Susan Hanson, Ronald Allen

TV Series | 30 min | Drama

Episode Guide

The four or five times a week adventures of a motel owner, son, daughter and her staff. Drama was never far away from the ringing of the reception bell.

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Top Series Cast

Noele Gordon

Meg Mortimer

(331 episodes, 1964-1981)
Roger Tonge

Sandy Richardson

(267 episodes, 1964-1980)
Susan Hanson

Diane Parker

(248 episodes, 1966-1985)
Ronald Allen

David Hunter

(198 episodes, 1972-1985)
Paul Henry

Benny

(172 episodes, 1976-1987)

Creators:

Hazel Adair, Peter Ling

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13 January 2000 | Dodger-9

Wonderfully awful

For about 25 years, this was British TV's best loved bad soap. Shaky sets, some over the top storylines and a host of okay actors revelling in the whole affair.

Set in a fictitious Midlands town, it centres on the staff and guests at the eponymous Motel - in the early days run by Meg Mortimer (Noelle Gordon) and later by Nicola Freeman (Gabrielle Drake).

The best characters included irascible Scots chef Shughie McFee (from The Great Escape); David Hunter (Ronald Allen from a Night to Remember) and Hammer veteran Sandor Eles (Countess Dracula) as a cliched chef.

Look out too for the late Jeremy Sinden (Donald's son) who went on to play one of the ill-fated pilots in Star Wars - a little movie he shot inbetween breaks from Crossroads.

However, head and shoulders above them all was scruffy, backward, lovable Benny Hawkins who never had much luck - his gypsy girlfriend was knocked down and killed on his wedding day - but with his woolly hat and good heart, he was the Midlands version of Forrest Gump long before Tom Hanks cornered the market in loveable simpletons.

The whole thing was repackaged and revamped as Neighbours, a show also boasting a Tony Hatch theme tune. At one point in the late Seventies, Paul McCartney and Wings even provided a rockier theme tune for this Seventies slice of nonsense, nicely spoofed as Acorn Antiques in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV.

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Trivia

The survival rate of episodes is very hit-and-miss: the first edition currently known to exist in the archives is episode 126 from April 1965, with the next, sequential, run of installments comprising 496-500, aired over one week in November 1966. Thereafter, some years are represented by no editions (or merely one), with some surviving only as edited compilations, monochrome film copies, or off-air audio and home video recordings. A complete run only appears to exist from October 1980. Additionally, some pre-transmission trailers from 1964 were kept, as were sections of 1960s film inserts discovered in early 2008.

Goofs

The March 1975 civil ceremony wedding of a fairly anonymous motel owner to a businessman - Meg Richardson and Hugh Mortimer - at Birmingham Register Office sees the city centre thronged with well-wishers; similarly the later affirmation/blessing at Birmingham Cathedral has a packed congregation, outside police supervision and reporters. Whilst in reality this reflects the interest of the general public in the show and its production, in narrative terms it is completely nonsensical.

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Plot Summary

Genres

Drama

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Release Date:

2 November 1964

Language

English

Country of Origin

Filming Locations

Ramada Hotel, Penns Lane, Walmley, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK

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