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This Is Your Life – 7.9, 2 – Coronation St – 7.6, 3 – Coronation St – 7.6, 4 – Crossroads – 7.4, 5 – Crossroads – 7.4, 6 – Rising Damp – 7.2, 7 – Bit Of Wisdom – 6.9, 8 – European Cup – 6.9, 9 – Crossroads – 6.9, 10 – The Fosters – 6.9, 11 – David Nixon – 6.8, 12 – Sale Of The Century – 6.8, 13 – Crossroads – 6.7, 14 – New Faces – 6.2, 15 – Hadleigh – 6.1 a b c d Cornell, Paul; Day, Martin; Topping, Keith (1996). The Guinness Book of Classic British TV (seconded.). Enfield, UK: Guinness Publishing Ltd. pp.32–36. ISBN 0-85112-628-6. Arlen Roth; Ry Cooder (1985), "Crossroads Ist Original Main Duel, Arlen Roth and Ry Cooder 1985", SoundCloud

Further changes were introduced in March 1985, when new filming locations, sets and characters were introduced. Many storylines began to revolve around the new motel owner, Nicola Freeman (played by Gabrielle Drake). More long-term characters, such as David and Barbara Hunter, were axed. The theme tune was also updated, and the opening titles replaced with a longer version. Finally, the show was renamed Crossroads Motel– although this fact was never formally announced by the show’s production team and the word “Motel” was simply incorporated into the opening titles. The closing titles, which had scrolled in multiple ‘crossroad’ directions since the earliest episodes, were replaced with conventional scrolling credits. The Crossroads Fan Club". www.crossroadsmotel.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020 . Retrieved 30 January 2020.The actual goat was at the beginning and that was the first filming we did. And I think you know a lad on the farm, I mean I’ve been to farms where people have had the sheep that’s been the kids’ favourite and it’s a great big fat thing in the garden and it’s their pet and they had a name for it. year-old Eugene Martone has a fascination for blues music while studying classical guitar at the Juilliard School in New York City. Researching blues and guitar music brings famed Robert Johnson's mythically creative acclaim to his attention; especially intriguing are the legends surrounding exactly how Johnson became so talented – most notably the one claiming he "sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads", as well as a famed "missing song" that was lost, supposedly evermore, to the world.

Coronation St – 18.6, 2 – Robin’s Nest – 17.8, 3 – Coronation St – 16.8, 4 – Wednesday At Eight – 16.7, 5 – George & Mildred – 15.9, 6 – The Sweeney – 15.8, 7 – This Is Your Life – 15.4, 8 – Edward & Mrs Simpson – 15.2, 9 – Crossroads – 15.1, 10 – Crossroads – 14.9, 11 – Crossroads – 14.8, 12 – Bernie – 14.7, 13 – Emmerdale Farm – 14.1, 14 – Crossroads – 13.9, 15 – Lillie – 13.7 Cos I mean I think that’s where the humour was with Benny he didn’t think there was anything wrong with things. Coronation St – 13, 2 – Life Begins At 40 – 12.8, 3 – Incredible Hulk – 12.5, 4 – London Night Out – 12.4, 5 – Coronation St – 12.2, 6 – Train Robbers – 11.9, 7 – Krypton Factor- 11.5, 8 – Pink Medicine – 11.4, 9 – Crossroads – 11.2, 10 – Don’t Ask Me – 11.2, 11 – Crossroads – 11.1, 12 – Distant Country – 11, 13 – Only Young Twice – 10.9, 14 – Crossroads – 10.8, 15 – Crossroads – 10.6 Special Branch – 6.9, 2 – My Good Woman – 6.8, 3 – Hunters Walk – 6.7, 4 – News At Ten – 6.6, 5 –& Mother Makes Three – 6.6, 6 – Coronation St – 6.4, 7 – Six Days Of Justice – 6.3, 8 – World In Action – 6.1, 9 – Coronation St – 5.8, 10 – Crossroads – 5.7, 11 – David Nixon Show – 5.7, 12 – Fenn St Gang – 5.7, 13 – News At Ten – 5.6, 14 – News At Ten – 5.6, 15 – Crossroads – 5.5 A rerecording by The Tony Hatch Sound was issued as a single by Pye Records in 1965. A special arrangement of the theme by Wings was occasionally used from the late 1970s, usually when an episode ended with a dramatic event; that version appears on the band's 1975 album Venus and Mars.Other locations included the canal (including Gas Street Basin) behind the studios in Birmingham; in-story this was the King’s Oak Canal, on which Vera had a barge. The Chateau Impney Hotel also featured numerous times, most famously when Hugh proposed to Meg in 1973, and it was used to hold their wedding party two years later. The Chateau Impney was renamed the Droitwich Hotel on-screen. St Laurence’s Church in Alvechurch was the setting for Jill and Adam Chance’s wedding in 1983. Hagley Hall was used for the wedding reception. Helios Health Club based in Brierley Hill was used as the location for the Motel Health Club, filmed on Mondays when the health club was closed. The 2003 series was roundly criticised for moving too far away from the premise of the original 1964–88 series and the initial 2001–02 series, as well as for becoming "too camp". [ citation needed] Jane Asher later apologised to fans for the way the 2003 series went. [27] The ending scene of the final episode of the (second) revival was considered by many long-term fans to be quite weird and a bizarre surprise, where the entire revived run was revealed to have been entirely the daydream of a supermarket worker, as the Irish Mirror reports here.

After the in-story destruction of the motel by fire, the revamped motel was filmed from 1982 at the Golden Valley Hotel in Cheltenham; from 1985 filming moved to the Penns Hall Hotel (now Ramada Jarvis Birmingham) in Sutton Coldfield, the changed appearance explained as being due to rebuilding. At the time of the move to Sutton Coldfield, new studio sets were also introduced. MacFarquhar, Larissa (29 June 2020). "How Prosperity Transformed the Falklands". The New Yorker. Vol.69, no.36–39. p.87.Although Crossroads had always been a family run business, others throughout the years had become shareholders, most notably, Tish Hope, Bernard Booth, Gerald Lovejoy, Louise Borelli, David Hunter, Hugh Mortimer, Adam Chance, Barbara Hunter, and J. Henry Pollard.However by the early 1980's it became apparent that the family and their shareholders thought differently about the motel's future, and in 1985, it was sold off toMajor International Hotels, under the management of Nicola Freeman ( Gabrielle Drake). The fictional Crossroads Motel was in an equally fictional village near Birmingham, Kings Oak (there are real suburbs in south-west Birmingham called Kings Heath, Kings Norton and Selly Oak). A number of real-life hotels doubled for location filming; it is stated in the 1982 Crossroads Special that the Longshoot Motel (Nuneaton) was used as a 'blueprint' in designing the motel and it is likely that some scenes were filmed there during the run of the series. I don’t know I mean it’s like everything in life, isn’t it? I’m not saying I wouldn’t and I’m not saying I would. I mean, to say I wouldn’t would be the wrong thing because I’m not sure. It would depend on how I felt if it was right. He’d presented these storylines, they’d accepted it and then he was writing the story, so I was actually looking over his shoulder at this stuff he was doing when we were doing the show. I finished on the Sunday night at the Birmingham rep, arrived at ATV television on the Monday morning to be taken off to a location where I first met Sue Hanson – and the goat – and in that 1 day, we did scenes for the 6 weeks of Crossroads.