Merry Christmas from Noele Gordon

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Merry Christmas from Noele Gordon

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Noele Gordon sings "We Need a Little Christmas" in Crosroads.
Great stuff and as camp as Christmas itself - Merry Christmas!

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@knibscratch 5 жыл бұрын

I have posted this on my Facebook page for the last eight years ... It has become a tradition.

@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын

It's perfect Christmas schmaltz - I love it! The rest of the cast look so embarrassed as Meg smashes that fourth wall and launches into full Julie Andrews mode!

@bugs7139 8 ай бұрын

I fully support this initiative of having Noelle Gordon aka Meg Mortimer/Richardson singing this festive classic being posted on Facebook every year, I just feel for her that she’s never made the coveted UK Christmas No1, like Wham’s Last Christmas, Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You and many many more, I think LadBaby should take this year off from having Christmas No1s and let Meg take this years Christmas crown! I’d love to hear this being played on BBC Radio1’s the Official Chart Show…Noelle being played on the BBCs flagship youth pop station 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@lotuspoint 4 жыл бұрын

Seems apt to say on the 40th anniversary of this episode and Noele’s 100th Birthday ‘Happy Christmas’. Nobody has ever come close to the sheer stardom of Nollie,, she was a true and unique gem. Wherever you are Nollie I’m raising a glass to you today xx

@Tiggzg 13 жыл бұрын

What a performer she had it all, looks, voice and great actor, miss her after all these years. Thanks Noele xo

@mikehudson8884 3 жыл бұрын

@Marcus Stewart Nolly had everything......looks, voice and a great actor, like the above and GREAT knowledge of television....

@itgetseasierlessitry 11 жыл бұрын

Amuses me to think that as a kid my family and millions of others would tune in at 6.30 most evenings to watch another gripping episode of wobbly sets, wooden acting, and Amy Turtle fluffing her lines. And I loved it! It wouldnt have worked though without Noel Gordon the charismatic matriarch.

@SG4860 7 жыл бұрын

Nolly loved breaking the 'fourth wall' every Christmas when she did her songs and Xmas speech! It was Crossroad's version of The Queen's Speech! Loved it!!! x

@richardbarclay7728 3 жыл бұрын

Did she break the fourth wall every Christmas on Crossroads Steve?

@sallypointer4223 2 жыл бұрын

I believe she liked having her back doors smashed in at christmas too, or so i've heard

@daveslife9486 2 жыл бұрын

@@sallypointer4223 what we do behind closed doors aye 😉

@PDC-yb9qs 2 жыл бұрын

@@sallypointer4223 😅🤣😅🤣 that caught me off guard

@jazmorrison9030 2 жыл бұрын

Sad when got sacked

@annoldham3018 5 жыл бұрын

Love how Johnny Patrick and his music keep playing till the end. 😎

@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын

I come back to watch this clip every Christmas, it is priceless! Noele smashes down the fourth wall and launches into full Julie Andrews mode - while the rest of the cast wish the ground would swallow them up! The script is ace - the old guy cajoling a 'reluctant' Meg to give them a song - then miraculously the pianist knows exactly what to play, and is soon joined by an unseen, full orchestra! I LOVE the background supporting artist in white turtleneck and sports jacket @ 0:28 who keeps eating that mince pie unmoved by Nolly's performance (you can almost hear him thinking 'Fuck the old bitch and her big moment - I've been on set since 7am and not so much as a piece of toast!') Merry Cjristmas everyone!

@DistantCousin Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣👏

@stephenmcconnell1000 Жыл бұрын

You're actually funnier than Peter Kay! No shit 🤣

@chriswinwood6501 10 ай бұрын

Kathy Staff’s fixed grin….

@glamdolly30 10 ай бұрын

@@chriswinwood6501 🤣🤣🤣 You can almost hear her sphincter spasming with embarrassment!

@robertjarman8979 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not even old enough to remember Crossroads but my late Granny told me what a show it was and in a way I wish they would repeat it as let's face it it was good family entertainment

@wearegoingtocatalina 13 жыл бұрын

I love this and in a strange way find quite uplifting. I was a regular Crossroads viewer.Go Noele!

@wearegoingtocatalina 14 жыл бұрын

Good old Noele performing like an old pro that she was.A great post,many thanks.

@darrowby1972 14 жыл бұрын

Its coming up towards the time where we all play this clip to death. Whenever I am down or sad I play this clip. I`ve said it before but i`ll say it again.... this clip is so bad its bloody brilliant! RIP NOLLIE

@mikehudson8884 7 жыл бұрын

I so concur. Nolly forever!!!!

@SG4860 3 ай бұрын

Quite right - Crossroads always had a pleasant episode at Xmas !!

@glamdolly30 6 жыл бұрын

Takes me right back to my childhood, we always watched Crossroads when I got home from school used to eat my tea in front of it. It was never a patch on Coronation Street - it was like the bastard sibling - but it was fun! Noele Gordon was supposed to be a nightmare to work with, a proper queen bee, but I have to admit she held the whole show together. And when she sang at Christmas, looking straight down the camera lens, it was sheer brilliance! Wish ITV3 would repeat Crossroads, as they are currently showing Corrie from 1986. I guess the powers that be feel it's too low brow!

@Summer21. 5 жыл бұрын

glamdolly20 ITV3 I believe, would show episodes of Crossroads, but ATV didn't preserve all the episodes of Crossroads as some video tapes were wiped to use again for future episodes as master tapes were expensive back then. There are episodes from the 1960's and 1970's that were kept by ATV and later on, Central, then after that, Carlton, Granada, and now ITV. The master tapes of those episodes are still in storage somewhere, I think at Yorkshire Television studios in Leeds, from what I heard once years ago. The episodes from the 1980's up to April 1988 when the series ended are all preserved on master tape. The episodes of Crossroads, the comeback in 2001-2002 and 2003, are saved somewhere as well. 😊😃

@glamdolly30 5 жыл бұрын

@@Summer21. Thank you so much for all that wonderful detail - I have only just seen this, 5 months after you wrote it! So from what you say, ITV could feasibly repeat more recent episodes of Crossroads that they do still have master tapes for? Isn't it shocking that TV history could be wiped like tat, all for the cost of some mere tapes!

@ysgol3 2 жыл бұрын

'Bastard sibling', fantastic, I'll use that!🤣🤣

@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын

@@ysgol3 I've such a way with words, lol! Merry Christmas!

@ysgol3 Жыл бұрын

@@glamdolly30 You certainly have! Merry Christmas to you too!

@identlover 9 жыл бұрын

Ah she had REAL star quality :-)

@CrossroadsLad 11 жыл бұрын

What i love about 'Crossroads' , 'Coronation Street' and 'Emmerdale Farm' in the 70's, they never copied each other, (like soaps seem today), they have one thing in common though, they had lovely, kindly storylines the whole family could watch. Who remembers the end credits of 'Crossroads' going vertical and horizontal, and 'Coronation Street' with its outdoor set though made of bricks wasn't built to the size of full scale houses. yet the magic worked.

@Mishima505 6 жыл бұрын

London No Dippy Dolly the inspiration for Acorn Antiques. Sad there’ll be no more of those either...

@rosswakefield1299 6 жыл бұрын

Please never remove this, we watch it every year :-)

@annoldham3018 2 жыл бұрын

🥰

@CC-uc4gq 2 жыл бұрын

Me too!!

@SG4860 11 жыл бұрын

Magical memories! Crossroads always did something happy and special at Christmas - unlike todays soaps!! Meg loved to have a sing-song didn't she?! Can you imagine the cast of Eastenders doing that?

@jend80 4 жыл бұрын

The early cast of East Enders literally had a whole album of Cockney sings songs round the pub piano

@davidfogarty2220 Жыл бұрын

Miseryfest Eastenders. Not likely.

@ajaccs 5 жыл бұрын

Just heard about this on the TV Cream podcast and had to look it up. Amazing stuff! Thanks for uploading. 👏🤘🙌

@dramaticguy 14 жыл бұрын

Poor old Noele Gordon,she was Crossroads,her axing in 81 was an effort to killl the show but it carried on til April 88.

@jazmorrison9030 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely singing voice

@Tiggzg 13 жыл бұрын

She had a great voice, and I think you can't appreciate it lol!

@Myplop 4 жыл бұрын

My dear old grandma and grand aunt watched it religiously, you weren’t allowed to speak when it wAs on, people believed it was real

@CC-uc4gq 3 жыл бұрын

Same with my old Mom " not a peep!!! " we were told!

@anorganlover6281 7 ай бұрын

But there was plenty of noise from them about THE STATE OF TODAY - when it was finished ! ! !

@phildurrant2422 6 жыл бұрын

Ah my sound of Christmas

@williamf4544 4 жыл бұрын

A wonderful woman - greatly missed

@jasonking6892 Жыл бұрын

Happy days 👍🇬🇧

@wjec1970 11 жыл бұрын

Camp, camp, camp! Funny as hell though!

@knibscratch Жыл бұрын

I have just posted this on my FB page again .... For the 12th year in a row ..... MERRY CHRISTMAS

@davidperry7329 4 жыл бұрын

FANTASTIC R.I.P 😇😘

@SG4860 7 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine Danny Dyer bursting into song at Christmas in EastEnders? Maybe Rita or Audrey could do something in Corrie! Nothing could beat this style of Crossroads!

@willlovesgaz 4 жыл бұрын

ha ha i swear i have only just seen this comment - i just posted this video to Facebook with a very similar comment (i said can you imagine Ken and Rita doing "Fairytale of New York"!) 😂 x

@MarcZERO1980 2 жыл бұрын

They really should do this!

@winny8420 2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure Pat Butcher/Evans burst in to song one Xmas Day in the Queen Vic,

@stevehotspur 2 жыл бұрын

@@willlovesgaz In Corrie years ago Rita was a club singer and you did indeed see her performing

@stephenmcconnell1000 Жыл бұрын

I remember Hilda Ogden sang in the Rovers when she left Coronation Street. 'Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye'

@harry1552 14 жыл бұрын

Cant we have it back. For we need a little revolution right this very minute,need a little regional tv, we need a little ATV RIGHT THIS VERRY MINUET!

@mikehudson8884 7 жыл бұрын

Yes we DO. I loved ATV.

@socssniffin 9 жыл бұрын

I so glad crossroads is starting a re run starting Fri 27th Feb 2015 Thanks to the station that's showing it

@Juliukas101 Жыл бұрын

"Slice up the fruit cake!" LOL! Crossroads was always so very different to all the other soaps. It had a style all of its own. Nowadays everything is so sexed up and with people screaming at each other, it's nice to see something like this from another era.

@caerfaimama Жыл бұрын

I can remember the storyline where Jill became pregnant by another man when her husband was working away. It all came out in a heated row, I remember her yelling "it's Anthony's!!!"

@Matt571 10 жыл бұрын

At least Crossroads didn't have a depressing episode at Christmas!

@Steve20127 7 жыл бұрын

Yes, very true. No murders, infidelity, divorce papers being served or suicides to up the ratings.

@chrisamadeus4647 4 жыл бұрын

Indeed! TV is very depressing now.

@mikehudson8884 7 жыл бұрын

Say what you will about this show, of course seeing this today you can call it, trite, corny, terrible, unrealistic and farcical but that was then and you have got to hand it to Noele Gordon she was a showwoman through and through. She was a star but not up herself, you felt you really knew her and cared about her even though we did see the camera and mic at the end of the scene stage right!!!!

@mikewhiles4635 3 жыл бұрын

It's strange, I never watched CR but so many of these people are familiar too me...wonder how few are still alive ? Great memories if your a fan no doubt . 😎😎😎

@willlovesgaz 4 жыл бұрын

I bet this was fun to film - i imagine back then this would only have been recorded about a week or two in advance so they would have had the real xmas spirit, not like nowadays, filming what feels like 8 months in advance 😂😂😂

@CrossroadsLad 11 жыл бұрын

I loved 'Crossroads', 'Coronation Street' and 'Emmerdale Farm' in the 70's and early 80's, 'Crossroads was my favourite. i think this is lovely Meg Richardson singing the song from 'Mame', i think it's awful how soaps today broadcast episode over the christmas , with arguements, or someone clonked on the head, or someone dies, Soaps were far better then, they had less technical things etc to work with, but actors were of the old school, bringing their magic to a soap,

@atvnetworklimited 13 жыл бұрын

@axs1559 The Boom and cameras wouldn't have been seen at the time as the old sets generally cut a bit of the picture edge off. Having said that these Crossroads Christmas endings generally were deemed (as Jane Rossington recalls) 'specials' where Meg would at times even talk to the viewers, so not a regular soap episode throughout. I think EastEnders tried something similar in the 1980s for new year '86.

@CaptainSiCo Жыл бұрын

Is that a boom in the top right at 02:37? Probably wouldn’t have been seen on the TV screens of the time.

@chubbychubbs5552 3 жыл бұрын

Crossroads was bloody awful but Noele did wave to us on Hockley flyover, driving behind us in her Green Capri, registration NG 10, early 70s 😋

@dramaticguy 13 жыл бұрын

RIP Sue Lloyd

@bluntcunt 5 жыл бұрын

Where was the drummer hiding in that room?

@davidletton2099 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic. Nolly was not heralded the Queen of the Midlands for nothing. Rule of thumb, YOU DON'T SACK YOUR STAR!!!

@allenmx Жыл бұрын

I never get the sacked thing. She had a contract that wasn’t renewed.

@stevesmith2812 Жыл бұрын

Jill's daughter seems more interested in eating that mince pie than the song. Also Sandy seems to be singing through gritted teeth as though he's really not into it. Fabulous though.

@boondoggle6 12 жыл бұрын

you don't hear piano playing like that every day of the week.

@jameshodges1496 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like some of the keys are missing.

@annoldham3018 2 жыл бұрын

@@jameshodges1496 😂

@anorganlover6281 7 ай бұрын

And the sound of the piano caused the walls to shake . . .

@jamescoupland3137 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing Whst a wonderful women star quality true icon

@DeepScreenAnalysis 8 жыл бұрын

The older British generations adored Crossroads: they didn't have any cynicism or pretensions.. perhaps their appreciation for the show stems from surviving two World Wars? The people who sneered at this soap opera were from a different mould of British 'values', any sense of warmth and togetherness was out the window replaced by mean spirited vitriol fancying itself as satire. I'm glad that the people who valued this show were in the majority: let's not forget the show regularly enjoyed viewing figures of up to 20 million.

@richardbarclay7728 3 жыл бұрын

@Marcus Stewart I was rude calling you a moron and I’m going to delete my comment. Crossroads was a training ground for actors. You’re right in what you say but it wasn’t made for the critics. It was made for the 20,000,000 odd people who watched it in its heydays.

@anorganlover6281 7 ай бұрын

The older generations took a break from their mean-spirited vitriol in LETTERS TO THE CHIEF LUNATIC through their beloved local SODOM EVENING MOON in order to watch this tripe . . .

@RonMcAllister 13 жыл бұрын

why weren't the pianist and drummer listening to each other?...the ending....lol

@leoninelives 13 жыл бұрын

"Santa dear, we're in a hurry, So!" - 1:47 - Good old Glenda Barlow!

@anorganlover6281 7 ай бұрын

Glenda Barlow - she is Ken's love child no-one knows about ?

@danwoodvine5900 7 ай бұрын

I wonder who's playing the drum and double bass.

@darrowby1972 14 жыл бұрын

@axs1559 - never noticed the sound boom in the final shot before. This is so bad its brilliant, as is the pianist making an @rse of his "free jazz" impro right at the very end!

@Westy1971 2 жыл бұрын

I suppose 'John the pianist' was somebody local Meg knew? How else do you write ATV's resident music man into a random episode!

@mbvideoselection 5 жыл бұрын

Slice up the fruit cake!

@1958RBS 2 жыл бұрын

Christmas is Noele!

@crees1445 3 жыл бұрын

Oh Nolly. My favourite story about Crossroads was told by one of her costars, Jill I think. Noele welcomed a new cast member saying "There are no stars on this show" and everyone giggled.

@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын

Ha! Ha! Brilliant! Apparently Noele Gordon had a favourite chair in the green room, and if a new actor arrived and innocently sat on it, she would arrive like a galleon in full sail and unceremoniously bump them out of it! She tried it on Johnny Briggs once (as a newbie to the Crossroads cast, before he joined Corrie as Mike Baldwin), but he wouldn't have her diva shit and refused to move his arse out of the hallowed chair! Oh to have been a fly on the wall!

@DeepScreenAnalysis 12 жыл бұрын

@snuffythewomble - no, but I think Anita Dobson came close when she performed the show's theme song on Wogan (look it up on youtube!)

@dramaticguy 14 жыл бұрын

1979.

@dramaticguy 14 жыл бұрын

@SiLoJayLo Like the Kabin in Corrie its huge inside,maybe its a TARDIS lol!

@ChorusL106 4 жыл бұрын

1:05 Why do they not only stop on, but also zoom in on that woman of all people? Lol, this show is crazy

@richardbarclay7728 3 жыл бұрын

She was Miss Tatum, the King’s Oak post mistress. I can’t believe you didn’t know that. 🤣

@scattygirl1 3 жыл бұрын

Strictly Come Bitching sent me here

@MusicalsMakeMyWorldS 14 жыл бұрын

Anyone got the full episode of thuis?

@SG4860 8 ай бұрын

Can todays soaps do this sort of thing nowaday!! Being joyous and happy?

@chriswinwood6501 Жыл бұрын

Remarkable

@jend80 4 жыл бұрын

The look on that child's face arround 0 53 lol

@Kevin-1969 Жыл бұрын

What were they thinking asking her to leave the show

@stephenmcconnell1000 Ай бұрын

The best way to try to kill the show was to sack the star

@SiLoJayLo 14 жыл бұрын

Scenes like this used 2 amuse me. Where did the bass guitar & drum kit suddenly appear from? No doubt the same guitar that used 2 introduce every episode. Does any1 remember, in Coronation Street, the "magic reception room" that existed only on special occasions? U'd have a problem trying 2 explain exactly where this was, if u looked at the outside set, of the Rovers Return!