They went into Crossroads and then found out it was a shit shower of 5 days filming of poorly scripted one take shite on low budgets. Result - it was crap. The idea was excellent but the TV company didn’t fund it. It had a lunchtime budget but had a late afternoon audience. It was shoddy shit, no matter how much effort the actors put in, as it was not given a proper budget. They had to bury it in the end as a result of it being the butt of jokes. It was Acorn Antiques, with the comedy squeezed out. It was in the end as entertaining as being in bed with the flu.

Crossroads was no good without her, didn’t work, be like Dynasty without Joan Collins, Dallas without JR

Huge role model for strong women. A lot of respect for Noelle Gordon. ❤ RIP

That old lady at 9:22 ADORABLE

Critisisum get another job

Unlike the snobbish so-called journalists and critics, the old lady doesn’t expect soap-opera characters to speak Elizabethan blank verse 😂 I wonder whether the one who says she’s a theatre-goer (edited out in this clip, as is the girl giving up her boyfriend who didn’t watch the show!) knows that even Elizabethan drama isn’t free from soap-opera characters and plots, notably the scenes composed in prose 🤷🏻‍♂️

whats the name of this show danny baker is hosting

Fantastic series. When I was younger Absolutely brilliant 👏

So camp

i miss those days.

love the faux posh accents

I like the way the restaurant diary is totally empty apart from those two bookings!

Get the aspect ratio correct!! Its stretched!

2 points. Surprised Central didn't edit the Atv ident/endcap out? End music was a reworked version of Elo's 'Jungle' from the Out Of The Blue album!

ATV should still be ashamed for their treatment of Nolly.

Crossroads was a wonderful true family show, that pulled in a regular 17 million viewers, any little mistakes were in every other programme of the same era, I can remember colour 1970's episodes of Coronation Street when actors fluffed a line, or a grey TV camera lens came into view. Soaps then were something a family could watch together. and unlike the soaps today, they weren't full of arguments, fighting and shouting and with some actors barely speaking clear enough to hear what they are saying.

A dead spider in the pudding. Well don't tell everyone lol

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Where’s the salad, where’s the salad, THERE’S the salad!

Wendy Jones RIP 😥

What a strange programme. I wish Noele had been presented with a machine gun at the end to deal with some of that audience.

And to think the way she fought for this and was so proud to be part of that show and then the way she was dumped like that when ATV became Central and it was never the same again.

ok tv

Nolly truly defending the show and then the top bosses go and sack her !!!

I think Wendy Jones must have been the inspiration for the announcer in Victoria Wood As Seen on TV!

Bad enough Meg leaving but all her lovely ornaments got burnt - i dont suppose she could get all that many in her handbag on the way out

Great to see her defending the program that was a ratings phenomenon in the 1970’s. So true that crossroads emulated the American soap opera format of 5 days a week and that’s what made it truly special. It crushed coronation st in the 70’s even though it was never broadcast in prime time nationally. She won TV Times personality of year 10 times in a row . The public adored crossroads- the critics hated it

I really enjoyed Margaret in this character. Also enjoyed her jaunty little walk. 😄

The show was a cultural phenomenon in the sixties and seventies. It was like a comfortable pair of slippers

Wonderful to see Noele ❤️

Very strange format - star chauffeur driven into TV studio in limo - star insulted by assorted unwashed members of the public - star driven out of TV studio again - End Credits. It looks like a new show devised by Alan Partridge. 'Limo Lynchings anyone?!

Which itv regions showed this in 1985?

She runs a small motel in the midlands, yet can afford a room in the queen mary suite on the QE2.

What a snobbish audience: they can't seem to accept the fact that Crossroads was supposed to be light family entertainment, not some highbrow social commentary. I think the show was so misunderstood by people like this who gave it such a bad reputation: for what the show set out to achieve, it completely excelled and the ordinary viewing public were absolutely devoted to it, with a kind of fervent devotion not even Coronation Street commanded. I really find the conduct of the audience contemptible and charmless here: all except the lovely old lady who defends Nolly vehemently near the end.

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Have you seen her lately?

Crossroads was' only good when noele was in it fantastic childhood memories watching this as a child.

I used to fancy 'orrible Iris

RIP Margaret John,always liked her as Marion Owen.

Brilliant thanks for uploading this, too bad the sound was off hope you find more of Noele to add to youtube, can't get enough of her. The critics really did hammer the show but they where doing something right they had a huge audience and I agree with her their schedule was amazing. I wish I could see all the episodes again right from the beginning. Thanks Noele you where a grand dame. x

Ahhh, VHS tapes, .. wonderful memories

Oh, Arthur!

For how long did ITV2 have in-vision continuity? I never knew they had it!

Crossroads was the first show to put a telephone help line on the end of the programme . Unlike other soaps where ethnic actors were added for simple race storylines, Crossroads added all kinds of actors of all creeds and colours with the basic idea that these people were characters and colour was not the principal reason for casting them. This made Crossroads one of the first soaps to employ many Asian and African actors in the UK.

3:29 ... what did Adam Chance say? ... thats right... he said "suck what?"

Complete and utter tripe and badly acted rubbish. But that diddnt stop me or millions of others watching!

Strange...I remember the episodes being much longer ;-))

Its ironic that ITV1 is appealing for lost episodes of the orginal Crossroads after wiping so many and axing it in 1988. In the late 80s fdifferent regions were showing it at different times,so they used the excuse of falling ratings.

The other woman in the b/w clip is the actress who played Meg's sister,Kitty but sadly died early on.

Crossroads was tons better then the Eastenders rubbish, Corrie and Crossroads rule.