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.
@Kevin-19697 ай бұрын
Crossroads was no good without her, didn’t work, be like Dynasty without Joan Collins, Dallas without JR
@gardenroom657 ай бұрын
Huge role model for strong women. A lot of respect for Noelle Gordon. ❤ RIP
@asa19731008 ай бұрын
That old lady at 9:22 ADORABLE
@scot4u9 ай бұрын
Critisisum get another job
@1968KWT Жыл бұрын
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 🤷🏻♂️
@emperorpalpatine783 Жыл бұрын
whats the name of this show danny baker is hosting
@john_smith14713 ай бұрын
TV Heroes
@hughroberts5569 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic series. When I was younger Absolutely brilliant 👏
@donalddonney1595 Жыл бұрын
So camp
@peterglynn5181 Жыл бұрын
i miss those days.
@Weesperbuurt Жыл бұрын
love the faux posh accents
@PHOENIXHOUSE137 Жыл бұрын
I like the way the restaurant diary is totally empty apart from those two bookings!
@Omnicient. Жыл бұрын
Get the aspect ratio correct!! Its stretched!
@Westy1971 Жыл бұрын
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!
@237hardy Жыл бұрын
ATV should still be ashamed for their treatment of Nolly.
@SimonandJojo Жыл бұрын
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.
@markknight10112 жыл бұрын
A dead spider in the pudding. Well don't tell everyone lol
@richardbarclay77282 жыл бұрын
M
@luvhart2 жыл бұрын
Where’s the salad, where’s the salad, THERE’S the salad!
@brianmarshall47532 жыл бұрын
Wendy Jones RIP 😥
@salfordiandy49872 жыл бұрын
What a strange programme. I wish Noele had been presented with a machine gun at the end to deal with some of that audience.
@robertcomer27672 жыл бұрын
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.
@amyclarke413 жыл бұрын
ok tv
@andrewhuckle8034 жыл бұрын
Nolly truly defending the show and then the top bosses go and sack her !!!
@richardbrown11895 жыл бұрын
I think Wendy Jones must have been the inspiration for the announcer in Victoria Wood As Seen on TV!
@williamf45445 жыл бұрын
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
@alanmcdnyc5 жыл бұрын
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
@DeepScreenAnalysis5 жыл бұрын
I don’t think the audience here understands what a soap opera is supposed to be. As you said, the soap is an American invention which is meant to run five days a week, to create the sense of continuity as Noele said.
@Tiggzg6 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed Margaret in this character. Also enjoyed her jaunty little walk. 😄
@jedlinnen65286 жыл бұрын
The show was a cultural phenomenon in the sixties and seventies. It was like a comfortable pair of slippers
@Tiggzg6 жыл бұрын
Wonderful to see Noele ❤️
@glamdolly306 жыл бұрын
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?!
@lotuspoint7 жыл бұрын
Which itv regions showed this in 1985?
@johntitor.7 жыл бұрын
She runs a small motel in the midlands, yet can afford a room in the queen mary suite on the QE2.
@EricNorton6276 жыл бұрын
John Titor That's why the show's budget was so low for all those years - to save up for that one ticket in the distant future! 😁
@stho94595 жыл бұрын
Yes. An embezzlement storyline was planned. She was syphoning money off from building works and paying for cheap shoddy works, hence the poor quality. She was also fiddling the books with staff pay. They were getting less than the books were showing, hence their poor quality work and reduced intellect. Meg "Turned her back on the motel" because she thought she was about to get busted......
@DeepScreenAnalysis8 жыл бұрын
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.
@georgiewm87638 жыл бұрын
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@KingOfBev12 жыл бұрын
Have you seen her lately?
@MsFanmail12 жыл бұрын
Crossroads was' only good when noele was in it fantastic childhood memories watching this as a child.
@vordman12 жыл бұрын
I used to fancy 'orrible Iris
@dramaticguy13 жыл бұрын
RIP Margaret John,always liked her as Marion Owen.
@Tiggzg13 жыл бұрын
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
@bonnie43uk13 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, VHS tapes, .. wonderful memories
@PinkFloydFan7414 жыл бұрын
Oh, Arthur!
@disremembrance14 жыл бұрын
For how long did ITV2 have in-vision continuity? I never knew they had it!
@opentellyonyoutube3 жыл бұрын
For a few months at launch. It sadly never lasted.
@harry155214 жыл бұрын
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.
@darrowby197214 жыл бұрын
3:29 ... what did Adam Chance say? ... thats right... he said "suck what?"
@darrowby197214 жыл бұрын
Complete and utter tripe and badly acted rubbish. But that diddnt stop me or millions of others watching!
@alphauktelepictures6 жыл бұрын
I thought I was quite well acted myself considering the budget had to be stretched over 4 or 5 episodes a week whereas corrie and Emmerdale farm stretched the equivalent budget over 2 episodes a week, bugs me that critics always attacked it for the sake of it when I've seen corrie episodes where cameras hit actors booms where caught in shot, it's very much a product of its time and the techniques in tv at the time didn't allow for the cost of editing but you're quite right it didn't stop millions of people watching, it's just a shame when central took over they didn't have any faith in it
@EnglishAddict14 жыл бұрын
Strange...I remember the episodes being much longer ;-))
@dramaticguy15 жыл бұрын
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.
@dramaticguy15 жыл бұрын
The other woman in the b/w clip is the actress who played Meg's sister,Kitty but sadly died early on.
@nickpalmer3076 Жыл бұрын
Kitty Jarvis played By Beryl Johnstone.
@MrBooojangles15 жыл бұрын
Crossroads was tons better then the Eastenders rubbish, Corrie and Crossroads rule.