The Crossroads Fan Club". www.crossroadsmotel.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. An 11th-century homily called De Falsis Deis tells us that Mercury or Odin were honored on crossroads.

August, September and October 1979: ITV Production staff go on strike, the regional IBA stations go off air. The budget for the music was low and it would have to be recorded in a TV studio in Birmingham – not the perfect acoustic conditions in comparison with the dedicated music recording studios I was used to. … The original theme was actually two tunes. Each one represented one of the families and these tunes could be played separately or, because they shared the same chord sequence, together in counterpoint with each other. … As the budget was small I decided to use a small rhythm section plus a harp and feature the first theme on a 12-string guitar with the second theme played on the oboe. Right at the beginning I put the famous 9-note motif – the call-sign which gets the family in front of the TV set.” Bar 31 (p.31): The open 4th string (D) notes in the tablature have been removed. (Updated 15 July 2020) This Is Your Life – 19.5, 2 – Mind Your Language – 18.2, 3 – Miss Jones & Son – 18.1, 4 – Coronation St – 18, 5 – Coronation St – 18, 6 – Maggie & Her – 17.7, 7 – Professionals – 17.4, 8 – Crossroads – 17.2, 9 – Crossroads – 17, 10 – Crossroads – 16.9, 11 – Crossroads – 16.9, 12 – General Hospital – 16.8, 13 – Wilde Alliance – 16.6, 14 – Rising Damp – 16.3, 15 – George & Mildred – 16.2The original series was recorded at ATV's/Central's Broad Street studios in Birmingham, while the revived series was filmed at Carlton Studios in Nottingham. London Night Out – 12.9, 2 – Paul Daniels – 12.7, 3 – Coronation St – 12.2, 4 – Coronation St – 11.8, 5 – What’s On? – 11.5, 6 – Crossroads – 11.4, 7 – Nightmare Park – 11.3, 8 – Crossroads – 11.1, 9 – Krypton Factor – 10.7, 10 – 3-2-1 – 10.7, 11 – Crossroads – 10.6, 12 – Don’t Ask Me – 10.3, 13 – Crossroads – 10.2, 14 – Bass Player – 10.1, 15 – Survival – 10 People used to say where does that accent come from? Well, it never really came from anywhere! If you were in Birmingham they thought it was Worcester, and if you were in Worcester it was Birmingham and anywhere outside of Birmingham they thought it was Birmingham. What I tried to do was make it an accent that nobody could actually decide where it came from.

And they started bringing in these new families – not that they weren’t good – but nobody was interested because as I said you need an established person to initiate the new characters. And then, of course, he brought in the upmarket Benny to work with me instead of Sue and it just didn’t work. Benny named a donkey in Diane’s memory. Was that storyline perhaps a bit offensive to the fans of Diane?Crossroads' Susan Hanson on the Alan Titchmarsh Show – (45th Annivsersary Box Set)". 6 November 2009. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021 . Retrieved 1 January 2009– via YouTube. Robert Halliday (2008). "British Archaeology, no 25, June 1997: Features". britarch.ac.uk . Retrieved 10 September 2011. Recording for the show ended at Christmas 1987 with the final episode (a feature length finale) broadcast in April 1988 where Jill drives off into the sunset with her lover to open a "little hotel in the West" that she thought they could call "Crossroads". Winner & Jury 1985–2012 Flandres International Film Festival Ghent". filfestival.be. Archived from the original on August 3, 2009 . Retrieved February 27, 2019. MIH then sold the motel toTommy Lancaster ( Terence Rigby) and his family-run Red Ox business in 1987, transforming it into a luxury hotel that was first named The Crossroads Country Hotel, then, The Kings Oak Country Hotel.

a b JD Nash (12 March 2020). "10 Things You Didn't Know About the Film 'Crossroads' ". American Blues Scene . Retrieved 22 June 2021. And I mean students, Birmingham University and up north, Bradford I think it was, as you went through Bradford there was a bridge “Benny is Innocent”! And the universities they were all hanging things out the windows saying “Benny is Innocent” and that was the tongue in cheek side, and there was also the side that really, you know…Van Gelder, Lawrence (14 March 1986). "Happy Ending for a Former Blues Singer". The New York Times. p.C8. The arrow shows the direction of the wind (up is north). If the arrow points from land to sea, the wind On the Saturday evening we’ll be having a Costume Competition. A chance for fame and kudos for all cosplayers. The guests will act as judges, awarding prizes to those whose efforts they deem to be the best. Whether a participant or viewer, this is always the highlight of any event and lots of fun. This Is Your Life – 8.2, 2 – Public Eye – 7.8, 3 – Miss TV Europe – 7.7, 4 – Upstairs Downstairs – 7.5, 5 – Father Dear Father – 7.2, 6 – Coronation St – 7.1, 7 – Love Story – 7.0, 8 – Fenn St Gang – 7.0, 9 – News At Ten – 6.8, 10 – News At Ten – 6.7, 11 – Crossroads – 6.6, 12 – Death Of Adolf Hitler- 6.6, 13 – News At Ten – 6.1, 14 – Crossroads – 6.0

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. I was suddenly one of the main characters who’s been in it all the time and of course whereas it could be a bit, you used to get a bit scared in some ways or nervous when it was all the old guard, suddenly it was all the new guard and they were looking at you like you were the old guard and you’ve never gone through it! And when they got rid of Sue, it probably was a toss-up between me and Sue and I think they probably thought “Well, we can get rid of Benny eventually”.

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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. This is the average number of seconds between one wave and the next, 1-2 miles out to sea. A long wave They reach a deserted crossroads in rural Mississippi, where Willie reveals his secret: his ability on the harmonica came about because of a deal with the Devil, which he made at this very location. Willie now hopes to end the deal. The Devil, who calls himself Scratch and Legba, shows up and insists that the contract for Willie's soul is still valid, even if Willie is dissatisfied with how his life turned out.