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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. [28] Justice – 7.1, 2 – Sam – 7.0, 3 –& Mother Makes Five – 7.0, 4 – News At Ten – 7.0, 5 – Coronation St – 6.9, 6 – News At Ten – 6.8, 7 – Up The Workers – 6.5, 8 – Crossroads – 6.4, 9 – Coronation St – 6.4, 10 – Crossroads – 6.3, 11 – Playhouse – 6.3, 12 – Crossroads – 6.2, 13 – This Is Your Life – 6.1, 14 – Doctor At Sea – 6.1, 15 – Hunters Walk – 6.0

I think the blues still speaks to kids today", said Ry Cooder, who performed the music with Steve Vai and Arlen Roth. "It's so old that it's new." [7]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. Canizares, Baba Raul (2000). Santeria and the Orisha of the Crossroads. New York: Original Publications. pp.23–24. Yes. And it just didn’t work because you were burlesquing burlesque. And I think what he (William Smethurst) wanted to do basically was get rid of the show, everybody who was established and make his show with his own people. Jobes, Gertrude. (1961) Dictionary of Mythology Folklore and Symbols Part 1. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p.388 Planet Crossroads -> Frequently Asked Questions". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007 . Retrieved 6 April 2007.

No, no I was never told I had not to, but … a lot of the continuity really you had to do yourself. You know it was so difficult sometimes, ‘cos I used to not shave probably on a Wednesday morning till Saturday, because we used to film Thursday, Friday because I wanted it more or less the same length which was easier in those days because we just used to shoot the episodes – 1 episode, 2 episode, 3 episode, 4 episode. But of course, when we started filming or shooting out of sequence it was a bit difficult trying to keep it at the same … and make-up never looked the same anyway. 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 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. Over the years the series dealt with storylines which were controversial for the times. A single parent working at the motel was hugely controversial in the mid-1960s, as was Sandy Richardson becoming a permanent wheelchair user after a car accident in 1972. The storyline was developed when actor Roger Tonge had himself become a wheelchair user off screen as a way to keep him in the series, thus becoming the first paraplegic regular character portrayed in a British soap opera.

Despite the popularity of Crossroads with the viewing public, the show was often criticised by TV reviewers and ridiculed by British comedians. [1] Television historian Hilary Kingsley stated that Crossroads never failed "to provide its critics with ammunition. Some of the acting would have disgraced the humblest of village halls; many of the plots were so farcical they could have been written in a bad dream, and much of the dialogue was pathetic." [1] The Guinness Book of Classic British TV noted that " Crossroads was the series that no-one seemed to love. Yet at its peak, it was watched by more viewers than any other soap except Coronation Street." [1] Hill was aware of some surface similarities to The Karate Kid: "You boil it down, and it sounds like a young kid and a wise old guy and their showdown with evil", said Hill. "But if you really look at 'Crossroads,' it's a completely different movie ... I knew my most difficult task would be creating real, believable scenes between Macchio and Seneca. They had to be real characters; with an ongoing reality level, to work at all. You have to set the stage, or when your movie shifts gears to fantasy, you lose your audience." [5] Shooting [ edit ] The Crossroads Fan Club". www.crossroadsmotel.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. The revived Crossroads from 2001 was still set in the West Midlands; however, exterior shots were filmed at locations in and around Nottingham, such as Bingham and Redmile.