The arrow shows the direction of the wind (up is north). If the arrow points from land to sea, the wind In 1979, the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) – then commercial television's regulator – decided production should be reduced further to three episodes a week from April 1980; the IBA chairman, Lady Plowden, reportedly [10] describing the soap opera as "distressingly popular". [11] ATV planned to replace the fourth episode with a spin-off series called A Family Affair, [12] but this idea was dropped. This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. ( August 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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… The arrow shows the direction the wind is blowing. The letters show the direction the wind is blowing I recall there was a storybook character called Clumsy Charlie who made Benny giggle a lot. I think the storyline probably made people aware that there were a lot more people than they realised that had difficulties through one reason or another. I mean Benny could learn to read but nobody had taken the time. I mean don’t forget we still do that now don’t we? Man About The House – 6.3, 2 – Down The Gate – 6.2, 3 – Coronation St – 6.1, 4 – Crossroads – 5.9, 5 – Crossroads – 5.8, 6 – Crossroads – 5.7, 7 – Coronation St – 5.6, 8 – Moody & Pegg – 5.6, 9 – News At Ten – 5.5, 10 – The Squirrels – 5.5, 11 – Crossroads – 5.4, 12 – Don’t Ask Me – 5.3, 13 – News At Ten – 5.3, 14 – Sam – 5.2, 15 – Gosling’s Travels – 5.0The Crossroads Fan Club". www.crossroadsmotel.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. Well, I think getting married to Maureen, that’s when we went to number one in the TV charts and everything during that period, we were 1, 2, 4, and 5 over that period. I always said, you see, Benny was the big feller, you know you always got the small feller who got the sympathy, and Benny was the big, lumbering, child-like person, you know. Crossroads was Robert Judd's final film role. He died of stomach cancer in January 1986, two months before the film's theatrical release.

What did you think of the controversial killing off of Miss Diane and the storyline in which Benny bought a donkey and named it after her? Do you think the producers made a mistake in writing out Diane? 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.” No risk of UV - It’s safe to stay outside. 1-2 Low - You can safely stay outside. Consider sunscreen in direct sunlight. 3-5 Moderate - Take care during midday hours and do not spend too much time in the sun unprotected. Sunscreen advised. 6-7 High - Seek shade during midday hours, cover up and wear sunscreen. 8-10 Very high - Spend time in the shade between 11am and 3pm. Shirt, sunscreen and hat are essential. 11 Extreme - Avoid being outside during midday hours. Shirt, sunscreen and hat essential. Fusco was a traveling blues musician prior to attending New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where he wrote Crossroads as an assignment in a master class led by the screenwriting giants Waldo Salt and Ring Lardner Jr. The student screenplay won first place in the national FOCUS Awards (Films of College and University Students) and was sold to Columbia Pictures while Fusco was still a student.

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As Benny you had a particular affinity with animals – you also had Starry the goat, Moses the dog as well as several creatures that Mavis Hooper wasn’t too keen on! Did you enjoy working with all these animals?

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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] No unauthorized filming or sound recording, any breach will lead to temporary confiscation of equipmentStories of the Crossroads: Blues Myths Did Robert Johnson Really Sell His Soul to the Devil?". National Blues Museum. 31 October 2020 . Retrieved 28 February 2021. Robert Halliday (2008). "British Archaeology, no 25, June 1997: Features". britarch.ac.uk . Retrieved 10 September 2011. 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 ] Hornblower, Spawforth, Eidinow. (2012) The Oxford Classical Dictionary fourth edition. Oxford University Press. p.688, 649-651]