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A look at Meg and Hugh's decade long on/off romance and a reminder of the Crossroads wedding day 50 years ago... www.atvtoday.co.uk/254168-cross...
April 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Today in 1975 episode 2300 of Crossroads was broadcast, Granada and Thames had special introductions before 2299 to bring them into 1975 - both jumping six months of episodes so that on April 3rd the whole UK could see the wedding of Meg and Hugh.
April 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Golden Anniversary of the Meg and Hugh wedding episode of Crossroads this week.
April 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Noele in the opening titles of an ATV Today from 1978.
February 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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#OnThisDay 9 February 1981
TOO RUDE TISWAS - A Royal Act Is Banned
The #Tiswas children's TV team had to re-write their act yesterday. They were told that a stage act they had rehearsed was too rude to set before Princess Margaret at the first Children's Royal Variety Performance.
February 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We never thought we'd be saying this but, 'Classic Gloria Hunniford music album to be released on CD'... Go go Glo... www.atvtoday.co.uk/251220-music/ Forword by Sir Cliff Richard of course. On Sale via Stage Door Pop later this month.
February 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Inspector Morse heads to the stage with Tom Chambers in title role... www.atvtoday.co.uk/251113-theat...
February 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Remembering Brian Murphy; www.atvtoday.co.uk/250965-rip/
February 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Originally due to air in December the celebration of Lew Grade’s ITC, Prisoners, Saints and Persuaders: The World of ITC, will now be broadcast on Saturday, 1 February 2025 at 8pm on BBC Radio 4
January 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Cheers! It's the weekend. Pictured ATV receptionists Ann-Marie Harris and Sylvia Garnett in 1979
January 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 39 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 19 January 1986
1. #EastEnders 21.20
2. #CoronationStreet 17.55
3. Duty Free 14.95
4. News 14.80
5. Wish You Were Here 14.45
6. This Is Your Life 14.10
7. Bullseye 14.00
8. Don't Wait Up 13.85
9. The Price is Right 13.80
January 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#OnThisDay 19 January 1992
BASKING IN COSTA DEL SOAP - BBC Chiefs are Looking to Sunny Spain to Brighten Their Sinking Ratings -
About £10 million will go towards new soap Little England (#Eldorado) set and shot on the Costa del Sol . . .
January 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Ten years ago today, we lost a very special person. Remembering the truly wonderful Anne Kirkbride who made Deirdre Barlow into one of the biggest icons ever seen on British television.

She is so so missed.
January 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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#OnThisDay 18 January 1982
Sacked #Crossroads Star Hits Out at Her Producer - I'M OUT OF THE MADHOUSE - She was the queen of television for 17 big years. Then they chopped off her head. But as #NoeleGordon, showbiz survivor, she sails triumphantly on . . .
January 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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#OnThisDay 18 January 1985
It's out with the old and in with the new at #Crossroads:
HEARTBREAK MOTEL - After 14 years in Crossroads, Ronnie Allen, TV's Mr Safely Sexy, is to be axed from his role as motel boss David Hunter.
MISTRESS OF THE MOTEL - Stunning Gabrielle Drake . . .
January 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Post-apocalypse Eldorado.
January 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Look who’s on the generation game
January 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
U&Drama to repeat Eldorado, the BBC One sunshine saga... www.atvtoday.co.uk/249638-uktv/
January 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Hmmm! I wonder where I've seen that logo before? It certainly reminds me of something.... 🤔
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January 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Remembering Larry Grayson 30 years on from his death. Larry had worked the clubs/theatres for years before telly fame on ATV's live Saturday Variety. Going from guest spot to regular host across its run. Later in 1972 he was given his own series, Shut That Door! (Pictured).
January 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Remembering Larry Grayson 30 years on. #LarryGrayson #ShutThatDoor
January 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Tonight at 6.40pm on @rewindtv.bsky.social in the UK (Freeview Channel 95, Sky 182), the classic first episode of series 3 of #BrianClemensThriller - 'A Coffin for the Bride' starring Helen Mirren and Michael Jayston
December 17, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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#OnThisDay 17 December 1978
IS IT TRUE ABOUT NOELE AND LARRY?
Calling all fans of #Crossroads - We answer the questions you most often ask . . .
December 17, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Happy 88th birthday to Tommy Steele, pictured in the 1970 production of Twelfth Night, also starring Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson. #TommySteele #ATVElstree #WilliamShakespeare #Shakespeare
December 17, 2024 at 4:59 PM