Crossroads (soap opera)

Crossroads was a British television soap opera set in a motel near Birmingham. It was first broadcast on ITV between 2 November 1964 and 4 April 1988.

Trivia

• During its original run the show was usually only 20 minutes long excluding commercials. To save time, there was no opening title sequence, simply a title caption superimposed over the start of the first scene, accomanied by a brief snatch of the theme music.
• The show's closing titles originally consisted of two superimposed roller captions, one vertical and one horizontal. As one credit would roll off screen vertically the next would roll on horizontally, and vice-versa, thus symbolising the show's title. Despite being enjoyable to viewers (as a departure from the normal single-direction scrolling credits), this was always cumbersome to execute and was eventually dropped in the late 1970s.
• Until the 1980s the show would always end with a brief post-credits scene in which a character would speak a single line of dramatic dialogue, before the final bar of the theme tune played over the closing ATV logo.
• In the 70s, Wings recorded an alternative arrangement of the show's theme music which was meant to be played over the closing credits whenever the show ended on a particularly dramatic cliffhanger. In the event this idea was apparently forgotten, and the two versions were played more or less at random.