Welcome to the ‘Crossroads Motel’ website, the home of the long-running fan club for the ATV, Central and Carlton serial Crossroads. The show ran on television in the UK from 1964 to 1988 and a new version of the series aired from 2001-2003.
The club was endorsed with official status by Central Television Enterprises and co-creator Peter Ling. In 2006 our website was noted as the 7th best classic TV site by West Midlands’ newspaper The Sunday Mercury, high praise indeed…
We’ve also been featured in the TV Times magazine, The Weekly News newspaper, The One Show, BBC Pebble Mill, Crossroads: 30 Years On and ITV3’s TV Towns, to name only a few.
Crossroads revolved around the village of Kings Oak, near Birmingham, and the main location of the Crossroads Motel. While Crossroads, the UK’s first full-length daily soap wasn’t much liked by many critics, the show reached up to 18 million viewers at its peak and became an award-winning daytime serial.
In fact, to date, the saga is Britain’s most successful ITV weekday daytime programme in over sixty years of UK commercial broadcasting. In 1996 the series was rerun on UK Gold, in 2015 it returned to screens via Local TV station BCTV in the Midlands and in 2021 classic episodes arrived on BritBox and later ITVX.
The programme is also the backdrop to the ITV three-part drama Nolly, which looks at the life of Crossroads’ matriarch Noele Gordon. In the series, written by Russell T. Davies, Helena Bonham Carter brings Noele to life.
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