CROSSROADS

This soap achieved cult status as a generation watched entranced by the latest escapades of the staff and customers of the Crossroads Motel. But it wasn't just the storylines that kept viewers hooked. Would the sets wobble? Would the actors forget their lines and laugh mid-sentence? Invariably they would - but that's why we love it!

Here, in all its glory and from Network, is the second volume of Crossroads, including episodes released on DVD for the very first time. Featuring show favourites Meg (Noele Gordon - Summer Royal, The Most Likely Girl) and Sandy Richardson (Roger Tonge), Benny Hawkins (Paul Henry - Bad Girls, Romeo and Juliet), Adam Chance (Tony Adams - Hardly Working, Superfantagenio) and Marilyn Gates (Sue Nicholls - Corrie), the Volume Two DVD shows just why the show struck a chord with a generation.

This release contains twelve episodes of the classic soap drawn from throughout its 4,510 episodes, from years spanning 1966 through to 1983. Unrepeated for many years, this is the only way to catch up with twelve of the best episodes from the 60s and 70s, witht he icing on the cake being special features. These include, Four 1960s trailers, Crossroads - Thirty Years On featurette, Why I Loved Crossroads - In conversation with Sue Nicholls (Corrie), and Lunchbox - an edition of the afternoon magazine programme hosted by Noele Gordon.

Priced at £24.99 and with a total running time of nearly 4 hours, from the moment you put it in the DVD player you will be hooked. I have fond memories of this on TV from when I was young - the opening music, wondering why Nora Batty was working in a motel, Benny and his green hat, and the occassional fire that would burn the motel down. An unlikely addition to the wants list, I haven't regretted a moment spent watching the shows, and like another Network soap release, Coronation Street, this also gives an insight into public mood of the time, with storylines aimed to grab the audience, and to just what was bring broadcast - good and bad.

The competition closed on Monday 3rd, and the answer to the simple question: Who wrote the theme tune? was Tony Hatch.

The three lucky winners were: Dianne Richards, Keith Mathews, and Liz Caroles. Congratulations to all three of you, your prizes have been sent out.