ATV Today: 30.09.1966: Crossroads 500th Episode

Summary

The ATV drama series Crossroads has reached 500 episodes since its launch in 1964.

Year:

1966

Duration:

0:03:18

Film type:

Black & White / Mute

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see a dinner to celebrate the 500th episode attended by cast members including Noele Gordon, Roger Tonge and Sue Nicholls. Brief library shots of the cast boarding an aircraft at Elmdon Airport in May when they were going on a tour. A series of short film clips from Crossroads episodes (Anthony Morton (chef Carlos Rafael) up a tree and involved in a fight in a factory, a potholing scene with Roger Tonge and Sue Nicholls falling from a boat). We then see scenes in the Crossroads production office at the ATV office on Edmund Street in Birmingham including scripts being typed and duplicated.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

The cast boarding the plane is from Midlands News 13 May 1966 filmed at Elmdon. The other library pictures would have been cut from Crossroads film inserts shot by the ATV film unit who also provided the film for ATV Today.