Crossroads - End Credits (1980)

[LostMoonOfBumholle]

The actual show made me want to scoop out my eyeballs with rusty old spoons and then fill the holes left with salt, BUT, the theme tune is a peerless Tony Hatch classic.

Catchy, hummable, magic.

But the show - dear GOD!!!

[nozza1964]

I love this tune

[derekthesec]

Love this theme tune

[theOUCHcollective]

fab tune.

[RichXbox360]

I can still play the old theme to this on my music keyboard.

[1968concorde]

i think noel lived for crossroads,i remember when she was meg richardson ,or am i wrong,thanks for posting the tune

[bruinsof11977]

Used to watch Crossroads religiously as a kid, soon as it was over tho it was adverts and bed, no if's no buts.

[Irvineh01]

I remember the fire & Meg Mortimer's final episode. They both made me cry and I was only a child at the time. Great programme!

[KingGeorgesHares79]

That is a brilliant piece of music. Was it clarinet ?

[custardaghost]

@KingGeorgesHares79

Oboe

[KingGeorgesHares79]

As a two year old, I like to watch this part of Crossroads before I was marched up them apples..If I wanted to rebel than the man would get angry. He had a belt. I never messed with pops.

[rentaghost37]

I love this version, thanks for posting :)

[p30dax]

judging by what I have seen on DVD i think these were the credits for the episode following Barbara and David Hunter's wedding

[Amandamoo73]

crossroads lol!cult viewing nowadays!i sort of recall benny being blinded cos it scared me and the guy in the wheelchair who i think died in real life.takes me back to childhood.

[storebror21]

@Amandamoo73 That was Sandy (played by Roger Tonge) Meg Richardson's son.

[Feisty1967]

1980 at the endcap.

[Cool2BCeltic]

In 1980 I remember reading in the Daily Record that Ivor Salter, who played Jesus freak Reg Coterill, received a death threat because of what his character had done to Benny. He was quite a versatile actor, Ivor Salter. He played one of Darrowby's local worthies in All Creatures Great and Small and had a recurring role in Here Come The Double Deckers as a policeman who would question Brains, Doughnut etc about what they were up to.

[GB007]

Featuring the great Vic Flick on guitar. Vic also played guitar on probably the most famous film theme - The James Bond Theme!

[xneilp]

did rolh harris appear on crossroads

[safffarm]

this is like a piece of my past. i remember watching this end music at my nans house when we went up for tea on a tuesday. we all had to be quiet while she watched crossroads! if only i could go back.....

[OrodesIII]

@safffarm

If only.

[MOSTechnology]

@safffarm snivel...

[thekroton]

Victoria wood makes fun of these titles in her

comedy sketches Acorn Antiques.

[grumpmonk]

GOD...This takes me back

[MsFanmail]

Crossroad was good in the early eighties

[topbond007]

what made crossroads so great? well the actors that could really act, the music we all love so much, and the dodgy sets that made us laugh, and great story lines who could ask for more?

[airscrew1]

This is an excellent quality video of the Crossrads end titles. Are these on a DVD as they don't look like they've come from a soggy old VHS tape?

[Reayism]

It was becoming to the end of ATV's Franchise in that year. As it was due to transfer the ropes over to Central Television. "How sad can it be when we have a TV business that thinks about themselves instead of us viewers to create large amounts of profits just to fit their way of gratification!!" I was a tender age of 10 years old as I all to well remember the ending credits to this wonderful soap with the ATV end cap as if it was yesturday. Tony Hatch was a wonderful musician. "Wonderful!!"

[cjc44a]

Theme tune and closing credits make for iconic television with the little bit at the end to keep you going until the next episode. All that plus the wonderful ATV ident. Great memories. Thanks for reminder

[memoir4you]

my mun and gran used to watch this religiously back then...

[dezzah1976]

Oh I agree, the best tv theme ever and the best programme ever!

BRING BACK CROSSROADS!!!!!!!!

Oh, and I was 5 when the motel burnt down - I cried too as Meg sailed away and I cried when I saw that episode again some ten years later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ATVINCOLOUR]

Great stuff!!!

[maxmossman1]

great programe better than the crap we get on now this is when tv was tv

[Voxac100b]

I like the timing with the pause and drum roll at the beginning....... then the titles start to move! and the tune you could listen to it several times just to concentrate on one instrument cause its all played so well. The ATV bongs at the beginning titles were great as well.

[ardsguy38]

Best tv theme ever

[PM1970]

I agree! I remember it as I was growing up and that was the best part of the whole show!!

[rolfharrisable]

@ardsguy38

totally agree...just class

[chillmax]

LOVE this theme, the TV version is much better than the full orchestral version.  I used to watch it on my own as a child, I cried when Noel Gordon left, I must have been about 11 ;-)

[sambda]

@chillmax Agree about the TV version being better. There was a switch from clarinet to oboe (or vice-versa) which is why it sounds more "urgent".

[Woollylinnet]

@sambda Whereas the TV version uses an oboe, the orchestral version appears to use a cor anglais - the alto version of the oboe, which has a mellower sound. OK in its own right, but the oboe makes it sound brighter.

[TheMasterNo6]

@chillmax Why'd you watch it on your own? My Mum used to watch it, hence remembering some of the actors - especially BENNY and Adam Chance.

[dezzah1976]

@chillmax I cried when she left and I was 5. I cried again when I saw it again when I was 15!!!! lol

[Brottonflyer]

Reminds me of when I still had my gran and grandad. Mind I used to complain about being stuck watching it lol. Happy days in hindsight.

[Voxac100b]

Lovely comment same for me too!

[sirtinycreep]

I loved that theme tune when it was soooooooooooo uncool not to! LOL.

[TheMeakers]

Great mock! To make it even more authentic, replace 'scriptwriters' with 'script by'.

[pufferfishish]

I've never forgotten the end credits sliding in different directions like this

[themightyrara]

This is how I remember the theme credits, it reminds me of rainy days and walking 2 miles home from school

[happylad65]

These were used to 1985. What a brilliant clip! I loved Crossroads right up until 1988.

[lotuspoint]

I am guessing this is from April 1980,, possibly the 1st episode of when crossroads was cut from 4 to 3 shows a week??

[SG4860]

This is a rare version of the theme - never to my knowledge been broadcast! How did you get hold of this? I'm a BIG Crossroads fan. Love the harp, and drum-roll build-up to it, instead of the usual 9 -note motif!

[staypress]

when amy turtle left the show died also I arf fancied Jill ooooooooh

[soapfunclassics]

Have you got the 1985 and 1988 themes

[toadieisgod]

When Jack Barton left, this show died.

[0FindGlory]

So true.

[anorak64]

'Goodbye' was a single (on Ariola/Hansa) c.1988 and the original theme from X-Roads is on the B-side. A 1/4" 15 ips master tape has probably survived, a very catchy tune as ever from the pen of Tony Hatch

[lotuspoint]

I am addicted to this clip,, I just love hearing the Crossroads theme and the sound quality of this clip is fab,, hearing it does make me a little bit melancholy,,, does anyone else feel the same?

[dramaticguy]

I just to like guessing what they final Crssroads shot would be after the credits.

[identlover]

Totally! Brings back sooooooo many memories!!!

[moomintroll1963]

it reminds me of my youth.

[MrTvfreak2008]

This upload was taken from MHP I guarantee that.

Any 15IPS 1/4" reels around?

[Johneb40]

How did you manage to get hold of this version of the theme?

[CrossroadsFanClub]

The one on MHP isn't from Mr Taylor so he says.. so that version comes from somewhere else.

Does that mean someone somewhere has the original, original masters...

[CrossroadsFanClub]

The full original suite of themes survive. Opening/incidental/closing. As do the 1985 re-recordings.

I doubt they'll ever see the light of day again though.

[MrTvfreak2008]

I thought Mr Taylor rescued them from ATV? Have a word!

[MrTvfreak2008]

I wondered how long it would take for someone to upload this. MHP still have the original file. Good to see it with titles though.