Manager of the official Ling/Adair/Central TV Crossroads Fan Club & producer for the Caring for Care charity ventures. Views mine.
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined April 2009
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Mike G retweeted
#OnThisDay 4 November 1979
Hilary Kinglsey in the People:
THE HEART THROBS OF #CROSSROADS
Millions of women want to mother Benny and make love to David - #RonaldHunter is even more handsome, youthful and tall in the flesh.
'The character is very real' says #PaulHenry.
Mike G retweeted
Goodness Gracious Me!
So the biggest beneficiary of John Swinney's trip to India seems to have been India itself - and an IT firm based in Bangalore which has been handed a £35 million contract to manage benefit payments in Scotland!
Make it make sense
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Mike G retweeted
My book Channel 4 The Early Years And the Jeremy Isaac’s Legacy published by IBTauris tells the story of the channel and all the people involved in creating and developing this unique British channel. November 2nd 1982 - a day to celebrate.
Amazing. I remember the excitement so well. And the fact there was some sort of strike affecting advertising so we got quite a lot of jingles between programmes. And the amazing appearance of Ronald Allen (David Hunter from #Crossroads) in The Comic Strip Presents! 😄
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Happy Birthday to Nick Owen who reported and presented for ATV Sport and ATV Today from 1978 to 1981. Nick was also the voiceover announcer on the early episodes of Bullseye.
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Is this the longest ever gap between first broadcast and repeat? 90 years later Television Come to London, next Wednesday on BBC Four as part of a night marking the start of the regular high-definition TV service from Ally Pally in 1936
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Remembering Tony Adams a year on from his death aged 84. Played Adam Chance in Crossroads and prior Dr Neville Bywaters in General Hospital. which for a change some photos from that ATV Elstree produced series...
They have a 100 year old stuffed black pussy on display too - that didn't consent either - if they remove that Mrs Slocombe will be outraged and she's unanimous on that.
Egyptian mummies removed from display because they didn't 'consent'👇
🤯 Welcome to idiotically woke SNP-run Glasgow.
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Love the Scotscast on the end of BBC Scotland channel. It was never a ratings success and just be honest it only launched because there was STV2, and it killed that off. – at Milngavie, Scotland
Mike G retweeted
Happy birthday to comedian, presenter and actor Les Dennis, who turned up in Crossroads of 2003 as Physiatrist Dr Richmond.
Les appeared for a week from 7th April 2003.
He is probably best known as host of Family Fortunes, which was made in the same studio as Crossroads 2001-03.
Lost idents of the 1990s, if @tvark ain't got it, someone needs rummage through all the 1990s TTTV Sport VHS releases... 😱
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Happy 80th Birthday to Bob Warman best known to midland viewers as one of the lead anchors of ATV Today, Central News/at Six/Tonight, ITV News Central & other shows including as a narrator on Format V, host of ITV Telethon Central, The Price Is Right (Sky) & regional specials.
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Tonight at 9, we celebrate the life of Esther Rantzen, featuring excerpts from the programme she hosted on Boom - and her favourite music. Join David Lloyd - as we mark the life of one of TV's best known faces and someone who made a lasting contribution to society. See less
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The great cold food rip off from @McDonaldsUK & @ubereats_uk be warned, its very difficult to get any answers & apparently food that turns up not even warm-absolutely cold is acceptable within the policy, which suits only UberEats by delivering to more than one person at once.
Mike G retweeted
This is economic illiteracy of a high order.
After separation Scotland would still use sterling. So it would have to borrow in £s to cover its massive budget deficit and promise lenders it would pay back in £s (or they won’t lend).
But after an unspecified transition it would move to a Scottish currency. But all the borrowing done during the transition would have to be paid back in sterling.
If the Scottish currency plummeted v sterling (likely given the size of the deficit, lack of credit track record etc) that could become an unmanageable burden given the likely poor exchange rate.
Scotland would have to borrow billions in its own currency just to convert to sterling to pay back lenders. Devaluing the Scottish currency further.
What a shambles that would be.
He has no idea what he’s talking about.
Mike G retweeted
As someone has said in the comments, this really devastated her.
I do think though that it's even more testament to her characterisation, that before #Corrie she had only done amateur dramatics. She was brilliant as Annie.
#OnThisDay 7 October 1983
GR-ANNIE WALKER
The Mirror reveals that #CoronationStreet's #DorisSpeed's real age is 84 and not 69 as she had claimed, leading to her retirement from the role of Annie Walker.
The massive gold tinsel decs that used to run across the shops in the 80s and the Christmas area with the metal frame and the samples a danglin' from above. Sadly, other memory is the person filling the pick n mix without gloves & wiping a snot across her hand before refilling 🤮
