THE WORLD of Crossroads is an adult Toytown. The scriptwriters are , probably being animated by the spirit of Enid Blyton and haven't told anyone their secret.
In the suburbs there is a grown-ups Toytown, with an antique shop, a doctor's surgery, a grocers, a post-office, garage, a care ana a morer. Ivo one who lives there knows factories, large corporations, bureaucracies, department multi-story car parks, newspapers or hospitals. They have never heard of trade unions, they find accommodation with amazing ease, burdened with poverty or ill-health or large numbers of children.
What Crossroads suggests to its millions of viewers is a world seen through Thatcher's spectacles: the petty bourgeois grocer's daughter's view of life. At Crossroads motel, the microcosm of the universe, cares about her employees stand by them as long as they work hard and do the right things. of Birmingham a farm, about vast one is the boss • and will made mistakes, but they The receptionists, There are nuclear families in the series. and her uncle live together. the inThere is visited her son in America.
and two of Mrs. tamily.
Within this problems.
They "The seamless whole of the little motel world' battle on with family loyalty and dignity intact.
no other competing Alison David Hunter sees his ex-wife and grown-up son from time to time. Diane has just KITTEE ning surprising absence of the mum, dad kids model enables the emotional focus to stay on the motel and the family business/business as secure untouched by unemployment, homeberness case a more res.
moral ones.
Currently there is the tale of repressed young Alison who is the domestic slave of her religious Bible-thumping uncle: will she be able to break away from him to establish her own idențity without hurting him?
Then there was Jill and custody proceedings for her daughter - but she ended up doing the Right Thing in nobly giving up her child Thereis also another bizarre story runpresent ex-schoolteacher who once seduced a pupil and is now up to further shady behaviour the motel's TROTSKY ON TV programme 'on (including Pierre Frank) will be shown on BBC 2 on Monday 17 December at 7.30 p.m.
accountant — his ploys or will she continue to be the deceived by his superficial charm?
Most of the narrative impetus is situations settingich individuals situations morality can be tested. Bad behaviour an dishonesty.
Agreed, selfishness indulgence Good respectful, dignified, honest, LCH working and never breaks the rules Tonnanne source of narrative suspense. All the major characters are single — Diane, Jill, David, Meg and Sandy -and from time to time a possible partner is investigated for one or other of them, "comes to nothing'. Sexual love is rare I DE TE TUTE HOL TIE CIT Fact =207 woodcaly. The set E= 4azi5 from the same anties sit is camera movement aterizaa from the same seai in the stade Actors make entrances and exits