Episodes

[ChrisCross]

Hi there,
I used to love the 2001 version of Crossroads, which I'd forgotten about really until recently when I saw some clips on YouTube. I was wondering if anyone on here either has (or knows where I might find) copies of some of the episodes of this version...I would realy like to see the first few episdoes again, but as there seems to be no sign of a DVD release of this era - or of a repeat - I was wondering if anyone had any of the episodes recorded. I remember there was a full (I think) episode on YouTube for a while, which seems to have been taken off now...

I have sent messages to several people about this both on YouTube and DigitalSpy, so I apologise if I've already spoken to some of you. However any help would be very much appreciated  

Thank you!!
Chris

[Mike of CAS]

I think Doug knows where they've been recently repeated as he saw the copies laying around in ITV Leeds.

[ChrisCross]

I think Doug knows where they've been recently repeated as he saw the copies laying around in ITV Leeds.

Really? I wonder if that was on Sky or something, or whether it was in another country. Almost odd they would show them elsewhere when they're obviously only going to last a very limited length of time...I mean it was on for about 18 months wasn't it? And that was 2 or 3 times weekly, I think? So if they show them every week day, the series will be finished before a year has passed.

I thought they only tended to do that with on-going series (e.g. Emmerdale started getting shown in Australia a couple of years ago, but it is still being filmed so it will be shown there continually)

[Mike of CAS]

New Zealand were most horrified when the final MK2 turned into MK3 in 2004! Lots of complaints - they thought Network One over there had skipped episodes!  

[ChrisCross]

New Zealand were most horrified when the final MK2 turned into MK3 in 2004! Lots of complaints - they thought Network One over there had skipped episodes!  

Hahaha, no wonder!! As I've said, I loved Crossroads mk 2, but then it went off and I remember when I caught an episode of mk 3, and that was my viewing days over. It was like a different programme (I know you could probably say the same about Mk 2 after Mk 1, but there was a 13 year gap there, as opposed to a 6 month one!)

Just wondering regarding the episodes, who runs the Crossroads 2001 site? Is it anyone on here? I get the impression they might have some episodes, so I may try emailing them...of course whether they'd be able to send me any would be a different matter...

[Mike of CAS]

Yeah John has been around here in the past, on our old forum which had a lot more members, but it broke...  

Not sure about earlier episodes, but I think he had a few later mk2 ones, again I don't know if he could copy any.

[ChrisCross]

Yeah John has been around here in the past, on our old forum which had a lot more members, but it broke...  :mrgreen:

Pity about the old board breaking...don't know if it's still to get fixed or not, but I'm sure the old members will find and join this one at some point!

[Douggie]

The episodes were sold to lots of countries and the ones I saw lying around in Leeds - and there were lots and lots of Mark Two episodes lying around - had been returned from the Arabic countries! The episodes weren't redubbed either, so they went out in English. I think another set of episodes - because there were a rather a lot lying around just for the Arab countries - had been returned from Eastern Europe, though I'm not sure.

[ChrisCross]

The episodes were sold to lots of countries and the ones I saw lying around in Leeds - and there were lots and lots of Mark Two episodes lying around - had been returned from the Arabic countries! The episodes weren't redubbed either, so they went out in English. I think another set of episodes - because there were a rather a lot lying around just for the Arab countries - had been returned from Eastern Europe, though I'm not sure.

Has anyone here ever tried contacting Carlton (Or whatever Carlton is known as now) about purchasing copies of episodes? I tried in the past for different shows (though coincidentally, Carlton owned those too) and they said they could, but the price was ridiculus...around £50 for ONE EPISODE!! And then I think when I tried the same thing a couple of years later, I was told that they were unable to sell copies at all for any price due to copyright issues.

I imagine it'd be a similar story for Crossroads, but if anyone knows any different...?

[Douggie]

Someone [was it Natalie?] did enquire about buying episodes from Carlton and it was a silly price....I think they quoted £75 per episode!

[ChrisCross]

Someone [was it Natalie?] did enquire about buying episodes from Carlton and it was a silly price....I think they quoted £75 per episode!

Yeah...it's just stupid.

So, it looks like my best bet is to move to Poland and record a few episodes  :lol:

[Mike of CAS]

Just remembered Justin had Rob's DVDs - the first 160 or so episodes.. but they were in a black bag, and I think they were binned, by accident

 

[Douggie]

BINNED! HE BINNED MARK TWO EPISODES? 100 OF THEM! And yet he has the ordasity to criticise ATV/Central for doing the same to the original episodes. Well he really is a regular little hypocrit. He couldn't manage to piss into a toliet let alone manage the fan club.

[ChrisCross]

BINNED! HE BINNED MARK TWO EPISODES? 100 OF THEM! And yet he has the ordasity to criticise ATV/Central for doing the same to the original episodes. Well he really is a regular little hypocrit. He couldn't manage to piss into a toliet let alone manage the fan club.

And according to Carlton, that is £7500 worth of Crossroads in the bin!

[Mike of CAS]

I think I have Jill's wedding and funeral episodes... but they're on VHS so I'd have to convert them to DVD somehow.. if anyone knows of a decent program!