Crossroads

Crossroads

Meg Mortimer

Diane Parker / ... (203 episodes, 1966-1987)

David Hunter

Benny / ... (172 episodes, 1975-1988)

Sandy Richardson

Jill Harvey

Jane Smith (119 episodes, 1964-1978)

Doris Luke

The cast had to learn many new lines as characters were undergoing personality transplants all the time as new scriptwriters came and went.

ATV's budget for the show was so slender that some castmembers were seen on-screen in their own clothes that they'd worn to attend the studio recordings.

As the series progressed, a small team of scriptwriters (usually three) would each contribute to an episode, following an overall plan laid down by the storyliner from story conferences. One would handle the main 'dramatic' story arc, one the 'humorous' strand and another would write up the remaining topic(s). They worked independently of each other, and their segments would be pieced together by the script editor into the finished programmes.