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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 58422" data-attributes="member: 673">I was too young to recall Crossroads first time around but from what I've seen and read online, I get the impression that it was regarded in the same way as Last of the Summer Wine or Mrs Brown's Boys have been in recent years - critically derided but high rating and something that your grandparents would watch.There's clips on YouTube of panel or write in shows discussing Crossroads as far back as the 70's & in every one that I've seen, the average Crossroads viewer was portrayed as an OAP while the opposing argument would be presented by young, Guardian reading London media types. Jasper Carrott is on one of them and he points out how Crossroads was just an easy target for comedians and it became the punchline for many jokes on the comedy circuit, which I'm sure added to the reputation of it being a bad show among people who'd never even watched an episode.As Angela pointed out, it was attracting audiences but just the wrong type of audience as far as ITV were concerned.</blockquote>