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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Walford Boy" data-source="post: 58450" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>In its heyday in the 70's it was pulling in a higher audience than Coronation Street which went through a bad patch in the early 70's.  Crossroads achieving this was amazing as it was not fully networked (Granada didn't pick the show up until 1972 and for a time Thames refused to show it) I recall the Prime minster's wife Mrs Wilson writing to Thames complaining and wanting the soap reinstating.   Different regions had it on at different times. In the ATV region it was at 6:35 pm after ATV Today.  The wedding of Meg and Hugh in 1975 was so huge, it stopped traffic in Birmingham where it as filmed.</p></blockquote><p></p>