Changes

===Early days ===

===Early days ===

The early plots of the soap featured many semi-comic situations that might have occurred during the everyday running of a hotel. Chief characters of this time included Gordon Honeycombe, the guest who believed he was reading the news from the hotel elevators, Manuel, the semi-incompentent waiter from [[Portuagal]] whose interpretations of guest food orders often led to hilarious results and funny goings-on in the kitchen, led by the irrepressible [[Mr. Pastry]].

The early plots of the soap featured many semi-comic situations that might have occurred during the everyday running of a hotel. Chief characters of this time included Gordon Honeycombe, the guest who believed he was reading the news from the hotel elevators, Manuel, the semi-incompetent waiter from [[Portuagal]] whose interpretations of guest food orders often led to hilarious results and funny goings-on in the kitchen, led by the irrepressible [[Mr. Pastry]].

===Latter days ===

===Latter days ===

Crossroads went color in 1969, but with color came a darkening of the program's mood. Sandy's character changed from that of a cheerful happy-go-lucky teenager to that of a sharp businessman who was determined to wrest control of Crossroads Hotel from his mother with the help of his right handf man, the evil Benny. Together Sandy and Benny quickly became the men Britain loved to hate.

Crossroads went color in 1969, but with color came a darkening of the program's mood. Sandy's character changed from that of a cheerful happy-go-lucky teenager to that of a sharp businessman who was determined to wrest control of Crossroads Hotel from his mother with the help of his right hand man, the evil Benny. Together Sandy and Benny quickly became the men Britain loved to hate.