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Old 01-05-2011, 01:40
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I had a look at the cast list for Crossroads on IMDB. Strangely Noele Gordon only is shown for 219 episodes.
But the character of Mrs Tardebigge played by Elsie Kelly has 325 episodes.
But who the **** is that?? Never heard of either the character or actress.
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Old 01-05-2011, 01:42
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Elsie Kelly is in Benidorm these days with the intolerant son and drunken daughter.
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Old 01-05-2011, 01:51
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Ah....ok...now I know the actress but was she really in Crossroads?
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Old 01-05-2011, 10:39
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According to Crossroads Online, the character was only in the soap for 2 years so I think IMDB has got in wrong (as they have with Amy Turtle who is credited with only 35 episodes)
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Old 01-05-2011, 10:49
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If memory serves (and I'm going back nearly 20 years) - Mrs Tardebrigge was in the show towards the end of the original run in the late 80s. I think she was a cleaner at the motel.

She might have been the one with the Pat Boone obsession - though I it's possible I've got her confused with another character...
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Old 01-05-2011, 11:32
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IIRC, she had a massive beehive hairstyle when she first joined. I think it eventually caught fire forcing the character to have a drastic haircut (because the actress was tired of wearing the heavy wig.)
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Old 01-05-2011, 11:41
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IIRC, she had a massive beehive hairstyle when she first joined. I think it eventually caught fire forcing the character to have a drastic haircut (because the actress was tired of wearing the heavy wig.)
Photo of Mrs Tardebigge
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Old 13-09-2014, 23:06
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Yes, IMDB are wrong - there are lots of errors on that site. Elsie Kelly was in Crossroads for the last couple of years in the late 1980s - she was a creation of the final producer of that show, William Smethurst. She was very much a comedy character. I used to like her.
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Old 13-09-2014, 23:08
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If memory serves (and I'm going back nearly 20 years) - Mrs Tardebrigge was in the show towards the end of the original run in the late 80s. I think she was a cleaner at the motel.

She might have been the one with the Pat Boone obsession - though I it's possible I've got her confused with another character...
Yes, Mrs Tardebigge was the secretary of the Pat Boone Fan Club (West Midlands branch). When Adam Chance interviewed her for the post of cleaner in late 1986/early 1987 and told her it was a friendly place to work, she immediately lit a cigarette!
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Old 14-09-2014, 09:18
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I think imdb makes up the episode counts for characters
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Old 14-09-2014, 09:24
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According to Crossroads Online, the character was only in the soap for 2 years so I think IMDB has got in wrong (as they have with Amy Turtle who is credited with only 35 episodes)
IMDB is like Wikipedia - it's written by anyone and everyone, you, me, the cat's auntie, so it's not to be taken as Gospel. It's generally more reliable that Wiki though, where people often make up any old rubbish as we've seen here before.
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Old 14-09-2014, 09:28
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