Eldorado - Fool's Gold [Trouble At The Top] (28th February 2002)
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- Insightful and darkly humorous documentary about the rise and fall of one of soap opera's most notorious failures.
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My mate wrote to Points of View congratulating them on their new sitcom Eldorado.
I bloody LOVED Eldorado. I watched every episode.
me too, the press destroyer it like alot else in this country
The ‘90s was when the slow death of the BBC began. To think they axed ‘Wogan’ for this crap.
RIP Tony Holland, who died after a long illness back in 2007, and to Lester Middlehurst, who took his own life in 2010.
The inquest found that he died from natural causes even though an overdose was initially suspected.
Died of shame
I think that the producer on Acorn Antiques mockumentary was based on Julia Smith.
Should have scrapped Eastenders. Yentob had a nerve appearing in this, as he was proven totally wrong, when the figures went through the roof in the show's final months and it was too late to do anything about it.
Yes and you are so right there too of course. Yentob took the wrong decision so too.
reminds me of happy times the show was shit but my life was brilliant back then
@@paulstanley518 Me too. I feel hugely nostalgic about the show.
Was really just getting into it when they axed it
So was I too if only it had gone on from there too.
Crossroads with sunshine but without the wobbly sets but still with the dodgy acting and storyline's.
I remember ‘Eldorado’. It was a shame it wasn’t given more time to become established; it improved massively by the end. I hated how the tabloids persecuted poor Kathy Pitkin (who played teenage bride Fizz). The newspapers were all powerful in those pre-internet days and ruined many lives. Thanks so much for uploading this documentary.
@LadyofShalot...it was absolute rubbish and embarrassing beyond belief... I was embarrassed for cast!!! 😬
@@englanduk6131 😂 my gran never forgave ‘Eldorado’ for getting rid of ‘Wogan’, not that she much liked that either. It all seems like a lifetime ago…the world before reality tv.
@@LadyOfShaIott To be fair Wogan was brilliant at sarcasm, his performances commentating on the eurovision song contest were hysterical!! 😂🤣😂
Loved Eldorado
Why?
Awesome the whole documentary is one video
Yes it is so too indeed.
"They had been close friends ... until now." What could possibly fo wrong?!
Eldorado was old hat tat and nuts in a way too but it did have charm in a way at least by later on too somehow. A shame that it ended when it did though really too.
The end theme music was nice though so too.
I think this was a lost opportunity. Initially when it began in July 192 I was dismissive but by December 1992 I was a fan and continued as such until July 1993, it had got very exciting,
Yes it had too.
Marcoooouuuuss!
Perhaps they should have called it Little Britain instead of Little England
So, it started out as "Benidorm", but unfortunately it ended up being "Eldorado".
I have refused to pay my license fee since they scrapped it...purely on principle
@marcisclark...I also stopped paying my license fee but BECAUSE of rubbish like this show!
@@englanduk6131 Why this country has gone to the dogs...too many channels mate ...
@@marcusclark5330 Correction!.. Too many lefty channels....
Eastenders, a poor man's Coronation Street.
Yes it is so too really of course.
Eldorado, a poor man's seaside puppet show!!!!
EastEnders a middle class view of the east end of London
Dear me. I'm an archive TV enthusiast and I've never seen any of those actors since (Jesse Birdsall got "Bugs", but he's been quiet most of the time). This show ruined an awful lot of people, including poor Tony Holland who you can see here isn't in the best shape. He died in December 2007 - rumours are that it was self-inflicted. Not suicide, other stuff.
I was 16 when Eldorado started and remember the publicity push for it. There was even a pullout in The Sun hyping it up. I assume they didn't get preview tapes. If they did, then the slaughtering they dished out seems a bit mean spirited.
The elephant in the room is that they don't mention Verity Lambert's part in all this. But as she was still quite big in the TV industry in 2002 (I think she was doing "Jonathan Creek") I doubt they'd've wanted to antagonise here.
Good evening Matthew, the real truth is inside the chapter entitled sunburnt in drama and delight the life of verity Lambert by Richard Marson which is superbly researched the background is much more complex then it seemed on the surface.
@@Benjamin-id9dn I know - I bought that book two years ago 🙂
Wasn't there also some questionable financial set up behind the scenes with someone called John Dart or J Dart Productions? Verity Lambert was also involved in the production of Minder and Thames wanted to scrap it after the first series in 1979, but she fought hard for them to commission a 2nd series and it became ITV's biggest show of the 80s.
I actually liked Eldorado after a few months, but they should have given it more time and waited to premiere it in autumn 1992. I was a teenager at the time and fancied the Swedish blonde (Ingrid) and I liked the sunshine location with a comedic aspect, much cheerier than Eastenders. By Christmas 1992 they'd sorted out the actors and stories, but the damage was done and lifelong licence fee funded Yentob preferred high brow art documentaries over entertainment.
Now I'm reminded of the Brirish media's obsession with Kathy Pitkins who played Fizz. She was actually the daughter of one of the crew (Terry Pitkins) and completely vanished from civilisation when she got sacked. Poor girl, she wasn't a good actress, but the media coverage and treatment of her was bullying. Imagine a bikini clad teenage girl constantly plastered on the front page of today's Sun, getting slated by every single journalist for being awful at trying to do her job and that she needs to be sacked - it's no wonder she was never seen or heard of again, the whole experience probably had a profound effect on her mentally.
Jesse Birdsall a great actor, he is in Wish You Were Here, he is great in El Dorado
@matthewlawrenson3628 Jesse Birdsall was later in holby city on bbc1 before alas that of course later too ended. I don't think he has been in eastenders or anything else like that though. I do vaguely remember him in annika on channel 4 in the 1980s so too. Was that on the Isle of Wight with him riding around. I am not too sure though there then.
Tony Hollands voice in this is completely annoying- the spit rattling at the back of his throat…..AAAAARRRRRRRRGH!!!! reminds me of my boss - he uses this voice when he’s being at his most condescending.
I seem to think that he had had a stroke and this, his speaking voice, is the result of having had speech therapy. [he still seems like a twat, though].
Another example of poor speech therapy is Angela Rayner [cow]. Her speech impediment is barely covered up and the result gets right on my nerves.
I found his voice annoying as well, not knowing this maybe as a result of suffering a stroke, and the newspaper guy was annoying also?!!!
Axing the popular thrice weekly chat show Wogan, and replacing it with a fifth rate awful soap opera. Only at the BBC could you get a decision like that
But they did so too.
Wogan was possibly the worst chat show on tv. It was just full of guests self promoting something they were invested in and Wogan spent more time chatting over everyone else like he did on every tv show he appeared.
@@stumagoo2395 First of all, that is what chat shows are for, big stars come on to promote something. You think the guests on Graham Norton's show come on just to have a chat with Graham? That has been the market idea for every talk show since the start of the Tonight Show in the US in 1954. Wogan had to keep the show running, and had to speed up guests, many of whom seemed not to want to talk. Also his show was pulling in 10 to 12 million viewers a night at it's peak of 1986 to 1990, hardly numbers to be sniffed at
@stumagoo2395 really you are so right there too if alas somehow. I know I read later in the radio Times by polly toynbee who now writes in the guardian though where she said that wogan was a tired show by then too.
Much as I liked Terry wogan his show had been on bbc1 then since 1982 albeit 3 times a week since 1985 to 1992. Of course other chat show hosts then were michael parkinson michael aspel russell harty and Clive James amongst others. I know that Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton came later on so too.
Jolly boys outing courtesy of the licence fee payer😪
That show was seriously kak
Was tony Holland a gay?
A very early example of 'Get woke, go broke.'
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Tony, you sound weird, very weird.
He had the gay disease
@@perilouspalms2497 I did wonder?
He sounds as if he's drunk, on drugs, or perhaps both.
There's certainly something off with his speech - could be an illness with neurological symptoms too.
@Robutube1 it could well be too.
He died within 5 years of this programme from "a long illness".
TH-cam won't let me post the disease he passed from: it was something homosexuals get.
in 2001 bbc. beat itv o r kat was a. fa.