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''The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club'' was a British television variety show produced by Granada Television from 1974 to 1977. It was set in a fictional working men's club in the North of England and was hosted by comedian Colin Crompton as the club's Chairman. The show's compere was usually Bernard Manning, who as well as telling jokes and introducing acts often finished the show with a song. Crompton was frequently the butt of his jokes, acting as Manning's stooge. The set was arranged like a club, so that rather than members of the studio audience being in arranged terraced seating they would be seated around tables and be served beer and snacks, generally join in a singalong and otherwise engage in audience participation. Crompton as Chairman of the club would sit at a small table in the corner watching proceedings with apparent lack of interest. He had a large manual fire bell which he would wind and sound purportedly to attract the audience's attention after an act, with various notices from "the Committee" (that is, the officials of the social club of which he was chairman), usually misdemeanours by the club's members or the committee itself: On New Year's Eve a special episode of ''Wheeltappers and Shunters New Year's Eve'' would be broadcast. ==Acts== The show featured acts regularly seen on the Northern club circuits and often well-established performers who did well in theatres and clubs but not succeed so well on British television, such as 1950s crooner Johnnie Ray. But it also gave newer acts their first television exposure, such as Cannon & Ball, The Grumbleweeds, The Dooleys and Paul Daniels. Even successful stage variety acts such as Morecambe and Wise also failed in their first attempt to break into television at the BBC.〔, in a TV review describing television as "The box they buried Morecambe and Wise in", a cutting that Morecambe reputedly kept in his pocket until the day he died.〕 From the 1950s until 1982 with the arrival of Channel 4, British television was a duopoly between the publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation and the commercially funded franchises of Independent Television; (at its outset in 1956 the impresario Lew Grade, who held the franchise for ATV, called commercial television "a licence to print money"). Some artists to appear on the show were: * Alvin Stardust * The Bachelors * Bill Haley and the Comets * The Dubliners * Jim Bowen * Frank Carson * Design (UK band) * Stuart Damon * The Three Degrees * Lonnie Donegan * Karl Denver * Freddie Garrity * Buddy Greco * Kathy Kirby * The Krankies * Susan Maughan * George Melly and John Chilton's ''Feetwarmers'' * Nana Mouskouri * Roy Orbison * Lyn Paul * Terri Rogers * George Roper * Tessie O'Shea The show was produced by Johnnie Hamp at Granada Studios in Manchester, although it was once filmed at the Layton Institute, Blackpool. Actress Elizabeth Dawn appeared as a waitress before she became more famous for her role as Vera Duckworth in ''Coronation Street'' (also recorded by Granada in Manchester). A clip from the show can be seen in the film ''24 Hour Party People'', where Shaun Ryder, in his formative years, is seen watching Karl Denver perform "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" ("Wimoweh"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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