The ABC Studios became part of Manchester Polytechnic, and was used for their theatre and television school (it is where Julie Walters first tread the boards as a student).
Story has it, it was due to be listed in the mid 90s but a few days before the inspection the owners stripped the outside of the building leaving nothing that needed preserving.
Hmmmm, the location for the studio isn't necessarily the same as that for the rest of the building. The front doors look the same as the ones shot from inside, but when she goes through the studio door (which doesn't look very sound proof!) you don't see her from the other side
I reckon they just used any old building with a few bits of signage and photos stuck on the walls and then used the real Treasure Hunt studio for those scenes.
At first I did think it was Limehouse as the concrete lintel bits do look like it, though not the main entrance. The interior is too old for it though
This took FOREVER to work out, and I'm not quite sure how I even got there, but it's the old ABC studios in Didsbury:
Wow! Brilliant detective work Mr W. Many thanks.
I know The Krypton Factor was a 'bread and butter' Granada production, but given Treasure Hunt (bar the pilot edition which the studio used was same one which the French shot the original version on) was a London production, I spend all sorts of time looking and rejecting the possibles for London based small studio facilities to 'stunt double' for Limehouse Television.
And it was done just down the road in Didsbury all along. Of course, with some clever angles and smoke and mirrors, they could have just filmed the grand studio entrance dash at Granada..
Firstly I looked everywhere for a "Prime Time Video Centre" but I didn't get far with that. Then I tried looking for Grove House which clearly appears at the start of the film, but it's surprising how many Grove Houses there are in this country! Finally I guessed the name of the jewellers she walked past (only half the name was shown) and combined with Grove House it eventually surfaced!
I feel like I've been on a Treasure Hunt of my own - albeit sans jumpsuit.
I guess it's easy to assume it wouldn't have been made in the regular studio- not least cos Limehouse and been closed and demolished by the time that episode aired- and Treasure Hunt itself had been axed!
An episode of the original run of Play Your Cards Right from 1982:
Observe at the end, Forsyth walks off straight away as soon as he possibly can as opposed to the customary standing there waving for a minute or so. I presume this was a deliberate decision on somebody's part for this era of PYCR.
Why does the end-game scoreboard even have five digits? Yes the maximum theoretical score is 17,600 if you double-up every time but as you only need 4k to go for the car, if you're over that by that point you're only going to gamble 50 points to stay over 4k anyway - you'd have 8,800 by the turn of the last card out of the first six - why would you double again?
Of course in the revived 1990s version this became payable as cash which they couldn't do originally due to the prize limits. There may have been more incentive to go for a higher figure here but I very much doubt even then it went any higher than possibly £4.2k. The 2002 version isn't comparable here as it had a different system to what went before.
Brilliant detective work Mr W. Many thanks.