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| The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club | |
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| Genre | Variety/Cabaret |
| Presented by | Bernard Manning Colin Crompton |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 48 (6 Series) |
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| Production company | Granada Television |
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| Network | ITV |
| Release | 13 April 1974 – 19 June 1977 |
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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 started and 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 being arranged in terraced seating the studio audience would be seated around tables and be served beer and snacks, 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 behalf of the Committee, I should like to tell you we made a mistake in offering the raffle prize of a diving suit. It is in fact a divan suite.
On New Year's Eve a special episode of Wheeltappers and Shunters New Year's Eve would be broadcast.