{"product_id":"hughie-green-opportunity-knocks-1956-texas-hotel-holiday-hand-signed-letter","title":"Hughie Green Opportunity Knocks 1956 Texas Hotel Holiday Hand Signed Letter","description":"\u003cp\u003eCHAU1852  A vintage 1956 hand written and signed letter from Hughie Green from his Flamingo Hotel Texas while on vacation fully written by hand to a BBC critic which I am selling her former collection - some browning to reverse and please allow (see scan) otherwise very good condition and surely the most unique early Hughie Green signed souvenir you will source worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"...Hughie Green's most successful show format was his self-developed long-running talent show, Opportunity Knocks. It started as a UK-wide touring show produced for the radio, and one of Green's early finds was singer Frankie Vaughan, who came second as part of a duet.[9] When the show transferred to television on the ITV network, first in 1956 and then again from 1964, it began the show-business careers of Les Dawson, Lena Zavaroni, Pam Ayres, and Mary Hopkin, among others. Green, who possessed a pilot's licence, would fly the panel of judges between audition venues all over Britain, in his small Cessna aircraft...\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Postcard Finder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56857665208646,"sku":null,"price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/3216\/9030\/files\/20260626_093.jpg?v=1782499618","url":"https:\/\/postcardfinder.co.uk\/products\/hughie-green-opportunity-knocks-1956-texas-hotel-holiday-hand-signed-letter","provider":"Postcard Finder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}