TV Cream
Books
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220A-Z of Television, The
The talents of Bob Monkhouse - are we even close to totting them up? This comedy gazetteer of the state of the...
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All the World’s a Globe, or from Lemur to Cosmonaut: the National Theatre of Brent’s Concise History of the Human Race from the Earliest Times to 1987
Friends, we are gathered together, in this here place, to praise Desmond Olivier Dingle, renowned classical actor, thinker and Artistic Director of...
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4191
Bestseller! The Life and Death of Eric Pode of Croydon
Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Aren't they a panic?
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3387
Brand New Monty Python Bok, The
Their first effort, the Big Red Book, may have invented the TV comedy picture book as a genre (if not quite, as...
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2591
Call My Bluff
Come with us if you will to a time when the comedy panel game was a shy and gentle beast.
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3796
Custard Stops at Hatfield, The
Comedians' autobiographies are, as a rule, to be approached with a critical ten foot pole, if not a censorious mop and bucket.
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3287
Fist of Fun
Last chance for a half-decent TV comedy book before Mitchell and Webb!
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2213
Go Ask Alice
Anonymously penned Jefferson Airplane-referencing perma-controversial purported diary of a sixties teenager
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40310
Goodies File, The
Altogether now: “Kids’ book!” Well, in many cases yes, but what a kids’ book! The first comedy TV tie-in to fully capitalise...
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3398
How to be a Wally
Of all the great pretend sociological toilet books the eighties (literally) threw up, actually funny titles were few and far between. (Next...
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Not the General Election
The last knockings of the Not the Nine O'Clock News literary franchise and, by its creators' own admission, the least.
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Not! Calendars, The
With the multimedia satire factory that was Not the Nine O'Clock News launching records, books and - oh, yes - TV shows...
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5323
Pan Book of Horror Stories, The
From 1958 onwards, paperback house Pan published spine-chilling tales of uncanny terror, subtle beastliness, eldritch nightmare, Grand Guignol and other adjectives only...
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5071
Pigsticking: a Joy for Life
Willie Rushton, we’re sure you don’t need telling, was the man. Multi-talented in that unassuming ‘what, this old thing? Just dashed it...
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2413
Rock Dreams
We normally treat the phrase "of its time" with the contempt such a corny, the-pubs-are-open cliche deserves, but for this collection of...
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3401
Rutland Dirty Weekend Book, The
Psst! Want a lovingly crafted, font-perfect collection of printed parodies?
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2402
Starlust
“Mani-legs go on forever. I'd follow that tush ANYWHERE!” It didn't take the Internet to prove that there's no creature on Earth...
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Starstormers
Seemingly never-ending 'improving' sci-fi saga of dubious scientific veracity
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2393
This Is Their Life
“Hey TV Cream,” people ask us. “Where do you get your ideas from?” Actually, no-one’s ever asked us that, because it’s quite...
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3587
Usborne books
From the 1970s onward, Peter Usborne’s children’s factual publishing empire was the Oxford University Press for the pre-secondary set.
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2062
Warlock of Firetop Mountain, The
Seminal 'make your own entertainment'-reinventing 'single-player roleplaying gamebook'
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220
Year With Swollen Appendices, A: Brian Eno’s Diary
Brian Eno, boys and girls: professor of pop? Pretentious production polymath? Son of Norfolk postman? Girly faced bloke off of Roxy who...