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2822Jonathan Ross: the good years
It's now a quarter of a century since the twin kings of US late night television, Carson and Letterman, had their best...
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2008
Baker’s dozen
Twelve instances of pith and moment. Get well soon, Danny Baker, from all of us at TV Cream!
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“Only a doodle will do”
"Hello and welcome to the quick draw game that everyone can play!"
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TV Cream’s Rap Attack (No Sleep ‘Til Closedown)
Well hello everybody, TV Cream is here To enthuse your muse and bend your ear. There's a job to do, it won't...
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1902
“Soaring through all the galaxies!”
At last, the true story behind a much celebrated chapter in British Television can now be told. Exclusive to TV Cream (and...
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There now follows a short film…
These are confusing times. TV Cream's jettisoned its reassuring yellow-on-black livery and appalling screen grabs from old VHS tapes for a brand...
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“Quickly changed into a suit and left for LWT…”
Last week’s Creamguide concluded that, historically, and ignoring everything since c.1997, ITV’s regional efforts have outshone those of the BBC. And one...
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“Good evening Miss Rantzen” “Do call me Esther”
In 1985 That’s Life! was in its imperial phase. It had an immovable berth in Michael Grade’s aromatic Sunday night line-up of...
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“How long has the album been got together, as it were?”
This being the week of the BPI Awards, here’s a helping from 1980 back when it was still the Radio 1 Daily Mirror...
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My clothes are black but my bread is brown
Forget your Specials, Police, Blur, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine and whoever is reforming (again) in the next 12 months. Now that...
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129
…and introducing TERRY WOGAN as himself
It’s December 25th 1985, and, in one of the best bits of harmless nonsense ever undertaken in the name of festive telly, Terence jets off to Denver...
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Touched by the hand of Cicciolina
Ah, 1990. Over-bright primary colour back projection? Check. CSO turning cut-out people upside down? Check. Archivery spliced with juvenilia? Check. Ugly blokes...
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“Where did you get that? Let me see it!”
Half-way through this clip you’ll find Michael Grade doing a brilliant guest spot in an episode from the first series of French...
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1864
Callers as though it were Christmas Eve
Here’s a bit of textbook Poppery. Mr Duffy in a black poloneck mimes into a cigarillo-microphone in front of various easels boasting...
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1865
“Go back, go back, for my parts do freeze”
In the mid-80s any artistes worth their salt did a longform feature film that, ahem, ‘dramatised’ their latest hits, roped in a few guest...
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US election clippage: part three
It’s now 1992, and Dan Rather is wondering whether it’s “hasta la vista” for George Bush. “This is the hour of prayer”...
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US election clippage: part two
Back to 1984 this time, and Dan Rather’s waiting for us in an impressively-staffed, multi-screen CBS studio. But first, the ubiquitous plugs....
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US election clippage: part one
To help hurry along the fortnight until polling day in the United States, here’s the first in a thankfully short series of...
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162
An evil prick in glasses…and Simon Bates
It feels like there are a million things wrong with this clip, especially the opening 60 seconds or so. Ideally it ought...
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“This is a lovely way to spend an evening…”
There’s no way to embed this, unfortunately, but here’s a chance to enjoy the sight of Petula Clark singing across a faux-dinner...
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“I’ve got one hell of a story – and it’s only in The Sun!”
Do they mean a rather pompous opinionated rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-even-more-riches lollygagger who sued the BBC because he hasn’t got a sense of humour and...
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“Dance ladies, that’s it, ooh, I like it, I like the movement, it’s nice”
At long last, Reggie Bosanquet’s venture into the world of disco makes it onto the blog. It’s an extraordinary aural creation, notable...
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“Have you got everything?” “Yes”
Here’s a fine curtain-raiser to the weekend: the best piss-take of Right To Reply there’s surely ever been, right down to the...
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1251
“I was promised Sue MacGregor; who are you?”
Here’s a brilliant clip from an edition of the Today programme in 2001, wherein John Humphrys receives a telephone call from an...
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“It’s very simply really, you just…KABOOOOM!”
Surely the most stirring title sequence ever:
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1413
“We all rushed to the canteen during Ultravox”
Here’s a fantastic clip from the fantastic RDA, a show that deserved so much more of everything (acclaim, audience, recommissions…). It’s John...
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In every house, again again
Graham Kibble-White has, perhaps in an effort to leaven the mood, suggested a trawl of title sequences that cheer you up. And...
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I seem to have something in my eye
Inspired by a comment left by Steve Norgate on the post below, here’s a collection alternately wistful, melancholic, mournful and touching efforts...
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Diving for dear life
By way of an epilogue to this week’s mailout, here’s Elvis and co doing a heartbreaking version of Shipbuilding on…what exactly? Razzmatazz?...