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9.9K5Creamguide Review of the Year: 2020
Well, here we are on New Year’s Eve, and remember all the excitement when we saw the back of 2016, eh? In...
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9.1K32020 in memoriam
Paula Tilbrook (16/1/30-1/12/19, made public 15/7/20) Betty Eagleton in Emmerdale, Open All Hours Rocky Sharpe (26/11/52-5/12/19, announced 6/1/20), Replays leader Neville Buswell (20/1/43-25/12/19,...
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6.2K5Christmas Creamguide 2020: Week Two
Hullo there! Welcome to the second part of your bumper Christmas Creamguide, which includes all the programmes for the rest of 2020,...
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6.1K1Christmas Creamguide 2020: Week One
Hullo there! And welcome to the 21st annual Christmas Creamguide! We thought we’d be really struggling for new content this year but...
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2.1K3“Desdemona? Looks more like Des O’Connor!”
A tribute to Des O’Connor We’re celebrating the career of one of the showbiz greats who we don’t think ever got the...
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3.8K7‘Life sung a pretty song’ – our 15 favourite Bucks Fizz tracks
This week’s TV Cream Stays Indoors podcast features old pals Graham, Chris and Ian rewatching Trouble at the Top: Bucks Fizz: Making...
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2.9K2Nicholas Parsons: “Never get complacent about your success”
In 2015, TV Cream was fortunate enough to talk to Nicholas Parsons on the eve of the 71st series of Just A...
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8.9K3Creamguide Review of the Year: 2019
Time now for our review of what everyone’s calling the worst year ever, but what year hasn’t been recently, eh? But it’s...
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8.2K12019 in memoriam
Ron Smith (?/24-10/1/19), Judge Dredd artist Dianne Oxberry (28/11/67-10/1/19), Simon Mayo breakfast sidekick, 8:15 From Manchester presenter, BBC North West weather presenter...
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5.5KChristmas Creamguide 2019: Week Two
Hullo there! Welcome back to the second part of your Christmas Creamguide with the last knockings of this bloody awful decade and...
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5.4K3Christmas Creamguide 2019: Week One
Hullo there! It’s the Christmas Creamguide and it’s the twentieth time we’ve done it! Maybe one day we’ll get good at it,...
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2.5K2Clive James, on television
The artist formerly known as Vivian James was initially more famous for writing about television than appearing on it, with his column...
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13.4K2TV Years: Classic Children’s Programmes
Do you remember Bagpuss? The next issue of our favourite magazine, TV YEARS, goes on sale on Tuesday June 4, and it’s celebrating classic children’s TV!...
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11.6KTV Years: The Nineties
Here it is, another issue of TV YEARS. This time it’s covering the 1990s and it’s on sale from Tuesday April 2....
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7.0K4Creamguide Review of the Year: 2018
And so another year has gone, and we’re all thrilled we’ve come out of it in one piece. As ever loads of...
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6.0K22018 in memoriam
Doreen Keogh (5/2/16-31/12/17), first Rovers Return barmaid Concepta Riley and Mrs Doyle’s mainland friend Mrs Dineen Denise LaSalle (16/7/39-8/1/18), soul singer and...
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4.8K3Advent Calendar: December 24th
1977: It’s gone down in folklore that Eric Morecambe’s appearance on World Of Sport was dreamt up by him and Dickie Davies...
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3.0K3Advent Calendar: December 23rd
1981: Even the Community Programming Unit has to let its hair down occasionally. Grapevine, “The Self-Help Show”, is still very low-key in...
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2.4K1Advent Calendar: December 22nd
1979: 21 minutes of the pre-Christmas Swap Shop are illuminated by Debbie Harry and a Super 8 camera wielding Chris Stein taking...
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2.2KAdvent Calendar: December 21st
1981: Westward Television celebrated its 20th anniversary, eight months after the actual date and ten days before the franchise closed. Hey, better...
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2.1K1Advent Calendar: December 20th
1971: Opportunity Knocks’ big discoveries in 1971 were Little & Large, but despite making the All Winners Show they weren’t in contention...
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4.1KChristmas Creamguide 2018: Week Two
For we know we should be gay Hullo again! And we’re back with the second half of your double Christmas Creamguide with...
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4.0KChristmas Creamguide 2018: Week One
Hullo there! And welcome to the maybe-legendary-but-it’s-not-for-us-to-say Christmas Creamguide, back for a nineteenth festive season. As in previous years, it’s so big...
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2.2K2Advent Calendar: December 19th
1977: You’re quite right it’s Monday, Play School, and as the start of Christmas week Chloe Ashcroft and Johnny Ball are getting...
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2.0KAdvent Calendar: December 18th
1980: Top Of The Pops (full playlist), the last one before Christmas. Both Simon Bates and the production team are in “that”...
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2.3K1Advent Calendar: December 17th
1977: “He’s got a funny surname but I can’t remember it!” Our Show was what LWT, with the backing of Anglia and...
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2.4K1Advent Calendar: December 16th
1980: Um, is it alright if we all agree to skip past the imagery of the first show trailed here? Thanks. BBC1’s...
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1.7K1Advent Calendar: December 15th
1987: We haven’t included a lot of adverts in this Advent Calendar so far because there’s great vats of them on YouTube...
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1.8K2Advent Calendar: December 14th
1976: Post-Grundy, the Sex Pistols found promoters and local councils weren’t as amenable to putting on their UK tour as they had...
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1.5KAdvent Calendar: December 13th
1970: “The work to rule is over!” And unfortunately so is the online presence of the full Bob-fronted Golden Shot that was...
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1.7KAdvent Calendar: December 12th
1981: Some of the bits between the programmes on BBC2. “It’s really sodding cold” is the news lead, including a rare namecheck...
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2.1KAdvent Calendar: December 11th
1980: Tributes to John Lennon were still having to be made, Top Of The Pops finding a dark corner of the studio...
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2.1K2Advent Calendar: December 10th
1981: One of the great pop years, where the rise of the synths, punk’s fallout, the soul revival, rock’n’roll revivalism, weird European...
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2.5K2Advent Calendar: December 9th
1980: John Lennon was declared dead at 3.50am UK time, which means it’s very likely this Midday News report would have been...
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2.5K2Advent Calendar: December 8th
1979: The first Star Trek film was released the previous day in the US and on the 15th here. The BBC children’s...
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2.6K4Advent Calendar: December 7th
1984: “Lumberjack? Steeplejack? Oh, Uncle Jack?” The Chas & Dave theme and presence of Stu Francis can only mean Crackerjack was on...
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2.4KAdvent Calendar: December 6th
1973: Everyone was into oil fields in the mid-70s, and a discovery near the Shetlands led John Craven’s Newsround. Craven himself had...
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2.6K1Advent Calendar: December 5th
1982: As trailed by the natural face of experimental broadcasting, Arthur Mullard, although The Saturday Show found an ideal front”person” for the...
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2.3KAdvent Calendar: December 4th
1974: The Irish border problem used to mean something entirely different. Nationwide traversed the divide in the company of Bernard Falk, who...
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2.3KAdvent Calendar: December 3rd
1980: Peter Davison had been named as the Fifth Doctor a month earlier and was three and a half months away from...
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7.9K1Advent Calendar: December 2nd
1981: Southern was on the way out at the end of the year which would inevitably mean an end to Houseparty, the...
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4.7K1Advent Calendar: December 1st
Hello there! Why Don’t YouTube? here, popping in from next door where all year we’ve been collating and contextualising clips over at...
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9.2KTV Years Christmas special
TV YEARS – the excellent magazine about old telly – is back soon, with a Christmas Special that goes on sale from...
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3.3KIt’s out today!
Today’s the day TV YEARS magazine goes on sale. Packed with interviews, facts and fancies about Eighties television – and nothing but...
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10.1K2Introducing TV Years!
A brand-new magazine about old telly goes on sale Tuesday, 11 September. Called TV YEARS, its first issue is all about the...
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4.6KPeter Firmin, 1928-2018
TV Cream was sad to hear of the death of Peter Firmin, co-founder of Smallfilms (with Oliver Postgate). Between them, Firmin and Postgate created The...
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5.5K9We want your 1980s TV crap!
TV Cream is working on a new ‘pet project’ – and we’re hoping you can help! We’re looking for 1980s programme ephemera,...
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3.5K2017 – was it really that bad?
Yes, we’ve made it through another year, which all and sundry have called the worst ever, but which one hasn’t been recently,...
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3.7K2017 in memoriam
Sid Roberson (15/03/1937 – 22/12/2016, reported January), award winning advert director, also directed the Sweeney and Fast Show Larry Steinbachek (06/50/1960 –...
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4.0KChristmas Creamguide 2017: Week Two
Hullo again! And we’re back with the second half of your Christmas Creamguide. Actually, such is the way the dates fall this...
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