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Sarah gently probes a six-year-old Drew Barrymore on the eve of the premiere of ET, helpfully dropping in a reference for those viewers who hadn’t seen Poltergeist. Just a hunch, but we suspect she no longer has that Blue Peter book.
Blue Peter Gold #2: "What a pair of lungs on that girl!"
Blue Peter Gold #1: "Bicycle Motor Cross"
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The first in a batch of Blue Peter clips to mark the programme’s 50th anniversary, with Groom and company steadfastly refusing to call it BMX. “Eat your heart out, Eddie Kidd, if you’re watching!”
“Radio 4 will be located on the long wave”
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Beeb’s official advisory canticle from the time, trilled by The King’s Singers. If only we could have this sort of thing for digital switchover.
“Well, there are No Limits for the weathermen!”
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Back to a Sunday lunchtime circa 1986 for the start of another edition of Highway Code-inspired AOR travelogue No Limits. Satellite by The Hooters cannot be far away. Plus a brief snatch of Steve Rider as Our Nige’s title bid goes up in flames.
“It’s only Sonia!”
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Nothing says ITV at 8pm on a Wednesday night quite like the image of a silhouette of Julia McKenzie playing the drums and tossing a pancake, while Anton Rodgers reclines in a rocking chair, does it?
“The next clip is from Great Railway Journeys”
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Now here’s TV Cream’s idea of the perfect Sunday afternoon – riding around on the Docklands Light Railway in the company of Michael Palin and Chris Serle. The clip’s from Windmill, obviously.
“I read in my paper you’re a great skiing buff!”
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Here’s what Dame Janet Fielding got up to after forsaking the Tardis – guest starring in David Warner’s BBC sports hack drama Hold The Back Page and taking part in competitive Sinclair C5 racing. Well, it was 1985, after all.
"Dear Auntie Beeb, yes, you have done it again!"
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Barry Took with “more of your Points Of View” from 1985, featuring Only Fools and Horses and Maelstrom, while Henry Kelly’s rubbish animal quiz Monkey Business gets a right slagging. “Inept, inane, and even worse, it’s coming again!”
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It’s 1987 and Paul Heiney goes In At The Deep End (as BBC1 announcers would have it) to direct the video for Trick Of The Night by Bananarama. And here’s the never-seen-again finished product. There was clearly more to this job than met the eye…
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Following on from UP2U, here’s a blast of its BBC North West summer stablemate On The Waterfront. No sign of Russell T Davies’s comedy rewrite of The Flashing Blade, alas, but Andrew O’Connor, Bernie Nolan, “Copstick” and The Other One are all present and correct.
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“Supposing the telephone had vision as well as sound?”
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Here’s a fantastic slice of technostalgia from four decades ago, as the boffins at the GPO explain how they invented the webcam and the internet. Look out for the fab ’60s dolly bird (“I’d like to save a copy of that!”) and a terrible comedy pay-off.
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“Tony’s gone up to Carlisle for the Carlisle Great Fair!”
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By request of TVC’s Steve Williams, here’s Anthea Turner fronting the BBC’s summer Saturday morning filler UP2U in 1988, notable for the grimmest outside broadcast in the history of television. Still, good to see the BBC North West “neon” logo and the Domesday Project again.
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TVC’s Cartoon Cavalcade #4: The CB Bears (1977)
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Roll out that Hanna-Barbera “trumpetty jew’s harp hoedown” for another late ’70s film cash-in, notable mainly for one of the titular bears wearing a dustbin lid on his head. Note this is the US version, as for some reason the BBC cut out the ‘Posse Impossible’ bits.
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“Now it’s time for ice cream!”
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…or maybe some nuts. It’s Cinema Cream! This batch of ads and graphics ought to make the memories of sitting in the dark waiting for Condorman to start come flooding back, especially that ‘lick me, bite me’ ad for Lyons Maid’s Cornetto-baiting King Cone.
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Digi-Cream Times: 26th July-1st August 2008
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The week’s digital and radio highlights.
See postDigi-Cream Times: 19th-25th July 2008
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The week’s digital and radio highlights.
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“Look! I’m Hornby size!”
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The Cribbins love goes on with this model railway ad from the early 1980s (“Look mum, the APT!”) and what is a frankly bizarre ending.
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“The trouble with Fred is, he’s too hasty”
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In tribute to our favourite person on telly right now, here’s one of his finest bits of business from the past, brought to life by the, er, magic of claymation. Bernard ought to start making records again, we reckon. ‘It’s Them Aliens!’ could be the Christmas number one…
(Postscript: for some inexplicable reason, we’re not allowed to embed the brilliant claymation video, so instead, here’s this Frost Report-style photo montage of the song.)
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Digi-Cream Times: 5th-11th July 2008
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The week’s digital and radio highlights.
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Creamguide's Pick of the Day
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The People’s Songs
Wednesday, 22.00, BBC Radio 2I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor tonight, which allows us to mention that when it got to number one, Calendar showed a clip from its Whistle Test-inspired video and captioned it “amateur video”. In fact that video was the first we’d heard of them or it, when it was shown on Popworld in fact, and we never thought the record version was quite as good because it was a bit overproduced. Anyway, it’s included here because it started bands being broken via the internet and that rather than the major labels and Top of the Pops.
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