Michael Aspel – TV Cream

85. Can you come up with a good solution for the Murder Weekend mystery?

The concepts of strip-scheduling, and reality television, not to mention the idea of having members of the public becoming immersed into...

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It's Saturday Night

84. The interviewer always has to know when it’s best to keep his or her mouth shut

Over at the BBC, attempts were being made to commission a new Saturday late-evening chat show. Ever since the departure of...

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Your Wednesday Night In...

Your Wednesday Night In… December 1980

Wednesday, 24th December 1980 PICK OF THE DAY 4.45pm THE ALL STAR RECORD BREAKERS, BBC1 In the great 2000+ years history of...

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Your Wednesday Night In...

Your Wednesday Night In… August 1977

Wednesday, 17th August 1977 PICK OF THE DAY 10.15pm ALL MY LOVING, BBC2 Especially in the 1970s, August was pretty much always...

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TV: A is for...

Ask Aspel

THE GREAT ASP appeared in front of a giant balsa and Fuzzy Felt (TM) speech bubble.

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It's Saturday Night

45. Unedifying Greed

“I think the third programme in the series was number one in the ratings,” says Stewart. “Coronation Street was gone, everything else...

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It's Saturday Night

37. Kamikaze Mastermind

Also beginning in 1983 and faring better than Just Amazing! was the series dubbed “The Kamikaze Mastermind”. Like the Yorkshire Television vehicle, Ultra...

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The Wednesday Play

War Game, The

The first Wednesday Play to be banned (famously decried by the then Home Secretary as a danger to the mentally unstable), Peter...

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Films: M is for...

Magic Christian, The

A GREAT big, sprawling, ill-disciplined countercultural satire adapted by Terry Southern and Joe McGrath from Southern’s own novel, this is possibly the...