MOONLIGHTING FROM pulling rubbery faces and dressing up as comedy punks on NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS, MEL SMITH did this uncomfortable...
KIDS COMEDY vehicle for once-loved bowler-hatted weirdo FREDDIE "PARROT FACE" DAVIES
THE DEPTHS to which mankind can sink was effectively summed up in this schmaltzcom
IN THE near-ish future everyone under five foot high is hunted down, for satirical comedy purposes.
THE MOST internationally-acclaimed thing to come out of Norwich since the A11.
MODERN TRACKSUIT and cagoul kid finds prehistoric stoneage tyke in ostensibly "classic" fantasy.
AUSTRALIA'S MOST exported show (to 128 countries at last count).
FREAKO OLD maid duo host teach-yourself silent communication class by turning the sound off and saying things.
"DON'T, DON'T, DON'T give up the day job," sang Rich. Why not, asked the viewing several.
GENTLEMEN, WE have the technology. We can rebuild him.
EPITOME OF CHEAPO look-at-this pointy telly.
JAUNTY MEDIEVAL goings-on from the CAPTAIN PUGWASH stable of slaked cut-out capers.
The nation’s most ubiquitous Wiganite has a new book out. It has much in common with his previous publications: a breezy (i.e....
Thanks to everyone who has added to the TV Cream Towers Spotify playlist. Seeing as it how it’s all done under the...
SUPPOSED JAMES BOND pastiche, but if so, why was the eponymous squirrel dressed in Clouseau getup?
AND AGAIN with the Boydster.
Do you see Britain old and worn? On the brink of ruin? Bankrupt in all but heritage and hope, and even those...
Maybe it’s stating the obvious on a blog like this, but there’s little that’s as evocative as the smell of a back...
BBC Parliament has come up trumps again. On Saturday 28th March it’s devoting an entire evening to recounting the events of the...
An ultra-brief bit of business that doesn’t really do justice to the man’s ultra-brilliance, but hey, he’s sporting white gloves, gets into...
DREARY CORNISH period yarn charting the dreary fortunes of the titular army captain watching over his dreary Cornish estate at the end...
"LIFE'S NOT always a fairy-tale, Michael". JIM TAGGART, take a bow
25 YEARS before Russell T Davies, a DR WHO spin-off! And what a super one at that.
The TV Cream Towers Spotify playlist is now public property. Anyone can add a track, or a hundred tracks, of their own...
A chevron-sized salute to those in or around its soon-to-be-emptied environs… 1) It’s May 1978, and a waspishly-posed Ted unveils The Gentle...
EPONYMOUS FEMO-BOT spawned by malevolent machine made of giant spinning tape loops and teleprinters proceeds to run (slowly) amok in a Top...
Where might you find Instant Sunshine rubbing crisply-starched shoulders with Haircut 100? Prefab Sprout divided by mere seconds from Rolf Harris? The...
It being the week for retreading the path of La Passionara of Privilege, and what with the 30th anniversary of her arrival...
OLD/YOUNG DETECTIVE schtick on the mean, uber-clean highways of California.
In happier times, as they always say, with Christopher Cazenove, Peter Jeffrey and Jakki Brambles.
It’s the 1990s, which means Danny Baker is arriving at or is leaving or has just resigned from another radio station. But...
Well, at last, at long last, the search is over. Ian Levine can hang up his telephone, nay all his telephones, settle...
Apropos nothing, a few snapshots of the erstwhile home of Nationwide, Tonight, 24 Hours, Breakfast Time and The Dimbleby Talk-In. 1) It’s...
This being the week of the BPI Awards, here’s a helping from 1980 back when it was still the Radio 1 Daily Mirror...
One of the many many highlights of BBC4’s recent Nationwide documentary was the sight of Michael Barratt blithely doing a bit to...
Thanks to those few people who took up TV Cream’s challenge and devised a Sunday night line-up for BBC1 that captured some of...
Getting to see snow when it’s not Christmas is one thing; getting to see snow on TV when it’s not a Christmas...
It being precisely 20 years since Sky Television arrived in the UK, here’s a special photo clippage collection hailing from the station’s...
Thinking more about Sunday Night Telly (TM), particularly in light of some of your comments, it’s clear that it was once, more...
The weekend has only a few hours left to live. Monday is trying to make itself heard. You’re trying not to listen....
TV Cream is now on Twitter. So far the updates mostly comprise drink-soused dispatches from The Phoenix on Charing Cross Road in...
It’s July 1966, and ATV decides to throw a lunch for the England football team at its Borehamwood studios. Bill Ward is...
It’s the couplet that’s sending the most search queries to this blog. It’s the neologism that’s very very very very slowly gaining...
1) SATIRICAL FROST (1962-3) Rushton, Percival, Martin, Frost and Kernan bring down the establishment with a long-player and cardboard cut-out versions of...
An ex-KGB spy has bought the Evening Standard. If only this were 1969, not 2009… [AFTERNOON. INTERIOR. A CAVERNOUS OFFICE LINED WITH...
All about Play for Today
No more, please. Too many chunks of childhood have already been lost this year to warrant such a rate of expiry persisting...
Not been the best of weeks. Euston Road, March 1978:
It’s high time to see how TV Cream’s predictions for 2009 turned out. Who’d have thought that, as Big Ben chimed midnight...
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