Yvette Fielding delivers carrot cake to Andy Crane, 29th January 1990 This used to be on YouTube but we can’t find it...
Here is a house… It was all so nearly so very different. Had things gone as planned, the first programme seen on...
Frankie Goes To Hollywood perform Two Tribes on Top of the Pops, 9th August 1984 You may think there’s another moment involving...
Smith and Jones’ police interrogation sketch, 1990 There is of course a brilliant variation on the re-edited interview gag in The Simpsons...
Hi pals! Ever wondered what TV Cream would have looked like if it had been published in the 1970s as a weekly...
What happened to the comedy song? We don’t mean the two-a-penny pop parodies that ailing sketch shows knock out with dreary regularity,...
Last year we waxed unusually lyrically about Keith Miller’s super book The Official Doctor Who Fan Club – possibly the best ever...
Her favourite programmes were Miss Marple, anything with Paul Daniels, and the Fairy Liquid adverts. Oh, and this. But that was about...
Above, an exclusive still from the actual creation of the Cheggers Plays Pop emblem. Arguably the finest TV logo ever created. It...
A short video we made. Sniff…
It’s been a terrible week. We’ve lost Richard Briers, Derek Batey… and now, we hear, Bob Godfrey, godfather of the lovely wobbly,...
THAT WOBBLY felt-tip animation technique patented by Godfrey and co. was called "boiling"
The great Richard Briers has passed away at the age of 79. Eight years ago (give or take) we were lucky enough...
OBSCURE VEHICLE for FELICITY "HONEY FOR TEA" KENDAL.
Ill-fated attempt at creating a sort of amphibious counterpart to Modesty Blaise
"WE'RE RESPECTABLE PEOPLE, not the London School of Economics!"
TV Cream has joined forces again with its pals at the BFI to present another smashing giveaway! To mark the release of...
If you read Creamguide you’ll know that the current re-runs of Bob’s Full House on Challenge have ushered in – to quote...
Well, here’s a happy scene! And it’s all because TV Cream has decided to launch a clothing line. Well, kind of. Actually,...
A tribute to the former BBC director-general, who has died aged 82. When the BBC board of governors were looking for...
It’s a Happy Who Year to all our readers! Yes, 2013 promises 12 months even more doused in the good Doctor than...
Call The Midwife on TV Cream? What madness is this? No, we’re not trying to claim fifties-flavoured epidural incidents as the right...
“A story of lifelong sorrow and abandonment” The BBC1 Christmas Day line-up is often held up as the perfect example of the...
Something special landed on the metaphorical doormats of Creamguide subscribers late on Wednesday night… The Christmas Creamguide double issue! Every issue of Creamguide...
“Hello, I’m Noel Edmonds, and in an ’emag’ first, we’ve brought back Creamup for a very special Christmas edition, which I’m hosting,...
Dudley Moore is subjected to more indignities with this uncalled-for film so dire there’s no humour to be had in its shortcomings....
Slightly dark and a little weird but really pretty good; more Bourneville than Dairy Milk, then, if you’ll pardon the screamingly obvious...
“Evening, cock!” No surprise to see this touted as The Best of the Bunch, usually by the same people who bestowed that...
“NOW FOR SOMETHING BIG IN GREECE… BBC POTATOES!”: The glory years of TOTP at Christmas IT’S 25 DECEMBER. It’s 1400 hours Greenwich...
Here is the news! Our good friends at The Media Archive for Central England, who previously brought us the sublime DVD release...
Has Steve Berry-TV Cream (his full name) been taken captive by a Dr Who monster? Perhaps not. The fictionally-named Hilton Fitzsimmons looks...
If your Sagacity will pardon us, we would like to submit for her consideration some unseen evidence from a future episodic interface...
We’re probably a little late – the BBC hasn’t made anyone redundant for a few days and the fervor has diminished –...
Are you enjoying the re-runs of Bob’s Full House on Challenge as much as we are? (That’s every Saturday at 8pm) In...
Here's the man's finest hour
Wondering why TV Cream is looking very 007-ish today? Actually, you’re probably not – it’s obvious! But this is to tip you...
Another week, and another TV Cream-related book hits the internet – and we turn our wallpaper stripey in celebration! This time it’s...
It’s the second and final part of our Michael Barratt podcast! This time Michael talks about his career before Nationwide, and after,...
Subscribers to our TV-listings-and-nothing-but (apart from a feature in the middle) ‘e-mag’, Creamguide, got an unscheduled visitor last night when a special...
Today is TV Cream’s 15th birthday. And what better way to celebrate than releasing our new podcast, which we can safely say...
Gulp! Looks like The Dandy could be brandishing that doom-laden “EXCITING NEWS FOR READERS INSIDE!” banner across its front cover quite soon....
So, that’s who we’d cast in BBC4’s inevitable ‘The Road To Dr Who’-style drama. While they’ve got the new gang together, could...
WHAT THE SIMPSONS once did for the Clinton decade, Wait Til Your Father Gets Home did for Nixon-era America.
GEOFFREY PALMER more or less exported Jimmy off of FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN into Harry Truscott
Remember back in about 2003 when we all used to wax lyrical about the Children’s Film Foundation? Well the noughties obsession with...
ZEITGEIST-NON-SURFING Animator’s Cramp-occasioning high-concept Hanna-Barbera overreach, puzzlingly counter-topically sandwiched between 1976 Quebec Olympics and 1980 Moscow Olympics. Key selling point was...
How blissful. It’s Joanna Lumley, in a jumpsuit, on a boat. With summer days driftin’ away for all of us, we thought...
To honour Giscard O’Hitler’s recent, much deserved knighthood, we’ve recorded a very special song. Listen to it by clicking on the link...
AHOY THERE! STILGOE on the starboard bow!
OUR FIRST SIGHTING in this A-Z of the sainted STILGOE.
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