Inspired by a comment left by Steve Norgate on the post below, here’s a collection alternately wistful, melancholic, mournful and touching efforts...
Last night’s edition of Howard’s Way on BBC4, after climaxing with someone running in slow motion down a gangplank, slipping onto the...
By way of an epilogue to this week’s mailout, here’s Elvis and co doing a heartbreaking version of Shipbuilding on…what exactly? Razzmatazz?...
A few snaps from last night’s bash: 1) Introducing the hardline according to Noel Edmonds 2) Una paloma wanker 3) “Pebble Mill...
Past-it celebrities, forever patronisingly referred to as “veteran personalities” by press releases, have a tendency to throw money at vanity projects as...
BBC4 is bringing back The Frost Report for a one-off special at Easter. It’s one of those ideas that sounds great in...
Having no access to television does, perhaps inevitably, prompt you to spend a bit more time with the other things you hold...
Let’s see. Bumbling mumbling Professor Phil Redmond, the Cardinal Richelieu of Croxteth, goes on record to complain about the BBC scrapping Grange...
Quite possibly the greatest publicity image ever.
At least he lived to see Space 1999 fail to come true.
Given that time-travelling sitcom Ashes To Ashes begins this week, here are five endings, or “solutions”, that will certainly be more entertaining,...
January ends with a distinct lack of instant sunshine.
No joke, this time.
There’s nothing the media likes more than a story about on-screen channel idents, preferably when there’s a sum of money involved they...
Things That Have Long Since Disappeared But Still Make Good Subjects For Idle Conversation #375: defining days of the week with TV...
Dineage over Britain.
News reaches TV Cream of an “On The Buses event in Elstree and Borehamwood on Saturday the 28th of June 2008.” Following...
Obviously the best bit of each weekly Digi-Cream Times mailout is the last line, but this week’s was – hopefully – particularly...
By way of a slight return to this slight return, some more information about those endless David Jacobs productions. They’re all true,...
To mark the long-awaited return* of News At Ten: *Well, until Friday at any rate.
Enough of the grouching. Ten good things about the 1950s: 1) QUATERMASS AND THE PIT The first two were rubbish, but this,...
Not at all like the way Chris Evans used to spend every edition of TFI Friday reviewing what the press had been...
TV Cream doesn’t normally have anything to do with the 1950s, but seeing as they’re being put on trial by BBC4 this...
OK, here’s a bunch of LWT’s finest in 1984. Suggestions please as to: a) who these people are, and b) who these...
Seeing as how the revival of To The Manor Born was so crap, the Beeb needs to start thinking now about something...
How is TV Cream Towers like the Queen? One, Dr Who has got our phone number. And two, there’s now a TV...
What will 2008 bring? If these people know – and there’s surely nobody more qualified to know – they’re certainly looking cheery...
It’s hard to recall a year like this, where so many stars of a particular generation passed away. Fate and misfortune robbed...
The latest annual batch of secret papers declassified under the 30-Year Rule* makes, as ever, for great reading. They always do, by...
And a very merry Christmas to all of you at home…
This month’s Word magazine contains ostensibly definitive inventories of both the best and worst Christmas songs of all time. But as usual...
This is more like it: the official BBC group publicity shot for Christmas 1991, with everyone’s favourite Santa – Clive James –...
A solitary question today. Where – precisely – does snow have to fall for it to be officially classed as a white...
It’s more than high time for an appearance from Sir Bob Monkhouse: December 1995“What a peculiar year it’s been. Tory Party Chairman...
It’s guess the ident time (you knew it was coming). Can you match the logo with the correct Christmas? The years to...
Someone’s in for a surprise at the Thames Television Christmas lunch.
Just one question today: Who, in the history of television, has starred in the most number of Christmas specials?
And you thought John Tusa talking about drug addicts was depressing. Here’s the worst Christmas Day line-up of programmes mustered by BBC2,...
Here’s the front cover of the best Christmas single ever released. Three points, as Simon Mayo used to say, to anybody who...
It’s Christmas on BBC2. Cary Grant is “not going back to Yale.” “Not geing beck?” replies his posh compadre. It’s the first...
Pretty much everything from the 1950s isn’t worth remembering, which is why TV Cream has little to do with it. The same...
Ah yes, the Christmas Day comedy special. A chance to wash down the excesses of the day with a dose of light...
A trio of music-related riddles are clearing their throat behind today’s door. 1) Which Christmas number one did journalist David Quantick describe...
Why aren’t there TV bosses like this anymore?
Here’s Michael Palin, recalling his experiences at the BBC Light Entertainment Christmas Party: Sunday 19th December, 1976“Everything in full swing when we...
Where are the quizzes? Right here! TV Christmas specials is today’s theme: a) What was different about the kind of format Coronation...
The new edition of Radio Times features, on its cover, the promise that no fewer than six stars have been assembled to...
Another promotional launch, this time from 1973. Benny Hill, Black Beauty, Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Danny La Rue, Jack Smethurst and Hughie...
Half a dozen unlikely festive telly treats from Christmas Days of old. 1) A GIFT FOR GRACIE (ITV, 1970) 60 minutes of...
Kenneth Williams is waiting behind today’s door, ready to share his memories of Christmas 27 years ago… Tuesday 23rd December 1980“Saw Louie...
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