“It’s time to get up and get on your way The breakfast show’s here to start your day Get your motor spinning,...
Friday, 27th September 1974 PICK OF THE DAY 7.05pm TOP OF THE POPS, BBC1 We all know this story – Top of...
On the evening of Monday 5 September 1969, the available LWT unit heads – Doreen Stephens, Terry Hughes, Humphrey Burton, Derek Granger and...
Friday, 24th September 1993 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm BRUCE FORSYTH’S GENERATION GAME, BBC1 Everyone forgets it now, but the ultimate Saturday...
Yes! It’s a Chris and Ian episode, and they’re, like, the main ones! The ‘rhythm pals’ meet to look at two undisclosed...
LWT’s output in those early days was as varied as any other ITV station, however the combination of, as David Docherty in...
Friday, 20th September 1991 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm THE RUSS ABBOT SHOW, BBC1 In the past there were small but obvious...
In 1968, Frank Muir sat down at his desk to write a letter. Concentrating on work was not always easy in this office....
Friday, 8th September 1978 PICK OF THE DAY 7pm THE KRYPTON FACTOR, ITV Well, here’s a series that you probably didn’t expect...
By the late 1960s, Bruce Forsyth had been a big star for a long time. Since coming to prominence in 1958 as compere...
Friday, 7th September 1984 PICK OF THE DAY 7pm BLANKETY BLANK, BBC1 “Please don’t fiddle with the controls on your set. Just...
Today is TV Cream’s 20th birthday. Twentieth! To mark the occasion, we’ve made a big video and we hope you will enjoy...
Today’s our birthday! 20 years of TV Cream, who’d have believed it? To get our celebrations underway (there’s more to come), here’s...
In the late 1960s, the BBC’s Saturday line-up fell under the auspices of head of light entertainment, Bill Cotton – and it was...
Friday, 24th August 1979 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL, BBC1 It’s prime Carol Drinkwater and pre-Calum Buchanan...
It’s Saturday Night was originally published, in a different form, on the website www.offthetelly.co.uk in monthly instalments under the name The Glory...
Not just Mr Saturday Night. Not just Mr Entertainment. Bruce Forsyth was Mr Television… SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM (ATV 1959)...
“Sorry. Hold on will you?” It’s – what? – 10 years ago and here’s Bruce Forsyth. In one of our other guises,...
Friday, 15th August 1997 PICK OF THE DAY 10pm ROOM 101, BBC2 Here’s a genuine curiosity – a programme that can be...
Creamguide (Films) Celebrates 20 years of TV Cream with a special commentary on Alf’s Button Afloat, but then accidentally deletes it. So,...
Friday, 12th August 1983 PICK OF THE DAY 8.30pm SUMMER HARTY, BBC1 Wither the eccentric? Leaving to one side the eponymous presenter’s...
In what *we hope* will be an enjoyable episode, Ian and Graham look back at two secretly selected shows from 1997, the...
This is the trailer for a thing we’ll be releasing on August 31st, to mark the 20th birthday of TV Cream. A...
Friday, 7th August 1970 PICK OF THE DAY 5.20pm TWO D’S AND A DOG, ITV We think of spin-offs as a modern...
It begins! Throughout August we will be celebrating 20 years of TV Cream… Now, the internet was a small place back when...
Friday, 30th July 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm WINNER TAKES ALL, ITV “Press those buttons and gamble away!” Feet up for...
Friday, 18th July 1980 PICK OF THE DAY 6.55pm DALLAS, BBC2 It’s 1980, so that means it must be Dallas. If it...
Friday, 11th July 1986 PICK OF THE DAY 5.30pm THE CHART SHOW, CHANNEL 4 “WARNING: PREPARE FOR VDU OVERLOAD.” Behold the giant...
Friday, 9th July 1993 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm ELDORADO, BBC1 It’s all round to Joy’s Bar to meet Freddie, Olive and...
BBC Records And Tapes – arguably the definitive Cream-era record label – existed primarily to release music from BBC television and radio...
Friday, 29th June 1984 PICK OF THE DAY 6.55pm MIKE READ’S REPLAY SELECTION, BBC1 The then Czar of Saturday mornings pops by...
Friday, 28th June 1996 PICK OF THE DAY 10.00pm FRIDAY NIGHT ARMISTICE, BBC2 Pleased-with-itself, and rightly so, satire from the hard-to-spell triumvirate...
Friday, 17th June 1983 PICK OF THE DAY 7.50pm DID YOU SEE?, BBC2 “Yes I bloody did, thank you!” Journalist and journeyman...
It was about 10 years ago TV Cream found a reason to call Adam West at home. As the transatlantic wires crackled...
Friday, 14th June 1985 PICK OF THE DAY 9.30pm THE MAD DEATH, BBC1 One and only repeat showing for the made-in-1981-but-not-screened-until-1983 BBC...
It’s another General Election! As we wait to discover for whom the night took a terrible toll, who’ll be drinking hemlock and...
Friday, 1st June 1990 PICK OF THE DAY 7.05pm THE $64,000 QUESTION, ITV “64,000 welcomes to you!” – not one of Bob’s...
John Noakes’ route into telly was somewhat curious and owed a lot to Biddy Baxter’s unorthodox way of hiring talent. Looking for...
Friday, 30th May 1969 PICK OF THE DAY 10.30pm BIG BREADWINNER HOG, ITV The final episode of Granada’s flashy-yet-gritty bit of the...
Recorded on the evening of Monday 22 May, here’s our unintentional, but nonetheless fulsome, tribute to the mighty Sir Roger Moore. We’ve added a...
Friday, 17th May 1991 PICK OF THE DAY 6.30pm TONIGHT WITH JONATHAN ROSS, CHANNEL 4 It seems so long ago now, but...
By the finest scissors in all of Aragon, the Creamguide (Films) Commentary team go Bakshi insane with a detailed (and we do...
Friday, 12th May 1972 PICK OF THE DAY 8.10pm THE BROTHERS, BBC1 This road haulage power struggle family saga was a huge...
Friday, 9th May 1986 PICK OF THE DAY 7.40pm I’VE GOT A SECRET, BBC1 A long-running yet little-remembered transfer of the Allen...
Here they are, born to be kings – it’s Chris, Craig and – to a fuller extent – Jack, to discuss what...
Friday, 24th April 1987 PICK OF THE DAY 5.30pm THE TUBE, CHANNEL 4 It’s perhaps not surprising, but discussions about The Tube...
Oh, great! It’s an ‘Ian and Graham’ episode! The two pals meet to discuss two shows, both of which aired on Tuesday nights....
Friday, 17th April 1981 PICK OF THE DAY 4.40pm SWAP SHOP STAR AWARDS, BBC1 On BBC4 recently we’ve seen the debut of...
Flash, Flash we love you, but we only have 1 hour 45 minutes and eight seconds to wax lyrical about this stupendous...
Friday, 10th April 1992 PICK OF THE DAY 8.00pm BRUCE’S GUEST NIGHT, BBC1 Drown your sorrows the day after the election with...
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