Gary Wilmot – TV Cream

72. I don’t care if he doesn’t like me

Programmes come and programmes go, but in 1987, mainstream comedy continued to rule Saturday night television. In fact, on one fateful...

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It's Saturday Night

65. It’s no good doing all the same old people all the time

On Saturday 4 January 1986, ITV’s evening schedule included an oddity – 60 minutes of extreme alternative comedy in the shape of...

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It's Saturday Night

61. More pilots than British Airways

While LWT was busy furnishing British entertainment with new, alternative comedians, the station’s dedication towards mainstream acts remained undimmed, and as if...

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Your Wednesday Night In...

Your Wednesday Night In… June 1984

Wednesday, 20th June 1984 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm MIKE REID’S MATES AND MUSIC, ITV And there’s your elevator pitch right there!...

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A bit of business

TV Cream’s Puzzle Trail: Clue 27

Seeing as how there are only five clues left to go in our summer competition, it's clearly time to wheel out the...

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Schools and Colleges

Programmes for Schools and Colleges

The soup-to-nuts of educational broadcasting in five integrated modules.

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TV: C is for...

Copy Cats

Ostensibly a fast-paced succession of celebrity-lampooning sketches and songs performed by a young team of impressionists, the sheer consistent lack of quality...

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TV: S is for...