JIM-MORRISON-ALIKE BOY magician Tarot (MICHAEL MACKENZIE) has adventures through history, for which read cheap studio set representing pyramid, cheap studio set representing...
ONE OF THOSE self-styled comedy showcases that did nothing of the sort.
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...
This week’s categories: Best kids’ TV theme ever, M’HIV-postive colleague, Warning team – overacting approaching, Yesterday’s pop star, 20 years ago, Oo’er sounds...
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,...
This week’s categories: TV’s greatest cupboard, Rules of TV:Swivel chair=sophistication, 18 million viewers can be wrong, The very essence of exciting in 1977,...
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...
Driving-through-the-Dales-in-a-lovely-old-car with Hardy and Timothy sharing a joke.
This week’s categories: At this stage, a bit The Golden Shit, You’re “You”, Great name for a message board, Sorry, but this is...
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...
From K9 & Company to Orm and Cheep…
From The Adventure Game to Ever Decreasing Circles…
From UFO to Zig Zag…
From The Paul Daniels Magic Show to Two Up Two Down…
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin to Juliet Bravo…
This week’s categories: Effectively, James Bond + ex-pats, Junior ladies’ man, Ralph taking the St Moritz, Slattery will get you nowhere, Grotty? Is...
Friday, 30th July 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm WINNER TAKES ALL, ITV “Press those buttons and gamble away!” Feet up for...
This week’s categories: Kieran Prendiville agog!, Fun forever for free, Chris Serles’ big whirry tape, Micro Live hacking infamy, UK industry goes bust-on...
Friday, 18th July 1980 PICK OF THE DAY 6.55pm DALLAS, BBC2 It’s 1980, so that means it must be Dallas. If it...
This week’s categories: 1996’s future of entertainment, Smegged off, Gono Coleman, Ehlefree Studio, It is now
Friday, 11th July 1986 PICK OF THE DAY 5.30pm THE CHART SHOW, CHANNEL 4 “WARNING: PREPARE FOR VDU OVERLOAD.” Behold the giant...
This week’s categories: Extremely impressionable, As drunk by Dan O’Bannon, Just Desserts, The Ant & Dec of their day, The Chicago Way
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...
This week’s categories: Bandana required, Poor reverse acronymising, Bandana still required, Oh, the scandal and the vice!, Hit it, bitch
Friday, 29th June 1984 PICK OF THE DAY 6.55pm MIKE READ’S REPLAY SELECTION, BBC1 The then Czar of Saturday mornings pops by...
This week’s categories: Not even trying to ruin it, Muzak for Bejams, Edifying, Dunno who this is, Rainbow Connection connection
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...
BELOW-PAR BONHOMIE that looked and felt like it should have been on the light channel.
This week’s categories: Nonchalance, Pulling a ‘div’ face, Invisible keep-uppies, Musictypocity, Saying ‘Ay-yai-yai’ to order
Friday, 17th June 1983 PICK OF THE DAY 7.50pm DID YOU SEE?, BBC2 “Yes I bloody did, thank you!” Journalist and journeyman...
THE END of the world, Sheffield-style.
EXTREMELY ROTTEN ITV sitcom that managed to stink up the schedules for four years.
THE SMELL of a Friday night.
This week’s categories: Looks like a cock, Ah, would that it were…, Turnipuppetry, …would that it were, Still looks likes a cock
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...
This week’s categories: Never noticed the inverted F, Friendly Glamrockery, ‘S’ like a ‘5, but otherwise good, Follow the star, Chunky, but in...
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...
This week’s categories: The go-to reference for panache, The critic’s favourite, Gracious head-bowing, Loved by oiks as well as toffs, Trouseraconteur
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