MIDDLE OF the road panel game.
SAINTED SEMI-ALTERNOPOP show of a Friday evening live from Tyne Tees
SUBLIME HERALD of the weekend
This week’s categories: From the Norwegian pillicock, Derived from the Berkley Hunt, A portmanteau term, From the given name Walter, Proto-Germanic term prattuz
Friday, 9th February 1990 PICK OF THE DAY 9.00pm COLIN’S SANDWICH, BBC2 It didn’t exactly help that it was heralded in some quarters...
Has your favourite made our Top 60? Let’s find out… 60) Joe Jackson – Steppin’ Out It’s all very well being arch about...
This week’s categories: Newspaper from the ear; Making a good impression; Ambitious key change; Making sense; Russell Farty
Friday, 5th February 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm FAMILY FORTUNES, ITV The mighty Monkhouse boots up Mr Babbage once more to...
Your Thursday night starts here, as we count down from 70 to that all-important 61! 70) Linx – Intuition 69) Freeez –...
PAUL DANIELS haunted this grim quiz
"HAS ANYONE seen a clue, a pink clue?!"
This week’s categories: Sing what you see; Bigging up Paul Drury; No professionals required; Extreme charisma; Has own cheese grater
Another episode of the high-concept, low-rent ‘happening’ in which two slightly effete-sounding men surprise each other with a TV show, watch the...
Friday, 28th January 1972 PICK OF THE DAY 9.00pm SPYDER’S WEB, ITV The spy drama of slim repute – starring Patricia Cutts,...
Here we go from 80-71… 80) Department S – Is Vic There? All the hallmarks of the best new wave – jagged...
This week’s categories: Safe pair of hands; Panache (but of course!); Ovineness; Candour; Phrase-coining
Friday, 18th January 1980 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm THE SUPERSTARS, BBC1 A high-water mark for the ‘Stars, 1980 saw the UK...
It’s the UK’s hottest chart countdown! Compiled from votes both around the TVC office and through the auspices of our ’emag’ Creamguide...
This week’s categories: Lower limb intricacy; Cheeky winkability; Oxtering; Synchronised knee-bending; Gratuitous Mr Bassmanning
Friday, 13th January 1978 PICK OF THE DAY 7.30pm MAGGIE AND HER, ITV Julia Mackenzie plays it vaguely working class as unlucky...
It’s the UK’s hottest chart countdown! Compiled from votes both around the TVC office and through the auspices of our ’emag’ Creamguide...
This week’s categories: Transparency in accounting; Referencing table sauces; Trendy terminologist; Thank God they are…; Investment advice
Friday, 6th January 1984 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm THE ZODIAC GAME, ITV Sorry, we got that title wrong. Of course it’s...
GENERAL COLLAPSE of secondary education.
YEAH YEAH, "turkey" and all that, but there was much more to it than that.
MERIDIAN-STRADDLING CHAT meanderer
We recall being offered the chance, on a friend’s birthday way back, to go and see a film at the ABC in...
This week’s categories: Grubby leisurewear; Nod coordination; Stopping just out of shot; Inducing comedy reaction; Big finish
“Any hopes of a Merry Christmas seem slim” Christmas telly is all about its traditions – and it seems like one of...
Let’s put the full-stop on these godawful last 12 months and get on with our lives with this ‘reprinting’ of the Creamguide Review...
DUNUNUNUNUNUH-DUH NUH! "POP QUIZ!!!"
PREEMPTING THE keenness of all VT editors to stick a pumping soundtrack of the day behind anything recorded, albeit in a more...
FAR-TOO-EARLY SUNDAY morning Godbothery for children
"EUREKA - OR, I HAVE FOUND IT!" trilled Beadlebum in the first episode.
"A GOLDEN EAGLE Production for London Weekend Television" Ah dear.
LIVE FROM the verdant pastures of Shepherd's Bush Green
Huzzah it’s almost Christmas and the three wise men of Creamguide(Films) have travelled the Internet far and wide to alight on a...
FIRST PROPER live-actioner from Supermationationer GERRY ANDERSON
Chris, Craig and Jack team up with pals on the Internet to closely dissect the third entry into THE OMEN canon. As...
DR WHO does sitcom!
"SPORTING WIT AND BADINAGE", as Ceefax often had it
LONG-SERVING horticultural hoedown
Chris, Craig and Jack team up with special guest, Rose to fearlessly analyse the second entrant into THE OMEN canon. Includes gratutious...
Christmas is a time for giving. For caring. For sharing. It’s also a time for deafening cacophonies of entire junior schools simultaneously...
All the stars have been invited to come along and rip off a leg 24th-30th December 2016 Back! Back! Back! And welcome...
Only the opening titles will be festooned with tinsel 17th-23rd December 2016 Merry Christmas! And welcome to the eighteenth annual Christmas Creamguide,...
Two earnest men from TV Cream have come together under the flag of peace on Earth and goodwill to all other earnest...
LIFE IN THE most uncommercial, threadbare-looking department store in the world
Chris, Craig and Jack team up with special guests, Sharon and What We Just Watched’s very own Graham (it’s like The All-Star...
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY GENTLEMAN charmer in preposterous cape and cane combo (GERALD HARPER) gets frozen in a block of ice and thawed out in...
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