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9082Clive James, on television
The artist formerly known as Vivian James was initially more famous for writing about television than appearing on it, with his column...
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12.3K2TV Years: Classic Children’s Programmes
Do you remember Bagpuss? The next issue of our favourite magazine, TV YEARS, goes on sale on Tuesday June 4, and it’s celebrating classic children’s TV!...
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10.6KTV Years: The Nineties
Here it is, another issue of TV YEARS. This time it’s covering the 1990s and it’s on sale from Tuesday April 2....
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6.3K4Creamguide Review of the Year: 2018
And so another year has gone, and we’re all thrilled we’ve come out of it in one piece. As ever loads of...
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5.5K22018 in memoriam
Doreen Keogh (5/2/16-31/12/17), first Rovers Return barmaid Concepta Riley and Mrs Doyle’s mainland friend Mrs Dineen Denise LaSalle (16/7/39-8/1/18), soul singer and...
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3.8K3Advent Calendar: December 24th
1977: It’s gone down in folklore that Eric Morecambe’s appearance on World Of Sport was dreamt up by him and Dickie Davies...
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2.3K3Advent Calendar: December 23rd
1981: Even the Community Programming Unit has to let its hair down occasionally. Grapevine, “The Self-Help Show”, is still very low-key in...
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1.9K1Advent Calendar: December 22nd
1979: 21 minutes of the pre-Christmas Swap Shop are illuminated by Debbie Harry and a Super 8 camera wielding Chris Stein taking...
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1.7KAdvent Calendar: December 21st
1981: Westward Television celebrated its 20th anniversary, eight months after the actual date and ten days before the franchise closed. Hey, better...
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1.7K1Advent Calendar: December 20th
1971: Opportunity Knocks’ big discoveries in 1971 were Little & Large, but despite making the All Winners Show they weren’t in contention...
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3.7KChristmas Creamguide 2018: Week Two
For we know we should be gay Hullo again! And we’re back with the second half of your double Christmas Creamguide with...
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3.6KChristmas Creamguide 2018: Week One
Hullo there! And welcome to the maybe-legendary-but-it’s-not-for-us-to-say Christmas Creamguide, back for a nineteenth festive season. As in previous years, it’s so big...
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1.8K2Advent Calendar: December 19th
1977: You’re quite right it’s Monday, Play School, and as the start of Christmas week Chloe Ashcroft and Johnny Ball are getting...
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1.6KAdvent Calendar: December 18th
1980: Top Of The Pops (full playlist), the last one before Christmas. Both Simon Bates and the production team are in “that”...
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1.7K1Advent Calendar: December 17th
1977: “He’s got a funny surname but I can’t remember it!” Our Show was what LWT, with the backing of Anglia and...
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1.8K1Advent Calendar: December 16th
1980: Um, is it alright if we all agree to skip past the imagery of the first show trailed here? Thanks. BBC1’s...
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1.4K1Advent Calendar: December 15th
1987: We haven’t included a lot of adverts in this Advent Calendar so far because there’s great vats of them on YouTube...
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1.4K2Advent Calendar: December 14th
1976: Post-Grundy, the Sex Pistols found promoters and local councils weren’t as amenable to putting on their UK tour as they had...
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1.2KAdvent Calendar: December 13th
1970: “The work to rule is over!” And unfortunately so is the online presence of the full Bob-fronted Golden Shot that was...
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1.4KAdvent Calendar: December 12th
1981: Some of the bits between the programmes on BBC2. “It’s really sodding cold” is the news lead, including a rare namecheck...
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1.6KAdvent Calendar: December 11th
1980: Tributes to John Lennon were still having to be made, Top Of The Pops finding a dark corner of the studio...
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1.6K2Advent Calendar: December 10th
1981: One of the great pop years, where the rise of the synths, punk’s fallout, the soul revival, rock’n’roll revivalism, weird European...
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1.9K2Advent Calendar: December 9th
1980: John Lennon was declared dead at 3.50am UK time, which means it’s very likely this Midday News report would have been...
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2.1K2Advent Calendar: December 8th
1979: The first Star Trek film was released the previous day in the US and on the 15th here. The BBC children’s...
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2.2K4Advent Calendar: December 7th
1984: “Lumberjack? Steeplejack? Oh, Uncle Jack?” The Chas & Dave theme and presence of Stu Francis can only mean Crackerjack was on...
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2.0KAdvent Calendar: December 6th
1973: Everyone was into oil fields in the mid-70s, and a discovery near the Shetlands led John Craven’s Newsround. Craven himself had...
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2.0K1Advent Calendar: December 5th
1982: As trailed by the natural face of experimental broadcasting, Arthur Mullard, although The Saturday Show found an ideal front”person” for the...
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1.7KAdvent Calendar: December 4th
1974: The Irish border problem used to mean something entirely different. Nationwide traversed the divide in the company of Bernard Falk, who...
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1.7KAdvent Calendar: December 3rd
1980: Peter Davison had been named as the Fifth Doctor a month earlier and was three and a half months away from...
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6.3K1Advent Calendar: December 2nd
1981: Southern was on the way out at the end of the year which would inevitably mean an end to Houseparty, the...
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3.7K1Advent Calendar: December 1st
Hello there! Why Don’t YouTube? here, popping in from next door where all year we’ve been collating and contextualising clips over at...
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8.3KTV Years Christmas special
TV YEARS – the excellent magazine about old telly – is back soon, with a Christmas Special that goes on sale from...
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2.7KIt’s out today!
Today’s the day TV YEARS magazine goes on sale. Packed with interviews, facts and fancies about Eighties television – and nothing but...
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8.8K2Introducing TV Years!
A brand-new magazine about old telly goes on sale Tuesday, 11 September. Called TV YEARS, its first issue is all about the...
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4.1KPeter Firmin, 1928-2018
TV Cream was sad to hear of the death of Peter Firmin, co-founder of Smallfilms (with Oliver Postgate). Between them, Firmin and Postgate created The...
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4.7K9We want your 1980s TV crap!
TV Cream is working on a new ‘pet project’ – and we’re hoping you can help! We’re looking for 1980s programme ephemera,...
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3.0K2017 – was it really that bad?
Yes, we’ve made it through another year, which all and sundry have called the worst ever, but which one hasn’t been recently,...
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3.0K2017 in memoriam
Sid Roberson (15/03/1937 – 22/12/2016, reported January), award winning advert director, also directed the Sweeney and Fast Show Larry Steinbachek (06/50/1960 –...
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3.5KChristmas Creamguide 2017: Week Two
Hullo again! And we’re back with the second half of your Christmas Creamguide. Actually, such is the way the dates fall this...
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2.9K1The Christmas specials they should have made!
Call The Midwife? By all means Call The Midwife. Open All Hours? Okay. But what about all the other deserving shows over...
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2.7K1Christmas Creamguide 2017: Week One
Merry Christmas! And welcome to, heavens, the eighteenth annual Christmas Creamguide where once again we collate all that’s worth watching and listening...
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3.0K4TV Cream’s top 10 of Christmas telly!
Yes, it’s that time again – when everyone starts going on about the big-hitting Christmas specials of yesteryear. That episode where your...
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2.4K2Your Best Ever Christmas Day… On TV Cream!
What might a perfect Christmas Day’s viewing look like? Well, we found an old VHS which contains that very info. Hence the...
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3.7K2All-New Snow On The Logo pt 5: Potpourri
Our final festive furlong, and we’ve thrown everything in here. Lots of different comics and mags from the Cream era. Merry Christmas,...
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3.9KAll-New Snow On The Logo pt 4: The Dandy
The Cream era Dandy covers, charting Korky’s falling stock, the demise of Nutty and Hoot, and Dan’s preference for cow pies. TOMORROW:...
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3.6KAll-New Snow On The Logo pt 3: Beano Annual
We’ll leave it to you to imagine the back covers that resolved many of the incidents depicted here… TOMORROW: THE DANDY!
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4.2K4Keith Chegwin, 1957-2017
Following the sad news of Keith Chegwin permanently ‘checking out’, we revisit the highs and lows of his career on camera. OPEN...
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3.8KAll-New Snow On The Logo pt 2: Eagle
Onward, and this time it’s a look at new Eagle. Acknowledgements, meanwhile, to Comic Vine website, from where these sprung. Scroll down...
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3.5KAll-New Snow On The Logo pt 1: 2000 AD
Time for the shutters to arise at our Christmas-only newsagents. And we begin this year’s run of festive frontages by looking at...
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3.0KAnthony Coburn: As seen on TV
It’s arguably an association that wouldn’t have pleased James Anthony Coburn, but he will always be connected to Doctor Who. Fifty-four years...
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