Well, here we are on New Year’s Eve, and remember all the excitement when we saw the back of 2016, eh? In...
Hullo there! Welcome to the second part of your bumper Christmas Creamguide, which includes all the programmes for the rest of 2020,...
Hullo there! And welcome to the 21st annual Christmas Creamguide! We thought we’d be really struggling for new content this year but...
Time now for our review of what everyone’s calling the worst year ever, but what year hasn’t been recently, eh? But it’s...
Hullo there! Welcome back to the second part of your Christmas Creamguide with the last knockings of this bloody awful decade and...
Hullo there! It’s the Christmas Creamguide and it’s the twentieth time we’ve done it! Maybe one day we’ll get good at it,...
And so another year has gone, and we’re all thrilled we’ve come out of it in one piece. As ever loads of...
1977: It’s gone down in folklore that Eric Morecambe’s appearance on World Of Sport was dreamt up by him and Dickie Davies...
1981: Even the Community Programming Unit has to let its hair down occasionally. Grapevine, “The Self-Help Show”, is still very low-key in...
1979: 21 minutes of the pre-Christmas Swap Shop are illuminated by Debbie Harry and a Super 8 camera wielding Chris Stein taking...
1981: Westward Television celebrated its 20th anniversary, eight months after the actual date and ten days before the franchise closed. Hey, better...
1971: Opportunity Knocks’ big discoveries in 1971 were Little & Large, but despite making the All Winners Show they weren’t in contention...
For we know we should be gay Hullo again! And we’re back with the second half of your double Christmas Creamguide with...
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...
1977: You’re quite right it’s Monday, Play School, and as the start of Christmas week Chloe Ashcroft and Johnny Ball are getting...
1980: Top Of The Pops (full playlist), the last one before Christmas. Both Simon Bates and the production team are in “that”...
1977: “He’s got a funny surname but I can’t remember it!” Our Show was what LWT, with the backing of Anglia and...
1980: Um, is it alright if we all agree to skip past the imagery of the first show trailed here? Thanks. BBC1’s...
1987: We haven’t included a lot of adverts in this Advent Calendar so far because there’s great vats of them on YouTube...
1976: Post-Grundy, the Sex Pistols found promoters and local councils weren’t as amenable to putting on their UK tour as they had...
1970: “The work to rule is over!” And unfortunately so is the online presence of the full Bob-fronted Golden Shot that was...
1981: Some of the bits between the programmes on BBC2. “It’s really sodding cold” is the news lead, including a rare namecheck...
1980: Tributes to John Lennon were still having to be made, Top Of The Pops finding a dark corner of the studio...
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...
1980: John Lennon was declared dead at 3.50am UK time, which means it’s very likely this Midday News report would have been...
1979: The first Star Trek film was released the previous day in the US and on the 15th here. The BBC children’s...
1984: “Lumberjack? Steeplejack? Oh, Uncle Jack?” The Chas & Dave theme and presence of Stu Francis can only mean Crackerjack was on...
1973: Everyone was into oil fields in the mid-70s, and a discovery near the Shetlands led John Craven’s Newsround. Craven himself had...
1982: As trailed by the natural face of experimental broadcasting, Arthur Mullard, although The Saturday Show found an ideal front”person” for the...
1974: The Irish border problem used to mean something entirely different. Nationwide traversed the divide in the company of Bernard Falk, who...
1980: Peter Davison had been named as the Fifth Doctor a month earlier and was three and a half months away from...
1981: Southern was on the way out at the end of the year which would inevitably mean an end to Houseparty, the...
Hello there! Why Don’t YouTube? here, popping in from next door where all year we’ve been collating and contextualising clips over at...
Yes, we’ve made it through another year, which all and sundry have called the worst ever, but which one hasn’t been recently,...
Hullo again! And we’re back with the second half of your Christmas Creamguide. Actually, such is the way the dates fall this...
Call The Midwife? By all means Call The Midwife. Open All Hours? Okay. But what about all the other deserving shows over...
Merry Christmas! And welcome to, heavens, the eighteenth annual Christmas Creamguide where once again we collate all that’s worth watching and listening...
Yes, it’s that time again – when everyone starts going on about the big-hitting Christmas specials of yesteryear. That episode where your...
What might a perfect Christmas Day’s viewing look like? Well, we found an old VHS which contains that very info. Hence the...
Our final festive furlong, and we’ve thrown everything in here. Lots of different comics and mags from the Cream era. Merry Christmas,...
The Cream era Dandy covers, charting Korky’s falling stock, the demise of Nutty and Hoot, and Dan’s preference for cow pies. TOMORROW:...
We’ll leave it to you to imagine the back covers that resolved many of the incidents depicted here… TOMORROW: THE DANDY!
Onward, and this time it’s a look at new Eagle. Acknowledgements, meanwhile, to Comic Vine website, from where these sprung. Scroll down...
Time for the shutters to arise at our Christmas-only newsagents. And we begin this year’s run of festive frontages by looking at...
Hello again! This is part two of our chat with Richard Marson, former editor of Blue Peter, whose new book, The Blue...
Hello! From ‘doable barkers’ to Liz Barker! Richard Marson – he of the ‘Totally Tasteless’ John Nathan-Turner biography – has a new book...
In which TVC lays out the ground rules for an entertaining and informative night of special programming, and why when all are...
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...
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...