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6.1K4Creamguide 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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3.6K3Advent 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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2.2K3Advent 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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1.6KAdvent 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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1.6K1Advent 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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3.6KChristmas 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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1.7K2Advent 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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1.5KAdvent 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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1.6K1Advent 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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1.7K1Advent 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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1.3K2Advent 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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1.3KAdvent 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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2.0K2Advent 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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2.1K4Advent 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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1.9KAdvent 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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1.6KAdvent 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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1.6KAdvent 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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5.8K1Advent 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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3.5K1Advent 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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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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3.4KChristmas 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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2.6K1Christmas 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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2.9K4TV 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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2.3K2Your 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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3.8KAll-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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3.5KAll-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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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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3.4KAll-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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6.3K‘Sensationally axed’ – Richard Marson interview (pt 2)
Hello again! This is part two of our chat with Richard Marson, former editor of Blue Peter, whose new book, The Blue...
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6.1K‘Sensationally axed’ – Richard Marson interview (pt 1)
Hello! From ‘doable barkers’ to Liz Barker! Richard Marson – he of the ‘Totally Tasteless’ John Nathan-Turner biography – has a new book...
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4.5K5TV Hell – and what all theme nights can learn from it
In which TVC lays out the ground rules for an entertaining and informative night of special programming, and why when all are...
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3.4K2Creamguide Review of the Year: 2016
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...
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2.7K3TV Cream’s Christmas Carol Concert
Christmas is a time for giving. For caring. For sharing. It’s also a time for deafening cacophonies of entire junior schools simultaneously...
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2.7K2Christmas Creamguide: week two
All the stars have been invited to come along and rip off a leg 24th-30th December 2016 Back! Back! Back! And welcome...
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4.0K4Christmas Creamguide: week one
Only the opening titles will be festooned with tinsel 17th-23rd December 2016 Merry Christmas! And welcome to the eighteenth annual Christmas Creamguide,...
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2.8K2Snow On The Logo pt 5: Buster
Hi readers! Now for a chortle! In the last of our week of Christmas covers, it’s Buster comic’s festive frontages from 1967-1996!...
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3.5K1Snow On The Logo pt 4: The Beano
It’s the complete run of Beano Christmas covers from ’67 to 96! Have a menacing time! Tomorrow: Buster!
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4.2K3Snow On The Logo pt 3: Look-in
La-la-la-la-la! Now, alas, despite national appeals, we couldn’t get the full Look-in run right up to 1993 of Christmas covers. But nonetheless…...
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6.2K7Snow On The Logo pt 2: TV Times
Our flick through the double-issues continues! Today, there’s so much more… Tomorrow: La-la-la-la-la-Look-in!
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6.0K6Snow On The Logo pt 1: Radio Times
Welcome, welcome, one and all to this year’s TV Cream Christmas initiative as we present the complete guide to the Cream-era covers...
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