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...
TV YEARS – the excellent magazine about old telly – is back soon, with a Christmas Special that goes on sale from...
Today’s the day TV YEARS magazine goes on sale. Packed with interviews, facts and fancies about Eighties television – and nothing but...
A brand-new magazine about old telly goes on sale Tuesday, 11 September. Called TV YEARS, its first issue is all about the...
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...
TV Cream is working on a new ‘pet project’ – and we’re hoping you can help! We’re looking for 1980s programme ephemera,...
Yes, we’ve made it through another year, which all and sundry have called the worst ever, but which one hasn’t been recently,...
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 –...
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!
Following the sad news of Keith Chegwin permanently ‘checking out’, we revisit the highs and lows of his career on camera. OPEN...
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...
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...
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...
Today is TV Cream’s 20th birthday. Twentieth! To mark the occasion, we’ve made a big video and we hope you will enjoy...
Today’s our birthday! 20 years of TV Cream, who’d have believed it? To get our celebrations underway (there’s more to come), here’s...
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,...
This is the trailer for a thing we’ll be releasing on August 31st, to mark the 20th birthday of TV Cream. A...
It was about 10 years ago TV Cream found a reason to call Adam West at home. As the transatlantic wires crackled...
John Noakes’ route into telly was somewhat curious and owed a lot to Biddy Baxter’s unorthodox way of hiring talent. Looking for...
It’s 40 years since Tharg the Mighty, a gentleman alien from Betelgeuse with a penchant for eccentric phraseology, first shared with us Earthlets...
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...
Only the opening titles will be festooned with tinsel 17th-23rd December 2016 Merry Christmas! And welcome to the eighteenth annual Christmas Creamguide,...
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!...
It’s the complete run of Beano Christmas covers from ’67 to 96! Have a menacing time! Tomorrow: Buster!
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…...
Our flick through the double-issues continues! Today, there’s so much more… Tomorrow: La-la-la-la-la-Look-in!
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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