Leslie Crowther – TV Cream

89. 1990 Who would employ an ex-alky with lowered self-esteem

And so into the 1990s. Almost none of the programmes that inhabited the Saturday night schedules at the beginning of the...

Wednesday, 24th July 1991 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm WOGAN, BBC1 The unthinkable has happened and Old Tel has been prevailed upon...

“I think the third programme in the series was number one in the ratings,” says Stewart. “Coronation Street was gone, everything else...

Leslie Crowther was born in Nottingham in 1933. In 1946 he found his way into the BBC Schools Repertory Service and in...

Even before the arrival of Surprise, Surprise, Birt’s public confidence in LWT’s output appeared well founded. By the end of 1983...

LWT’s output in those early days was as varied as any other ITV station, however the combination of, as David Docherty in...

SALUTARY LESSON IN how to piss away the goodwill of an entire nation of kids.