Michael Crawford – TV Cream

43. If you want Russ Abbot to do it, then you have to accept me and my ideas

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

OH LOOK, there's a retarded man hanging over a cliff.

Of a slightly different bent but still a genuinely massive picture, this adaptation of the smash hit musical farce is a truly...

Richard Lester, popular purveyor of under cranked knees-bent running about in The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night (1964), took on a more...

Gene Kelly gets behind the camera for this slightly wobbly tale of Babs Streisand out to ensnare grumpy demi-millionaire Walter Matthau (they...

Two linked plays, Audience and Private View, by the dissident Czech writer Vaclav Havel (and thus presumably written when he was hiding...

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