ANDREW COLLINS ON BBC 6 MUSIC - interactive radio with a raised eyebrow, it says here, and the home of the 'mental' TV Cream TV Trivia Question every Sunday. Get in there!
ANDREW WISEMAN'S 625 ROOM - the best site for Public Information Films, logos and idents, that sort of thing.
ANIMUS WEB - TVC-approved author Alistair "shy loveliness" McGown's collection of cult TV related websites..
A TOAST TO TV-AM - comprehensive rollercoaster history of egg-centric breakfast sofacasters. Frost, Rippon, Morris, Rat... they're all present and correct.
GOING FOR GOLD - new addess for the redoubtable John Coulthard's tribute to Reg Grundy's finest 25 minutes dedicated to the promotion of pan-continental knowledge and harmony. With mushroom-shaped buzzers.
HAIR BEAR WEB - neat and tidy Hanna-Barbera tribute site. Covers all the favourites featured on this site, with plenty of pictures and sound. Also possesses complete list of Wacky Races cars and drivers!
HARLECH HOUSE OF GRAPHICS - insanely encyclopaedic site devoted to the people, programmes and graphics of HTV. More entertaining than that sounds.
INDEPENDENT TELEWEB - essential online archive devoted to the chequered history of 'the other side', from Associated-Rediffusion and ABC to Thames and HTV.
JILL PHYTHIAN'S TELEVISION APOCRYPHA - all your childhood favourites explained, including Bagpuss: A Sociological Analysis, and the kiss and tell antics of Play School's Humpty. Who'd have thought...
KALEIDOSCOPE UK - homepage of the classic television organisation.
MHP - The Meldrum Homepage caters for all your continuity needs.
OFF THE TELLY - your online telly fanzine, packed with articles, essays and reviews about TV past and present.
ONE TOUCH FOOTBALL - intelligent, amusing, informative, emotional, facile, educated, hilarious, trivial and surreal football and non-football chat, it says here. But can they tell you who wrote the BBC theme for the 1978 World Cup?
SAMMY'S SUPER T-SHIRT - a dinky little site dedicated to arguably the best remembered Children's Film Foundation feature. "Oh what has happened to our Sammy?"
SATKIDS - getting more comprehensive by the day, this site catalogues all those Saturday morning "chaosfests" - the good (Tiswas), the bad (It's Wicked) and the ugly (The Mersey Pirate)...also is happy to feature the more recent examples, like SMTV or Parallel 9.
TINA DINGLE'S WORLD OF JINGLES - another copyright-busting collection of downloadable resources, making a stab at collating every upbeat radio jingle from the Good Old Days. And it really is hosted by that bird who used to be in Emmerdale.
TOTALLY TOTPTASTIC! - Overdue for ages, quite simply a precise and comprehensive "rundown" of the real facts you want to know about Top Of The Pops - the sets, captions and logos etc, with plenty of juicy images to get misty-eyed over. Sample quote: "On 23rd February only, the bars on the caption were coloured blue for male artists and pink for female artists. How sexist!"
TRIANGULAR SHELF - admirably comprehensive guide to those old Blue Peter books (never annuals, remember). Seems to be run by Sarah Greene obsessives, but we won't hold that against them. Hello There!
TV AND RADIO BITS - eclectic stuff including old schedules, BBC1 idents, some classic grabs of Pip's last day in the Broom Cupboard, and just for Rob Curling fans, the history of Newsroom South East.
TV ARK - mammoth collection of evocative telly titles of old to download. Now with added EBC1!
TV COMEDY INDEX - is very good at indexing TV comedy.
TV EYE - takes the lid off classic Aussie telly of old, such as Spyforce and Bluey.
TV WORLD - yet more memorable titles, graphics and assorted other downloads for your delectation.
UK GAME SHOWS - is the game show fan's friend. Super, smashing, great.
VINTAGE BROADCASTING - lo-tech and all the better for it, this site rounds up all that evocatively techie stuff like Trade Test Films, the start of local radio, and the 1978 BBC radio frequency changes - including the King's Singers in downloadable form!
WATCHED IT! - the original UK kids TV nostalgia site, first opened by Paul Walker and now in the capable hands of Greg Taylor and Jamie Wilson, is a fascinating melange of links and special features on shows such as Pipkins and Runaround - even a picture of those Blockaboots! A must-visit, no question.
This list catalogues ephemera-based sites that have caught our attention. If you know of a decent Cream-friendly nostalgia site out there, please let us know, so we can add it to the directory. If you can't find one, why not start one, and steal the march on the mighty Cream empire before we do the same? Vintage clothing, films, food, anything...
A BRILLIANTLY ORIGINAL idea, effortlessly executed. Langley and pals pull in all those slang/regional terms from 70s playgrounds and catalogue them in a delightful and comprehensive reference page. Much is incredibly tasteless, but as the compilers rightly point out, that's kids for you... Chris Lewis and others are now the curators of this vitally important site.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."YOU GET SPAZ..."
NOW part of the Cream empire (ha ha ha!) Many great men of history were noted for their masochism. Napoleon used to flagellate himself prior to battle, while Winston Churchill famously kept a large black dog in his trousers to remind him what the war really meant. Nick Dimmock, arguably greater in stature than either of them, chose a far more petrifying form of self-abuse - ruthlessly cataloguing the ups and downs of that neglected art form - the music of 80s movies. It's all here (or on the way, he promises) - The Breakfast Club gang rocking to Simple Minds, Phil Oakey and Giorgio Moroder plinking spangly nothings in Electric Dreams, and of course, the might and majesty of Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (Mannequin, in case you'd forgotten). In the words of John F Kennedy, someone had to do it. Thank God it wasn't me.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."LET 'EM SEE WE'RE CRAY-ZEH!"
AN EXQUISITELY-DESIGNED collaboration, this site comes on like a self-aware cross 'twixt Roland Barthes and Jamie Hewlett. Kitsch mixes with experimentation in the various sections of the vast Park, which we can't do justice to in this meagre space, but special Cream attention should be paid to the Space Station (and the Radiophonic Workshop material therein), and the Fitness Park, where Cream Goddess Felicity K works out before your very ears.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."...AAAAND BACK TO THE SHOULDERS."
A UNIQUE ARCHIVE of those plastic spring-loaded games with the ball bearings that drained many a child's pocket money before the days of Tamagotchis, Pokemon and brown heroin. And they really do have 'em all, from the reliable Fruit Machine to the obscure Cracked Crab.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."OUTER RING - 10 POINTS."
QUITE SIMPLY the definitive collection of UK government propaganda concerning The Big One, from those Patrick Allen-voiced fallout survival films to the pant-wetting pamphlets posted through your door. Bring back the bomb!
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."IF YOU ARE OUT OF DOORS, LIE ON THE GROUND AND COVER
YOURSELF WITH LEAVES OR GRASS..."
BRUNO BROOKES MEDIA ENTERPRISES - we don't know why he keeps turning up.
THE COMPUTING MUSEUM - remember the days of rubber-keyed Spectrums, the Commodore 64 and... the Jupiter Ace?
ME, MARK PAGE - Cream-era R1 "jock" included here for reasons we can't quite remember. B'bye now!
ROY OF THE ROVERS - blond-mulleted hot soccer action archived here. Viva Melchester.
SENIORITY INTERNET COMMUNITY - unfortunately just a link-in-return, although this site for over-50s does have an element of the Cream Way with its visitor-composed media reviews. And it's nice to think that these people consider it worthwhile to refer over-50s to us. Would love to hear those pre-war TV memories! "That bird in the frock! With the massive microphone! What was she all about?"
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