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WELCOME to TV CREAM, the best place on the Net to discover the long-dead programmes you thought you'd seen the back of forever - from bizarre educational endeavours and half-remembered animated obscurities to those cult franchises of yesteryear. They're all listed from A-Z in the menu on the left. It's also a repository of all aspects of forgotten popular culture - adverts, films, magazines, radio, soft drinks and decrepit foodstuffs.

If there's a programme we've omitted, or if we've got it horribly wrong - let us know. The site is regularly updated, so feel free to chip in with memories, ideas and trivia. The only rule - be evocative! Don't just regurgitate facts, dates and figures - it's the essence of the shows we're after. Tell us why the list is incomplete without your chosen show, make your case, and make it well!

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OUR FEATURE PRESENTATIONS

Just about every film from the '60s and '70sJenkins to Davies, Bullet to Bridget - a sizeable register of schoolfolkThe presenters and THOSE badgesA galaxy of pre-school superstarsThe best programme in the world.Moments and whatnots from past pops programmes

From Zokko to On The Waterfront Animated symbols from Anglia to YorkshireCorporate spinny things through the yearsProgrammes and countdowns for the classroomDaytime gameshows/nighttime crapshowsThe big screen comes to the small

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

New Thrill!
SATURDAY SATURDAY
- A celebration of over a quarter of a century of swaps, shops, phone-ins and flans, from Keith 'n' Maggie to Ant 'n' Dec.

TV CREAM HEROES - At last, because you demanded it, a mini-site attached to TV CREAM, detailing  ten arbitrary personalities we think best sum up that which is "CREAM"! 

VIDEODROME - fast forward through Simon Bates and enter the TV Cream Video Rental Shop.

BLUE PETER SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT - ex-porno, ex-Seaview, some of them extinct and all extra-mumsy, this is the complete rundown of BP presenters from Trace to Baker. 

THE 1990s TIME CAPSULE - shameful/laudable stuff from the latest "decade that taste forgot" © Guardian Newspapers 2000.

TV CREAM FAQ - how the thing operates.

TRIBUTE AND TRASH - pop-cultural punditry YOU control! The premise - take one ace thing. And one shite thing. Then off you go...

THE CUTTING ROOM - a treasury of programmes that failed to catch on.

THE RULES OF DRAMA - armchair predictions that will come to pass.

 

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