Feared in every girls' school in the country, Sir Jim'll had an interesting pre-telly career, working as a miner and a professional wrestler ("What was your nickname?" "Loser!") before running nightclubs, where he claims to have invented the concept of twin turntables, something which seems as spurious as Tony Blackburn claiming to have invented the timecheck (it's reading out the time, Tone!). From this, the natural next step was working on the wireless, and he presented the fantastically-named TEEN AND TWENTY DISC CLUB on Radio Luxembourg. From here, he became a familiar face on television, and he got a regular gig when he was plucked to be the first presenter of TOP OF THE POPS on New Year's Day 1964. This began an association with the show that lasted twenty years - his final full-time outing was on the special show in August 1984 when he rode the Top of the Pops Train from Paddington to Bristol, though he kept on returning for various anniversary specials. The biggest complaint of his stint was that when he read out the chart, he never mentioned the names of the singles. In 1968 he joined Radio One for another twenty year stint, where his most familiar show was the OLD RECORD CLUB, the accompaniment of choice to peeling the sprouts on Sunday lunchtimes.

Savile's other telly gigs included the late 60s game show QUIZ BINGO ("Aberdeen are helped out by cheeky Chris - how about that! While Glasgow Royal Infirmary are helped by Heather - hnurgh!") and then a few years later, the Saturday teatime miscellaney CLUNK CLICK. Some of the items on this show were fix-its, and they were considered successful enough to make a series out of it. Famously, when Jim told Bill Cotton his idea for the name, Bill said "Jimmy Will Fix It?", which would have been a much better name. The show ran between 1974 and 1994, every single episode being produced by Roger Ordish. Obviously every episode was exactly the same, right up to Jim announcing at the start "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to some more super Jim'll Fix Its", which never made any sort of grammatical sense. Of course, this was also the period where he helmed a Liberal Party Politicial Broadcast, apparently to ensure that everyone got a fair say.

Jim'll packed it in in 1994, claiming that he thought the time was right even though "the ratings are rock-solid", which was balls, as the show had already been relegated to Sunday afternoons. Since then Jim'll's been in semi-retirement, doing shitloads of charity work ("Bear in mind I've given you a lot of machines!") and falling off his mountains, and was the subject of that Louis Theroux show, at which half of the TV Cream office are still picking their jaws off the floor. We've never much cared for him, but we'd like to point out that the HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU transcript you'll have seen in your inbox is a mock-up and never actually happened. So stop writing to us about it.

"Hello." That was the catchphrase of the likeable actor-turned-presenter who's been a fixture of our screens for some thirty years now. He first made inroads into the nation's consciousness as one of Esther's nancies on THAT'S LIFE, where he was paired with Paul Heiney, and the two of them were then employed as presenters of IN AT THE DEEP END, when each week one of them would have to master a new skill within a matter of weeks. Among Chris' tasks in the series were to become a snooker player, partnering Steve Davis, and a Daily Mirror photographer, though most people simply remember the episode where Chris had to direct the video for Trick Of The Night by Bananarama.

Chris' other main gig was the Sunday luncthime retrofest WINDMILL, which TV Cream used to like, especially the fantastic Two Tribes rip-off theme tune which was quite the most exciting piece of music ever recorded. Of course, all this was slightly undermined when it finished and Chris went "Hello" in as mild-mannered a way as possible. Still, few were better at linking interviews with Moira Stuart and clips of Joyce Grenfell. His other TV work has included roving reporter work on shows like PEOPLE, SIXTY MINUTES, and, best of all, LWT's FRIDAY NOW, where he helmed the crusading consumer advice spot Chris Serle's Checkout (Checkout! Checkout!), most notable for the moment he contrived to get stuck in tube station barriers ("Ticket in the slot, pushchair goes through, shopping goes through, and I'm stuck. I didn't make that happen, it actually happened"). Now he's on Radio Bristol, but he didn't return TV Cream's calls when we tried to interview him, so we think John Pitman is a better whimsical presenter.

Pete started off as a trainee at ITN in 1964, before working his way up to the job as reporter and foreign correspondent. However after being shot in Biafra, he decided his future lay behind the desk, and so he became a newsreader. His usual gig on ITV was the NEWS AT ONE, which he presented for many years, and he was also a fixture on election night. In 1982, he was chosen as the launch presenter for THE CHANNEL FOUR NEWS which, after a shaky start, became one of the most influential and important shows of its kind. Pete was excited by the 'all-electronic' newsroom that ITN set up for the show, saying that there was now no danger of "your story blowing out of the window" - exactly how many times that used to happen, we can only guess at.

In 1989 he was poached by the Beeb, and for a time became a tabloid fave because of his reported high salary. He was given the job as anchor on THE SIX O'CLOCK NEWS, which seems odd now because he's certainly not the housewives' choice. Indeed, he was often paired with Anna Ford, surely the frostiest news double act ever? He also took over from Sir Robin on QUESTION TIME, fronting the show for four years. In 1994 he moved over to THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS, swapping places with Martyn Lewis and hence being photographed with them holding up big '6' and '9' figures. This was a bit more suitable for the solid Pete, and he stayed there until earlier this year. His most notorious moment was, of course, the annoucement of the death of the Queen Mother, where he simply went to pieces. After announcing that "The Queen Mother has died. In a statement, Buckingham Palace have announced the Queen Mother has died", he then stumbled his way through a series of reports and interviews, all the while wearing a red tie. He announced his retirement earlier this year, though we're disappointed that in his last bulletin he didn't throw his script up in the air or anything. Instead he quietly left and now regularly presents on News 24.

Smitty, as he was always irritatingly known, started off his career as a DJ on local stations. This included a stint on Capital where, covering the first London Marathon, he met one Sarah Greene, there to cheer on Peter Duncan, and this, of course, led to their eventual marriage and we've disliked him ever since. Before that, he'd joined Radio 1, originally in the 6am slot ("The Early Show is... a smiling milkman") and then lunchtimes, before the TV work started in earnest. First of all it was TOP OF THE POPS, of course, then a stint as pop correspondent on BREAKFAST TIME saw him progress up the ranks and fill in for Frank on the leather sofa some days. Then in 1983 he was approached by Michael Hurll, trying to salvage something from the awful first series of the LATE LATE BREAKFAST SHOW, and asked to help out on the OBs. He seemed to work well with Noel, and such was his success that he gave up the radio in 1984 - though he still presented Pops on regular occasions.

He returned in 1986 to get the breakfast gig, which was memorable perhaps only for the Friday listeners' vote slot the Chartbeater, which then continued throughout many more breakfast shows. For a while, he was Mr Beeb, linking stuff like the Montreux Rock Festival and showing off his love of motorsport on the Sunday afternoon favourite DRIVING FORCE. The first big problem came in 1986 when the Late Late Breakfast Show was dropped after the Michael Lush incident - Smitty fell out with Noel over the way it was handled and suffered from contractual difficulties with the Beeb. Then in 1988 he left Radio 1 for the second time to continue his telly work - at about the same time it was starting to dry up a little. The copter crash that autumn at least garnered him some sympathy.

In 1989 he became chairman of THAT'S SHOWBUSINESS, which for the first few series at least had the bonus of Kenny Everett as a team captain and it made for amiable viewing. However later series, as well as running forever, lost Ev and saw Mike trying his hardest to cultivate a Deayton-esque persona. At least there was GHOSTWATCH, where he appeared with his now-wife Sarah, and his sterling thespianism helped to spook a generation of adolescents. In 1993 he applied to be controller of BBC1, and got turned down, and since then he seems to have disappeared from view somewhat. He did write a piece in Autocar magazine about why he should be ITV's Formula One presenter, though.