Steve Berry - TV Cream Toys Lite

PRESENTS YOU PESTERED YOUR PARENTS FOR

TV CREAM

TOYS

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First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Friday Books

Text © 2007 Steve Berry

Line illustrations and colour illustrations © 2007 Phil Arnold (www.formerairline.com) All photos © 2007 Steve Berry, except: Mattel Slime by Jodie Nesbitt; Adventure 2000, Denys Fisher Dr Who by Paul Vought (www.vortx-productions.co.uk); Johnny Seven by Mike Evangelist (www.writersblocklive.com); Rubik’s Cube by Lars Karlsson; Swingball by Andrew Finch; LEGO and the LEGO logo are trademarks of the LEGO Group, here used with special permission © 2006 The EGO Group (page 93 Magna Doodle ® is a registered trademark owned by the Pilot Pen Corporation of America (page 99); ETCH A SKETCH and associated trademarks are owned by Bluebird Toys (UK) Limited and used under licence from Matte Europa B.V., an affiliate of Bluebird Toys (UK) Limited and Mattel, Inc. © 2006 Mattel, Inc. All Rights Reserved (cover image); © 2005 Rubik’s and Rubik’s Cube used by kind permission of Seven Towns Ltd UK (cover image).

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Ebook Edition © MAY 2009 ISBN: 9780007328512

Version 2016-08-11

For Joanna, who would like her spare room back

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Just what is TV Cream anyway?

Introduction

Part 1 - The Toys

Chapter 1 - ‘A La Cart Kitchen’

Chapter 2 - Action Man

Chapter 3 - Airfix Kits

Chapter 4 - Armatron

Chapter 5 - Backgammon

Chapter 6 - Barbie

Chapter 7 - Battling Tops

Chapter 8 - Bermuda Triangle

Chapter 9 - Big Trak

Chapter 10 - Big Yellow Teapot

Chapter 11 - Binatone TV Master

Chapter 12 - Black Box

Chapter 13 - Boglins

Chapter 14 - Buckaroo!

Chapter 15 - Cadbury’s Chocolate Machine

Chapter 16 - Cascade

Chapter 17 - Chemistry Set

Chapter 18 - Chic-a-boo

Chapter 19 - Chopper

Chapter 20 - Chutes Away

Chapter 21 - Cluedo

Chapter 22 - Commodore 64

Chapter 23 - Computer Battleship

Chapter 24 - Connect Four

Chapter 25 - Corgi 007 Lotus Esprit

Chapter 26 - Crossfire

Chapter 27 - Cyborgs

Chapter 28 - Domino Rally

Chapter 29 - Downfall

Chapter 30 - Dr Who TARDIS

Chapter 31 - Dungeons & Dragons

Chapter 32 - Electronic Detective

Chapter 33 - Electronic Project

Chapter 34 - Escalado

Chapter 35 - Escape from Colditz

Chapter 36 - Etch-A-Sketch

Chapter 37 - Evel Knievel

Chapter 38 - Finger Frights

Chapter 39 - Fisher-Price Activity Centre

Chapter 40 - Flight Deck

Chapter 41 - Fuzzy Felt

Chapter 42 - Galaxy Invader 1000

Chapter 43 - Game and Watch

Chapter 44 - Girl’s World

Chapter 45 - Guess Who?

Chapter 46 - Hangman

Chapter 47 - Haunted House

Chapter 48 - He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

Chapter 49 - Hornby Railway Set

Chapter 50 - Hungry Hippos

Chapter 51 - Johnny Seven

Chapter 52 - Junk Yard

Chapter 53 - KerPlunk

Chapter 54 - LEGO

Chapter 55 - Little Professor

Chapter 56 - Lone Star Spudmatic Gun

Chapter 57 - Magic Robot

Chapter 58 - Magic Rocks

Chapter 59 - Magna Doodle

Chapter 60 - Magnetic Wheel

Chapter 61 - Mastermind

Chapter 62 - Matsushiro Knight Rider Radio-Controlled Car

Chapter 63 - Meccano

Chapter 64 - Mercury Maze

Chapter 65 - Merlin

Chapter 66 - Monopoly

Chapter 67 - Mousetrap

Chapter 68 - Mr Frosty

Chapter 69 - My Little Pony

Chapter 70 - Newton’s Cradle

Chapter 71 - Operation

Chapter 72 - Othello

Chapter 73 - Palitoy Cue Ball

Chapter 74 - Paul Daniels TV Magic Tricks

Chapter 75 - Perfection

Chapter 76 - Peter Powell Stunter Kite

Chapter 77 - Petite Super International Typewriter

Chapter 78 - Play Doh Monster Shop

Chapter 79 - Pocketeers

Chapter 80 - Racing Bike

Chapter 81 - Rainbow Brite

Chapter 82 - Raving Bonkers Fighting Robots

Chapter 83 - Remus Play-Kits

Chapter 84 - Ricochet Racers

Chapter 85 - ROM the Space Knight

Chapter 86 - Rubik’s Cube

Chapter 87 - Scalextric

Chapter 88 - Scrabble

Chapter 89 - Screwball Scramble

Chapter 90 - Sea-Monkeys

Chapter 91 - Shaker Maker

Chapter 92 - Shrinky Dinks

Chapter 93 - Silly Putty

Chapter 94 - Simon

Chapter 95 - Sindy

Chapter 96 - Six Million Dollar Man

Chapter 97 - Slime

Chapter 98 - Slinky

Chapter 99 - Smoking Monkey

Chapter 100 - Sonic Ear

Chapter 101 - Sorry!

Chapter 102 - Spacehopper

Chapter 103 - Speak & Spell

Chapter 104 - Spirograph

Chapter 105 - Squirmles

Chapter 106 - Star Bird

Chapter 107 - Star Wars

Chapter 108 - Stay Alive!

Chapter 109 - Sticklebricks

Chapter 110 - Stop Boris

Chapter 111 - Strawberry Shortcake

Chapter 112 - Stretch Armstrong

Chapter 113 - Stylophone

Chapter 114 - Subbuteo

Chapter 115 - Swingball

Chapter 116 - Tank Command

Chapter 117 - Tasco Telescope

Chapter 118 - TCR

Chapter 119 - Terrahawks Action Zeroid

Chapter 120 - Test Match

Chapter 121 - Tin Can Alley

Chapter 122 - Tiny Tears

Chapter 123 - Tip-It

Chapter 124 - Tomytronic 3D

Chapter 125 - Tonka Trucks

Chapter 126 - Top Trumps

Chapter 127 - Transformers

Chapter 128 - Trivial Pursuit

Chapter 129 - Twister

Chapter 130 - Up Periscope

Chapter 131 - Vertibird

Chapter 132 - View-Master

Chapter 133 - Walkie-Talkies

Chapter 134 - War of the Daleks

Chapter 135 - Weebles

Chapter 136 - Whimsies J

Chapter 137 - Yahtzee

Chapter 138 - Zoids

Chapter 139 - ZX Spectrum

Acknowledgements and thanks

How to use this book

About the Author

Praise

About the Publisher

In short, it’s a website. You want it shorter? Try www.tv.cream.orgthen. Flung online in 1997 as a memorial to great TV, it has since snowballed into an online repository of all things retro from the past four decades–mucho ephemera, therefore, from comics to crisps, adverts to annuals, films to fashion. Oh, and toys, naturally.

Updated woefully infrequently considering the sheer number of people who work on it, the website does at least play host to a couple of regular ‘e-zines’ and occasional definitive lists of key pop culture touchstones (top TV themes, popular presenters, media movers and shakers).