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Over the years Cilla has appeared on countless TV shows as well as starring in many of her own. Her first major break on the small-screen was in 1968 when the BBC launched her variety-entertainment show Cilla. The rest of course as they say is history!

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TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS...
 
1964 AROUND THE BEATLES
(Legendary TV Special featured Cilla performing You're My World, Saved and Heatwave)

 

ITV
1965 FERRY CROSS THE MERSEY
(Gerry & The Pacemakers Feature Length Movie. Cilla gave a cameo performance of Is It Love)

 

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1965 THE MUSIC OF LENNON & MCCARTNEY
(TV Special featured Cilla performing It's For You)

 

ITV
1966 CILLA AT THE SAVOY
(Music TV Special with conduction by Sir George Martin)

 

ITV
1968 CILLA: Season 1
(Broadcast: 30 Jan - 12 Mar 1968)
Theme Song: Step Inside Love

 

BBC
1968 WORK IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD
(Zany Feature Length Movie starring Cilla & David Warner)
Theme Song: Work Is A Four-Letter Word

 

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1968/69 CILLA: Season 2
(Broadcast: 24 Dec 1968 - 19 Feb 1969)
Theme Song: Step Inside Love

 

BBC
1969 CILLA: Season 3
(Broadcast: 18 Nov - 24 Dec 1969)
Theme Song: Step Inside Love

 

BBC
1971 CILLA: Season 4
(Broadcast: 23 Jan  - 6 Mar 1971)
Theme Song: Step Inside Love

 

BBC
1971 CILLA: Season 5
(Broadcast: 6 Nov - 18 Dec 1971)
Theme Song: Something Tells Me

 

BBC
1972 THE BURT BACHARACH SHOW
(TV Special featured Cilla performing This [Boy] Girl's In Love With You with Burt Bacharach and Alfie)

 

ITV
1972/73 CILLA: Season 6
(Broadcast: 30 Dec 1972 - 3 Mar 1973)
Theme Song: Something Tells Me

 

BBC
1974 CILLA: Season 7
(Broadcast: 5 Jan - 2 Mar 1974)
Theme Song: Baby We Can't Go Wrong

 

BBC
1975 CILLA'S COMEDY SIX
(6-Part Comedy Series)

 

ITV
1976 CILLA: Season 8
(Broadcast: 14 Feb  - 17 Apr 1976)
Theme Song: It's Now

 

BBC
1976 CILLA'S WORLD OF COMEDY
(6-Part Comedy Series)
Theme Song: Easy In Your Company

 

ITV
1977 THE BASIL BRUSH SHOW
(Cilla performs Me & the Elephant and comedy song Bus to the tune of various hit singles)

 

BBC
1978 CILLA BLACK
(Musical TV Special for Thames TV)

 

ITV
1984-2002 SURPRISE, SURPRISE
(In its early days this show consisted of a mixture of variety entertainment with a heartfelt blend of audience surprises and participation. It later appeared only for one-off specials focusing predominantly on reuniting long-lost loved ones. Cilla filmed a 20th Anniversary Special in Dec 2002 which never aired.)
Theme Song: Surprise, Surprise

 

ITV
1985-2003 BLIND DATE
(Based on existing Dating Game shows A Perfect Match (Australia) and The Dating Game (North America) it won in 1997 a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA))

 

ITV
1993 CILLA'S CELEBRATION
(Star studded TV Special celebrating Cilla's 30th showbiz anniversary)

 

ITV
1998-2001 CILLA'S MOMENT OF TRUTH
(Game Show in which competing families attempted to master a specified task with a week's preparation.)

 

ITV
2002 SING WITH A STAR
(Talent show that transformed the lives of several musical-wannabies by giving them the chance to sing their favourite song by their favourite star. What they didn't know was their favourite star was waiting in the wings to join them!)

 

ITV
2004 CILLA LIVE
(2-Hour Christmas TV Special)

 

LIVINGtv
2005 GLORIA'S GREATS
(Gloria Hunniford interviews Cilla Black about her life & career in this TV special)

 

The Biography Channel
2006 ROOM 101
(Room 101 was the room in which George Orwell's 1984 contained "the worst things in the world". Cilla was a guest in the last series of the TV-adapted show hosted by comedian Paul Merton which finds stars banish their pet hates to the depths of Room 101. )

 

BBC
2007 THE FRIDAY NIGHT PROJECT
(Cilla guest hosts the final episode of series 5 of the award-winning TV show. She joins regular comic-star hosts Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr in the usual blend of wacky comedy sketches, Alan's topical comedy news desk Friday Night News and a no-questions-barred session from the studio audience)
Channel 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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