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Topic History of: Top Of The Pops BBC4 Re-runs
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dixie	JK2006 wrote: Yes - and that way manage to avoid ever featuring Gary Glitter or JK tracks! Another good reason!!! Only joking. It's a shame that we are deprived of hearing JK and GG tracks on TV or radio, regardless of what the performer has subsequently done, (or not), it doesn't mean what was judged as good music should suddenly be re-classified as not suitable to listen to or see.
JK2006	Yes - and that way manage to avoid ever featuring Gary Glitter or JK tracks!
dixie	Metal Mickey wrote: I love(d) TOTP, but watching them 35 years later in sequence week-to-week is like watching old news reports - interesting enough in a way, but not actually worth the time sifting through the rubbish (though fine in isolation) to get to the real nuggets. If they insist on showing them in sequence, at least show them nightly to make things move along quicker, or go for a "This week in 19xx" format, changing the year every week to give it some variety - this approach seems designed to bore all but obsessive viewers into not bothering... I'm glad most people seem to be sharing my experience. MM seems to have the best solution, by switching the year around each week, so it's, say, 1976 one week, and 1979 the next and so on. I'm not sure of the formula, but isn't that what they do with Tony Blackburn's "Pick of the Pops" Saturday radio 2 show?
Metal Mickey	I love(d) TOTP, but watching them 35 years later in sequence week-to-week is like watching old news reports - interesting enough in a way, but not actually worth the time sifting through the rubbish (though fine in isolation) to get to the real nuggets. If they insist on showing them in sequence, at least show them nightly to make things move along quicker, or go for a "This week in 19xx" format, changing the year every week to give it some variety - this approach seems designed to bore all but obsessive viewers into not bothering...
giles2008	Probably deliberately started in 1976 to conveniently avoid Gary Glitter.Start in 1976 when he was in decline and avoid tabloid hysteria.