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Top Of The Pops 1982 - BBC4
Rich Tea.
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Welcome to 1982. 
When the information about the broadcast dates of TOTP 1982 and possible Story Of 1982 documentary become available then it will be useful to place them on this new thread in anticipation of the year to come, as 1981 looks like wrapping up within the next month, although as yet there appears to be no confirmation of whether 1982 will be a seamless continuation onwards from 1981 or a possible summer or Proms break.
Whoever finds out the upcoming broadcast details first please post it here.
When the information about the broadcast dates of TOTP 1982 and possible Story Of 1982 documentary become available then it will be useful to place them on this new thread in anticipation of the year to come, as 1981 looks like wrapping up within the next month, although as yet there appears to be no confirmation of whether 1982 will be a seamless continuation onwards from 1981 or a possible summer or Proms break.
Whoever finds out the upcoming broadcast details first please post it here.
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I've had a little chinwag with my beeb source and while '82 is definitely on the way there remains just a provisional decision on the beginning air date so she tells me, which is for and I quote 'this summer'.
I'll drop a further line if I have any new details before any of the rest of the Top Of The Pops viewing clan here.
This week, they just showed the (dreadful) Birdie Song being performed by Legs and Co, which I believe was their last ever "credited" performance on TOTP...what a dud way to go out. Legs and Co did perform a few weeks later, but only mingling with the audience, as they had done for much of 1981.
- The cold winter of 1981 as it went into the New Year
- Falklands War
- Eurovision Song Contest as it was the year our country hosted it
- Culture Club's debut TOTP performance as it was a talking point in the School Playground the day after
- Singer of Shalamar doing his amazing dance move to Night To Remember
- Fame which was the TV Series which everyone on Britain was addicted to watching
- Launch of Channel 4 and their Music TV show The Tube which was Top of the Pops arch nemesis.
- The Jam performing Precious and Town Called Malice on the same episode
- Dexy's Midnight Runners performance of Jacky Wilson Says with the photo of Jocky Wilson on the TV Screen
- ABBA and The Jam disbanding
- Christmas number one which was Save Me Your Love which was the worst Xmas number one of all time.
- Build up to the end of the year and preview of 1983 during the closing credits
That's a lot to fit in for a one hour show about the year a good Music show.
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A very good list Alex, you'd almost think you were actually there yourself at the time and are not just 18! ;-)
I was reading Mike Read's twitter last night and noticed your comment to him during Thursday's TOTP by the way.
Digiguide listings have the final two shows from 1981 on the 16th and 17th of June. Also on the 17th from 10PM, The Story of 1982 and Big Hits 1982
I have this on series link and binge watch. Thought I was missing episodes. Especially Human League "Love Action"
When are the other episodes aired? I record the late broadcast on Thurs
17 episodes (I think) from 1981 are not being shown because they were hosted by Jimmy Savile or DLT.
Unfortunately, the Human League's first six appearances of the year were all on shows hosted by one of those two, so we didn't see "Sound Of The Crowd" or "Love Action" and won't see "Open Your Heart".
Sometimes it really does not seem that long ago and then at other times it feels like an eternity, another lifetime.
I think that is going to be the 31/12/81 edition then the Story Of 1982. We've yet to see if the 1982 editions will follow the next week or if there is going to be a break before they start.
Only 12 with Yewtree connections
1 January 7, 1982 - Peter Powell 1
3 January 21, 1982 - David Jensen 2
4 January 28, 1982 - Simon Bates 3
5 February 4, 1982 - John Peel 4
6 February 11, 1982 - Tommy Vance 5
7 February 18, 1982 - Mike Read 6
9 March 4, 1982 - David Jensen 7
10 March 11, 1982 - Simon Bates 8
11 March 18, 1982 - Steve Wright & Richard Skinner 9
12 March 25, 1982 - Peter Powell & Garth Crooks 10
13 April 1, 1982 - John Peel 11
14 April 8, 1982 - Simon Bates 12
15 April 15, 1982 - David Jensen 13
16 April 22, 1982 - Peter Powell 14
17 April 29, 1982 - Richard Skinner 15
18 May 6, 1982 - Simon Bates 16
20 May 20, 1982 - Peter Powell 17
21 May 27, 1982 - John Peel 18
22 June 3, 1982 - David Jensen 19
24 June 17, 1982 - Simon Bates 20
26 July 1, 1982 - John Peel 21
27 July 7, 1982 - Tony Blackburn 22
28 July 8, 1982 - David Jensen 23
29 July 15, 1982 - Peter Powell 24
30 July 22, 1982 - Simon Bates 25
31 July 29, 1982 - Mike Read 26
32 August 5, 1982 - David Jensen 27
33 August 12, 1982 - John Peel 28
34 August 19, 1982 - David Jensen 29
37 September 16, 1982 - Simon Bates 30
38 September 23, 1982 - John Peel 31
41 October 14, 1982 - John Peel 32
42 October 21, 1982 - Peter Powell 33
43 October 28, 1982 - Simon Bates 34
44 November 4, 1982 - Mike Smith(1st Totp) 35
45 November 11, 1982 - David Jensen 36
46 November 18, 1982 - John Peel 37
48 December 2, 1982 - Peter Powell 38
49 December 9, 1982 - Simon Bates 39
51 December 23, 1982 - David Jensen 40
53 December 30, 1982 - Gary Davies & Pat Sharp (1st Totp) 41
Any reason ???
According to Popscene there are only episodes from 1st July (Peel) and 8th July (Jensen), and the only appearance by Tony Blackburn is as one of the Radio 1 DJs on 30th Sept.