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Top Of The Pops 1980 - BBC4
Rich Tea.
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A brand new thread for a brand new decade, the 1980's have finally arrived on Top Of The Pops! :cool:
Friday 2nd January 2015 at 9pm on BBC4 kicks off the new year with "Top Of The Pops - The Story Of 1980", to be followed immediately at 10pm by "Top Of The Pops 1980 - Big Hits".
Both shows have a repeat 4 hours later in the early hours of the same evening between 1am and 3am.
Unconfirmed yet, but the first weekly TOTP of the 1980's should be on BBC4 at 7.30pm on Thursday 8th January 2015, with the edition presented by Peter Powell from Thursday 3rd January 1980.
Enjoy!
Friday 2nd January 2015 at 9pm on BBC4 kicks off the new year with "Top Of The Pops - The Story Of 1980", to be followed immediately at 10pm by "Top Of The Pops 1980 - Big Hits".
Both shows have a repeat 4 hours later in the early hours of the same evening between 1am and 3am.
Unconfirmed yet, but the first weekly TOTP of the 1980's should be on BBC4 at 7.30pm on Thursday 8th January 2015, with the edition presented by Peter Powell from Thursday 3rd January 1980.
Enjoy!
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Another note for Sky+ users. You may have to re-set your series link. I had to do that last year when it changed from 1978 to 1979. Unless one of the updates during the year have made this unnecessary of course. I am sure far wiser posters than I will know the answer
You're welcome JC. ;-)
So how come I never see you input into the current 1979 thread for the show? I may be wrong but I cannot recall seeing your name crop up in the discussions.
I don't have Sky so re-setting will not bother me. Just humble Freeview is good enough for my modest tastes!
Oh, I often poke my head around the corner, and have posted a few times as well (may have been on the '78 thread) . I enjoy reading the posts - whatever I want to say has generally already been said. I also watch about 3 or 4 eps back to back, so am always behind too. I am not as knowledgeable as the regulars, so I like to sit back and learn from a distance. :cool:
Loads of Strikes by the Unions and cancelled shows
I was pleasantly surprised that they're going to show 1980 as well. :cool:
Will there be many shows taken out of the run because of Yewtree?
Great times and it's great that I'll see a lot of the 80s TOTPs again. Now if only they will also show Rock Goes to College, The Oxford Road Show.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/trivia/presenters/list3.shtml
34 that they could show ??
January 3, 1980 - Peter Powell
January 10, 1980 - David Jensen
January 17, 1980 - Simon Bates
January 24, 1980 - Mike Read
January 31, 1980 - David Jensen
February 7, 1980 - Steve Wright (1st Totp)
February 15, 1980 - Simon Bates
February 22, 1980 - Peter Powell
February 28, 1980 - David Jensen
March 13, 1980 - Steve Wright
March 20, 1980 - Mike Read
March 27, 1980 - Peter Powell
April 3, 1980 - David Jensen
April 10, 1980 - Simon Bates
April 24, 1980 - Steve Wright
May 1, 1980 - Tommy Vance
May 8, 1980 - Peter Powell
May 22, 1980 - Mike Read
May 29, 1980 - David Jensen
August 7, 1980 - Peter Powell & Elton John
August 14, 1980 - Roger Daltrey
August 14, 1980 - Tommy Vance
August 21, 1980 - Steve Wright & Cliff Richard
August 28, 1980 - Peter Powell & B.A.Robertson
September 18, 1980 - Simon Bates
September 25, 1980 - Russ Abbot & Mike Read
October 9, 1980 - Peter Powell
October 16, 1980 - Tommy Vance
October 30, 1980 - Peter Powell & Colin Berry
November 13, 1980 - Simon Bates
November 27, 1980 - Tommy Vance
December 4, 1980 - Peter Powell
December 11, 1980 - Richard Skinner
December 18, 1980 - Simon Bates
The BBC showed alot of Proms on FOUR in the Summer so they could use that as a reason for the gap ???
Seemed to be a nice payday for Jensen, Read, Powell and the Yewtree Two.
Most of the inkies had an independent chart at this time, but Record Mirror was unique because it was the only paper (other than Music Week) to have the official BBC charts as used by TOTP and the Sunday top 40 show, though it also had the most authoritative dance charts too...
And yes, would be great to see The Oxford Road Show again, OGWT too, and Riverside, which in my memory was none-more-80s...
There's also still the remote possibility that Cliff could be facing charges which could cause severe havoc to the shows in a year when he had a lot of chart success. Let's hope of course it doesn't come to this.
I'm also doing it to annoy Jedikiah as he seems to have it in for '81.:D
I can only second that lol ;-)
I wonder what the fee was a show in 1980 wages?
All TOTP presenters were paid £150 per show towards the late 80's. 85-89. Not a lot, and as Mike Read once claimed " it was enough to buy a new shirt"
So they never got wardrobe expenses either.
How do you know this? Just curious.
A shirt for £150?!? Looking at some of their outfits, I think someone was being cheated.