Top Of The Pops 1979 BBC4 (Part 2)
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LaVieEnRose wrote: »This is true! Something else I recall is that some things benefited more from being in colour, such as nature programmes - oh, and snooker of course!while others were rather a shock to the system. I remember people saying how awful Coronation Street looked in colour and that they preferred it in b/w.
Fondly remember my granddad being puzzled about colour TV. At first only a few programmes were in colour, and it would be proudly announced beforehand: "The following programme is in colour!"
Granddad was disappointed: "They keep on about this colour telly, but I ent seen none yet!" Mum had to explain to him that you needed a special TV for it. He was expecting to get it on his old set, bless him.
Fantastic version, isn't it :cool:
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No longer. In at No2 with a bullet. ;-)
It went back on Monday and another one appeared shortly after
Better post in this one so I can find it more easily now...
I saw that too! Good news. It's still another 4 weeks to wait though without any TOTP.
And I was just about heading off for university. I always associate my first weeks at uni with songs by Sad Cafe, Rainbow and the Police.
They probably did this so that we stay in sync, we've had to skip so many shows recently we were way out of sync. This is why they should start showing random years then the episodes they have to skip won't be so much of an issue, we could also see some early 70s shows.
It was my first week at secondary school. I always seem to associate We Don't Talk Any More by Cliff Richard with that huge leap forward in my life. Actually my first term there saw punk give way to mod and Two Tone and the graffiti seen on desks was often, PUNK IS HISTORY- MOD IS NEWS.
Just shows you how times have changed. We don't get a lot of graffiti on desks nowadays. And they say kids have changed for the worse.
It seems like 1979 was a significant year of change in quite a few posters' lives.
From now on I would be watching the Pops in the Halls of residence TV room. It was always a full house on Thursdays at 7.30. Halcyon days.
Sadly a lot of the early 1970s Top Of The Pops is wiped and not many of the surfing early 70s totp will get shown because most of them were presented by Jimmy Savile and we just get to watch Tony Blackburn episodes.
German TV channel Einsfestival.de show many early 1970s editions of Top Of The Pops, I've seen some of them while I had my foreign set up,
It was my second year; and Sad Cafe; well we have them coming up this Autumn.:)
Paul Young RIP.:(
Surely their repeats were from before the Savile situation blew up?
Think the Germans edited out Glitter, from watching NyRainbow's old stuff on You Tube.
Haha!
Saw Rainbow live, Graham Bonnet was their singer at the time. He was wearing his usual white jacket. What a fantastic night that was. ;-)