I linked to an article about the growth in vinyl sales over recent years. I used the term "growing" correctly in relation to said article.

1982 is on BBC 4

UK Gold is just Gold now and has not shown TOTP for many many many years

I see someone's posted a Tweet to Sarah Greene regarding the Pops repeats. Apologies to the wider forum if it's been referred to previously.

I'll leave it up to others to decide if they feel it's appropriate.

(Mr. Thomas)
Please reconsider your decision to deprive licence fee payers the chance to see TOTP episodes featuring your late husband.

(Sarah Greene)
Mr Thomas, re-read the BBC statement & understand this was my husband's wish & HIS decision.

https://twitter.com/RealSarahGreene/...ies?lang=en-gb

I'm not sure why someone would have to set up a specific Twitter account to ask the question, but what's wrong with someone who posts here asking the question?

As far as I'm aware we still have free speech in the UK & as long as we abide by the Digital Spy rules there shouldn't be a problem to discuss on here. It's on topic.

The statement was pretty clear as to why the BBC would not be showing the editions. For someone to bug her about it further because they have their own sense of entitlement is rather unfair.

The name is unfamiliar as a poster on here so it could be a completely random person unconnected to this thread. But if it is a forum member setting up an egg account, then that someone doesn't want to be judged through their better known online identity.

It's not appropriate. It's widow bugging.

Apparently there was a ban posed when they were shown on uk gold, yet they showed some of them from 85 and 86 anyway

I suspect the TOTP repeats are available because of a blanket agreement with the musicians union, are they saying that each individual presenter had to sign a separate agreement as they are not musicians.
I genuinely thought the days of one person preventing others from getting a repeat fee were long gone.

Not being party to any of the contracts I'm afraid I'm not in any position to know the answer.

Oh dear.

It was a perfectly civil question. There was nothing inappropriate. From what I have seen there was no follow up or harassment.

I am extremely disappointed not to be seeing these shows. But I do not feel I have any entitlement to see them and I don't think anyone else has so this seems to be something you've just made up.

I entirely accept a widow's decision to respect her late husband's wishes.

Obviously the solution, as has been mentioned before, it for the BBC to show the performances with Smith edited out in a compilation show. This is not as good as seeing the shows themselves but is a good compromise and most people would be happy with that.

Regarding the Mike Smith shows- I'm as disappointed as anyone that we are not going to see them but the BBC statement is quite clear that Mike didn't want them shown and even though i'm disappointed i guess we'll all just have to accept the decision.

If someone has a complaint probably best to go to the BBC about it instead of asking his widow to overturn her husbands wishes.

It wasn't a question, civil or otherwise.

He was bugging her to change the decision.

I was led to believe Sarah Greene had alredy received a tweet before this. Odd that she should receive another after me highlighting the fact on the TOTP account, if indeed that was the case

We still dont know for sure why Mike blocked / didnt sign in the first place?

Was it over residuals or something else?

Strange Noely let his be shown this time round?

I am completely at a loss as to why Mike Smith had any say at all over whether 'his' shows were shown - he was just a presenter doing a job, he was employed by the BBC, I assume the BBC own the copyright, I cannot see any legal reason why or how he was afforded this level of power; I think it was very mean of him - and I'm not going to sugar-coat my opinion just because he's dead. I don't have a problem with someone contacting his widow - though it's not something I would do.

I do feel like I have an entitlement to see them. Back when they were first broadcast I watched TOTP in black & white, I want to see them in colour.

I totally agree with you.
some of these "repeat broadcast" rules and permission situations are tied up in the long distant past,and have had to be adapted for satellite channel repeats and DVD releases for the present day.

The real question is,Has the now deceased Smith stopped these repeats or are the BBC playing silly buggars to avoid the "sadness" of Sarah Greene ?

No single person (successful or not) should ever be able to prevent others ,who have not done so well in the entertainment field,from getting any much needed repeat fees.

You're not alone Andy. I really like the Kashif/Mighty M. Productions sound but can appreciate that some would probably find Melba's track to be inferior to 'Love Come Down.' Equally I know a lot of people who just don't like soul/disco music full stop.
Another (in my opinion) great but lesser known track with that distinctive Kashif/Mighty M Productions sound from the same year is Howard Johnson's 'So Fine.'

When watching the episode I actually got on to Discogs website to have a quick check to help in locating which of my many compilations featured the Melba Moore track and fortunately found one or two. I'd somehow forgotten to put that one on the ipod, which I've now rectified.

OK, it was a request, not a question. Who's nit picking now? It wasn't bugging, it was politely requesting.

Well said!

I wasn't nit-picking. I was correcting you.

Nothing to correct, it was obvious what I meant. But in the same vein, I was correcting you earlier.

If there was nothing to correct why did you agree with me that it wasn't a question?

You did not correct me as I've explained more than once. You agreed that I was right.

Mike Smith was the sacrificial lamb following the death of Michael Lush- from being a semi permanent fixture on TV upto November 1986. He although still appearing on television slowly but surely saw his career fade.

Who knows maybe that had something to do with his decision re TOTP