TV Pop Diaries
Pop Music on British Television 1955 -
A week-
Two teams of kids, divided up into reds and yellows, representing their school would participate in silly games, occasionally accompanied by a current pop hit. Two or three pop acts would appear in the studio each week, many of them big names of the time.
A pilot edition had been recorded with Flintlock performing Mony Mony, Tina Charles
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It's a show that's been forgotten about by pop show historians, probably choosing to ignore it due to their aversion to the host, which is unfair. There's plenty to investigate here, but when seventies/eighties compilations are broadcast this one is usually, and needlessly, absent.
CHEGGERS PLAYS POP
BBC1
10th April 1978 -