TV Pop Diaries
Pop Music on British Television 1955 -
1969
Wednesday 1st January 1969
BBC1 Quiz Bingo 6.20 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile with the teams made up of hospital staff from across the country
Yorkshire Sugarball The Little Jungle Boy 4.15 -
Treacle Toffee Is The Best
Kenny Lynch
Southern Little Big Time 4.55 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
Yorkshire Calendar 6.05 -
Pirate radio station in Hull article
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Denise Day (singer)
Thursday 2nd January 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Stuart Henry
Dusty Springfield -
Herman's Hermits -
Love Sculpture -
Manfred Mann -
Marmalade -
Foundations -
Judy Clay & William Bell -
Scaffold -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 9.30 -
Earl Hines
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
Thames Max 9.00 -
Max Bygraves
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 11.45 pm
Roy Budd
Friday 3rd January 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
The Gun
BBC2 International Cabaret 8.25 -
Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent (Trent apparently forgot the words to one of her own songs)
Granada The Discotheque 5.20 -
Hosted by Billy J Kramer
'Disc Dolly': Diane Graves
Blossom Toes
The Chants
Truly Smith
Geno Washington
LWT Here Comes Charlie Callas 7.30 -
Joe Brown
The Satin Bells
Francoise Hardy
Saturday 4th January 1969
BBC1 Happening For Lulu 6.15 -
The Jimi Hendrix Experience lose a lump of hash down a dressing room sink plug hole
but manage to retrieve it in time for a pre-
Lulu
The Iveys
Malcolm Roberts
The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
BBC1 The Morecambe & Wise Show 7.00 -
Georgia Brown
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.30 -
Paul Jones
Esther & Abi Ofarim -
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.15 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Once More With Felix 9.50 -
Julie Felix
Peter Sarstedt
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.05 -
The Move -
ATV Saturday Stars: The Engelbert Humperdinck Show 6.15 -
Engelbert Humperdinck
Leapy Lee & Engelbert -
The Mexicans -
Southern Time For Blackburn 5.40 -
Grapefruit (recorded without guitarist Peter Swettenham who was recovering from an operation)
LWT Frost on Saturday 10.55 -
content unknown
Sunday 5th January 1969
BBC1 Omnibus 10.10 -
Cream farewell concert, The Royal Albert Hall, London
Directed by Tony Palmer
LWT Frost on Sunday 9.10 -
Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger & The Trinity (regulars)
Billy Eckstine
Nina and Frederik
Topol
ATV Tonight With Dave Allen 11.20 pm -
content unknown
Monday 6th January 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
content unknown
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Strawberry Jam (group from London)
Tuesday 7th January 1969
BBC1 The Dick Emery Show 9.55 -
Tammy Jones
BBC2 Europa: The Titled and the Unentitled 9.55 -
A French TV report on the investiture of the Prince of Wales. George Harrison got the idea for the song I Me Mine while watching a section on people waltzing.
ATV Will The Real Mike Yarwood Stand Up? 8.30 -
Kathy Kirby -
Dilys Watling
Wednesday 8th January 1969
BBC1 Cilla 8.00 -
Cilla Black
Southern Little Big Time 4.55 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
Grampian Cairngorm Ski Night 8.00 -
The Lorne Gibson Trio (resident group)
The Corries
Thursday 9th January 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
From Melody Maker "It could well have been the funniest and indeed the most hideous
sight known to science (without sufficient data to prove) the day the Marmalade donned
full highland regalia and the Bonzo Dog Band assumed full drag in a BBC Top Of The
Pops dressing room. Passing technicians and tea ladies stopped, stared, cried out
and ran as they saw Bonzo Neil Innes in a crinoline and vast wig. Others skidded
in their tracks at the sight of Dean Ford in a rather chic mini-
Hosted by Stuart Henry (Daily Mirror has the host as Alan Freeman)
Fleetwood Mac -
Herman's Hermits -
Love Sculpture -
The Move -
Stevie Wonder -
Billie Davis -
Bonzo Dog Doo-
Marmalade -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.40 -
Barney Kessel
Ulster Zoom In 6.00 -
Two pilot shows were broadcast last October
contents unknown
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 -
content unknown
Friday 10th January 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
Love Sculpture
BBC2 The Talk Of The Town: Cleo Laine 8.25 -
Cleo Laine with Johnny Dankworth Orchestra
Granada Discotheque 5.15 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
Root & Jenny Jackson
John Walker
Lois Lane
LWT Marvellous Party 9.00 -
Cleo Laine
Saturday 11th January 1969
BBC1 Lulu 6.25 -
Lulu
A Song For Europe:
Joe Cocker -
Lionel Bart
BBC1 The Morecambe & Wise Show 7.00 -
The Paper Dolls
Trio Athene
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.30 -
Vera Lynn -
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.25 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Once More With Felix 10.00 -
Julie Felix
Pentangle
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.10 -
Sons and Lovers
ATV The Des O'Connor Show 6.15 -
Mary Hopkin -
Ronnie Carroll
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Lonnie Donegan
Anita Harris
Leapy Lee
LWT The Corbett Follies 7.00 -
Anni Anderson
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
Sunday 12th January 1969
BBC2 The H Andrew Williams Kaleidoscope Company 7.25 -
Andy Williams
Simon and Garfunkel
Ray Charles
Cass Elliott
Burt Bacharach
ATV The Golden Shot 5.15 -
Kathy Kirby
Don Fardon
ATV Meet The Joybeat 7.00 -
Joy Webb of the recently disbanded Joy Strings in her own music series
ATV This Is Tom Jones 7.25 -
It was possible that The London Pallidum Show was scheduled to start tonight as The 5th Dimension were booked to appear. Instead, they appeared on this show. This pilot show becomes ITV's entry in the Montreux TV Festival in April
Tom Jones -
Mirielle Mathieu
The 5th Dimension
Juliet Prowse
Granada The Big Picture: Fun In Acapulco 9.20 -
ATV Tonight With Dave Allen 11.20 pm -
content unknown
Monday 13th January 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
content unknown
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
Second City Sound (pop group from Birmingham)
The Cameos (two singers)
Tuesday 14th January 1969
ATV Will The Real Mike Yarwood Stand Up? 8.30 -
The Roy Budd Trio
Dilys Watling
The Paper Dolls
Wednesday 15th January 1969
BBC1 Cilla 8.00 -
Cilla Black
Southern Little Big Time 4.55 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
Grampian Cairngorm Ski Night 8.00 -
Ian Patterson
Margo Bentley
The Lorne Gibson Trio
The New Faces
Thursday 16th January 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Dusty Springfield -
Kasenetz-
Long John Baldry -
Cartoone -
Manfred Mann -
The Move -
Edwin Starr -
The Marmalade -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.40 -
Art Blakey
Yorkshire Sugarball The Little Jungle Boy 4.15 -
Kenny Lynch
Ulster Zoom In 6.00 -
contents unknown
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
Thames Max 9.00 -
Max Bygraves
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 -
Joe Brown
Friday 17th January 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
Harmony Grass
BBC2 The Talk Of The Town: Joe Brown 8.25 -
Joe Brown with Vikki Brown
Granada Discotheque 5.15 -
Billy J Kramer & The Remo
Graham Bonney
Julie Rogers
Roger Cooke
Kenny Ball's Jazzman
Saturday 18th January 1969
BBC1 Lulu 6.25 -
Lulu
A Song For Europe -
Jack Jones -
BBC1 The Morecambe & Wise Show 7.00 -
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.35 -
The Beverley Sisters
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.00 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Once More With Felix 9.50 -
Julie Felix
Tom Paxton
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.00 -
The Pop Tops
BBC2 The Midnight Movie Mix Me A Person 11.35 pm -
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
The proposed show with Lonnie Donegan, Anita Harris and Timi Yuro was scrapped due to a technical fault
The 5th Dimension
LWT The Corbett Follies 7.00 -
Nana Mouskouri and the Athenians
Sunday 19th January 1969
ATV The Golden Shot 5.15 -
Duane Eddy -
ITV Meet The Joybeat 7.00 -
ATV The London Palladium Show 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck
Lena Horne (probably cancelled due to ill health and might have been replaced by Judy Garland)
Judy Garland -
The Bachelors
ATV Tonight With Dave Allen 11.30 pm -
content unknown
Monday 20th January 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.30 -
(possibly) Spencer Davis Group
Thames Armchair Theatre: What's A Mother For? 8.30 -
Play with Joe Brown
Tuesday 21st January 1969
BBC2 Late Night Line Up 10.35 pm -
Fleetwood Mac (George Harrison comments in the documentary Get Back that there were only four of them on the show)
ATV Will The Real Mike Yarwood Stand Up? 8.30 -
The Paper Dolls
Dilys Watling
Wednesday 22nd January 1969
BBC1 Cilla 8.00 -
Cilla Black -
Francoise Hardy
Peter Cook -
Southern Little Big Time 4.55 -
Freddie and the Dreamers
Grampian Cairngorm Ski Night 8.00 -
Ian Patterson
Margo Bentley
The Lorne Gibson Trio
Joe MacKay
Thursday 23rd January 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Peter Murray
Fleetwood Mac -
Herman's Hermits -
The Move -
Stevie Wonder -
Amen Corner -
Leapy Lee -
Donald Peers -
Marmalade -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.40 -
Oscar Peterson
Ulster Zoom In 6.00 -
contents unknown
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
Granada Cinema 10.30 -
Includes a review of Wonderwall
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 -
Singer Brenda Arnau wanted to sing the song Where Do You Go After You've Been There, but wasn't allowed due to the suggestive lyrics
Brenda Arnau -
Scaffold
Friday 24th January 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
The Move
Manfred Mann
BBC1 The Dick Emery Show 7.55 -
Singer Brenda Arnau wanted to sing the song Where Do You Go After You've Been There, but wasn't allowed due to the suggestive lyrics
Brenda Arnau
BBC2 The Talk Of The Town: The Scaffold In London 8.25 -
Granada Discotheque 5.15 -
content unknown
Saturday 25th January 1969
BBC1 Lulu 6.25 -
Lulu -
A Song For Europe: Come September (Don Black and Mark London)
Traffic
Billy Preston
Peter Sarstedt
BBC1 The Morecambe & Wise Show 7.00 -
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
Ronnie Carroll
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.30 -
Jack Jones -
Keith Potger -
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.15 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Once More With Felix 9.45 -
Julie Felix
Georgie Fame
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.15 -
Toast
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Lonnie Donegan
Anita Harris
LWT The Corbett Follies 7.00 -
The Kaye Sisters
Sunday 26th January 1969
BBC2 The Jimmy Logan Show 7.25 -
The Chantelles
Marion Montgomery
BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-
Bobby Darin
ATV The Golden Shot 5.15 -
Duane Eddy -
ATV The London Palladium Show 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck
Vince Hill -
Peter Nero
Tammy Jones
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.15 pm -
contents unknown
Monday 27th January 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
Singer Brenda Arnau wanted to sing the song Where Do You Go After You've Been There, but wasn't allowed due to the suggestive lyrics, one of three occasions where she was requested not to sing the song on UK TV
Jack Jones -
Brenda Arnau
BBC2 Where Was Spring? 10.25 -
Ray Davies would write new songs for the first series produced by Ned Sherrin who would also produce the movie version of The Virgin Soldiers which Davies would also provide the theme for. Animations based on new drawings by Klaus Voorman would accompany the songs.
We Are Two of a Kind
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Anne and Jack Chambers (singers with guitar)
Tamar Valley Jazz Band
Tuesday 28th January 1969
BBC1 The Persuaders: The Singer and the Song 6.25 -
Documentary about the marketing of a pop band Fivepenny Piece, whose single Running Free had just been issued. They would later become a staple of Pebble Mill type shows throughout the seventies.
Yorkshire Sugarball The Little Jungleboy 4.15 -
Kenny Lynch
ATV Will The Real Mike Yarwood Stand Up? 8.30 -
Dilys Watling
Frank Ifield
Wednesday 29th January 1969
BBC1 Cilla 8.00 -
Cilla Black
Sheila Hancock -
Johnny Mathis
BBC2 Late Night Line-
Don Partridge and buskers
Granada Discotheque 4.55 -
Hosted by Dianne Graves, Graham Bonney
The Remo
Bill Kenwright -
Gordon Waller
Kiki Dee
The Fortunes
Thames Today
Johnny Mathis
Grampian Cairngorm Ski Night 8.00 -
Ian Patterson
Margo Bentley
The Lorne Gibson Trio
Laura Brand
Thursday 30th January 1969
In late January The Move send a telegram to ATV. "Birmingham's only hit parade group, currently in the top five for the fifth time, we wonder if you are aware that in three years together we have never appeared on ATV from Birmingham, even in an interview."
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Stuart Henry
Harmony Grass -
Donald Peers -
The Move -
Sandie Shaw -
Manfred Mann -
The Bandwagon -
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas -
Fleetwood Mac -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.40 -
Don Rendle / Ian Carr Quintet
Ulster Zoom In 6.00 -
contents unknown
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
Thames Max 9.00 -
Max Bygraves
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 -
content unknown
Friday 31st January 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
The Bandwagon
BBC2 The Talk Of The Town: Billy Preston In London 8.25 -
Billy Preston
Saturday 1st February 1969
BBC1 Lulu 6.30 -
Lulu
A Song For Europe:
Terry Reid -
Gene Pitney
BBC1 The Morecambe & Wise Show 7.05 -
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.30 -
Dusty Springfield
Liesbeth Lest (singer from Netherlands)
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.10 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Once More With Felix 9.45 -
Julie Felix
The 5th Dimension
The Kinks -
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 10.55 -
Chicken Shack
ATV Jailhouse Rock 7.55 -
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Lonnie Donegan
Anita Harris
Dickie Valentine
LWT The Corbett Follies 7.00 -
Peter Nero
Sunday 2nd February 1969
BBC2 Music Music Music 7.25 -
The Scaffold
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Julie Rogers
ATV The London Palladium Show 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Lena Horne
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.15 pm -
George Chisholm
Monday 3rd February 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
Peter Sarstedt -
BBC1 Where Was Spring? 10.25 -
Where Did The Spring Go? by Ray Davies
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
The Dee Jays (vocal group)
Helen Randall (singer)
Steve and Malcolm (musical duo)
Tuesday 4th February 1969
Thames Magpie 5.20 -
Pete's Pops (Pete Brady looks at the pop scene)
Granada The Liverpool Scene 6.05 -
The Liverpool Scene Look at the Seaside
ATV Will The Real Mike Yarwood Stand Up? 8.30 -
Joe 'Mister Piano' Henderson
Dilys Watling
Wednesday 5th February 1969
BBC1 Cilla 8.00 -
Cilla Black
Sacha Distel
Granada Discotheque 4.55 -
Hosted by Graham Bonney
Paul Jones
The Caravelles
Mike Leroy
Kathy and The Perishers
Grampian Cairngorm Ski Night 8.00 -
Ian Patterson
Margo Bentley
The Lorne Gibson Trio
Lex McLean
Thursday 6th February 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Melody Maker have Martha Reeves & The Vandellas making an appearance
Hosted by Alan Freeman
Top 20 chart run down with the number one record
Amen Corner -
Don Partridge -
Johnny Nash -
The Move -
Peter Sarstedt -
Wilson Pickett -
Dave Dee & Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich -
Fleetwood Mac -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.40 -
Horace Silver
Ulster Zoom In 6.00 -
contents unknown
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
Thames Max 9.00 -
Max Bygraves
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 -
From the Cafe Royale, London
content unknown
Friday 7th February 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
Amen Corner
BBC1 The Dick Emery Show 7.55 -
The Satin Bells
BBC2 Ray Charles 8.25 -
Recorded in London. Ray Charles and the band were late coming over from Europe and Charles didn't have the time to rehearse. Charles after one song said "I shall get told off afterwards. I wasn't supposed to do that number."
Saturday 8th February 1969
BBC1 Lulu 6.25 -
Lulu
A Song For Europe
Wilson Pickett
BBC1 The Morecambe & Wise Show 7.00 -
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.30 -
Barry Ryan & The Majority -
Abbe Lane
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.20 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Once More With Felix 9.55 -
Julie Felix
Madeline Bell
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick
BBC2 Release 10.25 -
The Kenny Clarke-
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.05 -
Bobby Hanna & The Art Movement
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Lonnie Donegan
Anita Harris
Bobby Goldsboro
Frankie Avalon
LWT The Corbett Follies 7.00 -
Fran Jeffreys
Ray Barrett (actor from BBC1's The Troublemakers in singing role)
Sunday 9th February 1969
BBC2 The Jimmy Logan Show 7.25 -
Georgia Brown
The Chantelles
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Don Fardon
Janie Marden
The Breakaways
ATV This Is Tom Jones 7.25 -
Tom Jones
Mary Hopkin -
The Moody Blues
Joey Hetherton
ATV The David Nixon Show 11.30 pm -
John Garfield (singer)
Monday 10th February 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
content unknown
BBC1 Where Was Spring? 10.25 -
When I Turn Off the Living Room Light by Ray Davies
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Anna McGoldrick (singer from Dublin)
Shep's Banjo Band
Tuesday 11th February 1969
Granada The Liverpool Scene 6.05 -
The Liverpool Scene Look at Love
ATV The Mireille Mathieu Show 8.30 -
Mireille Mathieu -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Wednesday 12th February 1969
BBC1 Science Sessions: The Sounds of Music 2.05 -
David Symonds (Radio One DJ) looks at different aspects of pop music
BBC1 Cilla 8.00 -
The show was faded out early
Cilla Black
Dusty Springfield -
Georgie Fame -
Georgie Fame & Cilla Black -
Granada Discotheque 4.55 -
Hosted by Graham Bonney
Harmony Grass
Clyde McPhatter
The Paper Dolls
The Move (the band's first TV show with Rick Price)
Grampian Cairngorm Ski Night 8.00 -
Ian Patterson
Margo Bentley
The Lorne Gibson Trio
Emil Dean
Thursday 13th February 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Barry Ryan -
The Bee Gees -
Isley Brothers -
Donald Peers -
Wilson Pickett -
Peter Sarstedt -
Amen Corner -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.35 -
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Ulster Zoom In 6.00 -
contents unknown
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
Thames Max 9.00 -
Max Bygraves
Granada Cinema 10.30 -
Dean Martin interview about his movie career and new movie The Wrecking Crew
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 -
contents unknown
Friday 14th February 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
The Love Affair
BBC1 The Dick Emery Show 7.55 -
Sheela Munro
BBC2 The Talk Of The Town: Jack Jones In London 8.25 -
Saturday 15th February 1969
BBC1 Here's Lucy 6.00 -
Wayne Newton
BBC1 Lulu 6.25 -
Lulu
A Song For Europe
Barry Ryan
John Hendricks
BBC1 The Morecambe & Wise Show 7.00 -
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
Matt Monro
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.35 -
Peter Sarstedt -
Massiel
BBC1 A Man Called Ironside 11.40 pm -
Tiny Tim
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.05 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 One Pair Of Eyes: Romance Is Dead, Long Live Romance 9.05 -
documentary with Sacha Distel
BBC2 Once More With Felix 9.50 -
Julie Felix
The Incredible String Band -
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.00 -
Barbara Ruskin
The Equals
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Regulars: Lonnie Donegan, Anita Harris
Susan Maughan
Frankie Avalon
LWT The Corbett Follies 7.00 -
Engelbert Humperdinck
Southern The Young Ones movie with Cliff Richard
Sunday 16th February 1969
BBC2 The World About Us: Forest and Firebird 7.25 -
Documentary narrated by Cy Grant
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Ruby Murray
Leapy Lee (if he has recovered from his illness)
ATV This Is Tom Jones 7.25 -
Tom Jones -
Herman's Hermits
Davy Jones
Mireille Mathieu
Nancy Wilson
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.15 pm -
content unknown
Monday 17th February 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
Barry Ryan
Jackie Trent
BBC1 Where Was Spring? 10.25 -
Let's Take Off All Our Clothes by Ray Davies
Yorkshire Calendar 6.05 -
The Move -
Tuesday 18th February 1969
Granada The Liverpool Scene 6.05 -
Look at Liverpool
Wednesday 19th February 1969
BBC1 Science Sessions: Back From The Pops 2.05 -
David Symonds (Radio One DJ) looks at different aspects pop music
BBC1 Quiz Bingo 6.20 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
BBC1 Cilla 8.00 -
Cilla Black -
Cliff Richard -
Cilla, Cliff & Dickie Henderson -
Dickie Henderson -
Granada Discotheque 4.55 -
Hosted by Graham Bonney
Billy Fury
Gene Latter
The Iveys
Ayshea (as a performer, not as a presenter yet)
The Countrymen
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Grampian Cairngorm Ski Night 8.00 -
Ian Patterson
Margo Bentley
The Lorne Gibson Trio
Bernadette
Thursday 20th February 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
The show's chart coverage now extends to the top thirty instead of the top twenty
Hosted by Peter Murray
Cilla Black -
Harmony Grass -
Dick Emery -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Gene Pitney -
Peter Sarstedt -
Sam & Dave -
Amen Corner -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.35 -
The Faith Allstars
Ulster Zoom In 6.00 -
contents unknown
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
Jackie and Bridie
Cloda Rodgers
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 -
Jackie Trent
Friday 21st February 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
Status Quo
BBC2 Abbe Lane 8.25 -
Live at the Talk of the Town
Tyne Tees The Stuart Henry Speakeasy 7.00 -
Alan Price -
Happy Magazine
Saturday 22nd February 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.00 -
content unknown
BBC1 Lulu and A Song For Europe 6.25 -
Lulu sings all six contenders for A Song For Europe. All six songs were chosen by members of the Music Publishers Association
Are You Ready For Love (written by Ray Cameron and Alan Hawkeshaw)
Boom Bang-
Come September (Don Black and Mark London)
March (Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley)
I Can't Go On Living Without You (Bernie Taupin and Elton John -
Bet-
BBC1 The Best Of Morecambe & Wise 7.00 -
Georgia Brown
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.30 -
O C Smith -
Moira Anderson
BBC1 Braden's Week 10.55 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Once More With Felix 10.00 -
Julie Felix
Strawbs & Julie Felix -
Jack Jones -
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.20 -
the NME claim the band introduced Gene Pitney on the show
The Marmalade
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Lonnie Donegan
Anita Harris
Susan Maughan
LWT The Corbett Follies
Sandie Shaw
Sunday 23rd February 1969
BBC2 The Jimmy Logan Show 7.25 -
The Chantelles
Susan Maughan
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Jackie Trent (with Tony Hatch) -
ATV This Is Tom Jones 7.25 -
Reviewed from an American thirty minute cut
Tom Jones -
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 -
Lulu -
The Bee Gees -
Lynn Redgrave & Tony Hatch -
Tammy Jones -
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.30 pm -
contents unknown
Monday 24th February 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.35 -
Ben E King
The Hollies -
BBC1 The Frost Report: Frost Over England 9.55 -
Julie Felix
BBC1 Where Was Spring? 10.35 -
Darling I Respect You by Ray Davies
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
Referendum (pop group)
Ann Hamilton (singer)
Tuesday 25th February 1969
Granada The Liverpool Scene 6.05 -
The Liverpool Scene Look at the Future
Harlech Tailor Made 8.25 -
Jackie Trent
Wednesday 26th February 1969
BBC1 Science Sessions: Back From The Pops 2.05 -
David Symonds (Radio One DJ) looks at different aspects pop music
Granada Discotheque 4.50 -
Hosted by Graham Bonney
Raymond Froggatt
The Troggs
Stuart Smith
Duane Eddy
Clodagh Rodgers
Jackie Trent
Plus regulars The Remo, 'Disc Dolly' Dianne Greaves, The Four Spots
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Ulster (possibly) UTV Reports 6.30 -
Peter Sarstedt
Grampian Cairngorm Ski Night 8.00 -
Ian Patterson
Margo Bentley
The Lorne Gibson Trio
WE4
Thursday 27th February 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
The Hollies manager Robin Britten was refused admission to the Top Of The Pops studio to watch the band perform and was told to watch the performance on a monitor instead, which was actually tuned to ITV. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich were pencilled in to appear.
Hosted by Stuart Henry
Chart run down to the number one record
Cliff Richard -
Sandie Shaw -
Marvin Gaye -
Donald Peers -
The Hollies -
Glen Campbell -
Cilla Black -
Peter Sarstedt -
end credits with audience dancing
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.35 -
The Elvin Jones Trio (Elvin Jones, Max Roach and Art Blakey)
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 -
Cilla Black
Jackie Trent
Friday 28th February 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
The Dave Clark Five
Tony Blackburn
BBC1 The Dick Emery Show 7.55 -
The Coffee Set
BBC2 The Talk Of The Town: Dave King 8.25 -
Dave King with The Ladybirds
Tyne Tees The Stuart Henry Speakeasy 7.00 -
content unknown
Granada Psst! 10.30 -
Kenny Lynch
Saturday 1st March 1969
BBC1 Lulu 6.25 -
Lulu
A Song For Europe winner -
O C Smith
The Sandpipers
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.30 -
Engelbert Humperdinck
BBC1 Braden's Week 10.55 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Once More With Felix 9.50 -
Julie Felix
Manfred Mann
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.05 -
Ten Years After
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Lonnie Donegan
LWT The Corbett Follies 8.30 -
it was announced a few weeks previously that the show would be extended from eight to eleven shows
Vikki Carr
Sunday 2nd March 1969
BBC2 Music Music Music 7.25 -
Trio Athenee
The Scaffold
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
The Beverley Sisters
ATV This Is Tom Jones 10.20 -
Tom Jones
The Foundations -
Engelbert Humperdinck
Shirley Jones
Dusty Springfield -
Liza Minnelli
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.35 pm -
content unknown
Yorkshire Calendar has The Scaffold and Peter Sarstedt on editions of the show this week
Monday 3rd March 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
content unknown
BBC1 The Frost Report: Crime 9.55 -
Julie Felix
BBC1 Where Was Spring? 10.35 -
Song by Ray Davies
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Jimmy and Duncan (singers)
Three Speed Walking Stick (pop group)
Karan Simmons (singer)
Tuesday 4th March 1969
BBC1 Talkback 6.25 -
Jimmy Savile
Wednesday 5th March 1969
BBC1 Schools: Science Session: Let's Make Pop 2.05 -
David Symonds (Radio One DJ) looks at different aspects pop music
Pink Floyd in a recording session
BBC1 Quiz Bingo 6.20 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Granada Discotheque 4.55 -
Hosted by Graham Bonney
The Remo
The Executives
Nicky Scott
Jackie Trent (also seen as 26th February 1969)
Long John Baldry
Rita Pavone
BBC2 The Hollywood Musical: Carmen Jones 9.05 -
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Grampian Cairngorm Ski Night 8.00 -
Ian Patterson
Margo Bentley
The Lorne Gibson Trio
Thursday 6th March 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Maurice Gibb had recorded this edition on his home video recorder, which decades
later was donated to the BBC by his ex-
Hosted by Alan Freeman
Top 20 chart run down to the number one record
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich -
Stevie Wonder -
The Love Affair -
Lulu -
The Tymes -
The Bee Gees -
Peter Sarstedt -
end credits with audience dancing
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.35 -
Dizzy Gillespie Big Band reunion
Ulster Zoom In 6.00 -
contents unknown
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.05 -
We 4
Friday 7th March 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
Don Partridge
The Foundations
BBC1 The Dick Emery Show 7.55 -
The Sands
BBC2 The Talk Of The Town: Vince Hill In London 8.25 -
Tyne Tees The Stuart Henry Speakeasy 7.00 -
Donald Peers
Granada Psst! 10.30 -
Kenny Lynch
Saturday 8th March 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.00 -
content unknown
BBC1 Lulu 6.25 -
Lulu
Billy Preston
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.30 -
Cliff Richard -
Gordon Lightfoot -
Lainie Kazan
BBC1 Braden's Week 10.50 pm
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Once More With Felix 9.50 -
Julie Felix
O C Smith
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.00 -
According to the NME this was intended to be Harmony Grass
World Of Oz
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Lonnie Donegan
Anita Harris
LWT The Corbett Follies 8.30 -
Elis Regina
Sunday 9th March 1969
BBC2 The Jimmy Logan Show 7.25 -
Jackie Trent
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Ruby Murray
The Tremeloes
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
ATV This Is Tom Jones 8.25 -
Reviewed from the USA version
Tom Jones -
Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger & The Trinity -
The 5th Dimension -
Sandie Shaw -
ATV This Is David Nixon 11.20 pm -
content unknown
Monday 10th March 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
Gordon Lightfoot
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
The Idaho Showband -
Tuesday 11th March 1969
BBC1 Scott 9.55 -
Scott Walker -
Salena Jones -
Dudley Moore Trio -
Yorkshire Mr & Mrs Music 10.30 -
Recorded in colour for the USA market
Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent special with spoken introduction from Petula Clark
Scott Walker -
Matt Monro -
The Montanas
The Breakaways
Wednesday 12th March 1969
BBC1 Science Sessions: The Charts 2.05 -
David Symonds (Radio One DJ) looks at different aspects pop music
BBC1 Quiz Bingo 6.20 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
BBC1 Wednesday Show Time 7.30 -
Farewell The Seekers
Granada Discotheque 4.55 -
Hosted by Graham Bonney
The Magic Lanterns
Billie Davis
The Fourmost
Crackers (Tony Crane and Billy Kinsey ex-
David Garrick
The Merseys
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
BBC1 and ITN News
Paul McCartney & Linda Eastman marriage report
Grampian Cairngorm Ski Night 8.00 -
Ian Patterson
Margo Bentley
The Lorne Gibson Trio
Cy Grant
Thursday 13th March 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.46 -
The shortest edition in the show's history due to the earlier splashdown of the Apollo 9 space capsule. The Tremeloes, Sandie Shaw, The Hollies, Tony Blackburn were dropped from the show as a result, while The Rascals were tentatively booked to perform Heaven.
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Cilla Black -
Marv Johnson -
Val Doonican -
Peter Sarstedt -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.35 -
Red Norvo and The Gary Burton Quartet
Thames Sugarball The Little Jungle Boy 4.35 -
Kenny Lynch
Ulster Zoom In 6.00 -
contents unknown
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 -
content unknown
Friday 14th March 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
BBC1 The Stanley Baxter Show 7.55 -
The New Faces
BBC1 How Late It Is 10.50 -
Hosted by Richard Neville, Ronnie Fletcher, Pete Drummond
The Who
BBC2 Lainie Kazan 8.25 -
Live from the Talk of the Town, London
Tyne Tees The Stuart Henry Speakeasy 7.00 -
possibly The Scaffold introducing The Fourmost
Saturday 15th March 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc a Dawn 6.00 -
content unknown
BBC1 Lulu 6.25 -
The Rascals were tentatively booked to appear
George Fame & Alan Price
The Tymes
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.30 -
John Rowles -
BBC1 Braden's Week 10.45 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Once More With Felix 9.50 -
Julie Felix
Tom & Dusty Springfield with Julie Felix -
Dusty Springfield -
The Sandpipers
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.15 -
The Equals were scheduled to appear, then changed to Harmony Grass
Caravan
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Lonnie Donegan
Susan Maughan
LWT The Corbett Follies 8.30 -
Anni Anderson
Sunday 16th March 1969
BBC1 Omnibus: American Music and All That Jazz 10.40 -
Andre Previn
BBC2 Music Music Music 7.25 -
The Scaffold -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Malcolm Roberts
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
ATV This Is Tom Jones 8.25 -
Roger Miller (appearance cancelled)
Tom Jones
Paul Anka (replacing Roger Miller)
Georgia Brown
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Mary Hopkin
LWT No No No 10.20 -
Musical with Nina and Frederick, Michael Flanders
Monday 17th March 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
Clodagh Rodgers -
BBC1 The Frost Report 9.55 -
Julie Felix
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Alma Carroll (singer)
Tuesday 18th March 1969
BBC1 British Film Comedy: What A Whopper! 7.25 -
BBC1 Scott 9.55 -
Scott Walker -
Jackie Trent -
Jackie Trent & Tony Hatch -
BBC2 Frank Sinatra: A Man And His Music 10.20 -
Ella Fitzgerald
Antonio Carlos Jobim
ITN News at Ten 10.00 -
George Harrison drugs charge
Thames Borge Encore 10.30 -
Victor Borge special
Marni Nixon
Wednesday 19th March 1969
BBC1 Science Sessions: Playback 2.05 -
David Symonds (Radio One DJ) looks at different aspects pop music. In this edition
he listens to hi-
BBC1 The Beat Of The Brass 7.30 -
An American production, filmed on 25 locations across the country
Herb Alpert & His Tijuana Brass -
Granada Discotheque 4.55 -
Hosted by Billy J Kramer, Ayshea (her debut as a presenter)
Unit 4+2
Nina Shaw
The Dalys
Elton Johns (as listed in the TV Times) -
The Amen Corner
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Grampian Cairngorm Ski Night 8.00 -
Ian Patterson
Margo Bentley
The Lorne Gibson Trio
The Corries
Thursday 20th March 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Peter Murray
Chart run down with the number one record
Cliff Richard -
Sandie Shaw -
The Tremeloes -
Love Affair -
Lulu -
Tony Blackburn -
The Hollies -
Peter Sarstedt -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.35 -
Drum Workshop with Art Blakey, Max Roach, Elvin Jones
Ulster Zoom In 6.00 -
contents unknown
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 -
content unknown
Friday 21st March 1969
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 4.55 -
The Tremeloes
BBC1 The Stanley Baxter Show 7.55 -
Salena Jones
BBC1 How Late It Is 10.50 -
The Flying Burrito Brothers were booked but couldn't appear due to a Musician's Union dispute, but it was hoped that they would appear on the 9th May show.
Hosted by Richard Neville, Ronnie Fletcher, Pete Drummond, Angela Huth
Led Zeppelin -
The Spinners
Tyne Tees The Stuart Henry Speakeasy 7.00 -
content unknown
LWT Meet Andre Previn 10.30 -
Tubby Hayes
Granada Psst! 10.30 -
Kenny Kynch
Saturday 22nd March 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc a Dawn 6.00 -
content unknown
BBC1 Lulu 6.25 -
Lulu -
The Bee Gees (it was claimed that Robin was suffering from nervous exhaustion, so Barry and Maurice sent a get well message on the show. In fact he had just left the group. According to the NME this was a surprise appearance by the group.)
The Chamber Brothers
Blood Sweat and Tears
Stevie Wonder
Salome (Spanish singer)
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.30 -
Vince Hill -
Val Doonican -
BBC1 Braden's Week 10.50 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Once More With Felix 9.45 -
Julie Felix
John Renbourn and Danny Thompson
John Cameron Quartet
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.00 -
Harmony Grass
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Lonnie Donegan
Susan Maughan
LWT The Corbett Follies 8.30 -
Elis Regina
Frank Ifield
Sunday 23rd March 1969
BBC2 The Jimmy Logan Show 7.25 -
Nina and Frederick
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Sandie Shaw
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
ATV This Is Tom Jones 8.25 -
Reviewed from a 25 minute American print
Tom Jones -
Cass Elliot & Tom Jones -
The Dave Clark Five -
Massiel
Boots Randolph
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.25 pm -
contents unknown
Monday 24th March 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
content unknown
BBC1 The Frost Report 9.55 -
Julie Felix
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
All winners gala show
Anna McGoldrick -
Strawberry Jam -
Maxi, Dick n Twink -
Anthony Walley -
Second City Sound -
Southern Folk Song 11.40 pm -
content unknown
Tuesday 25th March 1969
BBC1 Scott 9.55 -
Scott Walker -
John Williams -
Gene Pitney -
ITN News At Ten 10.00 -
John Lennon and Yoko Ono bed-
Southern Folk Song 11.50 pm -
content unknown
Wednesday 26th March 1969
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 1.00 -
content unknown
BBC1 Science Sessions: Behind The Scene 2.05 -
David Symonds (Radio One DJ) looks at different aspects pop music. In this edition he talks to three people in different parts of the pop industry.
BBC1 Quiz Bingo 6.20 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Granada Discotheque 4.55 -
Hosted by Billy J Kramer and The Remo, Ayshea
The Equals
Shirley and Johnny
Jefferson
Lew Rich
Dave Davies
Gary Walker
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Ulster Zoom In
Helen Shapiro -
Grampian Cairngorm Ski Night 9.00 -
Ian Patterson
Margo Bentley
The Lorne Gibson Trio
Southern Folk Song 12.30 am -
content unknown
Thursday 27th March 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
The show is getting an audience of about eleven and a half million each week. Martha & The Vandellas and The Chamber Brothers were pencilled in to appear.
Hosted by Stuart Henry (his final TOTP hosting appearance)
Hollies -
Lulu -
The Who -
Dean Martin -
Desmond Dekker & The Aces -
The Foundations -
John Rowles -
Noel Harrison -
Marvin Gaye -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.35 -
Jon Hendricks and Ronnie Scott
Yorkshire Sugarball The Little Jungleboy 4.15 -
Kenny Lynch
Ulster Zoom In 6.00 -
contents unknown
Granada The Ghost And Mrs Muir: Vanessa 6.30 -
Shelley Fabares
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 -
At the Players Theatre for a night of music hall with Hattie Jacques, Edward Woodward
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
The Scaffold
Southern Folk Song 12.00 am -
content unknown
Friday 28th March 1969
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 4.55 -
Vanity Fare
BBC1 The Stanley Baxter Show 7.55 -
Ronnie Carroll
BBC1 How Late It Is 10.50 -
Hosted by Angela Huth, Richard Neville, Pete Drummond, Ronnie Fletcher
Ron Geesin
John Hiseman's Colosseum
The Chambers Brothers
Thames Today
The Who
BBC2 International Cabaret 8.25 -
Frankie Vaughan at The Talk Of The Town
Tyne Tees The Stuart Henry Speakeasy 7.00 -
content unknown
Scottish Scotland Early 4.20 -
Helen Shapiro -
Granada Psst! 10.30 -
Kenny Lynch
Julie Covington
Southern Folk Song 12.05 am -
content unknown
Saturday 29th March 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.00 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
Back on Saturday evenings
David Garrick
The Fourmost
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.30 -
Nana Mouskouri
Noel Harrison -
BBC1 The Eurovision Song Contest 10.00 -
UK Entry: Lulu-
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Lonnie Donegan
Susan Maughan
Southern Folk Song 12.10 am -
content unknown
Sunday 30th March 1969
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Marmalade
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
The Scaffold
ATV This Is Tom Jones 8.25 -
Tom Jones
Chet Atkins
Jerry Lee Lewis -
Tom Jones & Jerry Lee Lewis -
Salena Jones
Mireille Mathieu
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.25 pm -
content unknown
Monday 31st March 1969
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Johnny Small and the Little People (all members of the band are over six feet tall)
-
Tuesday 1st April 1969
BBC1 Scott 10.00 -
Esther Ofarim was pencilled in to appear
Scott Walker -
Noel Harrison -
Maynard Ferguson -
BBC1 The Frost Report 9.55 -
Julie Felix
BBC2 Esther & Abi Ofarim 10.30 -
Esther & Abi Ofarim
Yorkshire Sugarball The Little Jungle Boy 4.15 -
Kenny Lynch
Thames Today 6.04 -
John Lennon & Yoko Ono interviewed by Eamonn Andrews
Gaynor Jones -
ITN News At Ten 10.00 -
John and Yoko in London airport arrival
Wednesday 2nd April 1969
BBC1 H Andrew Williams Kaleidoscope Company 7.30 -
The show begins with a sitar-
Andy Williams -
Simon & Garfunkel -
Granada Discotheque 4.55 -
Hosted by Billy J Kramer and The Remo, Ayshea
Linda Russell
The Locomotive -
Philip Goodhand-
The Marbles
Polly Perkins
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Thursday 3rd April 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Alan Freeman
Chart run down with the number one record
Cliff Richard -
Joe South -
Lulu -
Mary Hopkin -
The Beach Boys -
The Foundations -
The Hollies -
The Marbles -
Marvin Gaye -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.35 -
The Newport Allstars
Ulster Zoom In 6.00 -
contents unknown
Tyne Tees Walk Right In 6.30 -
Hosted by Wally Whyton
The Lorne Gibson Trio
Ethan Campbell
Thames The Eamonn Andrews Show 11.00 -
From The Cafe Royale, London
John Lennon & Yoko Ono -
Gaynor Jones
Anglia The Young Ones movie with Cliff Richard and The Shadows
Friday 4th April 1969 Good Friday
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 5.20 -
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
Tyne Tees The Stuart Henry Speakeasy 7.00 -
Marty Feldman
Saturday 5th April 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.00 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
The Kinks -
BBC1 The Harry Secombe Show 7.30 -
Shani Wallis
BBC1 Braden's Week 10.55 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 The Cool of the Evening 10.00 -
The Gordon Beck Trio
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Lonnie Donegan
Susan Maughan
LWT It's Vikki Carr 8.30 -
Vikki Carr
Mike Newman
The Settlers
ATV Hold On -
Granada Psst! 11.45 pm -
Kenny Lynch
Julie Covington
Sunday 6th April 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Val Doonican 7.25 -
Val Doonican
Ray Barrett
Southern The Golden Disc movie with Terry Dene
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Helen Shapiro -
Bill Kenwright
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
ATV This Is Tom Jones 8.25 -
Tom Jones
Anita Harris
Dusty Springfield
Millicent Martin
The Lennon Sisters
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.25 pm -
contents unknown
Monday 7th April 1969 Bank Holiday
BBC1 The Frost Report 10.15 -
Julie Felix
Thames The Bachleors' Night Out 6.04 -
Originally recorded for the first week of Thames, and the last show recorded at ABC's Didsbury theatre
The Bachelors
Anita Harris
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Billy Hygate (singer / guitarist)
The Howard Wilkinson Trio (jazz group)
Thames Gonna Build A Mountain 11.55 pm -
Tuesday 8th April 1969
BBC1 Scott 9.55 -
John Williams was pencilled in to appear
Scott Walker -
Kiki Dee -
Billy Preston -
BBC2 Mantovani 8.50 -
Lena Martell
Thames Gonna Build A Mountain 11.45 pm -
Wednesday 9th April 1969
Granada Discotheque 4.55 -
Hosted by Billy J Kramer and The Remo, Ayshea
Peter Sarstedt
Vince Hill
Friday Brown
The Love Affair
Eire Apparent
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Thames Max 8.00 -
Max Bygraves
The Satin Bells
Thames Gonna Build A Mountain 12.15 am -
Thursday 10th April 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
It's about this time that The Kinks record a clip of their new single Plastic Man for Top Of The Pops, but the clip is not used. From Melody Maker 3rd May 1969 "We did an Ampex for Top of the Pops and they have decided not to use it," said an embittered Ray Davies this week. "They listened to the words and when I reached that word they shifted the camera off me. It's all very childish and I'm sure everybody who watches Top of the Pops already knows what a bum is. They even asked me to sing 'thumb' instead. It was so ridiculous and very upsetting. What makes it so absurd is that we did it on Dee Time and the record is getting played on Radio One without any complaints."
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Chart run down with the number one record
The Who -
Desmond Dekker & The Aces -
Clodagh Rodgers -
Johnny Nash -
Fleetwood Mac -
Noel Harrison -
The Tremeloes -
Marvin Gaye -
BBC2 Jazz at the Maltings 8.35 -
Compilation show with Oscar Peterson Trio, Gary Burton Quartet, Count Basie, The
Dizzy Gillespie Big Band Reunion, Earl Hines All-
Thames Gonna Build A Mountain 12.15 am -
Friday 11th April 1969
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 4.55 -
Leapy Lee
BBC1 The Stanley Baxter Show 7.55 -
Marion Montgomery
BBC1 How Late It Is 10.50 -
Hosted by Angela Huth, Richard Neville, Pete Drummond, Ronnie Fletcher
Family
Dudley Moore
John Hiseman's Colosseum
Saturday 12th April 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.15 -
Apparently Simon Dee makes unflattering comments about the BBC on the show
content unknown
BBC1 The Ice Cabaret 6.50 -
The Orange Bicycle
BBC1 The Shirley Bassey Show 7.30 -
Shirley Bassey
Noel Harrison
BBC1 Braden's Week 10.50 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 10.35 -
Free -
LWT It's Vikki Carr 6.15 -
Vikki Carr
Ray Barrett
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
Lonnie Donegan
Susan Maughan
Sunday 13th April 1969
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Cancelled due to ACTT overtime ban
Vince Hill
Friday Brown
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
ATV This Is Tom Jones 8.20 -
Tom Jones
Anita Harris (replacing Dusty Springfield who was ill)
Donovan
Bobby Goldsboro
The Dave Clark Five
Lainie Kazan (also seen as appearing in the following week's show)
Tom Jones & Jo An Worley -
Mina
Cartoone
ATV The David Nixon Show 11.20 pm -
Jimmy Young
Udo Jurgens
Monday 14th April 1969
BBC1 Comedy Playhouse: The Liver Birds 7.30 -
Theme by The Scaffold
BBC1 The Frost Report 9.55 -
Julie Felix
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Paul Newman and The X-
ATV Will The Real Mike Yarwood Stand Up? 9.30 -
Herman's Hermits -
The Go-
Dilys Watling
Tuesday 15th April 1969
BBC1 Scott 10.05 -
Scott Walker -
Jon Hendricks -
Ivry Gitlis -
BBC2 Peter Sarstedt 10.30 -
A one-
Peter Sarstedt
Thames The World Of The Seekers 10.40 -
Wednesday 16th April 1969
BBC1 The Record Star Show 7.30 -
Special for the Stars' Organisation for Spastics
Amen Corner
The Casuals
Joe Cocker & The Grease Band
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky & Tich
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
The Flirtations
The Foundations
The Herd
Leapy Lee
The Marbles
Hank Marvin
The Paper Dolls
Cliff Richard
John Rowles
Barry Ryan
Status Quo
Geno Washington
Plus Radio One DJs Tony Blackburn, Pete Brady, Dave Cash, Simon Dee, Alan Freeman, Stuart Henry, John Peel, Keith Skues, Ed Stewart, David Symonds
BBC2 The Cool of the Evening 10.50 -
Zoot Sims
Al Cohn
Stan Tracey Trio
Granada Discotheque 4.55 -
Hosted by Billy J Kramer and The Remo, Ayshea
Emil Dean
Svenne and Charlotte (from The Hep Stars)
John Walker -
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mitch & Tich -
Double Bubble Trading Card Company of Philadelphia 1914 -
Tangerine Peel
Emile Dean
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Thursday 17th April 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Peter Murray
Mary Hopkin -
Stevie Wonder -
The Who -
The Beatles with Billy Preston -
Bob & Earl -
Clodagh Rodgers -
The Flirtations -
Johnny Nash -
Desmond Dekker & The Aces -
Harlech Fusions 10.30 -
John Mayer's Indo-
Friday 18th April 1969
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 4.55 -
Jefferson
BBC1 The Stanley Baxter Show 7.55 -
Mark Wynter
BBC1 The Carl-
1920 Fruitgum Company
Emperor Rosko
BBC1 How Late It Is 11.05 -
Hosted by Angela Huth, Richard Neville, Pete Drummond, Ronnie Fletcher
Jon Hiseman's Colesseum
Chicken Shack
Saturday 19th April 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Portrait Of Petula 7.30 -
Petula Clark
Sacha Distel
Andy Williams
BBC1 Braden's Week 10.45 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 9.45 -
Sweet Thursday
Jimmy Campbell
LWT It's Vikki Carr 6.15 -
Vikki Carr
Roy Castle
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
ATV Des O'Connor On Reflection 6.45 -
A compilation from his previous series
Mireille Mathieu
Engelbert Humperdinck
Sunday 20th April 1969
BBC2 The Jimmy Logan Show 7.25 -
The Barron Knights
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Emil Dean
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
ATV This Is Tom Jones 8.25 -
Martha & The Vandellas were pencilled in to appear but Reeves fell ill while in the UK
Reviewed from a 31 minute UK black and white print
Tom Jones -
Tom Jones & Fran Jeffries -
Manitas De Plata -
Fran Jeffries -
Mirielle Mathieu -
Donovan
The Who -
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
contents unknown
Monday 21st April 1969
BBC1 The Frost Report 9.50 -
Julie Felix
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Quadrangle Folk Five (folk group)
ATV Will The Real Mike Yarwood Stand Up? 9.30 -
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
Dilys Watling
The GoJos (dance troupe)
Tuesday 22nd April 1969
Grampian Pop Scotch (first in series) 6.35 -
Hosted by Jack MacLaughlin, Cathy Spence
The Wallace Collection
Jefferson -
Reg Christie & Gavin MacDonald
Sight & Sound
Wednesday 23rd April 1969
BBC1 Jack Jones at the Talk Of The Town 7.30 -
Granada Discotheque 4.55 -
Hosted by Billy J Kramer, Ayshea
Billy J Kramer & The Remo
Linda Kendrick
Kenny Everett -
The Swinging Blue Jeans
The Explosives
John and Anne Rider -
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Thursday 24th April 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Desmond Dekker was pencilled in for tonight's show but dropped from the number one spot
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Chart run down with the number one record
Herman's Hermits -
Clodagh Rodgers -
Noel Harrison -
Jefferson -
Roy Orbison -
Junior Walker & The All Stars -
Stevie Wonder I Don't Know Why (repeat 6th March 1969)
The Who -
The Beatles with Billy Preston -
Friday 25th April 1969
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 4.55 -
Manfred Mann
BBC1 The Stanley Baxter Show 7.55 -
Kenny Lynch
BBC1 How Late It Is 10.50 -
Hosted by Angela Huth, Richard Neville, Pete Drummond, Ronnie Fletcher
Chicken Shack
Saturday 26th April 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.15 -
Jefferson
BBC1 Ice Cabaret 6.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 The Dave Allen Show 7.30 -
Matt Monro
Trisha Noble
Ray Barrett
BBC1 Braden's Week 10.55 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 9.50 -
The Elastic Band
BBC2 Release 10.05 -
Duke Ellington
LWT It's Vikki Carr 6.15 -
Vikki Carr
Lena Martell
ATV Des O'Connor On Reflection 6.15 -
A compilation from his previous series
Matt Monro
Malcolm Roberts
Esther & Abi Ofarim
Frankie Vaughan
Sunday 27th April 1969
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Solomon King
Elaine Delmar
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
ATV This Is Tom Jones 8.25 -
Tom Jones
The Hollies -
Stevie Wonder -
Shani Wallis
Monday 28th April 1969
ATV Will The Real Mike Yarwood Stand Up? 9.30 -
Ronnie Carroll
The GoJos dance troupe
Dilys Watling
Tuesday 29th April 1969
BBC1 British Film Comedy: Ramsbottom Rides Again 7.25 -
BBC2 Love You Madly 8.50 -
Duke Ellington 70th birthday tribute with Bill LeSage, Tony Coe, Stan Tracey, Don Rendell, Ian Carr, Acker Bilk, Cleo Laine, Johnny Dankworth etc
Grampian Pop Scotch 6.35 -
Dave Cash
The Tremeloes
The Marbles
Writing On The Wall
Wednesday 30th April 1969
ITV Anything You Can Do 4.55 -
First in series of children's talent show hosted by Ed Stewart
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Yorkshire Sez Les 10.40 -
La Compagnie
Thursday 1st May 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Alan Freeman
Chart run down with the number one record
Manfred Mann -
Bob & Earl -
Fleetwood Mac -
Herman's Hermits -
Marsha Hunt -
The Isley Brothers -
Mary Hopkin -
The Beatles with Billy Preston -
Harlech Fusions 10.30 -
John Mayer's Indo-
Georgie Fame
Friday 2nd May 1969
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 4.55 -
Herman's Hermits
BBC1 According to Dora 7.55 -
Mark Wynter
BBC1 How Late It Is 10.55 -
Hosted by Angela Huth, Richard Neville, Pete Drummond, Ronnie Fletcher
Cleo Laine & Johnny Dankworth
John Lennon & Yoko Ono discuss Rape movie and clip
Saturday 3rd May 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.15 -
Sandie Shaw -
Heathmore -
BBC1 Ice Cabaret 6.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.15 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 The Hollies In Concert 9.15 -
The Hippodrome, Golders Green, London
ATV Des O'Connor Show On Stage 6.15 -
Sacha Distel
Trisha Noble
LWT Vikki Carr Show (listed in music press, but not in newspapers)
Vikki Carr
The Dallas Boys
Sunday 4th May 1969
BBC1 Show Of The Week: Harry Secombe 7.25 -
Val Doonican
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Dave Cash (DJ)
The Fourmost -
Desmond Dekker and the Aces -
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
Southern God's Trombone 6.15 -
Mikki & Griff
Marion Montgomery
ATV This Is Tom Jones 10.20 -
Tom Jones
Herman's Hermits
Sonny & Cher
Cleo Laine
Esther Ofarim
Monday 5th May 1969
BBC1 Moira Anderson Sings 10.00 -
Vince Hill
Thames A Spate Of Speight 9.10 -
The Scaffold
Kenny Lynch
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
The Eddie Connors Four (pop group who win this week's show)
Tuesday 6th May 1969
Grampian A Girl Called...Bernadette 9.45 -
Wednesday 7th May 1969
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Thames Frankie Howerd at the Poco A Poco 9.10 -
The Poco A Poco nightclub in Stockport, Cheshire
Hank Marvin
also seen listed as The Scaffold
Grampian Pop Scotch 7.00 -
Leapy Lee
James & Sylvia MacNeill
Thursday 8th May 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Chart run down with the number one record
Dave Dee & Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich -
Clodagh Rodgers -
Herman's Hermits -
The Who -
Sandie Shaw -
Frank Sinatra -
Fleetwood Mac -
The Beatles with Billy Preston -
BBC1 Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing 9.05 -
Frank Sinatra
The 5th Dimension
Ulster Zoom In 7.00 -
contents unknown
Friday 9th May 1969
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 4.55 -
The Casuals
BBC1 According To Dora 7.55 -
Mark Wynter
BBC1 How Late It Is 10.50 -
Hosted by Angela Huth, Richard Neville, Pete Drummond, Ronnie Fletcher
Fleetwood Mac
The Spinners
Scottish It's Vikki Carr 6.35 -
Grampian It's Vikki Carr 11.20 -
Saturday 10th May 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
content unknown
BBC1 Braden's Week...End 10.55 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 The Talk Of The Town: Matt Monro In Concert 9.15 -
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 10.35 -
Family -
ATV Des O'Connor On Stage 6.15 -
Mary Hopkin
Tony Christie
Sunday 11th May 1969
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Heathmore
The Spinners (folk group)
ITV God's Trombone 6.15 -
Kenny Lynch
Larry Adler
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
ATV This Is Tom Jones 10.20 -
Tom Jones
(possibly) Mireille Mathieu
The Dave Clark Five
John Davidson
Joey Heatherton
Monday 12th May 1969
BBC1 Moira Anderson Sings 9.55 -
Edmund Hockridge
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Barry Hopkins (singer)
Terry Bennett and the Diary Showband (group)
Thames A Man And His Guitar: Cy Grant 12.00 am -
Tuesday 13th May 1969
Grampian Pop Scotch 6.35 -
Eire Apparent
The Love Affair
Johnny Nash
Wednesday 14th May 1969
Granada Anything You Can Do... 4.55 -
Children's quiz and talent show, hosted by Ed Stewart
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 5.20 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Yorkshire Sez Les 10.30 -
Roy Orbison & The Art Movement
The Skylarks
Thames A Man And A Guitar 12.15 am -
Cy Grant
Thursday 15th May 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Steppenwolf were pencilled in to appear
Hosted by Peter Murray (was due to be Tony Blackburn according to Melody Maker)
Chart run down with the number one record
Herd -
Fleetwood Mac -
Tony & Tandy -
Herman's Hermits -
Tommy Roe -
Manfred Mann -
Joe South -
Host chats to Stefan ? (Swedish DJ)
The Beatles with Billy Preston -
Top Of The Pops theme and end credits
Ulster Zoom In 7.00 -
contents unknown
Southern Bye Bye Birdie 7.00 -
Harlech Fusions 10.30 -
John Mayer's Indo-
Elaine Delmar
Friday 16th May 1969
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 5.15 -
(possibly) Mud
BBC1 The Spinners 6.20 -
Broadcast from the Octagon Theatre, Bolton
The Spinners -
Marti Webb
BBC1 According To Dora 7.55 -
Mary Wynter
BBC1 Miss England 9.05 -
Tony Blackburn on judging panel
BBC1 Julie Felix In Concert 9.55 -
Julie Felix
The Hollies
BBC1 How Late It Is 10.50 -
Hosted by Angela Huth, Richard Neville, Pete Drummond, Ronnie Fletcher
Pete Brown and His Battered Ornaments
Saturday 17th May 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.15 -
The Pentangle -
BBC1 Ice Cabaret 6.50 -
BBC1 The Cliff Richard Show 7.30 -
Cliff Richard
Cilla Black & Cliff Richard -
Hank B Marvin
Cilla Black -
BBC1 Whatever Next 10.45 -
The Flirtations
BBC2 The Talk Of The Town: The Bee Gees In London 9.20 -
From Radio Times "Barry and Maurice Gibb, Colin Petersen and introducing Lesley Gibb" The Gibb's sister told the NME "I couldn't believe it when Mr Stigwood, the Bee Gees manager asked me to stand in for Robin at the TV spectacular from Talk Of The Town on Sunday. I suppose the idea was to keep it in the family while Robin is ill."
set list includes -
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 10.45 -
Cats Eyes (cabaret and club act signed to Deram)
LWT It's Vikki Carr 6.15 -
The Dallas Boys
ATV Des O'Connor On Stage 6.45 -
Kenny Ball
Tony Blackburn & Jimmy Young -
LWT A Man And A Guitar 12.10 am -
Cy Grant
Sunday 18th May 1969
BBC1 The Great Stars: Captain Newman MD 8.15 -
BBC2 All My Loving 9.30 -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
David and Marianne Dalmour
Friday Brown
ATV The Liberace Show 10.20 -
Engelbert Humperdinck
LWT The Best Of Frost 11.20 -
John Lennon & Yoko Ono -
LWT A Man And A Guitar 12.05 am -
Cy Grant
Monday 19th May 1969
BBC1 Moira Anderson Sings 10.05 -
content unknown
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Jeff Cane (singer who had previously appeared on The Five O'Clock Club)
Tuesday 20th May 1969
BBC2 The Stiffkey Scandals of 1932 8.00 -
Musical with Annie Ross
Grampian Pop Scotch 6.35 -
Peter Sarstedt
The Equals
Wednesday 21st May 1969
Yorkshire Sez Les 10.30 -
Georgie Fame
Thursday 22nd May 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn ("I put my Robin Hood gear on")
Chart run down with the number one record
Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon -
Frank Sinatra -
Herman's Hermits -
Manfred Mann -
Fleetwood Mac -
Frankie Vaughan -
The 5th Dimension -
Status Quo -
The Beatles with Billy Preston -
Top Of The Pops and end credits
BBC1 Sportsnight with Coleman 9.20 -
Ed Stewart, Radio One DJ, turns football commentator in an attempt to win a place commentating on the Mexico World Cup in 1970
ATV It's The Bachelors 7.00 -
The Bachelors
Ulster Zoom In 7.00 -
contents unknown
Friday 23rd May 1969
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 4.55 -
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich
BBC1 The Spinners 6.20 -
BBC1 How Late It Is 11.00 -
Hosted by Angela Huth, Richard Neville, Pete Drummond, Ronnie Fletcher
Richie Havens
Saturday 24th May 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 The Val Doonican Show 7.30 -
A Holiday Special
Val Doonican
BBC1 Whatever Next 11.10 -
The Flirtations
BBC2 The Monkees 8.20 -
33 Revolutions Per Monkee, produced by Jack Good
The Monkees
Julie Driscoll
Fats Domino
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Richard
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 9.50 -
ATV Des O'Connor On Stage 6.15 -
Jim Dale
Terri Stevens
LWT It's Vikki Carr 6.15 -
content unknown
LWT Kindly Leave The Raj 10.40 -
musical based on British rule in India
Sunday 25th May 1969
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Lonnie Donegan
Unit 4 + 2
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
Tyne Tees Life With Johnny: Up The Creek 6.55 -
Cliff Richard plays Johnny, the lead in a series of stories based on the Christian parables. Cindy Kent of The Settlers plays his girlfriend, Carol
Cliff Richard -
ATV The Liberace Show 10.20 -
Dusty Springfield
Millicent Martin & Liberace -
Monday 26th May 1969 Bank Holiday
BBC1 Disney Time 7.30 -
The theme for the clips is time and adventure
Hosted by Petula Clark from her home in Geneva
BBC1 Ustinov Ad Lib 1.00 -
Dudley Moore
BBC2 Late Night Line-
The Mothers Of Invention -
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Anna Valeska (singer from the Playboy Club, London)
Gil Tod and The Tikis Showband (group)
Tuesday 27th May 1969
BBC2 Andy Williams In Concert 8.00 -
Andy Williams with the Henry Mancini orchestra
Grampian Pop Scotch 6.35 -
Marmalade
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
Wednesday 28th May 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Tammy 7.30 -
Tammy Jones
Yorkshire Sez Les 10.30 -
content unknown
Thursday 29th May 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Alan Freeman
Chart run down with the number one record
Peter Sarstedt -
Tom Jones -
Bobbie Gentry -
Fleetwood Mac -
Manfred Mann -
The Bee Gees -
Des O'Connor -
The Beatles with Billy Preston -
BBC1 Dancing 10.00 -
The World Amateur Ballroom Dancing Championships, 1969
Joe Loss and his orchestra
Thames Today 6.04 -
Peter Sarstedt
Ulster Zoom In 7.00 -
contents unknown
ATV It's The Bachelors 9.00 -
The Bachelors
ITN News At Ten 10.00 -
Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested on cannabis possession charge
Harlech Fusions 10.30 -
Pink Floyd
The Nice
Cleo Laine
John Mayer's Indo-
Friday 30th May 1969
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 4.55 -
The Marmalade
BBC1 The Spinners 6.20 -
Southern Scene South East 6.00 -
Peter Sarstedt
Saturday 31st May 1969
BBC1 Here's Lucy 5.50 -
Tennessee Ernie Ford
BBC1 Dee Time 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Ice Cabaret 6.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Show of the North 7.30 -
George Chisholm and his Jazzers
Trio Athenee
BBC1 Whatever Next 10.45 -
The Flirtations
Jacky Lee
Julie Felix as Juliet
Paul Jones as Romeo
BBC2 One Pair of Eyes 8.15 -
John Dankworth talks about hero worship
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 10.45 -
There were 125 complaints to the BBC about the show being "obscene"
Group Therapy
LWT Set 'Em Up Joe 6.15 -
Hosted by Joe Brown
Clodagh Rogers -
Steppenwolf
Alan Randall (George Formby impersonator)
LWT The Bruce Forsyth Show 7.30 -
Cilla Black
Sunday 1st June 1969
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
The Settlers
Barry Noble
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
ATV The Liberace Show 9.00 -
Liberace
Sacha Distel
Anita Harris
Monday 2nd June 1969
BBC1 Moira Anderson Sings 9.55 -
Frank Ifield
Grampian Try For Top Ten 6.10 -
A quiz show hosted by Billy Raymond -
content unknown
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Five to One (group)
Tuesday 3rd June 1969
Grampian Pop Scotch 6.35 -
Consortium
The Chris McClure Section
Don Partridge
Thursday 5th June 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
The Beatles -
Cliff Richard -
Jethro Tull -
Marmalade -
Chicken Shack -
Edwin Hawkins Singers -
Jackie Wilson -
Tommy Roe -
BBC1 Song For Wales 11.00 -
competition
Thames Today 6.04 -
Manfred Mann (the person) -
ATV It's The Bachelors 9.00 -
The Bachelors
Ulster Zoom In 7.00 -
contents unknown
HTV Seeds Of Love 10.30 -
The Rainbow People
Friday 6th June 1969
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 4.55 -
The Web
BBC1 The Spinners 6.20 -
Scottish John Hansen Sings 6.35 -
Saturday 7th June 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.15 -
Cliff Richard
Bobbie Gentry
BBC1 Ice Cabaret 6.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Whatever Next 10.45 -
The Flirtations
BBC1 Show Of The North 7.30 -
Andy Stewart
The Karlins
BBC2 One Pair Of Eyes 8.15 -
Marty Feldman -
Annie Ross and James Hendricks
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 10.45 -
Lions of Judea
LWT Set 'Em Up Joe 6.15 -
Joe Brown
Sandie Shaw
Clinton Ford (replacing Lonnie Donegan)
Frankie Vaughan
Sunday 8th June 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Dave Allen 10.35 -
Edward Woodward (as a singer)
Heidi Bruhl
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
The Morgan James Duo
Granada Nice Time 5.30 -
Kenny Everett
Tyne Tees Life With Johnny: Johnny On The Rocks 6.55 -
Cliff Richard & Cindy Kent – You Held My Hand
ATV The Liberace Show 10.20 -
Mary Hopkin -
Matt Monro -
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs 11.20 pm -
Des O'Connor
Abbe Lane
Monday 9th June 1969
BBC1 Moira Anderson Sings (not listed in newspapers)
Tony Mercer
Grampian Try For Top Ten 6.10 -
content unknown
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
The Three Companions (singing group)
Tuesday 10th June 1969
Grampian Pop Scotch 6.35 -
The Foundations
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
Stuart Henry
NB this line-
The Moody Blues
Jackie Lomax
Emperor Rosko
Wednesday 11th June 1969
BBC2 Pickwick 9.05 -
musical with Harry Secombe
Yorkshire Sez Les 10.30 -
Cleo Laine and John Dankworth
Thursday 12th June 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
The Tremeloes were pencilled in for an appearance (they appeared the following week), while The Ohio Express were due to appear but the British Musicians Union banned them, responding to a similar ban in the USA for British acts
Hosted by Peter Murray
Cliff Richard -
The Family Dogg -
Jethro Tull -
Amen Corner -
Des O'Connor -
Edwin Hawkins Singers -
Scott Walker -
The Beatles -
ATV It's The Bachelors 9.00 -
content unknown
HTV Fusions 10.30 -
John Mayer's Indo-
Mark Murphy
Friday 13th June 1969
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 4.55 -
The Tremeloes
Thames Today 6.04 -
James Taylor
Saturday 14th June 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.15 -
Scott Walker
BBC1 Ice Cabaret 6.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Show Of The North 7.30 -
Also seen as George Chisholm, Trio Athenee
The Marmalade
Anita Harris
BBC1 Whatever Next 11.00 -
The Flirtations
BBC2 Noel Harrison In London 9.05 -
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 10.55 -
Strawbs -
LWT Set 'Em Up Joe 6.15 -
Joe Brown
Peter Sarstedt -
Richie Havens
Julie Rogers
Heathmore
Sunday 15th June 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Tony Bennett & The Count Basie Orchestra 10.25 -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Davy Clinton
Salena Jones
Tyne Tees Life With Johnny: Johnny Come Home 6.55 -
Cliff Richard plays the Prodigal Son with Una Stubbs
Cliff Richard -
ATV The Liberace Show 10.20 -
The Bachelors
Susan Maughan
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs 11.20 pm -
content unknown
Monday 16th June 1969
BBC1 Moira Anderson Sings 9.55 -
Nina and Frederick
Grampian Try For Top Ten 6.10 -
content unknown
Tuesday 17th June 1969
Thames Today 6.04 -
The Ohio Express
Grampian Pop Scotch 6.35 -
Desmond Dekkar
The Move
Emperor Rosko
Scottish The Celebrity (possibly The Contestants 6.35 -
Stuart Henry
Wednesday 18th June 1969
BBC1 Jazz Jubilee 10.50 -
Chris Barber
Alex Welsh
George Chisholm
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 9.55 -
Bobbie Gentry
Joe South
BBC2 Late Night Line-
The Pentangle
Yorkshire Sez Les 10.30 -
Alan Price
Thursday 19th June 1969
BBC1 (Schools) Look Out: Whose Choice 2.05 -
Alan Alridge on set of Cream's Goodbye photo shoot
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Paul Revere & The Raiders were due to appear but the British Musicians Union banned them, responding to a similar ban in the USA for British acts
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
The Beatles -
The Kinks -
Booker T & The MGs -
Thunderclap Newman -
The Beach Boys -
The Family Dogg -
The Tremeloes -
Chicken Shack -
The Beatles -
Top Of The Pops with end credits
ATV It's The Bachelors 9.00 -
content unknown
Friday 20th June 1969
BBC1 High Jinks 4.55 -
Elastic Band
George Chisholm
BBC1 The Spinners 6.20 -
BBC1 Sacha Distel 7.55 -
Sacha Distel
Anita Harris
The Russ Henderson Steel Band
Saturday 21st June 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
Vic Damone
BBC1 The Ken Dodd Show 7.00 -
Vince Hill
Los Paraguayos
BBC1 Whatever Next 10.50 -
The Flirtations
Dave Dee as Caliban (from Shakespeare's The Tempest)
BBC2 The Beat Of Brass 8.15 -
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
BBC2 The Talk Of The Town: Nana Mouskouri 10.00 -
LWT Set 'Em Up Joe 6.15 -
Joe Brown -
Joe Brown & Bobby Vee -
Scott Walker -
Francoise Hardy
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich -
Bobby Vee -
Yorkshire Bruce Forsyth Show 9.00 -
Cilla Black
Sunday 22nd June 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week 10.15 -
The Young Generation meet Lulu
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Lita Roza
Illusive Dream -
Tyne Tees Life With Johnny: Johnny Faces Facts 6.55 -
Cliff Richard
ATV The Liberace Show 10.20 -
The Sandpipers
Frankie Vaughan
Moira Anderson
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs 11.20 pm -
Clodagh Rodgers
Monday 23rd June 1969
BBC1 Moira Anderson Sings 9.55 -
David Hughes
BBC2 World In Ferment 8.50 -
Dudley Moore
ITN News At Ten 10.00 -
Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull remanded on bail
Grampian Try For Top Ten 6.10 -
content unknown
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
All winners show
Eddie Connor's Four
Irene Stevens (singer)
Anna McGoldrick (singer)
Tuesday 24th June 1969
Thames Light Up The Sky 6.55 -
Grampian Pop Scotch 6.35 -
The Chris McLure Section
Mud
Tin-
Wednesday 25th June 1969
BBC1 Wednesday Show Time 7.30 -
The Music Of Les Reed
Les Reed and Orchestra -
Cleo Laine
Donald Peers -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Jackie Trent
BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-
Tiny Tim
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 9.55 -
Bobbie Gentry
Billy Preston
Thursday 26th June 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Alan Freeman
Alan Price -
Billy Preston -
Cilla Black -
Creedence Clearwater Revival -
Jethro Tull -
Amen Corner -
Peter Sarstedt -
The Beatles -
ATV It's The Bachelors 7.30 -
content unknown
Friday 27th June 1969
BBC1 High Jinks 4.55 -
The Freelanders
George Chisholm
Saturday 28th June 1969
A new series of The Billy Cotton Band Show was scheduled to begin tonight, however the star died in March.
BBC1 Whatever Next 11.15 -
The Flirtations
Stuart Henry as Richard III
Jackie Lee
LWT Set 'Em Up Joe 6.15 -
Joe Brown,
Craig Douglas -
ITV Glenn Miller Sound 10.40 -
The Syd Lawrence Orchestra
Sunday 29th June 1969
BBC2 Once More With Felix 9.00 -
The Kinks
The 5th Dimension
Tyne Tees Life With Johnny: Johnny Gets The Point 6.55 -
Cliff Richard
ATV The Liberace Show 7.25 -
Nina and Frederik -
Trisha Noble -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Friday Brown
Josef Locke
Monday 30th June 1969
BBC1 Moira Anderson Sings 9.55 -
David Hughes
Thames Mike & Bernie's Show 6.45 -
Clodagh Rodgers
Howard Wilkinson Trio (a jazz group who had been spotted on Opportunity Knocks)
Grampian Try For Top Ten 6.10 -
content unknown
Tuesday 1st July 1969
Grampian It's The Bachelors 8.00 -
The Bachelors
Wednesday 2nd July 1969
BBC1 Show Time 7.30 -
Introduced by Princess Grace of Monaco
Gilbert Becuad
Francoise Hardy
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 9.55 -
Bobbie Gentry
Alan Price
Thursday 3rd July 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
Top 20 chart run down with the number one record
Marmalade -
Desmond Dekker & The Aces -
Elvis Presley -
Clodagh Rodgers -
Amen Corner -
Scott Walker -
Crazy Elephant -
Thunderclap Newman -
End theme -
Thames Max 7.00 -
Max Bygraves
ATV Join Jim Dale 9.00 -
Throughout the series Jim Dale sings songs from his LP Meet Jim Dale on Pye Records, owned by ATV
Jim Dale
ITN News At Ten 10.00 -
Brian Jones' death report
HTV Fusions 10.30 -
John Mayer's Indo-
Annie Ross and Jon Hendrick
Saturday 5th July 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent
Marmalade
Matt Monro
BBC1 The Roy Castle Show 7.30 -
This series replaced the intended Billy Cotton Band Show
Vince Hill
Clodagh Rodgers
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 10.45 -
Trapeze live from the Lafayette Club, Wolverhampton, introduced by Emperor Rosko. Notes from the BBC's INFAX database claim the songs were Magic Carpet Ride, Meet on the Ledge, Can't see a Thing, but PasB (Programme as Broadcast) notes that Trapeze did not appear on this date but a group called Samson which was also mentioned by Melody Maker.
ITN News 6.10 -
The Rolling Stones play live in Hyde Park
LWT Set 'Em Up Joe 6.15 -
Joe Brown
David Essex -
Georgie Fame -
Mikki & Griff
Yorkshire The Bruce Forsyth Show 8.00 -
The Kessler Sisters
ITV Bohemian Rhapsody 10.40 -
Possibly the inspiration for the Queen hit?
played by the Czech Philharmonic (Conducted by Vaclaw Smetacek)
Sunday 6th July 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Shirley Bassey 9.55 -
Shirley Bassey at Bern's Restaurant, Switzerland
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Gerry Marsden
Clodagh Rodgers
ITN News 6.00 -
Mick Jagger leaves for Australia to film Ned Kelly
Tyne Tees Life With Johnny: Johnny In Love 6.55 -
Cliff Richard
ATV The Liberace Show 10.20 -
Nancy Wilson -
Minnie Pearl
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs 11.20 pm -
Terri Stevens -
The Virgil Brothers
ITV Walls Luv ice-
with David Bowie
Monday 7th July 1969
Granada Television adopts the 'G' logo, which would, along with the ATV 'zoom 2' and the Thames ident, become one of the more iconic symbols on ITV
BBC1 It's Ragtime 9.55 -
The Trad Lads
Thames Mike & Bernie's Show 6.40 -
Cilla Black
Alan Price
Grampian Try For Top Ten 6.15 -
content unknown
Tuesday 8th July 1969
Grampian Alisdair Sings 10.30 -
Wednesday 9th July 1969
BBC1 The Good Old Days 7.30 -
The Bachelors
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 10.00 -
Bobbie Gentry
Noel Harrison
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 6.04 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Thursday 10th July 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Peter Murray, Tony Blackburn
The Plastic Ono Band -
Donovan With The Jeff Beck Group -
The Family Dogg -
The Rolling Stones -
Desmond Dekker & The Aces -
Vanity Fare -
Thunderclap Newman -
ATV Max 6.55 -
Max Bygraves
ATV Join Jim Dale 9.00 -
Jim Dale
Janie Marden
ITN News At Ten 10.00 -
Brian Jones' funeral
Thames The Singer and the Song 12.00 am -
Folk singer Malcolm Stewart
Friday 11th July 1969
BBC1 High Jinks 4.55 -
George Chisholm
Chuckles
BBC1 News 8.50 -
Brian Jones' funeral
BBC1 Don't Ask Us, We're New Here 7.55 -
Music and comedy with Adrienne Posta, Mike Redway
Thames That Was Today That Was 6.04 -
Arrival
Saturday 12th July 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
content unknown
BBC1 The Roy Castle Show 7.30 -
Cilla Black
Vince Hill
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.00 -
Copperfield
LWT Set 'Em Up Joe 6.50 -
Joe Brown
Clodagh Rodgers
The Virgil Brothers
London Weekend The Singer and The Song 12.05 am -
Malcolm Stewart -
Sunday 13th July 1969
BBC1 Sing You Sinners 3.40 -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: The Young Generation Meet Esther Ofarim 10.15 -
Recorded in Sweden
Esther Ofarim
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Cat's Eyes
Valerie Masters
Lita Roza
ATV The Liberace Show 10.00 -
Cliff Richard
Janie Marden
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs 11.20 pm 12.05 am
Cilla Black
Matt Monro
London Weekend The Singer and The Song 12.05 -
Malcolm Stewart -
Monday 14th July 1969
Thames Mike & Bernie's Show 6.45 -
Frankie Vaughan
Grampian Living Music 11.25 -
Clive Lythgoe at the piano
Tuesday 15th July 1969
BBC1 John Dankworth 10.50 -
talks about his career
BBC2 Apollo 11: Target Moon 9.00 -
David Bowie's Space Oddity was used by the BBC for their moon landing coverage, having been released the week before.
Wednesday 16th July 1969
BBC2 Rowan and Martin 9.10 -
Bobby Darin
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 10.00 -
Bobbie Gentry -
James Taylor -
James Taylor & Bobbie Gentry -
Bobbie Gentry -
James Taylor -
Bobbie Gentry -
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 6.04 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Thursday 17th July 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Billy Preston -
Love Affair -
Robin Gibb -
Marmalade -
Rolling Stones -
Clodagh Rodgers -
Val Doonican -
Thunderclap Newman -
Grampian Jackie Lomax 6.35 -
Jackie Lomax -
Thames Max 7.00 -
Max Bygraves
ATV Join Jim Dale 9.00 -
Jim Dale
Anna Quayle (as a singer)
Friday 18th July 1969
BBC1 High Jinks 4.55 -
George Chisholm
Sons and Lovers
Vanity Fare
BBC1 The Spinners 6.20 -
BBC1 Don't Ask Us, We're New Here 7.55 -
Music and comedy with Adrienne Posta, Mike Redway
BBC1 The Liver Birds 8.20 -
Theme by The Scaffold
BBC1 Petula Clark's Cinema 10.00 -
Clark talks about her film career
Grampian Follow That Dream 6.10 -
Saturday 19th July 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.20 -
content unknown
BBC1 The Roy Castle Show 6.55 -
Vince Hill
Roy Budd
BBC2 International Cabaret 9.20 -
Nancy Wilson
BBC2 Free For All: On The Arts part two Pop 10.55 -
Pete Brown & The Battered Ornaments
with Jonathan King, Humphrey Lyttelton, Manfred Mann, Denis Matthews, John Peel
BBC2 Colour Me Pop (not shown, probably due to Apollo mission)
Love Affair
LWT Set 'Em Up Joe 6.50 -
Joe Brown
Matt Monro
Hank Marvin
Terri Stevens
Sunday 20th July 1969
BBC1 Omnibus: What If It's Just Green Cheese? 10.00 -
An Apollo 11 moon landing show
Pink Floyd -
Dudley Moore
Marian Montgomery
BBC2 The Bing Crosby Special 8.45 -
The Supremes
BBC2 Show Of The Week 9.45 -
Lulu with The Young Generation at Berns Restaurant, Stockholm, Sweden
ATV The Golden Shot (cancelled due to Apollo 11 moon landing show)
Cilla Black
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs (cancelled due to Apollo 11 moon landing show)
Helen Shapiro
ATV The Liberace Show (cancelled due to Apollo 11 moon landing show)
Shani Wallis
David Garrick
LWT Man On The Moon 6.00 pm -
An Apollo 11 moon landing show
Hosted by David Frost
Mary Hopkin -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Sammy Davis Jr -
Cliff Richard
Lulu -
Cilla Black -
Monday 21st July 1969
BBC1 It's Ragtime 10.00 -
jazz tunes
BBC1 Made In Britain: High Fidelity 11.00 -
A look at the Garrard turntable factory
Tuesday 22nd July 1969
BBC1 Play School 11.00 -
The Yellow Submarine
Thames Performer and Composer 11.15 -
Anthony Hopkins introduces John Williams
Wednesday 23rd July 1969
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 9.55 -
Bobbie Gentry
John Hartford
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 6.04 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Thursday 24th July 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
The Plastic Ono Band -
Cilla Black -
The Equals -
The Move -
Robin Gibb -
Clodagh Rodgers -
Joe Dolan -
The Rolling Stones -
Thames Max 6.50 -
Max Bygraves
Ulster Fun In Acapulco 7.00 -
Friday 25th July 1969
BBC1 High Jinks 4.55 -
George Chisholm
The Casuals
BBC1 Don't Ask Us, We're New Here 7.55 -
Music and comedy with Adrienne Posta, Mike Redway
LWT Julia 7.00 -
Ketty Lester (in acting role)
Saturday 26th July 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
Clodagh Rodgers -
BBC The Roy Castle Show 7.30 -
Vince Hill
Anita Harris
BBC2 International Cabaret 9.00 -
Marion Montgomery
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 10.45 -
The Orange Bicycle
LWT Set 'Em Up Joe 6.50 -
Joe Brown
Don Partridge
Kenny Lynch
Au Pair
ATV Tarbuck's Back 8.05 -
Georgie Fame
Anita Harris
Sunday 27th July 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: The Morecambe & Wise Show 10.15 -
Bobbie Gentry
Vince Hill
Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen
ITV Abroad With Beehan 1.30 -
Ewan MacColl talks to Dominic Beehan
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Anita Harris
Cliff Aungier
ATV The Liberace Show 10.20 -
David Garrick
Shani Wallis
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs 11.20 pm -
Malcolm Roberts
Hele Shapiro
Monday 28th July 1969
Thames Mike & Bernie's Show 6.45 -
Marni Nixon and Josef Locke were scheduled to appear in this edition
Frankie Vaughan
Lena Martell
The Avon Cities Jazz Band
Wednesday 30th July 1969
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 9.05 -
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 6.04 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Thames Applause, Applause 10.30 -
The life of Sid Field, with Eve Taylor (Sandie Shaw's manager)
Thursday 31st July 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Weekly music paper Disc has Joe Dolan as appearing
Hosted by Alan Freeman
Chart rundown with the number one record
Donovan With The Jeff Beck Group -
Diana Ross & The Supremes -
Georgie Fame -
Billy Preston -
Love Affair -
Cilla Black -
Marmalade -
The Rolling Stones -
Top Of The Pops closing theme and end credits
Thames Max 7.00 -
Max Bygraves
Friday 1st August 1969
BBC1 High Jinks 4.55 -
Vanity Fare
George Chisholm
BBC1 The Singing Barn 6.20 -
Ryan Davies presents ballads and folksongs
Margaret Williams
The Hennesys
Y Triban
The Cousins
Rosemary
Derek Boote
The Barnstormers
BBC1 Don't Ask Us, We're New Here 8.20 -
Music and comedy with Adrienne Posta, Mike Redway
Saturday 2nd August 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
The Peddlers
BBC1 The Roy Castle Show 7.30 -
Vince Hill
Val Doonican
Terri Stevens
BBC2 International Cabaret 9.25 -
Matt Monro
Roy Budd
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.05 -
This edition was brought forward one week
The Love Affair -
Philip Goodhand Tait
LWT Set 'Em Up Joe 6.50 -
Joe Brown
Helen Shapiro -
Dennis Lotis
Joe Dolan
ATV Tarbuck's Back 8.05 -
The Hollies
LWT The Sound Of Soul: Nina Simone 11.40 pm -
Sunday 3rd August 1969
BBC2 Where Have All The Teddy Boys Gone? 9.10 -
Five Teddy Boys speak
BBC2 Show Of The Week: The Rolf Harris Show 9.55 -
Russ Conway
Noel Harrison
Nana Mouskouri
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Cilla Black
Danny Street
ATV Goodbye Again 10.20 -
This had already been seen in the USA. A Rosemary's Baby sketch had been cut from the broadcast.
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore
Mel Torme & Anne Bancroft -
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs 11.20 pm -
Marsha Hubnt
Peter Gordeno
Monday 4th August 1969
Thames Mike & Bernie's Show 6.45 -
Josef Locke -
Julie Rogers
The Avon Cities Jazz Band with Sammi Brown
Tuesday 5th August 1969
BBC2 W. Somerset Maugham 9.05 -
Episode
play with Joe Brown as Fred Manson
Granada Melanie 6.05 -
Wednesday 6th August 1969
BBC1 Give Me Your Word 6.20 -
Top Of The Pops Vs Radio One DJs
BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-
The Banana Splits
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 9.55 -
Thames The Sooty Show 4.55 -
Cliff Richard
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 6.04 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Thursday 7th August 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Peter Murray
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Humble Pie -
Robin Gibb -
Clodagh Rodgers -
Vanity Fare -
Joe Dolan -
The Move -
The Rolling Stones -
Thames Max 7.00 -
Max Bygraves
ATV Join Jim Dale 9.00 -
Jim Dale
Friday 8th August 1969
BBC1 High Jinks 4.55 -
George Chisholm
Peppermint Circus
BBC1 The Singing Barn 6.20 -
Ryan Davies introduces folk and ballads
Saturday 9th August 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
Engelbert Humperdinck
BBC1 The Roy Castle Show 7.30 -
Francoise Hardy
Vince Hill
Harry Secombe
BBC2 International Cabaret 9.10 -
Vera Lynn
Winifred Atwell
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 10.45 -
This was originally scheduled for 15th March 1969
Gene Pitney
Mike Cotton Sound
ATV The Frankie Howerd Show 6.15 -
Salena Jones
The Tremeloes -
Pan's People dance routine
ATV Tarbuck's Back 7.00 -
Frankie Vaughan
Sunday 10th August 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: The Morecambe & Wise Show 10.25 -
Malcolm Roberts
Trio Athenee
Kenny Ball and his Jazzband
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Malcolm Roberts
Bimbi Worrick -
LWT Swing At Seven 7.00 -
Rod Mason Jazz Band
ATV The John Davidson Show 10.20 -
Mireille Mathieu (regular)
O.C. Smith
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs 11.20 pm -
John Rowles
The New Faces
Monday 11th August 1969
BBC1 The Movies 6.00 -
Pop movies with clips of The Beatles, The Monkees, The Rolling Stones, The Jimi Hendrix Experience. If this did include The Monkees then it must have been a clip of Head, which wouldn't get a general release in the UK.
BBC1 It's Ragtime 9.55 -
jazz tunes
Thames Mike & Bernie's Show 6.45 -
Moira Anderson
The Orange Bicycle -
Tuesday 12th August 1969
BBC2 One Pair Of Eyes: Who Are The Cockneys Now? 8.00 -
Georgia Brown, Lionel Bart
Wednesday 13th August 1969
BBC1 24 Hours 10.00 -
An article on skinheads features Max Romeo's 'Wet Dream' which had been banned by BBC radio
BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-
Tiny Tim
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 9.55 -
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 6.04 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Thursday 14th August 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Fairport Convention -
Cilla Black -
The Equals -
Love Affair -
Marvin Gaye -
The Bee Gees -
The Rolling Stones -
Zager & Evans -
ATV Join Jim Dale 9.00 -
Jim Dale
Friday 15th August 1969
BBC1 High Junks 4.55 -
George Chisholm
Harmony Grass
BBC1 The Singing Barn 6.20 -
Ryan Davies introduces folk and ballads
BBC1 Don't Ask Us, We're New Here 7.55 -
Music and comedy with Adrienne Posta, Mike Redway
BBC1 Miss United Kingdom 9.05 -
Mark Murphy
Alan Randall (George Formby impersonator)
BBC1 Val Doonican's Cinema 9.55 -
Val Doonican talks about his favourite movies
Anglia Glamour '69 8.00 -
Georgie Fame
ATV Join Jim Dale 9.00 -
Jim Dale
Saturday 16th August 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
Anita Harris
J Vincent Edwards
BBC1 Music Music Music 7.30 -
The Three Monarchs -
BBC2 International Cabaret 9.00 -
Georgie Fame
Trisha Noble
ATV The Frankie Howerd Show 6.15 -
Dilys Watling
Keith Potger and The New Seekers
Pan's People dance routine
ATV Tarbuck's Back 7.00 -
Buddy Greco
LWT Fly High with Cleo 11.40 pm -
Cleo Laine, Johnny Dankworth
Ray Davis
Sunday 17th August 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Mantovani 10.25 -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Heath Hampstead
Unit 4 + 2
ATV The John Davidson Show 10.20 -
Mireille Mathieu
Paul Anka
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs 11.20 pm -
content unknown
Monday 18th August 1969
BBC1 It's Ragtime 9.55 -
jazz tunes
Thames Mike & Bernie's Show 6.45 -
Lisa Carroll
Scottish Hilton Half Hour 9.30 -
also seen as The Ronnie Hilton Show on Southern
Ronnie Hilton
Wednesday 20th August 1969
BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-
Liberace
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 9.55 -
Thames The Sooty Show 4.55 -
Hank Marvin
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 6.04 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
Thursday 21st August 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Alan Freeman
Engelbert Humperdinck -
The Equals -
The Move -
The Bee Gees -
Stevie Wonder -
The Foundations -
Robin Gibb -
The Rolling Stones -
Friday 22nd August 1969
BBC1 High Jinks 4.55 -
George Chisholm
The Whales
BBC1 The Singing Barn 6.20 -
Ryan Davies introduces folk and ballads
Saturday 23rd August 1969
BBC1 Dee Time 6.25 -
Roy Budd
BBC1 Music Music Music 7.30 -
Ronnie Carroll
BBC2 International Cabaret 9.00 -
The Four Freshmen
Maggie Fitzgibbon
ATV The Frankie Howerd Show 6.15 -
Janie Marden
The Moody Blues
Pan's People dance routine
ATV Tarbuck's Back 7.00 -
Russ Conway
Alan Freeman
Sunday 24th August 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: The Morecambe & Wise Show 10.20 -
Moira Anderson
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
The Pattersons
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Clodagh Rodgers
Matt Monro
Frankie Vaughan
ATV The John Davidson Show 10.20 -
Mireille Mathieu
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs 11.20 pm -
Susan Maughan
Sammy Davis Jr
Monday 25th August 1969
Thames Mike & Bernie's Show 6.45 -
Matt Monro
Scottish The Alexander Brothers Show 10.30 -
Tuesday 26th August 1969
BBC1 Julie Felix In Concert 9.55 -
The Hollies
Wednesday 27th August 1969
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 9.55 -
Thames Do Not Adjust Your Set 6.04 -
The Bonzo Dog Doo-
ITV Million Dollar Legs 10.30 -
Beauty contest
Georgie Fame
Thursday 28th August 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Creedence Clearwater Revival -
The Equals -
Chicken Shack -
Humble Pie -
The Peddlers -
Tommy Roe -
Vanity Fare -
Zager & Evans -
Friday 29th August 1969
BBC1 High Jinks 4.55 -
George Chisholm
The Elizabethans
BBC1 The Singing Barn 6.20 -
Ryan Davies introduces folk and ballads
BBC1 Don't Ask Us, We're New Here 7.55 -
Music and comedy with Adrienne Posta, Mike Redway
Saturday 30th August 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.40 -
content unknown
BBC1 The Monkees 6.20 -
The 33 Revolutions Per Monkee special
The Monkees
Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger
Jerry Lee Lewis
Fats Domino
Little Richard
BBC1 Comedy Choice: Not Only...But Also 7.15 -
Marion Montgomery
BBC1 Music Music Music 7.45 -
Lois Lane
BBC2 Feliciano! Very Special 9.20 -
Jose Feliciano
Dionne Warwick
Andy Williams
Glen Campbell
Burt Bacharach
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 10.55 -
The Fortunes
ATV The Frankie Howerd Show 6.15 -
Ronnie Carroll
The Virgil Brothers
ATV Tarbuck's Show 7.00 -
The Shadows
Kenny Lynch
Southern News 11.10 -
Possibly a report on The Isle Of Wight Festival
Sunday 31st August 1969
BBC1 News 11.10 -
Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight Festival
BBC2 Show Of The week: Harry Secombe 10.20 -
Marni Nixon
Terri Stevens
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Helen Shapiro
Freddie and the Dreamers
ATV The John Davidson Show 10.20 -
Mireille Mathieu
John Hartford
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs 11.20 pm -
Sammy Davis Jr -
Monday 1st September 1969 Bank Holiday
BBC1 Disney Time 6.15 -
Hosted by Cilla Black
BBC1 Those Were The Days? 10.15 -
From Radio Times "A light-
Frank Ifield
Joan Regan
Don Lang and the Frantic Five
Thames Mike & Bernie's Show 6.45 -
Matt Monro
Ronnie Aldrich and his Orchestra
Sheila Munro
ATV The Frankie Howerd Show at the Poco-
Hank Marvin
Scottish The Alexander Brothers Show 10.30 -
Tuesday 2nd September 1969
Granada The Stones In The Park 10.30 -
The Rolling Stones live in Hyde Park, London, with Marianne Faithfull
Edited down from twelve hours of footage
Wednesday 3rd September 1969
BBC2 Bobbie Gentry 9.55 -
Thursday 4th September 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Cliff Richard & Hank Marvin -
Creedence Clearwater Revival -
Dusty Springfield -
The Bee Gees -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
The Move -
Humble Pie -
Zager & Evans -
Granada The Humble Pie 6.05 -
Friday 5th September 1969
BBC1 High Jinks 4.55 -
George Chisholm
The Second Generation
BBC1 The Singing Barn 6.20 -
Ryan Davies introduces folk and ballads
BBC1 Don't Ask Us, We're New Here 7.55 -
Music and comedy with Adrienne Posta, Mike Redway
Saturday 6th September 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.40 -
content unknown
BBC2 International Cabaret 9.00 -
Vikki Carr
ATV The Frankie Howerd Show 6.15 -
Edmund Hockridge with The Jonson Sisters
ATV The Jimmy Tarbuck Show 7.00 -
Engelbert Humperdinck
Sunday 7th September 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: The Morecambe & Wise Show 10.15 -
Kenneth McKellar
The Pattersons
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Julie Rogers
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
Maggie Fitzgibbon
ATV The John Davidson Show 10.00 pm -
Mireille Mathieu
Lana Cantrell
Monday 8th September 1969
BBC1 Lulu Concert In Sweden 7.10 -
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Maxine Barrie (singer)
The Herts Showgroup (group)
Scottish The Alexander Brothers Show 10.30 -
Tuesday 9th September 1969
BBC1 Decidedly Dusty 7.30 -
Dusty Springfield -
Dusty Springfield & Spike Milligan -
Dusty Springfield -
Charles Aznavour
ITV Who-
Trisha Noble (in acting role)
Granada Johnny Cash In San Quentin 10.30 -
Originally intended for broadcast by Granada 19th April 1969, but Granada insisted that cuts be made to the documentary which then led to the resignation of producer Mike Darlow. According to a Granada spokesman "It does not promote or sympathise with violence."
Johnny Cash with June Carter and Carl Perkins
Wednesday 10th September 1969
Yorkshire Sez Les 10.30 -
The Syd Lawrence Orchestra (regulars in the series)
The Morgan-
Thursday 11th September 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
The show is cut by five minutes and moved to an earlier time
Hosted by Peter Murray
Chart run down with the number one record
Humble Pie -
Radha Krishna Temple -
Sandie Shaw -
Crosby Stills & Nash -
Bobbie Gentry -
The Equals -
Zager & Evans -
Friday 12th September 1969
BBC1 High Jinks 4.55 -
George Chisholm
The Love Affair
BBC1 Val Doonican's Cinema 10.00 -
David Colman talks to Val Doonican
BBC1 Show Of The North
Strawbs
The Settlers
The Hennesseys
Saturday 13th September 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.15 -
content unknown
ATV The Frankie Howerd Show 6.15 -
Joy Beverley
Janie Marden
Pan's People dance routine
ATV The Jimmy Tarbuck Show 7.00 -
The Rockin' Berries
Sunday 14th September 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week 9.40 -
Mantovani
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Cleo Laine
Valerie Masters
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
Maggie Fitzgibbon
ATV The John Davidson Show 10.20 -
Mireille Mathieu
The Dave Clark Five
LWT It's Sunday Night With David Jacobs 11.20 pm -
Family Dogg -
Barry Ryan -
Monday 15th September 1969
BBC1 Music Music Music 7.10 -
Trio Athenee
Scottish The Alexander Brothers Show 10.30 -
Harlech Just Watch It 6.20 -
content unknown
Tuesday 16th September 1969
BBC1 Decidedly Dusty 7.30 -
The Bee Gees were pencilled in to appear in this show, but appear later in the series
Dusty Springfield -
Dusty Springfield & Jimmy Ruffin -
Jimmy Ruffin -
BBC1 Tuesday at Eight: Like Help! 8.00 -
Hosted by Dinah Shore
Diana Ross
Granada Melanie 6.30 -
ITN News At Ten 10.00 -
John Lennon and Yoko Ono interview
Thames Judaism Today 12.00 am -
Malcolm Stewart (folk singer)
Wednesday 17th September 1969
BBC2 The Price Of Fame, Or Fame At Any Price 10.00 -
Producer Stanley Dorfman had seen Price and Fame together on the Lulu show and had decided to put the two together for their own series. This is the first show, but the rest of the series will be screened in November.
Alan Price and Georgie Fame
Salena Jones -
BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-
Davy Jones
Thames Today 6.03 -
Deep Purple
Yorkshire Sez Les 10.30 -
The Syd Lawrence Orchestra
Maynard Fergusson
Terri Stevens
Thursday 18th September 1969
no Top Of The Pops due to European athletics from Athens
Friday 19th September 1969
BBC1 Hello Dollies 9.10 -
Carol Channing, Pearl Bailey on Broadway
BBC1 Show Of The North
Lyn & Graham McCarthy
The Karlins
BBC2 Line-
The Beatles Abbey Road album tracks with accompanying film clips taken from various sources, not necessarily from Apple.
The BBC told the Daily Mirror "The Beatles approached us, it seems they often watch the programme and they like the way pop music has been covered visually."
ITN News At Ten 10.00 -
John Lennon and Yoko Ono talk about 'howling'
Saturday 20th September 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Shirley Bassey In Stockholm 7.30 -
Recorded at Berns Restaurant, Stockholm
I (Who Have Nothing), Goldfinger, Big Spender, Funny Girl
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
Susan Maughan
The New Faces
LWT Frost on Saturday 11.10 pm -
Vic Damone
Paul MacDowell (The Temperance Seven)
Sunday 21st September 1969
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Anita Harris
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
Maggie Fitzgibbon
Moira Anderson
Harry Secombe
ATV Music Hall 8.20 -
Hosted by Judy Carne
content unknown
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
content unknown
LWT Judaism Today 12.05 am -
Malcolm Stewart (folk singer)
Border The System movie
Theme by The Searchers
Monday 22nd September 1969
BBC1 Music Music Music 7.10 -
Dorita Y Pepe
BBC2 Late Night Line-
Deep Purple
Scottish The Alexander Brothers Show 10.30 -
Thames Opportunity Knocks
Jacqueline Remay (singer)
Harlech Just Watch It 6.20 -
content unknown
Tuesday 23rd September 1969
BBC1 Decidedly Dusty 7.30 -
Bob and Earl were pencilled in to appear
Dusty Springfield -
Dusty Springfield & Danny la Rue (in drag as Dusty) -
Danny la Rue -
Wednesday 24th September 1969
BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-
Tiny Tim
BBC2 Marian Montgomery 10.00 -
Marian Montgomery
Yorkshire Sez Les
Salena Jones
Thursday 25th September 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Barry Ryan -
Bob Dylan -
Cliff Richard & Hank Marvin -
Bobbie Gentry -
Fat Mattress -
Oliver -
Creedence Clearwater Revival -
Thames Hermanos! 12.15 am -
Dorito Y Pepe
Friday 26th September 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
The Equals
BBC1 Show Of The North
Pentangle
The Johnsons
LWT Frost on Friday 10.30 -
Deep Purple
Thames Hermanos! 12.15 am -
Dorito Y Pepe
Saturday 27th September 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Dee Time 6.15 -
content unknown
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
Susan Maughan
The New Faces
LWT Frost on Saturday 11.10 pm -
Recorded in colour, but broadcast in black/white
The Peddlers -
Sunday 28th September 1969
BBC2 A Year In The Life: Big Deal Group 9.15 -
Documentary featuring a year in the life of pop group, The Mike Stuart Span / Leviathan from June 1968 to June 1969. The working title was Time Waits For No Man.
BBC2 Line Up: Film Night 11.20 pm -
Interview with Dennis Hopper about Easy Rider
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Kenny Ball's Jazzmen
ATV Music Hall 8.20 -
Ella Fitzgerald
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
Thames Hermanos! 12.05 am -
Dorito Y Pepe
Monday 29th September 1969
BBC1 (Wales) New O'r Newydd
Suzie (singer)
Harlech Just Watch It 6.20 -
content unknown
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
The Northumbrians (folk group)
Scottish The Alexander Brothers Show 10.30 -
Tuesday 30th September 1969
BBC1 Tomorrow's World 7.05 -
Article about the Moog synthesizer with Mike Vickers
BBC1 Decidedly Dusty 7.30 -
Dusty Springfield – Ain’t No Sun Since You've Been Gone, I Heard It Through The Grapevine,
Medley: Why Don't You Do Right-
Dusty Springfield & The Bee Gees -
The Bee Gees -
BBC2 Jazz Scene 8.45 -
The Tubby Hayes Big Band at Ronnie Scott's
Wednesday 1st October 1969
BBC2 Rowan and Martin 9.10 -
Connie Stevens
BBC2 Peter Sarstedt: On Age 10.00 -
Peter Sarstedt -
Dusty Springfield -
The Kinks -
Yorkshire Sez Les
Francoise Hardy
Thursday 2nd October 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
Mary Hopkin had been booked to appear performing Fields of St Etienne, but it was decided not to release as a single after all in the UK
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Chart rundown with the number one record
Lou Christie -
Sounds Nice -
Cliff Richard & Hank Marvin -
Karen Young -
Radha Krishna Temple -
The Hollies -
Creedence Clearwater Revival -
Top Of The Pops end music with credits
Friday 3rd October 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 12.55 -
The Family Dogg -
Saturday 4th October 1969
Both BBC1 and ITV in the London area offer a colour service this weekend, six weeks ahead of the official colour TV launch. However, by tuning colour TVs into channel 23 (the local ITV channel number) some shows, even some commercials, have been available in colour for testing purposes for the past few weeks.
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Simon Dee 6.15 -
The BBC decide to change the name of his show from Dee Time as Robin Day launches his own show Day Time.
content unknown
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 7.30 -
Esther Ofarim
Rostel and Schaefer
BBC1 Show Of The North
Alan Price
Tommy Makem
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
Susan Maughan
LWT Frost On Saturday 11.10 pm -
content unknown
Sunday 5th October 1969
BBC1 Monty Python's Flying Circus (first in series)
1: Wither Canada
Michael Palin said that Neil Innes did the audience warm up
BBC2 Music Now 8.15 -
Manfred Mann Chapter III
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
The Bachelors
ATV Music Hall 8.20 -
Lena Horne
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
content unknown
Monday 6th October 1969
BBC1 Music Music Music 7.10 -
The Barron Knights
Harlech Just Watch It 6.20 -
content unknown
Tuesday 7th October 1969
BBC1 Monster Music Mash 5.15 -
Hosted by Alan Price
Regulars: Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band
Fleetwood Mac -
Johnny Handle
BBC1 Decidedly Dusty 7.30 -
Dusty Springfield -
Mason Williams -
BBC2 Jazz Scene 8.45 -
Graham Collier Sextet at Ronnie Scott's
Wednesday 8th October 1969
BBC2 Peter Sarstedt: On Cool 10.00 -
Peter Sarstedt
Fat Matress
Francoise Hardy
Yorkshire Sez Les 10.30 -
Dakota Staton
Thursday 9th October 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
Hosted by Peter Murray
Theme -
Chart run down with Johnny Pearson Orchestra -
The Temptations -
David Bowie -
Esther Ofarim -
The Hollies -
Lou Christie -
Bobbie Gentry -
Top Of The Pops theme and end credits
Granada Cinema 10.30 -
John Barry
Ulster (possibly) UTV Reports 6.00 -
Desmond Dekker
Friday 10th October 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
Lou Christie -
BBC2 Late Night Line-
The Beatles -
Saturday 11th October 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Simon Dee 6.15 -
Show cancelled due to strike
BBC2 Vic Damone at the Talk of the Town
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
Susan Maughan
LWT Frost On Saturday 11.10 pm -
Mary Hopkin
Sunday 12th October 1969
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Marty Wilde
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
Maggie Fitzgibbon
ATV Music Hall 8.20 -
content unknown
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
content unknown
Monday 13th October 1969
BBC1 The Andy Williams Show 7.10 -
Andy Williams
Blood Sweat and Tears
Petula Clark
Harlech Just Watch It 6.20 -
content unknown
Tuesday 14th October 1969
BBC1 Monster Music Mash 5.15 -
Regulars: Alan Price, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band
Pentangle
Duster Bennett
BBC1 Decidedly Dusty 7.30 -
Dusty Springfield -
Dusty & Tom Springfield -
Tom Springfield -
BBC2 Jazz Scene 8.45 -
Alex Welsh and his band at Ronnie Scott's
Wednesday 15th October 1969
BBC2 Peter Sarstedt: On Women 10.25 -
Peter Sarstedt
Joe Cocker and the Greaseband
Rosetta Hightower
Yorkshire Sez Les 10.45 -
The Skylarks
Thursday 16th October 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
Hosted by Alan Freeman
Lou Christie -
Joe Cocker -
Sounds Nice -
David Bowie -
The Archies -
Bobbie Gentry -
Friday 17th October 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
The Tremeloes
BBC2 Late Night Line-
Yes
Saturday 18th October 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Simon Dee 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC2 Vic Damone 8.55 -
at The Talk Of The Town, London
BBC2 Review 10.50 -
The Scaffold
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
Susan Maughan
The New Faces
LWT Frost on Saturday 11.10 pm -
Tiny Tim
Bobbie Gentry
Sunday 19th October 1969
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Frankie Vaughan
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Cliff Richard
ATV Music Hall 10.20 -
Lena Horne
LWT Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
Family Dogg -
Monday 20th October 1969
BBC1 The Andy Williams Show 7.10 -
Donovan
Harlech Just Watch It 6.20 -
content unknown
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Pickettywitch (group)
Patricia Nixon (singer)
Noel de Cartaret (singer)
Tuesday 21st October 1969
BBC1 Monster Music Mash 5.15 -
Regulars: Alan Price, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band
Shirley Collins
The Moody Blues
BBC1 Decidedly Dusty 7.35 -
Dusty Springfield -
Frieda Boccara-
BBC2 Jazz Scene 8.45 -
Salena Scott and The Guitar Sound at Ronnie Scott's
Wednesday 22nd October 1969
BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-
Sammy Davis Jr
BBC2 Peter Sarstedt: On Losers 10.20 -
Peter Sarstedt
Fleetwood Mac
Cleo Laine
Thursday 23rd October 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
The 300th show
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Top 20 chart run down with the number one record
Fleetwood Mac -
Peter Sarstedt -
The Upsetters -
The Hollies -
The Tremeloes -
The Archies -
Friday 24th October 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
Herman's Hermits
BBC1 Dance Date 10.00 -
Hosted by Don Moss, with Ray Moore as the Commentator
Ray McVay and his Orchestra
Saturday 25th October 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Simon Dee 6.15 -
Malcolm Roberts -
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.10 -
Musical Memory -
BBC2 Review
Renaissance filmed at Olympic Studios, London
BBC2 Peterson Plays Farnon...Plays Peterson 9.05 -
Oscar Peterson Trio and Robert Farnon
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.15 -
Susan Maughan
The New Faces
LWT Frost on Saturday 11.10 pm -
Clodagh Rogers
Sunday 26th October 1969
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Acker Bilk
ATV Music Hall 10.20 -
Cyd Charisse
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
Monday 27th October 1969
BBC1 The Andy Williams Show 7.10 -
Andy Williams
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
Claudine Longet
Johnny Cash
Harlech Just Watch It 6.20 -
content unknown
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
The Beatmen (comedy musical group)
Jeff Collins (singer / guitarist)
Tuesday 28th October 1969
BBC1 Monster Music Mash 5.15 -
Regulars: Alan Price, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band
Magna Carta
Toni and Dave Arthur
BBC1 Decidedly Dusty 7.30 -
Dusty Springfield -
BBC2 Jazz Scene 8.45 -
The Tony Coe -
Wednesday 29th October 1969
BBC2 Peter Sarstedt: On Happiness 10.20 -
Peter Sarstedt
Trash / White Trash
Esther Ofarim
Thursday 30th October 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Fleetwood Mac -
Jimmy Cliff -
Clodagh Rodgers -
Joe Cocker -
Joe Dolan -
Frank Sinatra -
The Archies -
BBC2 Portrait Of Petula Clark 10.00 -
An American show previously shown in black and white on BBC1, produced by Yvonne Littlewood, the only woman TV producer at the BBC, who went to America at Clark's request. Clark had recently tried to record a special for the BBC, but technicians walked out and the show was abandoned
Andy Williams
Sacha Distel
Friday 31st October 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
Joe Dolan
Saturday 1st November 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Simon Dee 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.00 -
Musical Memory -
BBC2 Swinging Herd '69 9.00 -
Woody Herman Orchestra
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
The New Faces
Susan Maughan
LWT Frost On Saturday 11.10 pm -
content unknown
Sunday 2nd November 1969
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Julie Rogers
ATV Music Hall 10.20 -
content unknown
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
content unknown
Monday 3rd November 1969
BBC1 The Andy Williams Show 7.10 -
Andy Williams
The Osmond Brothers
Peggy Lee
Victor Borge
Ray Stevens
BBC1 A Song For Everyone 10.00 -
Nana Mouskouri
BBC1 (Wales) O't Newydd
The Caballeros (singing group)
The Centres (singing group)
Harlech Just Watch It 6.20 -
content unknown
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Bruce and Peter Davis (group)
Jane-
Tuesday 4th November 1969
BBC1 Monster Music Mash 5.15 -
Regulars: Alan Price, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band
Slade -
The Johnstons
BBC1 Bobbie Gentry 7.30 -
BBC2 Jazz Scene 8.45 -
The John Surman Quartet at Ronnie Scott's
Wednesday 5th November 1969
BBC2 Peter Sarstedt: On Power 10.00 -
Peter Sarstedt
Blue Mink
Madeline Bell
Granada Lift Off 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea and Graham Bonney (both had previously hosted Discotheque)
The Pattern (who were to be regulars on the show)
Long John Baldry
Family Dogg
Ruby James
Tea and Symphony
Yorkshire Sez Les 10.30 -
Salena Jones
The Skylarks
Thursday 6th November 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
Hosted by Peter Murray
The Plastic Ono Band -
Jethro Tull -
Lulu -
Arthur Conley -
The Tremeloes -
The Archies -
Friday 7th November 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
The Tremeloes
Thames Today 6.03 -
Gene Vincent -
Saturday 8th November 1969
BBC1 The Harry Secombe Show 9.15 -
Val Doonican
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.05 -
Jake Thackray
Musical Memory -
BBC1 (Scotland) One Over The Eight (first in series)
Robin Hall & Jimmie MacGregor
Stuart Henry
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
The New Faces
Susan Maughan
LWT Frost On Saturday 11.10 pm -
Lulu and Maurice Gibb
Sunday 9th November 1969
BBC2 A Year In The Life For Tony, Rebel Rocker June 68 -
The life of a member of the Camberley Rockers motorbike gang. During filming in May 1969 the BBC crew were accused by the locals of a pub in Swanage of inciting the gang to cause violence for the benefit of the show.
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Valerie Masters
Earle and (Malcolm) Vaughan
ATV Music Hall 10.20 -
content unknown
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
content unknown
Monday 10th November 1969
BBC1 The Andy Williams Show 7.10 -
Andy Williams
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Ray Charles
Cass Elliott
Harlech Just Watch It 6.20 -
content unknown
Tuesday 11th November 1969
BBC1 Monster Music Mash 5.15 -
Regulars: Alan Price, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band
Georgie Fame
Archie Fisher
BBC1 Bobbie Gentry 7.30 -
BBC2 Jazz Scene 8.45 -
The Ronnie Ross Six at Ronnie Scott's
Wednesday 12th November 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Vera Lynn 9.10 -
The Tremeloes
Roy Budd
Domenico Modungo
BBC2 My World...And Welcome To It 9.55 -
Music by Beaver and Krause
Granada Lift Off 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea and Graham Bonney
The Pattern
Dave Allenby
Ray Davies (singer/dancer)
The 4 O'Briens
Tangerine Peel
Thursday 13th November 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
The last show to be broadcast in black and white, and it was also the last to be
broadcast from Lime Grove. Gene Vincent -
Hosted by Alan Freeman
Chart run down with the number one record
Malcolm Roberts -
Nancy Sinatra -
The Tremeloes -
Fleetwood Mac -
Jethro Tull -
The Beatles -
The Archies -
Friday 14th November 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack (replaced with Apollo 12 moon mission programme)
Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
BBC1 BBC1 Colour Special Programme: An Evening With Petula 12.00 am -
BBC1 had been using Petula Clark's 'Colour My World' in their colour TV promos in the preceding days. BBC1 goes colour officially at midnight, but there is a proceeding twenty minute show, Colourful One.
Petula Clark Live at the Royal Albert Hall
BBC2 Line Up 11.45 pm -
also given the title 'Pop Into Bed With The Hollies'
The Hollies
Granada The Stones In The Park 12.15 -
Saturday 15th November 1969
Most BBC1, LWT / Granada / Yorkshire in colour
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Simon Dee 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 The Harry Secombe Show 7.30 -
Lulu
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.05 -
Musical Memory -
BBC2 The Ice Show 9.05 -
Anita Harris
BBC2 Line Up 11.20 -
The week with John Peel
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
The New Faces
Susan Maughan
LWT Frost on Saturday 11.10 pm -
Murray Head -
Sunday 16th November 1969
BBC1 Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte 7.25 -
BBC2 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-
Diana Ross
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Clodagh Rodgers
LWT The Royal Variety Performance 8.30 -
Tom Jones
Cilla Black -
Herb Alpert & His Tijuana Brass (apparently Alpert's vocals were cut from the transmission)
Mirielle Mathieu
Monday 17th November 1969
BBC1 The Andy Williams Show 7.10 -
Nancy Sinatra
Tiny Tim
BBC1 Take Three Girls 9.10 -
First episode Stop Acting
Music by Pentangle
Harlech Just Watch It 6.20 -
content unknown
Tuesday 18th November 1969
BBC1 Cilla 8.00 -
Cilla Black
Val Doonican
The Dudley Moore Trio
BBC2 Jazz Scene 8.45 -
Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth
Wednesday 19th November 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Vera Lynn 9.15 -
The Hollies
Granada Lift Off 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea and Graham Bonney
John Walker
Heathmore
Millie Small
The Californians
Ron Tremaine
Thames This Is Your Life: Des O'Connor 7.00 -
Yorkshire Sez Les 10.30 -
Francoise Hardy
Thursday 20th November 1969
no Top Of The Pops due to the Apollo 12 lunar mission
BBC2 The Price Of Fame, Or Fame At Any Price 10.05 -
Alan Price and Georgie Fame
Delaney & Bonnie and Friends (Eric Clapton, Dave Mason)
Paul Jones seen in audience
ATV The Dave King Show 9.00 -
Trisha Noble
Friday 21st November 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
Vanity Fare
BBC1 Dance Date 11.35 pm -
The Johnny Howard Orchestra with Laura Lee, Danny Street and Tony Stevens
LWT Curry and Chips 10.30 -
Kenny Lynch
Saturday 22nd November 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.25 pm -
Dick James -
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
The New Faces
Susan Maughan
LWT Frost on Saturday 11.10 pm -
Dusty Springfield -
Sunday 23rd November 1969
BBC2 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-
Sonny & Cher
BBC2 Line Up: Film Night 11.10 pm -
Petula Clark interview
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Tiny Tim
Billy Fury
ATV This Is Tom Jones 10.25 -
Reviewed from a 27 minute version
Tom Jones -
Sammy Davis Jr -
Monday 24th November 1969
BBC1 The Andy Williams Show 7.10 -
Henry Mancini
BBC1 News 8.45 -
Petula Clark at Royal film premier
Harlech Just Watch It 6.20 -
Flaming Youth
Tuesday 25th November 1969
BBC1 Cilla 8.00 -
Cilla Black
The Hollies
BBC2 Jazz Scene 8.45 -
The Mike Westbrook Concert Band
Wednesday 26th November 1969
BBC1 If A Man Answers movie with Bobby Darin 7.10 -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Vera Lynn 9.10 -
The Bachelors
The Barron Knights
ATV Lonnie 10.30 -
A showcase for new and undiscovered music talent. Produced by Rita Gillespie, who had previously worked with Jack Good on Oh Boy and Shindig in the US.
Lonnie Donegan
Shelly Raine
Lulu
Granada Lift Off 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea and Graham Bonney
The Pattern
The Feet
P P Arnold
Jimmy Cliff
Magic Valley
Peppermint Circus
Spectrum
Thursday 27th November 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
The first edition broadcast in colour. The show has no repeat clips as they would
have been in black and white. During this episode Dave Clark is interviewed by the
Swiss TV show Hits A Gogo (the new silver backdrop is in view). A new brass-
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Thelma Houston -
Rolf Harris -
Dave Clark 5 -
Dusty Springfield -
Blue Mink -
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition -
The Archies -
BBC1 Miss World 1969 9.10 -
Roy Budd Trio
Frank Ifield
BBC2 The Price Of Fame, Or Fame At Any Price 10.00 -
Alan Price and Georgie Fame
Thelma Houston -
Friday 28th November 1969
BBC1 Scene (schools programme)
Personal View: Jimmy Savile
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
content unknown
LWT Curry and Chips 9.30 -
Kenny Lynch
Saturday 29th November 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Simon Dee 6.15 -
live from Paris
content unknown
BBC1 The Harry Secombe Show 7.30 -
Mary Hopkin -
Cilla Black
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.05 -
Jake Thackray -
Musical Memory -
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
The New Faces
Susan Maughan
LWT Frost on Saturday 11.10 pm -
Duke Ellington
Sunday 30th November 1969
BBC1 Children In Need Of Help appeal by Val Doonican 6.00 -
BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-
The Monkees
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Valerie Masters
Lulu
ITN News 10.10 -
Article about Tom Jones' new Elstree shows
ATV This Is Tom Jones 10.25 -
Tom Jones
Jose Feliciano
Mary Hopkin -
Monday 1st December 1969
BBC1 The Andy Williams Show 7.10 -
Gary Puckett
Judy Collins
The Smothers Brothers
Harlech Just Watch It! 6.20 -
content unknown
Yorkshire A Girl Called...Bernadette 11.30 -
Bernadette
Pinkerton's Colours
Tuesday 2nd December 1969
BBC1 Cilla 8.00 -
Cilla Black
BBC2 Jazz Scene at Ronnie Scott's 8.45 -
The Kenny Baker -
Wednesday 3rd December 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Vera Lynn 9.10 -
The Fortunes
Rostal and Schaefer
Granada Lift Off 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea and Graham Bonney
The Black Velvet
The Format
Gene Latter
Lorenzo & Margo
Thursday 4th December 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Blue Mink -
Cilla Black -
Malcolm Roberts -
Cliff Richard -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Lou Christie -
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell -
The Archies -
BBC2 Like Hep 10.00 -
Diana Ross
Dinah Shore
Friday 5th December 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
Malcolm Roberts
LWT Curry and Chips 9.30 -
Kenny Lynch
Saturday 6th December 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Simon Dee 6.15 -
Lulu
BBC1 The Morecambe & Wise Show 7.30 -
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
Bobbie Gentry
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.25 pm -
Jake Thackray
Musical Memory -
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
The New Faces
Susan Maughan
LWT Frost On Saturday 11.15 pm -
Ringo Starr with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan -
Sunday 7th December 1969
BBC1 Charley Moon movie with Max Bygraves
BBC1 Malcolm Muggeridge Asks the Question Why 6.15 -
John Lennon and Yoko Ono interview
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Leapy Lee
ATV This Is Tom Jones 10.20 -
Reviewed a 30 minute version
Tom Jones -
Tony Bennett -
Vikki Carr, Tony Bennett & Tom Jones -
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
content unknown
Monday 8th December 1969
BBC1 The Andy Williams Show 7.10 -
Rolf Harris
Jackie De Shannon
ITN News At Ten 10.00 -
Keith Richards leaves for American tour
Tuesday 9th December 1969
BBC1 Cilla 8.00 -
Cilla Black
Sacha Distel -
BBC2 Jazz Scene 8.45 -
Ronnie Scott and his band
Wednesday 10th December 1969
BBC2 Man Alive: What's the Truth About Hell's Angels and Skinheads 8.00 -
The BBC are later accused of rigging the footage to get the Hell's Angels to shout abuse
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Vera Lynn 9.10 -
Paul Jones
The Morgan James Duo
BBC2 Line-
Ringo Starr special
Granada Lift Off 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea and Graham Bonney
Lou Christie
The Casuals
Niyah Shuffe
Samantha Jones
Chris Simmons
ATV Lonnie 10.30 -
Lonnie Donegan
Stuart Stevens -
Dusty Springfield
Thursday 11th December 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Chart run down with the number one record
The Kinks -
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition -
Rolf Harris -
Host mentions the Radio One football game on Boxing Day with Clodagh Rodgers and Rolf Harris
Creedence Clearwater Revival -
Marmalade -
Blue Mink -
Tommy Roe -
The Archies -
Friday 12th December 1969
BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 -
The Foundations
LWT Curry and Chips 9.30 -
Kenny Lynch
Saturday 13th December 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Simon Dee 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.15 -
Jake Thackray
Musical Memory -
BBC1 The Morecambe & Wise Show 7.30 -
Malcolm Roberts
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
The New Faces
Susan Maughan
LWT Frost on Saturday 11.10 pm -
contents unknown
Sunday 14th December 1969
Yorkshire You And Your Child 1.05 -
Jake Thackray
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Kathy Kirby
Earle and (Malcolm) Vaughan
ATV This Is Tom Jones 10.20 -
Reviewed from a 23 minute version
Tom Jones -
Liza Minnelli -
Frankie Vaughan
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
The Settlers -
Monday 15th December 1969
BBC1 The Andy Williams Show 7.10 -
Andy Williams
Mark Hopkin
BBC1 24 Hours 10.30 -
The World Of John and Yoko
John Lennon & Yoko Ono interview
Tuesday 16th December 1969
BBC1 Cilla 8.00 -
Cilla Black
Henry Mancini
Sandie Shaw
BBC2 Jazz Scene 8.45 -
Alan Skidmore Quintet
Wednesday 17th December 1969
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Vera Lynn 9.10 -
Vince Hill
The Rockin' Berries
Rostal and Schaefer
Granada Lift Off 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea and Graham Bonney
Tammy Jones
Craig Douglas
The Orange Bicycle
Grampian Ferry 'Cross The Mersey 7.00 -
ATV Lonnie 10.30 -
Lonnie Donegan
Millicent Martin
Thursday 18th December 1969
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Chart run down with the number one record
Vanity Fare -
Elvis Presley -
Georgie Fame -
Cliff Richard -
The Cuff-
The Dave Clark 5 -
Rolf Harris -
The Dave Clark 5 -
BBC1 Will The Real Mr Sellers...? 9.10 -
Peter Sellers documentary with Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon
Friday 19th December 1969
BBC1 Christmas Crackerjack 4.55 -
The Scaffold
LWT Curry and Chips 9.30 -
Kenny Lynch
Saturday 20th December 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 6.15 -
content unknown
BBC1 Simon Dee 6.15 -
The Peddlers
Clodagh Rodgers -
Assorted Radio One DJs in contest
BBC1 The Morecambe & Wise Show 9.10 -
The Pattersons
Kenny Ball and his Jazzband
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.10 -
Jake Thackray
Musical Memory -
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
The New Faces
Susan Maughan
Sunday 21st December 1969
BBC1 Omnibus 10.20 -
Tommy Steele and Things
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Karen Young
ATV This Is Tom Jones 10.20 -
Tom Jones
Matt Monro
The Moody Blues
Connie Stevens
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
content unknown
Monday 22nd December 1969
BBC1 The Andy Williams Show 7.10 -
a Christmas show
The Osmond Brothers
Dusty Springfield
Claudine Longet
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
Birds of a Feather (pop group from London, possibly The Chanter Sisters?)
Anna McGoldrick (singer from Dublin)
Tuesday 23rd December 1969
Grampian McCue's Music 7.00 -
Bill McCue and Anne Lanstrom
Wednesday 24th December 1969
BBC1 Cilla 8.15 -
This show was due to be pre-
Cilla Black
Cliff Richard
Dusty Springfield
Kenny Everett's Review of Pop 1969
BBC1 The Spinners at the Phil 11.10 -
The Spinners at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Mantovani and his Concert Orchestra 7.00 -
BBC2 Man Alive 8.15 -
Johnny Cash -
Made by Arthur and Evelyn Barron
Granada Lift Off 11.10 -
Hosted by Ayshea and Graham Bonney
Ray Davies (singer/dancer)
Love Affair
Scaffold
Frankie Vaughan
Susan Maughan
John Walker
Yorkshire With A Little Help From My Friends George Martin Presents... shown by Yorkshire,
London Weekend and Granada 6.00 -
Produced by David Mallett
A George Martin special. Martin was hired as the "adviser on light music" at Yorkshire
TV in summer 1967 and would act as Executive Producer on his own shows, however it
seems to have taken over two years to actually produce one. Regarding the talent
appearing on the show TV Times mentioned in passing "and, it is hoped, Peter Sellers
and Ringo Starr." Talking to the TV Times Martin claimed "There will be nostalgia
in the show", he says. "These are people who have all since gone their own ways.
They are coming back in their individual guises. The result is a show which will
be a forward-
Ringo Starr -
George Martin Orchestra
Lulu
The Hollies
Blue Mink -
Dudley Moore in sketches
Pan's People
Ensemble -
ATV The Herb Alpert Show 10.30 -
Recorded at the Festival Hall, London
Thursday 25th December 1969
BBC1 On Christmas Day In The Morning 9.00 -
London Education Authority's Christmas Carol Festival with pop group The Remedy
BBC1 A Spoonful Of Sugar 9.30 -
Frankie Vaughan
Harry Secombe
BBC1 Top Of The Pops '69 part one 2.15 -
The set design for today and tomorrow's show would also be used for the year-
Hosted by Jimmy Savile, Peter Murray
The Scaffold -
The Marmalade -
Pete Murray plugs the Top Of The Pops football match on Boxing Day
Zager & Evans -
Blue Mink -
The TOTP Orchestra -
Thunderclap Newman -
The Beatles with Billy Preston -
The TOTP Orchestra -
Clodagh Rodgers -
Fleetwood Mac -
Creedence Clearwater Revival -
Peter Sarstedt -
The Rolling Stones -
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition -
end credits with audience dancing
BBC1 Cinderella 5.00 -
pantomime with Anita Harris
BBC1 Christmas Night with the Stars 6.45 -
Influenza kept Cilla Black away from the show, while Mary Hopkin was rehearsing her pantomime so couldn't do the show either. She was due to sing All My Trials. Petula Clark, currently filming her own colour special, was asked to step in as a replacement.
Hosted by Val Doonican
Val Doonican & The Young Generation -
Lulu -
Kenneth McKellar & Moira Anderson -
Val Doonican & The Adams Singers -
Petula Clark -
Val Doonican & Wendy Craig -
Rolf Harris -
Val Doonican & Rolf Harris -
Val Doonican -
BBC1 The Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show 8.15 -
Nina
Frankie Vaughan
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
BBC1 Tony Bennett and the Count Basie Orchestra 11.15 pm -
BBC2 The Price Of Fame, Or Fame At Any Price 6.00 -
Alan Price and Georgie Fame
Pan's People
Billy Preston
Doris Troy
The Ladybirds
BBC2 Jesus 7.20 -
The life of Christ in music and dance with The Young Generation
BBC2 Barbra Streisand Entertains 10.25 -
Granada Cinema Special 9.30 -
musicals edition
ATV This Is Tom Jones 2.00 -
Tom Jones
Tom Jones with the Treorchy Male Voice Choir
Judy Collins
Millicent Martin
ATV Aladdin 4.35 -
Josef Locke
ITV Robin and the Seven Hoods movie with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby
Friday 26th December 1969 Boxing Day
BBC1 Pinocchio 4.45 -
Pantomime with Peter Noone, Burl Ives
BBC1 Top Of The Pops '69 part two 6.20 -
Record Mirror has Robin Gibb as appearing so could have been pencilled in
Hosted by Alan Freeman, Tony Blackburn
Tommy Roe -
Herman's Hermits -
The Beatles -
Amen Corner -
Mary Hopkin -
Desmond Dekker & The Aces -
Lou Christie -
Marvin Gaye -
Bobbie Gentry -
Rolf Harris -
The Dave Clark Five -
The Dave Clark Five -
The Archies -
BBC1 Pickwick 8.35 -
Musical with Harry Secombe
BBC1 Bardot Special 11.05 pm -
Brigitte Bardot (as a singer)
Sacha Distel
BBC2 Jazz Scene 9.20 -
A compilation previewing clips from the new series
Granada The Big Band Sound
Featuring a 17 piece band consisting assembled by Ronnie Scott
Vince Hill
Cleo Laine
Marion Montgomery
Dickie Valentine
Lita Roza
Tyne Tees Cliff in Scotland 5.25 -
A Scottish TV special Cliff in Scotland was due to be shown mid-
Cliff Richard
Granada Roustabout Elvis Presley movie
LWT The Ken Dodd Show: Doddy's Christmas Bizarre 7.30 -
Billy Eckstine
ATV The Engelbert Humperdinck Show 8.30 -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Barbara Eden -
Engelbert Humperdinck & Jose Feliciano -
Jose Feliciano -
Dionne Warwick -
Engelbert Humperdinck & Dionne Warwick -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Tom Jones -
Engelbert Humperdinck & Tom Jones -
Tom Jones -
Dionne Warwick -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
LWT Curry and Chips 9.30 -
Kenny Lynch
Saturday 27th December 1969
BBC1 (Wales) Disc A Dawn 5.35 -
content unknown
BBC1 Just Pet 7.00 -
Petula Clark -
BBC1 The Morecambe & Wise Show 7.50 -
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
BBC2 Colour Me Pop 11.00 -
Compilation show
The NME has the list as The Hollies, The Love Affair, The Move, Clodagh Rodgers,
Jethro Tull, Chicken Shack, The Peddlers, The Tremeloes, The Bonzo Dog Doo-
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Caravan
Harmony Grass
The Nice
Spooky Tooth
Trapeze
The Peddlers
Cooperfield
Mick Morton Sound
Gene Pitney
LWT The Saturday Crowd 6.45 -
The New Faces
Susan Maughan
LWT The Young Ones movie with Cliff Richard and The Shadows
ITV A Child Of The Sixties 10.10 -
Documentary about the sixties as seen through the eyes of a young man, Gyles Brandreth
The Rolling Stones clips of 1967 drug busts
Sunday 28th December 1969
BBC2 Ten Years Of What? 7.25 -
The Rolling Stones -
Clips of The Beatles
John Peel in Top Gear studio
The Bonzo Dog Band -
BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-
Nancy Sinatra
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Malcolm Roberts
Karen Young
ATV This Is Tom Jones 10.20 -
Tom Jones
Cass Elliott
The Hollies
Charles Aznavour
ATV Tonight With David Nixon 11.20 pm -
content unknown
Monday 29th December 1969
BBC1 From Here To The 70s 10.00 pm -
American made documentary featuring clips of The Beatles, Peter Paul & Mary, Pete Seeger
Tuesday 30th December 1969
ATV Man Of The Decade 10.30 -
John Lennon interviewed (chosen by Desmond Morris), includes Yoko Ono and The Beatles clips
Wednesday 31st December 1969
BBC1 Bob Hope 7.10 -
Diana Ross
Bing Crosby
BBC1 The Rolf Harris Show 8.00 -
Dusty Springfield
BBC1 Pop Go The Sixties! 10.35 -
The Bee Gees, The Dave Clark Five and Engelbert Humperdinck were scheduled to appear
in the show. Dusty Springfield dropped out from the final running order due to illness
but is still listed in the credits. She was due to perform You Don't Have To Say
You Love Me and an introduction was recorded by the hosts. Cilla Black also had to
cancel pre-
A co-
Although not strictly speaking a Top of the Pops show it utilises some of the show's set design from the Christmas and Boxing Day shows and The Ascot Dancers were the same troupe used on those Top of the Pops '69 Christmas shows.
Hosted by Jimmy Savile, Elfi von Kalckreuth
The Who -
Adam Faith -
The Tremeloes -
Lulu -
Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen -
The Bachelors -
Sandie Shaw -
The Marmalade -
The Johnny Harris Orchestra -
The Kinks -
Horst Jankowski -
The Hollies -
Helen Shapiro -
Tom Jones -
The Rolling Stones -
Cilla Black -
The Shadows -
Cliff Richard & The Shadows -
Cliff Richard -
The Beatles -
The Beatles -
BBC1 (Scotland) Ring In The New Year
Alasdair Gilles and Bernadette
BBC2 The Fabulous Elvis 8.45 -
Although the Elvis Presley fan club had been petitioning for this to be shown in the UK the BBC claimed back in the spring that NBC had told them that it was "not available for showing in this country yet." It's likely that Col Parker was hoping that competition between BBC and ITV would drive the price up, but it didn't work. Rights then reverted from NBC to the Singer Sewing Machine company, the show's sponsor, which meant that negotiations had to start all over again.
Granada Lift Off 4.40 -
Hosted by Ayshea and Graham Bonney
Billy M Lawrie -
The Californians -
Magna Carta -
Karen Young -
The Bonzo Dog Band -
Ayshea -
Thames This Is Your Life: The Beverley Sisters 7.00 -
ATV Tennessee Ernie Ford Show: Pea-
an ATV-
Davy Jones -
Davy Jones & Harry Secombe -
ATV Ten Minutes of Herb Alpert 11.30 -
Scottish Hogmanay Party 11.40 pm -
Lulu -
Sheena Houston
Also this year
LWT Frost On...
Mary Hopkin -
? Variety Club Awards
Mary Hopkin
ITV Mr Jericho
theme by Lulu written by George Martin and Don Black
Yorkshire Calendar: Death of a pop group
Featuring Jeff Christie
ITV use a promo film of a Pan's People dance routine to promote their season of films on TV over Christmas 1969 based on the Twelve Days of Christmas
ATV Will The Real Mike Yarwood Stand Up April 1969
The Alan Bown!
ATV Today (March 1969)
The Move. In a response to the band complaining that they had not appeared on ATV they were given a spot on the daily news show
ITV Dulux advert
Music by Manfred Mann and Mike Hugg
ATV The Golden Shot
Bob Monkhouse plugs his single I Remember Natalie several times on the show, leading the NME to complain "Isn't it time Bob Monkhouse let us forget Natalie?"
ATV Who Done It c.August 1969
Thirteen part crime series with theme written by Tony Hatch
BBC2 Late Night Line-
Juke Boy Bonner
Tyne Tees Walk Right In c.June
The Orange Blossom Sound
Deena Webster
The Corries
The Candleliters
ATV Tonight With David Nixon
Lonnie Donegan -
Thames Today
The New Seekers (a photo from the show was used on their first LP cover)
Tyne Tees unknown show
Peter Sarstedt (two shows recorded early March)
ITV Yardley's advert c.May
with Peter Noone
BBC1 (Scotland) The Robin Hall & Jimmie MacGregor Show (September onwards)
Stuart Henry was resident on the show
Robin Hall & Jimmie MacGregor
ATV The Golden Shot (c.October/November)
Peppermint Circus
Harlech unknown show (December)
A Christmas variety show with The Satin Bells
Ulster An Evening With The Taste
Taste live show
BBC2 Peter Sarsdedt On
Pentangle -