TV Pop Diaries
Pop Music on British Television 1955 -
1972
Saturday 1st January 1972
BBC1 Here Come The Double Deckers 11.45 am -
with Brinsley Forde
BBC1 It’s Cliff Richard 6.15 -
Cliff Richard
The New Seekers – A Song For Europe 1 Out On The Edge of Beyond (by John Dendall, Mike Sammes)
The Flirtations
Olivia Newton-
BBC1 Time For Baxter 11.05 -
Clodagh Rodgers
BBC2 The Point 4.15 -
Harry Nilsson
BBC2 Harry Nilsson In Concert 9.55 -
Mr. Richland's Favourite Song / One, Gotta Get Up, Let The Good Times Roll, Lifeline, Joy, Without Her, Coconut, 1941, Think About Your Troubles (from 'The Point'), Are You Sleeping (from 'The Point')
LWT Aquarius 10.40 -
Esther Ofarim and Jack Good
Sunday 2nd January 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 2.25 -
Gilbert O’Sullivan – No Matter How I Try
Southern Ferry ‘Cross The Mersey 4.00 -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Kenny Lynch
The Bachelors
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Wilma Reading
Tuesday 4th January 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.55 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
The Kinks – Have A Cuppa Tea, Schizophrenia Paranoia (last song un-
Muddy Waters – interviewed by Mike Raven
David Ackles -
BBC1 (Scotland) Capital Folk
NB A series of folk music shows co-
Appearing in the series were The Dubliners, Archie Fisher, The Wolfetones, The McTaggarts, Robin Hall & Jimmi McGragor
Wednesday 5th January 1972
Granada Lift Off 4.55 – 5.25 pm
Ayshea Brough
Des O'Connor – For The Good Times
Nina – Born Free, Living Free and clip from the movie
Tony Burrows -
The Candy Choir -
Thursday 6th January 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
Benny Hill -
Elvis Presley -
Faces -
America -
Deep Purple -
Labi Siffre -
Tony Christie -
Melanie -
The Coasters -
John Barry -
The New Seekers -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Vera Lynn 9.20 -
Gilbert O’Sullivan
Friday 7th January 1972
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 5.05 -
NB This was the first show since early 1970 as the BBC had decided to bring the show to an end
Elaine Paige
Saturday 8th January 1972
BBC1 It’s Cliff Richard 6.15 -
Cliff Richard
The New Seekers – A Song For Europe 2 Sing Out (by Ron Dunlop)
The Flirtations
Olivia Newton-
BBC1 Braden’s Week 11.00 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Melanie In Concert 11.00 -
Grampian The Grampian Night Club
Stuart Gilles
Sounds Gary Lloyd
The Blue Harmony Boys
ATV The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine 10.40 -
NB Unlucky 13 for Feldman as, according to the TV Times, he breaks his wrist during recording of this, the 13th show of the series. It also includes Terry Gilliam's Christmas Card animation from Do Not Adjust Your Stocking.
Osibisa -
Marsha Hunt -
Sunday 9th January 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 3.05 -
content unknown
BBC1 Engelbert with The Young Generation 7.28 -
NB Co-
Engelbert Humperdinck -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Jackie Trent
New World NB The group's John Lee was soaked with a bucket of water after leaving the studio by a woman traffic warden in revenge for Lee's soaking a fellow warden for which he was charged with assault
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Nina
Barry Crocker
Monday 10th January 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 11.10 -
Yes -
Tuesday 11th January 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.50 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Fairport Convention – The Time Is Near, The Hanging Song (NB drummer is wearing a
t-
Jimmy & Vella
Southern Viva Las Vegas 7.00 -
Wednesday 12th January 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Hosted by Harry Fowler and Kenny Lynch
Thursday 13th January 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Donnie Elbert -
Faces -
Sly & The Family Stone -
Stevie Wonder -
America -
Neil Reid -
The Bee Gees -
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra -
Al Green -
Greyhound -
The New Seekers -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Tony Bennett with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 9.20 -
Yorkshire Sez Les 8.45 -
Gilbert O’Sullivan -
The Peddlers
Jeannie Lamb
Friday 14th January 1972
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 5.05 -
Elaine Paige
Saturday 15th January 1972
BBC1 It’s Cliff Richard 6.15 -
Cliff Richard
The New Seekers – A Song For Europe 3 Why Can't We Get It All Together (by Ray Davies of the Button Down Brass)
The Flirtations
Olivia Newton-
BBC2 David Gates In Concert 11.00 -
It Don't Matter to Me, Look at Me, Other Side of Life, She Was My Lady, Good Lad,
Come Again, Make it With You, Diary, Baby I'm-
LWT Who Do You Do? 6.05 -
Sandie Shaw
ATV The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine 10.40 -
Fame and Price -
Grampian The Grampian Night Club
Malcolm Vaughan
Sunday 16th January 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 3.10 -
content unknown
BBC1 Engelbert and The Young Generation 7.25 -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Lulu
The Friends of Distinction
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Pagliaro
Design
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
Petula Clark
Lovelace Watkins
Monday 17th January 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 11.10 -
Stephen Stills filmed at the house he bought from Ringo Starr
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
The John Miles Set
Tuesday 18th January 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.50 pm -
NB Tom Fogerty was due to record a live set for the show at about this time
Hosted by Richard Williams
Bell & Arc
John & Beverly Martyn -
Steve Howe -
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile (Berkley), also Killing Floor (from same source but untransmitted)
Bo Diddley -
Wednesday 19th January 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Kenny Lynch
Thursday 20th January 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
T.Rex -
Faces -
Isaac Hayes -
Sandie Shaw -
Donnie Elbert -
Greyhound -
John Barry -
Bread -
Badfinger -
Melanie -
Sonny & Cher -
New Seekers -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Vera Lynn 9.20 -
New World
Tom Paxton
Yorkshire Sez Les 9.00 -
The Bachelors
Friday 21st January 1972
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 5.05 -
Elaine Paige
The Barron Knights
Grampian The Stuart Gilles Ceilidh (first in series)
Stuart Gilles
Saturday 22nd January 1972
BBC1 It’s Cliff Richard 6.15 -
Cliff Richard -
The New Seekers – A Song For Europe 4 One By One (by Eddie Seago and Mike Leander), I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing
The Flirtations
Olivia Newton-
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.00 -
Jake Thackray (possibly)
BBC2 Gordon Lightfoot In Concert part one 11.00 -
Summer Side of Life, Saturday Clothes, That's What You Get for Loving Me, If I Could Read Your Mind, Affair on Eighth Avenue, Steel Rail Blues, Your Love's Return, Ten Degrees and Getting Colder, Early Morning Rain
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 – 9.30 pm
Dorothy Squires
Stuart Gillies
Sunday 23rd January 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 3.05 -
content unknown
BBC1 Engelbert and The Young Generation 7.25 -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Melba Moore
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
The Bee Gees
Sandie Shaw
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
The Bachelors
Monday 24th January 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 11.10 -
Blue Mink
BBC2 Play School 11.00 -
Val Doonican -
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
The John Miles Set (winners from previous week)
Tuesday 25th January 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.50 pm – end
Hosted by Richard Williams
Curtis Mayfield – Keep On Keeping On, interview, Gotta Have Peace
The Rock N Roll All Stars -
Wednesday 26th January 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Kenny Lynch
Thursday 27th January 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
T Rex -
Stevie Wonder -
Neil Reid -
Pagliaro -
Chicory Tip -
The Fortunes -
The Chi-
Don Mclean -
Sonny & Cher -
The New Seekers -
Southern Junkin 6.45 -
David Hughes
Yorkshire Sez Les 9.00 -
Shirley Bassey – Diamonds Are Forever, one other
Friday 28th January 1972
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 5.05 -
Elaine Paige
Johnny Silvo
Grampian The Stuart Gilles Ceilidh
Stuart Gilles
Saturday 29th January 1972
BBC1 It’s Cliff Richard 6.15 -
Cliff Richard
Elton John
The New Seekers – A Song For Europe 5 Songs of Praise (by Roy Wood)
Olivia Newton-
The Flirtations
BBC1 Braden’s Week 11.00 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Ralph McTell In Concert 11.00 -
Hesitation Blues, Terminus, Truckin' Little Baby, Dancing Doreen, Pick Up a Gun, Old Brown Dog, Streets of London, Lay Your Money Down, In Some Ways I Loved You, Claudia, Goodnight Miss Johnson, Out in the Garden Michael is Crying
BBC2 Hound Dog Man 11.35 pm -
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
The Grumbleweeds
Russ Conway
Sunday 30th January 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 3.05 -
content unknown
BBC1 Engelbert with The Young Generation 7.25 -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
The 5th Dimension
Dionne Warwick
Lulu
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
NB The last to be hosted by Bob Monkhouse, until his return eighteen months later
Blue Mink
Monday 31st January 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 11.05 -
B B King
Tuesday 1st February 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.25 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Poco – Railroad Days, Just For Me and You
Stevie Wonder -
Ed Welch -
Granada Stars Of The Year 10.30 -
The Bachelors
Anita Harris
Vince Hill
Wednesday 2nd February 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Kenny Lynch
Thursday 3rd February 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile (Daily Mirror has the host as Ed Stewart)
Theme -
Curtis Mayfield -
Sly & The Family Stone -
Al Green -
Slade -
Donnie Elbert -
The Bee Gees -
Chicory Tip -
Greyhound -
Badfinger -
T Rex -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Vera Lynn and the Young Generation 9.20 -
Vera Lynn
Labi Siffre
Frank Ifield
Yorkshire Sez Les 9.00 -
The Peddlars
Friday 4th February 1972
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 5.05 -
Elaine Paige
Paper Lace
Grampian The Stuart Gilles Ceilidh
Stuart Gilles
Saturday 5th February 1972
BBC1 It’s Cliff Richard 6.15 -
Cliff Richard
The New Seekers – A Song For Europe 6 Beg Steal or Borrow (by Tony Cole, Graeme Hall and Steve Woolfe)
Olivia Newton-
The Flirtations
BBC2 Gordon Lightfoot In Concert Part Two 11.05 -
Nova Scotia Farewell, Miguel, Me and Bobby McGee, Nous Vivons Ensemble, Minstrel Of The Dawn, Talkin' In Your Sleep, Canadian Railroad Trilogy
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
Moira Anderson
LWT Aquarius 10.40 -
From Pyramids to pop star (includes Ravi Shakar)
Sunday 6th February 1972
BBC1 Engelbert with The Young Generation 7.25 -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Tom Jones
Billy Preston
Ray Stevens
ITV Sunday Cinema: Don't Ever Leave Me with Petula Clark
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
The Beverley Sisters
Monday 7th February 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 11.10 -
Mr Fox (folk group)
ITV The Singer, The Song (noted in music press, but not listed in newspapers)
Roger Whittaker
Tuesday 8th February 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.55 pm -
The Radio Times are still going with the "and any guests who may drop in" line as the programme was still being assembled right up until broadcast
Hosted by Richard Williams
David Bowie -
Mick Greenwood -
Thames Youth Calls The Tune 11.00 -
Pete Murray
Wednesday 9th February 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
BBC1 A Conversation With Duke Ellington 11.15 -
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Kenny Lynch
Thursday 10th February 1972
no Top Of The Pops due to Winter Olympics programming
Yorkshire Sez Les 9.00 -
New World
Friday 11th February 1972
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 5.05 -
Elaine Paige
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Review: Three Voices On Their Own 9.20 -
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Saturday 12th February 1972
BBC1 It’s Cliff Richard 6.15 -
Cliff Richard
The New Seekers – sing all six A Song For Europe songs
Out on the Edge of Beyond (Mike Sammes/John Bendall)
Sing Out (Robbie Dunlop)
Why Can't We All Get Together (Ray Davies)
One by One (Mike Leander/Eddie Seago)
Songs of Praise (Roy Wood)
Beg, Steal or Borrow (Tony Cole/Graeme Hall/Steve Wolfe)
Olivia Newton-
The Flirtations
BBC1 Braden’s Week 11.05 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Up Country 9.20 -
Hosted by George Hamilton IV
BBC2 Midnight Movie: Captain Newman MD 11.40 pm -
LWT Who Do You Do? 6.05 -
Tony Brandon (Radio 2 DJ doing impersonations of other DJs)
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
Billy Eckstein
LWT Aquarius 10.40 -
Bob Copper -
Bob Copper and The Copper Family
Sunday 13th February 1972
BBC1 Engelbert with The Young Generation 7.25 -
NB Nancy Wilson had been penciled in to appear
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Gilbert O’Sullivan
Mary Travers
BBC2 Up Sunday 11.05 pm -
Kenny Everett
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Christie
The Sweet
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
Johnny Mathis
Monday 14th February 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 11.15 -
The Drifters -
Tuesday 15th February 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.45 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
The Mick Greenwood Band
Jimmy & Vella
The Faces – live at The Rainbow, London
Wednesday 16th February 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Kenny Lynch
Thursday 17th February 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Nilsson -
Billy Preston -
Cliff Richard -
Slade -
The Hollies -
Sweet -
The Fortunes -
Colin Blunstone -
Don McLean -
Michael Jackson -
Paul Simon -
Chicory Tip -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Lulu’s Party 9.20 -
Lulu
Carpenters
Peter Noone
The Hermits
Horst Jankovski
Yorkshire Sez Les 9.00 -
Peter Noone
Friday 18th February 1972
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 4.55 -
The Yetties
Saturday 19th February 1972
BBC1 It’s Cliff Richard 6.15 -
Cliff Richard
The New Seekers – Beg Steal or Borrow (A Song For Europe winner)
Cilla Black
The Flirtations
BBC2 Up Country 8.35 -
George Hamilton IV
LWT Aquarius 10.40 -
Elton John and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (at the Royal Festival Hall)
ATV Saturday Variety 8.25 -
Petula Clark
Sunday 20th February 1972
BBC1 Engelbert with The Young Generation 7.25 -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Jose Feliciano
Wilma Reading
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
Peter Straker
Monday 21st February 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 11.20 -
Labi Siffre
Tuesday 22nd February 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.55 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Rick Nelson -
Hookfoot
Don McLean -
Wednesday 23rd February 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 am -
content unknown
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Kenny Lynch
Thames The Benny Hill Show 8.00 -
Sylvia McNeil
Thursday 24th February 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
The New Seekers -
Sweet -
The Bee Gees -
TheFortunes -
Jonathan King -
Badfinger -
Chelsea FC -
Don McLean -
Paul Simon -
Chicory Tip -
Friday 25th February 1972
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 4.55 -
Elaine Paige
Dana
Saturday 26th February 1972
BBC1 It’s Cliff Richard 6.15 -
Cliff Richard -
Olivia Newton-
Severine
The Flirtations
BBC2 Up Country 8.35 -
George Hamilton IV
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
Alan Price & Georgie Fame
Lena Martell
Sunday 27th February 1972
BBC1 Engelbert with The Young Generation 7.25 -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Cilla Black
Rod McKeun
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Tony Hatch
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.05 -
Gene Pitney
Anita Harris
Monday 28th February 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 11.25 -
Stone The Crows / Maggie Bell
BBC2 Gunfight At Aberline 8.00 -
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
Jimmy Smith & Son (father & son organ / drum duo who later signed to Decca)
Tuesday 29th February 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.45 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Seals and Croft -
Strawbs
Thames The Sooty Show 4.55 -
Gerry Marsden
Wednesday 1st March 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Kenny Lynch
STV Tam Plus (first in series)
Tam White
Juniper Green
Penny Lane
The Gojos (dance troupe throughout the series)
Other guests in series include Sylvia McNeill, Samantha Jones, Eartha Kitt, Sandie Shaw, The New Travellers, The Eddie Connors Four
Thursday 2nd March 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn (Daily Mirror said the host was Ed Stewart)
Theme -
Donnie Elbert -
Lindisfarne -
Cliff Richard -
Nilsson -
Slade -
The 5th Dimension -
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
The New Seekers -
Jonathan King -
Colin Blunstone -
Chicory Tip -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Nana International 9.20 -
Nana Mouskouri and The Athenians
The Oscar Peterson Trio
ITV Exclusively Elvis: Jailhouse Rock 7.20 -
Friday 3rd March 1972
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 4.55 -
Elaine Paige
New Faces
Saturday 4th March 1972
BBC1 We Want To Sing 5.05 -
content unknown
BBC1 It’s Cliff Richard 6.15 -
Cliff Richard
Olivia Newton-
Labi Siffre
The Flirtations
BBC1 Braden’s Week 11.15 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 The Great American Broadcast movie with The Ink Spots
BBC2 Up Country 8.40 -
George Hamilton IV
John D Loudermilk
ATV The Val Doonican Show 9.05 -
Val Doonican
Marian Montgomery
Sunday 5th March 1972
BBC1 Engelbert with The Young Generation 7.25 -
NB The Everly Brother were penciled in to appear
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Ray Stevens
Dana
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Matt Monro
Monday 6th March 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 11.15 -
Gilbert O’Sullivan
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
Smith & Son (winners from previous week)
Tuesday 7th March 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.55 pm -
NB Isaac Hayes was in the country to record a Burt Bacharach TV special and was penciled in for an interview, probably for tonight's show.
Hosted by Richard Williams
David Elliott
Plainsong
ATV Des 7.05 -
Petula Clark
Wednesday 8th March 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
BBC1 Tommy Hunt at the Golden Gater 11.15 -
with The Breakaways
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Kenny Lynch
Thursday 9th March 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile, Ed Stewart (Daily Mirror says just Ed Stewart on his own, but an audio recording suggests it's just Savile)
Theme -
The Hollies -
Donnie Elbert -
Lindisfarne -
The Supremes -
Ray Stevens -
Les Crane -
Christie -
Don McLean -
Paul Simon -
Argent -
Olivia Newton-
Nilsson -
Partridge Family -
Friday 10th March 1972
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 4.55 -
Elaine Paige
Saturday 11th March 1972
BBC1 We Want To Sing 5.05 -
The Settlers
BBC1 It’s Cliff Richard 6.15 -
Cliff Richard
Olvia Newton-
Marvin Welch & Farrar
The Flirtations
BBC2 Up Country 8.40 -
George Hamilton IV
Wally Whyton
Lois Lane
The Numbers
The Hillsiders
ATV Saturday Variety 9.00 -
Edmund Hockeridge, The Dallas Boys
LWT Aquarius 10.10 -
The pursuit of happiness -
Sunday 12th March 1972
BBC2 Engelbert with The Young Generation 7.25 -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Randy Newman
Barry Ryan
Helen Reddy
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Christie
Les Dawson – Promise Me
Monday 13th March 1972
BBC1 Song For Europe 7.30 -
NB A new ruling has it that all songs featured in the Eurovision Song Contest must be played in each country ahead of the contest.
Part one features the contesting songs from Germany, France, Ireland, Spain, UK, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland and Malta
Introduced by Cliff Richard
The New Seekers -
BBC1 Sounding Out 11.15 -
Lindisfarne (possibly Newcastle City Hall, December 1971)
Tuesday 14th March 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.05 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Paul Brett – Custom Angel Man, Charlene
Joel Scott Hill, John Barbata, Chris Ethridge -
Fats Domino -
Al Stewart – The Night of the Fourth of May
The Doors – Break On Through (promo clip)
The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London -
The Steve Miller Band – The Gangster’s Back (live at The Rainbow, London, February 1972)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Living Without You (Filmfinders clip)
ATV Des 7.05 -
Gilbert O’Sullivan – Alone Again (Naturally), & Des O'Connor -
Wednesday 15th March 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Kenny Lynch
Thursday 16th March 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Ed Stewart
Theme -
Uriah Heep -
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
The New Seekers -
The Supremes -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Argent -
Cilla Black -
Don McLean -
CCS -
Nilsson -
BBC1 The Good Old Days 8.00 -
Sandie Shaw – Don't Dilly Dally On The Way, Last Night on the Back Porch, You Made Me Love You
BBC1 Do You Remember? 8.50 -
The Beginning Of The Beatles, August 1962
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Harry Secombe 9.20 -
Shirley Bassey
Barry Crocker
Friday 17th March 1972
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 4.55-
Elaine Paige
BBC1 The Carl-
content unknown
Saturday 18th March 1972
BBC1 We Want To Sing 5.05 -
The Five Penny Piece
BBC1 It’s Cliff Richard 6.15 -
Cliff Richard -
The New Seekers -
Cliff Richard & The New Seekers -
Cliff Richard & Petula Clark -
The Flirtations
BBC1 Braden’s Week 11.05 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Up Country 8.35 -
George Hamilton IV
LWT Finders Keepers 6.35 -
ATV The Val Doonican Show 9.00 -
Val Doonican
Dana
The Swingle Singers
Sunday 19th March 1972
BBC1 Engelbert with The Young Generation 7.25 -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Bobby Darin
Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson & Bobby Darin & Engelbert Humperdinck -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Gene Pitney
Monday 20th March 1972
NB Kevin Ayres, Lol Coxhill, David Bedford and Robert Wyatt were due to appear on a show, Music Alive this day on the BBC, however I cannot find any reference to it
BBC1 Song For Europe 7.30 -
Part two, introduced by Cliff Richard
Tuesday 21st March 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.10 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Judee Sill
Audience -
Jimi Hendrix Experience -
ATV Des 7.05 -
Sacha Distel
Wednesday 22nd March 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Kenny Lynch
Thursday 23rd March 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
Argent -
CCS -
The Supremes -
Lindisfarne -
Tom Jones -
Labi Siffre -
The Chiffons -
Neil Young -
Uriah Heep -
Glen Campbell -
Olivia Newton-
Nilsson -
Friday 24th March 1972
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 4.55 -
Elaine Paige
The McCalmans
Saturday 25th March 1972
BBC1 We Want To Sing 5.00 -
Anita Harris
The Freelanders
BBC1 The Eurovision Song Contest 9.30 -
NB Held in Edinburgh as Monaco claimed it didn't have the facilities to host such a large show
UK: The New Seekers – Beg Steal or Borrow
Vicki Leandros -
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 8.25 -
Theme by Yes
Buddy Rich
ATV Saturday Variety 8.00 -
Cilla Black -
Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen
Sunday 26th March 1972
BBC1 Ask Aspel 3.00 -
Tony Blackburn
BBC1 Engelbert with The Young Generation 7.25 -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Adamo
Eartha Kitt
BBC1 Omnibus: Three Faces Of Jazz 10.15 -
A general history of the first seventy years of jazz
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Dana
Monday 27th March 1972
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
All Winners show
The John Miles Set
The Real Thing
Stephen Smith & Father (Smith & Son)
Tuesday 28th March 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.05 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
The John Dummer Band -
Randy Newman -
Chuck Berry – interviewed by Richard Williams
Thames The Sooty Show 4.55 -
Wally Whyton
ATV Des 7.05 -
Heathmore – Unchained Melody
ATV Whatever Happened To Tin Pan Alley? 10.30 -
Includes T Rex live in Boston, Lincs
Anne Shelton, Dick James, Ross Parker, Paul Jones, George Martin, Cliff Richard, Adam Faith, Mickie Most, Mick Jagger, Heinz, Jonathan King, Issy Bonn, Tommie Connor, Eddie Rogers, Marc Bolan, Pete Townshend, Larry Parnes, Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn, The Who
Wednesday 29th March 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Kenny Lynch
Thursday 30th March 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Ed Stewart
Theme -
Marmalade -
The New Seekers -
Labi Siffre -
The Partridge Family -
Ringo Starr -
Anne Murray -
Jo Jo Gunne -
The Temptations -
Tom Jones -
The Chiffons -
Nilsson -
BBC2 Show of the Week: The Harry Secombe Show 9.20 -
Engelbert Humperdinck
Friday 31st March 1972 Good Friday
BBC1 Crackerjack ‘72 5.10 -
Elaine Paige
New Faces
Saturday 1st April 1972
BBC1 Tarbuck’s Luck 8.20 -
Cilla Black
BBC2 Up Country 5.45 -
George Hamilton IV
Buffy Sainte-
The Hillsiders
Wally Whyton
The Mercey Brothers
The Numbers
Lee Conway
Tompall Glaser Brothers
John D Loudermilk
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.05 -
Faces
ATV Saturday Variety: The Val Doonican Show 9.00 -
Val Doonican
The Barron Knights
Sheila Southern
Sunday 2nd April 1972 Easter Sunday
BBC1 Godspell -
David Essex
BBC1 Engelbert with The Young Generation 7.25 -
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Jack Jones
Jack Jones & Engelbert Humperdinck -
The Everly Brothers
BBC2 Tom Jones 11.00 -
The Blossoms, Treorchy Male Voice Choir
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Shep’s Banjo Band
Monday 3rd April 1972 Bank Holiday
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.30 -
Australian show
Johnny Christie
Tuesday 4th April 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.30 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Kevin Ayres -
Claire Hamill
ATV Des 7.00 -
Buddy Greco – Macarthur Park
Lynn Rodgers – I’m Coming Home, & Buddy Greco – Quando Quando Quando
Wednesday 5th April 1972
Southern Get This! 4.55 -
Kenny Lynch
Thursday 6th April 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Argent -
Four Tops -
Ringo Starr -
Greyhound -
Jo Jo Gunne -
Middle Of The Road -
Neil Young -
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band -
Daniel Boone -
Olivia Newton-
Nilsson -
Thames Max 9.00 -
Max Bygraves
Friday 7th April 1972
Thames Zingalong 4.40 – 4.55 pm
Sandie Shaw -
Grampian Melody Inn (first in series)
Guests appearing in the series Danny Street, Ron Dale, Alex Sutherland's Band
Saturday 8th April 1972
BBC1 We Want To Sing 5.05 -
Hosted by Ed Stewart
content unknown
BBC1 Tarbuck’s Luck 8.30 -
Clodagh Rodgers
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.15 -
James Last and Orchestra
LWT The Jackson Five 12.15 – 12.45 pm (first edition of cartoon series)
NB There were twenty-
It All Started With…
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
Lulu
The Pattersons
Sunday 9th April 1972
BBC2 Up Country 9.00 -
The Fourth International Festival of Country Music, Wembley Pool, London
Del Reeves and the Goodtime Charlies
The Stoneman Family
Tex Withers
Dottie West
Conway Twitty and the Twitty Birds
Loretta Lynn
George Hamilton
ATV Something to Sing About 12.30 -
1: The Old Order
Ian Campbell
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
Steve and Bonnie
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.05 -
Noel Harrison
Tuesday 11th April 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.20 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Vinegar Joe -
Jonathan Kelly
Ten Years After – Woodstock clip
ATV Des 6.55 -
Martin Dale (singer)
Wednesday 12th April 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 1.00 -
content unknown
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.55 -
First show with the new title
NB The theme is Peter Straker – The Spirit Is Willing
The Feet are the resident dance troupe
Hosted by Ayshea Brough with Fred Barker/Wally Whyton
Colin Blunstone – Say You Don’t Mind
The Move -
Smile -
Roy Wood – When Grandma Plays The Banjo
Paul Simon -
T Rex -
The Tremeloes -
Thursday 13th April 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Elvis Presley -
Chris Montez -
Marmalade -
Vicky Leandros -
Ringo Starr -
The Chiffons -
Middle Of The Road -
T.Rex -
Johnny Nash -
Marvin Welch & Farrar -
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band -
BBC1 The Long Distance Piano Player 9.20 -
Ray Davies
Friday 14th April 1972
Thames Zingalong 4.40 -
Sandie Shaw -
LWT The Sunday TV Awards 10.30 -
Tony Bennett
Max Bygraves
Saturday 15th April 1972
BBC1 We Want To Sing 5.05 -
content unknown
BBC1 Braden’s Week 11.10 -
Jake Thackray
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 7.45 -
The Oscar Peterson Trio
BBC2 Film Night: Harry Belefonte 11.10 -
LWT The Jackson Five 12.15 -
Pinestock U.S.A.
ATV Saturday Variety: The Val Doonican Show 8.30 -
Val Doonican
Noel Harrison
Design
Sunday 16th April 1972
BBC1 How Can You Be So Sure? 6.15 -
Pete Townshend of The Who
BBC1 The Good Old Days 7.25 -
Eartha Kitt
BBC2 Up Country 8.15 -
Bill Anderson
John D. Loudermilk
Anne Murray
Earl Scruggs
Tom T. Hall
Jan Howard
Hank Williams Jr
BBC2 Up Sunday 11.15 pm -
Kenny Everett
ATV Something to Sing About 12.30 -
2: Roads and Canals
Ian Campbell
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Dorothy Squires
Roger Whittaker
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Frank Ifield
Monday 17th April 1972
BBC1 How Can You Be So Sure? 1.00 -
Tuesday 18th April 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.50 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Meat (Manfred Mann wears sock puppet), Our Friend George
Edgar Winter's White Trash -
Linda Lewis – It's The Frame, What Are You Asking Me For
Iggy & The Stooges – live clip (1970 Cincinnati Pop Festival report)
Linda Ronstadt – Rock Me On The Water (Filmfinders clip)
Ornette Coleman – interview
Stephen Stills – Go Back Home (a rough edit of Madison Square Gardens, New York gig)
ATV Des 6.55 -
Ray Peters
Wednesday 19th April 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 1.00 -
content unknown
BBC1 Talkback 10.10 -
Jimmy Savile and Johnnie Stewart defend Top of the Pops and Savile gives a mention to The Old Grey Whistle Test
Yorkshire The Settlers 3.25 -
Granada Lift Off with Ayshea 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Peter Straker – The Spirit Is Willing
Gene Pitney -
Spode -
The Solid Gold Band -
Jack Wild – Consider Yourself (film clip)
Daniel Boone -
Thursday 20th April 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
David Cassidy -
Marmalade -
Mungo Jerry -
Ringo Starr -
Temptations -
Jo Jo Gunne -
Tom Jones -
Clodagh Rodgers -
Johnny Cash -
Johnny Nash -
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band -
BBC2 Show of the Week: The Harry Secombe Show 9.20 -
Nana Mouskouri
Friday 21st April 1972
BBC1 The Dean Martin Show 9.25 -
Tony Bennett
BBC2 Review 9.20 -
The Blues According To Lightning Hopkins
LWT Budgie 9.00 -
Adam Faith as ‘Budgie’ Bird
Theme: Nobody’s Fool by Ray Davies
Saturday 22nd April 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 5.05 -
Peter Noone -
BBC1 Tarbuck’s Luck 8.45 -
The Bee Gees
BBC1 Braden's Week 11.30 pm -
Jake Thackray (?)
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday: Tom Paxton and Friends 9.35 -
Tom Paxton
Mary Travers
John Denver
LWT The Jackson Five: Drafted 12.15 -
LWT The Rolf Harris Show 6.15 -
Ray Stevens -
Cleo Laine -
ATV Saturday Variety 8.00 -
Marvin, Welch & Farrar
Wilma Reading
Sunday 23rd April 1972
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
New World
Vicky Leandros
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
Vince Hill
Petula Clark
LWT Music In The Round: Rock Of Ages 11.25 -
T Rex -
Shot at the Cockpit Theatre, London
Tuesday 25th April 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.55 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Jerry Lee Lewis -
John Prine – Sam Stone (Filmfinders clip)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer -
The Rolling Stones – Tumbling Dice (Filmfinders clip)
Mick Jagger – interviewed by Richard Williams
Country Joe McDonald – Tricky Dicky, Fantasy, Coulene Anne
Nash and Crosby – Southbound Train (Filmfinders clip)
Wednesday 26th April 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 1.00 -
content unknown
Granada Lift Off with Ayshea 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
New World – Sister Jane
Stavely Makepiece
Marmalade -
Dave Newman – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Thursday 27th April 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Ed Stewart
Theme -
The Drifters -
Elton John -
Ringo Starr -
The Rolling Stones -
Vicky Leandros -
Sly & The Family Stone -
Jo Jo Gunne -
The Chiffons -
Hurricane Smith -
Johnny Cash -
Daniel Boone -
The Angelettes -
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band -
BBC2 Show of the Week: The Harry Secombe Show 9.20 -
Vicky Leandros – I Am
Friday 28th April 1971
STV Andy
Andy Stewart
Helen McArthur
Georgie Fame
The Flirtations
Frankie Vaughan
Sylvia McNeill
Buddy Greco
Saturday 29th April 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 5.05 -
The Middle of the Road -
BBC1 Braden's Week 10.50 -
Jake Thackray (?)
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 8.20 -
Elton John
LWT The Jackson Five: Mistaken Identity 12.15 -
LWT The Rolf Harris Show 6.15 -
Design
Millicent Martin
Manitas de Plata
ATV Saturday Variety 8.00 -
Clodagh Rodgers
Frankie Vaughan
Sunday 30th April 1972
BBC1 Sing A New Song 6.45 -
songs written and sung by young people
BBC1 Frank Sinatra: A Man And His Music 7.25 -
Ella Fitzgerald
Antonio Carlos Jobim
BBC1 The Spinners In Spring 10.10 -
BBC2 Nancy Wilson From The Talk Of The Town 11.00 -
Nancy Wilson
With Pan’s People
ATV Something To Sing About 12.20 -
Transport 2: Railway Age
The Ian Campbell Folk Group
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Mungo Jerry -
Malcolm Roberts
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
The Beverley Sisters
Monday 1st May 1972
Granada Clapperboard 4.55 -
Musicals before the 1940s
Thames Opportunity Knocks’ Gala Show 6.40 -
Smith & Father
Johnnie Christie
Tuesday 2nd May 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.55 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Jackson Browne -
Linda Hoyle – The Ballad of Marty Mole, Paper Tulips, Black Crow (last song incomplete and untransmitted)
Kris Kristofferson -
Wednesday 3rd May 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 1.00 -
Granada Lift Off with Ayshea 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
The Bay City Rollers – We Can Make Music
Real Thing – Vicious Circle part one
Jack Wild
Johnny Nash -
Mungo Jerry -
Thursday 4th May 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
David Cassidy -
Marmalade -
Johnny Cash -
Paul Simon -
The Move -
Ramsey Lewis -
Hurricane Smith -
The Rolling Stones -
Shirley Bassey -
Mungo Jerry -
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band -
Friday 5th May 1972
BBC2 Review 9.20 -
includes Annette Peacock
Saturday 6th May 1972
BBC1 F A Cup Final
Abide With Me led by Tommy Steele
BBC1 Sandie Shaw Sings 11.30 pm -
Elton John
Cat Stevens
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.30 -
The Harry James Orchestra
LWT The Rolf Harris Show 6.15 -
Eartha Kitt – I Wanna Be Evil, If You Go Away
The Mixtures
ATV Saturday Variety: Kopykats 8.00 -
Steve Lawrence
Sunday 7th May 1972
BBC1 Sing A New Song 6.50 -
content unknown
BBC1 Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing 7.25 -
Frank Sinatra
Dihann Carroll
The 5th Dimension
BBC1 Omnibus: Whatever Turns You On 10.25 -
Johnny Dankworth, Cleo Laine
BBC2 Glen Campbell... at the Talk Of The Town 9.05 -
Glen Campbell
With Pan’s People
ATV Something To Sing about 12.30 -
Down The Mine
Ian Campbell
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Frankie Vaughan
Neil Reid
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
Roger Whittaker
The Bachelors
LWT The Oscar 1966 movie with Nancy Sinatra, Tony Bennett
LWT Music In The Round 11.15 -
The National Youth Jazz Orchestra
Monday 8th May 1972
Thames The David Nixon Show 6.40 -
Lovelace Watkins
Tuesday 9th May 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.55 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
The Doors – I’m Horny I’m Stoned, In The Eyes Of The Sun, Ships With Sails (last song untransmitted)
Tom Paxton
Elvis Presley – That’s The Way It Is movie clip
Wednesday 10th May 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 1.00 -
content unkown
Granada Lift Off with Ayshea 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Peter Noone
Labi Siffre – Crying Laughing Lying, It Must Be Love
Chicory Tip
Thames This Is Your Life: Lulu 7.00 -
Thursday 11th May 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Lindisfarne -
Vicky Leandros -
The Moody Blues -
The Rolling Stones -
Judy Collins -
Leeds United FC -
Chicory Tip -
The Drifters -
Elton John -
T Rex -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: The Harry Secombe Show 9.20 -
The New Seekers
George Hamilton IV
Vera Lynn
Southern Stuart Gillies 11.40 pm -
Saturday 13th May 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 5.05 -
The Tremeloes -
BBC1 Tarbuck’s Luck 9.00 -
Mrs Mills
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.50 -
Richie Havens
LWT The Jackson Five: Bongo Baby, Bongo 12.15 -
LWT The Rolf Harris Show 6.35 -
Blue Mink – May Day
Clodagh Rogers – It’s Different Now
Roger Whittaker – I Dreamed A Dream
ATV Saturday Variety: The Val Doonican Show 8.20 -
NB Clodgah Rodgers cancelled
Val Doonican
Design
Dudley Moore -
Sunday 14th May 1972
BBC2 Jack Jones 9.10 -
ATV Something To Sing About 12.30 -
5: Dark Satanic Mills
Ian Campbell
ITV That Woman Opposite movie with Petula Clark
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
NB Clodgah Rodgers cancelled
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Max Bygraves
LWT The Tommy Steele Hour 7.55 -
Tommy Steele
Monday 15th May 1972
Thames The David Nixon Show 6.40 -
Lena Martell
Frankie Vaughan
Tuesday 16th May 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.55 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
The Beach Boys – You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone
Magna Carta
The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Woman (film clip)
Jan Akkerman
ELO – 10538 Overture (promo clip)
Wednesday 17th May 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 1.00 -
content unknown
Granada Lift Off with Ayshea 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Ken Dodd
Bruce Ruffin
Rock Candy -
Christopher Neil -
Thames The Max Bygraves Show 8.00 -
Max Bygraves
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
Lulu -
The Sweet -
Mungo Jerry -
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Chris Andrews
Sue Lynn
Thursday 18th May 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
David Cassidy -
Moody Blues -
Hurricane Smith -
Lindisfarne -
Leeds United FC -
New World -
Val Doonican -
Don McLean -
Paul Simon -
Procol Harum -
T Rex -
BBC2 Show of the Week: Diana! 9.20 -
Diana Ross
The Jackson Five
Tyne Tees & Yorkshire The Sound of The New Temperance Seven 3.00 – 3.15 pm
Friday 19th May 1972
BBC1 Look -
Peter Noone -
Thames Zingalong 4.40 -
Bryan Chalker's New Frontier
Saturday 20th May 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 5.05 -
content unknown
BBC1 The Morecambe and Wise Show (repeat 25th December 1971)
Shirley Bassey
BBC1 Julie Felix Sings 11.15 -
BBC2 Sounds for Saturday 9.10 -
The John Warren Band
LWT The Jackson Five: Cinderjackson 12.15 -
LWT The Rolf Harris Show 6.15 -
Val Doonican – More Than Ever Before
Georgie Fame and Alan Price -
ATV Saturday Variety 9.30 -
The Settlers
Russ Conway
Sunday 21st May 1972
BBC2 Helen Reddy 9.20 -
Live at The Talk Of The Town, London
The Les Humphries Singers
LWT Music In The Round: Birth Of The Blues 11.15 -
George Melly
ATV Something to Sing About 12.30 -
6: The Deep Blue Sea
The Ian Campbell Folk Four
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Peter Noone
Penny Lane
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
The Beverley Sisters
Georgia Brown
LWT Music In The Round (The birth of the blues) 11.15 -
with George Melly
Monday 22nd May 1972
Thames The David Nixon Show 6.40 -
Ronnie Hilton
Cleo Laine
Tuesday 23rd May 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.20 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Kris Kristofferson -
Rita Coolidge -
Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge -
Quiver
Granada Set Of Six 6.30 -
Badfinger
Wednesday 24th May 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 1.00 -
content unknown
Granada Lift Off with Ayshea 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Roger Whittaker -
Mungo Jerry
Louisa Jane White
Petticoat and Vine
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
Richard Harris -
Jimmy Ruffin -
Dawn -
Christie
The Tremeloes
Thursday 25th May 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Ed Stewart
Theme -
David Cassidy -
Diana Ross -
The Drifters -
Elton John -
The Move -
Donnie Elbert -
John Baldry -
Chicory Tip -
Hurricane Smith -
Wings -
T Rex -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Morecambe and Wise Show (repeat)
Anita Harris
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
Friday 26th May 1972
BBC1 Look -
Peter Noone
Thames Zingalong 4.40 -
Bryan Chalker's New Frontier
Saturday 27th May 1972
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.20 -
Osibisa
LWT The Jackson Five: The Tiny Five 12.15 -
LWT The Rolf Harris Show 6.15 -
Buddy Greco – Bridge Over Troubled Water, Keep The Customer Satisfied
Christine Holmes – You Made Me So Very Happy
New World – Sister Jane
ATV Saturday Variety: Kopykats 8.00 -
Steve Lawrence
Sunday 28th May 1972
BBC2 Claude Francois 9.25 -
Claude Francois live at The Talk Of The Town
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
The Tremeloes
Southern Rock Around the Clock 3.15 -
Yorkshire Follyfoot 5.35 -
Theme The Settlers -
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
Petula Clark
Roger Whittaker
LWT The Royal Gala Variety Performance 7.55 -
NB Fund raiser for the British Olympic Fund
Liza Minnelli
The Osmonds
Monday 29th May 1972 Bank Holiday
BBC1 Wonderful Life 8.00 -
Thames The David Nixon Show 6.45 -
Ivor Emmanuel
Salena Jones
Tuesday 30th May 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.55 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Don McLean (possibly not on)
Focus -
Granada Set Of Six 6.25 -
Argent
Wednesday 31st May 1972
BBC1 Discs A Go Go 1.00 -
content unknown
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
The Tremeloes -
Glo Macari -
Jumbo
ATV Des 8.00 -
Clodagh Rodgers
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
Brotherhood of Man
Erroll Brown
Mary Hopkin
Gilbert O'Sullivan
T Rex
Thursday 1st June 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
NB The Osmonds were scheduled to record a clip for the show
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
The Drifters -
Slade -
The Kinks -
Neil Diamond -
Lindisfarne -
New World -
Tony Christie -
Don McLean -
Michael Jackson -
Wings -
T Rex -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Neil Diamond 9.20 -
Friday 2nd June 1972
BBC1 Look, Mike Yarwood! 8.30 -
Peter Noone
Saturday 3rd June 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 5.05 -
The Driftwood -
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.15 -
The 5th Dimension
LWT The Jackson Five: The Groovatron 12.40 -
LWT The Rolf Harris Show 6.15 -
Shirley Bassey -
Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge with the Band of Thieves – two songs
ITV New Scotland Yard 7.00 -
Stuart Henry (the Radio One DJ who had trained as an actor plays a convict)
ATV Saturday Variety 8.00 -
The Dallas Boys
Malcolm Roberts
Sunday 4th June 1972
BBC2 Night Club 9.10 -
Cabaret from Paris
Françoise Hardy
ITV Something to Sing About 12.30 -
7: Suffer Little Children
Ian Campbell
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
Donald Peers – Softly Awake My Heart
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.00 -
Anita Harris
The Beverley Sisters
Monday 5th June 1972
BBC1 The Spinners 10.15 -
Thames David Nixon 6.40 -
Matt Monro
Tuesday 6th June 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.55 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Jerry Hopkins -
Ashman Reynolds Group -
Sha Na Na -
Steve Goodman -
Listen (folk contest winner) -
Lloyd Watson (folk contest winner) -
Granada Set Of Six 6.30 -
Middle of the Road
Wednesday 7th June 1972
BBC1 24 Hours
Includes an article which inferred that Frank Sinatra was somehow linked to the Mafia. The broadcast resulted in a courtcase in which the BBC had to make an apology and paid damages to Sinatra.
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Ayshea Brough – You’ve Got A Friend
Susan Maughan – Everybody Sing
Sweet -
The Barron Knights – You’re All I Need
possibly Don McLean -
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
Lulu
Thursday 8th June 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Roberta Flack -
Slade -
The Beach Boys -
Diana Ross -
Free -
The Move -
Sweet -
Chicory Tip -
Don McLean -
Michael Jackson -
T Rex -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Morecambe and Wise 9.20 -
Design
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
Friday 9th June 1972
BBC1 Look -
Peter Noone
Saturday 10th June 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 5.05 -
The Fortunes -
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.15 -
Joni Mitchell
LWT The Jackson Five: Ray and Charles: Superstars 12.40 -
LWT 2 G’s And The Pop People 6.15 -
The '2G’s' refer to dance troupe ‘The Second Generation’
Lulu
The Bee Gees -
Dance Troupe: Dougie Squire’s Second Generation
Guest DJ: Jimmy Young
ATV Saturday Variety 8.00 -
The Bachelors
Jackie Trent
Sunday 11th June 1972
BBC1 Going For A Song 2.30 -
Brian Matthew on panel
BBC1 Sacha’s Back In Town 7.25 -
Sacha Distel
Olivia Newton-
Daliah Lavi
Vicki Leandros
Les Reed
BBC2 Night Club 11.05 -
Shirley Bassey
ATV Something to Sing About 12.30 -
8: Crime and Punishment
The Ian Campbell Folk Group
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
The Settlers
Kamahl
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
The Bachelors
Maggie Fitzgibbon
LWT Music In The Round 11.15 -
Anatomy of Folk with Lance Legault
Monday 12th June 1972
BBC1 The Spinners 10.10 -
Tuesday 13th June 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.10 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Sandy Denny – It’ll Take A Long Time, The Lady
Richie Havens -
Granada Set Of Six 6.25 -
Slade
Wednesday 14th June 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 1.00 -
content unknown
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Marvin, Welch and Farrar
Gerry Marsden
Tony Burrows
Crackers
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
Canned Heat -
Mungo Jerry -
Lance LeGault -
Sylvia McNeil
Thursday 15th June 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
Gary Glitter -
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
Slade -
The Kinks -
B.Bumble & The Stingers -
The New Seekers -
Sweet -
The Chi-
Don McLean -
Michael Jackson -
Friday 16th June 1972
BBC1 Look -
Peter Noone
Thames Zingalong 4.40 -
Clinton Ford
Saturday 17th June 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 5.00 -
Miki Anthony
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.20 -
The Modern Jazz Quartet
LWT The Jackson Five: The Wizard of Soul 12.40 -
LWT 2 G’s And The Pop People 6.15 -
The Second Generation -
Slade -
Sweet Charity -
Guest DJ Tony Blackburn -
Spike Milligan -
Sunday 18th June 1972
ATV Something to Sing About 12.30 -
A Woman's Place
Ian Campbell
ATV The Golden Shot 3.05 -
The Peddlers
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 6.55 -
Nina
Roger Whittaker
Monday 19th June 1972
BBC1 The Spinners 10.10 -
Tuesday 20th June 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.30 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
Roxy Music -
The Sutherland Brothers
Chick Berry – Nadine (Montreux Jazz Festival), Memphis Tennessee (untransmitted),
& Willie Dixon -
T Bone Walker with Chuck Berry's band – Everyday I Have The Blues (Montreux Jazz Festival)
Bo Diddley -
Granada Set Of Six 6.30 -
Electric Light Orchestra (with Roy Wood)
Wednesday 21st June 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Tony Christie
Emil Dean Zoghby
Hello
David Bowie -
Thames Mike and Bernie’s Show 8.00 -
Roger Whittaker
The Flirtations
The Ladybirds
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
Chris Andrews
Gene Pitney
Sweet
Terry-
The Flirtations
Christie
Thursday 22nd June 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Ed Stewart
Theme -
Sweet -
Gary Glitter -
Elvis Presley -
Argent -
Free -
The New Seekers -
Dana -
The Move -
Don McLean -
B Bumble & The Stingers -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Morecambe and Wise Show 9.20 -
Cilla Black
Ronnie Hilton
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
Friday 23rd June 1972
BBC1 The Monkees 4.55 -
BBC1 Look -
Peter Noone
Thames Zingalong 4.40 -
Clinton Ford
Saturday 24th June 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 5.00 -
Wings – Mary Had A Little Lamb (promo clip)
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.25 -
John Denver
LWT The Jackson Five: Jackson Island 12.40 -
LWT 2 G’s And The Pop People 6.30 -
Argent -
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
Raving Rupert
Cleo Laine
Guest DJ Dave Lee Travis
ATV Saturday Variety 8.15 -
Heathmore -
Design -
Mirelle Matthieu
Sunday 25th June 1972
BBC1 The Vera Lynn Show 7.25 -
Labi Siffre
Vince Hill
BBC2 Anglo-
Cliff Richard
Mireille Matthieu
BBC2 Up Sunday 11.00 pm -
Kenny Everett
ATV Something to Sing About 12.30 -
10: Soldiers of the Queen
Ian Campbell
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
The Settlers
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
The Bachelors
LWT Eleven Plus 11.30 pm -
Hosted by Russell Harty
content unknown
Monday 26th June 1972
BBC1 The Spinners In Summer 10.10 -
The Spinners are aboard a ferry
Thames The David Nixon Show 6.40 -
The Flirtations
The Wychwoods
Tuesday 27th June 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.55 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
The J Geils Band
Natural Acoustic Band
Granada Set Of Six 6.30 -
Pentangle
Wednesday 28th June 1972
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Slade -
Barbara Ruskin – Beautiful Friendship
Winston Francis
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
NB From the Motor Museum, Beaulieu
Dana -
The Flying Machine
Peter and Alex
Christie
Pickettywitch
Thames Miss TV Times 9.00 -
Lovelace Watkins
The New Seekers
Thursday 29th June 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
Donny Osmond -
Gary Glitter -
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
The Move -
The Who -
Dawn -
B.Bumble & The Stingers -
Neil Diamond -
Dave Clark & Friends -
Johnny Nash -
Wings -
Slade -
Friday 30th June 1972
BBC1 The Monkees: Monkees Versus Machines 4.55 -
BBC1 Look -
Peter Noone
BBC2 Late Night Line-
Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth
Saturday 1st July 1972
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 7.35 -
Paco Pena
LWT The Jackson Five: Farmer Jackson 11.30 am -
LWT 2 G’s And The Pop People 5.45 -
Head Hands and Feet -
Sandie Shaw -
Scott Walker -
guest DJ Mike Raven
ATV Saturday Variety 8.00 -
Matt Monro
Springfield Revival -
Sunday 2nd July 1972
ATV Something To Sing About 12.05 -
11: Love and marriage
Ian Campbell
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
Dana
Vince Hill
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday
Petula Clark
LWT Eleven Plus 11.15 pm -
Hosted by Russell Harty
content unknown
Monday 3rd July 1972
BBC1 The Spinners 10.10 -
Tuesday 4th July 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.25 pm -
Hosted by Richard Williams
The Impressions -
Todd Rundgren
Wednesday 5th July 1972
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.55 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Ken Goodwin
Vanity Fare
Festival
Jo Anne Love – Everything I Need
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk Of The Town 10.30 -
NB Although made for Thames, Bennett paid the artist and musician fees in return for international sales rights. This made the show an independently made series, causing problems with the TV unions. Equity regarded it to be a part of the “American quota negotiations”. Thames then pulled the series from its expected April debut until July. Sacha Distel was meant to be a guest on the final recording of the series, but failed to turn up as he was recording his own French TV show. Talking to the Daily Mirror a spokesman for Bennett said " We will be doing another thirteen programmes later in the year, and Sacha Distel will be a guest on one of these. We always intended opening the series and closing it without a guest artist, so we taped the closing programme instead."
Tony Bennett
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
Mary Hopkin
Sylvia McNeil
The Spectrum
The Tremeloes
Thursday 6th July 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn (wearing purple suit)
Theme -
David Bowie -
Gary Glitter -
Lulu -
Frederick Knight -
The New Seekers -
The Partridge Family -
Sweet -
The Who -
Dr.Hook -
Love Unlimited -
Donny Osmond -
BBC2 Show of the Week: The Morecambe and Wise Show 9.20 -
Mrs Mills
Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen
Thames Zingalong 1.30 -
Judith Durham
Friday 7th July 1972
BBC1 Look -
Peter Noone
Saturday 8th July 1972
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 7.40 -
Stan Kenton
LWT The Jackson Five: The Michael Look 12.25 -
LWT 2 G’s And The Pop People 5.45 -
Electric Light Orchestra -
Labi Siffre It Must Be Love, Nothing In The World Like Love, See Me Smile
Offspring – Windfall
The Move -
guest DJ: Tony Brandon
ATV Saturday Variety 8.00 -
Dana
Sunday 9th July 1972
LWT Music In The Round 10.05 -
includes George Melly
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
Gilbert O’Sullivan
Roy Orbison
ATV Songs That Matter 7.00 -
The Settlers
Doris Troy
LWT Eleven Plus 11.15 pm -
content unknown
Monday 10th July 1972
Thames The David Nixon Show 6.40 -
Anita Harris
Lovelace Watkins
Tuesday 11th July 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.40 -
The Rolling Stones special
Hosted by Richard Williams
I Am Waiting, Under My Thumb, Paint It Black (Ready Steady Go! 27th May 1966)
Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing In The Shadows (Royal Albert Hall 1966 shot for Top Of The Pops)
Jumping Jack Flash (Hyde Park 1969)
Honky Tonk Woman (Madison Square Gardens 1969)
Tumbling Dice (twice), jam , Shake Your Hips, jam (rehearsals at the Rialto Cienma, Montreux, Switzerland. Filmed by Radio Bremen for Beat Club)
Wednesday 12th July 1972
BBC1 The Spinners 10.20 -
Sandie Shaw
Southern Little Big Time 4.55 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
Thames The Edward Woodward Show 8.00 -
The New Era Jazz Band
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk Of The Town 10.30 -
Sarah Vaughan
Thames Pop Festivals 12.00 am -
with Jeremy Sandford and Barry Spikings
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
A James Bond themed edition
Tom Paxton
Dana
T Rex
The Hollies
Thursday 13th July 1972
BBC1 He Said, She Said 6.55 -
Panel game with DJ Tony Brandon
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
Alice Cooper -
The Stylistics -
The New Seekers -
Hawkwind -
The Partridge Family -
The Bee Gees -
The Who -
Bruce Ruffin -
Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs -
Johnny Nash -
Donny Osmond -
Thames Zingalong 1.30 -
Frank Ifield
Friday 14th July 1972
BBC1 The Monkees: The Chaperone 4.55 -
BBC1 Look -
Peter Noone
Border The Sound Of...
Roger Whittaker
Saturday 15th July 1972
BBC1 It’s Lulu, Not To Mention Dudley Moore 8.30 -
NB Dudley Moore had chicken pox throughout the recording of the series
Lulu
The Dudley Moore Trio
Slade
Segment
BBC1 A Man Called Ironside: The Quincunx 9.15 -
Involves a folk singing trio
BBC1 Parkinson 10.20 -
Andy Williams
BBC1 Bickershaw 11.20 -
Documentary about the Lancashire mining village which hosts a pop festival
BBC2 Three Hats For Lisa 2.00 -
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.20 -
Imrat Khan with Faiyaz Khan
LWT The Jackson Five: Jackson Street. U.S.A. 12.40 -
LWT 2 G’s And The Pop People 5.45 -
Neil Reid -
Osibisa – Jam, Making Everybody Happy
Al Stewart
Guest DJ Ed Stewart
ATV Saturday Variety 8.00 -
Vikki Carr
Donald Peers
Capricorn
Sunday 16th July 1972
ATV Something to Sing About 12.30 -
Power to the People
Ian Campbell
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
Vicky Leandros
Kenny Lynch
ATV Songs That Matter 7.00 -
The Settlers
LWT Eleven Plus 11.15 pm -
content unknown
Monday 17th July 1972
Thames The David Nixon Show 6.40 -
The Roy Budd Trio
Tuesday 18th July 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 10.25 -
Yes
Wednesday 19th July 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 1.00 -
content unknown
Southern Little Big Time 4.55 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
NB Based on an air plane flight from London airport
Labi Siffre -
Canned Heat -
The Brotherhood of Man -
Lesley Duncan
Thursday 20th July 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Noel Edmonds
Theme -
Gary Glitter -
David Bowie -
The Partridge Family -
The Supremes -
Labi Siffre -
Alice Cooper -
Bruce Ruffin -
Mary Wells -
Middle Of The Road -
Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs -
Donny Osmond -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: The Morecambe and Wise Show 9.20 -
Nina
The Pattersons
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
Thames Zingalong 1.30 -
Frank Ifield
Friday 21st July 1972
BBC1 The Monkees: I’ve Got A Little Song Here 4.55 -
BBC1 The Kinks At The Rainbow 6.30 -
The Kinks with the Nike Cotton Brass
BBC1 Look, Mike Yarwood! 8.30 -
Peter Noone
Saturday 22nd July 1972
BBC1 It’s Lulu Not To Mention Dudley Moore 8.25 -
Lulu
The Dudley Moore Trio
Gilbert O’Sullivan
Segment
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.30 -
Chuck Berry with Rocking Horse
LWT The Jackson Five: Rasho Jackson 12.40 -
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
Vince Hill
Sunday 23rd July 1972
BBC1 The New Seekers 7.25 -
Live at The Royal Albert Hall
ATV The Golden Shot 4.15 -
Gerry Marsden
ATV Songs That Matter 7.00 -
The Settlers
LWT Eleven Plus 11.10 pm -
Marc Bolan
Monday 24th July 1972
BBC2 The Tyne Slides By 9.20 -
Alex Glasgow
Thames The David Nixon Show 6.40 -
Penny Lane
Tuesday 25th July 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 10.25 -
Stephen Stills
BBC1 (South West) Stackridge & Co
Stackridge
Wishbone Ash
BBC2 Late Night Line-
Interview with writer Neville Smith, clip of Buddy Holly used
Wednesday 26th July 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.55 -
content unknown
BBC1 The Spinners 10.25 -
Acker Bilk
Southern Little Big Time
Freddie & The Dreamers
Thames Tony Bennett
at the Talk of the Town
Billy Eckstein
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
Lulu -
Jimmy Ruffin -
Mungo Jerry -
The Hollies
Ralph McTell -
Thursday 27th July 1972
BBC1 He Said She Said 6.55 -
Kenny Ball
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Chairmen Of The Board -
John Kongos -
Hawkwind -
Sandie Shaw -
Hot Butter -
The Supremes -
Alice Cooper -
Dr.Hook -
Electric Light Orchestra -
Mary Wells -
Donny Osmond -
Friday 28th July 1972
BBC1 The Monkees: One Man Shy 5.00 -
Anglia Glamour '72 7.00 -
Craig Douglas
Andee Silver
Saturday 29th July 1972
BBC1 It’s Lulu Not To Mention To Dudley Moore 8.30 -
Lulu
The Dudley Moore Trio
Dusty Springfield -
Segment
Lulu, Dusty Springfield & Dudley Moore -
BBC1 (Scotland) Sing Hi Sing Lo
Mary Hopkin
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.15 -
Don McLean
LWT The Jackson Five: A Rare Pearl 12.40 -
ATV Saturday Variety: Burt Bacharach, Close To You 8.30 -
Burt Bacharach
Cilla Black – This Girl’s In Love With You, Alfie
Isaac Hayes
Yorkshire Sez Les
Labi Siffre
Middle of the Road
Sunday 30th July 1972
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
Sandie Shaw
ATV Songs That Matter 7.00 -
The Settlers
LWT Eleven Plus 11.15 pm -
content unknown
Tuesday 1st August 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 10.25 -
Blue Mink
Wednesday 2nd August 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 1.00 -
content unknown
Southern Little Big Time 4.55 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
Pentangle
Edison Lighthouse
Mungo Jerry
Ashton Gardener Dyke and Co
Emitt Rhodes -
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town 10.30 -
Matt Monro
Thursday 3rd August 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
Chairmen Of The Board -
Faron Young -
The Bee Gees -
Hot Butter -
The Stylistics -
Mott The Hoople -
Electric Light Orchestra -
Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs -
Little Eva -
Olivia Newton-
Donny Osmond -
BBC2 Morecambe and Wise Show 9.25 -
Tom Jones
Design
Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen
Granada News
Radio Merseyland pirate station article
Thames Max Bygraves at the Royalty 8.45 -
Max Bygraves
Friday 4th August 1972
BBC1 The Monkees: Your Friendly Neighborhood... 4.55 -
Saturday 5th August 1972
BBC1 It’s Lulu Not To Mention Dudley Moore 8.35 -
Lulu
The Dudley Moore Trio
Roberta Flack
BBC1 (Scotland) Sing Hi Sing Lo 10.55 -
content unknown
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.25 -
CCS
LWT The Jackson Five: Winner's Circle 12.15 -
Yorkshire Sez Les 6.15 -
Gilbert O’Sullian – Oh Wakka Doo Wakka Day, But I'm Not, Doing The Best I Can
Johnny Nash – I Can See Clearly Now
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
Buddy Greco
Caterina Valente
Sunday 6th August 1972
BBC1 Jack Jones 7.25 -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
Springfield Revival
ATV Songs That Matter 7.00 -
The Settlers
LWT A Guide For The Married Man 7.55 -
LWT Eleven Plus
content unknown
Monday 7th August 1972
BBC1 An Hour With Mike Yarwood 10.10 -
Peter Noone
Tuesday 8th August 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 10.25 -
BB King
Wednesday 9th August 1972
Thames Mike And Bernie’s Show 8.00 -
content unknown
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk Of The Town 10.30 -
Southern Little Big Time
Freddie & The Dreamers
HTV The Dave Cash Radio Programme 6.30 -
Gene Pitney -
Lance Le Gault
Tony Hazzard -
America -
Arrival -
Thursday 10th August 1972
BBC1 (Wales) Another Tom Jones 7.05 -
content unknown
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Ed Stewart
Theme -
Mott The Hoople -
The Bee Gees -
Peter Noone -
Labi Siffre -
Middle Of The Road -
Hawkwind -
Blackfoot Sue -
Rod Stewart -
Derek & The Dominos -
Little Eva -
Alice Cooper -
Thames Zingalong 1.30 -
Dorothy Squires
Thames Max Bygraves at the Royalty 8.45 -
Friday 11th August 1972
BBC1 The Monkees: Royal Flush 4.55 -
Granada OK (possibly) 6.05 -
Brinsley Schwarz
Saturday 12th August 1972
BBC1 It’s Lulu Not To Mention Dudley Moore 8.25 -
Lulu
The Dudley Moore Trio
Johnny Nash
Segment
Tony Christie
Thelma Houston
BBC1 (Scotland) Sing Hi Sing Lo
content unknown
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.15 -
Thelma Houston
Yorkshire Sez Les 5.45 -
Mac & Katie Kissoon
Sandie Shaw – two songs
Daliah Lavi
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
The New Seekers
Penny Lane
Sunday 13th August 1972
BBC2 One Man’s Week: Kenny Everett 11.30 pm -
Southern He Laughed 3.15 -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
Kathy Kirby
The Rockin' Berries
ATV Songs That Matter 7.00 -
The Settlers
LWT Eleven Plus 11.15 pm -
Little Richard
Granada Out Front 11.15 -
Steeleye Span
Fairport Convention
Tuesday 15th August 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out: Labi Siffre 10.25 -
Wednesday 16th August 1972
Southern Little Big Time 4.55 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town 10.30 -
Annie Ross
Thursday 17th August 1972
BBC1 He Said, She Said 6.55 -
John Gorman
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile (dressed like a Sheik) (Daily Mirror says Tony Blackburn is the host)
Theme -
Duncan Browne -
Electric Light Orchestra -
Jackie Wilson -
Lynsey De Paul (possibly with Robert Kirby) -
Procol Harum -
Blackfoot Sue -
Rod Stewart (with the Faces) -
Derek & The Dominos -
Mardi Gras -
Alice Cooper -
BBC2 Night Club 9.25 -
Melba Moore
Pan’s People
Thames Zingalong 1.30 -
Dorothy Squires
Thames Max Bygraves at the Royalty 9.00 -
Friday 18th August 1972
BBC1 The Monkees 4.55 -
ATV Shut That Door 7.30 -
Mrs Mills
Anglia Glamour '72 7.00 -
Julie Rogers
Saturday 19th August 1972
BBC1 It’s Lulu Not To Mention Dudley Moore 8.30 -
Lulu
The Dudley Moore Trio
Cliff Richard
Graham Bonnett
Segment
BBC1 (Scotland) Sing Hi Sing Lo
content unknown
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.20 -
Georgie Fame & Alan Price
Yorkshire Sez Les 6.15 -
Roy Orbison -
The Peddlers
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
Neil Reid
Design
Sunday 20th August 1972
BBC2 Mary -
Mary Travers
Don McLean
BBC2 One Man’s Week: Ron Geesin 11.25 pm -
ATV The Golden Show 4.40 -
Lynsey DePaul
ATV Songs That Matter 7.00 -
The Settlers
LWT Eleven Plus 11.15 pm -
content unknown
Monday 21st August 1972
Thames Zebra In The Kitchen 10.55 am -
Yorkshire Jokers Wild
Lonnie Donegan
Tuesday 22nd August 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out 10.25 -
Stone The Crows / Maggie Bell
Wednesday 23rd August 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 1.53 -
content unknown
Southern Little Big Time 4.55 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town 10.30 -
Billy Eckstein
Thursday 24th August 1972
BBC1 He Said, She Said 6.55 -
George Melly
Roger Cook
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile (wears a BBC1 Olympics ident t-
Theme -
Roxy Music -
Lynsey De Paul -
Hawkwind -
Slade -
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway -
Mardi Gras -
Mott The Hoople -
Duncan Browne -
The Pearls -
Little Eva -
Alice Cooper -
BBC2 Sacha’s In Town (Sacha Distel) 9.25 -
Petula Clark
Thames Zingalong 1.30 -
Cy Grant
Thames Max Bygraves at the Royalty 9.00 -
Friday 25th August 1972
BBC1 The Monkees: Success Story 4.55 -
Anglia Glamour '72 7.00 -
Julie Rogers
Saturday 26th August 1972
BBC1 It’s Lulu Not To Mention Dudley Moore 8.15 -
Lulu
The Dudley Moore Trio
BBC1 (Scotland) Sing Hi Sing Lo
Pentangle
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.05 -
Roberta Flack
Yorkshire Sez Les 5.50 -
Dana
Sandie Shaw
Bruce Ruffin
LWT Who Do You Do? 6.30 -
Tony Brandon (Radio One DJ)
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
Neil Sedaka
Clodagh Rodgers
LWT Aquarius 10.50 pm -
includes Kenny Everett's London
Sunday 27th August 1972
BBC2 Mary -
Mary Travers
John Denver
LWT Ferry Cross The Mersey 3.15 -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.40 -
The New Seekers
ATV Songs That Matter 7.00 -
The Seekers
LWT Eleven Plus 11.25 pm -
content unknown
Monday 28th August 1972
BBC2 Wild and Winsome Women 10.35 -
Doris Troy
Salena Jones
Tuesday 29th August 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out: Gilbert O’Sullivan 10.25 -
Yorkshire Our Brian
Design
Wednesday 30th August 1972
Southern Little Big Time 4.25 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town 10.50 -
Cleo Laine
Thursday 31st August 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Noel Edmonds
Theme -
Cliff Richard -
Faron Young -
Elton John -
Jackie Wilson -
Slade -
Roxy Music -
Blackfoot Sue -
Rod Stewart (with the Faces) -
Thames Max Bygraves at the Royalty 9.00 -
Friday 1st September 1972
BBC2 The Monkees: Missing Monkee 4.55 -
Anglia Glamour '72 7.00 -
content unknown
Saturday 2nd September 1972
BBC1 The Case 8.15 -
NB co-
Cliff Richard & Tim Brooke-
Cliff Richard -
Cliff Richard & Olivia Newton-
Olivia Newton-
BBC1 (Scotland) Sing Hi Sing Lo
content unknown
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.15 -
Doris Troy
Yorkshire Sez Les 5.55 -
Blue Mink
Vicki Leandros
The Dallas Boys
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent
LWT Aquarius 11.20 pm -
Elton John -
Sunday 3rd September 1972
BBC2 Mary: Rhymes and Reasons: Women 9.15 -
Mary Travers
Georgia Brown
ATV The Golden Shot 4.15 -
Tony Christie
ATV Songs That Matter 7.00 -
The Settlers
LWT Eleven Plus 12.00 -
content unknown
Tuesday 5th September 1972
BBC1 Sounding Out: Lindisfarne 10.25 -
Wednesday 6th September 1972
Southern Little Big Time 4.25 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
Thursday 7th September 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Cliff Richard -
Lynsey De Paul -
The Drifters -
Hurricane Smith -
Junior Walker & The All Stars -
Roxy Music -
Michael Jackson -
Slade -
BBC2 Sacha’s In Town 9.25 -
Sacha Distel
Clodagh Rodgers
The Dudley Moore Trio
Thames Max Bygraves at the Royalty 9.00 -
Friday 8th September 1972
BBC1 The Virginian: A King’s Ransom 7.45 -
Jackie DeShannon
BBC2 The Monkees: I Was A Teenager Monster 4.55 -
Saturday 9th September 1972
BBC2 Sounds For Saturday 9.10 -
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Yorkshire Sez Les 6.00 -
Gene Pitney
Design
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
Vince Hill
Pearl Bailey and Louis Bellson
Sunday 10th September 1972
BBC2 Mary -
Mary Travers
Paul Williams
Leslie Duncan
ATV The Golden Shot 4.30 -
Julie Rogers
Tony Blackburn
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Roger Whittaker
The Beverley Sisters
Neil Reid
LWT Eleven Plus 12.00 -
content unknown
Tuesday 12th September 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.10 pm – end (first of second series)
Hosted by Bob Harris
The Drifters -
Frampton’s Camel
Kenny Loggins – Danny’s Song
Loggins and Messina – House at Pooh Corner, Listen To A Country Song
Roberta Flack – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (live film clip)
ATV The Jackson Five Show 5.20 -
cartoon series
Wednesday 13th September 1972
Southern Little Big Time 4.25 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
ITV Miss Great Britain 1972 8.00 -
Julie Rogers
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town 10.30 -
Thursday 14th September 1972
NB London Weekend announce a new £2,500,000 programme package which will see the station open at 9.00 am and close around 2.00 am
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
T Rex -
Barry Ryan -
David Cassidy -
The Drifters -
Faron Young -
Sweet -
Dandy Livingstone -
Hurricane Smith -
Jackie Wilson -
Mardi Gras -
Michael Jackson -
Slade -
Saturday 16th September 1972
BBC1 The Two Ronnies 8.15 -
Elaine Delmar – What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
Georgie Fame & Alan Price – Bye Bye Love
LWT The Osmonds 9.55 -
And Away They Go
Sunday 17th September 1972
BBC2 Mary -
Mary Travers
David Buskin
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
Anne Murray
The Spinners
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Julie Rogers
Ayshea Brough
Granada All That Jazz
George Melly etc
Monday 18th September 1972
Thames The Sound of... The Settlers 12.15 -
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
Bobby Crush (debut)
Tuesday 19th September 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.10 pm -
NB Billy Joel was booked to appear
Hosted by Bob Harris
The Everly Brothers – Stories We Could Tell, Brand New Tennessee Waltz
John Lennon – Sometime In New York City (Filmfinders clip)
Bob Dylan with George Harrison and Leon Russell etc – Just Like A Woman (Concert for Bangla Desh movie)
Jimmy Stevens – Girl From Denver, Tears Behind My Eyes
Arthur Lee – Every Time I Look Up I’m Down (abstract film clip)
American Spring – interview, Good Time (Filmfinders clip)
Jerry Lee Lewis – Mean Woman Blues, Great Balls of Fire (1971 Toronto Rock Festival
-
Thames The Sound Of...Roger Whittaker 12.10 -
ATV The Jackson Five 5.20 -
Wednesday 20th September 1972
BBC1 Frank Sinatra: A Man And His Music 9.55 -
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town
Southern Little Big Time 4.55 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
Thames The Charlie Drake Comedy Hour
Mr Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band
Thursday 21st September 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Ed Stewart
Theme -
T Rex -
David Bowie -
Donny Osmond -
The Drifters -
Gary Glitter -
Anne Murray -
Sweet -
Junior Walker & The All-
Lieutenant Pigeon -
Peter Skellern -
Slade -
BBC2 Sacha’s In Town 9.25 -
Sacha Distel
Olivia Newton-
Sammy Cahn
Friday 22nd September 1972
Anglia Glamour '72 7.00 -
Jackie Lee
Craig Douglas
Saturday 23rd September 1972
BBC1 The Two Ronnies 7.35 -
Georgie Fame & Alan Price
LWT The Osmonds: Don Osmondo in Spain 9.55 -
LWT The Tommy Steele Hour 9.30 -
Sunday 24th September 1972
BBC2 Mary -
Mary Travers
Ian Campbell Folk Group
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
The Spinners
Anne Murray
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Frank Ifield
Granada All That Jazz
George Melly etc
Monday 25th September 1972
Yorkshire Movie Matinee: Made in Heaven with Petula Clark
Tuesday 26th September 1972
BBC1 Presenting Lena Martell 10.15 -
Vince Hill
Alex Welsh & His Jazzband
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.30 pm -
Hosted by Bob Harris
The John Kay Band – Many A Mile, Somebody
Steppenwolf (The John Kay Band) – Born To Be Wild, Monster
Linda Lewis
England Dan & John Ford Coley -
Carly Simon -
ELP -
Wednesday 27th September 1972
Southern Little Big Time 4.25 -
Freddie & The Dreamers
Thursday 28th September 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Elvis Presley -
T Rex -
Dandy Livingstone -
David Bowie -
Junior Campbell -
10cc -
Chicory Tip -
Peter Skellern -
Gary Glitter -
The O'Jays -
David Cassidy -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Shirley Bassey 9.25 -
Sings in Sardinia and Berlin
A BBC/SFB Co-
Friday 29th September 1972
Granada Glamour '72 7.00 -
Gene Pitney
The Flirtations
Saturday 30th September 1972
BBC1 The Two Ronnies 7.35 -
Georgie Fame & Alan Price
Chelsea Brown
LWT The Osmonds: The Luck of the Osmonds 9.55 -
ATV Saturday Variety 6.45 -
Anne Murray
Sunday 1st October 1972
BBC2 Milligan in Autumn 9.00 -
Ray Ellington
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
content unknown
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Julie Rogers
The Bachelors
Monday 2nd October 1972
Granada All That Jazz
George Melly
Tuesday 3rd October 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.20 pm -
Hosted by Bob Harris
Pete Townshend
Stone The Crows
Jim Croce -
Corrosion
Wednesday 4th October 1972
Southern Little Big Time 4.25 -
Freddie and The Dreamers
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town 10.30 -
Billy Eckstein
Thursday 5th October 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
Sweet -
Lieutenant Pigeon -
Donny Osmond -
Elvis Presley -
Family -
Gary Glitter -
The O'Jays -
Harley Quinn -
Three Dog Night -
Bread -
Johnny Nash -
David Cassidy -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Sacha’s In Town 9.25 -
Sacha Distel
Saturday 7th October 1972
BBC1 The Two Ronnies 7.25 -
Georgie Fame & Alan Price
LWT The Osmonds: China 9.55 -
ATV Saturday Variety 9.30-
Lonnie Donegan
Sunday 8th October 1972
BBC2 Mantovani In Concert 8.15 -
Vince Hill
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
content unknown
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 7.05 -
Anita Harris
Maggie Fitzgibbon
LWT The Stanley Baxter Show 9.30 -
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Monday 9th October 1972
BBC2 Harry Nilsson In Concert 10.40 -
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
The Reivers (folk group)
Maria Bianche (singer)
Tuesday 10th October 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.30 pm -
Hosted by Bob Harris
Lou Reed
Home
David Evans
Boz Scaggs
Wednesday 11th October 1972
NB ITV are about to launch an afternoon schedule which will include popular dramas and comedies from the recent past like A Family At War, The Mind Of J G Reeder and Bless This House, but not Callan and Man At The Top as they are considered to violent.
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.25 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough with Fred Barker 4.25 -
Hurricane Smith -
The Solid Gold Band -
Sam -
Laurel Aitken -
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town 10.30 -
Annie Ross
Thursday 12th October 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Noel Edmonds
Theme -
Gary Glitter -
10cc -
Chairmen Of The Board -
David Bowie -
Elvis Presley -
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
Alice Cooper -
Python Lee Jackson -
Thelma Houston -
Carpenters -
Lieutenant Pigeon -
Saturday 14th October 1972
BBC1 The Two Ronnies 7.35 -
Georgie Fame & Alan Price
BBC2 Full House 9.05 -
Humble Pie (from 10.00 -
LWT The Osmonds: Jimmy and James in London 9.55 -
LWT The Rolf Harris Show 6.15 -
Roy Orbison -
Sunday 15th October 1972
BBC2 Mantovani and his Orchestra 8.15 -
Moira Anderson
ATV The Golden Shot 4.45 -
Barry Ryan
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
The Beverley Sisters
Neil Reid
Pearl Bailey
Monday 16th October 1972
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Sacha’s In Town 9.25 -
Sacha Distel
Cass Elliott
Caterina Valente
BBC2 John Sebastian In Concert 10.40 -
BBC2 Late Night Line-
Cole Porter (1891 -
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
Max Boyce
Tuesday 17th October 1972
BBC1 (North West) That Stuart Hall Show
Emperor Rosko interview
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.25 pm -
Hosted by Bob Harris
Plainsong – Even The Guiding Light, The Bold Marauder
The Band – King Harvest Has Surely Come (Filmfinders cartoon clip)
Santana – Soul Sacrifice (Royal Albert Hall, London -
Mickey Newbury – American Trilogy, How Many Times Must The Piper Be Paid For His Song, interview
Paul Horn – Mumtaz Mahal (Filmfinders clip)
ATV Lunchtime With Wogan 1.00 -
A lunchtime show hosted by the Radio Two DJ Terry Wogan and featuring Carl Wayne and Penny Lane as regular singers. It was ATV's response to BBC's Midlands based Pebble Mill At One
Wednesday 18th October 1972
Thames Looks Familiar 3.00 -
Anne Shelton
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.25 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
10cc -
Gene Pitney
Boulevard -
Elvis Presley -
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town 10.30 -
Tony Bennett
Matt Monro
Thursday 19th October 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.30 -
content unknown
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Family -
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
Hot Chocolate -
Simon & Garfunkel -
Shag -
Alice Cooper -
Bruce Ruffin -
Peter Skellern -
Esprit De Corps -
Johnny Nash -
Junior Campbell -
Lieutenant Pigeon -
Friday 20th October 1972
Grampian Melody Inn 1.00 -
content unknown
Saturday 21st October 1972
BBC1 The Two Ronnies 7.35 -
Georgie Fame & Alan Price
BBC2 Full House 9.05 -
Cannonball Adderley
LWT The Osmonds: Sir Donald of Bavaria 11.20 -
LWT The Partridge Family: Old Scrapmouth 12.00 -
NB The Daily Express has this episode as ‘Dora Dora Dora’
LWT The Rolf Harris Show 6.15 -
Caterina Valente
Bobby Crush
LWT Russell Harty Plus 10.40 -
content unknown
Sunday 22nd October 1972
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
Gene Pitney
Yorkshire Stars On Sunday 6.55 -
Anita Harris
Tuesday 24th October 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.35 pm – end
Hosted by Bob Harris
Birtha -
Rick Wakeman – Catherine of Aragon (abstract film clip), interview
Fanny – Young and Dumb (KTLA TV, Los Angeles), Ain't That Peculiar (from same source, untransmitted)
Mike Hugg -
David Bowie – Space Oddity (Love You Till Tuesday clip 1968)
John Prine – Clocks and Spoons (Filmfinders clip)
ATV Lunchtime With Wogan
Carl Wayne, Penny Lane (regular singers)
Wednesday 25th October 1972
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.25 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Lonnie Donegan -
Heathmore -
Louisa Jane White
Lieutenant Pigeon -
Thames Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town 10.30 -
Tony Bennett
STV Scotch Corner 1.00 -
Andy Stewart
Anne Lorne Gilles
Juniper Green
Thursday 26th October 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.30 -
content unknown
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
Bread -
10cc -
Harley Quinn -
The Stylistics -
Archie Bell & The Drells -
Chris Montez -
Petula Clark -
Alice Cooper -
Python Lee Jackson -
The Shangri-
Lieutenant Pigeon -
BBC1 Monty Python’s Flying Circus 10.15 -
includes chat show sketch 'It's' with Ringo Starr and Lulu
ATV Des 7.05 -
content unknown
Friday 27th October 1972
BBC1 Pebble Mill At One 1.00 -
Sandy Denny – The Music Weaver
BBC1 George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing 11.05 pm -
musical
Grampian Melody Inn 1.00 -
content unknown
Saturday 28th October 1972
BBC1 The Two Ronnies 7.35 -
Georgie Fame & Alan Price
BBC2 Full House 9.05 -
Gladys Knight & The Pips
LWT The Osmonds: Paris 11.30 -
LWT The Partridge Family: In 25 Words or less 12.00 -
LWT The Rolf Harris Show 6.15 -
Vikki Carr
Gilbert O'Sullivan
ATV The Julie Andrews Hour 8.30 -
Robert Goulet
LWT Russell Harty Plus 10.40 -
Cass Elliott
Trinidad North Stars Band (steel band)
Sunday 29th October 1972
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
content unknown
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Max Bygraves
Ronnie Hilton
LWT The Stanley Baxter Picture Show 9.30 -
Blackfoot Sue
Monday 30th October 1972
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Sacha’s In Town 9.25 -
Sacha Distel
Labi Siffre
Mirielle Mathieu
Yorkshire Sez Les
content unknown
Tuesday 31st October 1972
BBC1 The Spinners at Halloween 11.30 pm -
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.10 pm -
Hosted by Bob Harris
Marc Bolan
Ellis
Harry Chapin
ATV Lunchtime With Wogan 1.00 -
Carl Wayne, Penny Lane (regular singers)
Wednesday 1st November 1972
STV Scotch Corner 1.00 -
Andy Stewart
Ann Williamson
Par Three
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.25 -
Hosted by Ayshea
Jack Wild -
Junior Campbell -
The Fortunes
Thursday 2nd November 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Ed Stewart
Theme -
Chris Montez -
Archie Bell & The Drells -
Chairmen Of The Board -
Family -
Four Tops -
Johnny Nash -
Junior Campbell -
Shag -
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
Chuck Berry -
The Osmonds -
Lieutenant Pigeon -
BBC2 Donovan In Concert 10.45 -
ATV Des 9.00 -
Susan Maughan
HTV New Folk 10.30 -
New folk acts presented as a response to a request from HTV producer Derek Clark.
Robin Edwards, Barry Brubear, John G Clark, Pee Wee Hunt, The Rainbow Wood Group, Decanter
Friday 3rd November 1972
Grampian Melody Inn 1.00 -
content unknown
Saturday 4th November 1972
BBC1 The Two Ronnies 7.35 -
Georgie Fame & Alan Price
BBC1 Parkinson 11.15 pm -
Mickey Newbury
LWT The Osmonds: Monte Carlo 11.30 -
LWT The Partridge Family: A Man Called Snake 12.00 -
LWT The Rolf Harris Show 6.15 -
Vince Hill
Penny Lane
ATV Saturday Variety 8.30 -
The Kaye Sisters
LWT Russell Harty Plus 10.40 -
Liberace
Sunday 5th November 1972
BBC1 The Royal Variety Performance 7.25 -
Elton John – I Think I’m Gonna Kill Myself (with Legs Larry Smith tap-
Liberace
The Jackson Five – I Want You Back / ABC / Rockin' Robin medley, ?, The Love You Save
Jack Jones – A Song For You, Wives and Lovers, The Folks Who Live On The Hill, MacArthur Park, Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Carol Channing -
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Mantovani and His Concert Orchestra 8.20 -
Lena Martell
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
Vince Hill
Kenny Ball
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Julie Rogers
The Beverley Sisters
Monday 6th November 1972
BBC2 Fifty Years Of Music 8.50 -
To celebrate fifty years of the BBC
Henry Hall
Vera Lynn
Lulu
The New Seekers
Cliff Richard
Gilbert O’Sullivan
Yorkshire Sez Les 8.30 -
content unknown
Tuesday 7th November 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.15 pm -
Hosted by Bob Harris
Stealer’s Wheel – I Get By, Late Again (NB Gerry Rafferty had left the band by this time leaving Joe Egan as sole lead man)
Elephants’ Memory – Power Boogie (Filmfinders clip)
Dion – The Wanderer (Twist Around The Clock movie -
Bridget St John – Keep Smiling, untitled song
The Rolling Stones – All Down The Line (live in America)
Flo and Eddie -
It’s A Beautiful Day – The Grand Camel Suite (Filmfinders clip)
ATV Lunchtime With Wogan 1.00 -
Carl Wayne, Penny Lane (regular singers)
Thames Archair Theatre: The Folk Singer 10.30 -
Wednesday 8th November 1972
BBC1 The World Of Jimmy Savile 9.25 -
STV Scotch Corner (replaced with USA Presidential election news report)
Andy Stewart
Anne Linstrum
Dick Gaughan and Aly Bain
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.50 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Bay City Rollers -
Tom Paxton -
Sweet Chariot -
Thursday 9th November 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.30 -
content unknown
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Geordie -
Chuck Berry – My Ding-
Donny Osmond -
The Stylistics -
Elton John -
Family -
Shag -
Chris Montez -
Alice Cooper -
The Jackson 5 -
Jeff Beck -
Carpenters -
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
BBC2 Paul Williams In Concert 10.45 -
ATV Des 6.55 -
content unknown
ATV Finder’s Keepers 11.30 pm -
Friday 10th November 1972
Grampian Melody Inn 1.00 -
content unknown
Granada The Friday Night Film: The George Raft Story with Julie London
Saturday 11th November 1972
LWT The Osmonds: Denmark 11.30 -
NB ATV show Monte Carlo
LWT The Partridge Family: Dr Jekyll and Mr Partridge 12.00 -
LWT The Rolf Harris Show 6.15 -
Daliah Lavi
ATV The Julie Andrews Hour 9.30 -
Steve Lawrence
LWT Russell Harty Plus 10.40 -
Esther Ofarim
Billy Eckstein
Sunday 12th November 1972
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Mantovani & His Concert Orchestra 8.15 -
Nana Mouskouri
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
Vikki Leandros
Monday 13th November 1972
Yorkshire Sez Les
content unknown
Tuesday 14th November 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 12.00 am -
Hosted by Bob Harris
Crowbar -
Carole King -
Billy Joel -
Gladys Knight & The Pips -
Michael Gray interviewed about his Bob Dylan book
Pete Drummond & the VHF Band – Rockin’ At The BBC (to celebrate the BBC's fiftieth anniversary)
ATV Lunchtime With Wogan 1.00 -
Carl Wayne, Penny Lane (regular singers)
ATV The Jackson Five Show: Ray and Charles Superstars
Wednesday 15th November 1972
BBC2 Music On Two: Music Scrapbook (1922 -
The pioneering days of BBC radio music broadcasting
STV Scotch Corner 1.00 -
Andy Stewart
Tam White
Anne and Laura Brand
Thames Looks Familiar 3.00 -
Donald Peers, Joan Turner
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.25 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Nina Baden-
Peter D Kelly -
Wizzard -
Thursday 16th November 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.30 -
content unknown
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile (wearing a white fur coat)
Theme -
The Jackson 5 -
The Osmonds -
Strawbs -
Chuck Berry -
The Shangri-
Hot Chocolate -
Rod Stewart (with the Faces) -
Gladys Knight -
Slade -
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
Neil Sedaka -
BBC2 Stephen Stills and Manassas In Concert 10.50 -
Thames The Sound Of...The Settlers
ATV Des 6.45 -
content unknown
Friday 17th November 1972
Grampian Melody Inn 1.00 -
content unknown
Saturday 18th November 1972
BBC1 The Harry Secombe Show 7.35 -
Esther Ofarim
Gladys Knight & The Pips
BBC2 Full House 9.05 -
Mike Westbrook’s Solid Gold Cadillac
LWT The Osmonds: India 11.30 -
LWT The Partridge Family: The Undergraduate 12.00 -
LWT The Reg Varney Revue 6.15 -
NB It's possible that different ITV areas show different editions of this show
Jack Jones (including a duet with his then girlfriend Susan George)
LWT Saturday Variety 9.30 -
Matt Monro
The Dallas Boys
LWT Russell Harty Plus 10.40 -
Blue Mink
Sunday 19th November 1972
ATV The Golden Shot 4.2-
Lynsey De Paul
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Vince Hill
Monday 20th November 1972
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Night Club 9.25 -
Live in Munich
Johnny Mathis
The Tremeloes
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
Candlewick Green -
Tuesday 21st November 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.50 -
Hosted by Bob Harris
Neil Sedaka – interview
Del Shannon – film clip
Wishbone Ash – Blowing Free (live The Corn Exchange, Cambridge)
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine, Use Me
Sparks -
ATV Lunchtime With Wogan 1.00 -
Carl Wayne, Penny Lane (regular singers)
Wednesday 22nd November 1972
STV Scotch Corner 1.00 -
Andy Stewart
Helen McArthur
The Harbour Folk
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.25 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Bruce Ruffin
Jeff Collins
Esprit De Corps
Colin Blunstone -
Thursday 23rd November 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.30 -
content unknown
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Noel Edmonds
Theme -
Blue Mink -
Lynsey De Paul -
Slade -
Strawbs -
Cliff Richard -
David Cassidy -
Donny Osmond -
Elton John -
Four Tops -
Neil Sedaka -
Michael Jackson -
Chuck Berry -
BBC2 Linda Lewis In Concert 10.50 -
ATV Des 7.05 -
content unknown
Friday 24th November 1972
Grampian Melody Inn 1.00 -
content unknown
Saturday 25th November 1972
BBC1 The Harry Secombe Show 7.35 -
Olivia Newton-
BBC1 Wales Disc-
Budgie
BBC2 Full House 9.05 -
Roxy Music The Mona Lisa In 3-
LWT The Osmonds: Yukon 11.30 am -
LWT The Partridge Family: Anatomy of a Tonsil 12.00 -
LWT The Reg Varney Revue 6.15 -
Adele Leigh
LWT Russell Harty Plus 10.40 -
Dorothy Squires
Sunday 26th November 1972
BBC1 Palm Springs Weekend 3.45 -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
Lynsey DePaul
The Fourth Company -
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
Anita Harris
Julie Rogers
Monday 27th November 1972
Southern Harem Holiday 3.00 -
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
Janet Jones (singer with guitar)
Tuesday 28th November 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.50 pm -
Hosted by Bob Harris
Chris Welch -
Philip Goodhand-
Babe Ruth -
Phil Spector – interviewed by Richard Williams about the Christmas album re-
ATV Lunchtime With Wogan 1.00 -
Carl Wayne, Penny Lane (regular singers)
Wednesday 29th November 1972
STV Scotch Corner 1.00 -
Andy Stewart
Alastair McDonald
Juniper Green
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.25 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Ken Dodd -
Gaynor Jones
Muffin
Thames This Is Your Life: Shirley Bassey 7.00 -
Thursday 30th November 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.30 -
content unknown
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
David Cassidy -
Gladys Knight -
The Jackson 5 -
Jeff Beck -
The Bee Gees -
Rod Stewart (with the Faces) -
Little Jimmy Osmond -
Roy C -
Bill Withers -
Strawbs -
Chuck Berry -
BBC2 David Buskin In Concert 10.45 -
ATV Des 6.55 -
content unknown
Friday 1st December 1972
Grampian Melody Inn 1.00 -
Danny Street
Alex Sutherland and his band
Saturday 2nd December 1972
BBC1 The Harry Secombe Show 7.35 -
George Hamilton IV
Wilma Reading
LWT The Osmonds: The Black Forest 11.30 -
LWT The Partridge Family: Whatever Happened To Moby Dick 12.00 -
LWT The Reg Varney Revue 6.15 -
Design
LWT Saturday Variety 9.30 -
content unknown
LWT Russell Harty Plus 10.40 -
content unknown
Sunday 3rd December 1972
BBC2 Up Sunday 10.20 -
Jake Thackray
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
Clodagh Rodgers
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 7.00 -
The Beverley Sisters
Monday 4th December 1972
BBC2 Show Of The Week: Night Club 9.25 -
Vikki Carr
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.40 -
NB The Nuclear submarine edition, HMS Revenge
Anna McGoldrick
Tuesday 5th December 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.45 pm -
Hosted by Bob Harris
Lou Reizner -
Ralph McTell
The Doobie Brothers -
McKendree Spring -
ATV Lunchtime With Wogan 1.00 -
Carl Wayne, Penny Lane (regular singers)
Wednesday 6th December 1972
Grampian Scotch Corner 1.00 -
Andy Stewart
Robin Hall and Jimmie McGregor
Ron Dale
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.25 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Ayshea Brough -
Middle Of The Road -
Worth -
Stavely Makepiece -
Thursday 7th December 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile
Theme -
Cilla Black -
Elton John -
Little Jimmy Osmond -
Slade -
The Moody Blues -
Lynsey De Paul -
The Osmonds -
T.Rex -
Blackfoot Sue -
Jimmy Savile chats to Miss USA Linda Carter
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band -
Chuck Berry -
BBC2 Three Dog Night In Concert 10.50 -
One Man Band, Mama Told Me Not To Come, It's For You, Old Fashioned Love Song, Midnight Runaway, Try a Little Tenderness, Black and White, Eli's Coming, Joy to the World, Celebrate, Jam
ATV Des 7.05 -
content unknown
Friday 8th December 1972
BBC1 The Osmonds at The Rainbow 6.45 -
Grampian Melody Inn 1.00 -
content unknown
Saturday 9th December 1972
BBC1 The Harry Secombe Show 7.35 -
Lulu
BBC1 Parkinson 11.20 pm -
Petula Clark
George Melly
BBC2 Full House 9.05 -
Lindisfarne
LWT The Osmonds: The Black Forest 11.30 -
LWT The Partridge Family: Days of Acne and Roses 12.00 -
LWT The Reg Varney Revue 6.15 -
Matt Monro
ATV The Julie Andrews Hour 9.30 -
Diahann Carroll
LWT Russell Harty Plus 10.40 -
content unknown
Sunday 10th December 1972
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
Malcolm Roberts
Clodagh Rodgers
Yorkshire Stars on Sunday 6.55 -
Petula Clark
Ronnie Hilton
Tuesday 12th December 1972
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 10.35 pm -
Hosted by Bob Harris
Tommy article with Michael Wale
Andrew Oldham -
T Rex with Elton John and Ringo Starr – Children of the Revolution (Born To Boogie movie)
Focus – Sylvia, Hocus Pocus, Anonymous II
The Crickets – That’ll Be The Day, Lovesick Blues, My Rocking Days
John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth (Imagine movie)
ATV Lunchtime With Wogan 1.00 -
Carl Wayne, Penny Lane (regular singers)
ATV Cleo and John 10.30 -
Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth -
Wednesday 13th December 1972
Grampian Scotch Corner 1.00 -
Hall and MacGregor
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.25 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Ayshea Brough -
Christie -
The Tremeloes -
? -
John Pantry -
'On A Clear Day You Can See Forever' movie clip
Thursday 14th December 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Ed Stewart
Theme -
David Bowie -
Four Tops -
Little Jimmy Osmond -
John Lennon & Yoko Ono -
The New Seekers -
Slade -
Clodagh Rodgers -
Roy C -
T.Rex -
Wizzard -
Chuck Berry -
BBC2 Kris Kristofferson In Concert 10.50 -
Kris Kristofferson with Rita Coolidge
ATV Des 6.55 -
content unknown
Friday 15th December 1972
BBC1 The Music of Gilbert O’Sullivan 10.15 -
Gilbert O’Sullivan
HTV Time Was (noted in music press, not listed in newspapers)
George Chisholm
Saturday 16th December 1972
BBC1 The Harry Secombe Show 7.35 -
Cilla Black
Labi Siffre
BBC2 Full House 9.05 -
Bob Kerr’s Whoopee Band
LWT The Osmonds: Australia 11.30 -
ATV The Osmonds: Black Forest
LWT The Partridge Family: The Tale of Two Hamsters 12.00 -
LWT The Reg Varney Revue 6.15 -
Dorothy Squires
Mrs Mills
Joe ‘Mister Piano’ Henderson
George Chisholm
ATV Burt Bacharach and Associates 9.30 -
Burt Bacharach -
Sammy Davis Jr -
Anthony Newley -
Sammy Davis Jr -
Burt Bacharach -
Vicki Carr -
Burt Bacharach & Vikki Carr -
Anthony Newley & Sammy Davis Jr -
Burt Bacharach -
LWT Russell Harty Plus 10.40 -
Wings
Sunday 17th December 1972
BBC2 The Music Of John Barry 8.15 -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
Donald Peers
The Fantastics -
Clodagh Rodgers
Monday 18th December 1972
BBC2 Show Of The Week: The Vera Lynn Show 9.25 -
Mac Davis
Thames Opportunity Knocks 6.45 -
3 Minds (singing trio)
Tuesday 19th December 1972
BBC1 Frank Sinatra: A Man And His Music 8.10 -
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.15 pm -
Hosted by Bob Harris
Rod Argent -
Fumble
Rory Gallagher – Banker’s Blues
Sensational Alex Harvey Band – film clip
Elephant’s Memory – Liberation Special
Monty Python – Fish slapper’s dance (from TV series)
ATV Lunchtime With Wogan 1.00 -
Carl Wayne, Penny Lane (regular singers)
ATV The Jackson Five Show: Jackson Street, USA 5.20 -
Anglia The Trackers 7.30 -
Wednesday 20th December 1972
Grampian Scotch Corner 1.00 -
content unknown
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.25 -
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Slade -
Tony Hazzard -
Community Chest (with Emile Dean Zogaby) -
Thursday 21st December 1972
BBC1 Disc A Dawn 12.30 -
content unknown
BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 -
Hosted by Tony Blackburn
Theme -
David Bowie -
Elton John -
Malcolm Roberts -
Dick Emery -
Lynsey De Paul -
Elvis Presley -
Cat Stevens -
Gladys Knight -
T.Rex -
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band -
Wizzard Ball Park Incident
Little Jimmy Osmond -
BBC2 Judee Sill In Concert 10.50 -
HTV Time Was
Anne Shelton
Janie Marden
Friday 22nd December 1972
BBC1 The Spinners at Christmas10.15 -
ATV Larry's Christmas Party 7.30 -
Heathmore
Granada It’s Charlie Williams 10.30 -
Ayshea Brough -
Bobby Crush
Elaine Delmar
HTV Time Was (noted in music press, not listed in newspapers)
Anne Shelton
Janie Marden
Saturday 23rd December 1972
BBC1 We Want To Sing 4.15 -
The Settlers
BBC1 Parkinson 11.00 pm -
Bing Crosby
BBC2 Full House 8.55 -
Zenon
LWT The Osmonds: Transylvania 11.30 -
ATV The Osmonds: Australia 11.30 am -
LWT The Partridge Family: Don’t Bring Your Guns To Town Santa 12.00 -
LWT The Reg Varney Christmas Revue 6.30 -
Dorothy Squires
The Osmonds – Crazy Horses
Little Jimmy Osmond -
Donny Osmond -
Olivia Newton-
LWT The Best Of Russell Harty 11.45 pm -
Little Richard
Dorothy Squires
Sunday 24th December 1972 Christmas Eve
Granada Christmas Lift-
Hosted by Ayshea Brough
Ayshea Brough -
Sweet -
Ben Thompson
New World
The Improvisers
The Feet -
clip from the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Ensemble -
Yorkshire Stars at Christmas with Songs at Christmas 11.45 am -
The Beverley Sisters
Anita Harris
Frank Ifield
Julie Rogers
ATV Christmas Company 3.15 -
Lieutenant Pigeon
Tony Bateman, Patsy Rowlands, Stephanie Voss, Barbara Ferris -
ATV The Golden Shot 4.15 -
The New Seekers
Bobby Crush
Granada Parade: Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat 6.15 -
The Young Vic production
Monday 25th December 1972 Christmas Day
BBC1 Stocking Full Of Stars 11.30 pm -
Ringo Starr – Back Off Boogaloo (promo clip)
BBC1 Top Of The Pops ‘72 part one 2.10 -
Hosted by Jimmy Savile, Ed Stewart
Theme -
T Rex -
David Cassidy -
Lynsey De Paul -
Rod Stewart -
Hawkwind -
Hot Butter -
Elton John -
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
Slade -
Little Jimmy Osmond -
The Move -
New Seekers -
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band -
Don McLean -
BBC1 Dick Whittington 4.10 -
Peter Noone
BBC1 Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game 5.55 -
Joe Brown, Kenny Lynch
BBC1 Christmas Night With The Stars 6.55 – 8.15 pm
Cilla Black – You You You, All I Really Wanted Was You
Lulu & The Young Generation – My Father’s House
BBC1 The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show 8.15 -
Shirley Bassey
Jack Jones
Vera Lynn
Anglia The Flight of the Snow Geese 2.00 -
Glen Campbell -
Thames Opportunity Knocks Christmas Special 4.50 -
The John Miles Set
LWT All Star Comedy Carnival 5.45 -
Carl Wayne and Penny Lane from Christmas With Wogan
Tuesday 26th December 1972 Boxing Day
BBC1 Help! 3.30 -
BBC1 The Sound Of Petula 6.05 -
Petula Clark
Anthony Newley
BBC1 The Last Goon Show Of All 8.20 -
Ray Ellington
Max Geldray
BBC1 Shirley Bassey 9.55 -
NB Recorded at The Talk of the Town
Shirley Bassey -
Segment
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.15 pm -
Compilation of the show since the beginning
Bob Harris explains that they couldn't use all the clips they wanted as not all the live shows were recorded
Alice Cooper -
Dion -
David Bowie -
Ten Wheel Drive -
The Beach Boys -
The Steve Miller Band -
Vinegar Joe -
Merry Clayton with Carole King -
Curtis Mayfield -
Mick Jagger -
The Rolling Stones -
Poco -
The Beatles -
Roxy Music -
Stevie Wonder -
Janis Ian -
Jerry Lee Lewis -
Bob Harris – wishes us a happy new year
Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson -
Frankie Avalon -
Yorkshire All The Jokers – Full House 5.15 -
Clodagh Rodgers
ATV The Val Doonican Show 9.30 -
Val Doonican
Georgie Fame & Alan Price
Dudley Moore
Tonia Bern-
Wednesday 27th December 1972
BBC1 Fifty Years Of Music 5.45 -
Lulu
The New Seekers
Cliff Richard
Gilbert O’Sullivan
Grampian Scotch Corner 1.00 -
content unknown
Thames Looks Familiar 3.00 -
George Melly
Granada Lift Off With Ayshea 4.25 -
Ayshea Brough
10cc -
Frankie Stevens
Roger Whittaker -
Olivia Newton John
Thursday 28th December 1972
BBC1 Top Of The Pops '72 part two 7.10 -
Hosted by Noel Edmonds, Tony Blackburn
Theme -
Gary Glitter -
Donny Osmond -
Alice Cooper -
Lieutenant Pigeon -
Roberta Flack -
Slade -
Benny Hill -
Chicory Tip -
Nilsson -
The Osmonds -
Tony Blackburn introduces Rolf Harris
Chuck Berry -
The Jackson Five -
T Rex -
Ringo Starr -
BBC1 Tom Jones 10.05 -
Tom Jones
Dusty Springfield -
BBC2 Georgia Brown In Concert 11.20 pm -
Roads To Freedom, Ooh Child, September Song, Maybe This Time, Mein Herr, Scared To Be Alone, That's Enough For Me, Mama Told Me Not To Come, Cockney Medley consisting of: A Little Of What You Fancy, & Don't Dilly Dally, Sons Of, Ain't No Sunshine, Where Did They Go
HTV Time Was
Janie Marden
Saturday 30th December 1972
BBC1 The Basil Brush Show 5.05 -
The Settlers
BBC1 Cilla 8.35 -
Cilla Black
Donovan -
BBC1 Parkinson Meets The Goons 11.20 pm -
Ray Ellington
LWT The Osmonds: Rio de Janeiro 11.30 -
LWT The Partridge Family: The Forty Year Itch 12.00 -
LWT The Julie Andrews Hour 9.30 -
Cass Elliot
LWT Russell Harty Plus 10.40 -
Eartha Kitt
Sunday 31st December 1972
BBC1 Festival of Entertainment 3.15 -
Anne Murray
Earl Scruggs
Salena Jones
Mireille Matthieu
BBC1 Top Of The Year 11.00 pm -
Variety Club Awards
Clodagh Rodgers
BBC1 (Scotland) For Auld Lang Syne: Hogmanay Visit to Dundee (also seen as the Welcome To 1973 Show)
The McCalmans
ATV The Golden Shot 4.20 -
No musical guests of interest
LWT At Last The 1973 Show 10.15 pm -
Eartha Kitt
Also this year
Deep Purple -
Thames This Is Your Life. In March 1972 Thames had targeted DJ Jack Jackson for one show and had intended singer Nellie Lutcher to come over to be a guest. However, Jackson lives in the Canary Islands and the ruse to bring him over (a guest spot on a TV show) would have cost them a £500 appearance fee, so they decided against it.
BBC1 Nationwide
Elton John Talks about the National Youth Theatre, Honky Cat
HTV The Dave Cash Radio programme
White Plains -
Argent (session filmed 13th June 1972)
The Osmonds -
STV The Helen McArthur Show
Guests featured Clinton Ford, The Settlers, The Pattersons, The New Faces, David Hughes, Stuart Gilles
STV Andy
Seven half-
STV Band Call (autumn 1972)
Series with Mungo Jerry, Dahlia Lavi, Jericho, Vince Hill, Peter Gordeno, Wilma Reading
HTV Those Swinging Years
Documentary about the big bands of the 1940s featuring a seventeen piece band assembled by Geraldo. Stan Kenton and Buddy DeFranco were interviewed for the show. The hour long show was written and narrated by Alan Dell.
Westward Sounds Great
A series of six shows intended to introduce new local talent alongside well established artists like Dana, Acker Bilk, Mary Wells, Helen Shapiro, Ralph McTell, Gillian McPherson, Joe Brown, The Searchers and Julie Felix
BBC1 Top Of The Pops
It's likely David Cassidy was on the show this year to talk to host Tony Blackburn and sign autographs.
Thames Opportunity Knocks
Vocal Perfection (tried to change their name to The Real Thing on the night of their first appearance only to be berated by the show's host)
Harmony Revival -
BBC1 Parkinson
Blossom Dearie -
BBC1 The Old Grey Whistle Test (January)
The Coasters (Carl and Billy) -
BBC1 Top Of The Pops
T Rex -
T Rex -
BBC2 Old Grey Whistle Test
hosted by Richard Williams
Mac Rebennack (Dr John solo piano set)
BBC2 Old Grey Whistle Test
hosted by Richard Williams
Captain Beeheart -