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1983


Saturday 1st January 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 am - 12.15 pm

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BBC1 Rod and Emu’s Saturday Special 5.25 - 5.55 pm

The Drifters

Tight Fit

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Thin Lizzy

BBC1 Val Sings and Rings In The New 8.30 - 9.15 pm

Val Doonican

Stutz Bearcats

Sylvia

BBC2 Jane 7.15 - 8.00 pm (repeat 1982)

Songs by Neil Innes

TSW / Channel Denis Roussos Magic 11.20 pm - 12.30 am

TVS Johnny Mathis In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

LWT The Best Of Saturday Night Live 11.45 pm - 12.45 am

Simon and Garfunkel

Randy Newman

C4 Get Knighted 7.15 - 8.15 pm

The Barron Knights

C4 It’s George 9.00 - 10.00 pm

Lindisfarne


Sunday 2nd January 1983

Central Star Parade 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

James Last

Silver Convention

Billy Swan

5000 Volts

C4 Ringo 7.00 - 8.00 pm

Ringo Starr special with George Harrison


Monday 3rd January 1983 Bank Holiday

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 7.10 - 7.45 pm

Modern Romance

BBC1 The Mike Hardin Show 11.25 - 11.55 pm (repeat)

BBC1 (Scotland) Philip Jap 11.25 - 11.55 pm shown following day in the rest of the UK 10.45 - 11.15 pm

Philip Jap

Kenny Lynch, Peter Powell

BBC2 Roustabout 3.15 - 4.50 pm 1964 Elvis Presley movie

BBC2 Rhythm on Two: Chris Barber’s Jazz and Blues Band 11.15 pm – 12.05 am

Live at the Assembly Rooms, Derby

C4 Zero Zero 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Mike Batt

C4 Whatever You Want 9.30 - 10.30 pm

The Damned


Tuesday 4th January 1983

BBC1 The Beatles: The Fab Four Phenomenon 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Documentary about their fans in Britain and America

BBC2 King Creole 3.50 - 5.40 pm 1958 Elvis Presley movie

Scottish Donovan In Concert 6.10 - 7.10 pm


Wednesday 5th January 1983

BBC2 Blue Hawaii 3.55 - 5.30 pm 1961 Elvis Presley movie

BBC2 Mary O'Hara 7.30 - 8.00 pm

recorded at Mount Stewart House

C4 The Cut Price Comedy Show 6.00 - 6.30 pm

Roger Ruskin Spear


Thursday 6th January 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 6.50 - 7.30 pm

The first show to feature the chart provided by Gallup

Hosted by Mike Smith, Tommy Vance

Joe Jackson - Steppin’ Out

Phil Collins - You Can’t Hurry Love (promo clip)

Ultravox - Hymn

Bucks Fizz - If You Can’t Stand The Heat

Malcolm McLaren & The World Famous Supreme Team - Buffalo Girls (promo clip)

Wah! - The Story of the Blues

David Essex - A Winter’s Tale (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

The Stranglers - European Female

Chart 20 - 11

Dionne Warwick - All The Love In The World (USA TV clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Renee & Renato - Save Your Love (promo clip) number one

Madness - Our House (playout record and audience dancing)

Granada Live At The Millionaire 11.15 - 11.45 pm (first in series) shown 11th January 1983 on Thames

Madeline Bell introduces a series of jazz sessions from the Manchester club

Esther Phillips

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - River Deep Mountain High

Clarence Frogman Henry - You Always Hurt The One You Love

The Morton Music Machine - Tea For Two

The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love

The Morton Music Machine - Live And Let Die (danced to by Lipstick)

Clarence Frogman Henry - But I Do

The Morton Music Machine - Young At Heart

The Rubettes - I Can Do It, Jukebox Jive

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music

C4 Demis Roussos Variety Special 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Demis Roussos

Bonnie Tyler

Jane Birkin

Annie Ross


Friday 7th January 1983

BBC1 (London) South East At Six 6.00 - 6.22 pm

Frank Zappa interview

BBC1 (Wales) Tom Jones 9.25 - 9.45 pm

Tom Jones

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 7.00 - 7.45 pm

Level 42 - The Chinese Way

LWT South of Watford 11.40 pm - 12.10 am

Pookie Snackenburger

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

A studio show, but without an audience

Queen at Milton Keynes, summer 1982 live and interview clips backstage, plus chats with fans on site

Mark Miwurdz

C4 No Problem 9.00 - 9.30 pm (first episode)

Situation comedy, directed by Michael Dolenz with Janet Kay

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Toots & The Maytals

Denice Williams

Roy Shirley

Yellowman

C4 Jazz on Four: 4 Up 2 Down 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Jimmy Witherspoon and his quintet - at The Canmteen, Covent Garden, London

Bobby McFerrin

Sax players report with clips of Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker


Saturday 8th January 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 am - 12.15 pm

Cinderella panto with Mark Wynter

BBC1 Rod and Emu’s Saturday Special 5.25 - 5.55 pm

Dana

Modern Romance

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 5.55 - 6.30 pm

Shalamar - Friends

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.50 - 9.20 pm

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BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 (repeat March 1977) not simulcast

Graham Parker & The Rumour

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Musical Youth

LWT The Best Of Saturday Night Live 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

The Kinks

C4 The Other Side Of The Tracks 7.30 - 8.30 pm (first edition)

alternates fortnightly with Gastank

Hosted by Paul Gambaccini - artist profiles and interviews

Phil Collins

Kajagoogoo

C4 The Lady Is A Tramp 9.30 - 10.00 pm (first episode of Johnny Speight sitcom)

Theme sung by Matt Monro


Sunday 9th January 1983

LWT Night Life Presents 11.35 pm - 12.35 am

John Miles at Royal Albert Hall

Ulster Leeds Folk Festival 11.35 pm - 12.00 am

Clannad


Monday 10th January 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

The Searchers - Hearts In Her Eyes, I Don’t Want To Be The One

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm (first in new series)

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BBC1 (London / SE ) Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tom Jones

Gladys Knight

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.00 pm

Modelling special

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Thames This Is Me 4.45 - 5.15 pm (first in series)

Michael Grant (from Musical Youth)

TVS DJ 6.30 - 7.00 pm (first edition)

Hosted by Dave Jensen, Pauline Black

Isle of Wight Festival 1969 / 1970 film clips with The Who, Joan Baez

John Wetton - interview

The Stranglers - European Female (alternate version)

C4 Whatever You Want 9.35 - 10.30 pm

Killing Joke

Fad Gadget

Urban Shakedown

Dead Kennedys

Talisman

Level 42

The Thompson Twins

Amazulu

C4 Eleventh Hour: Live a Life 11.00 pm - 12.25 am

TUC Benefit show, The Rainbow, London (the last show to be played there)

The Beat

Black Slate

Tom Robinson

OK Jive


Tuesday 11th January 1983

BBC2 Neil Sedaka Says - All You Need Is Music 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Recorded at the BBC in front of members of his fan club

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Incantation

Granada Diamond Head In Concert 12.00 - 12.30 am


Wednesday 12th January 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.25 pm - 12.05 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Marty Robbins

BBC2 Duke Ellington... and his Famous Orchestra 9.25 - 10.40 pm

Documentary

Thames London Night Out 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Glen Campbell

Diane Solomon


Thursday 13th January 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.20 - 7.55 pm

Hosted by John Peel, Dave Jensen

Incantation - Cachapaya

Men At Work - Down Under (promo clip)

Sharon Redd - In The Name Of Love

Keith Harris & Orville - Orville’s Song (repeat 23rd December 1982)

The Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times

LP chart 10 - 1

John Williams - Theme From E.T. (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 22

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue (promo clip)

Chart 21 - 11

The Maisonettes - Heartache Avenue

Chart 10 - 1

Phil Collins - You Can’t Hurry Love (promo clip) number one

Donna Summer - I Feel Love (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 The Nolans 9.00 - 9.30 pm

The Nolans - Fame, Attention To Me and others

Granada Live at the Millionaire 12.00 - 12.30 am

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C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Keep On Dancin' medley

Billy J Kramer - Do You Want To Know A Secret

The Morton Music Machine - Candy Man, Me And You And A Dog Named Boo

The Swingin’ Blue Jeans - You're No Good, Hippy Hippy Shake

The Morton Music Machine - Fantasy (danced to by Lipstick)

Billy J Kramer - Bad To Me, Little Children

The Morton Music Machine - The Old Fashioned Way

The Swinging Blue Jeans - Good Golly Miss Molly

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 14th January 1983

BBC1 Miss Great Britain 1983 9.25 - 10.15 pm

Stutz Bear Cats

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 6.55 - 7.30 pm

Soft Cell

First Priority

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

The Flying Pickets

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock 12.00 - 12.30 am

Kate Bush

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

The Gateshead Pop Festival, Gateshead International Stadium

Hosted by Jools Holland

Sting and Brenden Foster interview with Jools

St John's ambulance staff talk to Jools

The Lords Of The New Church - Holy War, interview backstage

The Gang Of Four (with Eddi Reader) - I Love A Man In Uniform, interview backstage, What We All Want

The Beat - Save It For Later, Mirror In The Bathroom, Too Nice To Talk To, interview backstage

U2 - I Threw A Brick Through A Window, A Day Without Me, Rejoice, backstage interview, The Electric Co, I Will Follow, Out Of Control

The Police - Message In A Bottle, Walking On The Moon, The Bed's Too Big Without You, Da Doo Doo Do De Da Da Da, Shadows In The Rain, Roxanne, Can't Stand Losing You

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Aswad

The Twinkle Brothers

Chalice

Eek A Mouse

Michigan & Smiley

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Bobby McFerrin at the London Canteen


Saturday 15th January 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 am - 12.15 pm

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BBC1 Rod & Emu’s Saturday Special 5.25 - 5.55 pm

Showaddywaddy - Goody Goody

BBC1 The Les Dawson Show 8.20 - 9.10 pm

Grace Kennedy

BBC1 Wogan 10.00 - 10.45 pm (first in new series)

Phil Collins - interview, You Can’t Hurry Love

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Mari Wilson & The Wilsations

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

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LWT Metal Mickey 5.15 -5.45 pm

Hazel O'Connor

C4 Gastank 7.30 - 8.30 pm (first edition)

Alternates every second week with The Other Side Of The Tracks

Hosted by Rick Wakeman, Tony Ashton

Rick Parfitt

Alvin Lee

The Cimarons

Eric Burdon


Sunday 16th January 1983

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm (first edition)

Rene and Renato

Lulu - See See Rider


Monday 17th January 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.30 am (first edition)

Leo Sayer - interviewed by Selina Scott

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

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BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tom Jones

Paul Anka

BBC2 Riverside 6.20 - 6.50 pm

Big Country

David Sylvian

BBC2 Leo 8.10 - 9.00 pm (first edition)

Leo Sayer

The Searchers

Judie Tzuke

Equals

TVS DJ 6.30 - 7.00 pm

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Thames Mike Yarwood In Persons 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Diana Solomon

C4 Whatever You Want 9.35 - 10.30 pm

The Anti-Nowhere League

The Meteors


Tuesday 18th January 1983

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Linda Ronstadt

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story


Wednesday 19th January 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.25 pm - 12.00 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell

Andy Gibb

Minnie Pearl

BBC2 The New Swingle Singers 7.40 - 8.05 pm (repeat)

Thames London Night Out 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Iris Williams

Johnny Logan


Thursday 20th January 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.10 am

Lynsey de Paul

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Janice Long, Gary Davies

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy

Joe Jackson - Steppin’ Out (promo clip)

Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter (re-recording)

USA chart with Jonathan King - Eddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle, Patti Austin & James Ingram, Toto, Men at Work (promo clips)

Melba Moore - Mind Up Tonight

U2 - New Year’s Day (re-recorded lead vocal)

Chart 30 - 20

Laura Brannigan - Gloria (promo clip)

Chart 19 - 10

The Stranglers - European Female (repeat 6th January 1983)

Chart 9 - 1

Phil Collins - You Can’t Hurry Love (promo clip) number one

Billy Griffin - Hold Me Tighter In The Rain (playout record and audience dancing)

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Keep The Customer Satisfied

Chris Andrews - To Whom It Concerns

The Morton Music Machine - Love Me Tender

Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - Zabadak

The Morton Music Machine - All Right Now (danced to by Lipstick)

Chris Andrews - Yesterday Man

The Morton Music Machine - Hi Ho Silver Lining

Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - Hold Tight

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.25 - 9.00 pm

Mary O'Hara

BBC2 The Nolans 9.00 - 9.30 pm

The Nolans

Thames Looks Familiar 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Max Bygraves

TVS Musical Special: Harry Belefonte 11.15 pm - 12.10 am

Granada Live at the Millionaire 11.55 pm - 12.25 am

Kathy Stobart


Friday 21st January 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Andrew Lloyd-Webber

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 6.55 - 7.30 pm

Diamond

Simple Minds

King

Fanzines special with John Peel

BBC2 The New Swingle Singers 10.15 - 10.45 (repeat)

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock 12.15 - 12.45 am

Supertramp

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

Jools Holland introduction, Paula Yates, Nick Laird-Clowes

Mark Miwurdz - breakfast TV

Bad News - Bad News, interviewed by Jools

Steve Strange - interviewed by Paula Yates in London and The Camden Palace laser show, interview in The Tube studio

Clip from Party Party movie, movie director and Daniel Peacock interviewed by Nick Laird-Clowes

Jools Holland plugs the Tube poster (£1.50 from The Tube, Tyne Tees TV, PO Box 1TN, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE99 1TN, and it comes in a tube)

Blitz - New Age (Tube film), interviewed by Mike Everett, live concert clip (Smuggler's Club, Stockton on Tees)

Alternative Top Ten (using Yellow Pearl as background music)

Southern Death Cult - False Faces, Faith, Fatman (live) a fan sprays crazy foam over the singer at the end

Echo And The Bunnymen - The Cutter (promo clip)

Kurtis Blow - interviewed by Paula

The Stranglers - Midnight Summer Dream, European Female, Who Wants The World (live)

Icehouse - Hey Little Girl (promo clip)

Dance Class - (live) unknown band get the closing live set for some reason

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Burning Spear - Slavery Days

Steel Pulse

Matabaruka

Marcia Griffiths

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Art Blakey and his all-star band at the Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle


Saturday 22nd January 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 am - 12.15 pm

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BBC1 Rod & Emu’s Saturday Special 5.25 - 5.55 pm

Haysi Fantasi

BBC1 Wogan 10.00 - 10.45 pm

Cilla Black - Step Inside Love, interview

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Joe Jackson

BBC2 Louis Armstrong Anniversary Concert 11.45 pm - 12.35 am (repeat)

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

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Central Luna 5.15 - 5.45 pm (first episode)

Sci-fi kids series directed by Michael Dolenz

Central Saturday Stayback 11.45 pm - 12.30 am (first edition)

Theme by Roy Wood

Central Profiles In Rock 12.00 - 12.30 am

The Who

C4 The Other Side Of The Tracks 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Joe Jackson

A Flock Of Seagulls


Sunday 23rd January 1983

BBC1 (Scotland) Spectrum 10.15 - 11.05 pm

Dick Gaughan

BBC2 Two-Lane Blacktop 11.15 pm - 1.00 am 1971 movie with Denis Wilson, James Taylor

LWT Sunday Sunday 4.00 - 5.00 pm

Lulu

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Dionne Warwick

LWT Maze - Live In New Orleans 11.25 pm - 12.25 am


Monday 24th January 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

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BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Tom Jones

Dusty Springfield

BBC2 Riverside 6.20 - 6.50 pm

The Danse Society

BBC2 Leo 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Leo Sayer

Laura Branngian

TVS DJ

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Thames Mike Yarwood In Persons 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Maggie Moon

C4 The Comic Strip Presents: Bad News On Tour 9.00 - 9.35 pm

The story of hard rockers Bad News

C4 Whatever You Want 9.35 - 10.30 pm

Wah!

The Higsons

Fad Gadget

The Thompson Twins

Phil Lynott


Tuesday 25th January 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Cilla Black – Liverpool Lullaby

BBC1 (Scotland) Jean Redpath Sings... The Songs of Burns 11.10 - 11.25 pm

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mary Wynter reads a story

S4C Pop Spot 6.50 - 6.55  pm

Supertramp


Wednesday 26th January 1983

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Petula Clark

Thames London Night Out 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Helen Reddy

Wall Street Crash


Thursday 27th January 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Simon Bates, Richard Skinner

Level 42 - The Chinese Way

The Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times (promo clip)

Central Line - Nature Boy

The Beatles - Please Please Me (promo clip)

China Crisis - Christian

Wham! - Wham Rap!

Bauhaus - Lagartija Nick

Chart 30 - 21

Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong (live)

Chart 20 - 11

Dire Straits - Twisting By The Pool (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Men At Work - Down Under (promo clip) number one

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Herb Miller (Glen Miller's brother)

Granada Live at the Millionaire 11.55 pm - 12.30 am

Marsha Hunt

Mark Murphy

C4 10cc at Wembley 6.00 - 7.00 pm

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Hickory Holler's Tramp

Ronnie Hilton - No Other Love

The Morton Music Machine - Come Fly With Me

The Crystals - And Then He Kissed me

The Morton Music Machine - Physical (danced to by Lipstick)

Ronnie Hilton - Around The World

The Morton Music Machine - Blame It On The Pony Express, The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 28th January 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Sacha Distel

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Sky

BBC1 Nationwide 6.22 - 7.00 pm

David Bowie - interviewed in New York

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 6.55 - 7.30 pm

The Undertones - live

Kajagoogoo - live

Vitamin Z

Granada Friday Special

Mike Batt article on Zero Zero

The Moving Hearts

LWT South Of Watford 11.40 pm - 12.10 am

Hazel O’Connor

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock ELO 12.15 - 12.45 am

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

Jools Holland introduces and assistant asks members of the audience about their choice of music press (Sounds came top as they had a lot of Thin Lizzy fans in)

Paula Yates with piece of art by Mark Wardell

Michel Cremona

Laurel and Hardy - Clunk Click (live)

The Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side (live)

Mark Wardell interviewed by Paula, and painting Hazel O'Connor

Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham - interviewed by Michel Cremona who accuses them of false reports of splitting to sell concert tickets

The Jam - interviewed by Gary Crowley, Going Underground (live clip 1981)

Jamming fanzine filmed article, plus in studio with Jamming editor and Hazel O'Connor on music press

NME filmed article, Neil Spencer interviewed by Muriel Grey

Mark Miwurdz

Paula brings on a piano-shaped birthday cake for Jools

JoBoxers - Boxerbeat, Why Don't You Do Right, Johnny Friendly, Not My Night (live)

Hazel O'Connor - interviewed by Paula

Jools plugs the Tube poster again

Pat Benetar - Anxiety (Get Nervous), Shadows Of The Night, Heartbreaker (live)

Syncopation - Down Down (Tube film live at the Gallery, Manchester)

Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town, The Sun Goes Down, Cold Sweat (live)

The Beatles - film clip (not shown)

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Steel Pulse

Chalice

Big Youth

Blue Riddim Band

Eek-A-Mouse

Mutabaruka

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Johnny Dankworth - live at the Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Art Blakey - live at the Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Charles Mingus - film


Saturday 29th January 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 - 12.15 pm

Tears for Fears

BBC1 Rod & Emu’s Saturday Special 5.25 - 5.55 pm

Randy Edelman

The Nolans

BBC1 Wogan 10.00 - 10.45 pm

Sky

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

UB40

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

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Central Saturday Stayback 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

Rocky Sharpe and the Replays

C4 Gastank 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Hosted by Rick Wakeman and Tony Ashton

Godley & Crème

Andy Fairweather-Low

Maggie Bell - Crazy

Ronnie Scott


Sunday 30th January 1983

LWT Sunday Sunday 4.00 - 5.00 pm

Petula Clark

Sacha Distel

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Laura Brannigan

Gladys Knight & The Pips

LWT Kim Larsen in Paris 11.15pm - 12.15 am

Kim Larsen (Danish singer)

Ulster Leeds Folk Festival 11.25 - 11.55 pm

Moving Hearts

Central Music International Presents 11.25 pm - 12.25 am

Gilbert O'Sullivan


Monday 31st January 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

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BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tom Jones

BBC2 Riverside 6.25 - 6.55 pm

Bobby Gee from Bucks Fizz

Mick Karn

Animal Nightlife

BBC2 Leo 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Leo Sayer

Phil Collins

Linda Ronstadt

Thames This Is Me 4.45 - 5.15 pm

Terri Coyle (singer from Belfast)

TVS DJ 6.30 - 7.00 pm

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C4 Whatever You Want 9.35 - 10.30 pm

Patrick Fitzgerald

Jah Wobble

Animal Magic


Tuesday 1st February 1983

TV AM begins broadcasting 6.00 - 9.15 am

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.35 pm

Randy Crawford

TVAM Good Morning Britain 7.00 - 9.15 am (first edition)

Theme by Jeff Wayne

Scottish Corries and Other Folk 7.05 - 7.35 pm

TVS Portrait Of A Legend: The Beach Boys 11.45 pm - 12.15 am


Wednesday 2nd February 1983

Thames London Night Out 8.00 - 9.00 pm

George Chisholm and his Hefty Jazz

Maggie Moon

C4 The Comedian 9.00 - 10.40 pm

1957 TV play with Mel Torme


Thursday 3rd February 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Dave Jensen, John Peel

Hazi Fantazi - Shiny Shiny

Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

Fun Boy Three - Tunnel Of Love

Fleetwood Mac - Oh Diane (repeat The Late Late Breakfast Show 13th November 1982)

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy

Chart 30 - 19

Tears For Fears - Change (re-recording)

Chart 18 - 11

U2 - New Year's Day (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1 ('The Top Ten Video Show')

Men At Work - Down Under (promo clip) number one

Billy Griffin - Hold Me Tighter In The Rain (playout record with members of Zoo and audience dancing)

BBC2 Stephane Grappelli 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Diz Disley

Granada Live at the Millionaire 11.55 pm - 12.30 am

Dave Bitelli and hos Onward Jazz Quartet

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Billy Fury tribute show instead of the intended show with Chris Farlowe and The Equals. According to Wikipedia Fury had recorded six songs for the show, with four broadcast.

The Morton Music Machine - Jailhouse Rock

Billy Fury - Halfway To Paradise

The Morton Music Machine - Mony Mony, Apache

Billy Fury - It's Only Make Believe

The Morton Music Machine - The Bitch is Back

Billy Fury - When Will You Say I Love You

The Morton Music Machine - Long Tall Sally

Billy Fury - Jealousy

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 4th February 1983

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 6.55 - 7.30 pm

Madness

One The Juggler

Vitamin Z

BBC2 Take Three Degrees 9.00 - 9.45 pm (repeat)

LWT South Of Watford 11.40 pm - 12.10 am

Ian Dury and Humphrey Ocean

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock: The Who 12.15 - 12.45 am

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

"A flimsy space theme", while two acts from Total Experience Records Yarborough & Peoples and The Gap Band were featured

Georges Meliers - film clip

Jools Holland introduction

William Shatner chats to Jools in Burbank

Gary James

Georges Meliers - Trip To The Moon movie clip

Video games champion Stephen Bradley chats to Jools

OMD - ABC Auto-Industry, Telegraph (live)

Paul Loasby (music promoter) talks to Gary James about a 1984 festival

David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging (promo clip)

Yarborough & Peoples - Heartbeats (promo clip) actually announced as The Gap Band

Paul Young & The Royal Family - Love Of The Common People, Sex, Love Will Tear Us Apart (live)

Georges Meliers - film clip

Gary James makes plea on behalf of Status Quo's Alan Lancaster for the return of his stolen briefcase

Aztec Camera - Down The Dip, Oblivious, The Boy Wonders (live)

One the Juggler - Passion Killer (Tube film)

Jools Holland encourages viewers to send in provocations to make him swear live on TV

Yarborough & Peoples - Don't Stop The Music, Heartbeats (live)

George Melliers film clip

Tears for Fears - interview, Change (promo clip)

Stiff Little Fingers - chat to Jools

The Gap Band - ?, Burn Rubber On Me, Oops Upside Your Head, Outstanding (live) the set continues after the live transmission has finished

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Chalice

Denice Williams

Blue Riddim

Marcia Griffiths

Lloyd Parks

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Stan Tracey Sextet live at the Band On The Wall in Manchester


Saturday 5th February 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 am - 12.15 pm

Rocky Sharpe & The Replays

BBC1 Rod & Emu’s Saturday Special 5.30 - 6.00 pm

Suzi Quatro

Bardot

Precious Wilson

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 6.00 - 6.35 pm

Musical Youth

BBC1 The Les Dawson Show 8.25 - 9.00 pm

Jade

BBC1 Wogan 10.05 - 10.50 pm

Chas and Dave

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Thin Lizzy

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

The Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side (re-recording)

The Fun Boy Three

Toyah

Central Saturday Stayback 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

Chas and Dave

LWT Night Life Presents 12.00 - 1.00 am

Ian Hunter (with members of the E Street Band)

C4 Zero Zero 6.45 - 7.30 pm (repeat)

Mike Batt

C4 The Other Side Of The Tracks 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Vince Clarke

Lionel Richie


Sunday 6th February 1983

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Wall Street Crash

Marvin Hamlisch

Elaine Page


Monday 7th February 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tom Jones

Tanya Tucker

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.00 pm

The Cure - join members of the Royal Ballet dance experiment

The Fun Boy Three

Musical Youth

Don Letts talks about his movies

The Decorators

BBC2 Leo 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Leo Sayer

Elkie Brooks

Incantation

TVS DJ 6.30 - 7.00 pm

content unknown

Thames Mike Yarwood In Persons 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Dana – If You Really Love Me


Tuesday 8th February 1983

BBC1 The British Rock And Pop Awards 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Hosted by Anne Diamond, David Jensen from The Lyceum, London

Bananarama, The Belle Stars, Kim Wilde, Imagination, Junior

C4 Mini-Pops 6.00 - 6.30 pm

Directed by Mike Mansfield, this, the first edition of the only series, features young kids (7 to ten years old) miming to pop hits of the day

C4 The Harder They Come 9.00 - 10.55 pm 1972 Jimmy Cliff movie


Wednesday 9th February 1983

Thames London Night Out 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Peggy Lee


Thursday 10th February 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Tony Bennett

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Janice Long, Pat Sharp

The Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times

Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong (promo clip)

Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side

Depeche Mode - Get The Balance Right

Toto - Africa (promo clip)

Level 42 - The Chinese Way

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Central Line - Nature Boy

Chart 20 - 11

China Crisis - Christian

Chart 10 - 1

Men At Work - Down Under (promo clip) number one

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.25 - 9.00 pm

Modern Romance

BBC2 Stephane Grappelli 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

Diz Disley

BBC2 Newsnight 10.40 - 11.30 pm

Randy Newman article

Granada Live at the Millionaire 11.55 pm - 12.25 am

(possibly) Marha Hunt introduces Angela Christian

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - The Peanut Vendor

Susan Maughan - Bobby's Girl

The Morton Music Machine - Break Up To Make Up

The Searchers - When You Walk In The Room

The Morton Music Machine - In The Navy (danced to by Lipstick)

The Bootleg Beatles - Come Together

The Morton Music Machine - True Love

The Searchers - Needles and Pins

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 11th February 1983

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 6.50 - 7.30

Live from Glasgow

Blancmange

Set The Tone

Paul Quinn

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

Rock photography special

Paula Yates claims everyone is snowed in

Muriel Grey

Paul Young & The Family - Love Of The Common People (promo clip, living room version)

Chart run down with names and titles altered by record shop owner, leading to a chart competition, with the winner receiving a Tube sweat shirt

Men at Work - Down Under (promo clip)

Jill Firmanovski (photographer) - interviewed by Muriel Grey

Rock photography article with Chalky Davies and Starr photographing The Fun Boy Three

Mark Miwurdz

Street murals article

Linda McCartney filmed interviewed by Paula Yates

Coming up with promo clips of Paul Young, The Belle Stars, The Fun Boy Three

David Bowie - photo montage

Archive clips of Mary Quant

The Beatles - A Day In The Life promo with Come Together soundtrack (from Filmfinders)

Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' (Toronto festival)

Myra Lewis - interviewed about her book on Jerry Lee Lewis by Jools Holland

Paul Young & The Family - Come Back and Stay, Women (live)

Two Tone Tyne Tees Alright Now article with The Specials, The Bodysnatchers

The Belle Stars - Burning, Slick Trick, Indian Summer, Sign Of The Times (live)

Madness - Our House (promo clip)

The Fun Boy Three - The More That I See, The Pressure Of Life (Takes Weight Off The Body), Tunnel Of Love, Our Lips Are Sealed, The Alibi (live) the set continues after the live transmission has finished

C4 Real Lemon ad with Kenny Everett voice over

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.00 - 9.30 pm

The Twinkle Brothers

Israel Vibrations

Matabaruka

Chalice

Marcia Griffiths

C4 Jazz On Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Sam Rivers live at the Band On The Wall in Manchester


Saturday 12th February 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 am - 12.30 pm

Cilla Black

BBC1 The Dukes of Hazzard 5.25 - 6.15 pm

Mickey Gilley

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 6.15 - 6.50 pm

Culture Club - I’ll Tumble For Ya

BBC1 Wogan 10.05 - 10.50 pm

content unknown

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Boy George

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Musical Youth

Spandau Ballet

Central Saturday Stayback 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

The Rockers featuring Roy Wood, Phil Lynott, Chas & Dave

Suzi Quatro

LWT Night Life Presents 12.00 - 1.00 am

Squeeze, The Q-Tips

C4 Gastank 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Donovan

Chris Farlowe

Alvin Lee

Ian Paice

Phil Lynott


Sunday 13th February 1983

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Tony Orlando

Precious Wilson

C4 Performance: Black Wax 8.15 - 9.45 pm

Gil Scott-Heron


Monday 14th February 1983

ITV Technicians walk out at 7.00 pm to attend a Union meeting

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 7.00 - 7.20 pm

Denice Williams

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.00 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Leo 8.10. 9.00 pm

Leo Sayer

Randy Crawford

Flairck (Dutch instrumentalists)

Thames Mike Yarwood In Persons 8.00 - 8.30 pm (probably not broadcast)

Jani Z (singer)

TVS DJ 6.30 - 7.00 pm

content unknown

C4 Whatever You Want 10.00 - 11.00 pm

Poetry special with Atilla The Stockbroker, Joolz, Benjamin Zephaniah

Moving Hearts

Jah Wobble

Sex Pistols (film clip)


Tuesday 15th February 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Peter Noone

BBC2 Arena: Juke Box Jazz 10.15 - 11.00 pm

Hosted by George Melly, a collection of Soundies from the 1940s

Cab Calloway, Billie Holliday, Meade Lux Lewis, Fats Waller etc

C4 Phantom Of The Paradise 9.00 - 10.40 pm 1974 movie with Paul Williams

C4 Black On Black 10.40 - 11.40 pm

Radio London Reggae Awards with Aswad, Winston Ready, General Saint

Carroll Thompson & Janet Kay


Wednesday 16th February 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.10 am

Tim Rice

BBC1 Tim Rice 10.55 - 11.33 pm (first in series)

Bonnie Tyler

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.35 pm - 12.10 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Conway Twitty 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Thames London Night Out

Dionne Warwick


Thursday 17th February 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Peter Powell, Gary Davies

Wham! - Wham Rap

Tears For Fears - Change (promo clip)

Icehouse - Hey Little Girl

Musical Youth - Never Gonna Give You Up (promo clip)

USA chart with Jonathan King in New Orleans - The Pretenders, Lionel Richie, Christopher Cross, The Stray Cats (promo clips)

Patti Austin & James Ingram - Baby Come To Me (live)

Madness - Tomorrow's (Just Another Day) (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny

Chart 20 - 11

Fun Boy Three - Tunnel Of Love

Chart 10 - 1

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy (playout and end credits) number one

BBC2 A Musical Canal Celebration 8.25 - 9.00 pm (repeat)

Mike Harding, The Spinners

Granada Live at the Millionaire 11.55 pm - 12.30 am

(possibly) Stan Sultzman

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Shout

Chris Farlowe - Stormy Monday

The Morton Music Machine - Zorba The Greek

The Equals - Viva Bobby Joe

The Morton Music Machine - I Got You (danced to Lipstick)

Chris Farlowe - Out Of Time

The Morton Music Machine - I've Never Been In Love Before

The Equals - Baby Come Back

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 18th February 1983

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Ultravox

Roman Holliday

LWT South Of Watford 11.30 pm - 12.10 am

Poetry special

Paul Weller

Seething Wells

Little Brother

Joolz

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock: The Cars 12.15 - 12.45 am

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

Australia special

Jools talks to author Nicolas Locke about his book about trash

Madness promo clip montage

Nick Laird-Clowes

Australian top ten (which featured no Australian acts)

Frank Ifield clip from Once A Jolly Swagman movie

Malcolm McLaren - Soweto (promo clip)

Mark Miwurdz

Frank Ifield - Waltzing Matilda clip from Once A Jolly Swagman movie

Colin Rowe the show's stage manager - chats to Jools and Paula

Molly from Countdown says hello from Australia

Goanna - Solid Rock (promo clip)

Midnight Oil - The Power and The Passion (promo clip)

Mental as Anything - Let's Cook (promo clip)

Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now (promo clip)

The Models - Cut Lunch, Man Of Action (promo clips)

Moving Pictures - What About Me (concert clip)

Icehouse - Hey Little Girl (promo clip)

Iva (from Icehouse) and Wendy (Wendy & the Rocketts) - chat to Paula about Australian music scene

Wendy & The Rocketts - Your Place Or Mine (promo clip)

Nick Laird-Clowes calls Icehouse "derivative"

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax / In Heaven Everything Is Fine (Tube film in the State Ballroom in Liverpool), chat to Jools

Icehouse - One By One, Street Café, Hey Little Girl (live)

Jenny Belle Star with her hat

The Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side (repeat 28th January 1983), Watching (unbroadcast at the time)

Madness – Our House, Landlord, It Must Be Love, Tomorrow's Just Another Day, Primrose Hill, The Sun and The Rain, Grey Day (live, with full band and extended stage set) the final song was unbroadcast

U2 - I Will Follow (repeat)

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

from the Albany Empire, Deptford, London


Saturday 19th February 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.15 am - 12.15 pm

Kajagoogoo

Joan Armatrading

Blue Zoo

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 6.15 - 6.50 pm

Dépêche Mode - Get the Balance Right

BBC1 Wogan 10.05 - 10.50 pm

Kajagoogoo

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

The Thompson Twins at the Regal Theatre, Hitchen

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Buster Bloodvessel

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Rocky Sharpe and The Replays

LWT Punchlines 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Anita Harris, Diane Langton

Central Saturday Stayback 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

content unknown

LWT In Concert: Billy Squire 12.00 - 1.00 am

Central Profiles In Rock: Journey 12.00 - 12.30 am

C4 The Other Side Of The Tracks 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Randy Newman

Lene Lovich

C4 Patti 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Patti Boulaye

Risque


Sunday 20th February 1983

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Cilla Black – Sing A Rainbow, You’re My World, hits medley

The Nolans

Chas and Dave

LWT Star Parade 11.25 pm - 12.25 am

The Bellamy Brothers

Mireille Mathieu

James Last

Katerina Valente


Monday 21st February 1983

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tom Jones

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Riverside: Seagulls In The Cable 6.20 - 6.50 pm

MTV Special with A Flock Of Seagulls, Duran Duran

BBC2 Leo 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Leo Sayer

Randy Newman

Tony Orlando

Suzi Quatro

C4 The Practical Book Review 5.30 - 6.00 pm

Lynsey de Paul

C4 Whatever You Want 10.00  - 11.00 pm

content unknown


Tuesday 22nd February 1983

BBC2 Arena: William Borroughs 9.30 - 11.00 pm

Frank Zappa

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story


Wednesday 23rd February 1983

BBC1 Tim Rice 11.25 pm - 12.00 am

Joan Armatrading

Thames Forsyth's Follies 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Lulu


Thursday 24th February 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Dave Lee Travis, Andy Peebles

Spandau Ballet - Communication

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (promo clip)

Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side

Toto - Africa (promo clip)

Phil Everly & Cliff Richard - She Means Nothing To Me (Zoo)

Chart 30 - 21

The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (with Eddi Reader and Clem Burke)

Chart 20 - 11

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Chart 10 - 1

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy number one (promo clip)

Depeche Mode - Get The Balance Right (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm (first in new series)

Modern Romance

BBC2 Russell Harty 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Joe Brown on the Flying Scotsman

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Dance To The Music, Maria Elena

Craig Douglas - When My Little Girl Is Smiling

The Morton Music Machine - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree

The Fortunes - You've Got Your Troubles

The Morton Music Machine - Layla (danced to by Lipstick)

Craig Douglas - Only Sixteen

The Morton Music Machine - The Resurrection Shuffle

The Fortunes - Here It Comes Again

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 25th February 1983

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 7.05 - 7.50 pm

Spandau Ballet

Spyder

Tons Tons Macoute

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Eartha Kitt

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Peter Noone talks about his West End stage show

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

London / Newcastle club special

Paula Yates with Steve Strange outside the Camden Palace

Jools Holland arrives at the Newcastle studio on a motorbike

Michel Cremona

Chic - Hanging (promo clip)

Gary James talks to Abbie James lighting engineer at the Camden Palace

Prince - 1999 (promo clip)

Mark Miwurdz

The Tube Over The Top Ten chart (spoof chart)

Clem Burke chart with Jools

Paula chats to Kim Wilde in Camden

The Gold Mine club, Canvey Island article - Paula chats to Chris Hill and patrons

Soul On Sound chat with Gary James who refer to the two women behind him holding up a poster as 'tarts'

Greg Wilson and Mike Sharp two club DJs chat to Jools

David Joseph - You Can't Hide Your Love (live at Camden Palace) with dancer Flex

Mark Miwurdz

Pathe newsreel of The Cavern, Liverpool with The Merseybeats c1963

Annie Lennox chats to Michel Cremona

Squeeze - Cool For Cats (promo clip)

Tilbrook & Difford - Labelled With Love stage show article with Jools, Labelled With Love - The Amazoon (Tube film)

John McVicar and Peter Holt chat to Paula

Visage - Anvil (Night Club School), Pleasure Boys (at Camden Palace)

The Eurythmics (with Eddi Reader) - This Is The House, Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This), Somebody Told Me, This City Never Sleeps (live in Newcastle) the final song was unbroadcast

C4 Jazz On Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

from the Albany Theatre, Deptford, London

Dizzy Gillespie

Louis Jordon


Saturday 26th February 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.15 am - 12.15 pm

Leo Sayer

Bucks Fizz

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 6.15 - 6.50 pm

Madness - Tomorrow’s Just Another Day

BBC1 Paul Squire, Esquire 8.20 - 8.55 pm

Mari Wilson

BBC1 Wogan 10.00 - 10.45 pm

Bucks Fizz

BBC2 Arena: Brian Ferry & Roxy Music 6.20 - 6.50 pm

Documentary

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Randy Newman (The Planet Theatre, Slough)

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Chas and Dave

Bananarama

LWT Punchlines 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Pearly Gates

Yorkshire 3-2-1 7.10 - 8.10 pm

Dana

Central Saturday Stayback 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

content unknown

LWT U2 12.00 - 1.00 am

Central profiles In Rock: Earth Wind and Fire 12.00 - 12.30 am

C4 Louis Armstrong All-Stars 4.00 – 4.35 pm

Concert footage from 1962

C4 Gastank 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Suzi Quatro & Len Tuckey

Alvin Lee

Ian Paice

Howie Casey

C4 Patti 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Patti Boulaye


Sunday 27th February 1983

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Jack Jones

Rita Moreno


Monday 28th February 1983

BBC1 Jackanory 4.25 - 4.40 pm

Julie Covington reads The Borrowers

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tom Jones

Donny Osmond

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.00 pm

Sex Gang Children

Record industry article with Linval Golding, David Grant

BBC2 Roxy Music 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Live in Frejus, France

C4 Whatever You Didn’t Get 10.00 - 11.00 pm

A collection of unseen music clips from the series

Atilla The Stockbroker - Nigel Wants To Go To C&A, Nigel Wants To Go And See Simple Minds

Depeche Mode - band introducing song playing table tennis, Tora Tora Tora, Meaning Of Love

The Meteors - introduction with band member having a tattoo, Hills Have Eyes, Wild Thing, Wreckin' Crew

The Birthday Party - Fears Of Gun, Hamlet (Pow Pow Pow)

Weekend - introduction in a cafe, Past Meets Present, Midnight Slows, Carnival Headache

Stiff Little Fingers - introduction by Jake Burns, Touch and Go, Listen, Fly The Flag


Tuesday 1st March 1983

BBC1 Jackanory 4.25 - 4.40 pm

Julie Covington reads The Borrowers

BBC2 Russell Harty 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Eartha Kitt

BBC2 Arena: Catherine Wheel 9.30 - 11.00 pm

Twyla Tharp choreography with David Byrne

Granada Profiles In Rock: Supertramp 12.00 - 12.40 am


Wednesday 2nd March 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill At One 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Eartha Kitt

BBC1 Tim Rice 11.10 - 11.45 pm

Simon Le Bon

C4 Bones 11.15 - 11.45 pm

John Henry Nobles with Taj Mahal


Thursday 3rd March 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill at One 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Sacha Distel with Barney Kessell

BBC1 Jackanory 4.25 - 4.40 pm

Julie Covington reads The Borrowers

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Dave Jensen, John Peel

Icehouse - Hey Little Girl

Forrest - Rock The Boat (promo clip)

OMD - Genetic Engineering

Chart 30 - 21

Bananarama - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

Chart 20 - 11

Patti Austin & James Ingram - Baby Come To Me (repeat 17th February 1983)

Chart 10 - 1 ('The Top Ten Video Show') The Madness clip is different from a previous show

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (promo clip and end credits) number one

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Kajagoogoo

BBC1 (Wales) Welsh Rarebit 10.15 - 11.05 pm

Petula Clark - interview

BBC2 Grace Kennedy 8.30 - 9.00 pm (first in new series)

Grace Kennedy

BBC2 Russell Harty 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Jack Jones

Granada Live From The Millionaire 12.00 - 12.30 am

Mark Murphy

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Oh Happy Day, My Sweet Lord

Dave Berry - Little Things

The Morton Music Machine - Save The Last Dance For Me

The Tremeloes - Call Me Number One

The Morton Music Machine - Sir Duke (danced to by Lipstick)

Dave Berry - The Crying Game

The Morton Music Machine - Come On Over To My Place

The Tremeloes - Silence is Golden

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music

Thames Strictly Private 12.00 - 12.25 am

The making of Handmade Film’s Privates On Parade


Friday 4th March 1983

BBC1 Jackanory 4.25 - 4.40 pm

Julie Covington reads The Borrowers

BBC1 Pete Kelly's Blues 10.50 pm - 12.30 am 1955 movie with Peggy Lee, Louis Armstrong

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 7.10 - 7.50 pm

Duran Duran – Is There Something I Should Know, Hungry Like The Wolf (despite the singer's mic' being live he is lip synching)

The Thompson Twins

Negatives In Colour

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Jools Holland & The Millionaires

LWT South Of Watford 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

Difford & Tilbrook’s Labelled With Love musical

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

New band special

Jools Holland

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy (promo clip)

Hayzee Fantazee - Shiny Shiny (promo clip)

Martin Rushent and Kate Garner (Hayzee Fantazee) - chat to Paula

Renee and Renato - Just One More Kiss (promo clip)

Gary James

Phil Redmond interviewed on the set of Brookside by Jools

Kajagoogoo chat in dressing room with Gary James

Jools mentions Freur

Tony Basil - Shopping A-Z, Mickey (promo clips), chat with Paula in Los Angeles, Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (promo clip), David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (concert clip)

Record cover artists Peter Barrett, Ian Wright, Simon Halfon talk to Muriel Grey

Jools talks about new bands

Jimmy Gaynor (live)

Fatal Charm (live)

The Rolling Stones - She's So Cold (Let's Spend The Night Together concert clip)

The Sines (Tube film)

No's 28 (live)

The Clash - Hate and War (Tyne Tees Alright Now 1979)

Campfabulous (live)

Kajagoogoo - Kajagoogoo, Interview Rooms, Too Shy (live vocals) the live set continues after the live transmission has finished

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Sunwind live at Ronnie Scott's club in London


Saturday 5th March 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.15 am - 12.15 pm

Duran Duran

Spandau Ballet

BBC1 Paul Squire Esquire 8.20 - 9.10 pm

Musical Youth

BBC1 Wogan 10.00 - 10.45 pm

Leo Sayer

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Level 42 live in Hitchen

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Modern Romance

Central Greatest Hits 1974 5.15 - 5.45 pm (first edition)

Hosted by Mike Smith

The Wombles - Remember You're A Womble

Mike Batt - interview

The Glitter Band - Let's Get Together (promo clip), Angel Face

Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive

Les and Eric from The Bay City Rollers - interview

The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again

Mud - Tiger feet (film clip of band in yellow teddy boy jackets)

LWT Punchlines 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Cilla Black

LWT Rough Trade 12.30 - 1.30 am

Live in Toronto

C4 The Other Side Of The Tracks 7.30 - 7.30 pm

Joan Armatrading

Rick James

C4 Patti 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Patti Boulaye


Monday 7th March 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Gerry Marsden

BBC1 For Schools, Colleges: The View From The Armchair 11.42 am - 12.10 pm

Takes a look at the making of The Kenny Everett Television Show

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.00 pm

Post War Nudes

It’s Immaterial

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Whatever You Didn’t Get 10.00 - 11.00 pm

Anti-Nowhere League

The Passions

The Redskins

Southern Death Cult

Aswad


Tuesday 8th March 1983

BBC2 Russell Harty 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Toyah

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Jack Jones

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Mynter reads a story

Scottish Corries and Other Folk 7.05 - 7.35 pm

TVS Portrait Of A Legend: James Brown 11.45 pm - 12.15 am


Wednesday 9th March 1983

BBC1 Tim Rice 11.00 - 11.38 pm

Difford & Tilbrook and cast of Labelled With Love

ITV Shirley Bassey – A Special Lady 8.00 – 9.00 pm

Shirley Bassey

Robert Goulet


Thursday 10th March 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Mike Smith, Tommy Vance

Modern Romance - High Life

The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (promo clip)

Orange Juice - Rip It Up

Spandau Ballet - Communication (repeat 24th February 1983)

Chart 30 - 21

Blancmange - Waves

Chart 20 - 11

David Joseph - You Can’t Hide (Your Love From Me) (and Zoo)

Chart 10 - 1

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (promo clip) number one

Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

U2

BBC1 Claire Rayner's Casebook 11.15 - 11.40 pm

Tom Robinson

BBC2 Grace Kennedy 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Grace Kennedy

Imagination

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Barbara Ann, I've Got You Under My Skin

The Caravelles - Show Me

The Morton Music Machine - Diamonds Are Forever, Dream Baby

The Marmalade - Ob La Di Ob La Da

The Morton Music Machine - We Are Family (sung and danced to by Lipstick)

The Caravelles - You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry

The Morton Music Machine - Theme from Exodus, La Bamba

The Marmalade - Rainbow

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 11th March 1983

BBC1 Happy Endings 10.45 - 11.20 pm (repeat BBC2)

Peter Skellern

1: The Unexpected Visitations

BBC2 Scene: Ian Dury - To Be A Lunatic 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Documentary

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 7.10 - 7.50 pm

The Cure

Tons Tons Macoute

Black Roots

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

Jools Holland with a mannequin of himself with a talking head

Paula Yates

Muriel Grey

Nick Heyward - Whistle Down The Wind (promo clip)

Freur - Doot Doot (in studio), Doot Doot (promo clip)

Promo clip director Tim Pope - chats to Muriel Grey

The Style Council - Speak Like A Child (promo clip)

Jools mannequin (aka Tarquin) used for Youth Training Scheme

Archive clips of Isle of Wight Festival 1969 (Movietone newsreel), Jimi Hendrix at Monterey International Pop Festival

David and Henry Cobbold of Knebworth House filmed article - interviewed by Muriel Grey, Elkie Brooks - Tush (Knebworth 1980), The Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda (Knebworth 1980)

Arena rock merchandising article with Brian Bilton and David Pellerman talking to Gary James

Mark Miwurdz (in the pub)

Pino Palladino (bass player) with Jools in the pub

Muriel Grey lists festivals over the coming summer

Otis Redding (Monterey Pop clip)

Students from Hollywood High with Jools and Paula

Missing Persons - Mental Hopscotch, Words, Walking In LA (live)

Jools and Muriel in the pub

Jank Mamba - Show Me Something (taped for The Tube pilot edition 1982)

Wah! - Hope (Tube film), Silver and Gold (live in studio)

Jools in pub

Deep Purple - Hush (Playboy After Dark 1968), Smoke On The Water (California Jam 1974)

Nick Heyward - Atlantic Monday (live)

U2 - Gloria (Tube film)

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

live from Ronnie Scott's Club, London

George Adams, John Pullen


Saturday 12th March 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.15 am - 12.15 pm

Clare Grogan

BBC1 Paul Squire Esquire 8.25 - 9.00 pm

Melba Moore

The Little Foxes

BBC1 Wogan 10.05 - 10.50 pm

Helen Reddy

Tommy Steele

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

A Flock Of Seagulls (The Regal Theatre, Hitchen)

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Duran Duran

Nick Heyward

Central Greatest Hits: 1968 5.15 - 5.45 pm

Mary Hopkin

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

Marmalade

Steve Ellis of The Love Affair

Yorkshire 3-2-1 7.10 - 8.15 pm

Diane Solomon

C4 Gastank 7.30 - 8.30 pm

John Entwistle

Steve Harley

Strawbs

C4 Patti 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Patti Boulaye


Sunday 13th March 1983

LWT Sunday Sunday 3.00 - 4.00 pm

Leo Sayer


Monday 14th March 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Riverside 6.20 - 6.55 pm

23 Skidoo

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

Tyne Tees An Evening With Ray Charles 11.15 pm - 12.10 am

C4 Whatever You Didn’t Get 10.00 - 11.00 pm

Spear Of Destiny - introduction, The Preacher, Love Is A Ghost

Big Country - introduction, Angle Park, Heart and Soul

The Cocteau Twins - band and Ivo from 4AD introduction, Hazel

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart - Get Carter

Moving Hearts - introduction, Terrorist or Dreamer, Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette

The Damned - Curtain Call


Tuesday 15th March 1983

BBC2 Russell Harty

Peter Paul & Mary

Kenny Everett and Mike Harding - both show home movies about their respective Sunday Afternnons

Scottish Helen 7.00 -7.30 pm

Helen McArther

C4 Black On Black 10.50 - 11.45 pm

Shani Benjamin (singer)


Wednesday 16th March 1983

BBC1 Tim Rice 10.55 - 11.35 pm

The Eurythmics


Thursday 17th March 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Tony Blackburn & Gary Davis

Blackburn's first regular show since April 1979

Bananarama - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

The Style Council - Speak Like A Child (promo clip)

Mezzoforte - Garden Party

European chart with Jonathan King - Louise Tucker, Taco, F R David - chat, Nena, Peter Schilling (promo clips)

Ultravox - Visions In Blue (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Bucks Fizz - Run For Your Life

Chart 20 - 11

Joan Armatrading - Drop The Pilot

Chart 10 - 1

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart number one

Forrest - Rock The Boat (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Duran Duran

BBC2 Grace Kennedy 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Grace Kennedy

The Nylons

BBC2 Newsnight

David Bowie at press conference at Claridge’s, London

C4 Do It! 5.30 - 6.00 pm

David Kid Jensen

The Damned

Hot Gossip

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Summertime Blues, God Only Knows

The Ivy League - Tossing and Turning

The Morton Music Machine - Forever and Ever

Vanity Fair - Early In The Morning

The Morton Music Machine - Do You Know Where You're Going To (danced to by Lipstick)

The Ivy League - Funny How Love Can Be

The Morton Music Machine - Here's That Rainy Day

Vanity Fare - Hitchin' A Ride

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 18th March 1983

BBC1 Happy Endings 10.15 - 10.50 pm (repeat)

Peter Skellern

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 7.10 - 7.50 pm

Orange Juice

China Crisis

The Belle Stars

Photostat

Duran Duran on film

The Style Council - Headstart For Happiness

Border Country Music Jamboree 10.30 - 11.00 pm(first edition)

The Hillsiders

Mel Hague

June Brown

The Boothill Boys

LWT South of Watford 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

Michael Moorcock looks at new punk bands Blood and Roses, Brigandage and interviews Glen Matlock and Siouxsie Sioux

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm (last of first series, also last with Paula Yates for the time being)

Ireland / Northern Ireland special

Jools Holland introduction and Billy the Spoon (Spoonplayer)

Paula, Mike Everitt

David Bowie - preview of chat with Jools

Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Let’s Keep This Precious (unbroadcast from 3rd December 1982 live set)

Mari Wilson - chat with Jools and Paula

Donald Fagan - New Frontier (promo  clip)

Flamingos – Rock and Roll (Rock Rock Rock movie)

Big Country – Echo Park, Fields of Fire (live)

Paul Young – chat with Jools Holland

Music in Northern Ireland article

Cruella De Vill – Gypsy Girl (live)

The Outcasts – interview at Downtown Radio in Belfast, Sex and Glory (Tube film)

Good Vibrations article with Feargal Sharkey and Terri Hooley

Bank Robbers – interview at Downtown Radio in Belfast, Jenny (The Pound Club, Belfast)

Mark Miwurdz in Belfast

Perfect Crime

Henry Cluney (ex SLF) interview at Downtown Radio in Belfast

10 Past 7 – Cracking Up

Bono interview by Mike Everitt (Everitt seems to think Bono knows everybody in Ireland)

Michel Cremona and Nick Laird-Clowes

The Undertones – Got To Have You Back, Chain of Love, Luxury (live)

Mark Miwurdz

Yvonne French and Graham Fletcher talking about The Tube’s replacement show ‘Switch’

David Bowie at press conference at Claridge’s, London, Let’s Dance (promo clip)

U2 – Gloria, New Year’s Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, 40, I Will Follow (live) the final two songs are unbroadcast

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Highlights of festival in Montego Bay, Jamaica

Steel Pulse

Big Youth

Sister Nancy

Mighty Diamonds

Toots Hibbert


Saturday 19th March 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.15 am - 12.15 pm

Bonnie Tyler

B A Robertson

BBC1 Paul Squires Esquire 8.10 - 8.55 pm

Helen Reddy

BBC1 Wogan 9.45 - 10.30 pm

Peter Skellern

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

The Undertones (Hitchen)

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.15 am

Tony Hadley

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.00 pm

Joe Brown

Central Greatest Hits: 1964 5.15 - 5.45 pm

Mike Smith talks to modern day mods

The Swinging Blue Jeans - Good Golly Miss Molly (NME Pollwinners clip), Good Golly Miss Molly, Hippy Hippy Shake in studio

Pirate radio clips

Wayne Fontana - Um Um Um Um Um Um

Various pop clips from TV and film

The Merseybeats - I Think Of You

News headlines from the year

P J Proby - Somewhere

Number ones of the year

Gerry & The Pacemakers - Ferry 'Cross The Mersey

The Beatles - Tell Me Why (A Hard Day's Night film clip)

LWT Donovan 11.15 pm - 12.15 am (repeat)

C4 The Other Side Of The Tracks 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Hall & Oates

Eddy Grant


Sunday 20th March 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.35 pm - 12.15 am

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Dottie West

Jim Stafford


Monday 21st March 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Pop Carnival: Echo & The Bunnymen 6.15 - 6.45 pm (repeat)

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

Granada Coronation Street 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Carol Kaye (ex Kaye Sisters) plays Maureen

C4 Whatever You Didn’t Get 10.00 - 11.00 pm

Dead Kennedys

Talisman

Urban Shakedown

Fad Gadget

Level 42 - Foundation, Empire


Tuesday 22nd March 1983

BBC2 Russell Harty 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Gary Glitter

Granada Studio 9.00 - 10.00 pm (first episode)

Drama about a recording studio, co-written by Anthony Minghella. The final three episodes were broadcast after News at Ten due to unpopularity.


Wednesday 23rd March 1983

BBC1 Back To The Egg 3.20 - 3.53 pm (repeat)

Paul McCartney and Wings TV special

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

a live show, moved to Wednesday because of A Song For Europe

Hosted by Dave Jensen, John Peel

JoBoxers - Boxer Beat

David Bowie - Let' Dance (promo clip)

Orange Juice - Rip It Up (and Zoo)

Leo Sayer - Orchard Road (from BBC2 series Leo)

USA chart with Jonathan King in New York - After The Fire, Frida, Golden Earring, Styx, Michael Jackson (promo clips)

Big Country - Fields Of Fire (with Zoo)

Chart 30 - 21

Nick Heyward - Whistle Down The Wind

Chart 20 - 11

Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love

Chart 10 - 1

Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know number one

David Joseph - You Can’t Hide Your Love From Me (playout record with Zoo and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tim Rice 11.10 - 11.45 pm

Dave Edmunds

Michael Dolenz


Thursday 24th March 1983

BBC1 A Song For Europe 7.00 - 8.00 pm

445 songs cut down to 8 for tonight's contest

Sweet Dreams- I'm never giving up

Sam Chllds - I'm going home

Stuart Slater - All around the world

Casablanca - With love

Mirror – We’ve Got All The Time In The World

Audio - Love on your mind

Rubic - When the kissing stops

Ritzy - Keeping our love alive

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Spandau Ballet

BBC2 Grace Kennedy 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Grace Kennedy

Johnny Logan

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

The Merseybeats - Wishing And Hoping, I Think Of You

The Morton Music Machine - I Just Can't Help Believing

The Foundations - Baby Now That I Found You

The Morton Music Machine - Don't Stop Till You get Enough (danced to by Lipstick)

The Merseybeats - Sorrow

The Morton Music Machine - unknown, Blue Suede Shoes

The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 25th March 1983

BBC1 Happy Endings 10.30 - 11.00 pm (repeat)

Peter Skellern

Border Country Music Jamboree 10.30 - 11.00 pm

Colorado

Tony Goodacre

Rose-Marie

The Moat Brothers Country Band

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm (first edition)

Hosted by Yvonne French, Graham Fletcher-Cook

The Respond Package Tour - live

The Style Council - live

The Specials - live and article in Bristol

Kings Road article

The Fun Boy Three live

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Big Youth

Matabaruka

Marcia Griffith

Chalice

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.20 am

live in Japan

Chick Corea

Gary Burton


Saturday 26th March 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.15 am - 12.15 pm

The Belle Stars

BBC1 Paul Squire, Esquire 8.20 - 8.55 pm

Marti Webb

BBC1 Wogan 10.00 - 10.45 pm

Dolly Parton

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Weapon Of Peace

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.15 am

Jools Holland

Central Saturday Show 10.30  am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT Greatest Hits: 1977 5.15 - 5.45 pm

The Drifters

Darts

Brotherhood of Man

Smokie

LWT Joe Cocker 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Joe Cocker live in Canada

Anglia Portrait Of A Legend: Frankie Valli 12.00 - 12.30 pm

C4 Gastank 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Roy Wood

The Cimarons

Frankie Miller

Steve Hackett

Howie Casey

C4 Patti 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Patti Boulaye


Sunday 27th March 1983

LWT Sunday Sunday 3.00 - 4.00 pm

Tommy Steele

Peter Skellern


Monday 28th March 1983

BBC1 Goin' Coconuts 10.55 am - 12.30 pm 1978 movie with Donny & Marie Osmond

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Pop Carnival: Bow Wow Wow 5.55 - 6.30 pm (repeat)

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

Border Sheena Easton 10.30 - 11.00 pm

C4 Whatever You Didn’t Get 10.00 - 11.00 pm

Orchestra Jazira

Wah!

The Undertones

The Flying Pickets

The Thompson Twins

Eddie & Sunshine


Tuesday 29th March 1983

BBC1 Wonderful Life 10.40 am - 12.30 pm 1964 movie with Cliff Richard & The Shadows

BBC1 Nationwide 6.25 - 7.00 pm

The TSB Rock School competition final

TVS Portrait Of A Legend: Merle Haggard 11.45 pm - 12.10 am

Border All Kinds of Country 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

Roger Whittaker


Wednesday 30th March 1983

BBC1 Summer Holiday 10.45 am - 12.30 pm 1963 movie with Cliff Richard & The Shadows

BBC1 Tim Rice 11.05 - 11.38 pm

Paul Jones and Roger Daltrey talk about The Beggars Opera

BBC2 Billy Cobham’s Drum Clinic 11.10 - 11.50 pm

from the Greenwood Theatre, London


Thursday 31st March 1983

BBC1 The Young Ones 10.45 am - 12.30 pm 1961 movie with Cliff Richard and The Shadows

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Richard Skinner, Steve Wright

There is a small carousel in the studio

New Order - Blue Monday (live) Stephen Morris later admitted that "it sounded awful"

The Style Council - Speak Like A Child (re-recorded lead vocal)

Mari Wilson - Cry Me A River (live vocal)

U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One (re-recorded)

Chart 30 - 20

Kajagoogoo - Ooh To Be Ah

Chart 19 - 11

Tracey Ullman - Breakaway

Chart 10 - 1

Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know (promo clip) number one

Kenny Everett as Sid Snot plugging his show which follows on BBC1

Kenny Everett - Snot Rap (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Thompson Twins

BBC2 Grace Kennedy 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Grace Kennedy

Thames Portrait Of A Legend: Paul Anka 12.00 - 12.25 am

Granada Portrait Of A Legend: Pat Boone 12.00 - 12.30 am

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Bye Bye Love

White Plains (now with a woman lead singer) - When You Are A King

The Morton Music Machine - Una Paloma Blanca

Clodagh Rodgers - Save Me

The Morton Music Machine - Hot Legs (danced to by Lipstick)

White Plains - My Baby Loves Lovin'

The Morton Music Machine - Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto

Clodagh Rodgers - Come Back And Shake Me

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music

C4 Tex-Mex: The Music of the Texas-Mexican Border 8.30 - 9.30 pm

content unknown


Friday 1st April 1983 Good Friday

BBC1 Musical Youth: Roots 1.20 - 2.00 pm (repeat)

BBC1 Three More Men In A Boat 9.15 - 10.05 pm

Tim Rice

Central Songs On Tour: Janis Ian 11.50 pm - 12.35 am

ITV In His Image? 11.55 pm - end

Iris Williams - My Peace I Give To You

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

New Order - live

JoBoxers - live

Carmel - live

C4 Demis Roussos Variety Special 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Demis Roussos

Charles Aznavour

Gilbert Becaud

C4 The Sacred Music of Duke Ellington 10.20 - 11.45 pm

Live at St Paul’s Cathedral with Tony Bennett, Phyllis Hyman, Adelaide Hall, The New Swingle Singers


Saturday 2nd April 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 0 10.55 am (first in new series)

Roman Holiday

BBC1 Kids From Fame 6.45 - 7.20 pm

part one of concert from the Royal Albert Hall

BBC1 Paul Squire Esquire 7.20 - 7.55 pm

Bucks Fizz

The Flying Pickets

BBC1 Wogan 9.40 - 10.25 pm

Jerry Lee Lewis

BBC1 Rod Stewart In Concert 12.00 - 1.05 am

live at the Forum, Los Angeles

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.55 - 9.25 pm

Sacha Distel

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Dave Edmunds - Slippin’ Away

LWT Greatest Hits: 1959 5.05 - 5.45 pm

Frankie Vaughan

Freddie Fingers Lee

Craig Douglas

Tony Hall and Jimmy Henney from Oh Boy!

LWT The Cannon & Ball Easter Show 8.15 - 9.15 pm

Mari Wilson

Renee and Renate

C4 Willie Nelson: In The Spotlight 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London

C4 Patti 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Patti Boulaye


Sunday 3rd April 1983

BBC2 Brother Sun, Sister Moon 3.35 - 5.35 pm movie with Donovan songs

BBC2 All-Music Ella 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Ella Fitzgerald in concert in Pittsburgh and in conversation with Andre Previn

TSW / Channel Leeds Folk Festival 11.55 pm - 12.15 am

The Fureys with Davey Arthur


Monday 4th April 1983 Bank Holiday

BBC1 Fun In Acapulco 1963 movie with Elvis Presley

BBC1 Disney Time 5.10 - 5.55 pm

Hosted by Cilla Black

BBC1 Kids From Fame 7.40 - 8.15 pm

second part of concert

BBC2 Toni Basil Special 5.55 - 6.25 pm (repeat)

The Word Of Mouth video special

C4 Raffaella Carra In London 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Raffaella Carra

C4 Get Knighted 8.00 - 9.00 pm

The Barron Knights

C4 Mirielle Mathieu Special 10.50 - 11.20 pm

Mirielle Mathieu

Sacha Distel

Dionne Warwick


Tuesday 5th April 1983

BBC1 Paradise Hawaiian Style 11.00 am - 12.30 pm 1965 Elvis Presley movie

BBC1 Cliff! 7.0 - 8.00 pm (repeat of part one)

BBC2 The Innes Book of Records 10.25 - 10.50 pm (repeat)

Neil Innes

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Host Lisa Stansfield

John Miles - The Right To Sing

Dexy's Midnight Runners - The Celtic Soul Brothers

Kajagoogoo - Oooh To Be Aah

Yorkshire Classix Nouveaux In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

Anglia Johnny Mathis In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.35 am

Central Billy Jo Spears In Concert 11.35 pm - end

C4 Playing Turkey 10.10 - 11.35 pm

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra


Wednesday 6th April 1983

BBC1 Speedway 1966 movie with Elvis Presley

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Marti Webb sings three songs over three days from her forthcoming BBC TV special

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.30 pm - 12.10 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

BBC2 Ebony 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Misty In Roots

BBC2 One Night In Lincoln 9.00 - 9.30 pm (first of six shows)

Mike Harding

BBC2 Innes Book Of Records 10.20 - 10.45 pm (repeat)

Neil Innes

C4 Elephant Parts The Music 8.30 – 9.00 pm

Mike Nesmith music video special

C4 Jaa on Four: Tribute to Billie Holliday 11.10 pm - 12.10 am

Tribute concert from the Hollywood Bowl

Maxine Weldon

Morgana King

Carmen MacRae

Nina Simone

plus Carol Kenyon in a London club


Thursday 7th April 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.30 pm

Marti Webb sings three songs over three days from her forthcoming BBC TV special

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Simon Bates, Peter Powell and members of the cast of TV series Fame who were touring the UK at the time

A Live broadcast

Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Celtic Soul Brothers

Simon Bates with Gene Anthony Ray (Leroy) from Fame

Culture Club - Church Of The Poison Mind (promo clip)

Peter Powell with Lori Singer (Julie) from Fame

JoBoxers - Boxer Beat

Hosts with Carlo Imperato (Danny) from Fame

Twisted Sister - I Am (I’m Me)

Peter Powell with Debbie Allen (Lydia) from Fame

Michael Jackson - Beat It (promo clip)

Simon Bates with Lee Curreri (Bruno) from Fame

Tracie - The House That Jack Built

Chart 30 - 21

F.R.David - Words

Chart 20 - 11

Nick Heyward - Whistle Down The Wind

Chart 10 - 1

David Bowie - Let's Dance (promo clip) number one

Big Country - Fields Of Fire (plus Zoo and end credits)

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Stranglers

BBC2 Grace Kennedy 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Grace Kennedy

Peter Skellern

ITV ITV’s Channel Four Showcase: Father’s Day 8.00 - 8.30 pm

theme sung by Paul Young, written by Difford and Tilbrook


Friday 8th April 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 8.15 - 9.20 am

Dave Brubeck

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Marti Webb sings three songs over three days from her forthcoming BBC TV special

BBC1 Happy Endings 10.15 - 10.45 pm (repeat)

Peter Skellern

BBC2 Toni Basil Tape 2 9.00 - 9.30 pm

TV special made in Manchester

BBC2 The Innes Of Records 10.20 - 10.45 pm (repeat)

Neil Innes

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.35 pm - 12.20 am (first in new series)

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

Tom Petty - live in Dortmund

A Flock Of Seagulls - live in Dortmund

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.30 - 8.20 am

Brian Poole, Helen Shapiro

Border Country Music Jamboree 10.30 - 11.00 pm

Colorado

Tony Goodacre

June Brown

The Boothill Band

The Moat Brothers Country Band

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Bow Wow Wow - live set

Friends Again - live

Grace Jones

C4 The Very Hot Gossip Show 9.00 - 10.00 pm (repeat November 1982)

This replaced a Central TV produced show, a futuristic rock musical by Tony and Nick Bicat which had to be cancelled due to "contractual complications" according to The Times


Saturday 9th April 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.00 pm

Kajagoogoo

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Panel: David Grant (captain), Rick Wakeman, Stella Barker (Belle Stars) vs B A Robertson (captain), Bill Nelson, Steve Askew (Kajagoogoo)

Clips: Yardbirds - Louise (Go Tell It On The Mountain), The Tremeloes - Silence Is Golden (Pop Go The Sixties), The Shadows - Apache (Pop Go The Sixties), Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough (promo clip), The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap (TOTP), The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (promo clip), Japan - (promo clip), Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn (TOTP), Thin Lizzy - Whisley In The Jar (TOTP

BBC1 Wogan 10.05 - 10.50 pm

Barbara Dickson

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.15 am

Bananarama

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

Central Greatest Hits: 1981 5.15 - 5.45 pm

Kate Robbins - More Than In Love

Bucks Fizz - interview, Land of Make Believe

Kiki Dee

Steve Strange

Aneka

Yorkshire 3-2-1 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Sacha Distel

C4 American Bandstand 30th Anniversary 7.00 - 8.55 pm (repeat)

C4 The Cheryl Ladd Special 9.55 - 10.55 pm

Rick Springfield


Sunday 10th April 1983

BBC1 Eurovision Song Contest Preview 3.30 - 4.05 pm

part one

C4 Bert Kaempfert In Concert 7.15 - 8.15 pm


Monday 11th April 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Spandau Ballet

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 The Innes Book Of Records 10.15 - 10.40 pm (repeat)

Neil Innes

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm (first edition)

Hosted by Steve Taylor, from the Albany in Deptford

Grace Jones

Sade Adu


Tuesday 12th April 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Dr John and Chris Barber

BBC1 Cliff! 7.10 - 8.00 pm (repeat of part two)

Cliff Richard

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.20 pm - 12.00 am

Barbara Mandrell

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat of 8th April 1983)

BBC2 The Innes Book Of Records 10.25 - 10.50 pm

Neil Innes

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Chris Rea & Band - Let It Loose

The Belle Stars - Sweet Memory

Freur - Doot Doot


Wednesday 13th April 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1,45 pm

Sweet Dreams (UK's Eurovision representatives)

BBC2 Ebony 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Carroll Thompson

BBC2 One Night In Lincoln 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Mike Harding

Thames This Is Your Life: Jimmy Tarbuck 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Cilla Black


Thursday 14th April 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Andy Peebles, Gary Davies (The Daily Mirror and The Times lists the hosts as Dave Lee Travis and Andy Peebles)

Sweet Dreams - I’m Never Giving Up

The Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger (promo clip)

Bauhaus - She's In Parties

USA chart with Jonathan King - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Thomas Dolby, Hall & Oates, Dexy's Midnight Runners (promo clips)

Kissing The Pink - Last Film

Chart 30 - 21

Sunfire - Young Free and Single

Chart 20 - 11

Kajagoogoo - Ooh To Be Aah (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

David Bowie - Let's Dance (promo clip) number one

New Order - Blue Monday (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Chas and Dave

BBC2 Tomorrow 5.35 - 6.05 pm

The making of the West End production of Annie

BBC2 Peter Skellern 8.30 - 9.00 pm

The title has also been seen as Swingtime With The Nolans

The Nolans


Friday 15th April 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Dave Swarbrick and Simon Nicol

BBC1 Happy Endings 10.15 - 10.45 pm (repeat)

Peter Skellern

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm (first edition)

Host and Producer: Jonathan King

New York

content unknown

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

‘Pop-Rock In Concert’, Dortmunt 29th January 1983

REO Speedwagon, Gary Moore

Border Country Music Jamboree 10.30 - 11.00 pm

content unknown

Ulster Robert White Sings The American Songbook 10.30 - 10.45 pm

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Orange Juice - live

Yazoo – live

C4 Jazz on Four 8.30 - 9.30 pm

Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia at the Royal Albert Hall


Saturday 16th April 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.10 am

The Belle Stars

Spandau Ballet

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Panel - Ian Gillan, Tim Rice, Tracey Ullman, Jo Callis (Human League), Junior, Mark Bedford (Madness)

BBC1 Wogan 9.55 - 10.40 pm

Johnny Mathis

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Data Run with Robert Palmer

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT The Children’s Variety Performance 6.45 - 8.45 pm

Modern Romance

Kim Wilde

Kajagoogoo

Mari Wilson

TSW / Channel Average White Band 11.30 pm - 12.15 am

C4 Square Pegs 6.00 - 6.30 pm (first episode of USA series)

Theme: The Waitresses


Sunday 17th April 1983

BBC1 Eurovision Song Contest Preview 2.45 - 3.20 pm

part two

Sweet Dreams (UK entry)


Monday 18th April 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

The Barron Knights

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 The Mathis Magic 8.30 - 9.20 pm (repeat of the first of three)

Johnny Mathis

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Difford & Tilbrook

Morrissey - Mullen Band


Tuesday 19th April 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Alvin Stardust

BBC1 Cliff! 7.10 - 8.00 pm (repeat of part 3)

Cliff Richard

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat of 15th April 1983)

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Junior Giscombe

Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed

Peter Tosh - Johnny B.Goode

Central All-British Country Festival 11.35 pm - 12.35 am

content unknown


Wednesday 20th April 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.45 - 5.05 pm (first edition)

Two members of Bardo lead the teams

Sweet Dreams

Tracie

BBC2 Ebony 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Mikey Dread

BBC2 One Night In Licoln 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Mike Harding


Thursday 21st April 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Richard Skinner, Janice Long

Culture Club - Church Of The Poison Mind

Human League - Fascination (promo clip)

F.R. David - Words

Twisted Sister - I Am (I’m Me)

Toto - Rosanna (promo clip)

Heaven 17 - Temptation

Chart 30 - 21

Thompson Twins - We Are Detective (promo clip)

Chart 20 - 11

Spandau Ballet - True

Chart 10 - 1

David Bowie - Let's Dance (promo clip) number one

Michael Jackson - Beat It (playout record and audience dancing)

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Gloria Gaynor

C4 Alter Image 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Pookiesnakenburger


Friday 22nd April 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Christopher Cross

BBC1 Diary Of A Mad Housewife 10.50 pm - 12.30 am 1970 movie with Alice Cooper

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Los Angeles

Laura Brannigan

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 12.15 1.00 am (first in new series)

Theme Stone Fox Chase gets an electro-pop makeover

There is still a seated audience, but the large Starkicker logo is still seen at the back of the studio

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

Big Country - Close Action, Thousand Stars

Neil Young - Computer Age (promo clip)

Hypothetical Prophets - Person To person (promo clip)

Guitar instructional video clip

Pink Floyd - Not Now John (promo clip)

The Pale Fountains - Palm of My Hand, Hey There Fred, Free

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

The Undertones - live

Bourgie Bourgie - live

Dexy’s Midnight Runners - promo

I Level - promo

Heaven 17 - promo

Roman Holliday - live

Spandau Ballet - promo

Aztec Camera - live

C4 Jazz On Four 8.30 - 9.30 pm

Ray Charles at the Capital Jazz Festival at Knebworth


Saturday 23rd April 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.00 pm

A Flock Of Seagulls

The Fun Boy Three

BBC1 Eurovision Song Contest 1983 8.00 - 10.10 pm

UK Entry - Sweet Dreams - I'm Never Giving Up

TVAM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 pm

Steve Strange

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Gary Numan

TSW / Channel Sade Cafe In Concert 11.15 pm - 12.15 am


Monday 25th April 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 The Mathis Magic 8.30 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

Johnny Mathis

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Edward Tudor Pole (guest host)

Terry Hall & Lynval Golding from The Fun Boy Three

Paul Haig


Tuesday 26th April 1983

BBC1 Cliff! 8.10 - 9.00 pm (part four, repeat)

Cliff Richard

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.10 - 11.50 pm (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell

Dolly Parton

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat 22nd April 1983)

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Flock Of Seagulls - Nightmare

Spandau Ballet - True

Blancmange


Wednesday 27th April 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Val Doonican

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.05 pm

Team leader -Tony Blackburn (team leaders also seen as Suzi Quatro and Rocky Sharpe)

Darts

Tommy J

The Maisonettes

BBC1 Max Boyce and Friends 9.25 - 10.05 pm (first in series)

from the Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy

BBC2 One Night In Lincoln 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Mike Harding

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Julie Felix - interview


Thursday 28th April 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Elaine Page

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Phil Everly

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Host Dave Jensen & John Peel

A live broadcast and the 999th show

Galaxy With Phil Fearon - Dancing Tight

Sweet Dreams - I’m Never Giving Up

Far East chart with Dave Jensen in Singapore - Paula Tsui (Hong Kong), China Doll (Hong Kong), Lam (Singapore) - TV and promo clips

The Creatures - Miss The Girl

European chart with John Peel in Paris - Cook Da Books, Hoffman and Hoffman, Mireille Mathieu & Patrick Duffy, Nena, David Bowie - TV and promo clips

Chart 30 - 22

Tears For Fears - Pale Shelter

Chart 21 - 11

Kissing The Pink - The Last Film

Chart 10 - 1

Spandau Ballet - True (promo clip) number one

The Kids from Fame - Last Night (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Fame 8.00 - 8.50 pm

Jimmy Osmond


Friday 29th April 1983

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from New Orleans

Fats Domino, Kiss

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.50 pm - 12.30 am

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

Spandau Ballet Code of Love, Foundation, Gold

Joni Mitchell Chinese Café (live promo clip)

Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul - live

Loudon Wainwright III I Don't Think Your Wife Likes Me (live in Hitchen)

Greg Kihn Jeopardy (promo clip)

Robert Wyatt Shipbuilding (promo clip)

Robert Palmer Pride (promo clip)

MeatLoaf - interview

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Blancmange

Galaxy

The Appolonaires -

Heaven 17 -

Tears For Fears –

C4 Jazz on Four 8.30 - 9.30 pm

Lionel Hampton live at the Capital Jazz Festival at Knebworth Park


Saturday 30th April 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.05 am

The Fixx

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.35 - 7.05 pm

Panel - Simon Kirke, Hazel O’Connor, George Michael, Jools Holland, Bill Bruford, Buster Bloodvessell

BBC1 Val Doonican Music Show 8.45 - 9.30 pm

Val Doonican

Sky

Chas and Dave

Nana Mouskouri

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

compilation show

Yorkshire 3-2-1 7.35 - 8.35 pm

Vince Hill

TSW ELO In Concert 11.05 pm - 12.15 am

LWT Leeds Folk Festival 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

Maxi & Mitch, Bob Fox, Stu Luckley

Granada Dave Edmunds In Concert 12.55 - 1.40 am


Sunday 1st May 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters


Monday 2nd May 1983 Bank Holiday

BBC1 Mike Read’s Replay Selection 5.30 - 6.10 pm

JoBoxers - Boxer Beat

Altered Images - Don’t Talk To Me About Love

Bad Manners - Sampson and Delilah

Roger Glover and Friends - Butterfly Ball (promo clip)

Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling

Talk Talk - Talk Talk

Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny

David Bowie - Let’s Dance (promo clip)

Kissing the Pink - The Last Film

Kevin Rowland and Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Let’s Get This Straight

Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.45 - 9.20 pm

Phil Collins

C4 Loose Talk

guest host - Geoff Dean (singer)

Ray Lowry (NME cartoonist)

The Chevallier Brothers


Tuesday 3rd May 1983

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat 29th April 1983)

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Lonnie Donegan - interview

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Phil Everly - Sweet Pretender

Modern Romance - Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm

The Undertones - Chain Of Love

Yorkshire / Border Antibes Jazz Festival 11.35 pm - 12.05 am

content unknown

TVS Portrait Of A Legend: Aretha Franklin 11.35 pm - 12.05 am

Thames Portrait Of A Legend: Tina Turner 12.05 - 12.30 am


Wednesday 4th May 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Max Boyce

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.05 pm

Thereza Bazar & Gary Davies – team leaders

The Belle Stars - Sweet Memories

Bad Manners - That'll Do Nicely

Hot Chocolate - What Kind of Boy Are You Looking For Girl

BBC1 Max Boyce and Friends 9.30 - 10.10 pm

Max Boyce

BBC2 Ebony 7.25 - 7.55 pm

content unknown

BBC2 One Night In Lincoln 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Mike Harding


Thursday 5th May 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops The 1000th Edition 7.10 - 8.00 pm (simulcast in stereo on Radio One)

It was revealed this week that Thin Lizzy had turned up late for rehearsals for a recent show and were told to go home

The weekly audience was about eleven million by this time

Introduction by Jimmy Savile

The Kids from Fame - Friday Night (playing in background)

The Thompson Twins - We Are Detective

Peter Powell with Steve Strange

Simon Bates with Roger Taylor and John Deacon (from Queen)

Human League - Fascination

Andy Peebles, Janice Long and Tommy Vance with Imagination

The Beat - Can’t Get Used To Losing You (re-recording)

Dave Lee Travis and Noel Edmonds

The 60s - TOTP clips from Dave Clark Five, Billy J Kramer, The Supremes, Sonny & Cher, The Rolling Stones, The Bee Gees, The Beatles (Our World), Cliff Richard, Manfred Mann, Joe Cocker (How It Is), The Status Quo, The Move, Cilla Black

Dave Lee Travis, Noel Edmonds with Cilla Black

Heaven 17 & Carol Kenyon - Temptation

Noel Edmonds, Steve Wright and Tony Blackburn with Chas & Dave, Gary Glitter

The 70s - TOTP clips from The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Elton John, T Rex, David Bowie, Gary Glitter, ABBA, Queen, 10cc, The Booomtown Rats, Blondie

The 80s - TOTP clips from The Police, Adam Ant, Duran Duran

Noel Edmonds with Bill Wyman, Gary Numan

New Edition - Candy Girl (Zoo)

Dave Jensen with Jeffrey Daniels (Shalamar)

John Peel with Claire Grogan

Jonathan King in New York introducing greetings from The Police, Charlene, Lionel Richie, Meat Loaf, Rod Stewart

Paul Gambaccini and Mike Read

Chart 30 - 21

Blancmange - Blind Vision

Mike Read with Sandie Shaw, Kim Wilde

Chart 20 - 11

The Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed

Gary Davies, Pat Sharp and Mike Smith with Bucks Fizz

Charts 10 - 1

Spandau Ballet - True number one

Outro by Jimmy Savile

Men At Work - Overkill (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Lulu 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

live at Blazer's Club, Windsor

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 pm

Jimmy Savile (probably talking about the TOTP 1000th edition)

Thames Rowan’s Report 4.30 – 4.45 pm

Annabella Lewin (Bow Wow Wow)


Friday 6th May 1983

BBC1 The Time Of Your Life: Henry Cooper 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Gerry & The Pacemakers

BBC2 Did You See? 7.50 - 8.35 pm

John Peel on Rock music on television

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Dallas / Fort Worth

Hall & Oates

Julio Inglasias

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.50 pm - 12.35 am

Introduced by David Hepworth

The Fun Boy Three live at the Regal Theatre, Hitchen

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

UB40 - live

Spandau Ballet - live

Paul Haig – live

C4 Jazz on Four 8.30 - 9.30 pm

The Modern Jazz Quartet live at the Capital Jazz Festival, London 1982


Saturday 7th May 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.15 pm

JoBoxers

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.35 - 7.05 pm

Panel: Jake Burns (captain), Martin Kemp, John Deacon, vs Dave Edmunds (captain), Maggie Bell, Martin Chambers

Clips: The Everly Brothers - Walk Right Back (USA TV), The Beatles - From Me To You (Washington Collessium), Aretha Franklin - It's In His Kiss (Shindig!), Billy Preston - Satisfaction (Shindig!), The Beach Boys - Bluebirds Over The Mountain (Beat Club), Tom Petty - Shout (concert clip), Mott The Hoople - Honnaloochie Boogie (promo clip), The Clash - Rock The Casbah (promo clip), The Who - I Can See For Miles (Pop Go The Sixties)

BBC1 Val Doonican Music Show 8.40 - 9.25 pm

Val Doonican

Cleo Laine

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm (first networked show)

Bad Manners

Yorkshire 3-2-1 7.35 - 8.35 pm

Marion Montgomery

Anglia Tales of the Unexpected: Heir Presumptuous 9.30 - 10.00 pm

David Cassidy

TSW / Channel Randy Edelman Live 12.00 - 12.30 am

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock: Van Halen 12.00 - 12.30 am


Monday 9th May 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 7.20 - 8.00 pm compilation

BBC2 The Mathis Magic 8.30 - 9.20 pm (repeat)

Johnny Mathis

BBC2 Arena: It’s All True 9.25 - 10.55 pm

Julian Temple directed vision of the future of video communication

Boy George, Mari Wilson & Ray Davies, Grace Jones

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

guest presenter - Paul Morley (NME writer)

Eddi and Sunshine


Tuesday 10th May 1983

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat 6th May 1983)

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Musical Youth special

Thames Portrait of a Legend: Kenny Rogers 12.00 - 12.25 am

TVS Portrait of a Legend: Alice Cooper 11.30 pm - 12.00 am


Wednesday 11th May 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.00 pm

Team leader Bernadette Nolan

JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky'

Modern Romance - Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm

Kissing The Pink - The Last Film

BBC1 Max Boyce and Friends 9.25 - 10.05 pm

max Boyce

BBC2 Ebony: Robert Nesta Marley 7.35 - 8.05 pm

documentary


Thursday 12th May 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Tommy Vance (who announces that it's edition 1001), Mike Read

Modern Romance - Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm (with Will Gaines dancing)

Hall & Oates - Family Man (promo clip)

The Belle Stars - Sweet Memory

Pink Floyd - Not Now John (promo clip)

Hot Chocolate - What Kinda Boy You Lookin' For

Galaxy with Phil Fearon - Dancing Tight

Chart 30 - 21

The Creatures - Miss The Girl (with Zoo)

Chart 20 - 11

Men At Work - Overkill

Chart 10 - 1

Agnetha Faltskog - says hello and plugs her new single and album

Spandau Ballet - True (promo clip) number one

Kissing The Pink - The Last Film (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Second Sight 5.40 - 6.25 pm (repeat)

The Thompson Twins at the Regal Theatre, Hitchen

BBC2 The Young Ones 9.00 - 9.35 pm (repeat)


Friday 13th May 1983

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Florida

content unknown

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.40 pm - 12.25 am

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter, Back On Board

Annabel Lamb - Missing, Heartlands

The Police - Every Breath You Take (promo clip)

Muddy Waters - Hootchie Kootchie Man (film)

Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul - Forever (promo clip)

Charts article

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

The Beat

David Joseph

Aztec Camera

Wham! - (promo video)

Malcolm Mclaren - (promo video)


Saturday 14th May 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.10 am

Spandau Ballet

BBC1 The Keith Harris Show 6.15 - 6.50 pm

Cilla Black – Beautiful Boy

Sweet Dreams

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.50 - 7.20 pm

Panel - Nick Lowe, Suzi Quatro, Hank Marvin, Roger Taylor (Queen), John Martyn & Stephen Luscombe (Blancmange)

BBC1 The Val Doonican Music Show 8.45 - 9.30 pm

Val Doonican

Dionne Warwick

Gheorghe Zamfir

BBC2 John Denver: His Guitar and His Music 11.30 pm - 12.25 am part one (repeat)

TV-AM Data Run 8.32 - 9.15 am

Madness

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Modern Romance

TSW / Channel Nazareth Live In Concert 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Yorkshire Jazz From De Kroeg 11.25 pm - 12.25 am

content unknown

Granada The Stranglers In Concert 1.05 - 1.45 am


Sunday 15th May 1983

Central Music International Presents 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

Black Sabbath in concert


Monday 16th May 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Jose Feliciano

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 The Best Of Russell Harty 8.30 - 9.25 pm

compilation with Grace Jones, Rod Stewart

BBC2 Private Lives 10.15 - 10.50 pm

Peter Skellern

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

The Three Degrees

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Coati Mundi

14 Carat Gold


Tuesday 17th May 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 8.45 - 9.05 am

Larry Adler

BBC1 Battle of the Pop Bands 7.10 - 7.55 pm

Hosted by David Jensen

Panel - Jenny (from The Belle Stars), Kevin Godley, Alf (Yazoo)

Six new bands, Dutch, Moscow, Blasé, Kick Partners, Uma Vogue, Sugar Ray Five

plus Shakatak

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.20 pm - 12.00 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Teddy Pendergrass

Mickey Gilley

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm also seen as 5.35 - 6.15 pm (repeat 13th May 1983)

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Liza Minnelli

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Nick Lowe - Raging Eyes

Altered Images - Bring Me Closer

Blancmange - Blind Vision

Thames Portrait of a Legend: James Brown 12.45 - 12.40 am

Central No Excuses (first two episodes 9.00 – 10.00 pm and 10.45 – 11.50 pm)

Not fully networked as Thames decide to show all episodes after News At Ten

Charlotte Cornwall (from Rock Follies) plays Shelley Maze, a rock singer in this seven-part drama series with music and lyrics by Andy J Clark

Yorkshire Antibes Jazz Festival 11.45 pm - 12.15 am


Wednesday 18th May 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.05 pm

Team leaders: Tony Blackburn and Deborah Appleby

The Beat

David Van Day – Young Americans Talking

Big Country

BBC1 Max Boyce and Friends 9.45 - 10.25 pm

Max Boyce

Mary Hopkin

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Anita Harris

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Georgie Fame


Thursday 19th May 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

The Daily Mirror have the Manchester United football team as making an appearance

Hosted by Simon Bates and Gary Davies

A live broadcast

D Train - Music part one

New Edition - Candy Girl (promo clip)

David Grant - Stop and Go

Blancmange - Blind Vision (promo clip)

The Beat - I Can’t Get Used To Losing You

Wham! - Bad Boys (promo clip)

Members of the Brighton football team with their FA Cup song playing in the background

JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky

The Police talk to Simon Bates and plug their new single Every Breath You Take

Charts 30 - 20

Yazoo - Nobody’s Diary

Charts 19 - 7

The Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed

Charts 6 - 1

Spandau Ballet - True (promo clip and end credits) number one

BBC2 The Young Ones: Bomb (repeat)

Thames No Excuses 10.45 pm - 12.40 am

first two episodes

C4 Alter Image 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Philip Greenwood video maker with Calling Hearts (promo video)


Friday 20th May 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 8.45 - 9.00 am

David Essex

BBC1 Time Of Your Life 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Tony Blackburn

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from New York City

content unknown

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.35 pm - 12.10 am

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

Marillion - Forgotten Sons

Wah - Remember, I Know There Was Something

Meatloaf - interview, clips from 'Dead Ringer' movie

Heaven 17 - Let Me Go (promo clip)

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

The B52s - live

Prince Charles & The City Beat Band

The Style Council - Money Go Round

Maze -


Saturday 21st May 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.00 am

Blue Zoo

Poparound: The Police interviewed by Peter Powell

BBC1 The Keith Harris Show 6.16 - 6.50 pm

Junior

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.50 - 7.20 pm

Panel - David Gilmour, Mick Ralphs, Mari Wilson Vs John Taylor, Andy Fairweather-Low, Martyn Ware

BBC1 The Val Doonican Music Show 8.55 - 9.40 pm

Val Doonican

Sweet Dreams

Don Williams

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Mari Wilson - interview

TVS Number 73 9.30 - 11.00 am

Dave Jensen - interview

LWT Chas N Dave’s Knees Up 7.30 - 8.15 pm (first edition)

Linda Lewis

Eric Burden – Lawdy Miss Clawdy

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock: Smokey Robinson 11.55 pm - 12.30 am

HTV West In Concert 11.55 pm - 12.25 am

The Blues Band


Sunday 22nd May 1983

BBC2 John Denver: His Guitar and His Music part two 11.40 pm - 12.40 am

live at the Appollo Theatre, Victoria, London

LWT This Sporting Summer 1.45 - 2.15 pm

Roger Daltrey on trout fishing

Central Music International 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

ELO in concert

HTV West The Cimarons Live at The Fair Deal, Brixton 11.15 pm - 12.15 am


Monday 23rd May 1983

BBC1 Film ‘83 11.20 pm - 12.00 am

David Bowie talks about Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

ITV A Better Read 12.30 - 1.00 pm

Ian Dury talks about his favourite books

Yorkshire Average White Band 11.35 pm - 12.10 am

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Aztec Camera

The Joeys


Tuesday 24th May 1983

BBC1 Perry Como’s Spring in San Francisco 12.40 - 1.28 am (repeat)

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat 20th May 1983)

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Bonnie Tyler

The Police

Kajagoogoo - Hang On Now

UK Players

Yorskhire Antibes Jazz Festival 11.55 pm - 12.25 am

C4 Paul Robeson: Tribute To An Artist 11.25 - 11.55 pm 1979 documentary


Wednesday 25th May 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.05 pm

Team Leaders: Cheryl Baker & Bobby Dubby (from Bucks Fizz)

Blue Zoo - Forgive and Forget

Yazoo - Nobody's Diary

Rocky Sharpe & The Replays - Stop Please Stop

BBC2 Ebony 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Peter Tosh

TVAM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Rick Wakeman

ITV Film Fun – The Movie 4.20 - 4.45 pm

A look at pop music in movies with David Essex, Cliff Richard, The Rolling Stones

Thames Simon & Garfunkel Concert In Central Park 10.40 pm - 12.20 am


Thursday 26th May 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 6.55 - 7.15 pm

A shorter than normal show due to the FA Cup Final replay - According to the Radio Times the regular edition would have run from 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Peter Powell, Pat Sharp

Big Country - In A Big Country

Chart 30 - 13

Manchester United - Glory Glory Man United (promo clip)

The Style Council - The Money Go Round (promo clip)

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Buffalo Solider (promo clip)

Hot Chocolate - What Kinda Boy You Lookin' For

Chart 9 - 7

The Police - Every Breath You Take (presumably recorded at last week's show)

Chart 6 - 1

New Edition - Candy Girl (promo clip) number one

Forrest - Feel The Need In Me (playout record and audience dancing)

Thames No Excuses 10.45 - 11.45 pm part 3

Charlotte Cornwell plays a rock star


Friday 27th May 1983

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

From Chicago

Bryan Ferry - interview

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 12.00 - 12.45 am

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

The Waterboys - I Will Not Follow, The Three Day Man

The Eurythmics - This City Never Sleeps, The Walk

Elton John - I'm Still Standing, I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues (Promos)

Steve Miller - Gangster Of Love (promo clip)

Neil Young - Sample and Hold (film clip)

David Bowie - China Girl (promo clip un-cut version)

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Sandie Shaw

LWT James Bond - The First 25 Years From Dr No To Octopussy 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney

C4 Switch 6.30 - 7.00 pm (shorter due to election broadcast beforehand)

Mari Wilson

Altered Images

I Level


Saturday 28th May 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.00 pm

Ultravox

BBC1 The Keith Harris Show 5.50 - 6.25 pm

Gloria Gaynor

sweet Dreams

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.25 - 6.55 pm

Panel: Roy Wood (captain), Clare Grogan, Leee John vs Paul Jones (captain), Edwyn Collins, Brian Robertson

Clips: Curved Air - Back Street Love (Beat Club), T Rex - Get It On (TOTP), The Mixtures - The Pushbike Song (TOTP), The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket (TOTP), Status Quo - What You're Proposing (TOTP), Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers (promo clip), The Tubes - TV Is King (promo clip), David Essex - Hold Me Close (TOTP), Dion - The Wanderer (movie clip), Little Richard - Lucille (movie clip), Buzzcocks - 16 Again (Old Grey Whistle Test), The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On (TOTP film), The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic (The Big TNT Show)

BBC1 The Val Doonican Music Show 9.30 - 10.15 pm

Val Doonican

Ronnie Milsap

Rita Coolidge

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

David Essex

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

Yorkshire Profiles in Rock: The Police 12.15 - 12.45 am


Sunday 29th May 1983

LWT Peter Sarsdedt: A Portrait 11.30 pm - 12.20 am

Central Music International 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

Thin Lizzy in concert


Monday 30th May 1983 Bank Holiday

BBC1 Mike Read’s Replay Selection 5.00 - 5.35 pm

Tracey Ullman - Breakaway

Orchestra Manoeuvres in the Dark - Telegraph

Madness - Our House

Goofy - You Can Always Be No. 1

Bucks Fizz - Run For Your Life

The Kids From Fame - Friday Night

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

Kajagoogoo - Ooh To Be Ah

Spandau Ballet - True

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 6.40 - 7.20 pm

Kajagoogoo - Hang On Now

BBC1 The Little and Large Show 7.20 - 7.55 pm

The Shadows

BBC1 The Spinners On Tyneside 10.55 - 11.23 pm

BBC2 Private Lives 9.45 - 10.20 pm

Peter Skellern

Thames The Outrageous Millie Jackson 11.45 pm - 12.40 am

Live in Manchester

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Robert Wyatt and Elvis Costello

Matt Fretton


Tuesday 31st May 1983

BBC1 South East At Six 6.05 - 6.25 pm

(possibly) David Bowie interview

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

content unknown

Thames CB TV Channel 14 4.45 - 5.15 pm

Kajagoogoo on the road special

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat of 27th May 1983)

with the David Bowie China Girl promo clip edited

C4 Petula Clark Variety Special 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Filmed in France

Petula Clark

The Pasadena Roof Orchestra


Wednesday 1st June 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.05 pm

The Police - Every Breath You Take

The Fun Addicts - Bad Boys

David Grant - Stop and Go

BBC2 Ebony 7.35 - 8.00 pm

Compilation show - Shalamar, Gregory Isaacs, Imagination, Melba Moore

TSW / Channel Tom Jones at KNotts 11.40 pm - 12.35 am


Thursday 2nd June 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Jimmy Savile and Tony Blackburn

A live broadcast

Wham! - Bad Boys

Elton John - I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues (promo clip)

JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky

USA chart with Jonathan King in Las Vegas - The Tubes, Bryan Adams (live clip), Irene Cara - promo clips

Booker Newbury III - Love Town

Yazoo - Nobody’s Diary

Chart 30 - 21

Flash & The Pan - Waiting For A Train (Zoo)

Chart 20 - 11

The Style Council - The Money-Go-Round (possibly a re-recording)

Chart 10 - 1

The Police - Every Breath You Take (promo clip) number one

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Buffalo Solider (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Second Sight 5.35 - 6.20 pm 5.35 - 6.20 pm

UB40 (Sight & Sound In Concert)

BBC2 Food and Drink 8.35 - 9.00 pm

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull on his fish farm

BBC2 The Young Ones 9.00 - 9.35 pm (repeat)

Central Central News 6.25 - 7.05 pm

David Bowie concert report

Thames Michael Barrymore 9.10 - 9.40 pm

Jade - Liar

ITN News At Ten 10.00 - 10.30 pm

David Bowie concert report

Thames No Excuses 10.45 - 11.45 pm

Charlotte Cornwell

Granada Elton John and Synde Rome Show 11.45 pm - 12.35 am

TVS Dick Cavett Meets Abba 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

HTV West Gillan In Concert 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

C4 Film On Four: Living Apart Together 9.40 - 11.25 pm 1983 movie

with B A Robertson


Friday 3rd June 1983

BBC1 (South) Jazz In The Park 10.35 - 11.05 pm

The Lennie Best Quintet with Ruth Allen

BBC1 (Northern Ireland) As I Roved Out .......... Ralph McTell 10.35 - 11.05 pm

Ralph McTell

Jargon

BBC2 Did You See 7.50 - 8.35 pm

Sandie Shaw on review panel

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from New York

content unknown

BBC2 Out On The Floor 9.30 - 10.05 pm

Play about the Northern Soul scene

BBC1 Pete Sayers Electric Music Show 10.05 - 10.40 pm

Pete Sayers

Diane Somers

Steve Somer Western Boogie Band

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.40 pm - 12.45 am

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

Nick Lowe might have been scheduled to appear

Roman Holliday - Motormania, No Ball Games

Robert Wyatt - Born Again Cretin, Shipbuilding

Computer disc demo's with Chris Sievey And Pete Shelley

Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages (promo clip)

ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin' (promo clip)

Bob Seger - Even Now (promo clip)

Donald Fagen - New Frontier (promo clip)

C4 Switch 6.30 - 7.00 pm

Japan - (promo clip)

Robert Wyatt - (promo clip)

Yello - (promo clip)

Main T Posse - live

Imagination - live


Saturday 4th June 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.35 - 11.00 pm

Orange Juice

BBC1 The Keith Harris Show 6.15 - 6.40 pm

Modern Romance

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.50 - 7.20 pm

Panel - Midge Ure (Captain) Tracie & Paul Young versus Bob Geldof (Captain), Jon Moss & Tom Bailey

BBC1 The Val Doonican Music Show 8.50 - 8.35 pm

Val Doonican

David Essex

BBC2 Dave Brubeck Live at the Vineyard 11.20 pm - 12.25 am

live in California

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

ITV Just Amazing 7.00 - 7.45 pm (first in series0

co-hosted by Kenny Kynch

LWT Chas and Dave’s Knees Up 7.45 - 8.35 pm

Chas and Dave

Lulu

Rocky Sharpe & The Replays

HTV Nazareth In Concert 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

Granada Evening with Sad Cafe 12.15 - 1.20 am


Sunday 5th June 1983

Central Music International Presents Mireille Mathieu 11.40 pm - 12.40 am


Monday 6th June 1983

BBC2 Petula 8.30 - 9.25 pm

Petula Clark in concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

BBC1 Private Lives 10.10 - 10.45 pm

Peter Skellern

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

Yorkshire At Home With The Spinners 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

HTV West ELO In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Elvis Costello (aka The Imposter) - Pills and Soap


Tuesday 7th June 1983

BBC1 Dean Martin, This Is Your Lunch 10.50 - 11.28 pm

Variety Club celebration at The Hilton Hotel, London

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat of 3rd June 1983)

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Vince Hill

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Bucks Fizz - When We Were Young

Seona Dancing (with Ricky Gervais) - More To Lose

China Crisis

The Bloomsbury Set


Wednesday 8th June 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.05 pm

Team leaders: members of the group Bardo

Nick Heyward

Bucks Fizz

Kissing the Pink

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.20 - 8.00 pm

Transmission changed to Wednesday because of the General Election the following day. A new version of the title sequence with a television screen is used.

Hosted by John Peel, Dave Jensen

Twisted Sister - The Kids Are Back

David Bowie - China Girl (promo clip - edited version)

Ultravox - We Came To Dance

Irene Cara - Flashdance (What A Feeling) (promo clip)

H2O - I Dream To Sleep

George Benson - Lady Love Me (One More Time) (Solid Gold USA TV)

The Imposter (Elvis Costello) - Pills and Soap

Chart 30 - 21

Shakatak - Dark Is The Night

Chart 20 - 11

Big Country - In A Big Country (Peel - 'the band that put the tree into Big Country')

Chart 10 - 1

The Police - Every Breath You Take (repeat 26th May 1983) number one

Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (playout record and audience dancing)

Thames Jim Davidson’s Special 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Roy Wood


Thursday 9th June 1983

BBC2 The Young Ones 9.00 - 9.30 pm (final episode)

C4 Do You Remember? 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Stuart Henry Multiple Sclerosis appeal show

Craig Douglas

Del Shannon

Bert Weedon

Karl Denver

C4 Alter Image 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Poookiesnakenburger


Friday 10th June 1983

BBC2 Pete Sayers Electric Music Show 10.10 - 10.45 pm

Pete Sayers

Diane Solomon

Joe Fagin

Terry McMillan

TSW / Channel Black Sabbath Live 11.40 pm - 12.35 am

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

The Bluebells - live

The Style Council – (repeat)

The Undertones - (repeat)

C4 Silk Cut Festival of Jazz 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Live at The Barbican, London

Peggy Lee with Louis Belson - Mr Wonderful, Fever


Saturday 11th June 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 10.40 pm

John Miles

Clare Grogan

Kissing The Pink

BBC1 The Keith Harris Show 6.15 - 6.50 pm

Bobby Crush (the pianist had written Keith & Orville's hit I Wish I Could Fly)

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.50 - 7.20 pm

Panel: Cliff Richard (captain), Cheryl Baker, Stuart Adamson vs Micky Dolenz (captain), Hal Lindes, Nick Heyward

Clips: The Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster (Beat Club), The Police (OGWT), Joni Mitchell - Carey (concert clip), The Ronettes - Be My Baby (The Big TNT Show), Dionne Warwick - All The Love In The World (promo clip), The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (black and white promo clip), The Jam - Man In The Corner Shop (concert clip), XTC - Statue Of Liberty (Sight And Sound In Concert), The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man (The Big TNT Show)

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT Chas and Dave’s Knees Up 7.45 - 8.45 pm

Chas and Dave

Mike Berry – Rave On

The Flying Pickets

Granada Mink DeVille In Concert 1.00 - 1.45 am


Monday 13th June 1983

BBC2 The Good Old Way 7.40 - 8.00 pm (first of four)

The Watersons at the Co-Op Folk Club, Nottingham

BBC2 Petula 9.20 - 10.15 pm

Part two of Petula Clark’s show with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm (repeated on 16th May 1983)

Eddie Tenpole Tudor - The Hayrick Song

Jools Holland - Flip Flop and Fly


Tuesday 14th June 1983

ITV Lady Killers: Not For The Nervous 2.30 - 3.30 pm (repeat)

Elaine Page

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Nick Heyward - Take That Situation

Freur - Matters Of The Heart

China Crisis

TVS Portrait of a Legend: Andy Williams 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

Thames Portrait of a Legend: Rick Nelson 12.00 - 12.25 am

Yorkshire Antibes Jazz festival 11.30 pm - 12.00 am


Thursday 16th June 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.15 am

Charles Aznavour

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

A live broadcast

Hosted by Dave Lee Travis, Mike Read 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Imagination - Looking At Midnight

Kajagoogoo - Hang On Now (promo clip)

Nick Heyward - Take That Situation

Shalamar - Dead Giveaway

Bucks Fizz - When We Were Young (promo clip)

The Truth - Confusion Hits Us Every Time

Chart 30 - 21

Marillion - Garden Party

Chart 20 - 11

Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (Zoo)

Chart 10 - 1

The Police - Every Breath You Take (promo clip) number one

Flash and The Pan - Waiting For A Train (Zoo and end credits)

BBC2 Second Sight 5.35 - 6.20 pm (repeat of Sight & Sound In Concert)

Level 42

Thames No Excuses 10.30 - 11.30 pm (episode 5)

Charlotte Cornwell

C4 Alter Image 8.30 - 9.00 pm

The Residents


Friday 17th June 1983

BBC1 Nationwide 6.25 - 6.50 pm

Steve Rourke (manager of Pink Floyd)

BBC2 Pete Sayer's Electric Music Show 10.15 - 10.50 pm

Pete Sayers

Diane Solomon

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 pm

Tony Blackburn

TSW ? Channel Donovan In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.25 am

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Coati Mundi -

Nick Heyward –

Nona Hendrix - B Boys

Talking Heads (promo clip)

The Residents (promo clip)

Malcolm McLaren (promo clip)

C4 Jazz On Four 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Blossom Dearie at the Silk Cut Festival of Jazz

C4 All Of You Out There 10.30 - 11.30 pm

Stuart Henry documentary


Saturday 18th June 1983

BBC1 Get Set 10.05 - 10.37 am

A shorter than usual show due to sport

Cava Cava

Toto Coelo

Peter Powell looks at three bands he think will succeed - Thirteen At Midnight, The Bloomsbury Set, Jimmy The Hoover

Nick Heyward - interview

BBC1 The Keith Harris Show 6.15 - 6.50 pm

Wall Street Crash

Grace Kennedy

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.50 - 7.20 pm

Panel - Robert Plant (captain), Glenn Tilbrook, Sarah (from Bananarama) versus Bev Bevan (captain), Andy MacKay, Dave Gahan

BBC1 The Val Doonican Music Show 8.50 - 9.35 pm

Val Doonican

Charles Aznavour

The Chieftains

Blossom Dearie

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Tom Robinson – live set

Elton John interview, I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues (promo clip)

LWT Chas and Dave’s Knees Up 7.45 - 8.35 pm

Chas and Dave

Capt Sensible

Bernie Flint

Granada Profiles In Rock: Asia 12.15 - 12.45 am


Sunday 19th June 1983

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 9.10 - 10.05 pm

Joni Mitchell at Wembley Arena, April 1983 (a stereo simulcast on Radio One)

LWT Ray Charles In Concert 11.00 pm - 12.00 am


Monday 20th June 1983

BBC2 The Good Old Ways 7.40 - 8.30 pm

Alison MacMorland, Pete Webb at the Co-Op Folk Club, Nottingham

BBC2 The Vocal Touch 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Lulu

Edwina Lawrie (Lulu's sister)

BBC2 Private Lives 9.00 - 9.35 pm

Peter Skellern

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Ear To The Ground 11.00 - 11.55 pm (youth current affairs show)

Hazel O’Connor looks back at the past week's events


Tuesday 21st June 1983

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 pm

Joe Loss

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Peter Schilling - Major Tom

Ashton & Hayes - Resurrection Shuffle

Dead Or Alive - Mystic Circles

The Truth

Anthony Daniels from Star Wars

Yorkshire Antibes Jazz Festival 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

TVS Portrait of a Legend: Sly Stone 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

Thames Portrait of a Legend: Pat Boone 12.00 - 12.25 am


Wednesday 22nd June 1983

BBC2 The Vocal Touch 8.25 - 9.00 pm (repeat)

Ben Vereen

Thames Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Cilla Black – Stay, Liverpool Lullaby


Thursday 23rd June 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Simon Bates, Peter Powell

A Live broadcast

Freeez - I.O.U. (re-recording)

Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (promo clip - first version)

Elton John - I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues

European charts with John Peel in Amsterdam - The Dolly Dots (interview clip), The Shorts, Geier Sturzflug, Robin Gibb, Daniel - promo and TV clips

Shakatak - Dark Is The Night

Chart 30 - 20

Simon Bates chats to cricketer Dennis Lilley

Mike Oldfield with Maggie Reilly - Moonlight Shadow

Chart 18 - 11

H2O - I Dream To Sleep

Chart 10 - 1

The Police - Every Breath You Take number one (promo clip tinted blue)

ELO - Rock N Roll Is King (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now 11.15 - 11.40 pm (first of nine USA filmed shows)

Tom Jones

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Clannad

Thames No Excuses 10.30 - 11.30 pm

Charlotte Cornwell

C4 Mardi Gras 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Zachary Richard (accordianist)


Friday 24th June 1983

BBC1 (West) The Stranglers 10.15 - 10.45 pm

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Echo & The Bunnymen - live

Marc & The Mambas - live

Curtis Mayfield

C4 A Midsummer Night’s Tube 8.00 pm - 1.00 am

African music article with Vivian Goldman, Robert Palmer, Sammy Massamba - Kristo - cancelled

Wham! - cancelled

There's plenty of alcohol, particularly a punch called Vesuvius, on tap, but not available to the audience

Shalamar - A Night To Remember, interview

Andrew Ridgely - interview

Culture Club - live

Robert Palmer - live

Duran Duran - report in France

The Truth - live

Marillion - live at the Marquee

King Sunny Ade - Maajo

David Bowie – retrospective and interview

Malcolm McLaren - interview and Double Dutch demonstration

The Tubes - Wild Women Of Wongo

U2 - live from Red Rocks

Elton John - I’m Still Standing (promo clip)

Donna Summer - She Works Hard (promo clip)

Bruce Foxton

Nick Heyward

Clare Grogan

Mark Mywurdz

Paul Young - not scheduled to appear but will perform if someone pulls out of the show

Haysi Fantasi


Saturday 25th June 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 10.37 am

Heaven 17

Write a lyric contest

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.30 - 7.20 pm

Panel - Gary Glitter (captain), Dig Wayne, Bruce Foxton versus Francis Rossi (captain), Kim Wilde, Jeffrey Daniel

BBC1 The Val Doonican Music Show 9.00 - 9.45 pm

Val Doonican

Al Jarreau

Elaine Paige

BBC1 Night Music 10.50 - 11.30 pm

Jack Jones

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

The Thompson Twins

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

(possibly) Gary Glitter

LWT Chas and Dave’s Knees Up 7.45 - 8.35 pm

Chas and Dave

Clarence Frogman Henry


Sunday 26th June 1983

BBC2 Humph at 35 – But Looking Older 9.15 - 10.05 pm

Humphrey Lyttelton’s thirty-five years in jazz celebrated


Monday 27th June 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.25 pm - 12.05 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Ronnie Milsap

The Blackwood Singers

BBC2 The Good Old Way 7.35 - 7.55 pm

Martin Carthy, Frankie Armstrong at the Co-Op Folk Club, Nottingham

BBC2 The Vocal Touch 8.25 - 9.00 pm

Anita Harris

BBC2 Private Lives 9.00 - 9.35 pm

Peter Skellern

BBC2 Dancing Girls 9.35 - 10.25 pm (repeat)

Spoonooch dance troupe

Granada Alphabet Zoo 10.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell


Tuesday 28th June 1983

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 -12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Roman Holliday - Don't Try To Stop It Now

Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise

Depeche Mode

The Truth - Confusion


Wednesday 29th June 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.00 - 9.15 am

Andrew Lloyd Webber

BBC1 Scotland Scene Around Six 6.00 - 6.15 pm

David Bowie concert report and interview

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Dennis Waterman (as a singer)

Dollar

George Melly and John Chilton’s Feetwarmers

Precious Wilson

Lance Ellington


Thursday 30th June 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Richard Skinner, Tommy Vance

Shalamar - Dead Give Away

Heaven 17 - Come Live With Me (promo clip)

Nick Heyward - Take That Situation

Irene Cara - Flashdance (What A Feeling) (promo clip)

Richard Skinner talks to Jennifer Beals, star of Flashdance

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home)

Chart 30 - 17

Tom Robinson - War Baby

Chart 16 - 10

Bucks Fizz - When We Were Young

Chart 9 - 1

Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (promo clip - first version) number one

The Truth - Confusion Hits Us Every Time (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 11.25 - 11.50 pm

Tom Jones

Lynn Anderson

BBC1 Nine O’Clock News 9.00 - 9.25 pm

David Bowie concert report and interview

ITN News At Ten 10.00 - 10.30 pm

David Bowie concert report and interview

Thames No Excuses 10.30 - 11.30 pm

Charlotte Cornwell


Friday 1st July 1983

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Shalamar

New Edition

The Thompson Twins

C4 Jazz On Four 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Sarah Vaughan live at The Barbican Centre, London

Billy Eckstein

C4 Benjamin Zephaniah 10.30 - 11.30 pm

C4 Performance 11.30 pm - 1.25 am 1970 Mick Jagger movie


Saturday 2nd July 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.40 - 11.05 am

Wham!

Tears For Fears

BBC1 The Gift Of Love 11.05 am - 12.35 pm 1978 TV movie with Marie Osmond

BBC1 Night Music 10.45 - 11.15 pm

Recorded at Portmerion, North Wales

Stephanie Lawrence

Phil Everly

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Ultravox

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT Chas and Dave Knees Up 7.45 - 8.35 pm

Chas and Dave

Lonnie Donegan

Diz and The Dorrmen


Monday 4th July 1983

BBC1 Roy Clark’s Travelling Music Show 11.25 pm - 12.10 am (repeat)

Roy Clark

Dana

BBC2 Cliff Richard 8.30 - 9.25 pm

In concert with the Royal Philharmonic at the Royal Albert Hall

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell


Tuesday 5th July 1983

BBC1 Freddie Starr Showcase 7.45 - 8.30 pm

The Belle Stars

Mari Wilson

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 7.50 - 8.05

Inside Mickey Dolenz's house

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

The Belle Stars

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm (repeat)

The Police

JoBoxers

Yorkshire Antibes Jazz festival 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

content unknown

Central Doc Severinsen In Concert 11.35 pm - 12.35 am

C4 Black On Black 10.50 - 11.45 pm

Jimmy Cliff


Wednesday 6th July 1983

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Gil Evans live at the Roundhouse, London

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Frankie Vaughan

Amii Stewart


Thursday 7th July 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by John Peel, Dave Jensen (dressed as The Blues Brothers)

Roman Holliday - Don't Try To Stop It

Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long

Iron Maiden - The Trooper (promo clip)

Freeez - I.O.U. (The Hassani Troupe / Zoo)

ELO - Rock N Roll Is King (promo clip)

The Cure - The Walk

Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise

Charts 30 - 21

The Eurythmics - Who’s That Girl (a pre-recorded clip not recorded on TOTP set)

Chart 20 - 11

The Funk Masters - It’s Over

Chart 10 - 1

Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (promo clip - first version) number one

Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 (North West) The Maddy Prior Band 10.15 - 10.45 pm

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 10.40 - 11.05 pm

Tom Jones

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Marti Webb

BBC2 Riverside

Seagulls on the Cable - repeat

ITV On Safari 4.20 - 4.45 pm (repeat)

Kenny Everett

Thames No Excuses 11.30 pm - 12.25 am For this, the final show, it gets pushed back in the schedules even further

Charlette Cornwall as Shelley sings all 17 songs from the previous shows


Friday 8th July 1983

BBC1 Time Of Your Life: George Melly 8.00 - 8.30 pm

BBC2 Pete Sayers Electric Music Show 10.15 - 10.50 pm

Pete Sayers

Diane Solomon

Billy Fields

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Pete Shelley - live

Spear Of Destiny - live

Marc & The Mambas - live (left over from previous show)

Bananarama

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm (first of second series)

Bo Diddley

Mud

C4 Well Being Special: Walking The Tightrope Living With Diabetes 10.30 - 11.30 pm

Mari Wilson

C4 Jazz On Four: The Wizard of Waukesha 12.33 - 1.20 am

Les Paul documentary


Saturday 9th July 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.00 am

Musical Youth

BBC1 Night Music 11.00 - 11.40 pm

Labi Siffre

Flairck

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Imagination

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

The Belle Stars


Monday 11th July 1983

BBC1 Roy Clark’s Travelling Music Show 11.20  pm - 12.05 am (repeat)

Roy Clark

Suzi Quatro

Terry McMillan


Tuesday 12th July 1983

BBC1 Freddie Starr Showcase 7.45 - 8.30 pm

10cc

BBC2 Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Murray Head

BBC2 Diane Solomon Entertains 10.10 - 10.45 pm

Diane Solomon

B A Robertson

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

content unknown

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Christopher Cross - No Time For Talk

The Tremeloes - Words

Marti Webb - I'm Not That Kind Of Girl

Yorkshire The Mills Brothers 11.00 pm - 12.00 am

Scottish James Borwn - Soul Brother 11.10 pm - 12.10 am


Wednesday 13th July 1983

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Randy Edelman

Grace Kennedy

The Nolans

Kate Robbins


Thursday 14th July 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Andy Peebles, Peter Powell

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Every Day I Write The Book

Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch (promo clip)

Peter Powell plugs the Top Of The Pops t-shirt (order form in this week's Radio Times)

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home)

USA chart with Jonathan King at Seaside Heights, New Jersey - Elton John, Madness, The Kinks, The Police - promo clips

Heaven 17 - Come Live With Me

Echo & The Bunnymen - Never Stop

Chart 30 - 21

Bananarama - Cruel Summer

Chart 20 - 11

Sylvian & Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (promo clip - second version) number one

Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 10.55 - 11.18 pm

Tom Jones

Chaka Khan

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.30 pm

Charles Aznavour


Friday 15th July 1983

BBC1 The Times Of Your Life: Jenny Agutter 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Dave Edmunds

BBC1 Paris Blues 11.20 pm - 1.00 am 1961 movie with Louis Armstrong

HTV (West) Black Sabbath In Concert 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

The B52’s (repeat)

Defunkt

Soft Cell

Gwen Guthrie

Paul Haig (promo clip)

Tracey (promo clip)

The Cramps (promo clip)

Animal Nightlife (promo clip)

Talking Heads (promo clip)

Cabaret Voltaire (promo clip)

Report on fanzines Certain Gestures, Intimacy

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Wayne Fontana

Crispin St Peters

C4 Jazz on Four 12.20 - 1.15 am

Talmadge Farlow documentary


Saturday 16th July 1983

BBC1 Get Set 10.05 - 10.50 am

Depeche Mode

Poparound: Boy George interview

BBC1 The Main Attraction 8.40 - 9.25 pm

Andrew Lloyd-Webber with Sarah Brightman

Wall Street Crash

Roger Whittaker

BBC1 Night Music 11.05 - 11.45 pm

Helen Reddy

Gerard Kenney

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Godley & Creme

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

ITV The Tube Return Ticket 12.40 - 1.40 am (first of a compilation series)

Culture Club, Yazoo, Mari Wilson, Eric Burdon


Monday 18th July 1983

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.30 pm

Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth

BBC2 The Paul Daniels Magic Show 8.20 - 9.00 pm

Anita Harris

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

ITN News 1.00 - 1.20 pm - 5.45 - 6.00 pm - 10.00 - 10.25 pm

The Beatles at Abbey Road article (three different)

Yorkshire Antibes Jazz Festival 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

content unknown


Tuesday 19th July 1983

BBC1 Freddie Starr Showcase 7.40 - 8.30 pm

Morrissey-Mullen

The Nolans

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.30 pm

The state of the British music scene special with Tim and Jo Rice, Paul Gambaccini

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz: Rock And Pop Awards Show 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Spandau Ballet - Gold

The Eurythmics - Who's That Girl

Kim Wilde - Love Blonde

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Sacha Distel - Satin Doll

Barney Kessel


Wednesday 20th July 1983

ITV Definition 3.30 - 4.00 pm

Crossword panel show with Tony Blackburn

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Chas and Dave

C4 The Beggar’s Opera 9.00 - 11.20 pm

Paul Jones as MacHeath


Thursday 21st July 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Jimmy Savile, Pat Sharp

Savile is again wearing an old yellow Top of the Pops t-shirt from the seventies

Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise

The Eurythmics - Who’s That Girl (promo clip)

Shakin' Stevens - It's Late

Roman Holliday - Don't Try To Stop It

The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger

Freeez - I.O.U.

Chart 30 - 21

Gary Byrd & The GB Experience - The Crown (Zoo)

Chart 20 - 11

The Cure - The Walk

Chart 10 - 1

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) number one

Clubhouse - Do It Again / Billy Jean (playout record and audience dancing)

Granada Profiles In Rock: Van Halen 12.00 - 12.35 am


Friday 22nd July 1983

Thames Freetime 4.50 - 5.15 pm

fan meets Bucks Fizz

LWT South Of Watford 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

David Bowie - live in Milton Keynes, plus footage from London 1978

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Elvis Costello – live

Animal Nightlife

Yello

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Brian Poole

The Platters

C4 Jazz On Four: Meeting of the Spirits 12.15 - 1.10 pm (repeat)

Larry Coryell, John MacLaughlin, Paco DeLucia at the Royal Albert Hall 1979


Saturday 23th July 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 10.45 am (first edition with new title)

Modern Romance

BBC1 The Main Attraction 8.15 - 9.00 pm

Chas and Dave

The Kessler Twinds

Frankie Vaughan

BBC1 Night Music 11.15 - 11.45 pm

The Stylistics

Angie Gold

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

C4 Hot For Dogs 6.00 - 6.30 pm (first in series0

Directed by Mike Mansfield

Modern Romance


Sunday 24th July 1983

LWT Summer Arts Festival 1983 2.15 - 3.30 pm

Kim Wilde

John Cooper-Clarke

Peter Skellern

ITV The Tube Return Ticket shown on TVS 11.00pm - 12.00 am

content unknown


Monday 25th July 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.30 pm - 12.10 am

Barbara Mandrell  and the Mandrell Sisters

Jim Stafford

Dottie West

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Song-writers special with Barry Mason, Andy Hill, Stephanie DeSykes & Paris

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

Central News 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Jet Harris article


Tuesday 26th July 1983

BBC1 Freddie Starr Showcase 7.45 - 8.30 pm

Shakin’ Stevens

BBC1 Dean Martin’s Comedy Classics 10.15 - 11.03 pm

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm (first edition)

Musical Youth - Tell Me Why

The Thompson Twins - Watching

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Helen Shapiro - Let Yourself Go

Peter Skellern - They All Laughed

The Tom Robinson Band - War Baby


Wednesday 27th July 1983

BBC1 A View Of The Pier 11.35 pm - 12.05 am

Harry Srtutter's Hot Rhythm Orchestra

BBC2 The Vocal Touch 10.20 - 10.55 pm (repaet)

Precious Wilson

Alvin Stardust

Neil Innes

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 7.55 - 8.05 am

David Van Day

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Sacha Distel

The Nolans


Thursday 28th July 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Mike Read & Janice Long

KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up (re-recording)

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts (promo clip)

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Every Day I Write The Book

The Creatures - Right Now (promo clip)

The Lotus Eaters - The First Picture Of You

Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch (with The Dynamos skipping team)

Robert Plant - Big Log

Chart 30 - 21

George Benson - Feel Like Makin’ Love (Zoo)

Chart 20 -11

Bananarama - Cruel Summer

Chart 10 - 1

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (promo clip) number one

Heaven 17 - Come Live With Me (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 10.55 - 11.20 pm

Tom Jones

Marie Osmond


Friday 29th July 1983

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Echo & The Bunnymen - live at Royal Albert Hall

Cabaret Voltaire - live

The Lotus Eaters -

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Georgie Fame

Helen Shapiro

C4 Jazz on Four 12.15 - 1.00 am

Pat Metheney live in Montreal


Saturday 30th July 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 10.55 am

Kim Wilde

BBC1 The Main Attraction 8.45 - 9.30 pm

Shakin’ Stevens

Modern Romance

Elaine Page

BBC1 Night Music 11.05 - 11.45 pm

Tina Cross

John Miles

BBC2 Bucks Fizz 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Bucks Fizz (each does a solo song)

Paris

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Tony Hadley

Galaxy

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT The Tube Return Ticket 11.10 pm - 12.30 am

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Granada The Cimarons In Concert 12.25 - 1.30 am

C4 Hot For Dogs 6.00 - 6.30 pm

Imagination


Monday 1st August 1983

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Patti Boulaye

Granada World In Action: The Race Against Reagan 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Stevie Wonder


Tuesday 2nd August 1983

BBC1 Freddie Starr Showcase 7.45 - 8.30 pm

Jujuka

Katie Kissoon

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.30 pm

King Sunny Ade

Spandau Ballet

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 7.55 - 8.05 am

inside Grace Kennedy's house

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Paul Haig - Never Give Up

Altered Images

Thames Kim Wilde - First Time Out 4.45 - 5.15 pm (repeat)

Documentary about her first tour

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Paul Brady

C4 The Ride of Jessie Hallam 9.00 - 10.50 pm 1981 TV movie

with Johnny Cash


Wednesday 3rd August 1983

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Stephanie Lawrence

Rod Argent

Thames A Plus Revisited 2.00 - 2.30 pm

The Flying Pickets (repeat clip)

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Gene Pitney

The New Vaudeville Band

The Flying Pickets

Maggie Moon


Thursday 4th August 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Hosted by John Peel, Mike Smith

Wham! - Club Tropicana

The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger (promo clip)

Kim Wilde - Love Blonde

Galaxy with Phil Fearon - Wait Until Tonight (My Love)

Elton John - I’m Still Standing (promo clip)

Tracie - Give It Some Emotion

Chart 30 - 21

Bruce Foxton - Freak

Chart 20 - 11

Shakin’ Stevens - It’s Late (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (repeat 21st July 1983) number one

Hosts are joined by Gary Byrd - Top Of The Pops rap

Gary Byrd & The GB Experience - The Crown (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now 10.55 - 11.15 pm

Tom Jones

Lala Falana

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Demis Roussos

Barry Mason


Friday 5th August 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.00 - 9.30 am

Gary Byrd

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Mike Harding

BBC2 The Vocal Touch 10.20 - 10.50 pm

Stephanie Lawrence

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00

Wham!, The Stray Cats, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Steve Walsh all listed as appearing by The Times

Elvis Costello - Charm School

The Style Council - Paris Match

Pete Shelley XL-1

Blancmange

Prince - Little Red Corvette (promo clip)

Galaxy - Dancing Tight

The Beatles - From Me To You (Washington February 1964)

The Fun Boy Three

Kate from Hazee Fantazee

Coati Mundi - live

Paul Young

The Farmers Boys

Spandau Ballet - Gold

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Mark Wynter

The Glitter Band

C4 Jazz on Four: Crossing Bridges 12.10 - 1.10 am

Six guitarists - Fred Frith, Brian Godding, John Russell, Hans Reichal, Keith Rowe, Ron Geesin


Saturday 6th August 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 11.30 am

The Lotus Eaters

BBC1 The Main Attraction 9.10 - 9.55 pm

Kenny Baker

The Belle Stars

BBC1 Night Music 10.40 - 11.25 pm

Rick Wakeman with Robert Powell

BBC2 Billy Fields Swings 10.10 - 10.40 pm

Australian singer live at Blazer's, Windsor

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

ITV Some You Win 6.00 - 6.45 pm

10cc

ITV The Tube Return Ticket 11.45 pm - 12.40 am

Bananarama, The Rolling Stones

Grampian Portrait Of A Legend: Merle Haggard 11.50 pm - 12.20 am

C4 Hot For Dogs 6.00 - 6.30 pm

Spandau Ballet


Sunday 7th August 1983

BBC2 Roxy Music 9.00 - 9.50 pm (repeat)

C4 Song By Song by Johnny Mercer 7.15 - 8.15 pm (repeat of ITV show)


Monday 8th August 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 8.45 - 9.00 pm

Henry Mancini

BBC2 Motives 10.10 - 10.40 pm

Petula Clark talks to Dr Anthony Clare

Granada The Starlight Ballroom 8.00 - 8.30 pm (first edition)

Alvin Stardust stars in drama as a big band leader Umberto Rossi with Lynsey de Paul playing his girlfriend


Tuesday 9th August 1983

BBC1 The Freddie Starr Showcase 7.45 - 8.30 pm

The Shadows

Chopper Harris (singing group)

The Bouncing Czechs

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.30 pm

Harvey and the Wallbangers

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 7.55 - 8.05 am

inside Diane Solomon's house

Thames A Plus Revisited 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Wynton Marsalis (repeat clip)

Granada Hold Tight! 4.55 - 5.20 pm

The Farmers - Boys For You

David Grant - Watching You Watching Me

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

The Albion Band - Love Is Like A Railway Station

The Dolly Dots - All The Roses

Harvey and the Wallbangers - Mr Bassman

Lulu - Harden My Heart


Wednesday 10th August 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Ray Davies

BBC2 Country Cousins 10.30 - 11.00 pm

Pete Sayer

Carey Duncan

Terry McMillan

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 7.55 - 8.05 am

Humphrey Lyttelton

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Bucks Fizz


Thursday 11th August 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Hosted by Richard Skinner, Tommy Vance

David Grant - Watching You Watching Me

The Style Council - Long Hot Summer (promo clip)

Level 42 - The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)

Spandau Ballet - Gold (promo clip)

The Creatures - Right Now

The Lotus Eaters - The First Picture Of You

Chart 30 - 21

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Chart 20 - 11

Robert Plant - Big Log (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up (repeat 28th July 1983) number one

Herbie Hancock - Rockit (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 10.55 - 11.20 pm

Tom Jones

BBC2 Country Cousins 10.25 - 10.55 pm

recorded at Blazer's, Windsor

Little Ginny

Gerry Hale

Yellowstone Picnic Band


Friday 12th August 1983

BBC1 (West) Jazz and Jenner 10.30 - 11.00 pm

content unknown

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Frankie Vaughan interview

Flairck

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

UB40 - live

Paul Young

Freeze

Big Country

The Weather Girls (promo clip)

Level 42 (promo clip)

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Desmond Dekker

The Rockin’ Berries

C4 Jazz On Four 12.15 - 1.00 am

recorded at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh

Neils- Henning Orsled-Pedersen

Toots Thielman

The Lonnie Herd Band

Tommy Smith


Saturday 13th August 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 10.55 am

Paul Weller

Paul Jones reads a tale from the Arabian Nights

BBC1 The Main Attraction 8.55 - 9.40 pm

Sammy Cahn

Acker Bilk

TVAM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 pm

Paul Young

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

ITV The Tube Return Ticket 11.25 pm - 12.15 pm

Tik and Tok, The Rolling Stones, Bad News, The Jam, Twisted Sister

C4 Hot For Dogs 6.00 - 6.30 pm

Spandau Ballet

C4 Da Doo Ron Ron: The Phil Spector Story 7.35 - 9.00 pm

Interviews with - Jeff Barry, Leiber & Stoller, Lester Sill, Ahmet Ertegun, Nino Tempo, Stan Ross, Larry Levine, Bumps Blackwell, Darlene Love, Sonny Bono, Kitty Bruce, The Ramones, Ronnie Spector, Albert Goldman, plus Rodney Bingenheimer


Sunday 14th August 1983

C4 Song By Song by Cole Porter 7.15 - 8.15 pm (repeat of ITV)


Monday 15th August 1983

BBC1 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Rod Argent


Tuesday 16th August 1983

BBC1 Freddie Starr Showcase 7.45 - 8.30 pm

Bonnie Tyler

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 7.00 - 7.50 am

Kim Wilde

Granada Hold Tight! 4.45 - 5.15 pm

Depeche Mode Everything Counts

Kim Wilde Love Blonde

Thames Musical Youth 4.45 - 5.15 pm (repeat)

CBTV special

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Gloria Gaynor - Even A Fool Would Let Go

Prelude

Border Jazz 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

content unknown

C4 Black On Black 10.55 pm - 12.15 am

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Relator

Explainer


Wednesday 17th August 1983

BBC2 Good Time George 9.00 - 9.30 pm (first of four0

recorded at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds

George Melly

Elaine Delmar

Thames Yarwood In Town 8.00 - 9.00 pm (repeat)

Gilbert O’Sullivan

Elaine Page


Thursday 18th August 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 6.50 - 7.25 pm

Hosted by Dave Lee Travis, Gary Davies

The Kinks - Come Dancing

Wham! - Club Tropicana (promo clip)

Kim Wilde - Love Blonde

Elton John - chat, I’m Still Standing (promo clip)

Modern Romance - Walking In The Rain

Galaxy With Phil Fearon - Wait Until Tonight (My Love) (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Tracie - Give It Some Emotion

Chart 20 - 11

Madness - Wings Of A Dove (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up number one (repeat 28th July 1983)

Kraftwerk - Tour De France (playout record with Zoo and hoola-hoop world champion Chico Johnson)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 10.55 - 11.18 pm

Tom Jones

Dionne Warwick

Granada Born in The 60s - Lisa 5.15 - 5.45 pm

Lisa Stansfield special

Thames Portrait of a Legend: Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons 12.00 - 12.25 am

C4 Goldie and Kids Listen To Us 10.30 - 11.30 pm

Goldie Hawn TV special

Barry Manilow


Friday 19th August 1983

BBC2 Mr Moonlight 6.15 - 6.55 pm

Frankie Vaughan documentary

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

David Essex

Modern Romance

Carmel

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.00 am

Chris Tarrant in Brighton with Pookiesnackenburger

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Edwin Starr - live

The Kane Gang - live

New Edition

Victor Romero-Evans

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Chicory Tip

Kathy Kirby

C4 Jazz On Four 12.15 - 12.55 am

Larry Coryell


Saturday 20th August 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 10.55 am

The Belle Stars

BBC1 The Main Attraction 9.05 - 10.05 pm

Eartha Kitt

Stutz Bear Cats

TVAM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Paul Weller

Buster Bloodvessel of Bad Manners

ITV Saturday Royal 8.15 - 9.30 pm

The Little Foxes

ITV The Tube Return Ticket 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

Thin Lizzy, The Undertones, U2

C4 Hot For Dogs 6.00 - 6.30 pm

Kim Wilde


Sunday 21st August 1983

C4 Song By Song By Irving Berlin 7.15 - 8.15 pm (repeat)


Monday 22nd August 1983

Grampian Presenting Price, Alan Price 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

Alan Price


Tuesday 23rd August 1983

BBC2 Pop Carnival 6.50 - 7.20 pm (first show in second series)

live at Sefton Park, Liverpool

Big Country

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

The Moody Blues

Roman Holiday

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Dreams - 17 Electric

H2O - Just outside of Heaven

Jools Holland

Thames Duran Duran 4.45 - 5.15 pm

Filmed in France

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Bertice Reading - This Is My Life


Wednesday 24th August 1983

BBC2 Pop Carnival 6.40 - 7.15 pm

live at at Brunel University

Tears For Fears - Memories Fade, The Prisoner, Ideas As Opiates , Start Of The Breakdown, The Way You Are, Suffer The Children, Mad World

BBC2 Good Time George 9.00 - 9.30 pm

George Melly and the Feetwarmers

BBC2 Sing Country 10.25 - 10.50 pm

Tammy Wynette

Ronnie Prophet

Ed Bruce

Tom Gribbin

Wendel Adkins


Thursday 25th August 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 6.55 - 7.30 pm

A live broadcast

Hosted by Mike Smith, Simon Bates

David Grant - Watching You Watching Me

Rod Stewart - What Am I Gonna Do (promo clip)

Carmel - Bad Day (live vocal)

USA chart with Jonathan King at Shea Stadium, New York - The Police - live clips, Stevie Nicks, Michael Sembello - promo clips

UB40 - Red Red Wine

Chart 30 - 21

Shalamar - Disappearing Act

Chart 20 - 11

Level 42 - The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)

Chart 10 - 3

The Style Council - Paris Match

Chart 2 - 1

Two of The Stray Cats with the hosts

KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up (playout record, end credits) number one

BBC2 Pop Carnival 6.15 - 6.50 pm

live at Sefton Park, Liverpool

Nick Heyward


Friday 26th August 1983

BBC1 The Monkees 9.00 - 9.20 am

BBC2 Pop Carnival 6.55 - 7.25 pm

live at Brunel University

JoBoxers

ITV By George, It's Country 2.00 - 2.30 pm

The 1980 All British Country Music Festival, Brighton

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

The The

The Stray Cats

The Special AKA

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Ronnie Carroll

The Four Pennies

C4 Jazz on Four 12.20 - 1.00 am

The Bruce Turner Jump Band at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh


Saturday 27th August 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 10.55 am

JoBoxerss’s Dig Wayne

BBC1 The Main Attraction 9.00 - 9.45 pm

The Shadows

Kajagoogoo

BBC2 Rock Around The Clock

3.15 pm intro with David Hepworth, Mark Ellen, Anne Nightingale, Steve Blacknell

The promo clips included were from an ongoing Video Vote, with a choice of twenty clips, voted for on the phone

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (promo clip)

3.25 Roman Holliday live at the Regal Theatre, Hitchen

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes (promo clip)

4.00 Robert Nesta Marley (Ebony documentary)

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (promo clip)

4.35 Rock Pop In Concert: Ultravox

4.55 Rock Pop In Concert: Robert Palmer

Both the above live at Westfallenhalle, Dortmund, 2nd July 1983

5.25 Australia Now documentary with Men At Work, Midnight Oil, Mental As Anything, Little River Band, Split Enz, Icehouse, No Fixed Address

Madness - Baggy Trousers (promo clip)

6.25 Duran Duran at Hammersmith Odeon

The Jam - Going Underground (promo clip)

7.30 All This And World War Two movie

The Jacksons - Blame It On The Boogie (promo clip)

9.00 10CC live at the Regal Theatre, Hitchen

The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (promo clip)

9.30 Randy Newman On Tour documentary - live in Amsterdam

Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Song Remains The Same clip)

10.25 Spandau Ballet Over Britain documentary

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (promo clip)

11.00 pm American Graffiti movie

12.55 am Airplay 9th June 1982 documentary on New York radio station WNEW-FM

Frank Zappa - City Of Tiny Lites (Baby Snake clip)

1.50 Guitar Heroes: Eric Clapton (1977 Old Grey Whistle Test Jubilee concert)

2.35 Guitar Heroes: Jimi Hendrix The Movie

3.25 Deadman’s Curve (Jan & Dean TV movie biopic)

Adam & The Ants - Antmusic (promo clip)

5.00 The Police In The East

The Clash - This Is Radio Clash (promo clip)

5.55 And So To Bed

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird (Knebworth, 1976)

6.15 am scheduled finish

TVS Genesis In America 11.20 pm - 12.25 am

C4 Hot For Dogs 6.00 - 6.30 pm

John Miles


Sunday 28th August 1983

BBC2 Good Time George 8.30 - 9.00 pm

George Melly & The Feetwarmers

Acker Bilk

C4 Song By Song By Frank Loesser 7.15 - 8.15 pm (repeat)


Monday 29th August 1983 Bank Holiday

BBC1 Hey Look…That’s Me 9.15 - 9.40 pm

A look at new band Laughter In The Garden

BBC1 Knockout Star Gala 6.10 - 7.00 pm

Bucks Fizz

Helen Shapiro

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 7.00 -7.40 pm

Compilation with Culture Club

BBC2 Musical Youth - Musical Roots 6.10 - 6.50 pm (repeat)

Granada Andy Williams In Concert 11.40 pm - 12.40 am

Grampian The Flying Pickets 11.45 pm - 12.15 am shown by various ITV stations at differing times and lengths

C4 Bugsy - The Making Of A Musical 7.00 - 8.00 pm

Michael Dolenz


Tuesday 30th August 1983

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Heaven 17

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Kajagoogoo

Thorn

The Cherry Boys - Falling

Paul Young - Come Back And Stay (Young was stung by a wasp during recording)

Thames Kajagoogoo Special 4.45 - 5.15 pm (repeat)

C4 The Land Of Look Behind 11.15 pm - 12.45 am

Reggae in Jamaica society documentary with Gregory Isaacs, Matabaruka, Bob Marley’s funeral


Wednesday 31st August 1983

BBC1 South East At Six 6.00 - 6.25 pm

Sotheby’s Rock Memorabilia article

BBC2 40 Minutes: Rocky Circus 7.30 - 8.15 pm (repeat)

Gary Glitter

BBC2 Good Time George 10.00 - 10.30 pm

George Melly & The Feetwarmers

Memphis Slim

BBC2 Sing Country 10.30 - 11.00 pm

International Fesrtival of Country Music, Wembley Arena, London

John D Loudermilk

Porter Wagoner

Jimmy C Newman

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Gary Glitter


Thursday 1st September 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.40 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by David Jensen, John Peel (dressed as cowboys)

A live broadcast. Sharron Redd - Taking A Chance On Love is playing in the studio before transmission begins.

Modern Romance - Walking In The Rain

Madness - Wings Of A Dove (promo clip)

Gary Numan - Warriors

European chart with John Peel in Paris - Righeira, Rose Laurens, Ryan Paris - chat, Berdian Stenberg - promo clips

Genesis - Mama (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 22

Big Country - Chance

Chart 21 - 11

The Stray Cats - Sexy and Seventeen (probably pre-recorded the previous week)

Chart 10 - 1

UB40 - Red Red Wine (repeat 25th August 1983) number one

New Order - Confusion (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Frank Sinatra - The Man And His Music 11.15 pm - 12.05 am (repeat)

BBC2 Sing Country 10.30 - 11.00 pm

The Burrito Brothers

Linda Cassady

Billy Walker

Billie Jo Spears

Tompall Glaser & The Glaser Brothers

C4 An Evening For Nicaragua 10.30 - 11.30 pm

Pooksnackenburger

Benjamin Zephania

Charlie Dore


Friday 2nd September 1983

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm (last edition)

The Style Council

Galaxy

Blancmange

JoBoxers

Gary Numan

Grace Jones

Spandau ballet

Brince Charles & The

George Clinton - Atomic Dog (promo clip)

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (promo clip)

Dexys Midnight Runners - (promo clip)

C4 Unforgettable 8.-00 - 8.30 pm

The Allisons

New Vaudeville Band

C4 Jazz on Four 12.15 - 12.55 am

live at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh

Archie Schepp

The Paul Hart Quintet


Saturday 3rd September 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 10.12 pm

Toyah

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 6.15 - 7.00 pm (first in new series)

Theme by Gary Kemp

The Bee Gees

Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.25 - 8.55 pm (first in new series)

Bonnie Tyler

Central The Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm  (first in new series)

Hosted by Tommy Boyd

David Bowie – (promo clip)

Paul Young - (promo clip)

ITV The Who - The Final Concert 10.30 - 11.45 pm

live in Toronto

C4 Video Video 6.00 - 6.30 pm

In the first of a series, regular host Adam Faith looks at the video recorder revolution


Sunday 4th September 1983

BBC1 Olivia Newton-John 3.35 - 4.25 pm (repeat)

ITV Mary O'Hara and Friends 6.40 - 7.15 pm (first in series)

Granada The Flying Pickets 11.00 – 11.45 pm

C4 Song By Songs By British Lyricists 7.15 - 8.15 pm (repeat)


Monday 5th September 1983

BBC2 Riverside 7.05 - 7.35 pm (first in new series)

Paul Weller talks about Respond Records with Tracie, The Questions

The Armoury Show (with Richard Jobson)


Tuesday 6th September 1983

BBC2 The Shout 9.00 - 10.25 pm 1979 movie music by Banks and Rutherford of Genesis

BBC2 Sing Country 10.25 - 10.55 pm

T R Dallas

Rattlesnake Annie

Bill Monroe

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.30 - 9.25 am

Paul Young

Patti Boulaye

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Classix Nouveau - Forever And A Day

Pookiesnackenburger - Pudgy Boy

Central The Oshima Gang 11.35 pm - 12.15 am

The making of Merry Christmas Mister Lawrence with David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto

C4 Loose Talk 10.45 - 11.50 pm (first in new series)

Hosted by Steve Taylor, from the Albany Theatre, Deptford

Bella from The Belle Stars

Carmel


Wednesday 7th September 1983

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Lynsey de Paul

Thames The Morecambe & Wise Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

compilation show with Maggie Moon

C4 Jazz at the Gateway 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

Michael Brecker

The Kenny Wheeler Quartet


Thursday 8th September 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Andy Peebles, Peter Powell

A live broadcast

Heaven 17 - Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry

Rod Stewart - What Am I Gonna Do (promo clip)

Annabel Lamb - Riders On The Storm

Status Quo - Ol’ Rag Blues (repeat)

JoBoxers - Johnny Friendly

Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack - Tonight I Celebrate My Love (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita

Chart 20 - 11

Paul Young - Come Back and Stay

Chart 10 - 1

UB40 - Red Red Wine (promo clip) number one

Level 42 - The Sun Does Down (playout record and audience dancing) the camera concentrates on a member of the audience doing backflips throughout the song

BBC1 Late Night In Concert 11.00 - 11.35 pm (first in new series)

Simple Minds (Newcastle)

BBC2 Sing Country 9.50 - 10.20 pm

Bobby Bare

The Dillards

Roy Acuff

Barbara Fairchild

Narvel Felts


Friday 9th September 1983

C4 Ladybirds 9.15 - 10.00 pm (first edition)

Lynsey De Paul


Saturday 10th September 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 11.00 pm

Glenn Gregory of Heaven 17

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 6.15 - 7.00 pm

There was a near fatal car crash stunt at Santa Pod raceway performed on this week’s show

content unknown

BBC1 Blanket Blank 7.00 - 7.35 pm

Anita Harris

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.25 - 8.55 pm

Big Country

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Gary Numan

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Limahl

Gary Numan

LWT The Krankies Club 5.05 - 5.35 pm

Suzi Quatro

Modern Romance

LWT 25th Anniversary of the Marquee 11.50 pm - 12.50 am

Hosted by Dave Dee

LWT The Ohsima Gang: The Making of Merry Christmas Mister Lawrence 12.50 am - end

David Bowie

TVS Pink Floyd at Pompeii 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

Granada ELO In Concert 12.15 am - 1.20 am


Sunday 11th September 1983

BBC2 Barry at Blenheim 7.15 – 8.00 pm part one

Barry Manilow


Monday 12th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Tom Jones

BBC1 Film 83 11.00 - 11.28 pm

George Harrison interviewed on set of Handmade movie Bullshot

BBC2 Riverside 7.00 - 7.30 pm

APB

The Residents - interview about The Mole Show

Peter Murphy - interview

BBC2 Johnny Mathis 9.25 – 10.20 pm

Johnny Mathis in a tribute to Nat King Cole

Natalie Cole

C4 How To Be Celtic 9.00 - 10.00 pm

Paddy Maloney of The Chieftains


Tuesday 13th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Mel Torme and George Shearing

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Big Country - Chance

Toyah - Rebel run

Thames Entertainment Express 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Jose Feliciano

Lynsey DePaul

C4 Loose Talk 10.55 - 11.50 pm

Howard Jones - New Song

Jeffrey Daniels from Shalamar


Wednesday 14th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Stubby Kaye

BBC1 James Last In Brighton 10.15 - 10.50 pm

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 6.05 - 6.35 pm (first in new series)

Hosted by Robin Denslowe

Panel - Paul Young, Steve Strange, Lynn Goldsmith

C4 Jazz on Four 11.30 pm - 12.15 am

Freddie Hubbard

Pete King Quartet


Thursday 15th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Brendan Shine

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Jimmy Savile, Janice Long

Only three new clips in this weeks' show

Kajagoogoo - Big Apple

Jimmy Savile chats to Boy George

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (promo clip)

Genesis - Mama (promo clip)

David Essex - Tahiti (live vocal)

Big Country - Chance (promo clip)

The Truth - A Step In The Right Direction

Chart 30 - 21

Cliff Richard - Never Say Die (Give A Little Bit More) (promo clip)

Chart 20 - 10

Modern Romance - Walking In The Rain (promo clip)

Chart 8 - 1

UB40 - Red Red Wine (repeat 25th August 1983) number one

Monyaka - Go Deh Yaka (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tommy Steele – This Is Your Lunch 9.25 – 10.00 pm

Variety Club lunch from the Savoy, London

BBC1 Late Night In Concert 10.55 - 11.30 pm

Men at Work live in Ontario

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

BBC2 Sing Country 10.20 - 10.50 pm

Boxcar Willie

Margo Smith

Roy Drusky

Foster and Allen

Terry McMillan


Friday 16th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Gloria Gaynor

BBC2 Open University: James Bond 5.10 - 5.40 pm

Marvin Hamlisch's work on The Spy Who Loved Me

Granada Mike Oldfield 12.45 - 1.15 am

C4 Ladybirds 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Barbara Dickson


Saturday 17th September 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 11.15 am

Nick Beggs and Jez Strode from Kajagoogoo

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 6.20 - 7.05 pm

Kid Crole & The Coconuts

Culture Club

BBC1 Blankety Blank 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Lynsey de Paul

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Sacha Distel

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Toyah

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

The Truth

Big Country (promo clip)

David Essex (promo clip)

LWT The Krankies Club 5.05 - 5.35 pm

Rocky Sharpe & The Replays

Lisa Stansfield

TVS Joe Cocker On Tour 11.15 pm - 12.20 am

LWT Pink Floyd at Pompeii 11.45 pm - 12.45 am

LWT Profiles In Rock: Roger Daltrey 12.45 am - end

Tyne Tees Jam Special 12.25 - 1.00 am


Sunday 18th September 1983

BBC1 The Old Grey Whistle Test 1.55 - 2.25 pm (edited repeat of 6 May 1983)

The Fun Boy Three

BBC2 Barry at Blenheim 7.15 - 8.00 pm part two

Barry Manilow


Monday 19th September 1983

BBC2 Riverside 7.00 - 7.35 pm

The Mystery Girls - live

King Kurt - article

Tom Robinson – interview

Gary Numan – Host Steve Blacknell takes a trip in his plane

ITV Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 (repeat of first show)

Ralph McTell


Tuesday 20th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Gloria Gaynor

BBC1 South East At Six 6.05 - 6.40 pm

Ronnie Lane’s ARMS Group - article and rehearsals

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm (first edition)

Kenny Everett

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Patti Boulaye

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 -12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Endgames - Love cares

Nick Heyward - Blue hat for a blue day

Thames Give Us A Clue 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Hank Marvin

Thames Entertainment Express 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Jack Jones

C4 Loose Talk 10.50 - 11.50 pm

Paul Young


Wednesday 21st September 1983

BBC1 Russell Harty 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Paul Young

BBC1 James Last in Berlin 9.55 - 10.40 pm

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 6.05 - 6.35 pm

Panel - Marc Almond, Annabel Lamb, Julien Temple

ITV The All Electric Amusement Arcade 4.45 - 5.15 pm

drama about the manager of the pop group Electric Arc

C4 Aliey Celebrates Ellington 9.00 - 10.00 pm

introduced by Gladys Knight

A tribute to Duke Ellington by the Alvin Aliey American Dance Centre


Thursday 22nd September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Jade (singer)

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Public Image Limited were scheduled to appear but couldn't make it, so The Alarm were booked to replace them

Hosted by Mike Read, Simon Bates

Howard Jones - New Song (accompanied by dancer, Jed)

David Bowie - Modern Love (promo clip)

Hot Chocolate - Tears On The Telephone

Toyah - Rebel Run (promo clip)

The Alarm - 68 Guns

Nick Heyward - Blue Hat For A Blue Day

Status Quo - Ol’ Rag Blues (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Soft Cell - Soul Inside

Chart 20 - 11

Heaven 17 - Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon number one

Hot Streak - Body Work (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Late Night In Concert 10.30 - 11.23 pm

King Sunny Ade

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

U2

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Billy Jo Spears

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championship 1983 8.00 - 8.30 pm (first of six shows)

Compare: Leee John (Imagination)

Haywood

C4 A Frame With Davis 12.00 - 12.30 am

Steve Davis snooker match

Frankie Vaughan


Friday 23rd September 1983

Yorkshire Donovan In Concert 11.00 pm - 12.00 am

TVS The Flying Pickets 11.45 pm - 12.30 am

C4 Ladybirds 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Bonnie Tyler


Saturday 24th September 1983

BBC1 Get Set For Summer 9.15 - 11.00 am

Cy Curnin (The Fixx)

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 6.15 - 7.05 pm

Leo Sayer helps to break the record for the quickest journey from Paris to London

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.25 - 8.55 pm

The Style Council - Harvest For The World

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Perfect Stranger

LWT The Krankies Club 5.05 - 5.25 pm

The Rockin’ Berries

Johnny Logan

LWT Punchlines 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Pearly Gates

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight 12.05 - 1.00 am

content unknown

LWT Presenting Price 12.35 am - end

Alan Price in concert in Newcastle

Granada The Ventures In Concert 1.00 - 1.30 am

C4 Four Track Live 10.00 pm - 2.00 am

Hosted by Richard Digence, Steve Strange

All acts do a thirty minute set, live from Shepton Mallett Festival

Big Country

Strawbs

The Belle Stars

Sally Oldfield

UB40

David Essex


Sunday 25th September 1983

BBC1 Raccoons On Ice 1.55 - 2.20 pm (repeat)

the voices of Leo Sayer and Rita Coolidge

BBC1 The Good Old Days 8.55 - 9.50 pm

Anita Harris


Monday 26th September 1983

BBC2 Riverside 7.00 - 7.35 pm

Eddie & Sunshine

John Foxx

Mick Karn and Midge Ure


Tuesday 27th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Kajagoogoo

BBC1 Russell Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Wham!

BBC1 Roger Whittaker In Kenya 10.40 – 11.35 pm

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 -12.30 pm

Mark Wynter tells a story

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

The Lotus Eaters - You Don't Need Someone New

The Truth - A Step In The Right Direction

Thames Entertainment Express 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Patti Boulaye

Wall Street Crash

C4 Loose Talk 10.45 - 11.40 pm

A Certain Ratio and Tony Wilson - talk about the band's use of Nazi imagery


Wednesday 28th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Clarence 'Frogman' Henry

BBC1 Harty 6.50 - 7.25 pm

Buck Fizz

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 6.-5 - 6.40 pm

Panel - Mark Knopfler, Limahl, John Ryle, Jake Burns

BBC2 Peter Paul & Mary 7.40 - 8.20 pm

Live at the Southport Theatre

Thames The Morecambe and Wise Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Stutz Bear Cats

TSW / Channel Harvest Jazz at Paul Massan 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

Flor Purim and Airto


Thursday 29th September 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Dave Lee Travis, Tommy Vance

Black Lace - Superman (live vocal)

David Essex - Tahiti (promo clip)

Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know

Travis chats to new Radio One DJ Mark Hayes

George Benson - In Your Eyes (promo clip)

Monyaka - Go Deh Yaka (Go To The Top) (promo clip)

Kajagoogoo - Big Apple

USA chart with Jonathan King in Hollywood - Naked Eyes, Air Supply, Men Without Hats, Billy Joel - promo clips

Chart 30 - 21

Unique - What I Got Is What You Need (Zoo)

Chart 20 - 11

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence

Chart 10 - 1

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (promo clip) number one

Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love Song (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Late Night In Concert 10.40 - 11.15 pm

Stevie Nicks (Wilshire Theatre, Los Angeles)

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

content unknown

TSW Portrait Of A Legend: Merle Haggard 12.00 - 12.25 am

HTV Profiles In Rock: Earth Wind and Fire 12.00 - 12.30 am

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championship 1983 8.00 - 8.30 pm

C4 The Entertainers 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Chris Rea

Roman Holliday


Friday 30th September 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.05 - 5.40 pm

Gary Numan

Dreams

BBC1 International Battle Of The Pop Bands 6.45 - 7.20 pm

Hosted by Dave Jensen

Judges: Robin Gibb, Kim Wilde, Carlene Carter, Tony Visconti, Paul Gambaccini

Bands from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Holland, Finland

UK entry: The Sugar Ray Five


Saturday 1st October 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.12 pm (first in new series)

Kajagoogoo

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 6.15 - 7.00 pm

Agnetha

Meat Loaf

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.25 - 8.55 pm

Roman Holliday

BBC2 Tony Sings and Buddy Swings 10.35 - 11.25 pm (repeat)

Tony Bennet and Buddy Rich

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 pm

The Truth

Fab Five Freddy

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Cutting Edge

LWT The Krankies Club 5.05 - 5.35 pm

Modern Romance

Pookiesnackenburger

LWT Punchlines 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Bernie Flint

LWT The Boomtown Rats 1.00 am - end

Live at Hammersmith Odeon

C4 For 4 Tonight 11.00 - 11.30 pm (first in series)

Directed by Michael Dolenz


Sunday 2nd October 1983

BBC1 The Good Old Days 8.55 - 9.50 pm

Vince Hill

Mary O'Hara


Monday 3rd October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Bucks Fizz

BBC2 Daytime On Two: The Making Of The Kenny Everett Television Show 11.42 am - 12.10 pm

BBC2 Riverside 7.05 - 7.35 pm

Steve Jansen article about trip to Japan with Riurychi Sakamoto, Ippu Do

Nick Heyward


Tuesday 4th October 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.25 - 11.50 pm

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Bobby Goldsboro

The Bellamy Brothers

TVAM Through The Keyhole 7.55 - 8.05 am

Billy J Kramer

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Ralph McTell - Zoo, Zoo, Zoo

Roman Holliday - Motor mania

Thames Entertainment Express 8.00 - 9.00 pm

The Platters

C4 Loose Talk 10.55 - 11.55 pm

Steve Walsh

Thereze Bazar


Wednesday 5th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Shorty Rogers

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 5.40 - 6.20 pm

Panel - Mel Smith, Leee John, Richard Strange

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 pm

Ian Gillan


Thursday 6th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

documentary about Barry Manilow at Blenheim Palace

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Dave Jensen, John Peel (dressed as Roman soldiers)

Freeez - Pop Goes My Love

David Bowie - Modern Love (promo clip)

Depeche Mode - Love In Itself

Meat Loaf - Midnight At The Lost & Found (promo clip)

Nick Heyward - Blue Hat For A Blue Day

Howard Jones - New Song (promo clip)

David Grant - Love Will Find A Way

Chart 30 - 19

The Alarm - 68 Guns

Chart 18 - 10

New Order - Blue Monday (edited repeat 31st March 1983)

Chart 9 - 1

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (repeat 22nd September 1983) number one

The Rocksteady Crew - (Hey You) The Rocksteady Crew (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Late Night In Concert: Thomas Dolby 11.25 pm - 12.00 am

Live at Riverside Studio

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

Duran Duran

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championship 1983 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Leee John


Friday 7th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Richard Carpenter

BBC1 Crackerjack 4.50 - 5.40 pm

Big Country - Chance

Nick Heyward - Blue Hat for a Blue Day

BBC1 Show Business 6.50 - 7.15 pm (first edition)

Hosted by Mike Smith, Sally James, Richard Skinner

C4 Ladybirds 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Bertice Reading


Saturday 8th October 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.12 pm

Leo Sayer

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 6.15 - 7.00 pm

Kenny Rogers via satellite

Bucks Fizz - London Town

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.15 - 8.55 pm

Junior

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 8.40 am

Richard Carpenter

Billy Joel

Brian Poole

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Nick Heywood

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Kajagoogoo

LWT The Krankies Club 5.05 - 5.35 pm

Linda Lewis

Roman Holliday

TSW Songmakers 6.00 - 6.30 pm

content unknown

LWT Thin Lizzy 1.00 am - end


Monday 10th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

The Spinners

BBC2 Riverside 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Paul Haig

New Order interviewed at the Hacienda

Bill Nelson - interview

BBC2 Photo-Assignment Extra 11.35 - 11.50 pm

Dave Lee Travis' photos of The Maddy Prior Band


Tuesday 11th October 1983

BBC1 Russell Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Sheena Easton

BBC1 Olivia Newton-John 11.05 pm - 12.05 am (repeat)

Live in Utah

BBC2 Photo Assignment 7.15 - 7.55 pm

Dave Lee Travis' photos of Kim Wilde

BBC2 Photo-Assignment Extra 11.50 pm - 12.15 am

Dave Lee Travis' photos of The Maddy Prior Band

TVAM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Sheena Easton

David Essex

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

The Belle Stars - The Entertainer

Cruella De Ville - Gypsy Girl

Grampian Corries and Other Folk 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Thames Entertainment Express 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Billy Jo Spears

Max Bygraves

C4 Loose Talk 10.50 - 11.15 pm

Pete Townshend


Wednesday 12th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Adam Faith

Elaine Delmar

BBC1 Russell Harty 7.55 - 8.25 pm

Boy George

BBC1 Bob Hope Royal Gala 9.25 - 10.43 pm

Roy Budd

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 5.55 - 6.30 pm

Panel: Simon Napier-Bell

BBC1 Photo Assignment 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Dave Lee Travis takes photos of The Maddy Prior Band

BBC2 Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames 9.30 - 10.00 pm

live at the Questors Theatre, London

BBC1 Photo Assignment Extra 11.50 pm - 12.05 am

Dave Lee Travis takes photos of The Maddy Prior Band

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

David Essex

ITV Play It Again 12.30 - 1.00 pm

Frankie Vaughan


Thursday 13th October 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Peter Powell, Richard Skinner

Roman Holliday - Motormania

Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know (promo clip)

Black Lace - Superman (Gioca Jouer)

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence (promo clip)

George Benson - In Your Eyes (promo clip)

Bucks Fizz - London Town

Chart 30 - 21

Lydia Murdock - Superstar (Billie Jean)

Chart 20 - 11

Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night) (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (promo clip) number one

Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - Say Say Say (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Late Night In Concert 11.24 - 11.55 pm

King Crimson (Frejus, France 1982)

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Spandau Ballet

BBC1 Photo Assignment Extra 11.40 - 11.55 pm

Dave Lee Travis takes photos of The Maddy Prior Band

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championship 1983 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Leee John


Friday 14th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Helen Shapiro

Paula Ann Bland

BBC1 Crackerjack 4.50 - 5.35 pm

Junior

Kajagoogoo

BBC1 Show Business 6.50 - 7.15 pm

The Bee Gees interview

Tracey Ullman (as a singer)

C4 Ladybirds 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Jane Birkin


Saturday 15th October 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.15 pm

Boy George – interview

Musical Youth

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.35 pm

Adam Ant

Randy Crawford

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Jazz in the Camden Palace

Edwina Lawrie

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT The Krankies Club 5.05 - 5.35 pm

Mari Wilson

LWT Punchlines 7.30 - 6.00 pm

Joe Brown

LWT Murray Head at Olympia 1.15 am - end

live in Paris

TVS The Roots Of Rock N Roll 11.30 pm 12.30 am

compilation

TSW / Channel Osibisa In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight: Presenting Price 11.30 pm - 1.00 am

Alan Price at the Newcastle City Hall with guest Eric Burden


Sunday 16th October 1983

TSW Songmakers 6.00 - 6.30 pm

content unknown

Yorkshire Harvest Jazz 12.05 - 12.35 am

content unknown


Monday 17th October 1983

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.05 pm

Brian Eno

Jane

Billie McKenzie

Steveo (of Some Bizarre Records)

Marilyn


Tuesday 18th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Cilla Black interview

(possibly) Rick Wakeman - interview, Elgin Mansions

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

John Denver

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Jonathan King

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Naked Eyes - Voices

Passion Puppets - Promises, promises

Thames Entertainment Express 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Gloria Gaynor

The Bachelors

C4 Loose Talk 11.10 pm - 12.05 am

Tom Waits talks to Ian Hislop


Wednesday 19th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Brenda Lee

Sky

BBC1 Russell Harty 6.50 - 7.25 pm

David Essex

BBC1 Late Night In Concert 11.35 pm - 12.05 am

Steve Miller (Pine Knob, Michegan)

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 6.05 - 6.35 pm

Panel - Mari Wilson, Ian Dury, Andy Summers

BBC2 Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames 9.30 - 9.55 pm

live at Questeros Theatre, London

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

The Nolans

Thames Name That Tune 7.00 - 7.30 pm (first in new series)

Resident singer: Maggie Moon


Thursday 20th October 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Andy Peebles, Janice Long

David Grant - Love Will Find A Way

The Rocksteady Crew - (Hey You) The Rocksteady Crew (promo clip)

Howard Jones - New Song (with Jed)

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip)

Gary Numan - Sister Surprise

Freeez - Pop Goes My Love

Elton John - Kiss The Bride (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Depeche Mode - Love In Itself

Chart 20 - 11

Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (repeat 22nd September 1983) number one

Meat Loaf – Midnight At The Lost and Found (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

The Thompson Twins

BBC2 Simply Simon (repeat 27 December 1975)

Paul Simon special

Anglia Country Music Festival 7.00 - 7.30 pm

content unknown

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championship 1983 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Leee John

C4 The Entertainers 8.30 - 9.00 pm

The Dialtones


Friday 21st October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Leo Sayer

BBC1 Crackerjack 4.50 - 5.35 pm

Haircut 100 - So Tired

BBC1 Show Business 6.45 - 7.15 pm

content unknown

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm (made by Central)

Hosted by Mikey Dread from the Trinity Hall, Bristol

Black Roots

Talisman

Rainbow Steel Band


Saturday 22nd October 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.15 pm

Adam Ant

Nick Heyward

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.40 pm

Duran Duran

Phil Collins

BBC1 Blankety Blank 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Joe Brown, Lynsey de Paul

BBC1 Carrott’s Lib 10.35 - 11.15 pm

The Animals

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Depeche Mode

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

TVS DJ 5.35 - 6.00 pm (first in new series)

Hosted by Dave Jensen

TSW / Channel Tina Turner 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

TVS The Roots Of Rock N Roll 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight 11.35 am - 1.00 am

content unknown

Granada Jerry Lee Lewis Live In London 12.15 - 1.15 am

LWT Black Sabbath 1.05 am - end

Live at Hammersmith Odeon


Sunday 23rd October 1983

BBC1 Top Secret 5.20 - 6.00 pm

Lynsey de Paul

BBC1 Omnibus: Profile of Roger Daltrey 9.55 - 10.45 pm

TSW Songmakers 6.00 - 6.30 pm

content unnown


Monday 24th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

The Revillos

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.00 pm

Phillip Glass

The Glove (Robert Smith and Budgie)


Tuesday 25th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Andy Williams - interview

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 -12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Musical Youth compete against their old school, Duddeston Manor plus Never Gonna Give You Up

Pookiesnackenburger - Pudgy boy

Paul Young - Come Back And Stay

C4 Loose Talk 10.40 - 11.35 pm

Tom Robinson, Simon Napier-Bell


Wednesday 26th October 1983

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

The Three Degrees

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 5.40 - 6.10 pm

Panel - Tom Robinson, Rick Butler, Suzi Quatro

Thames A Plus 1.30 - 2.00 pm

The Hank Wangford Band

TSW Jazz at Paul Masson 11.35 pm - 12.10 am


Thursday 27th October 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Dave Lee Travis, Tony Blackburn

King Kurt - Destination Zululand (introduced by Tony Blackburn as King Curtis)

Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night) (promo clip)

Musical Youth - 007

Olivia Newton-John chats to Dave Lee Travis

Duran Duran - Union Of The Snake (promo clip)

The Cure - The Love Cats

Will Powers - Kissing With Confidence (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Adam Ant - Puss N Boots

Chart 20 - 11

UB40 - Please Don't Make Me Cry

Chart 10 - 1

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (promo clip) number one

Shalamar - Over and Over (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

content unknown

Anglia Country Music Festival 7.00 - 7.30 pm

content unknown

Yorkshire Osibisa In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championship 1983 8.00 - 8.30 pm


Friday 28th October 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

Natasha - I Want You To Be My Baby

Cutting Edge - Lonesome Cowboy

BBC1 Show Business 6.40 - 7/05 pm

content unknown

BBC1 My Kind Of Music 10.15 - 10.45 pm

Lulu

Shakin’ Stevens

Granada Harvest Jazz Festival 12.50 - 1.20 am

content unknown

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm (first in second series)

French and Saunders in the pub and throughout the programme

Hosted by Jools Holland, Leslie Ash (covering for Paula Yates who was on maternity leave)

Billy Bragg - New England (live)

Peter Adamson as the barman in the pub

Paul Young & The Family - Love Will Tear Us Apart, Sex, Love of the Common People (live clips repeat)

The Eurythmics - interviewed by Leslie Ash

Mick Jagger - interviewed by Jools Holland (preview clip)

Tina Turner - Cat People, River Deep Mountain High, & Heaven 17 - Let’s Stay Together

The Police - Synchronicity II (promo clip) It was supposed to be an exclusive, but it had been shown by TVAM earlier in the day

Swans Way - Soul Train (Tube film)

Pete Frame - interviewed by Muriel Grey about Rock Family Trees volume two

The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (promo clip)

Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love Song, Anarchy In the UK, Flowers Of Romance (pre-recorded live set) Lydon - "I'm John, I've got flu"

Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - Say Say Say (promo clip)

Mark Miwurdz on the phone from Deptford

Cips of upcoming acts - Wham, Ringo Starr/ Marc Bolan, Z Z Top, report on Hull, Stevie Wonder, Fats Waller, Eddy Grant

The Eurythmics - First Cut, Here Comes The Rain Again, Right By Your Side (live)

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Cool Running

Restriction

Rainbow Steel Band


Saturday 29th October 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.15 pm

Llmahl

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.35 pm

Madness - The Sunday and the Rain, Honda City advert

Paul & Linda McCartney - interview, Say Say Say (promo clip) The promo clip arrived too late for Top Of The Pops to show it as the record had started going down the chart when it arrived. Paul and Linda were then invited onto this show as consolation. The two of them were not happy as can be seen.

Olivia Newton-John

BBC2 The Beggars Opera 8.00 - 10.15 pm

Roger Daltrey as MacHeath

TVAM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Elvis Costello in Glasgow

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Cliff Richard talks about his favourite films

Gary Numan on tour

TVS DJ 5.35 - 6.00 pm

content unknown

LWT Punchlines 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Joe Brown

TVS The Roots Of Rock N Roll 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

content unknown

TSW No Nukes Festival 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

content unknown

Granada The Boomtown Rats 12.10 - 1.10 am

LWT John Watts 1.00 am – end

on his European tour


Sunday 30th October 1983

BBC2 Did You See…? 8.45 - 9.30 pm

David Essex on review panel


Monday 31st October 1983

BBC1 Film ‘83 10.55 - 11.23 pm

Location report on Kenny Everett’s film ‘Bloodbath at the House of Death’

BBC2 Riverside 7.00 -7.35 pm

The Specimen at the Bat Cave Club

Danielle Dax


Tuesday 1st November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Cliff Richard interview

BBC1 Russell Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Robin Gibb

BBC2 Rock School 6.40 - 7.05 pm (first edition)

Guitar - Deidre Cartwright

Drums - Geoff Nicholls

Bass - Henry Thomas

The Bass with John Taylor of Duran Duran, John Entwistle

BBC2 Barclay James Harvest 7.05 - 7.40 pm (repeat)

Live in Berlin

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.55 pm

Eurythmics - Right By Your Side

Adam Ant - Puss In Boots

Melanie - Every Breath Of The Way

Thames Des O’Connor Tonight 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Tom Jones

Border ABBA 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

C4 Loose Talk 10.55 - 11.55 pm

The The - This Is The Day


Wednesday 2nd November 1983

BBC1 One Night In Lincoln  11.00 - 11.28 pm (repeat)

Mike Harding

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 5.40 - 6.10 pm

Panel - Toyah, Martin Fry, John Peel

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm (first in second series)

from San Francisco

David Bowie - interview

Bo Diddley - interview and stops King from filming him in concert

Jimi Hendrix Foundation article

BBC2 Karen Kay 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Hank Marvin

The Barron Knights


Thursday 3rd November 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Peter Powell, Mike Read

A live broadcast

ABC - That Was Then But This Is Now

Donna Summer & Musical Youth - Unconditional Love (promo clip)

Elton John - Kiss The Bride (and Zoo)

Peter Powell says happy birthday to one of the cameramen

The Police - Synchronicity II (promo clip)

USA chart with Jonathan King - Stevie Nicks, Quiet Riot, Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson, The Fixx - promo clips, Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton (US TV clip)

Mike Read teaches Peter Powell the Status Quo chord on a guitar

Status Quo - A Mess Of The Blues

Chart 30 - 21

Madness - The Sun and The Rain (promo clip)

Chart 20 - 11

Shakin’ Stevens - Cry Just A Little Bit

Chart 10 - 1

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip) number one

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

content unknown

BBC2 Ebony 10.25 - 10.55 pm (first in new series)

Eek-a-Mouse

Anglia Country Music Festival 7.00 - 7.30 pm

content unknown

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championships 8.00 - 9.00 pm

semi finals

Leee John

C4 Movemental 9.05 - 9.30 pm

Tiger

Invader

Gard Bird

The Dread-Ites

C4 Ian Dury 11.45 pm - 12.40 am

Documentary


Friday 4th November 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

Modern Romance

David Joseph

BBC1 Show Business 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tommy Steele

BBC1 My Kind Of Music 10.15 - 10.45 pm

Moira Anderson with Tony Hatch and his orchestra

Granada Harvest Jazz Festival 12.50 - 1.15 am

content unknown

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 6.45 pm

First anniversary show. Leslie Ash was in hospital so was missing.

Jools Holland introduction

Tony Fletcher (editor of Jamming fanzine) becomes co-host

The Equals - Stand Up And Be Counted (promo clip), Eddy Grant - War Party (promo clip)

Kitchenware Records article with The Kane Gang - Small Town Creed (Tube film), Hurrah - Around and Around (Tube film), The Daintees - Crocodile Cryer (Tube film), Pre Fab Sprout - Don't Sing (Tube film)

Rough Trade Records article with Geoff Travis interview, The Smiths - This Charming Man (Tube film at B2 Gallery, Wapping, London)

French and Saunders in the pub

Tracie - Give It Some Emotion (promo clip), chat with Jools, her top ten videos (Spandau Ballet, The Jacksons, The Style Council, Madness, Godley & Creme, Meat Loaf, Aretha Franklin, Pete Townshend, West Side Story, The Weather Girls promo clips)

Jools Holland - Crazy Over You (Tube film with French & Saunders)

Elvis Costello - interviewed by Tony Fletcher, Joe Loss with Declan McManus (NME Pollwinners clip)

SPK - Metal Dance (live with a part of the stage on fire)

Jonathan Perkins - Silver Spur, ? (live)

Eddy Grant - Till I Can't Take Love No More (live vocal over the record)

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Shipbuilding, Everyday I Write The Book, Clubland, Clown Time, TKO (Boxing Day) (live) the final song was unbroadcast

C4 Paul Hogan’s England 9.05 - 10.05 pm

Bucks Fizz

Dexy’s Midnight Runners


Saturday 5th November 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.15 pm

Eddy Grant

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.35 pm

Elton John

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

UB40

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

Granada Pop Goes Guy Fawlkes 11.05 - 11.55 pm

Hosted by Gary Byrd from Alton Towers

Dave Edmunds

Culture Club

Spandau Balley

Roman Holliday

Carmel

LWT No Nukes Festival 12.50 am - end

live in Holland

Bad Manners

Steel Pulse


Sunday 6th November 1983

Granada Pop Goes Guy Fawlkes 4.30 - 5.00 pm and various times around the ITV network - thirty minute edited version of 5th November 1983


Monday 7th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Dean Friedman

BBC2 Riverside 7.05 - 7.35 pm

Compilation show - Big Country, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Hasi Fantasi, Virginia Astley, Trevor Horn, The Smiths

BBC2 Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In 8.00 - 8.30 pm (repeat)

Sammy Davis Jr

C4 Grove Music 11.45 pm - 12.45 am

music from Ladbroke Grove, London


Tuesday 8th November 1983

BBC1 Sixty Minutes 5.40 - 6.40 pm

Mick Jagger interview

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

ABC

BBC2 Rock School 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Deirdre Cartwright (guitar), Geoff Nicholls (drums) and Henry Thomas (bass)

Guitar strings and drum heads - with Wilko Johnson, Neil Murray, Bootsy Collins, Bernard Edwards, Iain Paice, Carl Palmer, Sly Dunbar

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

The Walkers - Whatever Happened To The Party Groove

Kim Wilde - Dancing In The Dark

Blancmange - That’s Love That Is

Will Powers - interview

Bruce Foxton - interview

Thames Des O’Connor Tonight 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Elaine Paige

C4 Loose Talk 10.50 - 11.50 pm

The Joeys

Tom Robinson

JoBoxers


Wednesday 9th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Buddy Greco

BBC2 Harty 7.05 - 7.35 pm

The Belle Stars

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from New York

The Police - interview and live at Shea Stadium

Twiggy, Anthony Newley

MTV

TSW / Channel Peter Sarstedt 11.35 pm - 12.15 am

C4 Shampw 11.05 - 11.55 pm

Film made by band Bando


Thursday 10th November 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by John Peel, Dave Jensen (dressed as Robin Hood's merry men)

Musical Youth - 007

Adam Ant - Puss N Boots (promo clip)

Marilyn - Calling Your Name

The Eurythmics - Right By Your Side

Chart 30 - 20

Limahl - Only For Love

Chart 19 - 10

The Cure - The Love Cats

Chart 9 - 1 (the 'ten top video show')

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip) number one

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Strike Up The Band 11.15 - 11.45 pm

The Syd Lawrence Orchestra with Matt Monro, Tina Cross

anglia Cambridge Folk Festival 7.10 - 7.40 pm

content unknown

Central Magic Micro Mission (not listed in newspapers)

Synthesizer article with Francis Monkman

Tyne Tees Mixdown 10.32 - 11.00 pm (first in series)

The show presents more MOR/Easy artists

Hosted by Paul Burnett

News items by Brian Matthew

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championships 8.00 - 9.00 pm

The final

Imagination


Friday 11th November 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

The Thompson Twins

Jimmy The Hoover

BBC1 Show Business 6.55 - 7.20 pm

George Michael

Modern Romance

BBC1 My Kind Of Music 10.15 - 10.45 pm

Anne Lorne Gilles

Alan Price

BBC2 The Innes Book of Records 10.30 - 11.00 pm (repeat)

Neil Innes

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 pm

Georgie Fame

Frankie Vaughan

Central Auf Weidersehen Pet 9.00 - 10.00 pm (first in series)

Theme by Joe Fagin - That's Livin' Alright

Features Gary Holton from the Heavy Metal Kids

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Dr John was due to be on but cancelled

Jools Holland and Leslie Ash introduction

Muriel Grey talks about Just Seventeen magazine

Mark Miwurdz

Jools talks to old gents in a pub about Just Seventeen magazine

Ray Davies - interviewed By Leslie and Jools upstairs at the pub looking at the Don't Forget To Dance promo clip, Gotta Move (Shindig), Waterloo Sunset (Beat Club)

Gerry Anderson interviewed by Jools about Terrahawks and goes backstage, Kate Kestrel - SOS

Mark Miwurdz

The Assembly - Never Never (live)

Jools at the piano in the foyer explaining that Dr John couldn't be here

MTV sting animations

The Fixx - Running, One Thing Leads To Another (live)

The Toy Dolls (repeat clip from first show)

The Rolling Stones - Under Cover (edited version of promo clip with Muriel Gray looking away during a shooting scene in mock horror, but they later show the shooting in slow motion)

Mick Jagger and Julien Temple - interview in London studio about the clip

Carmel - Willow Weep For Me (live)

Wham! - Young Guns (Go For It) (film used in the stage show), interviewed by Tony Fletcher, Wham Rap (promo clip)

The Call - The Walls Came Down, ?, Back From The Front (live) the final song was not broadcast

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Denym

Gerant Jarman


Saturday 12th November 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 pm -12.15 pm (including the Lord Mayor's Show)

JoBoxers

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.40 pm

Status Quo

BBC1 Blankety Blank 6.40 - 7.15 pm

Cilla Black

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Chas and Dave

TVS DJ 5.35 - 6.00 pm

Tracie

LWT Punchlines 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Joe Brown

TVS Profiles In Rock: Supertramp 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight 11.45 pm - 1.10 am

content unknown


Sunday 13th November 1983

BBC1 Top Secret 5.20 - 6.00 pm

Lynsey de Paul

LWT The Royal Variety Show 7.15 - 10.00 pm

The Rock Steady Crew


Monday 13th November 1983

BBC2 Sussex Folk Plus Jamboree 7.05 - 7.35 pm

hosted by Johnny Silvo

Prelude

Diz Disley

Peter Rowan

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Herb Apert


Tuesday 14th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Boxcar Willie

BBC2 Rock School 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Drums: Carl Palmer

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Limahl - Only For Love

Eddy Grant - Till I Can't Take Love No More

ABC - That Was Then But This Is Now

Thames Des O’Connor 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Sheila Ferguson


Wednesday 16th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Kay Starr

Mike Batt

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.35 pm

Toyah

BBC1 One Night In Lincoln 11.00 - 11.25 pm (repeat)

Mike Harding

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Hawaii

George Benson

BBC2 Karen Kay 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Tony Christie

BBC2 Arena: Eddie Cochran - Three Steps To Heaven 10.00 - 10.50 pm (repeat)

Joe Brown, Sharon Sheely


Thursday 17th November 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Jimmy Savile, Gary Davies

Aztec Camera - Oblivious

Shakin’ Stevens - Cry Just A Little Bit (promo clip)

Double Dutch team from Connecticut chat to Jimmy Savile

Madness - The Sun and The Rain

Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - Say Say Say (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

The Assembly - Never Never

Chart 20 - 11

The Rolling Stones - Undercover Of The Night (edited version of promo)

Chart 10 - 1

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip) number one

Michael Jackson - Thriller (playout record with double Dutch skipping team and end credits)

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.15 - 11.55 pm

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Jerry Reed

BBC2 Ebony 10.20 - 10.50 pm

Winston Reedy

report on the need for a black radio station in London

Tyne Tees Mixdown 10.32 - 11.00 pm

Hosted by Paul Burnett

News items by Brian Matthew

Ulster Music Of Man 11.00 pm - 12.00 am

content unknown

TVS Portrait of a Legend: Stevie Wonder 12.00 - 12.30 am


Friday 18th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Rosemary Clooney

Brook Benton

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

Blue Zoo

Haywoode

BBC1 Show Business 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Ringo Starr - interview

BBC1  My Kind Of Music 10.15 - 10.45 pm

Barbara Dickson

Colin Blunstone

BBC2 Old Grey Whistle Test 11.15 pm - 12. 00 am

Billy Joel - live in 1978

scheduled to be Whistle Test On The Road (first of six shows) The Truth live at Aston University, Birmingham

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Ozzy Osbourne rises out of a coffin

Imagination - New Dimension, State of Love (live)

Jools Holland and Leslie Ash

Wham! arriving at the studio

Ozzy Osbourne (dressed as Dracula standing up in a coffin) - interview by Jools, Bark At The Moon (promo clip)

Ready Steady Go! article with John Platt interviewed by Tony Fletcher, clips of The Beatles, Them, Lulu, chart run down, The Rolling Stones

Yardbirds article with John Platt interviewed by Tony Fletcher, A Heart Full Of Soul (1968 TV clip with Jimmy Page)

Simon Napier-Bell - interviewed by Leslie Ash, Yardbirds (NME Pollwinners clip)

REM - Radio Free Europe, S. Central Rain, Talk About The Passion (live)

Dr John - Such A Night (pre-recorded in Tube studio)

Mark Miwurdz

Wham! - A Ray Of Sunshine, Love Machine (not live) Before Love Machine George Michael requests fans not to buy the new remix single from their old label

Clips of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry movies

Marc Bolan clip - preview of next weeks' show

Jackson Browne - Tender Is The Night (promo clip) Jools claims this was played as money had changed hands

Z Z Top - Under Pressure, Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man, Tube Snake Boogie (live) the final song was not broadcast

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm

from the Asylum, Nottingham

Marcia & The Modettes

Jackie Kenton

Pegasus

Hyson Green’s Realistics

Natural Ites


Saturday 19th November 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.12 pm

Toyah

Status Quo

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.35 pm

content unknown

BBC1 Blankety Blank 6.35 - 7.10 pm

Jonathan King

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 5.25 - 6.05 pm (repeat cancelled)

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

TVS DJ 5.35 - 6.00 pm

content unknown

LWT Punchlines 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Tony Blackburn, Cheryl Baker

TVS The Roots Of Rock and Roll 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

content unknown

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight 11.20 pm - 1.10 am

content unknown

LWT Fela In Concert 1.00 am - end

Fela Ransome Kuti live in Paris


Sunday 20th November 1983

LWT Sunday Sunday 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Marvin Hamlisch

Yorkshire Harvest Jazz 12.20 - 12.45 pm

content unknown


Monday 21st November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Dana

BBC2 Sussex Folk Plus Jamboree 7.05 - 7.45 pm

introduced by Johnny Silvo

Roaring Jelly

The Cat’s Whiskers

English Country Blues Band

Merribell’s Gospel Choir


Tuesday 22nd November 1983

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Debbie Harry

BBC2 Rockschool 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Rhythm and Blues

TVAM Through The Keyhole 7.55 - 8.05 am

Captain Sensible

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Belle Stars - The Entertainer

Tom Robinson - Atmospherics Listen To The Radio (Robinson changes the lyric “Have Another Cigarette” To “Avacado Vignarette”)

Marilyn - Calling Your Name

Toyah Willcox

Musical Youth


Wednesday 23rd November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Ian Dury

BBC1 Harty 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Tracey Ullman (as a singer)

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Denver

Kenny Rogers

BBC2 Karen Kay 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Ronnie Scott

BBC2 Arena: Juke Box Jazz II 11.00 - 11.50 pm

Hosted by George Melly, Slim Gaillard

Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Nat Cole Trio, Louis Armstrong

TVAM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Eartha Kitt


Thursday 24th November 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Simon Bates, Richard Skinner

A Live broadcast

Paul Young - Love Of The Common People

Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together (promo clip)

The Smiths - This Charming Man

The Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now

Marilyn - Calling Your Name

Chart 30 - 21

Simple Minds - Waterfront

Chart 20 - 11

Style Council - A Solid Bond In Your Heart (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip) number one

The Eurythmics - Right By Your Side (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Ebony 10.20 - 10.50 pm

Winston Reedy

Tyne Tees Mixdown 10.32 - 11.00 pm

Hosted by Paul Burnett

News items by Brian Matthew

Yorkshire John Miles In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.30 am


Friday 25th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Alvin Stardust

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

Limahl - Only For Love

Chas & Dave - My Melancholy Baby

BBC1 Children In Need 6.55 pm - 1.15 am (with other shows included throughout the evening)

Kenny Everett

BBC1 (Scotland) Double Bill 9.40 - 10.10 pm

Billy Jo Spears

BBC1 James Last Plays The Beatles 11.05 - 11.55 pm

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 11.40 pm - end

Introduced by Mark Ellen

Level 42 live at The Ace, Brixton

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Kid Creole was scheduled to appear

French and Saunders intro and throughout the show as the two fans

Jools Holland and Leslie Ash

The Style Council - Solid Bond (promo clip)

Gary Crowley interviewed by Leslie Ash

The Who – A Whole Scene Going 1966 clip, Substitute (promo clip), Pictures Of Lily (Beat Club)

Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher (film clip) included as Kid Creole was meant to be on the show

Tom Tom Club - Pleasure Of Love (promo clip)

Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul 1968 TV clip as shown previous week

Paul Young - interviewed by Leslie Ash, Love Of The Common People (promo clip nightclub version)

Einstürzende Neubauten - film clip

John Peel talks about Marc Bolan to Gary James

Marc Bolan - film article with Ringo Starr, Tony Visconti and previously unseen home movie footage

Mickey Finn talks about Marc Bolan to Gary James

The Fall - introduced by John Peel, Smile, ? (live)

The Europeans - American People, Innocence, Tunnel Vision (live) singer sets off a fire extinguisher on stage

The Pretenders - clip from The US Festival

The Style Council - Ever Changing Mood, Head Start For Happiness, Hangin’ On A Memory (live) the set continues after the live transmission has finished

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm

From Huddersfield

Progression All Stars

Karen Williamson

Jab Jab

Brasilia


Saturday 26th November 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.12 pm

Limahl

David Grant

The Flying Pickets

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.35 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat from yesterday)

BBC2 Rhythm On Two: Peter Paul & Mary 9.45 - 10.15 pm

part two of a concert from the Southport Theatre

Central Saturday Show

Toyah

TVS DJ

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Monday 28th November 1983

BBC2 Sussex Folk - Plus Jamboree 7.05 - 7.35 pm

Albion Band, Christy Moore

BBC2 The Bob Monkhouse Show 8.30 - 9.25 pm

Kenny Everett


Tuesday 29th November 1983

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Randy Edelman

BBC2 Rock School 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Heavy Metal - Clips of Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Jimi Hendrix

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Guest host Nick Beggs (Kajagoogoo)

The Assembly - Never Never

Howard Jones - What Is Love

Toyah - The Vow

Vikki Benson - Easy Love

Thames Des O’Connor

Chas and Dave


Wednesday 30th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Jethro Tull - Fly By Night, interview

Chris Barber

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Los Angeles

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Thames Up The Elephant And Round The Castle 8.30 - 9.00 pm (first episode)

Sit-com with a theme by Keith Emerson


Thursday 1st December 1983

BBC1 Blue Peter 5.10 - 5.40 pm

Shakin' Stevens

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Dave Lee Travis, Steve Wright

Slade - My Oh My

Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Islands In The Stream (USA TV clip)

The Flying Pickets - Only You

Genesis - That’s All (promo clip)

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon

Radio Times covers presentation

Cliff Richard - Please Don't Fall In Love (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Tracey Ullman - Move Over Darling (promo clip)

Chart 20 - 11

Aztec Camera - Oblivious

Chart 10 - 1

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip, end credits and audience dancing) number one

BBC2 Ebony 10.20 - 10.50 pm

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ITV Little Girls Don't 2.30 - 3.30 pm (repeat)

play with Toyah Willcox

Yorkshire Nazareth Live 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

TVS Portrait of a Legend: Olivia Newton-John 12.00 - 12.30 am

Tyne Tees Mixdown 10.32 - 11.00 pm

Hosted by Paul Burnett

News items by Brian Matthew


Friday 2nd December 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

Lynsey de Paul & Neil Adams

Kim Wilde

The Look

BBC1 Show Business 6.55 - 7.20 pm

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BBC1 The Chieftains Image Of Ireland 10.45 - 11.20 pm

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 11.35 pm - 12.20 am

Introduced by David Hepworth

Tom Robinson and the Crew at Goldiggers, Chippenham

TSW / Channel Thank God It's Friday 10.35 pm - 12.10 am 1979 movie with Donna Summer, The Commodores etc

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Culture Club - Victims (promo clip)

Boy George - phone call from London with Jools

Hull article with Jools Holland - The Red Guitars - Good Technology (Tube film), Indians In Moscow - Naughty Miranda (Tube film), Luddites - Doppleganger (Tube film), John Bentley (ex-Squeeze) chats with Jools, Swift Nick (poet), International Rescue - This Town (live in The Spider Club)

Muriel Grey talks about Boystown / Hi-NRG chart Miquel Brown - So Many Men (promo clip), Divine chat with Muriel Grey (pre-recorded during rehearsal)

Divine - Shake It Up

Mark Miwurdz

The Icicle Works - Chop The Tree, Wonderful Colours (live) During rehearsals Chrissie Hynde asked the band if they would support The Pretenders on an American tour

Fats Waller - Your Feet's Too Big (silent film of women exercising)

Dress designers Peter Leathers and Michelle Hogard who had made Leslie's dress

Muriel Grey talks about The Tube Late Night Extra later tonight Michael Jackson - Thriller

David Bowie - Watch That Man, Queen Bitch (Ziggy Stardust concert movie), David Bowie - chat with Jools about the show

Simple Minds - Waterfront (promo clip)

The Pretenders - 2000 Miles, Middle of The Road, ?, I Hurt You (live) the final song was not broadcast

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Mikey Dread at Highfiled in Leicester

Oneness

Eastern Vibration

C4 What The Censor Saw: Carnal Knowledge 11.20 pm - 1.05 am 1969 movie with Art Garfunkel

C4 The Tube: Late Night Extra: Michael Jackson’s Thriller 1.05 am - close

Channel 4 couldn't begin showing it until MTV in the USA had finished. Later on a Tyne Tees editor reversed the transformation scene making it look as though he was going from a werewolf to Jackson, leading to the girl screaming.


Saturday 3rd December 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.12 pm

BA Robertson

Bucks Fizz

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 5.35 pm

Elton John - Cold As Christmas and interview

BBC1 Blankety Blank 6.35 - 7.10 pm

Kenny Everett, Cleo Laine

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 5.30 - 6.10 pm (repeat)

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 pm

The Eurythmics

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

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Yorkshire 3-2-1 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Frankie Vaughan

LWT The Cannon and Ball Show 7.00 - 7.45 pm

Cliff Richard

Rocky Sharpe & The Replays

LWT Punchlines 7.45 - 8.15 pm

Dana

LWT After Midnight 12.00 - 12.40 am

Marilyn in chat show

LWT Lene Lovich 12.40 am - end

Live in Canada

TVS The Roots of Rock N Roll 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

The Doobie Brothers

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight 11.20 pm - 1.10 am

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Sunday 4th December 1983

LWT Sunday Sunday 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Bucks Fizz


Monday 5th December 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Modern Romance

BBC2 Sussex Folk - Plus Jamboree 7.05 - 7.35 pm

Renaissance

BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In 8.00 - 8.30 pm (repeat)

Sammy Davis Jr

BBC2 The Bob Monkhouse Show 8.30 - 9.25 pm

Rosemary Clooney

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Rick Wakeman

ITV Record Tokens advert with Alan Freeman


Tuesday 6th December 1983

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Duran Duran backstage in Manchester

Videostars 9.25 - 10.50 pm

play about a cable television company written by Howard Schumann

Tim Curry

BBC2 Rock School 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Funk with Larry Graham, Bootsy Collins, Nile Rogers

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Sandie Shaw interview

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Michael Barrymore

Dominic & Julie From Guys n Dolls

Real Life - Send Me An Angel

Peter Schilling - Major Tom

The Pretenders - 2000 Miles

Thames Des O’Connor Tonight 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Brenda Lee


Wednesday 7th December 1983

BBC1 Harty 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Slade

BBC1 One Night In Lincoln 11.10 - 11.40 pm (repeat)

Mike Harding

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Toronto

Boy George

Channel Guensey Jazz Five 10.00 - 10.05 pm

TSW / Channel Harvest Jazz at Paul Masson 12.05 - 12.40 am


Thursday 8th December 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Mike Read, Tommy Vance

The Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now

Billy Joel - Tell Her About It (promo clip)

Paul Young - Love Of The Common People (repeat 24th November 1983)

Tina Turner - Let’s Stay Together (promo clip)

Tears For Fears - The Way You Are

Chart 30 - 21

Howard Jones - What Is Love

Chart 20 - 11

Culture Club - Victims (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

The Flying Pickets - Only You number one

Wham! - Club Fantastic Megamix (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Ebony 10.20 - 10.50 pm

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Ulster Music of Man 11.00 pm - 12.00 am

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Yorkshire Jerry Lee Lewis 11.30 pm - 12.30 am


Friday 9th December 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 - 5.40 pm

Toyah - Wow

David Grant - The Midnight

BBC1 Show Business 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Spandau Ballet in America

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 11.20 pm - 12.10 am

The Smiths at the Assembly Rooms, Derby

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Jools Holland outside in the queue

Leslie Ash in the green room

Gary Holton in Auf Weidersehen Pet clip, interviewed by Leslie Ash

Gary Holton - Looking For The Right Girl (live)

Cucumber Videos article with Green Cross Code advert, Tom Tom Club - Pleasure Of Love (promo clip), Donald Fagan - New Frontier (promo clip), Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton chat to Muriel Grey, Nick Heyward - On A Sunday (promo clip)

Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Really Glad You Came, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, Percy The Poet (live)

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax (Tube film), Relax (promo clip night club version)

Mark Miwurdz

Natural Ites and The Realistics - Picture On The Wall, Nuclear Weapon (live)

Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter (promo clip)

Mick Jagger – interviewed by Jools in a London hotel room, plus Rolling Stones archive clips, Under Cover (heavily edited version of promo clip)

Simple Minds - Waterfront, Upon The Catwalk, Book Of Brilliant Things (live) the live set continued after the live transmission finished

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.30 pm

Recorded at The Dolphin pub in Slough

Mighty Stripes

Rush

Natural Roots


Saturday 10th December 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.12 pm

Elton John

The Police

Slade

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.55 - 6.40 pm

Rod Stewart (via satellite)

BBC1 The Two Ronnies 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Elaine Paige

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 5.35 - 6.15 pm (repeat from yesterday)

TVAM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

The Pretenders filming promo for 2000 Miles

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

The Jets

The Flying Pickets

TVS DJ 5.35 - 6.00 pm

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Yorkshire 3-2-1 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Marion Montgomery

Georgie Fame

LWT Cannon & Ball 7.00 - 7.45 pm

Status Quo - Margeuerita Time, sketch with Cannon and Ball

The Platters

LWT Punchlines 7.45 - 8.15 pm

Joe Brown

TSW Pink Floyd In Pompeii 11.35 pm - 12.45 am

Granada Alexis Korner and Friends in Concert 12.30 - 1.25 am

LWT Randy Edelman in London 1.15 - 1.45 pm

TVS Women In Rock

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Sunday 11th December 1983

LWT Freeze Frame 11.30 am - 12.00 pm

Culture Club


Monday 12th December 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Duran Duran

BBC1 International Pro-Celebrity Golf 2.00 - 3.15 pm (repeat)

Glen Campbell

BBC2 Sussex Folk Plus Jamboree 7.05 - 7.35 pm

Donovan

Incantation

BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In 8.00 - 8.30 pm (repeat)

Tiny Tim

TVS Profiles In Rock: Toto 12.05 - 12.35 am


Tuesday 13th December 1983

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

The Flying Pickets

BBC2 Rock School 6.15 - 6.40 pm

Reggae with Sly & Robbie

BBC2 Barry at Blenheim 9.25 - 10.10 pm (repeat)

Barry Manilow

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Paul McCartney – interview, Pipes Of Peace (promo clip)

Bucks Fizz - Rules Of The Game

Status Quo - Marguerita Time

Rick Springfield - The Human Touch

Limahl

Thames Give Us A Clue 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Suzi Quatro


Wednesday 14th December 1983

BBC1 Harty 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Paul McCartney and George Martin mixing Pipes Of Peace, plus promo clip

BBC2 Entertainment USA

from Washington DC

The Weather Girls

BBC2 Dianne Solomon Entertains 11.20 - 11.55 pm (repeat)

live at Blazer's, Windsor

Dianne Solomon

BA Robertson

Paradox

C4 Arts Review Of The Year 9.00 - 11.00 pm

Barbara Dickson

Boy George


Thursday 15th December 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Simon Bates, Janice Long

Status Quo - Marguerita Time

UB40 - Many Rivers To Cross (promo clip)

Slade - My Oh My

Barry Manilow - Read 'Em and Weep (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

The Pretenders - 2000 Miles

Chart 20 - 11

Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Islands In The Stream (USA TV clip)

Chart 10 - 1

The Flying Pickets - Only You (dressed as snowmen) number one

Kool and The Gang - Straight Ahead (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Ebony 10.20 - 10.50 pm

Bob Marley article on Buffalo Soldiers

Report on the Dread Broadcasting Company, a pirate radio station

Thames A Plus 1.30 - 2.30 pm

Bertice Reading


Friday 16th December 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack

Bucks Fizz

Tears For Fears

Plus repeat clips of

Chas & Dave - Melancholy Baby

Modern Romance - Best Years of Our Lives

Suzi Quatro - Heart Of Stone

Limahl - Only For Love

Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Jackie Wilson Said

BBC1 Show Business 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Location report for the Kenny Everett Christmas Show from a cemetery

BBC1 The Chieftains Images of Ireland 10.15 - 10.50 pm

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 11.35 pm - 12.20 pm

Introduced by Mark Ellen

Aztec Camera at Aston University, Birmingham

HTV I’m Coming Home 12.30 am - end

Tom Jones special

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

French and Saunders

Dress designers Peter Leathers and Michelle Hogard who had made Leslie's dress

Muriel Grey and a preview of the show

Jools Holland

Paul McCartney - Pipes Of Peace (promo clip) Muriel Grey refers to it as 'Pipes Of Piss'

Madness - Wings of A Dove (promo clip)

Inspirational Choir of the First Born Church of the Living God (live)

Peter Leathers and Michelle Hogard filmed article with Leslie Ash as the model

Tony Fletcher

Killing Joke - Dominator, Eighties, Frenzy (live)

Colour newsreel of The Cavern, Liverpool

Paul McCartney - filmed interview in London by Leslie Ash

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Ferry Cross The Mersey, Relax (live)

Tina Turner - Get Back (preview clip of next week's show)

Echo & The Bunnymen - Nocturnal Me, Ocean Rain, Thorn of Crowns, The Killing Moon (live)

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Mikey Dread

Pre-Wax

Medium Wave

Beshara


Saturday 17th December 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.15 pm

Duran Duran

Boy George

The Police

Slade

BBC1 Little & Large Show 5.25 - 6.00 pm

Lonnie Donegan

Bucks Fizz

BBC1 Can’t Stop The Music 6.00 - 8.00 pm 1980 Village People movie

BBC1 The Two Ronnies 8.00 - 8.50 pm

Stephanie Lawrence - The Right To Sing

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 6.15 - 6.55 pm (repeat from yesterday)

Aztec Camera

LWT The Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

The Flying Pickets

TVS DJ 5.35 - 6.00 pm

Modern Romance

Wham!

Nik Kershaw

Bucks Fizz

Boy George on tour article

LWT Cannon & Ball 7.00 - 7.45 pm

Shakin’ Stevens

Sarah Brightman

LWT Punchlines 7.15 - 7.45 pm

Dana, Stephanie Lawrence

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight 12.30 - 1.30 pm

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LWT Electric Light Orchestra 1.00 am - end


Sunday 18th December 1983

LWT Sunday Sunday 5.30 - 6.30 pm

The Flying Pickets


Monday 19th December 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Nick Heyward

BBC2 The Bob Monkhouse Show 8.30 - 9.25 pm

Marvin Hamlisch

Tyne Tees Music Special 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

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Channel Women In Rock 11.25 pm - 12.20 am


Tuesday 20th December 1983

BBC1 Perry Como’s French-Canadian Christmas 10.55 - 11.45 pm (repeat)

BBC2 Rock School 5.40 - 6.05 pm

Crossover - Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Police

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz Christmas Special 4.15 - 4.45 pm

The Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger

Blancmange - That's Love That It Is

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue

Spandau Ballet - Gold

Adam Ant - Puss In Boots

The Police - Every Breath You Take

Yorkshire Emmerdale Farm 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Features a punk rock singer, Maggie (played by Jacqueline Reddin)

Thames Des O’Connor 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Grace Kennedy

Thames Cher at Caesar’s Palace 11.20 pm - 12.25 am


Wednesday 21st December 1983

BBC1 Harty 6.40 - 7.15 pm

Shakin’ Stevens

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.25 pm - 12.00 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandress Sisters

Bobby Vinton

Andrea Crouch

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.25 pm

from New York

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BBC2 Barry at Blenheim 9.55 - 10.40 pm (repeat of part two)

Barry Manilow

HTV West Johnny Mathis Chante Noel 12.10 - 12.40 am


Thursday 22nd December 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by John Peel, Dave Jensen

A live broadcast

Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody

Culture Club - Victims (promo clip)

Tears For Fears - The Way You Are

Billy Joel - Tell Her About It (promo clip)

Dennis Waterman & George Cole - What Are We Gonna Get ‘Er Indoors (live vocals)

Chart 30 - 21

Paul McCartney - Pipes Of Peace (promo clip)

Chart 20 - 11

Howard Jones - What Is Love

Chart 10 - 1

Flying Pickets - Only You number one

Roland Rat - Rat Rapping (playout record and audience dancing)


Friday 23rd December 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.50 pm

Cilla Black

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

Chas & Dave

The Jets

BBC2 Arena: The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert 9.15 - 10.30 pm

live at the Royal Albert Hall, London

BBC2 Whistle Test Pick Of The Year 11.50 pm - 1.30 am

Introduced by David Hepworth and Mark Ellen - they announce that the Stone Fox Chase intro was being dropped "quite a relief for us" and the show's title was now just Whistle Test

Big Country - A Thousand Stars

Bow Wow Wow - Baby Oh No (promo clip)

Eurythmics - The Walk

Joni Mitchell - Chinese Cafe (live clip)

Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust (In Concert Clip)

Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter

Neil Young - Computer Age (live clip)

Spandau Ballet - Foundation (In Concert clip)

Kate Bush - The Dreaming (promo clip)

Japan - Night Porter

Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream For Crow (promo clip)

Fashion - Move On

Ultravox - Hymn

Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey (promo clip)

Carmel - I Can't Stand The Rain

Grace Jones - Demolition Man (One Man Show clip)

Marillion - Forgotten Sons

Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding

David Bowie - China Girl (promo clip, full version)

Granada Pop Goes Christmas 5.15 - 5.45 pm

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Merry Christmas Everybody

David Essex - A Winter's Tale, Ooh la blonde

Musical Youth - Rudolph the red nosed reindeer

The Nolans - Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Shakin' Stevens - Blue Christmas

St. Winifred's Choir - Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Toyah - I believe in Father Christmas

Mari Wilson and the Wilsations - Santa Claus is coming to town, We wish you a merry Christmas

C4 The Tube

No live bands in the studio with Jools and Leslie making live links. The show has a Prisoner theme with Jools as Number 6 and Leslie as Number 2.

The Weather Girls - Dear Santa (promo clip)

A Day In The Night Of New York - Jools and Leslie in New York clubs film report - Roger Trilling, Danceteria nightclub, Klaus Nomi - Lightning Strikes (promo clip), Afrika Bambatta & Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock (promo clip), The Roxy nightclub, Rod Stewart seen in crowd, Arthur Baker chats to Jools, New Order - Confusion (promo clip), Nona Hendrix live clip and chat to Leslie, The Peech Boys chat to Jools, Quano Quango - Love Tempo (live)

Billy Bragg - (live)

Tina Tuner - Cat People, The Acid Queen, River Deep Mountain High, Hot Legs, Get Back, Where The Heart Is, Nutbush City Limits, Let's Stay Together (with Heaven 17, but an alternate take with different costume to previously seen), Help (live extended set from 28th October 1983)

U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (live at Red Rocks)

C4 Rockers Roadshow 11.55 pm - 12.40 am

from barr Hill school, Coventry

Splashdown

Glasshouse

Shaper 7


Saturday 24th December 1983 Christmnas Eve

BBC1 Pop Quiz Christmas Special 5.55 - 6.30 pm

Panel: Dave Edmunds (captain), Mari Wilson, Leee John vs Roger Taylor (captain), Limahl, Midge Ure

Clips: various promo clips from 1983, Gerry & The Pacemakers - Fery Cross The Mersey (Ready Steady Go!), Level 42 - Living It Up (promo clip), The Animals - Baby Let me Take You Home (Ready Steady Go!), Yardbirds - Shapes Of Things (NME Pollwinners), Wham! - Young Guns (promo clip), Mud - Tiger Feet (TOTP)

BBC1 The Little and Large Show 6.30 - 7.10 pm

Joe Brown

Chas and Dave - Melancholy Baby

BBC1 Flash Gordon 7.10 - 8.55 pm 1980 movie with Queen soundtrack

BBC1 Val Doonican’s Christmas Party 8.55 - 9.40 pm

The Nolans

BBC2 Sky at Drury Lane 6.55 - 7.45 pm

BBC2 Whistle Test Presents: Paul Young and The Royal Family 10.00 - 10.45 pm

Paul Young and The Royal Family live at the Hammersmith Odeon (the '12 days of Christmas' tour)

LWT Data Run's Christmas Party 8.40 - 9.25 am

Lynsey de Paul

The Belle Stars

The Lotus Eaters

Tracey Ullman

Madness

LWT Adam Ant - The Prince Charming Revue 1.00 - 2.20 pm

live at the Dominion Theatre, London

LWT The Krankies At Christmas 4.30 - 5.15 pm

Modern Romance

Barbara Dickson

David Grant

Yorkshire 3-2-1 6.45 - 7.45 pm

Dana

Julie Rogers

LWT Cilla Black Christmas Eve 7.45 - 8.45 pm

The Bee Gees via satellite

George Benson

Julio Inglasias

C4 Unforgettable Swingtime 4.35 - 5.05 pm

hosted by Pat Phoenix

Kay Starr

Ronnie Hilton


Sunday 25th December 1983 Christmas day

BBC1 The Christmas Raccoons 8.35 - 9.00 am

the voices of Rita Coolidge, Rupert Holmes

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 1983 2.00 - 3.00 pm

Hosted by Simon Bates, Janice Long (dressed as the principal boy), Mike Smith (dressed as a pantomime dame), Andy Peebles

Freeez - I.O.U.

David Bowie - Let's Dance (promo clip)

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (promo clip)

Shakin’ Stevens - Cry Just A Little Bit

Men At Work - Down Under (promo clip)

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (promo clip)

The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Irene Cara - Flashdance (What A Feeling) (promo clip)

Adam Ant - Puss ‘N’ Boots

Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know? (promo clip)

Bucks Fizz - When We Were Young

Lionel Richie - All Night Long (promo clip)

Heaven 17 - Temptation

UB40 - Red Red Wine

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip)

The Flying Pickets - Only You

K.C. & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 The Two Ronnies 7.15 - 8.05 pm

Elton John - Cold As Christmas

BBC1 The Spinners at York 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

BBC2 the Bob Monkhouse Show 10.05 - 11.00 pm

Bertice Reading

LWT Jimmy Tarbuck’s Christmas All-Stars 7.45 - 9.10 pm

Shakin’ Stevens & Bonnie Tyler – Rockin’ Good Way

The Temptations

The Four Tops

Andy Williams

C4 Twice Knightly 6.15 – 7.15 pm

The Barron Knights special

C4 The King Of Comedy 1983 movie with The Clash


Monday 26th December 1983 Boxing Day

BBC1 The Keith Harris Christmas Party 4.35 - 5.10 pm

Shakin’ Stevens

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 7.15 - 7.50 pm

The Police

Thames Give Us A Clue 5.30 - 6.00 pm

Bob Geldof

Thames Eric & Ernie’s Christmas Show 8.45 - 9.45 pm

Peter Skellern

C4 Renaldo & Clara 1977 movie 9.30 pm - 1.45 am

Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Ronnie Hawkins, Ronnee Blakely, Jack Elloitt, Joni Mitchell, Roger McGuinn, David Blue, Arlo Guthrie, Roberta Flack


Tuesday 27th December 1983

BBC2 The Wiz 4.25 - 6.35 pm 1978 movie with Diana Ross, Michael Jackson

Thames The Mike Yarwood Hour 7.45 - 8.45 pm

The Three Degrees

Thames Shirley Bassey – A Special Lady 11.15 pm - 12.45 am (repeat)

C4 Rockers Roadshow 12.30 - 1.15 pm

from The Rialto in Handsworth, Birmingham

B B James

Assignment

Amlak

Reality

C4 Supersonic 4.00 - 5.00 pm

Elton John - I'm Still Standing

Bonnie Tyler - It's A Jungle Out There

John Cougar - Tumbling Down

Modern Romance - Good Friday

Shakin’ Stevens

Meat Loaf

Adam Ant

Status Quo

Marilyn

Soft Cell

Limahl

Bonnie Tyler & Shakin’ Stevens

C4 ITV Comedy Classics: The Morecambe & Wise Show (repeat 19th March 1966)

Herman’s Hermits


Wednesday 28th December 1983

BBC1 The Best Of Three Of A Kind 9.00 - 9.30 pm

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Thames Jim Davidson’s Special 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Suzi Quatro

Gary Glitter


Thursday 29th December 1983

BBC1 Blue Peter Review Of The Year 5.05 - 5.35 pm

Elton John

BBC1 A Question Of Sport 6.00 - 6.35 pm

Max Boyce, Georgie Fame on panel

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 1983 part two 7.00 - 7.55 pm

Hosted by Peter Powell, Adrian John, Gary Davies, Richard Skinner, Tommy Vance

The Daily Mirror has The Assembly making an appearance

JoBoxers - Boxer Beat

Mike Oldfield With Maggie Reilly - Moonlight Shadow (promo clip)

Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side

Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know (promo clip)

The Cure - Love Cats

USA chart of the year Jonathan King - Michael Sembello (promo clip), The Police (live clip)

Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love (promo clip)

The Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home) (promo clip)

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence

Spandau Ballet - True

Howard Jones - New Song (with Jed with tinsel around his chains)

Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (promo clip)

The Style Council - Long Hot Summer

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - Say Say Say (playout record and audience dancing)

Yorkshire An Evening with Charles Aznavour 11.45 pm - 12.50 am

TSW / Channel Randy Edelman 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

Central Peter Sarstedt 11.45 pm - 12.30 am

C4 The Snowman 7.30 - 8.00 pm

with David Bowie introduction


Friday 30th December 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 5.05 - 5.40 pm

Gary Davies & Bernadette Nolan are team leaders

David Grant

Thompson Twins

Bucks Fizz

LWT Tom Jones - Home Is Where The Heart Is 10.30 - 11.30 pm

live from St David's Hall, Cardiff

with the Treorchy Male Voice Choir

C4 The New Year's Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Compilation show with co host Dame Edna Everage

The Police - Every Breath You Take (Shea Stadium, New York)

Simple Minds

U2 - at Red Rocks

Public Image Limited

Wham!

Culture Club

David Bowie -

Paul Young -

The Jam -

The Eurythmics –

Elvis Costello –

The Smiths

Divine

C4 Unforgettable Christmas Show 8.00 - 9.00 pm

The Beverley Sisters

Freddie 'Fingers' Lee

Coast to Coast

Lipstick

Clive Dunn - Grandad

Mike Morton Band

C4 Paul Hogan's England 9.00 - 10.00 pm

Paul Young

Dire Straits

C4 Max Boyce Meets The Dallas Cowboys 10.55 - 11.55 pm (repeat)


Saturday 31st December 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.15 pm

Howard Jones

David Essex

Wham!

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 5.20 - 5.55 pm

Chris Barber

BBC1 The Little and Large Show 5.55 - 6.30 pm

Roy Wood

Status Quo

BBC1 A Farewell Celebration Of The Good Old Days 10.45 - 11.45 pm

Frankie Vaughan

BBC1 At Last It’s 1984!

The Shadows

Granada Pop Goes New Year 5.05 - 6.05 pm

Culture Club - Mr Man, Victims

Rick Springfield

Tracey Ullman - Shattered

The Eurythmics - No Broken Hearts, Here Comes The Rain Again

Limahl - Over The Top

The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods -live

Yorkshire Petula 8.35 - 9.35 pm

Petula Clark

Paul Jones

Billy Eckstein

C4 Unforgettable Swingtime 4.35 - 5.05 pm

Hosted by Pat Phoenix

Rosemary Clooney

Denis Lotis

C4 Party At The Palace 8.00 - 9.00 pm (Camden Palace)

Mari Wilson

Gary Byrd

Janet Kay

C4 The Music Machine 9.00 - 10.40 pm 1979 movie disco musical


Also this year

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show

ABBA - - linking sketch

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz

Adam & The Ants - Puss In Boots

Granada Hold Me Tight

Altered Images - Bring Me Closer

BBC2 Russell Harty

Deborah Harry talks about Videodrome

C4 Loose Talk

Yazoo -

C4 Whatever You Want - Joe Strummer

ITV The Academy Awards

Joe Cocker - - Up Where We Belong

BBC1 Three Of A Kind

Phil Collins - sketch

BBC1 Breakfast Time

Elvis Costello - reviews newspapers

BBC2 Eight Days A Week

Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding (Rockpalast)

BBC1 News 9-83

The Everly Brothers - Reunion article

BBC1 Pebble Mill 12-83

Fairport Convention - two songs

BBC1 Late Late Breakfast Show 12-83

Genesis - That’s All, interview

C4 The Norman Gunston Show

Mick Jagger - interview

BBC2 Leo Sayer Show

Jethro Tull - Fly By Night

BBC1 Late Late Breakfast Show 12-83

Billy Joel - interview

C4 No Problem

Kid Creole - plays himself

C4 Switch interview

The Coconuts -

C4 The Tube

Killing Joke - The 80s

Thames Thames At Six

Mike Oldfield - interview

BBC1 Nationwide 8-83

The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger, interview

BBC1 Saturday Morning Picture Show

The Police - interview

BBC1 Nationwide

John Lydon - interview

BBC2 Entertainment USA

Lou Reed - interview

BBC1 South East At Six 10-83

Capt Sensible -

BBC1 Harty

Slade - My Oh My

BBC2 Entertainment USA

Rod Stewart - interview

C4 The Tube

The Stranglers - live

BBC1 Saturday Superstore

The Style Council - My Ever Changing Mood, plus one

BBC1 Time Of Your Life

The Troggs - Wild Thing, interview

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Show 4-83

U2 - Like A Song

BBC1 Breakfast Time

Rick Wakeman - interview, I’m So Straight I’m A Weirdro (promo clip)

BBC2 Dancers documentary about Sponooch dance troupe with music by Wakeman, repeated from 1982

Central Magic Micro Mission 12-83

Rick Wakeman - demos synthesizers

ITV Wham! - Fantastic TV ad 8-83

Central Starburst

Roy Wood - Goin’ Down the Road

? Visions

David Bowie at press conference at Claridge’s, London

ITV Janet Street Porter

Deborah Harry interview about Videodrome

C4 Loose Talk

The Cocteau Twins - Song To The Siren

Thames The English Programme - The Tube: Three Days To Go

a schools' documentary about the making of A Midsummer Night’s Tube

BBC1 Breakfast Time (June)

Eric Clapton interview

ITV Alliance advert

possibly Godley & Creme soundtrack

ITV boiler advert

song by George Melly

Saturday 1st January 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

BBC1 Rod and Emu’s Saturday Special 5.25 - 5.55 pm

The Drifters

Tight Fit

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Thin Lizzy

BBC1 Val Sings and Rings In The New 8.30 - 9.15 pm

Val Doonican

Stutz Bearcats

Sylvia

BBC2 Jane 7.15 - 8.00 pm (repeat 1982)

Songs by Neil Innes

TSW / Channel Denis Roussos Magic 11.20 pm - 12.30 am

TVS Johnny Mathis In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

LWT The Best Of Saturday Night Live 11.45 pm - 12.45 am

Simon and Garfunkel

Randy Newman

C4 Get Knighted 7.15 - 8.15 pm

The Barron Knights

C4 It’s George 9.00 - 10.00 pm

Lindisfarne


Sunday 2nd January 1983

Central Star Parade 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

James Last

Silver Convention

Billy Swan

5000 Volts

C4 Ringo 7.00 - 8.00 pm

Ringo Starr special with George Harrison


Monday 3rd January 1983 Bank Holiday

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 7.10 - 7.45 pm

Modern Romance

BBC1 The Mike Hardin Show 11.25 - 11.55 pm (repeat)

BBC1 (Scotland) Philip Jap 11.25 - 11.55 pm shown following day in the rest of the UK 10.45 - 11.15 pm

Philip Jap

Kenny Lynch, Peter Powell

BBC2 Roustabout 3.15 - 4.50 pm 1964 Elvis Presley movie

BBC2 Rhythm on Two: Chris Barber’s Jazz and Blues Band 11.15 pm – 12.05 am

Live at the Assembly Rooms, Derby

C4 Zero Zero 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Mike Batt

C4 Whatever You Want 9.30 - 10.30 pm

The Damned


Tuesday 4th January 1983

BBC1 The Beatles: The Fab Four Phenomenon 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Documentary about their fans in Britain and America

BBC2 King Creole 3.50 - 5.40 pm 1958 Elvis Presley movie

Scottish Donovan In Concert 6.10 - 7.10 pm


Wednesday 5th January 1983

BBC2 Blue Hawaii 3.55 - 5.30 pm 1961 Elvis Presley movie

BBC2 Mary O'Hara 7.30 - 8.00 pm

recorded at Mount Stewart House

C4 The Cut Price Comedy Show 6.00 - 6.30 pm

Roger Ruskin Spear


Thursday 6th January 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 6.50 - 7.30 pm

The first show to feature the chart provided by Gallup

Hosted by Mike Smith, Tommy Vance

Joe Jackson - Steppin’ Out

Phil Collins - You Can’t Hurry Love (promo clip)

Ultravox - Hymn

Bucks Fizz - If You Can’t Stand The Heat

Malcolm McLaren & The World Famous Supreme Team - Buffalo Girls (promo clip)

Wah! - The Story of the Blues

David Essex - A Winter’s Tale (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

The Stranglers - European Female

Chart 20 - 11

Dionne Warwick - All The Love In The World (USA TV clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Renee & Renato - Save Your Love (promo clip) number one

Madness - Our House (playout record and audience dancing)

Granada Live At The Millionaire 11.15 - 11.45 pm (first in series) shown 11th January 1983 on Thames

Madeline Bell introduces a series of jazz sessions from the Manchester club

Esther Phillips

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - River Deep Mountain High

Clarence Frogman Henry - You Always Hurt The One You Love

The Morton Music Machine - Tea For Two

The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love

The Morton Music Machine - Live And Let Die (danced to by Lipstick)

Clarence Frogman Henry - But I Do

The Morton Music Machine - Young At Heart

The Rubettes - I Can Do It, Jukebox Jive

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music

C4 Demis Roussos Variety Special 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Demis Roussos

Bonnie Tyler

Jane Birkin

Annie Ross


Friday 7th January 1983

BBC1 (London) South East At Six 6.00 - 6.22 pm

Frank Zappa interview

BBC1 (Wales) Tom Jones 9.25 - 9.45 pm

Tom Jones

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 7.00 - 7.45 pm

Level 42 - The Chinese Way

LWT South of Watford 11.40 pm - 12.10 am

Pookie Snackenburger

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

A studio show, but without an audience

Queen at Milton Keynes, summer 1982 live and interview clips backstage, plus chats with fans on site

Mark Miwurdz

C4 No Problem 9.00 - 9.30 pm (first episode)

Situation comedy, directed by Michael Dolenz with Janet Kay

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Toots & The Maytals

Denice Williams

Roy Shirley

Yellowman

C4 Jazz on Four: 4 Up 2 Down 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Jimmy Witherspoon and his quintet - at The Canmteen, Covent Garden, London

Bobby McFerrin

Sax players report with clips of Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker


Saturday 8th January 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 am - 12.15 pm

Cinderella panto with Mark Wynter

BBC1 Rod and Emu’s Saturday Special 5.25 - 5.55 pm

Dana

Modern Romance

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 5.55 - 6.30 pm

Shalamar - Friends

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.50 - 9.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 (repeat March 1977) not simulcast

Graham Parker & The Rumour

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Musical Youth

LWT The Best Of Saturday Night Live 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

The Kinks

C4 The Other Side Of The Tracks 7.30 - 8.30 pm (first edition)

alternates fortnightly with Gastank

Hosted by Paul Gambaccini - artist profiles and interviews

Phil Collins

Kajagoogoo

C4 The Lady Is A Tramp 9.30 - 10.00 pm (first episode of Johnny Speight sitcom)

Theme sung by Matt Monro


Sunday 9th January 1983

LWT Night Life Presents 11.35 pm - 12.35 am

John Miles at Royal Albert Hall

Ulster Leeds Folk Festival 11.35 pm - 12.00 am

Clannad


Monday 10th January 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

The Searchers - Hearts In Her Eyes, I Don’t Want To Be The One

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm (first in new series)

content unknown

BBC1 (London / SE ) Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tom Jones

Gladys Knight

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.00 pm

Modelling special

content unknown

Thames This Is Me 4.45 - 5.15 pm (first in series)

Michael Grant (from Musical Youth)

TVS DJ 6.30 - 7.00 pm (first edition)

Hosted by Dave Jensen, Pauline Black

Isle of Wight Festival 1969 / 1970 film clips with The Who, Joan Baez

John Wetton - interview

The Stranglers - European Female (alternate version)

C4 Whatever You Want 9.35 - 10.30 pm

Killing Joke

Fad Gadget

Urban Shakedown

Dead Kennedys

Talisman

Level 42

The Thompson Twins

Amazulu

C4 Eleventh Hour: Live a Life 11.00 pm - 12.25 am

TUC Benefit show, The Rainbow, London (the last show to be played there)

The Beat

Black Slate

Tom Robinson

OK Jive


Tuesday 11th January 1983

BBC2 Neil Sedaka Says - All You Need Is Music 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Recorded at the BBC in front of members of his fan club

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Incantation

Granada Diamond Head In Concert 12.00 - 12.30 am


Wednesday 12th January 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.25 pm - 12.05 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Marty Robbins

BBC2 Duke Ellington... and his Famous Orchestra 9.25 - 10.40 pm

Documentary

Thames London Night Out 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Glen Campbell

Diane Solomon


Thursday 13th January 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.20 - 7.55 pm

Hosted by John Peel, Dave Jensen

Incantation - Cachapaya

Men At Work - Down Under (promo clip)

Sharon Redd - In The Name Of Love

Keith Harris & Orville - Orville’s Song (repeat 23rd December 1982)

The Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times

LP chart 10 - 1

John Williams - Theme From E.T. (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 22

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue (promo clip)

Chart 21 - 11

The Maisonettes - Heartache Avenue

Chart 10 - 1

Phil Collins - You Can’t Hurry Love (promo clip) number one

Donna Summer - I Feel Love (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 The Nolans 9.00 - 9.30 pm

The Nolans - Fame, Attention To Me and others

Granada Live at the Millionaire 12.00 - 12.30 am

content unknown

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Keep On Dancin' medley

Billy J Kramer - Do You Want To Know A Secret

The Morton Music Machine - Candy Man, Me And You And A Dog Named Boo

The Swingin’ Blue Jeans - You're No Good, Hippy Hippy Shake

The Morton Music Machine - Fantasy (danced to by Lipstick)

Billy J Kramer - Bad To Me, Little Children

The Morton Music Machine - The Old Fashioned Way

The Swinging Blue Jeans - Good Golly Miss Molly

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 14th January 1983

BBC1 Miss Great Britain 1983 9.25 - 10.15 pm

Stutz Bear Cats

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 6.55 - 7.30 pm

Soft Cell

First Priority

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

The Flying Pickets

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock 12.00 - 12.30 am

Kate Bush

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

The Gateshead Pop Festival, Gateshead International Stadium

Hosted by Jools Holland

Sting and Brenden Foster interview with Jools

St John's ambulance staff talk to Jools

The Lords Of The New Church - Holy War, interview backstage

The Gang Of Four (with Eddi Reader) - I Love A Man In Uniform, interview backstage, What We All Want

The Beat - Save It For Later, Mirror In The Bathroom, Too Nice To Talk To, interview backstage

U2 - I Threw A Brick Through A Window, A Day Without Me, Rejoice, backstage interview, The Electric Co, I Will Follow, Out Of Control

The Police - Message In A Bottle, Walking On The Moon, The Bed's Too Big Without You, Da Doo Doo Do De Da Da Da, Shadows In The Rain, Roxanne, Can't Stand Losing You

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Aswad

The Twinkle Brothers

Chalice

Eek A Mouse

Michigan & Smiley

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Bobby McFerrin at the London Canteen


Saturday 15th January 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

BBC1 Rod & Emu’s Saturday Special 5.25 - 5.55 pm

Showaddywaddy - Goody Goody

BBC1 The Les Dawson Show 8.20 - 9.10 pm

Grace Kennedy

BBC1 Wogan 10.00 - 10.45 pm (first in new series)

Phil Collins - interview, You Can’t Hurry Love

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Mari Wilson & The Wilsations

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT Metal Mickey 5.15 -5.45 pm

Hazel O'Connor

C4 Gastank 7.30 - 8.30 pm (first edition)

Alternates every second week with The Other Side Of The Tracks

Hosted by Rick Wakeman, Tony Ashton

Rick Parfitt

Alvin Lee

The Cimarons

Eric Burdon


Sunday 16th January 1983

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm (first edition)

Rene and Renato

Lulu - See See Rider


Monday 17th January 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.30 am (first edition)

Leo Sayer - interviewed by Selina Scott

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tom Jones

Paul Anka

BBC2 Riverside 6.20 - 6.50 pm

Big Country

David Sylvian

BBC2 Leo 8.10 - 9.00 pm (first edition)

Leo Sayer

The Searchers

Judie Tzuke

Equals

TVS DJ 6.30 - 7.00 pm

content unknown

Thames Mike Yarwood In Persons 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Diana Solomon

C4 Whatever You Want 9.35 - 10.30 pm

The Anti-Nowhere League

The Meteors


Tuesday 18th January 1983

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Linda Ronstadt

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story


Wednesday 19th January 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.25 pm - 12.00 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell

Andy Gibb

Minnie Pearl

BBC2 The New Swingle Singers 7.40 - 8.05 pm (repeat)

Thames London Night Out 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Iris Williams

Johnny Logan


Thursday 20th January 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.10 am

Lynsey de Paul

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Janice Long, Gary Davies

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy

Joe Jackson - Steppin’ Out (promo clip)

Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter (re-recording)

USA chart with Jonathan King - Eddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle, Patti Austin & James Ingram, Toto, Men at Work (promo clips)

Melba Moore - Mind Up Tonight

U2 - New Year’s Day (re-recorded lead vocal)

Chart 30 - 20

Laura Brannigan - Gloria (promo clip)

Chart 19 - 10

The Stranglers - European Female (repeat 6th January 1983)

Chart 9 - 1

Phil Collins - You Can’t Hurry Love (promo clip) number one

Billy Griffin - Hold Me Tighter In The Rain (playout record and audience dancing)

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Keep The Customer Satisfied

Chris Andrews - To Whom It Concerns

The Morton Music Machine - Love Me Tender

Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - Zabadak

The Morton Music Machine - All Right Now (danced to by Lipstick)

Chris Andrews - Yesterday Man

The Morton Music Machine - Hi Ho Silver Lining

Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - Hold Tight

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.25 - 9.00 pm

Mary O'Hara

BBC2 The Nolans 9.00 - 9.30 pm

The Nolans

Thames Looks Familiar 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Max Bygraves

TVS Musical Special: Harry Belefonte 11.15 pm - 12.10 am

Granada Live at the Millionaire 11.55 pm - 12.25 am

Kathy Stobart


Friday 21st January 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Andrew Lloyd-Webber

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 6.55 - 7.30 pm

Diamond

Simple Minds

King

Fanzines special with John Peel

BBC2 The New Swingle Singers 10.15 - 10.45 (repeat)

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock 12.15 - 12.45 am

Supertramp

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

Jools Holland introduction, Paula Yates, Nick Laird-Clowes

Mark Miwurdz - breakfast TV

Bad News - Bad News, interviewed by Jools

Steve Strange - interviewed by Paula Yates in London and The Camden Palace laser show, interview in The Tube studio

Clip from Party Party movie, movie director and Daniel Peacock interviewed by Nick Laird-Clowes

Jools Holland plugs the Tube poster (£1.50 from The Tube, Tyne Tees TV, PO Box 1TN, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE99 1TN, and it comes in a tube)

Blitz - New Age (Tube film), interviewed by Mike Everett, live concert clip (Smuggler's Club, Stockton on Tees)

Alternative Top Ten (using Yellow Pearl as background music)

Southern Death Cult - False Faces, Faith, Fatman (live) a fan sprays crazy foam over the singer at the end

Echo And The Bunnymen - The Cutter (promo clip)

Kurtis Blow - interviewed by Paula

The Stranglers - Midnight Summer Dream, European Female, Who Wants The World (live)

Icehouse - Hey Little Girl (promo clip)

Dance Class - (live) unknown band get the closing live set for some reason

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Burning Spear - Slavery Days

Steel Pulse

Matabaruka

Marcia Griffiths

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Art Blakey and his all-star band at the Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle


Saturday 22nd January 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

BBC1 Rod & Emu’s Saturday Special 5.25 - 5.55 pm

Haysi Fantasi

BBC1 Wogan 10.00 - 10.45 pm

Cilla Black - Step Inside Love, interview

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Joe Jackson

BBC2 Louis Armstrong Anniversary Concert 11.45 pm - 12.35 am (repeat)

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

Central Luna 5.15 - 5.45 pm (first episode)

Sci-fi kids series directed by Michael Dolenz

Central Saturday Stayback 11.45 pm - 12.30 am (first edition)

Theme by Roy Wood

Central Profiles In Rock 12.00 - 12.30 am

The Who

C4 The Other Side Of The Tracks 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Joe Jackson

A Flock Of Seagulls


Sunday 23rd January 1983

BBC1 (Scotland) Spectrum 10.15 - 11.05 pm

Dick Gaughan

BBC2 Two-Lane Blacktop 11.15 pm - 1.00 am 1971 movie with Denis Wilson, James Taylor

LWT Sunday Sunday 4.00 - 5.00 pm

Lulu

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Dionne Warwick

LWT Maze - Live In New Orleans 11.25 pm - 12.25 am


Monday 24th January 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Tom Jones

Dusty Springfield

BBC2 Riverside 6.20 - 6.50 pm

The Danse Society

BBC2 Leo 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Leo Sayer

Laura Branngian

TVS DJ

content unknown

Thames Mike Yarwood In Persons 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Maggie Moon

C4 The Comic Strip Presents: Bad News On Tour 9.00 - 9.35 pm

The story of hard rockers Bad News

C4 Whatever You Want 9.35 - 10.30 pm

Wah!

The Higsons

Fad Gadget

The Thompson Twins

Phil Lynott


Tuesday 25th January 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Cilla Black – Liverpool Lullaby

BBC1 (Scotland) Jean Redpath Sings... The Songs of Burns 11.10 - 11.25 pm

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mary Wynter reads a story

S4C Pop Spot 6.50 - 6.55  pm

Supertramp


Wednesday 26th January 1983

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Petula Clark

Thames London Night Out 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Helen Reddy

Wall Street Crash


Thursday 27th January 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Simon Bates, Richard Skinner

Level 42 - The Chinese Way

The Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times (promo clip)

Central Line - Nature Boy

The Beatles - Please Please Me (promo clip)

China Crisis - Christian

Wham! - Wham Rap!

Bauhaus - Lagartija Nick

Chart 30 - 21

Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong (live)

Chart 20 - 11

Dire Straits - Twisting By The Pool (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Men At Work - Down Under (promo clip) number one

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Herb Miller (Glen Miller's brother)

Granada Live at the Millionaire 11.55 pm - 12.30 am

Marsha Hunt

Mark Murphy

C4 10cc at Wembley 6.00 - 7.00 pm

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Hickory Holler's Tramp

Ronnie Hilton - No Other Love

The Morton Music Machine - Come Fly With Me

The Crystals - And Then He Kissed me

The Morton Music Machine - Physical (danced to by Lipstick)

Ronnie Hilton - Around The World

The Morton Music Machine - Blame It On The Pony Express, The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 28th January 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Sacha Distel

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Sky

BBC1 Nationwide 6.22 - 7.00 pm

David Bowie - interviewed in New York

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 6.55 - 7.30 pm

The Undertones - live

Kajagoogoo - live

Vitamin Z

Granada Friday Special

Mike Batt article on Zero Zero

The Moving Hearts

LWT South Of Watford 11.40 pm - 12.10 am

Hazel O’Connor

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock ELO 12.15 - 12.45 am

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

Jools Holland introduces and assistant asks members of the audience about their choice of music press (Sounds came top as they had a lot of Thin Lizzy fans in)

Paula Yates with piece of art by Mark Wardell

Michel Cremona

Laurel and Hardy - Clunk Click (live)

The Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side (live)

Mark Wardell interviewed by Paula, and painting Hazel O'Connor

Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham - interviewed by Michel Cremona who accuses them of false reports of splitting to sell concert tickets

The Jam - interviewed by Gary Crowley, Going Underground (live clip 1981)

Jamming fanzine filmed article, plus in studio with Jamming editor and Hazel O'Connor on music press

NME filmed article, Neil Spencer interviewed by Muriel Grey

Mark Miwurdz

Paula brings on a piano-shaped birthday cake for Jools

JoBoxers - Boxerbeat, Why Don't You Do Right, Johnny Friendly, Not My Night (live)

Hazel O'Connor - interviewed by Paula

Jools plugs the Tube poster again

Pat Benetar - Anxiety (Get Nervous), Shadows Of The Night, Heartbreaker (live)

Syncopation - Down Down (Tube film live at the Gallery, Manchester)

Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town, The Sun Goes Down, Cold Sweat (live)

The Beatles - film clip (not shown)

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Steel Pulse

Chalice

Big Youth

Blue Riddim Band

Eek-A-Mouse

Mutabaruka

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Johnny Dankworth - live at the Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Art Blakey - live at the Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Charles Mingus - film


Saturday 29th January 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 - 12.15 pm

Tears for Fears

BBC1 Rod & Emu’s Saturday Special 5.25 - 5.55 pm

Randy Edelman

The Nolans

BBC1 Wogan 10.00 - 10.45 pm

Sky

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

UB40

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

Central Saturday Stayback 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

Rocky Sharpe and the Replays

C4 Gastank 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Hosted by Rick Wakeman and Tony Ashton

Godley & Crème

Andy Fairweather-Low

Maggie Bell - Crazy

Ronnie Scott


Sunday 30th January 1983

LWT Sunday Sunday 4.00 - 5.00 pm

Petula Clark

Sacha Distel

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Laura Brannigan

Gladys Knight & The Pips

LWT Kim Larsen in Paris 11.15pm - 12.15 am

Kim Larsen (Danish singer)

Ulster Leeds Folk Festival 11.25 - 11.55 pm

Moving Hearts

Central Music International Presents 11.25 pm - 12.25 am

Gilbert O'Sullivan


Monday 31st January 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tom Jones

BBC2 Riverside 6.25 - 6.55 pm

Bobby Gee from Bucks Fizz

Mick Karn

Animal Nightlife

BBC2 Leo 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Leo Sayer

Phil Collins

Linda Ronstadt

Thames This Is Me 4.45 - 5.15 pm

Terri Coyle (singer from Belfast)

TVS DJ 6.30 - 7.00 pm

content unknown

C4 Whatever You Want 9.35 - 10.30 pm

Patrick Fitzgerald

Jah Wobble

Animal Magic


Tuesday 1st February 1983

TV AM begins broadcasting 6.00 - 9.15 am

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.35 pm

Randy Crawford

TVAM Good Morning Britain 7.00 - 9.15 am (first edition)

Theme by Jeff Wayne

Scottish Corries and Other Folk 7.05 - 7.35 pm

TVS Portrait Of A Legend: The Beach Boys 11.45 pm - 12.15 am


Wednesday 2nd February 1983

Thames London Night Out 8.00 - 9.00 pm

George Chisholm and his Hefty Jazz

Maggie Moon

C4 The Comedian 9.00 - 10.40 pm

1957 TV play with Mel Torme


Thursday 3rd February 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Dave Jensen, John Peel

Hazi Fantazi - Shiny Shiny

Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

Fun Boy Three - Tunnel Of Love

Fleetwood Mac - Oh Diane (repeat The Late Late Breakfast Show 13th November 1982)

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy

Chart 30 - 19

Tears For Fears - Change (re-recording)

Chart 18 - 11

U2 - New Year's Day (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1 ('The Top Ten Video Show')

Men At Work - Down Under (promo clip) number one

Billy Griffin - Hold Me Tighter In The Rain (playout record with members of Zoo and audience dancing)

BBC2 Stephane Grappelli 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Diz Disley

Granada Live at the Millionaire 11.55 pm - 12.30 am

Dave Bitelli and hos Onward Jazz Quartet

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Billy Fury tribute show instead of the intended show with Chris Farlowe and The Equals. According to Wikipedia Fury had recorded six songs for the show, with four broadcast.

The Morton Music Machine - Jailhouse Rock

Billy Fury - Halfway To Paradise

The Morton Music Machine - Mony Mony, Apache

Billy Fury - It's Only Make Believe

The Morton Music Machine - The Bitch is Back

Billy Fury - When Will You Say I Love You

The Morton Music Machine - Long Tall Sally

Billy Fury - Jealousy

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 4th February 1983

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 6.55 - 7.30 pm

Madness

One The Juggler

Vitamin Z

BBC2 Take Three Degrees 9.00 - 9.45 pm (repeat)

LWT South Of Watford 11.40 pm - 12.10 am

Ian Dury and Humphrey Ocean

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock: The Who 12.15 - 12.45 am

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

"A flimsy space theme", while two acts from Total Experience Records Yarborough & Peoples and The Gap Band were featured

Georges Meliers - film clip

Jools Holland introduction

William Shatner chats to Jools in Burbank

Gary James

Georges Meliers - Trip To The Moon movie clip

Video games champion Stephen Bradley chats to Jools

OMD - ABC Auto-Industry, Telegraph (live)

Paul Loasby (music promoter) talks to Gary James about a 1984 festival

David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging (promo clip)

Yarborough & Peoples - Heartbeats (promo clip) actually announced as The Gap Band

Paul Young & The Royal Family - Love Of The Common People, Sex, Love Will Tear Us Apart (live)

Georges Meliers - film clip

Gary James makes plea on behalf of Status Quo's Alan Lancaster for the return of his stolen briefcase

Aztec Camera - Down The Dip, Oblivious, The Boy Wonders (live)

One the Juggler - Passion Killer (Tube film)

Jools Holland encourages viewers to send in provocations to make him swear live on TV

Yarborough & Peoples - Don't Stop The Music, Heartbeats (live)

George Melliers film clip

Tears for Fears - interview, Change (promo clip)

Stiff Little Fingers - chat to Jools

The Gap Band - ?, Burn Rubber On Me, Oops Upside Your Head, Outstanding (live) the set continues after the live transmission has finished

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Chalice

Denice Williams

Blue Riddim

Marcia Griffiths

Lloyd Parks

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Stan Tracey Sextet live at the Band On The Wall in Manchester


Saturday 5th February 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 am - 12.15 pm

Rocky Sharpe & The Replays

BBC1 Rod & Emu’s Saturday Special 5.30 - 6.00 pm

Suzi Quatro

Bardot

Precious Wilson

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 6.00 - 6.35 pm

Musical Youth

BBC1 The Les Dawson Show 8.25 - 9.00 pm

Jade

BBC1 Wogan 10.05 - 10.50 pm

Chas and Dave

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Thin Lizzy

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

The Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side (re-recording)

The Fun Boy Three

Toyah

Central Saturday Stayback 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

Chas and Dave

LWT Night Life Presents 12.00 - 1.00 am

Ian Hunter (with members of the E Street Band)

C4 Zero Zero 6.45 - 7.30 pm (repeat)

Mike Batt

C4 The Other Side Of The Tracks 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Vince Clarke

Lionel Richie


Sunday 6th February 1983

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Wall Street Crash

Marvin Hamlisch

Elaine Page


Monday 7th February 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tom Jones

Tanya Tucker

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.00 pm

The Cure - join members of the Royal Ballet dance experiment

The Fun Boy Three

Musical Youth

Don Letts talks about his movies

The Decorators

BBC2 Leo 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Leo Sayer

Elkie Brooks

Incantation

TVS DJ 6.30 - 7.00 pm

content unknown

Thames Mike Yarwood In Persons 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Dana – If You Really Love Me


Tuesday 8th February 1983

BBC1 The British Rock And Pop Awards 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Hosted by Anne Diamond, David Jensen from The Lyceum, London

Bananarama, The Belle Stars, Kim Wilde, Imagination, Junior

C4 Mini-Pops 6.00 - 6.30 pm

Directed by Mike Mansfield, this, the first edition of the only series, features young kids (7 to ten years old) miming to pop hits of the day

C4 The Harder They Come 9.00 - 10.55 pm 1972 Jimmy Cliff movie


Wednesday 9th February 1983

Thames London Night Out 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Peggy Lee


Thursday 10th February 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Tony Bennett

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Janice Long, Pat Sharp

The Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times

Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong (promo clip)

Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side

Depeche Mode - Get The Balance Right

Toto - Africa (promo clip)

Level 42 - The Chinese Way

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Central Line - Nature Boy

Chart 20 - 11

China Crisis - Christian

Chart 10 - 1

Men At Work - Down Under (promo clip) number one

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.25 - 9.00 pm

Modern Romance

BBC2 Stephane Grappelli 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

Diz Disley

BBC2 Newsnight 10.40 - 11.30 pm

Randy Newman article

Granada Live at the Millionaire 11.55 pm - 12.25 am

(possibly) Marha Hunt introduces Angela Christian

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - The Peanut Vendor

Susan Maughan - Bobby's Girl

The Morton Music Machine - Break Up To Make Up

The Searchers - When You Walk In The Room

The Morton Music Machine - In The Navy (danced to by Lipstick)

The Bootleg Beatles - Come Together

The Morton Music Machine - True Love

The Searchers - Needles and Pins

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 11th February 1983

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 6.50 - 7.30

Live from Glasgow

Blancmange

Set The Tone

Paul Quinn

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

Rock photography special

Paula Yates claims everyone is snowed in

Muriel Grey

Paul Young & The Family - Love Of The Common People (promo clip, living room version)

Chart run down with names and titles altered by record shop owner, leading to a chart competition, with the winner receiving a Tube sweat shirt

Men at Work - Down Under (promo clip)

Jill Firmanovski (photographer) - interviewed by Muriel Grey

Rock photography article with Chalky Davies and Starr photographing The Fun Boy Three

Mark Miwurdz

Street murals article

Linda McCartney filmed interviewed by Paula Yates

Coming up with promo clips of Paul Young, The Belle Stars, The Fun Boy Three

David Bowie - photo montage

Archive clips of Mary Quant

The Beatles - A Day In The Life promo with Come Together soundtrack (from Filmfinders)

Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' (Toronto festival)

Myra Lewis - interviewed about her book on Jerry Lee Lewis by Jools Holland

Paul Young & The Family - Come Back and Stay, Women (live)

Two Tone Tyne Tees Alright Now article with The Specials, The Bodysnatchers

The Belle Stars - Burning, Slick Trick, Indian Summer, Sign Of The Times (live)

Madness - Our House (promo clip)

The Fun Boy Three - The More That I See, The Pressure Of Life (Takes Weight Off The Body), Tunnel Of Love, Our Lips Are Sealed, The Alibi (live) the set continues after the live transmission has finished

C4 Real Lemon ad with Kenny Everett voice over

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.00 - 9.30 pm

The Twinkle Brothers

Israel Vibrations

Matabaruka

Chalice

Marcia Griffiths

C4 Jazz On Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Sam Rivers live at the Band On The Wall in Manchester


Saturday 12th February 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.30 am - 12.30 pm

Cilla Black

BBC1 The Dukes of Hazzard 5.25 - 6.15 pm

Mickey Gilley

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 6.15 - 6.50 pm

Culture Club - I’ll Tumble For Ya

BBC1 Wogan 10.05 - 10.50 pm

content unknown

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Boy George

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Musical Youth

Spandau Ballet

Central Saturday Stayback 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

The Rockers featuring Roy Wood, Phil Lynott, Chas & Dave

Suzi Quatro

LWT Night Life Presents 12.00 - 1.00 am

Squeeze, The Q-Tips

C4 Gastank 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Donovan

Chris Farlowe

Alvin Lee

Ian Paice

Phil Lynott


Sunday 13th February 1983

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Tony Orlando

Precious Wilson

C4 Performance: Black Wax 8.15 - 9.45 pm

Gil Scott-Heron


Monday 14th February 1983

ITV Technicians walk out at 7.00 pm to attend a Union meeting

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 7.00 - 7.20 pm

Denice Williams

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.00 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Leo 8.10. 9.00 pm

Leo Sayer

Randy Crawford

Flairck (Dutch instrumentalists)

Thames Mike Yarwood In Persons 8.00 - 8.30 pm (probably not broadcast)

Jani Z (singer)

TVS DJ 6.30 - 7.00 pm

content unknown

C4 Whatever You Want 10.00 - 11.00 pm

Poetry special with Atilla The Stockbroker, Joolz, Benjamin Zephaniah

Moving Hearts

Jah Wobble

Sex Pistols (film clip)


Tuesday 15th February 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Peter Noone

BBC2 Arena: Juke Box Jazz 10.15 - 11.00 pm

Hosted by George Melly, a collection of Soundies from the 1940s

Cab Calloway, Billie Holliday, Meade Lux Lewis, Fats Waller etc

C4 Phantom Of The Paradise 9.00 - 10.40 pm 1974 movie with Paul Williams

C4 Black On Black 10.40 - 11.40 pm

Radio London Reggae Awards with Aswad, Winston Ready, General Saint

Carroll Thompson & Janet Kay


Wednesday 16th February 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.10 am

Tim Rice

BBC1 Tim Rice 10.55 - 11.33 pm (first in series)

Bonnie Tyler

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.35 pm - 12.10 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Conway Twitty 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Thames London Night Out

Dionne Warwick


Thursday 17th February 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Peter Powell, Gary Davies

Wham! - Wham Rap

Tears For Fears - Change (promo clip)

Icehouse - Hey Little Girl

Musical Youth - Never Gonna Give You Up (promo clip)

USA chart with Jonathan King in New Orleans - The Pretenders, Lionel Richie, Christopher Cross, The Stray Cats (promo clips)

Patti Austin & James Ingram - Baby Come To Me (live)

Madness - Tomorrow's (Just Another Day) (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny

Chart 20 - 11

Fun Boy Three - Tunnel Of Love

Chart 10 - 1

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy (playout and end credits) number one

BBC2 A Musical Canal Celebration 8.25 - 9.00 pm (repeat)

Mike Harding, The Spinners

Granada Live at the Millionaire 11.55 pm - 12.30 am

(possibly) Stan Sultzman

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Shout

Chris Farlowe - Stormy Monday

The Morton Music Machine - Zorba The Greek

The Equals - Viva Bobby Joe

The Morton Music Machine - I Got You (danced to Lipstick)

Chris Farlowe - Out Of Time

The Morton Music Machine - I've Never Been In Love Before

The Equals - Baby Come Back

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 18th February 1983

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Ultravox

Roman Holliday

LWT South Of Watford 11.30 pm - 12.10 am

Poetry special

Paul Weller

Seething Wells

Little Brother

Joolz

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock: The Cars 12.15 - 12.45 am

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

Australia special

Jools talks to author Nicolas Locke about his book about trash

Madness promo clip montage

Nick Laird-Clowes

Australian top ten (which featured no Australian acts)

Frank Ifield clip from Once A Jolly Swagman movie

Malcolm McLaren - Soweto (promo clip)

Mark Miwurdz

Frank Ifield - Waltzing Matilda clip from Once A Jolly Swagman movie

Colin Rowe the show's stage manager - chats to Jools and Paula

Molly from Countdown says hello from Australia

Goanna - Solid Rock (promo clip)

Midnight Oil - The Power and The Passion (promo clip)

Mental as Anything - Let's Cook (promo clip)

Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now (promo clip)

The Models - Cut Lunch, Man Of Action (promo clips)

Moving Pictures - What About Me (concert clip)

Icehouse - Hey Little Girl (promo clip)

Iva (from Icehouse) and Wendy (Wendy & the Rocketts) - chat to Paula about Australian music scene

Wendy & The Rocketts - Your Place Or Mine (promo clip)

Nick Laird-Clowes calls Icehouse "derivative"

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax / In Heaven Everything Is Fine (Tube film in the State Ballroom in Liverpool), chat to Jools

Icehouse - One By One, Street Café, Hey Little Girl (live)

Jenny Belle Star with her hat

The Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side (repeat 28th January 1983), Watching (unbroadcast at the time)

Madness – Our House, Landlord, It Must Be Love, Tomorrow's Just Another Day, Primrose Hill, The Sun and The Rain, Grey Day (live, with full band and extended stage set) the final song was unbroadcast

U2 - I Will Follow (repeat)

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

from the Albany Empire, Deptford, London


Saturday 19th February 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.15 am - 12.15 pm

Kajagoogoo

Joan Armatrading

Blue Zoo

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 6.15 - 6.50 pm

Dépêche Mode - Get the Balance Right

BBC1 Wogan 10.05 - 10.50 pm

Kajagoogoo

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

The Thompson Twins at the Regal Theatre, Hitchen

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Buster Bloodvessel

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Rocky Sharpe and The Replays

LWT Punchlines 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Anita Harris, Diane Langton

Central Saturday Stayback 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

content unknown

LWT In Concert: Billy Squire 12.00 - 1.00 am

Central Profiles In Rock: Journey 12.00 - 12.30 am

C4 The Other Side Of The Tracks 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Randy Newman

Lene Lovich

C4 Patti 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Patti Boulaye

Risque


Sunday 20th February 1983

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Cilla Black – Sing A Rainbow, You’re My World, hits medley

The Nolans

Chas and Dave

LWT Star Parade 11.25 pm - 12.25 am

The Bellamy Brothers

Mireille Mathieu

James Last

Katerina Valente


Monday 21st February 1983

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tom Jones

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Riverside: Seagulls In The Cable 6.20 - 6.50 pm

MTV Special with A Flock Of Seagulls, Duran Duran

BBC2 Leo 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Leo Sayer

Randy Newman

Tony Orlando

Suzi Quatro

C4 The Practical Book Review 5.30 - 6.00 pm

Lynsey de Paul

C4 Whatever You Want 10.00  - 11.00 pm

content unknown


Tuesday 22nd February 1983

BBC2 Arena: William Borroughs 9.30 - 11.00 pm

Frank Zappa

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story


Wednesday 23rd February 1983

BBC1 Tim Rice 11.25 pm - 12.00 am

Joan Armatrading

Thames Forsyth's Follies 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Lulu


Thursday 24th February 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Dave Lee Travis, Andy Peebles

Spandau Ballet - Communication

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (promo clip)

Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side

Toto - Africa (promo clip)

Phil Everly & Cliff Richard - She Means Nothing To Me (Zoo)

Chart 30 - 21

The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (with Eddi Reader and Clem Burke)

Chart 20 - 11

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Chart 10 - 1

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy number one (promo clip)

Depeche Mode - Get The Balance Right (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm (first in new series)

Modern Romance

BBC2 Russell Harty 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Joe Brown on the Flying Scotsman

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Dance To The Music, Maria Elena

Craig Douglas - When My Little Girl Is Smiling

The Morton Music Machine - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree

The Fortunes - You've Got Your Troubles

The Morton Music Machine - Layla (danced to by Lipstick)

Craig Douglas - Only Sixteen

The Morton Music Machine - The Resurrection Shuffle

The Fortunes - Here It Comes Again

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 25th February 1983

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 7.05 - 7.50 pm

Spandau Ballet

Spyder

Tons Tons Macoute

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Eartha Kitt

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Peter Noone talks about his West End stage show

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

London / Newcastle club special

Paula Yates with Steve Strange outside the Camden Palace

Jools Holland arrives at the Newcastle studio on a motorbike

Michel Cremona

Chic - Hanging (promo clip)

Gary James talks to Abbie James lighting engineer at the Camden Palace

Prince - 1999 (promo clip)

Mark Miwurdz

The Tube Over The Top Ten chart (spoof chart)

Clem Burke chart with Jools

Paula chats to Kim Wilde in Camden

The Gold Mine club, Canvey Island article - Paula chats to Chris Hill and patrons

Soul On Sound chat with Gary James who refer to the two women behind him holding up a poster as 'tarts'

Greg Wilson and Mike Sharp two club DJs chat to Jools

David Joseph - You Can't Hide Your Love (live at Camden Palace) with dancer Flex

Mark Miwurdz

Pathe newsreel of The Cavern, Liverpool with The Merseybeats c1963

Annie Lennox chats to Michel Cremona

Squeeze - Cool For Cats (promo clip)

Tilbrook & Difford - Labelled With Love stage show article with Jools, Labelled With Love - The Amazoon (Tube film)

John McVicar and Peter Holt chat to Paula

Visage - Anvil (Night Club School), Pleasure Boys (at Camden Palace)

The Eurythmics (with Eddi Reader) - This Is The House, Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This), Somebody Told Me, This City Never Sleeps (live in Newcastle) the final song was unbroadcast

C4 Jazz On Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

from the Albany Theatre, Deptford, London

Dizzy Gillespie

Louis Jordon


Saturday 26th February 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.15 am - 12.15 pm

Leo Sayer

Bucks Fizz

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 6.15 - 6.50 pm

Madness - Tomorrow’s Just Another Day

BBC1 Paul Squire, Esquire 8.20 - 8.55 pm

Mari Wilson

BBC1 Wogan 10.00 - 10.45 pm

Bucks Fizz

BBC2 Arena: Brian Ferry & Roxy Music 6.20 - 6.50 pm

Documentary

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Randy Newman (The Planet Theatre, Slough)

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Chas and Dave

Bananarama

LWT Punchlines 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Pearly Gates

Yorkshire 3-2-1 7.10 - 8.10 pm

Dana

Central Saturday Stayback 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

content unknown

LWT U2 12.00 - 1.00 am

Central profiles In Rock: Earth Wind and Fire 12.00 - 12.30 am

C4 Louis Armstrong All-Stars 4.00 – 4.35 pm

Concert footage from 1962

C4 Gastank 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Suzi Quatro & Len Tuckey

Alvin Lee

Ian Paice

Howie Casey

C4 Patti 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Patti Boulaye


Sunday 27th February 1983

LWT Live From Her Majesty’s 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Jack Jones

Rita Moreno


Monday 28th February 1983

BBC1 Jackanory 4.25 - 4.40 pm

Julie Covington reads The Borrowers

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tom Jones

Donny Osmond

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.00 pm

Sex Gang Children

Record industry article with Linval Golding, David Grant

BBC2 Roxy Music 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Live in Frejus, France

C4 Whatever You Didn’t Get 10.00 - 11.00 pm

A collection of unseen music clips from the series

Atilla The Stockbroker - Nigel Wants To Go To C&A, Nigel Wants To Go And See Simple Minds

Depeche Mode - band introducing song playing table tennis, Tora Tora Tora, Meaning Of Love

The Meteors - introduction with band member having a tattoo, Hills Have Eyes, Wild Thing, Wreckin' Crew

The Birthday Party - Fears Of Gun, Hamlet (Pow Pow Pow)

Weekend - introduction in a cafe, Past Meets Present, Midnight Slows, Carnival Headache

Stiff Little Fingers - introduction by Jake Burns, Touch and Go, Listen, Fly The Flag


Tuesday 1st March 1983

BBC1 Jackanory 4.25 - 4.40 pm

Julie Covington reads The Borrowers

BBC2 Russell Harty 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Eartha Kitt

BBC2 Arena: Catherine Wheel 9.30 - 11.00 pm

Twyla Tharp choreography with David Byrne

Granada Profiles In Rock: Supertramp 12.00 - 12.40 am


Wednesday 2nd March 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill At One 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Eartha Kitt

BBC1 Tim Rice 11.10 - 11.45 pm

Simon Le Bon

C4 Bones 11.15 - 11.45 pm

John Henry Nobles with Taj Mahal


Thursday 3rd March 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill at One 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Sacha Distel with Barney Kessell

BBC1 Jackanory 4.25 - 4.40 pm

Julie Covington reads The Borrowers

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Dave Jensen, John Peel

Icehouse - Hey Little Girl

Forrest - Rock The Boat (promo clip)

OMD - Genetic Engineering

Chart 30 - 21

Bananarama - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

Chart 20 - 11

Patti Austin & James Ingram - Baby Come To Me (repeat 17th February 1983)

Chart 10 - 1 ('The Top Ten Video Show') The Madness clip is different from a previous show

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (promo clip and end credits) number one

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Kajagoogoo

BBC1 (Wales) Welsh Rarebit 10.15 - 11.05 pm

Petula Clark - interview

BBC2 Grace Kennedy 8.30 - 9.00 pm (first in new series)

Grace Kennedy

BBC2 Russell Harty 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Jack Jones

Granada Live From The Millionaire 12.00 - 12.30 am

Mark Murphy

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Oh Happy Day, My Sweet Lord

Dave Berry - Little Things

The Morton Music Machine - Save The Last Dance For Me

The Tremeloes - Call Me Number One

The Morton Music Machine - Sir Duke (danced to by Lipstick)

Dave Berry - The Crying Game

The Morton Music Machine - Come On Over To My Place

The Tremeloes - Silence is Golden

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music

Thames Strictly Private 12.00 - 12.25 am

The making of Handmade Film’s Privates On Parade


Friday 4th March 1983

BBC1 Jackanory 4.25 - 4.40 pm

Julie Covington reads The Borrowers

BBC1 Pete Kelly's Blues 10.50 pm - 12.30 am 1955 movie with Peggy Lee, Louis Armstrong

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 7.10 - 7.50 pm

Duran Duran – Is There Something I Should Know, Hungry Like The Wolf (despite the singer's mic' being live he is lip synching)

The Thompson Twins

Negatives In Colour

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Jools Holland & The Millionaires

LWT South Of Watford 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

Difford & Tilbrook’s Labelled With Love musical

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

New band special

Jools Holland

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy (promo clip)

Hayzee Fantazee - Shiny Shiny (promo clip)

Martin Rushent and Kate Garner (Hayzee Fantazee) - chat to Paula

Renee and Renato - Just One More Kiss (promo clip)

Gary James

Phil Redmond interviewed on the set of Brookside by Jools

Kajagoogoo chat in dressing room with Gary James

Jools mentions Freur

Tony Basil - Shopping A-Z, Mickey (promo clips), chat with Paula in Los Angeles, Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (promo clip), David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (concert clip)

Record cover artists Peter Barrett, Ian Wright, Simon Halfon talk to Muriel Grey

Jools talks about new bands

Jimmy Gaynor (live)

Fatal Charm (live)

The Rolling Stones - She's So Cold (Let's Spend The Night Together concert clip)

The Sines (Tube film)

No's 28 (live)

The Clash - Hate and War (Tyne Tees Alright Now 1979)

Campfabulous (live)

Kajagoogoo - Kajagoogoo, Interview Rooms, Too Shy (live vocals) the live set continues after the live transmission has finished

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Sunwind live at Ronnie Scott's club in London


Saturday 5th March 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.15 am - 12.15 pm

Duran Duran

Spandau Ballet

BBC1 Paul Squire Esquire 8.20 - 9.10 pm

Musical Youth

BBC1 Wogan 10.00 - 10.45 pm

Leo Sayer

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Level 42 live in Hitchen

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Modern Romance

Central Greatest Hits 1974 5.15 - 5.45 pm (first edition)

Hosted by Mike Smith

The Wombles - Remember You're A Womble

Mike Batt - interview

The Glitter Band - Let's Get Together (promo clip), Angel Face

Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive

Les and Eric from The Bay City Rollers - interview

The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again

Mud - Tiger feet (film clip of band in yellow teddy boy jackets)

LWT Punchlines 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Cilla Black

LWT Rough Trade 12.30 - 1.30 am

Live in Toronto

C4 The Other Side Of The Tracks 7.30 - 7.30 pm

Joan Armatrading

Rick James

C4 Patti 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Patti Boulaye


Monday 7th March 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Gerry Marsden

BBC1 For Schools, Colleges: The View From The Armchair 11.42 am - 12.10 pm

Takes a look at the making of The Kenny Everett Television Show

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.00 pm

Post War Nudes

It’s Immaterial

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Whatever You Didn’t Get 10.00 - 11.00 pm

Anti-Nowhere League

The Passions

The Redskins

Southern Death Cult

Aswad


Tuesday 8th March 1983

BBC2 Russell Harty 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Toyah

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Jack Jones

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Mynter reads a story

Scottish Corries and Other Folk 7.05 - 7.35 pm

TVS Portrait Of A Legend: James Brown 11.45 pm - 12.15 am


Wednesday 9th March 1983

BBC1 Tim Rice 11.00 - 11.38 pm

Difford & Tilbrook and cast of Labelled With Love

ITV Shirley Bassey – A Special Lady 8.00 – 9.00 pm

Shirley Bassey

Robert Goulet


Thursday 10th March 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Mike Smith, Tommy Vance

Modern Romance - High Life

The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (promo clip)

Orange Juice - Rip It Up

Spandau Ballet - Communication (repeat 24th February 1983)

Chart 30 - 21

Blancmange - Waves

Chart 20 - 11

David Joseph - You Can’t Hide (Your Love From Me) (and Zoo)

Chart 10 - 1

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (promo clip) number one

Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

U2

BBC1 Claire Rayner's Casebook 11.15 - 11.40 pm

Tom Robinson

BBC2 Grace Kennedy 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Grace Kennedy

Imagination

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Barbara Ann, I've Got You Under My Skin

The Caravelles - Show Me

The Morton Music Machine - Diamonds Are Forever, Dream Baby

The Marmalade - Ob La Di Ob La Da

The Morton Music Machine - We Are Family (sung and danced to by Lipstick)

The Caravelles - You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry

The Morton Music Machine - Theme from Exodus, La Bamba

The Marmalade - Rainbow

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 11th March 1983

BBC1 Happy Endings 10.45 - 11.20 pm (repeat BBC2)

Peter Skellern

1: The Unexpected Visitations

BBC2 Scene: Ian Dury - To Be A Lunatic 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Documentary

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 7.10 - 7.50 pm

The Cure

Tons Tons Macoute

Black Roots

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm

Jools Holland with a mannequin of himself with a talking head

Paula Yates

Muriel Grey

Nick Heyward - Whistle Down The Wind (promo clip)

Freur - Doot Doot (in studio), Doot Doot (promo clip)

Promo clip director Tim Pope - chats to Muriel Grey

The Style Council - Speak Like A Child (promo clip)

Jools mannequin (aka Tarquin) used for Youth Training Scheme

Archive clips of Isle of Wight Festival 1969 (Movietone newsreel), Jimi Hendrix at Monterey International Pop Festival

David and Henry Cobbold of Knebworth House filmed article - interviewed by Muriel Grey, Elkie Brooks - Tush (Knebworth 1980), The Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda (Knebworth 1980)

Arena rock merchandising article with Brian Bilton and David Pellerman talking to Gary James

Mark Miwurdz (in the pub)

Pino Palladino (bass player) with Jools in the pub

Muriel Grey lists festivals over the coming summer

Otis Redding (Monterey Pop clip)

Students from Hollywood High with Jools and Paula

Missing Persons - Mental Hopscotch, Words, Walking In LA (live)

Jools and Muriel in the pub

Jank Mamba - Show Me Something (taped for The Tube pilot edition 1982)

Wah! - Hope (Tube film), Silver and Gold (live in studio)

Jools in pub

Deep Purple - Hush (Playboy After Dark 1968), Smoke On The Water (California Jam 1974)

Nick Heyward - Atlantic Monday (live)

U2 - Gloria (Tube film)

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

live from Ronnie Scott's Club, London

George Adams, John Pullen


Saturday 12th March 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.15 am - 12.15 pm

Clare Grogan

BBC1 Paul Squire Esquire 8.25 - 9.00 pm

Melba Moore

The Little Foxes

BBC1 Wogan 10.05 - 10.50 pm

Helen Reddy

Tommy Steele

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

A Flock Of Seagulls (The Regal Theatre, Hitchen)

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Duran Duran

Nick Heyward

Central Greatest Hits: 1968 5.15 - 5.45 pm

Mary Hopkin

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

Marmalade

Steve Ellis of The Love Affair

Yorkshire 3-2-1 7.10 - 8.15 pm

Diane Solomon

C4 Gastank 7.30 - 8.30 pm

John Entwistle

Steve Harley

Strawbs

C4 Patti 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Patti Boulaye


Sunday 13th March 1983

LWT Sunday Sunday 3.00 - 4.00 pm

Leo Sayer


Monday 14th March 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Riverside 6.20 - 6.55 pm

23 Skidoo

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

Tyne Tees An Evening With Ray Charles 11.15 pm - 12.10 am

C4 Whatever You Didn’t Get 10.00 - 11.00 pm

Spear Of Destiny - introduction, The Preacher, Love Is A Ghost

Big Country - introduction, Angle Park, Heart and Soul

The Cocteau Twins - band and Ivo from 4AD introduction, Hazel

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart - Get Carter

Moving Hearts - introduction, Terrorist or Dreamer, Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette

The Damned - Curtain Call


Tuesday 15th March 1983

BBC2 Russell Harty

Peter Paul & Mary

Kenny Everett and Mike Harding - both show home movies about their respective Sunday Afternnons

Scottish Helen 7.00 -7.30 pm

Helen McArther

C4 Black On Black 10.50 - 11.45 pm

Shani Benjamin (singer)


Wednesday 16th March 1983

BBC1 Tim Rice 10.55 - 11.35 pm

The Eurythmics


Thursday 17th March 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Tony Blackburn & Gary Davis

Blackburn's first regular show since April 1979

Bananarama - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

The Style Council - Speak Like A Child (promo clip)

Mezzoforte - Garden Party

European chart with Jonathan King - Louise Tucker, Taco, F R David - chat, Nena, Peter Schilling (promo clips)

Ultravox - Visions In Blue (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Bucks Fizz - Run For Your Life

Chart 20 - 11

Joan Armatrading - Drop The Pilot

Chart 10 - 1

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart number one

Forrest - Rock The Boat (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Duran Duran

BBC2 Grace Kennedy 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Grace Kennedy

The Nylons

BBC2 Newsnight

David Bowie at press conference at Claridge’s, London

C4 Do It! 5.30 - 6.00 pm

David Kid Jensen

The Damned

Hot Gossip

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Summertime Blues, God Only Knows

The Ivy League - Tossing and Turning

The Morton Music Machine - Forever and Ever

Vanity Fair - Early In The Morning

The Morton Music Machine - Do You Know Where You're Going To (danced to by Lipstick)

The Ivy League - Funny How Love Can Be

The Morton Music Machine - Here's That Rainy Day

Vanity Fare - Hitchin' A Ride

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 18th March 1983

BBC1 Happy Endings 10.15 - 10.50 pm (repeat)

Peter Skellern

BBC2 The Oxford Road Show 7.10 - 7.50 pm

Orange Juice

China Crisis

The Belle Stars

Photostat

Duran Duran on film

The Style Council - Headstart For Happiness

Border Country Music Jamboree 10.30 - 11.00 pm(first edition)

The Hillsiders

Mel Hague

June Brown

The Boothill Boys

LWT South of Watford 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

Michael Moorcock looks at new punk bands Blood and Roses, Brigandage and interviews Glen Matlock and Siouxsie Sioux

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 7.00 pm (last of first series, also last with Paula Yates for the time being)

Ireland / Northern Ireland special

Jools Holland introduction and Billy the Spoon (Spoonplayer)

Paula, Mike Everitt

David Bowie - preview of chat with Jools

Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Let’s Keep This Precious (unbroadcast from 3rd December 1982 live set)

Mari Wilson - chat with Jools and Paula

Donald Fagan - New Frontier (promo  clip)

Flamingos – Rock and Roll (Rock Rock Rock movie)

Big Country – Echo Park, Fields of Fire (live)

Paul Young – chat with Jools Holland

Music in Northern Ireland article

Cruella De Vill – Gypsy Girl (live)

The Outcasts – interview at Downtown Radio in Belfast, Sex and Glory (Tube film)

Good Vibrations article with Feargal Sharkey and Terri Hooley

Bank Robbers – interview at Downtown Radio in Belfast, Jenny (The Pound Club, Belfast)

Mark Miwurdz in Belfast

Perfect Crime

Henry Cluney (ex SLF) interview at Downtown Radio in Belfast

10 Past 7 – Cracking Up

Bono interview by Mike Everitt (Everitt seems to think Bono knows everybody in Ireland)

Michel Cremona and Nick Laird-Clowes

The Undertones – Got To Have You Back, Chain of Love, Luxury (live)

Mark Miwurdz

Yvonne French and Graham Fletcher talking about The Tube’s replacement show ‘Switch’

David Bowie at press conference at Claridge’s, London, Let’s Dance (promo clip)

U2 – Gloria, New Year’s Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, 40, I Will Follow (live) the final two songs are unbroadcast

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Highlights of festival in Montego Bay, Jamaica

Steel Pulse

Big Youth

Sister Nancy

Mighty Diamonds

Toots Hibbert


Saturday 19th March 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.15 am - 12.15 pm

Bonnie Tyler

B A Robertson

BBC1 Paul Squires Esquire 8.10 - 8.55 pm

Helen Reddy

BBC1 Wogan 9.45 - 10.30 pm

Peter Skellern

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

The Undertones (Hitchen)

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.15 am

Tony Hadley

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.00 pm

Joe Brown

Central Greatest Hits: 1964 5.15 - 5.45 pm

Mike Smith talks to modern day mods

The Swinging Blue Jeans - Good Golly Miss Molly (NME Pollwinners clip), Good Golly Miss Molly, Hippy Hippy Shake in studio

Pirate radio clips

Wayne Fontana - Um Um Um Um Um Um

Various pop clips from TV and film

The Merseybeats - I Think Of You

News headlines from the year

P J Proby - Somewhere

Number ones of the year

Gerry & The Pacemakers - Ferry 'Cross The Mersey

The Beatles - Tell Me Why (A Hard Day's Night film clip)

LWT Donovan 11.15 pm - 12.15 am (repeat)

C4 The Other Side Of The Tracks 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Hall & Oates

Eddy Grant


Sunday 20th March 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.35 pm - 12.15 am

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Dottie West

Jim Stafford


Monday 21st March 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Pop Carnival: Echo & The Bunnymen 6.15 - 6.45 pm (repeat)

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

Granada Coronation Street 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Carol Kaye (ex Kaye Sisters) plays Maureen

C4 Whatever You Didn’t Get 10.00 - 11.00 pm

Dead Kennedys

Talisman

Urban Shakedown

Fad Gadget

Level 42 - Foundation, Empire


Tuesday 22nd March 1983

BBC2 Russell Harty 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Gary Glitter

Granada Studio 9.00 - 10.00 pm (first episode)

Drama about a recording studio, co-written by Anthony Minghella. The final three episodes were broadcast after News at Ten due to unpopularity.


Wednesday 23rd March 1983

BBC1 Back To The Egg 3.20 - 3.53 pm (repeat)

Paul McCartney and Wings TV special

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

a live show, moved to Wednesday because of A Song For Europe

Hosted by Dave Jensen, John Peel

JoBoxers - Boxer Beat

David Bowie - Let' Dance (promo clip)

Orange Juice - Rip It Up (and Zoo)

Leo Sayer - Orchard Road (from BBC2 series Leo)

USA chart with Jonathan King in New York - After The Fire, Frida, Golden Earring, Styx, Michael Jackson (promo clips)

Big Country - Fields Of Fire (with Zoo)

Chart 30 - 21

Nick Heyward - Whistle Down The Wind

Chart 20 - 11

Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love

Chart 10 - 1

Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know number one

David Joseph - You Can’t Hide Your Love From Me (playout record with Zoo and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tim Rice 11.10 - 11.45 pm

Dave Edmunds

Michael Dolenz


Thursday 24th March 1983

BBC1 A Song For Europe 7.00 - 8.00 pm

445 songs cut down to 8 for tonight's contest

Sweet Dreams- I'm never giving up

Sam Chllds - I'm going home

Stuart Slater - All around the world

Casablanca - With love

Mirror – We’ve Got All The Time In The World

Audio - Love on your mind

Rubic - When the kissing stops

Ritzy - Keeping our love alive

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Spandau Ballet

BBC2 Grace Kennedy 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Grace Kennedy

Johnny Logan

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

The Merseybeats - Wishing And Hoping, I Think Of You

The Morton Music Machine - I Just Can't Help Believing

The Foundations - Baby Now That I Found You

The Morton Music Machine - Don't Stop Till You get Enough (danced to by Lipstick)

The Merseybeats - Sorrow

The Morton Music Machine - unknown, Blue Suede Shoes

The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music


Friday 25th March 1983

BBC1 Happy Endings 10.30 - 11.00 pm (repeat)

Peter Skellern

Border Country Music Jamboree 10.30 - 11.00 pm

Colorado

Tony Goodacre

Rose-Marie

The Moat Brothers Country Band

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm (first edition)

Hosted by Yvonne French, Graham Fletcher-Cook

The Respond Package Tour - live

The Style Council - live

The Specials - live and article in Bristol

Kings Road article

The Fun Boy Three live

C4 Reggae Sunsplash 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Big Youth

Matabaruka

Marcia Griffith

Chalice

C4 Jazz on Four 11.15 pm - 12.20 am

live in Japan

Chick Corea

Gary Burton


Saturday 26th March 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.15 am - 12.15 pm

The Belle Stars

BBC1 Paul Squire, Esquire 8.20 - 8.55 pm

Marti Webb

BBC1 Wogan 10.00 - 10.45 pm

Dolly Parton

BBC2 Sight & Sound In Concert 6.50 - 7.30 pm

Weapon Of Peace

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.15 am

Jools Holland

Central Saturday Show 10.30  am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT Greatest Hits: 1977 5.15 - 5.45 pm

The Drifters

Darts

Brotherhood of Man

Smokie

LWT Joe Cocker 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Joe Cocker live in Canada

Anglia Portrait Of A Legend: Frankie Valli 12.00 - 12.30 pm

C4 Gastank 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Roy Wood

The Cimarons

Frankie Miller

Steve Hackett

Howie Casey

C4 Patti 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Patti Boulaye


Sunday 27th March 1983

LWT Sunday Sunday 3.00 - 4.00 pm

Tommy Steele

Peter Skellern


Monday 28th March 1983

BBC1 Goin' Coconuts 10.55 am - 12.30 pm 1978 movie with Donny & Marie Osmond

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Pop Carnival: Bow Wow Wow 5.55 - 6.30 pm (repeat)

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

Border Sheena Easton 10.30 - 11.00 pm

C4 Whatever You Didn’t Get 10.00 - 11.00 pm

Orchestra Jazira

Wah!

The Undertones

The Flying Pickets

The Thompson Twins

Eddie & Sunshine


Tuesday 29th March 1983

BBC1 Wonderful Life 10.40 am - 12.30 pm 1964 movie with Cliff Richard & The Shadows

BBC1 Nationwide 6.25 - 7.00 pm

The TSB Rock School competition final

TVS Portrait Of A Legend: Merle Haggard 11.45 pm - 12.10 am

Border All Kinds of Country 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

Roger Whittaker


Wednesday 30th March 1983

BBC1 Summer Holiday 10.45 am - 12.30 pm 1963 movie with Cliff Richard & The Shadows

BBC1 Tim Rice 11.05 - 11.38 pm

Paul Jones and Roger Daltrey talk about The Beggars Opera

BBC2 Billy Cobham’s Drum Clinic 11.10 - 11.50 pm

from the Greenwood Theatre, London


Thursday 31st March 1983

BBC1 The Young Ones 10.45 am - 12.30 pm 1961 movie with Cliff Richard and The Shadows

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Richard Skinner, Steve Wright

There is a small carousel in the studio

New Order - Blue Monday (live) Stephen Morris later admitted that "it sounded awful"

The Style Council - Speak Like A Child (re-recorded lead vocal)

Mari Wilson - Cry Me A River (live vocal)

U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One (re-recorded)

Chart 30 - 20

Kajagoogoo - Ooh To Be Ah

Chart 19 - 11

Tracey Ullman - Breakaway

Chart 10 - 1

Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know (promo clip) number one

Kenny Everett as Sid Snot plugging his show which follows on BBC1

Kenny Everett - Snot Rap (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Thompson Twins

BBC2 Grace Kennedy 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Grace Kennedy

Thames Portrait Of A Legend: Paul Anka 12.00 - 12.25 am

Granada Portrait Of A Legend: Pat Boone 12.00 - 12.30 am

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Morton Music Machine - Bye Bye Love

White Plains (now with a woman lead singer) - When You Are A King

The Morton Music Machine - Una Paloma Blanca

Clodagh Rodgers - Save Me

The Morton Music Machine - Hot Legs (danced to by Lipstick)

White Plains - My Baby Loves Lovin'

The Morton Music Machine - Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto

Clodagh Rodgers - Come Back And Shake Me

The Morton Music Machine - Crazy Music

C4 Tex-Mex: The Music of the Texas-Mexican Border 8.30 - 9.30 pm

content unknown


Friday 1st April 1983 Good Friday

BBC1 Musical Youth: Roots 1.20 - 2.00 pm (repeat)

BBC1 Three More Men In A Boat 9.15 - 10.05 pm

Tim Rice

Central Songs On Tour: Janis Ian 11.50 pm - 12.35 am

ITV In His Image? 11.55 pm - end

Iris Williams - My Peace I Give To You

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

New Order - live

JoBoxers - live

Carmel - live

C4 Demis Roussos Variety Special 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Demis Roussos

Charles Aznavour

Gilbert Becaud

C4 The Sacred Music of Duke Ellington 10.20 - 11.45 pm

Live at St Paul’s Cathedral with Tony Bennett, Phyllis Hyman, Adelaide Hall, The New Swingle Singers


Saturday 2nd April 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 0 10.55 am (first in new series)

Roman Holiday

BBC1 Kids From Fame 6.45 - 7.20 pm

part one of concert from the Royal Albert Hall

BBC1 Paul Squire Esquire 7.20 - 7.55 pm

Bucks Fizz

The Flying Pickets

BBC1 Wogan 9.40 - 10.25 pm

Jerry Lee Lewis

BBC1 Rod Stewart In Concert 12.00 - 1.05 am

live at the Forum, Los Angeles

BBC2 Russell Harty 8.55 - 9.25 pm

Sacha Distel

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Dave Edmunds - Slippin’ Away

LWT Greatest Hits: 1959 5.05 - 5.45 pm

Frankie Vaughan

Freddie Fingers Lee

Craig Douglas

Tony Hall and Jimmy Henney from Oh Boy!

LWT The Cannon & Ball Easter Show 8.15 - 9.15 pm

Mari Wilson

Renee and Renate

C4 Willie Nelson: In The Spotlight 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London

C4 Patti 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Patti Boulaye


Sunday 3rd April 1983

BBC2 Brother Sun, Sister Moon 3.35 - 5.35 pm movie with Donovan songs

BBC2 All-Music Ella 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Ella Fitzgerald in concert in Pittsburgh and in conversation with Andre Previn

TSW / Channel Leeds Folk Festival 11.55 pm - 12.15 am

The Fureys with Davey Arthur


Monday 4th April 1983 Bank Holiday

BBC1 Fun In Acapulco 1963 movie with Elvis Presley

BBC1 Disney Time 5.10 - 5.55 pm

Hosted by Cilla Black

BBC1 Kids From Fame 7.40 - 8.15 pm

second part of concert

BBC2 Toni Basil Special 5.55 - 6.25 pm (repeat)

The Word Of Mouth video special

C4 Raffaella Carra In London 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Raffaella Carra

C4 Get Knighted 8.00 - 9.00 pm

The Barron Knights

C4 Mirielle Mathieu Special 10.50 - 11.20 pm

Mirielle Mathieu

Sacha Distel

Dionne Warwick


Tuesday 5th April 1983

BBC1 Paradise Hawaiian Style 11.00 am - 12.30 pm 1965 Elvis Presley movie

BBC1 Cliff! 7.0 - 8.00 pm (repeat of part one)

BBC2 The Innes Book of Records 10.25 - 10.50 pm (repeat)

Neil Innes

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Host Lisa Stansfield

John Miles - The Right To Sing

Dexy's Midnight Runners - The Celtic Soul Brothers

Kajagoogoo - Oooh To Be Aah

Yorkshire Classix Nouveaux In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

Anglia Johnny Mathis In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.35 am

Central Billy Jo Spears In Concert 11.35 pm - end

C4 Playing Turkey 10.10 - 11.35 pm

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra


Wednesday 6th April 1983

BBC1 Speedway 1966 movie with Elvis Presley

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Marti Webb sings three songs over three days from her forthcoming BBC TV special

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.30 pm - 12.10 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

BBC2 Ebony 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Misty In Roots

BBC2 One Night In Lincoln 9.00 - 9.30 pm (first of six shows)

Mike Harding

BBC2 Innes Book Of Records 10.20 - 10.45 pm (repeat)

Neil Innes

C4 Elephant Parts The Music 8.30 – 9.00 pm

Mike Nesmith music video special

C4 Jaa on Four: Tribute to Billie Holliday 11.10 pm - 12.10 am

Tribute concert from the Hollywood Bowl

Maxine Weldon

Morgana King

Carmen MacRae

Nina Simone

plus Carol Kenyon in a London club


Thursday 7th April 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.30 pm

Marti Webb sings three songs over three days from her forthcoming BBC TV special

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Simon Bates, Peter Powell and members of the cast of TV series Fame who were touring the UK at the time

A Live broadcast

Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Celtic Soul Brothers

Simon Bates with Gene Anthony Ray (Leroy) from Fame

Culture Club - Church Of The Poison Mind (promo clip)

Peter Powell with Lori Singer (Julie) from Fame

JoBoxers - Boxer Beat

Hosts with Carlo Imperato (Danny) from Fame

Twisted Sister - I Am (I’m Me)

Peter Powell with Debbie Allen (Lydia) from Fame

Michael Jackson - Beat It (promo clip)

Simon Bates with Lee Curreri (Bruno) from Fame

Tracie - The House That Jack Built

Chart 30 - 21

F.R.David - Words

Chart 20 - 11

Nick Heyward - Whistle Down The Wind

Chart 10 - 1

David Bowie - Let's Dance (promo clip) number one

Big Country - Fields Of Fire (plus Zoo and end credits)

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

The Stranglers

BBC2 Grace Kennedy 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Grace Kennedy

Peter Skellern

ITV ITV’s Channel Four Showcase: Father’s Day 8.00 - 8.30 pm

theme sung by Paul Young, written by Difford and Tilbrook


Friday 8th April 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 8.15 - 9.20 am

Dave Brubeck

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Marti Webb sings three songs over three days from her forthcoming BBC TV special

BBC1 Happy Endings 10.15 - 10.45 pm (repeat)

Peter Skellern

BBC2 Toni Basil Tape 2 9.00 - 9.30 pm

TV special made in Manchester

BBC2 The Innes Of Records 10.20 - 10.45 pm (repeat)

Neil Innes

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.35 pm - 12.20 am (first in new series)

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

Tom Petty - live in Dortmund

A Flock Of Seagulls - live in Dortmund

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.30 - 8.20 am

Brian Poole, Helen Shapiro

Border Country Music Jamboree 10.30 - 11.00 pm

Colorado

Tony Goodacre

June Brown

The Boothill Band

The Moat Brothers Country Band

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Bow Wow Wow - live set

Friends Again - live

Grace Jones

C4 The Very Hot Gossip Show 9.00 - 10.00 pm (repeat November 1982)

This replaced a Central TV produced show, a futuristic rock musical by Tony and Nick Bicat which had to be cancelled due to "contractual complications" according to The Times


Saturday 9th April 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.00 pm

Kajagoogoo

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Panel: David Grant (captain), Rick Wakeman, Stella Barker (Belle Stars) vs B A Robertson (captain), Bill Nelson, Steve Askew (Kajagoogoo)

Clips: Yardbirds - Louise (Go Tell It On The Mountain), The Tremeloes - Silence Is Golden (Pop Go The Sixties), The Shadows - Apache (Pop Go The Sixties), Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough (promo clip), The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap (TOTP), The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (promo clip), Japan - (promo clip), Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn (TOTP), Thin Lizzy - Whisley In The Jar (TOTP

BBC1 Wogan 10.05 - 10.50 pm

Barbara Dickson

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.15 am

Bananarama

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

Central Greatest Hits: 1981 5.15 - 5.45 pm

Kate Robbins - More Than In Love

Bucks Fizz - interview, Land of Make Believe

Kiki Dee

Steve Strange

Aneka

Yorkshire 3-2-1 7.15 - 8.15 pm

Sacha Distel

C4 American Bandstand 30th Anniversary 7.00 - 8.55 pm (repeat)

C4 The Cheryl Ladd Special 9.55 - 10.55 pm

Rick Springfield


Sunday 10th April 1983

BBC1 Eurovision Song Contest Preview 3.30 - 4.05 pm

part one

C4 Bert Kaempfert In Concert 7.15 - 8.15 pm


Monday 11th April 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Spandau Ballet

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 The Innes Book Of Records 10.15 - 10.40 pm (repeat)

Neil Innes

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm (first edition)

Hosted by Steve Taylor, from the Albany in Deptford

Grace Jones

Sade Adu


Tuesday 12th April 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Dr John and Chris Barber

BBC1 Cliff! 7.10 - 8.00 pm (repeat of part two)

Cliff Richard

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.20 pm - 12.00 am

Barbara Mandrell

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat of 8th April 1983)

BBC2 The Innes Book Of Records 10.25 - 10.50 pm

Neil Innes

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Chris Rea & Band - Let It Loose

The Belle Stars - Sweet Memory

Freur - Doot Doot


Wednesday 13th April 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1,45 pm

Sweet Dreams (UK's Eurovision representatives)

BBC2 Ebony 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Carroll Thompson

BBC2 One Night In Lincoln 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Mike Harding

Thames This Is Your Life: Jimmy Tarbuck 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Cilla Black


Thursday 14th April 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Andy Peebles, Gary Davies (The Daily Mirror and The Times lists the hosts as Dave Lee Travis and Andy Peebles)

Sweet Dreams - I’m Never Giving Up

The Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger (promo clip)

Bauhaus - She's In Parties

USA chart with Jonathan King - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Thomas Dolby, Hall & Oates, Dexy's Midnight Runners (promo clips)

Kissing The Pink - Last Film

Chart 30 - 21

Sunfire - Young Free and Single

Chart 20 - 11

Kajagoogoo - Ooh To Be Aah (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

David Bowie - Let's Dance (promo clip) number one

New Order - Blue Monday (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Chas and Dave

BBC2 Tomorrow 5.35 - 6.05 pm

The making of the West End production of Annie

BBC2 Peter Skellern 8.30 - 9.00 pm

The title has also been seen as Swingtime With The Nolans

The Nolans


Friday 15th April 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Dave Swarbrick and Simon Nicol

BBC1 Happy Endings 10.15 - 10.45 pm (repeat)

Peter Skellern

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm (first edition)

Host and Producer: Jonathan King

New York

content unknown

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

‘Pop-Rock In Concert’, Dortmunt 29th January 1983

REO Speedwagon, Gary Moore

Border Country Music Jamboree 10.30 - 11.00 pm

content unknown

Ulster Robert White Sings The American Songbook 10.30 - 10.45 pm

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Orange Juice - live

Yazoo – live

C4 Jazz on Four 8.30 - 9.30 pm

Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia at the Royal Albert Hall


Saturday 16th April 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.10 am

The Belle Stars

Spandau Ballet

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Panel - Ian Gillan, Tim Rice, Tracey Ullman, Jo Callis (Human League), Junior, Mark Bedford (Madness)

BBC1 Wogan 9.55 - 10.40 pm

Johnny Mathis

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Data Run with Robert Palmer

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT The Children’s Variety Performance 6.45 - 8.45 pm

Modern Romance

Kim Wilde

Kajagoogoo

Mari Wilson

TSW / Channel Average White Band 11.30 pm - 12.15 am

C4 Square Pegs 6.00 - 6.30 pm (first episode of USA series)

Theme: The Waitresses


Sunday 17th April 1983

BBC1 Eurovision Song Contest Preview 2.45 - 3.20 pm

part two

Sweet Dreams (UK entry)


Monday 18th April 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

The Barron Knights

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 The Mathis Magic 8.30 - 9.20 pm (repeat of the first of three)

Johnny Mathis

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Difford & Tilbrook

Morrissey - Mullen Band


Tuesday 19th April 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Alvin Stardust

BBC1 Cliff! 7.10 - 8.00 pm (repeat of part 3)

Cliff Richard

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat of 15th April 1983)

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Junior Giscombe

Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed

Peter Tosh - Johnny B.Goode

Central All-British Country Festival 11.35 pm - 12.35 am

content unknown


Wednesday 20th April 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.45 - 5.05 pm (first edition)

Two members of Bardo lead the teams

Sweet Dreams

Tracie

BBC2 Ebony 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Mikey Dread

BBC2 One Night In Licoln 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Mike Harding


Thursday 21st April 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Richard Skinner, Janice Long

Culture Club - Church Of The Poison Mind

Human League - Fascination (promo clip)

F.R. David - Words

Twisted Sister - I Am (I’m Me)

Toto - Rosanna (promo clip)

Heaven 17 - Temptation

Chart 30 - 21

Thompson Twins - We Are Detective (promo clip)

Chart 20 - 11

Spandau Ballet - True

Chart 10 - 1

David Bowie - Let's Dance (promo clip) number one

Michael Jackson - Beat It (playout record and audience dancing)

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Gloria Gaynor

C4 Alter Image 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Pookiesnakenburger


Friday 22nd April 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Christopher Cross

BBC1 Diary Of A Mad Housewife 10.50 pm - 12.30 am 1970 movie with Alice Cooper

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Los Angeles

Laura Brannigan

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 12.15 1.00 am (first in new series)

Theme Stone Fox Chase gets an electro-pop makeover

There is still a seated audience, but the large Starkicker logo is still seen at the back of the studio

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

Big Country - Close Action, Thousand Stars

Neil Young - Computer Age (promo clip)

Hypothetical Prophets - Person To person (promo clip)

Guitar instructional video clip

Pink Floyd - Not Now John (promo clip)

The Pale Fountains - Palm of My Hand, Hey There Fred, Free

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

The Undertones - live

Bourgie Bourgie - live

Dexy’s Midnight Runners - promo

I Level - promo

Heaven 17 - promo

Roman Holliday - live

Spandau Ballet - promo

Aztec Camera - live

C4 Jazz On Four 8.30 - 9.30 pm

Ray Charles at the Capital Jazz Festival at Knebworth


Saturday 23rd April 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.00 pm

A Flock Of Seagulls

The Fun Boy Three

BBC1 Eurovision Song Contest 1983 8.00 - 10.10 pm

UK Entry - Sweet Dreams - I'm Never Giving Up

TVAM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 pm

Steve Strange

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Gary Numan

TSW / Channel Sade Cafe In Concert 11.15 pm - 12.15 am


Monday 25th April 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 The Mathis Magic 8.30 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

Johnny Mathis

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Edward Tudor Pole (guest host)

Terry Hall & Lynval Golding from The Fun Boy Three

Paul Haig


Tuesday 26th April 1983

BBC1 Cliff! 8.10 - 9.00 pm (part four, repeat)

Cliff Richard

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.10 - 11.50 pm (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell

Dolly Parton

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat 22nd April 1983)

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Flock Of Seagulls - Nightmare

Spandau Ballet - True

Blancmange


Wednesday 27th April 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Val Doonican

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.05 pm

Team leader -Tony Blackburn (team leaders also seen as Suzi Quatro and Rocky Sharpe)

Darts

Tommy J

The Maisonettes

BBC1 Max Boyce and Friends 9.25 - 10.05 pm (first in series)

from the Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy

BBC2 One Night In Lincoln 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Mike Harding

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Julie Felix - interview


Thursday 28th April 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Elaine Page

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Phil Everly

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Host Dave Jensen & John Peel

A live broadcast and the 999th show

Galaxy With Phil Fearon - Dancing Tight

Sweet Dreams - I’m Never Giving Up

Far East chart with Dave Jensen in Singapore - Paula Tsui (Hong Kong), China Doll (Hong Kong), Lam (Singapore) - TV and promo clips

The Creatures - Miss The Girl

European chart with John Peel in Paris - Cook Da Books, Hoffman and Hoffman, Mireille Mathieu & Patrick Duffy, Nena, David Bowie - TV and promo clips

Chart 30 - 22

Tears For Fears - Pale Shelter

Chart 21 - 11

Kissing The Pink - The Last Film

Chart 10 - 1

Spandau Ballet - True (promo clip) number one

The Kids from Fame - Last Night (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Fame 8.00 - 8.50 pm

Jimmy Osmond


Friday 29th April 1983

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from New Orleans

Fats Domino, Kiss

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.50 pm - 12.30 am

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

Spandau Ballet Code of Love, Foundation, Gold

Joni Mitchell Chinese Café (live promo clip)

Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul - live

Loudon Wainwright III I Don't Think Your Wife Likes Me (live in Hitchen)

Greg Kihn Jeopardy (promo clip)

Robert Wyatt Shipbuilding (promo clip)

Robert Palmer Pride (promo clip)

MeatLoaf - interview

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Blancmange

Galaxy

The Appolonaires -

Heaven 17 -

Tears For Fears –

C4 Jazz on Four 8.30 - 9.30 pm

Lionel Hampton live at the Capital Jazz Festival at Knebworth Park


Saturday 30th April 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.05 am

The Fixx

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.35 - 7.05 pm

Panel - Simon Kirke, Hazel O’Connor, George Michael, Jools Holland, Bill Bruford, Buster Bloodvessell

BBC1 Val Doonican Music Show 8.45 - 9.30 pm

Val Doonican

Sky

Chas and Dave

Nana Mouskouri

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

compilation show

Yorkshire 3-2-1 7.35 - 8.35 pm

Vince Hill

TSW ELO In Concert 11.05 pm - 12.15 am

LWT Leeds Folk Festival 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

Maxi & Mitch, Bob Fox, Stu Luckley

Granada Dave Edmunds In Concert 12.55 - 1.40 am


Sunday 1st May 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters


Monday 2nd May 1983 Bank Holiday

BBC1 Mike Read’s Replay Selection 5.30 - 6.10 pm

JoBoxers - Boxer Beat

Altered Images - Don’t Talk To Me About Love

Bad Manners - Sampson and Delilah

Roger Glover and Friends - Butterfly Ball (promo clip)

Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling

Talk Talk - Talk Talk

Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny

David Bowie - Let’s Dance (promo clip)

Kissing the Pink - The Last Film

Kevin Rowland and Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Let’s Get This Straight

Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.45 - 9.20 pm

Phil Collins

C4 Loose Talk

guest host - Geoff Dean (singer)

Ray Lowry (NME cartoonist)

The Chevallier Brothers


Tuesday 3rd May 1983

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat 29th April 1983)

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Lonnie Donegan - interview

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Phil Everly - Sweet Pretender

Modern Romance - Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm

The Undertones - Chain Of Love

Yorkshire / Border Antibes Jazz Festival 11.35 pm - 12.05 am

content unknown

TVS Portrait Of A Legend: Aretha Franklin 11.35 pm - 12.05 am

Thames Portrait Of A Legend: Tina Turner 12.05 - 12.30 am


Wednesday 4th May 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Max Boyce

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.05 pm

Thereza Bazar & Gary Davies – team leaders

The Belle Stars - Sweet Memories

Bad Manners - That'll Do Nicely

Hot Chocolate - What Kind of Boy Are You Looking For Girl

BBC1 Max Boyce and Friends 9.30 - 10.10 pm

Max Boyce

BBC2 Ebony 7.25 - 7.55 pm

content unknown

BBC2 One Night In Lincoln 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Mike Harding


Thursday 5th May 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops The 1000th Edition 7.10 - 8.00 pm (simulcast in stereo on Radio One)

It was revealed this week that Thin Lizzy had turned up late for rehearsals for a recent show and were told to go home

The weekly audience was about eleven million by this time

Introduction by Jimmy Savile

The Kids from Fame - Friday Night (playing in background)

The Thompson Twins - We Are Detective

Peter Powell with Steve Strange

Simon Bates with Roger Taylor and John Deacon (from Queen)

Human League - Fascination

Andy Peebles, Janice Long and Tommy Vance with Imagination

The Beat - Can’t Get Used To Losing You (re-recording)

Dave Lee Travis and Noel Edmonds

The 60s - TOTP clips from Dave Clark Five, Billy J Kramer, The Supremes, Sonny & Cher, The Rolling Stones, The Bee Gees, The Beatles (Our World), Cliff Richard, Manfred Mann, Joe Cocker (How It Is), The Status Quo, The Move, Cilla Black

Dave Lee Travis, Noel Edmonds with Cilla Black

Heaven 17 & Carol Kenyon - Temptation

Noel Edmonds, Steve Wright and Tony Blackburn with Chas & Dave, Gary Glitter

The 70s - TOTP clips from The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Elton John, T Rex, David Bowie, Gary Glitter, ABBA, Queen, 10cc, The Booomtown Rats, Blondie

The 80s - TOTP clips from The Police, Adam Ant, Duran Duran

Noel Edmonds with Bill Wyman, Gary Numan

New Edition - Candy Girl (Zoo)

Dave Jensen with Jeffrey Daniels (Shalamar)

John Peel with Claire Grogan

Jonathan King in New York introducing greetings from The Police, Charlene, Lionel Richie, Meat Loaf, Rod Stewart

Paul Gambaccini and Mike Read

Chart 30 - 21

Blancmange - Blind Vision

Mike Read with Sandie Shaw, Kim Wilde

Chart 20 - 11

The Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed

Gary Davies, Pat Sharp and Mike Smith with Bucks Fizz

Charts 10 - 1

Spandau Ballet - True number one

Outro by Jimmy Savile

Men At Work - Overkill (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Lulu 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

live at Blazer's Club, Windsor

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 pm

Jimmy Savile (probably talking about the TOTP 1000th edition)

Thames Rowan’s Report 4.30 – 4.45 pm

Annabella Lewin (Bow Wow Wow)


Friday 6th May 1983

BBC1 The Time Of Your Life: Henry Cooper 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Gerry & The Pacemakers

BBC2 Did You See? 7.50 - 8.35 pm

John Peel on Rock music on television

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Dallas / Fort Worth

Hall & Oates

Julio Inglasias

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.50 pm - 12.35 am

Introduced by David Hepworth

The Fun Boy Three live at the Regal Theatre, Hitchen

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

UB40 - live

Spandau Ballet - live

Paul Haig – live

C4 Jazz on Four 8.30 - 9.30 pm

The Modern Jazz Quartet live at the Capital Jazz Festival, London 1982


Saturday 7th May 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.15 pm

JoBoxers

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.35 - 7.05 pm

Panel: Jake Burns (captain), Martin Kemp, John Deacon, vs Dave Edmunds (captain), Maggie Bell, Martin Chambers

Clips: The Everly Brothers - Walk Right Back (USA TV), The Beatles - From Me To You (Washington Collessium), Aretha Franklin - It's In His Kiss (Shindig!), Billy Preston - Satisfaction (Shindig!), The Beach Boys - Bluebirds Over The Mountain (Beat Club), Tom Petty - Shout (concert clip), Mott The Hoople - Honnaloochie Boogie (promo clip), The Clash - Rock The Casbah (promo clip), The Who - I Can See For Miles (Pop Go The Sixties)

BBC1 Val Doonican Music Show 8.40 - 9.25 pm

Val Doonican

Cleo Laine

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm (first networked show)

Bad Manners

Yorkshire 3-2-1 7.35 - 8.35 pm

Marion Montgomery

Anglia Tales of the Unexpected: Heir Presumptuous 9.30 - 10.00 pm

David Cassidy

TSW / Channel Randy Edelman Live 12.00 - 12.30 am

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock: Van Halen 12.00 - 12.30 am


Monday 9th May 1983

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 7.20 - 8.00 pm compilation

BBC2 The Mathis Magic 8.30 - 9.20 pm (repeat)

Johnny Mathis

BBC2 Arena: It’s All True 9.25 - 10.55 pm

Julian Temple directed vision of the future of video communication

Boy George, Mari Wilson & Ray Davies, Grace Jones

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

guest presenter - Paul Morley (NME writer)

Eddi and Sunshine


Tuesday 10th May 1983

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat 6th May 1983)

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Musical Youth special

Thames Portrait of a Legend: Kenny Rogers 12.00 - 12.25 am

TVS Portrait of a Legend: Alice Cooper 11.30 pm - 12.00 am


Wednesday 11th May 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.00 pm

Team leader Bernadette Nolan

JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky'

Modern Romance - Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm

Kissing The Pink - The Last Film

BBC1 Max Boyce and Friends 9.25 - 10.05 pm

max Boyce

BBC2 Ebony: Robert Nesta Marley 7.35 - 8.05 pm

documentary


Thursday 12th May 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Tommy Vance (who announces that it's edition 1001), Mike Read

Modern Romance - Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm (with Will Gaines dancing)

Hall & Oates - Family Man (promo clip)

The Belle Stars - Sweet Memory

Pink Floyd - Not Now John (promo clip)

Hot Chocolate - What Kinda Boy You Lookin' For

Galaxy with Phil Fearon - Dancing Tight

Chart 30 - 21

The Creatures - Miss The Girl (with Zoo)

Chart 20 - 11

Men At Work - Overkill

Chart 10 - 1

Agnetha Faltskog - says hello and plugs her new single and album

Spandau Ballet - True (promo clip) number one

Kissing The Pink - The Last Film (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Second Sight 5.40 - 6.25 pm (repeat)

The Thompson Twins at the Regal Theatre, Hitchen

BBC2 The Young Ones 9.00 - 9.35 pm (repeat)


Friday 13th May 1983

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Florida

content unknown

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.40 pm - 12.25 am

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter, Back On Board

Annabel Lamb - Missing, Heartlands

The Police - Every Breath You Take (promo clip)

Muddy Waters - Hootchie Kootchie Man (film)

Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul - Forever (promo clip)

Charts article

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

The Beat

David Joseph

Aztec Camera

Wham! - (promo video)

Malcolm Mclaren - (promo video)


Saturday 14th May 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.10 am

Spandau Ballet

BBC1 The Keith Harris Show 6.15 - 6.50 pm

Cilla Black – Beautiful Boy

Sweet Dreams

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.50 - 7.20 pm

Panel - Nick Lowe, Suzi Quatro, Hank Marvin, Roger Taylor (Queen), John Martyn & Stephen Luscombe (Blancmange)

BBC1 The Val Doonican Music Show 8.45 - 9.30 pm

Val Doonican

Dionne Warwick

Gheorghe Zamfir

BBC2 John Denver: His Guitar and His Music 11.30 pm - 12.25 am part one (repeat)

TV-AM Data Run 8.32 - 9.15 am

Madness

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Modern Romance

TSW / Channel Nazareth Live In Concert 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

Yorkshire Jazz From De Kroeg 11.25 pm - 12.25 am

content unknown

Granada The Stranglers In Concert 1.05 - 1.45 am


Sunday 15th May 1983

Central Music International Presents 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

Black Sabbath in concert


Monday 16th May 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Jose Feliciano

BBC1 (West) RPM 6.50 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC2 The Best Of Russell Harty 8.30 - 9.25 pm

compilation with Grace Jones, Rod Stewart

BBC2 Private Lives 10.15 - 10.50 pm

Peter Skellern

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

The Three Degrees

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Coati Mundi

14 Carat Gold


Tuesday 17th May 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 8.45 - 9.05 am

Larry Adler

BBC1 Battle of the Pop Bands 7.10 - 7.55 pm

Hosted by David Jensen

Panel - Jenny (from The Belle Stars), Kevin Godley, Alf (Yazoo)

Six new bands, Dutch, Moscow, Blasé, Kick Partners, Uma Vogue, Sugar Ray Five

plus Shakatak

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.20 pm - 12.00 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Teddy Pendergrass

Mickey Gilley

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm also seen as 5.35 - 6.15 pm (repeat 13th May 1983)

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Liza Minnelli

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Nick Lowe - Raging Eyes

Altered Images - Bring Me Closer

Blancmange - Blind Vision

Thames Portrait of a Legend: James Brown 12.45 - 12.40 am

Central No Excuses (first two episodes 9.00 – 10.00 pm and 10.45 – 11.50 pm)

Not fully networked as Thames decide to show all episodes after News At Ten

Charlotte Cornwall (from Rock Follies) plays Shelley Maze, a rock singer in this seven-part drama series with music and lyrics by Andy J Clark

Yorkshire Antibes Jazz Festival 11.45 pm - 12.15 am


Wednesday 18th May 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.05 pm

Team leaders: Tony Blackburn and Deborah Appleby

The Beat

David Van Day – Young Americans Talking

Big Country

BBC1 Max Boyce and Friends 9.45 - 10.25 pm

Max Boyce

Mary Hopkin

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Anita Harris

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Georgie Fame


Thursday 19th May 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

The Daily Mirror have the Manchester United football team as making an appearance

Hosted by Simon Bates and Gary Davies

A live broadcast

D Train - Music part one

New Edition - Candy Girl (promo clip)

David Grant - Stop and Go

Blancmange - Blind Vision (promo clip)

The Beat - I Can’t Get Used To Losing You

Wham! - Bad Boys (promo clip)

Members of the Brighton football team with their FA Cup song playing in the background

JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky

The Police talk to Simon Bates and plug their new single Every Breath You Take

Charts 30 - 20

Yazoo - Nobody’s Diary

Charts 19 - 7

The Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed

Charts 6 - 1

Spandau Ballet - True (promo clip and end credits) number one

BBC2 The Young Ones: Bomb (repeat)

Thames No Excuses 10.45 pm - 12.40 am

first two episodes

C4 Alter Image 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Philip Greenwood video maker with Calling Hearts (promo video)


Friday 20th May 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 8.45 - 9.00 am

David Essex

BBC1 Time Of Your Life 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Tony Blackburn

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from New York City

content unknown

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.35 pm - 12.10 am

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

Marillion - Forgotten Sons

Wah - Remember, I Know There Was Something

Meatloaf - interview, clips from 'Dead Ringer' movie

Heaven 17 - Let Me Go (promo clip)

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

The B52s - live

Prince Charles & The City Beat Band

The Style Council - Money Go Round

Maze -


Saturday 21st May 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.00 am

Blue Zoo

Poparound: The Police interviewed by Peter Powell

BBC1 The Keith Harris Show 6.16 - 6.50 pm

Junior

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.50 - 7.20 pm

Panel - David Gilmour, Mick Ralphs, Mari Wilson Vs John Taylor, Andy Fairweather-Low, Martyn Ware

BBC1 The Val Doonican Music Show 8.55 - 9.40 pm

Val Doonican

Sweet Dreams

Don Williams

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.00 - 9.15 am

Mari Wilson - interview

TVS Number 73 9.30 - 11.00 am

Dave Jensen - interview

LWT Chas N Dave’s Knees Up 7.30 - 8.15 pm (first edition)

Linda Lewis

Eric Burden – Lawdy Miss Clawdy

Yorkshire Profiles In Rock: Smokey Robinson 11.55 pm - 12.30 am

HTV West In Concert 11.55 pm - 12.25 am

The Blues Band


Sunday 22nd May 1983

BBC2 John Denver: His Guitar and His Music part two 11.40 pm - 12.40 am

live at the Appollo Theatre, Victoria, London

LWT This Sporting Summer 1.45 - 2.15 pm

Roger Daltrey on trout fishing

Central Music International 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

ELO in concert

HTV West The Cimarons Live at The Fair Deal, Brixton 11.15 pm - 12.15 am


Monday 23rd May 1983

BBC1 Film ‘83 11.20 pm - 12.00 am

David Bowie talks about Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

ITV A Better Read 12.30 - 1.00 pm

Ian Dury talks about his favourite books

Yorkshire Average White Band 11.35 pm - 12.10 am

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Aztec Camera

The Joeys


Tuesday 24th May 1983

BBC1 Perry Como’s Spring in San Francisco 12.40 - 1.28 am (repeat)

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat 20th May 1983)

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Bonnie Tyler

The Police

Kajagoogoo - Hang On Now

UK Players

Yorskhire Antibes Jazz Festival 11.55 pm - 12.25 am

C4 Paul Robeson: Tribute To An Artist 11.25 - 11.55 pm 1979 documentary


Wednesday 25th May 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.05 pm

Team Leaders: Cheryl Baker & Bobby Dubby (from Bucks Fizz)

Blue Zoo - Forgive and Forget

Yazoo - Nobody's Diary

Rocky Sharpe & The Replays - Stop Please Stop

BBC2 Ebony 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Peter Tosh

TVAM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Rick Wakeman

ITV Film Fun – The Movie 4.20 - 4.45 pm

A look at pop music in movies with David Essex, Cliff Richard, The Rolling Stones

Thames Simon & Garfunkel Concert In Central Park 10.40 pm - 12.20 am


Thursday 26th May 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 6.55 - 7.15 pm

A shorter than normal show due to the FA Cup Final replay - According to the Radio Times the regular edition would have run from 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Peter Powell, Pat Sharp

Big Country - In A Big Country

Chart 30 - 13

Manchester United - Glory Glory Man United (promo clip)

The Style Council - The Money Go Round (promo clip)

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Buffalo Solider (promo clip)

Hot Chocolate - What Kinda Boy You Lookin' For

Chart 9 - 7

The Police - Every Breath You Take (presumably recorded at last week's show)

Chart 6 - 1

New Edition - Candy Girl (promo clip) number one

Forrest - Feel The Need In Me (playout record and audience dancing)

Thames No Excuses 10.45 - 11.45 pm part 3

Charlotte Cornwell plays a rock star


Friday 27th May 1983

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

From Chicago

Bryan Ferry - interview

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 12.00 - 12.45 am

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

The Waterboys - I Will Not Follow, The Three Day Man

The Eurythmics - This City Never Sleeps, The Walk

Elton John - I'm Still Standing, I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues (Promos)

Steve Miller - Gangster Of Love (promo clip)

Neil Young - Sample and Hold (film clip)

David Bowie - China Girl (promo clip un-cut version)

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Sandie Shaw

LWT James Bond - The First 25 Years From Dr No To Octopussy 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney

C4 Switch 6.30 - 7.00 pm (shorter due to election broadcast beforehand)

Mari Wilson

Altered Images

I Level


Saturday 28th May 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.00 pm

Ultravox

BBC1 The Keith Harris Show 5.50 - 6.25 pm

Gloria Gaynor

sweet Dreams

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.25 - 6.55 pm

Panel: Roy Wood (captain), Clare Grogan, Leee John vs Paul Jones (captain), Edwyn Collins, Brian Robertson

Clips: Curved Air - Back Street Love (Beat Club), T Rex - Get It On (TOTP), The Mixtures - The Pushbike Song (TOTP), The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket (TOTP), Status Quo - What You're Proposing (TOTP), Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers (promo clip), The Tubes - TV Is King (promo clip), David Essex - Hold Me Close (TOTP), Dion - The Wanderer (movie clip), Little Richard - Lucille (movie clip), Buzzcocks - 16 Again (Old Grey Whistle Test), The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On (TOTP film), The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic (The Big TNT Show)

BBC1 The Val Doonican Music Show 9.30 - 10.15 pm

Val Doonican

Ronnie Milsap

Rita Coolidge

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

David Essex

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

Yorkshire Profiles in Rock: The Police 12.15 - 12.45 am


Sunday 29th May 1983

LWT Peter Sarsdedt: A Portrait 11.30 pm - 12.20 am

Central Music International 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

Thin Lizzy in concert


Monday 30th May 1983 Bank Holiday

BBC1 Mike Read’s Replay Selection 5.00 - 5.35 pm

Tracey Ullman - Breakaway

Orchestra Manoeuvres in the Dark - Telegraph

Madness - Our House

Goofy - You Can Always Be No. 1

Bucks Fizz - Run For Your Life

The Kids From Fame - Friday Night

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

Kajagoogoo - Ooh To Be Ah

Spandau Ballet - True

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 6.40 - 7.20 pm

Kajagoogoo - Hang On Now

BBC1 The Little and Large Show 7.20 - 7.55 pm

The Shadows

BBC1 The Spinners On Tyneside 10.55 - 11.23 pm

BBC2 Private Lives 9.45 - 10.20 pm

Peter Skellern

Thames The Outrageous Millie Jackson 11.45 pm - 12.40 am

Live in Manchester

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Robert Wyatt and Elvis Costello

Matt Fretton


Tuesday 31st May 1983

BBC1 South East At Six 6.05 - 6.25 pm

(possibly) David Bowie interview

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

content unknown

Thames CB TV Channel 14 4.45 - 5.15 pm

Kajagoogoo on the road special

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat of 27th May 1983)

with the David Bowie China Girl promo clip edited

C4 Petula Clark Variety Special 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Filmed in France

Petula Clark

The Pasadena Roof Orchestra


Wednesday 1st June 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.05 pm

The Police - Every Breath You Take

The Fun Addicts - Bad Boys

David Grant - Stop and Go

BBC2 Ebony 7.35 - 8.00 pm

Compilation show - Shalamar, Gregory Isaacs, Imagination, Melba Moore

TSW / Channel Tom Jones at KNotts 11.40 pm - 12.35 am


Thursday 2nd June 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Jimmy Savile and Tony Blackburn

A live broadcast

Wham! - Bad Boys

Elton John - I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues (promo clip)

JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky

USA chart with Jonathan King in Las Vegas - The Tubes, Bryan Adams (live clip), Irene Cara - promo clips

Booker Newbury III - Love Town

Yazoo - Nobody’s Diary

Chart 30 - 21

Flash & The Pan - Waiting For A Train (Zoo)

Chart 20 - 11

The Style Council - The Money-Go-Round (possibly a re-recording)

Chart 10 - 1

The Police - Every Breath You Take (promo clip) number one

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Buffalo Solider (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Second Sight 5.35 - 6.20 pm 5.35 - 6.20 pm

UB40 (Sight & Sound In Concert)

BBC2 Food and Drink 8.35 - 9.00 pm

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull on his fish farm

BBC2 The Young Ones 9.00 - 9.35 pm (repeat)

Central Central News 6.25 - 7.05 pm

David Bowie concert report

Thames Michael Barrymore 9.10 - 9.40 pm

Jade - Liar

ITN News At Ten 10.00 - 10.30 pm

David Bowie concert report

Thames No Excuses 10.45 - 11.45 pm

Charlotte Cornwell

Granada Elton John and Synde Rome Show 11.45 pm - 12.35 am

TVS Dick Cavett Meets Abba 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

HTV West Gillan In Concert 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

C4 Film On Four: Living Apart Together 9.40 - 11.25 pm 1983 movie

with B A Robertson


Friday 3rd June 1983

BBC1 (South) Jazz In The Park 10.35 - 11.05 pm

The Lennie Best Quintet with Ruth Allen

BBC1 (Northern Ireland) As I Roved Out .......... Ralph McTell 10.35 - 11.05 pm

Ralph McTell

Jargon

BBC2 Did You See 7.50 - 8.35 pm

Sandie Shaw on review panel

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from New York

content unknown

BBC2 Out On The Floor 9.30 - 10.05 pm

Play about the Northern Soul scene

BBC1 Pete Sayers Electric Music Show 10.05 - 10.40 pm

Pete Sayers

Diane Somers

Steve Somer Western Boogie Band

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 11.40 pm - 12.45 am

Hosted by David Hepworth, Mark Ellen

Nick Lowe might have been scheduled to appear

Roman Holliday - Motormania, No Ball Games

Robert Wyatt - Born Again Cretin, Shipbuilding

Computer disc demo's with Chris Sievey And Pete Shelley

Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages (promo clip)

ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin' (promo clip)

Bob Seger - Even Now (promo clip)

Donald Fagen - New Frontier (promo clip)

C4 Switch 6.30 - 7.00 pm

Japan - (promo clip)

Robert Wyatt - (promo clip)

Yello - (promo clip)

Main T Posse - live

Imagination - live


Saturday 4th June 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.35 - 11.00 pm

Orange Juice

BBC1 The Keith Harris Show 6.15 - 6.40 pm

Modern Romance

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.50 - 7.20 pm

Panel - Midge Ure (Captain) Tracie & Paul Young versus Bob Geldof (Captain), Jon Moss & Tom Bailey

BBC1 The Val Doonican Music Show 8.50 - 8.35 pm

Val Doonican

David Essex

BBC2 Dave Brubeck Live at the Vineyard 11.20 pm - 12.25 am

live in California

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

ITV Just Amazing 7.00 - 7.45 pm (first in series0

co-hosted by Kenny Kynch

LWT Chas and Dave’s Knees Up 7.45 - 8.35 pm

Chas and Dave

Lulu

Rocky Sharpe & The Replays

HTV Nazareth In Concert 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

Granada Evening with Sad Cafe 12.15 - 1.20 am


Sunday 5th June 1983

Central Music International Presents Mireille Mathieu 11.40 pm - 12.40 am


Monday 6th June 1983

BBC2 Petula 8.30 - 9.25 pm

Petula Clark in concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

BBC1 Private Lives 10.10 - 10.45 pm

Peter Skellern

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

Yorkshire At Home With The Spinners 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

HTV West ELO In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Elvis Costello (aka The Imposter) - Pills and Soap


Tuesday 7th June 1983

BBC1 Dean Martin, This Is Your Lunch 10.50 - 11.28 pm

Variety Club celebration at The Hilton Hotel, London

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat of 3rd June 1983)

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Vince Hill

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Bucks Fizz - When We Were Young

Seona Dancing (with Ricky Gervais) - More To Lose

China Crisis

The Bloomsbury Set


Wednesday 8th June 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 4.40 - 5.05 pm

Team leaders: members of the group Bardo

Nick Heyward

Bucks Fizz

Kissing the Pink

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.20 - 8.00 pm

Transmission changed to Wednesday because of the General Election the following day. A new version of the title sequence with a television screen is used.

Hosted by John Peel, Dave Jensen

Twisted Sister - The Kids Are Back

David Bowie - China Girl (promo clip - edited version)

Ultravox - We Came To Dance

Irene Cara - Flashdance (What A Feeling) (promo clip)

H2O - I Dream To Sleep

George Benson - Lady Love Me (One More Time) (Solid Gold USA TV)

The Imposter (Elvis Costello) - Pills and Soap

Chart 30 - 21

Shakatak - Dark Is The Night

Chart 20 - 11

Big Country - In A Big Country (Peel - 'the band that put the tree into Big Country')

Chart 10 - 1

The Police - Every Breath You Take (repeat 26th May 1983) number one

Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (playout record and audience dancing)

Thames Jim Davidson’s Special 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Roy Wood


Thursday 9th June 1983

BBC2 The Young Ones 9.00 - 9.30 pm (final episode)

C4 Do You Remember? 7.30 - 8.30 pm

Stuart Henry Multiple Sclerosis appeal show

Craig Douglas

Del Shannon

Bert Weedon

Karl Denver

C4 Alter Image 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Poookiesnakenburger


Friday 10th June 1983

BBC2 Pete Sayers Electric Music Show 10.10 - 10.45 pm

Pete Sayers

Diane Solomon

Joe Fagin

Terry McMillan

TSW / Channel Black Sabbath Live 11.40 pm - 12.35 am

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

The Bluebells - live

The Style Council – (repeat)

The Undertones - (repeat)

C4 Silk Cut Festival of Jazz 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Live at The Barbican, London

Peggy Lee with Louis Belson - Mr Wonderful, Fever


Saturday 11th June 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 10.40 pm

John Miles

Clare Grogan

Kissing The Pink

BBC1 The Keith Harris Show 6.15 - 6.50 pm

Bobby Crush (the pianist had written Keith & Orville's hit I Wish I Could Fly)

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.50 - 7.20 pm

Panel: Cliff Richard (captain), Cheryl Baker, Stuart Adamson vs Micky Dolenz (captain), Hal Lindes, Nick Heyward

Clips: The Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster (Beat Club), The Police (OGWT), Joni Mitchell - Carey (concert clip), The Ronettes - Be My Baby (The Big TNT Show), Dionne Warwick - All The Love In The World (promo clip), The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (black and white promo clip), The Jam - Man In The Corner Shop (concert clip), XTC - Statue Of Liberty (Sight And Sound In Concert), The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man (The Big TNT Show)

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT Chas and Dave’s Knees Up 7.45 - 8.45 pm

Chas and Dave

Mike Berry – Rave On

The Flying Pickets

Granada Mink DeVille In Concert 1.00 - 1.45 am


Monday 13th June 1983

BBC2 The Good Old Way 7.40 - 8.00 pm (first of four)

The Watersons at the Co-Op Folk Club, Nottingham

BBC2 Petula 9.20 - 10.15 pm

Part two of Petula Clark’s show with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Loose Talk 5.30 - 6.30 pm (repeated on 16th May 1983)

Eddie Tenpole Tudor - The Hayrick Song

Jools Holland - Flip Flop and Fly


Tuesday 14th June 1983

ITV Lady Killers: Not For The Nervous 2.30 - 3.30 pm (repeat)

Elaine Page

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Nick Heyward - Take That Situation

Freur - Matters Of The Heart

China Crisis

TVS Portrait of a Legend: Andy Williams 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

Thames Portrait of a Legend: Rick Nelson 12.00 - 12.25 am

Yorkshire Antibes Jazz festival 11.30 pm - 12.00 am


Thursday 16th June 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.15 am

Charles Aznavour

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.25 - 8.00 pm

A live broadcast

Hosted by Dave Lee Travis, Mike Read 7.25 - 8.00 pm

Imagination - Looking At Midnight

Kajagoogoo - Hang On Now (promo clip)

Nick Heyward - Take That Situation

Shalamar - Dead Giveaway

Bucks Fizz - When We Were Young (promo clip)

The Truth - Confusion Hits Us Every Time

Chart 30 - 21

Marillion - Garden Party

Chart 20 - 11

Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (Zoo)

Chart 10 - 1

The Police - Every Breath You Take (promo clip) number one

Flash and The Pan - Waiting For A Train (Zoo and end credits)

BBC2 Second Sight 5.35 - 6.20 pm (repeat of Sight & Sound In Concert)

Level 42

Thames No Excuses 10.30 - 11.30 pm (episode 5)

Charlotte Cornwell

C4 Alter Image 8.30 - 9.00 pm

The Residents


Friday 17th June 1983

BBC1 Nationwide 6.25 - 6.50 pm

Steve Rourke (manager of Pink Floyd)

BBC2 Pete Sayer's Electric Music Show 10.15 - 10.50 pm

Pete Sayers

Diane Solomon

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 pm

Tony Blackburn

TSW ? Channel Donovan In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.25 am

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Coati Mundi -

Nick Heyward –

Nona Hendrix - B Boys

Talking Heads (promo clip)

The Residents (promo clip)

Malcolm McLaren (promo clip)

C4 Jazz On Four 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Blossom Dearie at the Silk Cut Festival of Jazz

C4 All Of You Out There 10.30 - 11.30 pm

Stuart Henry documentary


Saturday 18th June 1983

BBC1 Get Set 10.05 - 10.37 am

A shorter than usual show due to sport

Cava Cava

Toto Coelo

Peter Powell looks at three bands he think will succeed - Thirteen At Midnight, The Bloomsbury Set, Jimmy The Hoover

Nick Heyward - interview

BBC1 The Keith Harris Show 6.15 - 6.50 pm

Wall Street Crash

Grace Kennedy

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.50 - 7.20 pm

Panel - Robert Plant (captain), Glenn Tilbrook, Sarah (from Bananarama) versus Bev Bevan (captain), Andy MacKay, Dave Gahan

BBC1 The Val Doonican Music Show 8.50 - 9.35 pm

Val Doonican

Charles Aznavour

The Chieftains

Blossom Dearie

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Tom Robinson – live set

Elton John interview, I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues (promo clip)

LWT Chas and Dave’s Knees Up 7.45 - 8.35 pm

Chas and Dave

Capt Sensible

Bernie Flint

Granada Profiles In Rock: Asia 12.15 - 12.45 am


Sunday 19th June 1983

BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test 9.10 - 10.05 pm

Joni Mitchell at Wembley Arena, April 1983 (a stereo simulcast on Radio One)

LWT Ray Charles In Concert 11.00 pm - 12.00 am


Monday 20th June 1983

BBC2 The Good Old Ways 7.40 - 8.30 pm

Alison MacMorland, Pete Webb at the Co-Op Folk Club, Nottingham

BBC2 The Vocal Touch 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Lulu

Edwina Lawrie (Lulu's sister)

BBC2 Private Lives 9.00 - 9.35 pm

Peter Skellern

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

C4 Ear To The Ground 11.00 - 11.55 pm (youth current affairs show)

Hazel O’Connor looks back at the past week's events


Tuesday 21st June 1983

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 pm

Joe Loss

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Peter Schilling - Major Tom

Ashton & Hayes - Resurrection Shuffle

Dead Or Alive - Mystic Circles

The Truth

Anthony Daniels from Star Wars

Yorkshire Antibes Jazz Festival 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

TVS Portrait of a Legend: Sly Stone 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

Thames Portrait of a Legend: Pat Boone 12.00 - 12.25 am


Wednesday 22nd June 1983

BBC2 The Vocal Touch 8.25 - 9.00 pm (repeat)

Ben Vereen

Thames Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Cilla Black – Stay, Liverpool Lullaby


Thursday 23rd June 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Simon Bates, Peter Powell

A Live broadcast

Freeez - I.O.U. (re-recording)

Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (promo clip - first version)

Elton John - I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues

European charts with John Peel in Amsterdam - The Dolly Dots (interview clip), The Shorts, Geier Sturzflug, Robin Gibb, Daniel - promo and TV clips

Shakatak - Dark Is The Night

Chart 30 - 20

Simon Bates chats to cricketer Dennis Lilley

Mike Oldfield with Maggie Reilly - Moonlight Shadow

Chart 18 - 11

H2O - I Dream To Sleep

Chart 10 - 1

The Police - Every Breath You Take number one (promo clip tinted blue)

ELO - Rock N Roll Is King (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now 11.15 - 11.40 pm (first of nine USA filmed shows)

Tom Jones

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Clannad

Thames No Excuses 10.30 - 11.30 pm

Charlotte Cornwell

C4 Mardi Gras 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Zachary Richard (accordianist)


Friday 24th June 1983

BBC1 (West) The Stranglers 10.15 - 10.45 pm

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Echo & The Bunnymen - live

Marc & The Mambas - live

Curtis Mayfield

C4 A Midsummer Night’s Tube 8.00 pm - 1.00 am

African music article with Vivian Goldman, Robert Palmer, Sammy Massamba - Kristo - cancelled

Wham! - cancelled

There's plenty of alcohol, particularly a punch called Vesuvius, on tap, but not available to the audience

Shalamar - A Night To Remember, interview

Andrew Ridgely - interview

Culture Club - live

Robert Palmer - live

Duran Duran - report in France

The Truth - live

Marillion - live at the Marquee

King Sunny Ade - Maajo

David Bowie – retrospective and interview

Malcolm McLaren - interview and Double Dutch demonstration

The Tubes - Wild Women Of Wongo

U2 - live from Red Rocks

Elton John - I’m Still Standing (promo clip)

Donna Summer - She Works Hard (promo clip)

Bruce Foxton

Nick Heyward

Clare Grogan

Mark Mywurdz

Paul Young - not scheduled to appear but will perform if someone pulls out of the show

Haysi Fantasi


Saturday 25th June 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 10.37 am

Heaven 17

Write a lyric contest

BBC1 Pop Quiz 6.30 - 7.20 pm

Panel - Gary Glitter (captain), Dig Wayne, Bruce Foxton versus Francis Rossi (captain), Kim Wilde, Jeffrey Daniel

BBC1 The Val Doonican Music Show 9.00 - 9.45 pm

Val Doonican

Al Jarreau

Elaine Paige

BBC1 Night Music 10.50 - 11.30 pm

Jack Jones

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

The Thompson Twins

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

(possibly) Gary Glitter

LWT Chas and Dave’s Knees Up 7.45 - 8.35 pm

Chas and Dave

Clarence Frogman Henry


Sunday 26th June 1983

BBC2 Humph at 35 – But Looking Older 9.15 - 10.05 pm

Humphrey Lyttelton’s thirty-five years in jazz celebrated


Monday 27th June 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.25 pm - 12.05 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Ronnie Milsap

The Blackwood Singers

BBC2 The Good Old Way 7.35 - 7.55 pm

Martin Carthy, Frankie Armstrong at the Co-Op Folk Club, Nottingham

BBC2 The Vocal Touch 8.25 - 9.00 pm

Anita Harris

BBC2 Private Lives 9.00 - 9.35 pm

Peter Skellern

BBC2 Dancing Girls 9.35 - 10.25 pm (repeat)

Spoonooch dance troupe

Granada Alphabet Zoo 10.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell


Tuesday 28th June 1983

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 -12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Roman Holliday - Don't Try To Stop It Now

Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise

Depeche Mode

The Truth - Confusion


Wednesday 29th June 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.00 - 9.15 am

Andrew Lloyd Webber

BBC1 Scotland Scene Around Six 6.00 - 6.15 pm

David Bowie concert report and interview

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Dennis Waterman (as a singer)

Dollar

George Melly and John Chilton’s Feetwarmers

Precious Wilson

Lance Ellington


Thursday 30th June 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Richard Skinner, Tommy Vance

Shalamar - Dead Give Away

Heaven 17 - Come Live With Me (promo clip)

Nick Heyward - Take That Situation

Irene Cara - Flashdance (What A Feeling) (promo clip)

Richard Skinner talks to Jennifer Beals, star of Flashdance

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home)

Chart 30 - 17

Tom Robinson - War Baby

Chart 16 - 10

Bucks Fizz - When We Were Young

Chart 9 - 1

Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (promo clip - first version) number one

The Truth - Confusion Hits Us Every Time (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 11.25 - 11.50 pm

Tom Jones

Lynn Anderson

BBC1 Nine O’Clock News 9.00 - 9.25 pm

David Bowie concert report and interview

ITN News At Ten 10.00 - 10.30 pm

David Bowie concert report and interview

Thames No Excuses 10.30 - 11.30 pm

Charlotte Cornwell


Friday 1st July 1983

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Shalamar

New Edition

The Thompson Twins

C4 Jazz On Four 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Sarah Vaughan live at The Barbican Centre, London

Billy Eckstein

C4 Benjamin Zephaniah 10.30 - 11.30 pm

C4 Performance 11.30 pm - 1.25 am 1970 Mick Jagger movie


Saturday 2nd July 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.40 - 11.05 am

Wham!

Tears For Fears

BBC1 The Gift Of Love 11.05 am - 12.35 pm 1978 TV movie with Marie Osmond

BBC1 Night Music 10.45 - 11.15 pm

Recorded at Portmerion, North Wales

Stephanie Lawrence

Phil Everly

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Ultravox

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT Chas and Dave Knees Up 7.45 - 8.35 pm

Chas and Dave

Lonnie Donegan

Diz and The Dorrmen


Monday 4th July 1983

BBC1 Roy Clark’s Travelling Music Show 11.25 pm - 12.10 am (repeat)

Roy Clark

Dana

BBC2 Cliff Richard 8.30 - 9.25 pm

In concert with the Royal Philharmonic at the Royal Albert Hall

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell


Tuesday 5th July 1983

BBC1 Freddie Starr Showcase 7.45 - 8.30 pm

The Belle Stars

Mari Wilson

BBC2 Six Fifty Five Special

Elvis Costello

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 7.50 - 8.05

Inside Mickey Dolenz's house

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

The Belle Stars

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm (repeat)

The Police

JoBoxers

Yorkshire Antibes Jazz festival 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

content unknown

Central Doc Severinsen In Concert 11.35 pm - 12.35 am

C4 Black On Black 10.50 - 11.45 pm

Jimmy Cliff


Wednesday 6th July 1983

Thames A Plus 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Gil Evans live at the Roundhouse, London

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Frankie Vaughan

Amii Stewart


Thursday 7th July 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by John Peel, Dave Jensen (dressed as The Blues Brothers)

Roman Holliday - Don't Try To Stop It

Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long

Iron Maiden - The Trooper (promo clip)

Freeez - I.O.U. (The Hassani Troupe / Zoo)

ELO - Rock N Roll Is King (promo clip)

The Cure - The Walk

Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise

Charts 30 - 21

The Eurythmics - Who’s That Girl (a pre-recorded clip not recorded on TOTP set)

Chart 20 - 11

The Funk Masters - It’s Over

Chart 10 - 1

Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (promo clip - first version) number one

Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 (North West) The Maddy Prior Band 10.15 - 10.45 pm

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 10.40 - 11.05 pm

Tom Jones

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Marti Webb

BBC2 Riverside

Seagulls on the Cable - repeat

ITV On Safari 4.20 - 4.45 pm (repeat)

Kenny Everett

Thames No Excuses 11.30 pm - 12.25 am For this, the final show, it gets pushed back in the schedules even further

Charlette Cornwall as Shelley sings all 17 songs from the previous shows


Friday 8th July 1983

BBC1 Time Of Your Life: George Melly 8.00 - 8.30 pm

BBC2 Pete Sayers Electric Music Show 10.15 - 10.50 pm

Pete Sayers

Diane Solomon

Billy Fields

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Pete Shelley - live

Spear Of Destiny - live

Marc & The Mambas - live (left over from previous show)

Bananarama

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm (first of second series)

Bo Diddley

Mud

C4 Well Being Special: Walking The Tightrope Living With Diabetes 10.30 - 11.30 pm

Mari Wilson

C4 Jazz On Four: The Wizard of Waukesha 12.33 - 1.20 am

Les Paul documentary


Saturday 9th July 1983

BBC1 Get Set 9.15 - 11.00 am

Musical Youth

BBC1 Night Music 11.00 - 11.40 pm

Labi Siffre

Flairck

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Imagination

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

The Belle Stars


Monday 11th July 1983

BBC1 Roy Clark’s Travelling Music Show 11.20  pm - 12.05 am (repeat)

Roy Clark

Suzi Quatro

Terry McMillan


Tuesday 12th July 1983

BBC1 Freddie Starr Showcase 7.45 - 8.30 pm

10cc

BBC2 Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Murray Head

BBC2 Diane Solomon Entertains 10.10 - 10.45 pm

Diane Solomon

B A Robertson

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

content unknown

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Christopher Cross - No Time For Talk

The Tremeloes - Words

Marti Webb - I'm Not That Kind Of Girl

Yorkshire The Mills Brothers 11.00 pm - 12.00 am

Scottish James Borwn - Soul Brother 11.10 pm - 12.10 am


Wednesday 13th July 1983

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Randy Edelman

Grace Kennedy

The Nolans

Kate Robbins


Thursday 14th July 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Andy Peebles, Peter Powell

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Every Day I Write The Book

Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch (promo clip)

Peter Powell plugs the Top Of The Pops t-shirt (order form in this week's Radio Times)

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home)

USA chart with Jonathan King at Seaside Heights, New Jersey - Elton John, Madness, The Kinks, The Police - promo clips

Heaven 17 - Come Live With Me

Echo & The Bunnymen - Never Stop

Chart 30 - 21

Bananarama - Cruel Summer

Chart 20 - 11

Sylvian & Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (promo clip - second version) number one

Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 10.55 - 11.18 pm

Tom Jones

Chaka Khan

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.30 pm

Charles Aznavour


Friday 15th July 1983

BBC1 The Times Of Your Life: Jenny Agutter 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Dave Edmunds

BBC1 Paris Blues 11.20 pm - 1.00 am 1961 movie with Louis Armstrong

HTV (West) Black Sabbath In Concert 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

The B52’s (repeat)

Defunkt

Soft Cell

Gwen Guthrie

Paul Haig (promo clip)

Tracey (promo clip)

The Cramps (promo clip)

Animal Nightlife (promo clip)

Talking Heads (promo clip)

Cabaret Voltaire (promo clip)

Report on fanzines Certain Gestures, Intimacy

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Wayne Fontana

Crispin St Peters

C4 Jazz on Four 12.20 - 1.15 am

Talmadge Farlow documentary


Saturday 16th July 1983

BBC1 Get Set 10.05 - 10.50 am

Depeche Mode

Poparound: Boy George interview

BBC1 The Main Attraction 8.40 - 9.25 pm

Andrew Lloyd-Webber with Sarah Brightman

Wall Street Crash

Roger Whittaker

BBC1 Night Music 11.05 - 11.45 pm

Helen Reddy

Gerard Kenney

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Godley & Creme

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

ITV The Tube Return Ticket 12.40 - 1.40 am (first of a compilation series)

Culture Club, Yazoo, Mari Wilson, Eric Burdon


Monday 18th July 1983

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.30 pm

Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth

BBC2 The Paul Daniels Magic Show 8.20 - 9.00 pm

Anita Harris

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

ITN News 1.00 - 1.20 pm - 5.45 - 6.00 pm - 10.00 - 10.25 pm

The Beatles at Abbey Road article (three different)

Yorkshire Antibes Jazz Festival 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

content unknown


Tuesday 19th July 1983

BBC1 Freddie Starr Showcase 7.40 - 8.30 pm

Morrissey-Mullen

The Nolans

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.30 pm

The state of the British music scene special with Tim and Jo Rice, Paul Gambaccini

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz: Rock And Pop Awards Show 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Spandau Ballet - Gold

The Eurythmics - Who's That Girl

Kim Wilde - Love Blonde

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Sacha Distel - Satin Doll

Barney Kessel


Wednesday 20th July 1983

ITV Definition 3.30 - 4.00 pm

Crossword panel show with Tony Blackburn

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Chas and Dave

C4 The Beggar’s Opera 9.00 - 11.20 pm

Paul Jones as MacHeath


Thursday 21st July 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Jimmy Savile, Pat Sharp

Savile is again wearing an old yellow Top of the Pops t-shirt from the seventies

Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise

The Eurythmics - Who’s That Girl (promo clip)

Shakin' Stevens - It's Late

Roman Holliday - Don't Try To Stop It

The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger

Freeez - I.O.U.

Chart 30 - 21

Gary Byrd & The GB Experience - The Crown (Zoo)

Chart 20 - 11

The Cure - The Walk

Chart 10 - 1

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) number one

Clubhouse - Do It Again / Billy Jean (playout record and audience dancing)

Granada Profiles In Rock: Van Halen 12.00 - 12.35 am


Friday 22nd July 1983

Thames Freetime 4.50 - 5.15 pm

fan meets Bucks Fizz

LWT South Of Watford 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

David Bowie - live in Milton Keynes, plus footage from London 1978

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Elvis Costello – live

Animal Nightlife

Yello

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Brian Poole

The Platters

C4 Jazz On Four: Meeting of the Spirits 12.15 - 1.10 pm (repeat)

Larry Coryell, John MacLaughlin, Paco DeLucia at the Royal Albert Hall 1979


Saturday 23th July 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 10.45 am (first edition with new title)

Modern Romance

BBC1 The Main Attraction 8.15 - 9.00 pm

Chas and Dave

The Kessler Twinds

Frankie Vaughan

BBC1 Night Music 11.15 - 11.45 pm

The Stylistics

Angie Gold

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

C4 Hot For Dogs 6.00 - 6.30 pm (first in series0

Directed by Mike Mansfield

Modern Romance


Sunday 24th July 1983

LWT Summer Arts Festival 1983 2.15 - 3.30 pm

Kim Wilde

John Cooper-Clarke

Peter Skellern

ITV The Tube Return Ticket shown on TVS 11.00pm - 12.00 am

content unknown


Monday 25th July 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.30 pm - 12.10 am

Barbara Mandrell  and the Mandrell Sisters

Jim Stafford

Dottie West

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Song-writers special with Barry Mason, Andy Hill, Stephanie DeSykes & Paris

Granada Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 pm

Ralph McTell

Central News 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Jet Harris article


Tuesday 26th July 1983

BBC1 Freddie Starr Showcase 7.45 - 8.30 pm

Shakin’ Stevens

BBC1 Dean Martin’s Comedy Classics 10.15 - 11.03 pm

Thames Once Upon A Time 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm (first edition)

Musical Youth - Tell Me Why

The Thompson Twins - Watching

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Helen Shapiro - Let Yourself Go

Peter Skellern - They All Laughed

The Tom Robinson Band - War Baby


Wednesday 27th July 1983

BBC1 A View Of The Pier 11.35 pm - 12.05 am

Harry Srtutter's Hot Rhythm Orchestra

BBC2 The Vocal Touch 10.20 - 10.55 pm (repaet)

Precious Wilson

Alvin Stardust

Neil Innes

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 7.55 - 8.05 am

David Van Day

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Sacha Distel

The Nolans


Thursday 28th July 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Mike Read & Janice Long

KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up (re-recording)

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts (promo clip)

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Every Day I Write The Book

The Creatures - Right Now (promo clip)

The Lotus Eaters - The First Picture Of You

Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch (with The Dynamos skipping team)

Robert Plant - Big Log

Chart 30 - 21

George Benson - Feel Like Makin’ Love (Zoo)

Chart 20 -11

Bananarama - Cruel Summer

Chart 10 - 1

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (promo clip) number one

Heaven 17 - Come Live With Me (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 10.55 - 11.20 pm

Tom Jones

Marie Osmond


Friday 29th July 1983

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Echo & The Bunnymen - live at Royal Albert Hall

Cabaret Voltaire - live

The Lotus Eaters -

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Georgie Fame

Helen Shapiro

C4 Jazz on Four 12.15 - 1.00 am

Pat Metheney live in Montreal


Saturday 30th July 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 10.55 am

Kim Wilde

BBC1 The Main Attraction 8.45 - 9.30 pm

Shakin’ Stevens

Modern Romance

Elaine Page

BBC1 Night Music 11.05 - 11.45 pm

Tina Cross

John Miles

BBC2 Bucks Fizz 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Bucks Fizz (each does a solo song)

Paris

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Tony Hadley

Galaxy

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT The Tube Return Ticket 11.10 pm - 12.30 am

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Granada The Cimarons In Concert 12.25 - 1.30 am

C4 Hot For Dogs 6.00 - 6.30 pm

Imagination


Monday 1st August 1983

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Patti Boulaye

Granada World In Action: The Race Against Reagan 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Stevie Wonder


Tuesday 2nd August 1983

BBC1 Freddie Starr Showcase 7.45 - 8.30 pm

Jujuka

Katie Kissoon

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.30 pm

King Sunny Ade

Spandau Ballet

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 7.55 - 8.05 am

inside Grace Kennedy's house

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Paul Haig - Never Give Up

Altered Images

Thames Kim Wilde - First Time Out 4.45 - 5.15 pm (repeat)

Documentary about her first tour

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Paul Brady

C4 The Ride of Jessie Hallam 9.00 - 10.50 pm 1981 TV movie

with Johnny Cash


Wednesday 3rd August 1983

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Stephanie Lawrence

Rod Argent

Thames A Plus Revisited 2.00 - 2.30 pm

The Flying Pickets (repeat clip)

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Gene Pitney

The New Vaudeville Band

The Flying Pickets

Maggie Moon


Thursday 4th August 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Hosted by John Peel, Mike Smith

Wham! - Club Tropicana

The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger (promo clip)

Kim Wilde - Love Blonde

Galaxy with Phil Fearon - Wait Until Tonight (My Love)

Elton John - I’m Still Standing (promo clip)

Tracie - Give It Some Emotion

Chart 30 - 21

Bruce Foxton - Freak

Chart 20 - 11

Shakin’ Stevens - It’s Late (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (repeat 21st July 1983) number one

Hosts are joined by Gary Byrd - Top Of The Pops rap

Gary Byrd & The GB Experience - The Crown (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now 10.55 - 11.15 pm

Tom Jones

Lala Falana

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Demis Roussos

Barry Mason


Friday 5th August 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.00 - 9.30 am

Gary Byrd

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Mike Harding

BBC2 The Vocal Touch 10.20 - 10.50 pm

Stephanie Lawrence

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00

Wham!, The Stray Cats, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Steve Walsh all listed as appearing by The Times

Elvis Costello - Charm School

The Style Council - Paris Match

Pete Shelley XL-1

Blancmange

Prince - Little Red Corvette (promo clip)

Galaxy - Dancing Tight

The Beatles - From Me To You (Washington February 1964)

The Fun Boy Three

Kate from Hazee Fantazee

Coati Mundi - live

Paul Young

The Farmers Boys

Spandau Ballet - Gold

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Mark Wynter

The Glitter Band

C4 Jazz on Four: Crossing Bridges 12.10 - 1.10 am

Six guitarists - Fred Frith, Brian Godding, John Russell, Hans Reichal, Keith Rowe, Ron Geesin


Saturday 6th August 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 11.30 am

The Lotus Eaters

BBC1 The Main Attraction 9.10 - 9.55 pm

Kenny Baker

The Belle Stars

BBC1 Night Music 10.40 - 11.25 pm

Rick Wakeman with Robert Powell

BBC2 Billy Fields Swings 10.10 - 10.40 pm

Australian singer live at Blazer's, Windsor

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

ITV Some You Win 6.00 - 6.45 pm

10cc

ITV The Tube Return Ticket 11.45 pm - 12.40 am

Bananarama, The Rolling Stones

Grampian Portrait Of A Legend: Merle Haggard 11.50 pm - 12.20 am

C4 Hot For Dogs 6.00 - 6.30 pm

Spandau Ballet


Sunday 7th August 1983

BBC2 Roxy Music 9.00 - 9.50 pm (repeat)

C4 Song By Song by Johnny Mercer 7.15 - 8.15 pm (repeat of ITV show)


Monday 8th August 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 8.45 - 9.00 pm

Henry Mancini

BBC2 Motives 10.10 - 10.40 pm

Petula Clark talks to Dr Anthony Clare

Granada The Starlight Ballroom 8.00 - 8.30 pm (first edition)

Alvin Stardust stars in drama as a big band leader Umberto Rossi with Lynsey de Paul playing his girlfriend


Tuesday 9th August 1983

BBC1 The Freddie Starr Showcase 7.45 - 8.30 pm

The Shadows

Chopper Harris (singing group)

The Bouncing Czechs

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.30 pm

Harvey and the Wallbangers

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 7.55 - 8.05 am

inside Diane Solomon's house

Thames A Plus Revisited 2.00 - 2.30 pm

Wynton Marsalis (repeat clip)

Granada Hold Tight! 4.55 - 5.20 pm

The Farmers - Boys For You

David Grant - Watching You Watching Me

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

The Albion Band - Love Is Like A Railway Station

The Dolly Dots - All The Roses

Harvey and the Wallbangers - Mr Bassman

Lulu - Harden My Heart


Wednesday 10th August 1983

BBC1 Breakfast Time 6.30 - 9.00 am

Ray Davies

BBC2 Country Cousins 10.30 - 11.00 pm

Pete Sayer

Carey Duncan

Terry McMillan

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 7.55 - 8.05 am

Humphrey Lyttelton

Central Starburst 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Bucks Fizz


Thursday 11th August 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Hosted by Richard Skinner, Tommy Vance

David Grant - Watching You Watching Me

The Style Council - Long Hot Summer (promo clip)

Level 42 - The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)

Spandau Ballet - Gold (promo clip)

The Creatures - Right Now

The Lotus Eaters - The First Picture Of You

Chart 30 - 21

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Chart 20 - 11

Robert Plant - Big Log (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up (repeat 28th July 1983) number one

Herbie Hancock - Rockit (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 10.55 - 11.20 pm

Tom Jones

BBC2 Country Cousins 10.25 - 10.55 pm

recorded at Blazer's, Windsor

Little Ginny

Gerry Hale

Yellowstone Picnic Band


Friday 12th August 1983

BBC1 (West) Jazz and Jenner 10.30 - 11.00 pm

content unknown

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Frankie Vaughan interview

Flairck

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

UB40 - live

Paul Young

Freeze

Big Country

The Weather Girls (promo clip)

Level 42 (promo clip)

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Desmond Dekker

The Rockin’ Berries

C4 Jazz On Four 12.15 - 1.00 am

recorded at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh

Neils- Henning Orsled-Pedersen

Toots Thielman

The Lonnie Herd Band

Tommy Smith


Saturday 13th August 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 10.55 am

Paul Weller

Paul Jones reads a tale from the Arabian Nights

BBC1 The Main Attraction 8.55 - 9.40 pm

Sammy Cahn

Acker Bilk

TVAM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 pm

Paul Young

TVS Number 73 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

ITV The Tube Return Ticket 11.25 pm - 12.15 pm

Tik and Tok, The Rolling Stones, Bad News, The Jam, Twisted Sister

C4 Hot For Dogs 6.00 - 6.30 pm

Spandau Ballet

C4 Da Doo Ron Ron: The Phil Spector Story 7.35 - 9.00 pm

Interviews with - Jeff Barry, Leiber & Stoller, Lester Sill, Ahmet Ertegun, Nino Tempo, Stan Ross, Larry Levine, Bumps Blackwell, Darlene Love, Sonny Bono, Kitty Bruce, The Ramones, Ronnie Spector, Albert Goldman, plus Rodney Bingenheimer


Sunday 14th August 1983

C4 Song By Song by Cole Porter 7.15 - 8.15 pm (repeat of ITV)


Monday 15th August 1983

BBC1 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Rod Argent


Tuesday 16th August 1983

BBC1 Freddie Starr Showcase 7.45 - 8.30 pm

Bonnie Tyler

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 7.00 - 7.50 am

Kim Wilde

Granada Hold Tight! 4.45 - 5.15 pm

Depeche Mode Everything Counts

Kim Wilde Love Blonde

Thames Musical Youth 4.45 - 5.15 pm (repeat)

CBTV special

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Gloria Gaynor - Even A Fool Would Let Go

Prelude

Border Jazz 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

content unknown

C4 Black On Black 10.55 pm - 12.15 am

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Relator

Explainer


Wednesday 17th August 1983

BBC2 Good Time George 9.00 - 9.30 pm (first of four0

recorded at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds

George Melly

Elaine Delmar

Thames Yarwood In Town 8.00 - 9.00 pm (repeat)

Gilbert O’Sullivan

Elaine Page


Thursday 18th August 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 6.50 - 7.25 pm

Hosted by Dave Lee Travis, Gary Davies

The Kinks - Come Dancing

Wham! - Club Tropicana (promo clip)

Kim Wilde - Love Blonde

Elton John - chat, I’m Still Standing (promo clip)

Modern Romance - Walking In The Rain

Galaxy With Phil Fearon - Wait Until Tonight (My Love) (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Tracie - Give It Some Emotion

Chart 20 - 11

Madness - Wings Of A Dove (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up number one (repeat 28th July 1983)

Kraftwerk - Tour De France (playout record with Zoo and hoola-hoop world champion Chico Johnson)

BBC1 Tom Jones Now! 10.55 - 11.18 pm

Tom Jones

Dionne Warwick

Granada Born in The 60s - Lisa 5.15 - 5.45 pm

Lisa Stansfield special

Thames Portrait of a Legend: Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons 12.00 - 12.25 am

C4 Goldie and Kids Listen To Us 10.30 - 11.30 pm

Goldie Hawn TV special

Barry Manilow


Friday 19th August 1983

BBC2 Mr Moonlight 6.15 - 6.55 pm

Frankie Vaughan documentary

BBC2 The Six Fifty-Five Special 6.55 - 7.25 pm

David Essex

Modern Romance

Carmel

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.00 am

Chris Tarrant in Brighton with Pookiesnackenburger

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Edwin Starr - live

The Kane Gang - live

New Edition

Victor Romero-Evans

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Chicory Tip

Kathy Kirby

C4 Jazz On Four 12.15 - 12.55 am

Larry Coryell


Saturday 20th August 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 10.55 am

The Belle Stars

BBC1 The Main Attraction 9.05 - 10.05 pm

Eartha Kitt

Stutz Bear Cats

TVAM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Paul Weller

Buster Bloodvessel of Bad Manners

ITV Saturday Royal 8.15 - 9.30 pm

The Little Foxes

ITV The Tube Return Ticket 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

Thin Lizzy, The Undertones, U2

C4 Hot For Dogs 6.00 - 6.30 pm

Kim Wilde


Sunday 21st August 1983

C4 Song By Song By Irving Berlin 7.15 - 8.15 pm (repeat)


Monday 22nd August 1983

Grampian Presenting Price, Alan Price 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

Alan Price


Tuesday 23rd August 1983

BBC2 Pop Carnival 6.50 - 7.20 pm (first show in second series)

live at Sefton Park, Liverpool

Big Country

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

The Moody Blues

Roman Holiday

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Dreams - 17 Electric

H2O - Just outside of Heaven

Jools Holland

Thames Duran Duran 4.45 - 5.15 pm

Filmed in France

Granada The Video Entertainers 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Bertice Reading - This Is My Life


Wednesday 24th August 1983

BBC2 Pop Carnival 6.40 - 7.15 pm

live at at Brunel University

Tears For Fears - Memories Fade, The Prisoner, Ideas As Opiates , Start Of The Breakdown, The Way You Are, Suffer The Children, Mad World

BBC2 Good Time George 9.00 - 9.30 pm

George Melly and the Feetwarmers

BBC2 Sing Country 10.25 - 10.50 pm

Tammy Wynette

Ronnie Prophet

Ed Bruce

Tom Gribbin

Wendel Adkins


Thursday 25th August 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 6.55 - 7.30 pm

A live broadcast

Hosted by Mike Smith, Simon Bates

David Grant - Watching You Watching Me

Rod Stewart - What Am I Gonna Do (promo clip)

Carmel - Bad Day (live vocal)

USA chart with Jonathan King at Shea Stadium, New York - The Police - live clips, Stevie Nicks, Michael Sembello - promo clips

UB40 - Red Red Wine

Chart 30 - 21

Shalamar - Disappearing Act

Chart 20 - 11

Level 42 - The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)

Chart 10 - 3

The Style Council - Paris Match

Chart 2 - 1

Two of The Stray Cats with the hosts

KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up (playout record, end credits) number one

BBC2 Pop Carnival 6.15 - 6.50 pm

live at Sefton Park, Liverpool

Nick Heyward


Friday 26th August 1983

BBC1 The Monkees 9.00 - 9.20 am

BBC2 Pop Carnival 6.55 - 7.25 pm

live at Brunel University

JoBoxers

ITV By George, It's Country 2.00 - 2.30 pm

The 1980 All British Country Music Festival, Brighton

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm

The The

The Stray Cats

The Special AKA

C4 Unforgettable 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Ronnie Carroll

The Four Pennies

C4 Jazz on Four 12.20 - 1.00 am

The Bruce Turner Jump Band at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh


Saturday 27th August 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 10.55 am

JoBoxerss’s Dig Wayne

BBC1 The Main Attraction 9.00 - 9.45 pm

The Shadows

Kajagoogoo

BBC2 Rock Around The Clock

3.15 pm intro with David Hepworth, Mark Ellen, Anne Nightingale, Steve Blacknell

The promo clips included were from an ongoing Video Vote, with a choice of twenty clips, voted for on the phone

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (promo clip)

3.25 Roman Holliday live at the Regal Theatre, Hitchen

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes (promo clip)

4.00 Robert Nesta Marley (Ebony documentary)

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (promo clip)

4.35 Rock Pop In Concert: Ultravox

4.55 Rock Pop In Concert: Robert Palmer

Both the above live at Westfallenhalle, Dortmund, 2nd July 1983

5.25 Australia Now documentary with Men At Work, Midnight Oil, Mental As Anything, Little River Band, Split Enz, Icehouse, No Fixed Address

Madness - Baggy Trousers (promo clip)

6.25 Duran Duran at Hammersmith Odeon

The Jam - Going Underground (promo clip)

7.30 All This And World War Two movie

The Jacksons - Blame It On The Boogie (promo clip)

9.00 10CC live at the Regal Theatre, Hitchen

The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (promo clip)

9.30 Randy Newman On Tour documentary - live in Amsterdam

Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Song Remains The Same clip)

10.25 Spandau Ballet Over Britain documentary

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (promo clip)

11.00 pm American Graffiti movie

12.55 am Airplay 9th June 1982 documentary on New York radio station WNEW-FM

Frank Zappa - City Of Tiny Lites (Baby Snake clip)

1.50 Guitar Heroes: Eric Clapton (1977 Old Grey Whistle Test Jubilee concert)

2.35 Guitar Heroes: Jimi Hendrix The Movie

3.25 Deadman’s Curve (Jan & Dean TV movie biopic)

Adam & The Ants - Antmusic (promo clip)

5.00 The Police In The East

The Clash - This Is Radio Clash (promo clip)

5.55 And So To Bed

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird (Knebworth, 1976)

6.15 am scheduled finish

TVS Genesis In America 11.20 pm - 12.25 am

C4 Hot For Dogs 6.00 - 6.30 pm

John Miles


Sunday 28th August 1983

BBC2 Good Time George 8.30 - 9.00 pm

George Melly & The Feetwarmers

Acker Bilk

C4 Song By Song By Frank Loesser 7.15 - 8.15 pm (repeat)


Monday 29th August 1983 Bank Holiday

BBC1 Hey Look…That’s Me 9.15 - 9.40 pm

A look at new band Laughter In The Garden

BBC1 Knockout Star Gala 6.10 - 7.00 pm

Bucks Fizz

Helen Shapiro

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 7.00 -7.40 pm

Compilation with Culture Club

BBC2 Musical Youth - Musical Roots 6.10 - 6.50 pm (repeat)

Granada Andy Williams In Concert 11.40 pm - 12.40 am

Grampian The Flying Pickets 11.45 pm - 12.15 am shown by various ITV stations at differing times and lengths

C4 Bugsy - The Making Of A Musical 7.00 - 8.00 pm

Michael Dolenz


Tuesday 30th August 1983

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Heaven 17

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Kajagoogoo

Thorn

The Cherry Boys - Falling

Paul Young - Come Back And Stay (Young was stung by a wasp during recording)

Thames Kajagoogoo Special 4.45 - 5.15 pm (repeat)

C4 The Land Of Look Behind 11.15 pm - 12.45 am

Reggae in Jamaica society documentary with Gregory Isaacs, Matabaruka, Bob Marley’s funeral


Wednesday 31st August 1983

BBC1 South East At Six 6.00 - 6.25 pm

Sotheby’s Rock Memorabilia article

BBC2 40 Minutes: Rocky Circus 7.30 - 8.15 pm (repeat)

Gary Glitter

BBC2 Good Time George 10.00 - 10.30 pm

George Melly & The Feetwarmers

Memphis Slim

BBC2 Sing Country 10.30 - 11.00 pm

International Fesrtival of Country Music, Wembley Arena, London

John D Loudermilk

Porter Wagoner

Jimmy C Newman

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Gary Glitter


Thursday 1st September 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.40 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by David Jensen, John Peel (dressed as cowboys)

A live broadcast. Sharron Redd - Taking A Chance On Love is playing in the studio before transmission begins.

Modern Romance - Walking In The Rain

Madness - Wings Of A Dove (promo clip)

Gary Numan - Warriors

European chart with John Peel in Paris - Righeira, Rose Laurens, Ryan Paris - chat, Berdian Stenberg - promo clips

Genesis - Mama (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 22

Big Country - Chance

Chart 21 - 11

The Stray Cats - Sexy and Seventeen (probably pre-recorded the previous week)

Chart 10 - 1

UB40 - Red Red Wine (repeat 25th August 1983) number one

New Order - Confusion (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Frank Sinatra - The Man And His Music 11.15 pm - 12.05 am (repeat)

BBC2 Sing Country 10.30 - 11.00 pm

The Burrito Brothers

Linda Cassady

Billy Walker

Billie Jo Spears

Tompall Glaser & The Glaser Brothers

C4 An Evening For Nicaragua 10.30 - 11.30 pm

Pooksnackenburger

Benjamin Zephania

Charlie Dore


Friday 2nd September 1983

C4 Switch 6.00 - 7.00 pm (last edition)

The Style Council

Galaxy

Blancmange

JoBoxers

Gary Numan

Grace Jones

Spandau ballet

Brince Charles & The

George Clinton - Atomic Dog (promo clip)

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (promo clip)

Dexys Midnight Runners - (promo clip)

C4 Unforgettable 8.-00 - 8.30 pm

The Allisons

New Vaudeville Band

C4 Jazz on Four 12.15 - 12.55 am

live at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh

Archie Schepp

The Paul Hart Quintet


Saturday 3rd September 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 10.12 pm

Toyah

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 6.15 - 7.00 pm (first in new series)

Theme by Gary Kemp

The Bee Gees

Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.25 - 8.55 pm (first in new series)

Bonnie Tyler

Central The Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm  (first in new series)

Hosted by Tommy Boyd

David Bowie – (promo clip)

Paul Young - (promo clip)

ITV The Who - The Final Concert 10.30 - 11.45 pm

live in Toronto

C4 Video Video 6.00 - 6.30 pm

In the first of a series, regular host Adam Faith looks at the video recorder revolution


Sunday 4th September 1983

BBC1 Olivia Newton-John 3.35 - 4.25 pm (repeat)

ITV Mary O'Hara and Friends 6.40 - 7.15 pm (first in series)

Granada The Flying Pickets 11.00 – 11.45 pm

C4 Song By Songs By British Lyricists 7.15 - 8.15 pm (repeat)


Monday 5th September 1983

BBC2 Riverside 7.05 - 7.35 pm (first in new series)

Paul Weller talks about Respond Records with Tracie, The Questions

The Armoury Show (with Richard Jobson)


Tuesday 6th September 1983

BBC2 The Shout 9.00 - 10.25 pm 1979 movie music by Banks and Rutherford of Genesis

BBC2 Sing Country 10.25 - 10.55 pm

T R Dallas

Rattlesnake Annie

Bill Monroe

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.30 - 9.25 am

Paul Young

Patti Boulaye

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Classix Nouveau - Forever And A Day

Pookiesnackenburger - Pudgy Boy

Central The Oshima Gang 11.35 pm - 12.15 am

The making of Merry Christmas Mister Lawrence with David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto

C4 Loose Talk 10.45 - 11.50 pm (first in new series)

Hosted by Steve Taylor, from the Albany Theatre, Deptford

Bella from The Belle Stars

Carmel


Wednesday 7th September 1983

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Lynsey de Paul

Thames The Morecambe & Wise Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

compilation show with Maggie Moon

C4 Jazz at the Gateway 11.15 pm - 12.00 am

Michael Brecker

The Kenny Wheeler Quartet


Thursday 8th September 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Andy Peebles, Peter Powell

A live broadcast

Heaven 17 - Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry

Rod Stewart - What Am I Gonna Do (promo clip)

Annabel Lamb - Riders On The Storm

Status Quo - Ol’ Rag Blues (repeat)

JoBoxers - Johnny Friendly

Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack - Tonight I Celebrate My Love (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita

Chart 20 - 11

Paul Young - Come Back and Stay

Chart 10 - 1

UB40 - Red Red Wine (promo clip) number one

Level 42 - The Sun Does Down (playout record and audience dancing) the camera concentrates on a member of the audience doing backflips throughout the song

BBC1 Late Night In Concert 11.00 - 11.35 pm (first in new series)

Simple Minds (Newcastle)

BBC2 Sing Country 9.50 - 10.20 pm

Bobby Bare

The Dillards

Roy Acuff

Barbara Fairchild

Narvel Felts


Friday 9th September 1983

C4 Ladybirds 9.15 - 10.00 pm (first edition)

Lynsey De Paul


Saturday 10th September 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 11.00 pm

Glenn Gregory of Heaven 17

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 6.15 - 7.00 pm

There was a near fatal car crash stunt at Santa Pod raceway performed on this week’s show

content unknown

BBC1 Blanket Blank 7.00 - 7.35 pm

Anita Harris

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.25 - 8.55 pm

Big Country

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Gary Numan

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Limahl

Gary Numan

LWT The Krankies Club 5.05 - 5.35 pm

Suzi Quatro

Modern Romance

LWT 25th Anniversary of the Marquee 11.50 pm - 12.50 am

Hosted by Dave Dee

LWT The Ohsima Gang: The Making of Merry Christmas Mister Lawrence 12.50 am - end

David Bowie

TVS Pink Floyd at Pompeii 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

Granada ELO In Concert 12.15 am - 1.20 am


Sunday 11th September 1983

BBC2 Barry at Blenheim 7.15 – 8.00 pm part one

Barry Manilow


Monday 12th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Tom Jones

BBC1 Film 83 11.00 - 11.28 pm

George Harrison interviewed on set of Handmade movie Bullshot

BBC2 Riverside 7.00 - 7.30 pm

APB

The Residents - interview about The Mole Show

Peter Murphy - interview

BBC2 Johnny Mathis 9.25 – 10.20 pm

Johnny Mathis in a tribute to Nat King Cole

Natalie Cole

C4 How To Be Celtic 9.00 - 10.00 pm

Paddy Maloney of The Chieftains


Tuesday 13th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Mel Torme and George Shearing

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Big Country - Chance

Toyah - Rebel run

Thames Entertainment Express 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Jose Feliciano

Lynsey DePaul

C4 Loose Talk 10.55 - 11.50 pm

Howard Jones - New Song

Jeffrey Daniels from Shalamar


Wednesday 14th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Stubby Kaye

BBC1 James Last In Brighton 10.15 - 10.50 pm

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 6.05 - 6.35 pm (first in new series)

Hosted by Robin Denslowe

Panel - Paul Young, Steve Strange, Lynn Goldsmith

C4 Jazz on Four 11.30 pm - 12.15 am

Freddie Hubbard

Pete King Quartet


Thursday 15th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Brendan Shine

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.35 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Jimmy Savile, Janice Long

Only three new clips in this weeks' show

Kajagoogoo - Big Apple

Jimmy Savile chats to Boy George

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (promo clip)

Genesis - Mama (promo clip)

David Essex - Tahiti (live vocal)

Big Country - Chance (promo clip)

The Truth - A Step In The Right Direction

Chart 30 - 21

Cliff Richard - Never Say Die (Give A Little Bit More) (promo clip)

Chart 20 - 10

Modern Romance - Walking In The Rain (promo clip)

Chart 8 - 1

UB40 - Red Red Wine (repeat 25th August 1983) number one

Monyaka - Go Deh Yaka (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Tommy Steele – This Is Your Lunch 9.25 – 10.00 pm

Variety Club lunch from the Savoy, London

BBC1 Late Night In Concert 10.55 - 11.30 pm

Men at Work live in Ontario

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

BBC2 Sing Country 10.20 - 10.50 pm

Boxcar Willie

Margo Smith

Roy Drusky

Foster and Allen

Terry McMillan


Friday 16th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Gloria Gaynor

BBC2 Open University: James Bond 5.10 - 5.40 pm

Marvin Hamlisch's work on The Spy Who Loved Me

Granada Mike Oldfield 12.45 - 1.15 am

C4 Ladybirds 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Barbara Dickson


Saturday 17th September 1983

BBC1 Get Set Picture Show 9.15 - 11.15 am

Nick Beggs and Jez Strode from Kajagoogoo

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 6.20 - 7.05 pm

Kid Crole & The Coconuts

Culture Club

BBC1 Blankety Blank 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Lynsey de Paul

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Sacha Distel

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Toyah

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

The Truth

Big Country (promo clip)

David Essex (promo clip)

LWT The Krankies Club 5.05 - 5.35 pm

Rocky Sharpe & The Replays

Lisa Stansfield

TVS Joe Cocker On Tour 11.15 pm - 12.20 am

LWT Pink Floyd at Pompeii 11.45 pm - 12.45 am

LWT Profiles In Rock: Roger Daltrey 12.45 am - end

Tyne Tees Jam Special 12.25 - 1.00 am


Sunday 18th September 1983

BBC1 The Old Grey Whistle Test 1.55 - 2.25 pm (edited repeat of 6 May 1983)

The Fun Boy Three

BBC2 Barry at Blenheim 7.15 - 8.00 pm part two

Barry Manilow


Monday 19th September 1983

BBC2 Riverside 7.00 - 7.35 pm

The Mystery Girls - live

King Kurt - article

Tom Robinson – interview

Gary Numan – Host Steve Blacknell takes a trip in his plane

ITV Alphabet Zoo 12.00 - 12.10 (repeat of first show)

Ralph McTell


Tuesday 20th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Gloria Gaynor

BBC1 South East At Six 6.05 - 6.40 pm

Ronnie Lane’s ARMS Group - article and rehearsals

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm (first edition)

Kenny Everett

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Patti Boulaye

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 -12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Endgames - Love cares

Nick Heyward - Blue hat for a blue day

Thames Give Us A Clue 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Hank Marvin

Thames Entertainment Express 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Jack Jones

C4 Loose Talk 10.50 - 11.50 pm

Paul Young


Wednesday 21st September 1983

BBC1 Russell Harty 6.55 - 7.25 pm

Paul Young

BBC1 James Last in Berlin 9.55 - 10.40 pm

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 6.05 - 6.35 pm

Panel - Marc Almond, Annabel Lamb, Julien Temple

ITV The All Electric Amusement Arcade 4.45 - 5.15 pm

drama about the manager of the pop group Electric Arc

C4 Aliey Celebrates Ellington 9.00 - 10.00 pm

introduced by Gladys Knight

A tribute to Duke Ellington by the Alvin Aliey American Dance Centre


Thursday 22nd September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Jade (singer)

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Public Image Limited were scheduled to appear but couldn't make it, so The Alarm were booked to replace them

Hosted by Mike Read, Simon Bates

Howard Jones - New Song (accompanied by dancer, Jed)

David Bowie - Modern Love (promo clip)

Hot Chocolate - Tears On The Telephone

Toyah - Rebel Run (promo clip)

The Alarm - 68 Guns

Nick Heyward - Blue Hat For A Blue Day

Status Quo - Ol’ Rag Blues (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Soft Cell - Soul Inside

Chart 20 - 11

Heaven 17 - Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon number one

Hot Streak - Body Work (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Late Night In Concert 10.30 - 11.23 pm

King Sunny Ade

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

U2

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Billy Jo Spears

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championship 1983 8.00 - 8.30 pm (first of six shows)

Compare: Leee John (Imagination)

Haywood

C4 A Frame With Davis 12.00 - 12.30 am

Steve Davis snooker match

Frankie Vaughan


Friday 23rd September 1983

Yorkshire Donovan In Concert 11.00 pm - 12.00 am

TVS The Flying Pickets 11.45 pm - 12.30 am

C4 Ladybirds 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Bonnie Tyler


Saturday 24th September 1983

BBC1 Get Set For Summer 9.15 - 11.00 am

Cy Curnin (The Fixx)

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 6.15 - 7.05 pm

Leo Sayer helps to break the record for the quickest journey from Paris to London

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.25 - 8.55 pm

The Style Council - Harvest For The World

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Perfect Stranger

LWT The Krankies Club 5.05 - 5.25 pm

The Rockin’ Berries

Johnny Logan

LWT Punchlines 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Pearly Gates

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight 12.05 - 1.00 am

content unknown

LWT Presenting Price 12.35 am - end

Alan Price in concert in Newcastle

Granada The Ventures In Concert 1.00 - 1.30 am

C4 Four Track Live 10.00 pm - 2.00 am

Hosted by Richard Digence, Steve Strange

All acts do a thirty minute set, live from Shepton Mallett Festival

Big Country

Strawbs

The Belle Stars

Sally Oldfield

UB40

David Essex


Sunday 25th September 1983

BBC1 Raccoons On Ice 1.55 - 2.20 pm (repeat)

the voices of Leo Sayer and Rita Coolidge

BBC1 The Good Old Days 8.55 - 9.50 pm

Anita Harris


Monday 26th September 1983

BBC2 Riverside 7.00 - 7.35 pm

Eddie & Sunshine

John Foxx

Mick Karn and Midge Ure


Tuesday 27th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Kajagoogoo

BBC1 Russell Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Wham!

BBC1 Roger Whittaker In Kenya 10.40 – 11.35 pm

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 -12.30 pm

Mark Wynter tells a story

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

The Lotus Eaters - You Don't Need Someone New

The Truth - A Step In The Right Direction

Thames Entertainment Express 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Patti Boulaye

Wall Street Crash

C4 Loose Talk 10.45 - 11.40 pm

A Certain Ratio and Tony Wilson - talk about the band's use of Nazi imagery


Wednesday 28th September 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Clarence 'Frogman' Henry

BBC1 Harty 6.50 - 7.25 pm

Buck Fizz

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 6.-5 - 6.40 pm

Panel - Mark Knopfler, Limahl, John Ryle, Jake Burns

BBC2 Peter Paul & Mary 7.40 - 8.20 pm

Live at the Southport Theatre

Thames The Morecambe and Wise Show 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Stutz Bear Cats

TSW / Channel Harvest Jazz at Paul Massan 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

Flor Purim and Airto


Thursday 29th September 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Dave Lee Travis, Tommy Vance

Black Lace - Superman (live vocal)

David Essex - Tahiti (promo clip)

Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know

Travis chats to new Radio One DJ Mark Hayes

George Benson - In Your Eyes (promo clip)

Monyaka - Go Deh Yaka (Go To The Top) (promo clip)

Kajagoogoo - Big Apple

USA chart with Jonathan King in Hollywood - Naked Eyes, Air Supply, Men Without Hats, Billy Joel - promo clips

Chart 30 - 21

Unique - What I Got Is What You Need (Zoo)

Chart 20 - 11

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence

Chart 10 - 1

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (promo clip) number one

Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love Song (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Late Night In Concert 10.40 - 11.15 pm

Stevie Nicks (Wilshire Theatre, Los Angeles)

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

content unknown

TSW Portrait Of A Legend: Merle Haggard 12.00 - 12.25 am

HTV Profiles In Rock: Earth Wind and Fire 12.00 - 12.30 am

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championship 1983 8.00 - 8.30 pm

C4 The Entertainers 8.30 - 9.00 pm

Chris Rea

Roman Holliday


Friday 30th September 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.05 - 5.40 pm

Gary Numan

Dreams

BBC1 International Battle Of The Pop Bands 6.45 - 7.20 pm

Hosted by Dave Jensen

Judges: Robin Gibb, Kim Wilde, Carlene Carter, Tony Visconti, Paul Gambaccini

Bands from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Holland, Finland

UK entry: The Sugar Ray Five


Saturday 1st October 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.12 pm (first in new series)

Kajagoogoo

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 6.15 - 7.00 pm

Agnetha

Meat Loaf

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.25 - 8.55 pm

Roman Holliday

BBC2 Tony Sings and Buddy Swings 10.35 - 11.25 pm (repeat)

Tony Bennet and Buddy Rich

TV-AM Summer Run 8.40 - 9.25 pm

The Truth

Fab Five Freddy

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Cutting Edge

LWT The Krankies Club 5.05 - 5.35 pm

Modern Romance

Pookiesnackenburger

LWT Punchlines 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Bernie Flint

LWT The Boomtown Rats 1.00 am - end

Live at Hammersmith Odeon

C4 For 4 Tonight 11.00 - 11.30 pm (first in series)

Directed by Michael Dolenz


Sunday 2nd October 1983

BBC1 The Good Old Days 8.55 - 9.50 pm

Vince Hill

Mary O'Hara


Monday 3rd October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Bucks Fizz

BBC2 Daytime On Two: The Making Of The Kenny Everett Television Show 11.42 am - 12.10 pm

BBC2 Riverside 7.05 - 7.35 pm

Steve Jansen article about trip to Japan with Riurychi Sakamoto, Ippu Do

Nick Heyward


Tuesday 4th October 1983

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.25 - 11.50 pm

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Bobby Goldsboro

The Bellamy Brothers

TVAM Through The Keyhole 7.55 - 8.05 am

Billy J Kramer

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Ralph McTell - Zoo, Zoo, Zoo

Roman Holliday - Motor mania

Thames Entertainment Express 8.00 - 9.00 pm

The Platters

C4 Loose Talk 10.55 - 11.55 pm

Steve Walsh

Thereze Bazar


Wednesday 5th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Shorty Rogers

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 5.40 - 6.20 pm

Panel - Mel Smith, Leee John, Richard Strange

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 pm

Ian Gillan


Thursday 6th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

documentary about Barry Manilow at Blenheim Palace

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Dave Jensen, John Peel (dressed as Roman soldiers)

Freeez - Pop Goes My Love

David Bowie - Modern Love (promo clip)

Depeche Mode - Love In Itself

Meat Loaf - Midnight At The Lost & Found (promo clip)

Nick Heyward - Blue Hat For A Blue Day

Howard Jones - New Song (promo clip)

David Grant - Love Will Find A Way

Chart 30 - 19

The Alarm - 68 Guns

Chart 18 - 10

New Order - Blue Monday (edited repeat 31st March 1983)

Chart 9 - 1

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (repeat 22nd September 1983) number one

The Rocksteady Crew - (Hey You) The Rocksteady Crew (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Late Night In Concert: Thomas Dolby 11.25 pm - 12.00 am

Live at Riverside Studio

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

Duran Duran

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championship 1983 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Leee John


Friday 7th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Richard Carpenter

BBC1 Crackerjack 4.50 - 5.40 pm

Big Country - Chance

Nick Heyward - Blue Hat for a Blue Day

BBC1 Show Business 6.50 - 7.15 pm (first edition)

Hosted by Mike Smith, Sally James, Richard Skinner

C4 Ladybirds 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Bertice Reading


Saturday 8th October 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.12 pm

Leo Sayer

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 6.15 - 7.00 pm

Kenny Rogers via satellite

Bucks Fizz - London Town

BBC1 Three Of A Kind 8.15 - 8.55 pm

Junior

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 8.40 am

Richard Carpenter

Billy Joel

Brian Poole

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Nick Heywood

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Kajagoogoo

LWT The Krankies Club 5.05 - 5.35 pm

Linda Lewis

Roman Holliday

TSW Songmakers 6.00 - 6.30 pm

content unknown

LWT Thin Lizzy 1.00 am - end


Monday 10th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

The Spinners

BBC2 Riverside 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Paul Haig

New Order interviewed at the Hacienda

Bill Nelson - interview

BBC2 Photo-Assignment Extra 11.35 - 11.50 pm

Dave Lee Travis' photos of The Maddy Prior Band


Tuesday 11th October 1983

BBC1 Russell Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Sheena Easton

BBC1 Olivia Newton-John 11.05 pm - 12.05 am (repeat)

Live in Utah

BBC2 Photo Assignment 7.15 - 7.55 pm

Dave Lee Travis' photos of Kim Wilde

BBC2 Photo-Assignment Extra 11.50 pm - 12.15 am

Dave Lee Travis' photos of The Maddy Prior Band

TVAM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Sheena Easton

David Essex

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

The Belle Stars - The Entertainer

Cruella De Ville - Gypsy Girl

Grampian Corries and Other Folk 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Thames Entertainment Express 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Billy Jo Spears

Max Bygraves

C4 Loose Talk 10.50 - 11.15 pm

Pete Townshend


Wednesday 12th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Adam Faith

Elaine Delmar

BBC1 Russell Harty 7.55 - 8.25 pm

Boy George

BBC1 Bob Hope Royal Gala 9.25 - 10.43 pm

Roy Budd

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 5.55 - 6.30 pm

Panel: Simon Napier-Bell

BBC1 Photo Assignment 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Dave Lee Travis takes photos of The Maddy Prior Band

BBC2 Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames 9.30 - 10.00 pm

live at the Questors Theatre, London

BBC1 Photo Assignment Extra 11.50 pm - 12.05 am

Dave Lee Travis takes photos of The Maddy Prior Band

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

David Essex

ITV Play It Again 12.30 - 1.00 pm

Frankie Vaughan


Thursday 13th October 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Peter Powell, Richard Skinner

Roman Holliday - Motormania

Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know (promo clip)

Black Lace - Superman (Gioca Jouer)

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence (promo clip)

George Benson - In Your Eyes (promo clip)

Bucks Fizz - London Town

Chart 30 - 21

Lydia Murdock - Superstar (Billie Jean)

Chart 20 - 11

Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night) (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (promo clip) number one

Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - Say Say Say (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Late Night In Concert 11.24 - 11.55 pm

King Crimson (Frejus, France 1982)

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm

Spandau Ballet

BBC1 Photo Assignment Extra 11.40 - 11.55 pm

Dave Lee Travis takes photos of The Maddy Prior Band

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championship 1983 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Leee John


Friday 14th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Helen Shapiro

Paula Ann Bland

BBC1 Crackerjack 4.50 - 5.35 pm

Junior

Kajagoogoo

BBC1 Show Business 6.50 - 7.15 pm

The Bee Gees interview

Tracey Ullman (as a singer)

C4 Ladybirds 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Jane Birkin


Saturday 15th October 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.15 pm

Boy George – interview

Musical Youth

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.35 pm

Adam Ant

Randy Crawford

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Jazz in the Camden Palace

Edwina Lawrie

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

LWT The Krankies Club 5.05 - 5.35 pm

Mari Wilson

LWT Punchlines 7.30 - 6.00 pm

Joe Brown

LWT Murray Head at Olympia 1.15 am - end

live in Paris

TVS The Roots Of Rock N Roll 11.30 pm 12.30 am

compilation

TSW / Channel Osibisa In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight: Presenting Price 11.30 pm - 1.00 am

Alan Price at the Newcastle City Hall with guest Eric Burden


Sunday 16th October 1983

TSW Songmakers 6.00 - 6.30 pm

content unknown

Yorkshire Harvest Jazz 12.05 - 12.35 am

content unknown


Monday 17th October 1983

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.05 pm

Brian Eno

Jane

Billie McKenzie

Steveo (of Some Bizarre Records)

Marilyn


Tuesday 18th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Cilla Black interview

(possibly) Rick Wakeman - interview, Elgin Mansions

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

John Denver

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Jonathan King

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Naked Eyes - Voices

Passion Puppets - Promises, promises

Thames Entertainment Express 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Gloria Gaynor

The Bachelors

C4 Loose Talk 11.10 pm - 12.05 am

Tom Waits talks to Ian Hislop


Wednesday 19th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Brenda Lee

Sky

BBC1 Russell Harty 6.50 - 7.25 pm

David Essex

BBC1 Late Night In Concert 11.35 pm - 12.05 am

Steve Miller (Pine Knob, Michegan)

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 6.05 - 6.35 pm

Panel - Mari Wilson, Ian Dury, Andy Summers

BBC2 Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames 9.30 - 9.55 pm

live at Questeros Theatre, London

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

The Nolans

Thames Name That Tune 7.00 - 7.30 pm (first in new series)

Resident singer: Maggie Moon


Thursday 20th October 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Andy Peebles, Janice Long

David Grant - Love Will Find A Way

The Rocksteady Crew - (Hey You) The Rocksteady Crew (promo clip)

Howard Jones - New Song (with Jed)

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip)

Gary Numan - Sister Surprise

Freeez - Pop Goes My Love

Elton John - Kiss The Bride (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Depeche Mode - Love In Itself

Chart 20 - 11

Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (repeat 22nd September 1983) number one

Meat Loaf – Midnight At The Lost and Found (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

The Thompson Twins

BBC2 Simply Simon (repeat 27 December 1975)

Paul Simon special

Anglia Country Music Festival 7.00 - 7.30 pm

content unknown

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championship 1983 8.00 - 8.30 pm

Leee John

C4 The Entertainers 8.30 - 9.00 pm

The Dialtones


Friday 21st October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Leo Sayer

BBC1 Crackerjack 4.50 - 5.35 pm

Haircut 100 - So Tired

BBC1 Show Business 6.45 - 7.15 pm

content unknown

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm (made by Central)

Hosted by Mikey Dread from the Trinity Hall, Bristol

Black Roots

Talisman

Rainbow Steel Band


Saturday 22nd October 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.15 pm

Adam Ant

Nick Heyward

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.40 pm

Duran Duran

Phil Collins

BBC1 Blankety Blank 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Joe Brown, Lynsey de Paul

BBC1 Carrott’s Lib 10.35 - 11.15 pm

The Animals

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Depeche Mode

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

TVS DJ 5.35 - 6.00 pm (first in new series)

Hosted by Dave Jensen

TSW / Channel Tina Turner 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

TVS The Roots Of Rock N Roll 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight 11.35 am - 1.00 am

content unknown

Granada Jerry Lee Lewis Live In London 12.15 - 1.15 am

LWT Black Sabbath 1.05 am - end

Live at Hammersmith Odeon


Sunday 23rd October 1983

BBC1 Top Secret 5.20 - 6.00 pm

Lynsey de Paul

BBC1 Omnibus: Profile of Roger Daltrey 9.55 - 10.45 pm

TSW Songmakers 6.00 - 6.30 pm

content unnown


Monday 24th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

The Revillos

BBC2 Riverside 6.30 - 7.00 pm

Phillip Glass

The Glove (Robert Smith and Budgie)


Tuesday 25th October 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Andy Williams - interview

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 -12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Granada Hold Tight! 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Musical Youth compete against their old school, Duddeston Manor plus Never Gonna Give You Up

Pookiesnackenburger - Pudgy boy

Paul Young - Come Back And Stay

C4 Loose Talk 10.40 - 11.35 pm

Tom Robinson, Simon Napier-Bell


Wednesday 26th October 1983

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

The Three Degrees

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 5.40 - 6.10 pm

Panel - Tom Robinson, Rick Butler, Suzi Quatro

Thames A Plus 1.30 - 2.00 pm

The Hank Wangford Band

TSW Jazz at Paul Masson 11.35 pm - 12.10 am


Thursday 27th October 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Dave Lee Travis, Tony Blackburn

King Kurt - Destination Zululand (introduced by Tony Blackburn as King Curtis)

Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night) (promo clip)

Musical Youth - 007

Olivia Newton-John chats to Dave Lee Travis

Duran Duran - Union Of The Snake (promo clip)

The Cure - The Love Cats

Will Powers - Kissing With Confidence (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Adam Ant - Puss N Boots

Chart 20 - 11

UB40 - Please Don't Make Me Cry

Chart 10 - 1

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (promo clip) number one

Shalamar - Over and Over (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

content unknown

Anglia Country Music Festival 7.00 - 7.30 pm

content unknown

Yorkshire Osibisa In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championship 1983 8.00 - 8.30 pm


Friday 28th October 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

Natasha - I Want You To Be My Baby

Cutting Edge - Lonesome Cowboy

BBC1 Show Business 6.40 - 7/05 pm

content unknown

BBC1 My Kind Of Music 10.15 - 10.45 pm

Lulu

Shakin’ Stevens

Granada Harvest Jazz Festival 12.50 - 1.20 am

content unknown

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm (first in second series)

French and Saunders in the pub and throughout the programme

Hosted by Jools Holland, Leslie Ash (covering for Paula Yates who was on maternity leave)

Billy Bragg - New England (live)

Peter Adamson as the barman in the pub

Paul Young & The Family - Love Will Tear Us Apart, Sex, Love of the Common People (live clips repeat)

The Eurythmics - interviewed by Leslie Ash

Mick Jagger - interviewed by Jools Holland (preview clip)

Tina Turner - Cat People, River Deep Mountain High, & Heaven 17 - Let’s Stay Together

The Police - Synchronicity II (promo clip) It was supposed to be an exclusive, but it had been shown by TVAM earlier in the day

Swans Way - Soul Train (Tube film)

Pete Frame - interviewed by Muriel Grey about Rock Family Trees volume two

The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (promo clip)

Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love Song, Anarchy In the UK, Flowers Of Romance (pre-recorded live set) Lydon - "I'm John, I've got flu"

Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - Say Say Say (promo clip)

Mark Miwurdz on the phone from Deptford

Cips of upcoming acts - Wham, Ringo Starr/ Marc Bolan, Z Z Top, report on Hull, Stevie Wonder, Fats Waller, Eddy Grant

The Eurythmics - First Cut, Here Comes The Rain Again, Right By Your Side (live)

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Cool Running

Restriction

Rainbow Steel Band


Saturday 29th October 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.15 pm

Llmahl

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.35 pm

Madness - The Sunday and the Rain, Honda City advert

Paul & Linda McCartney - interview, Say Say Say (promo clip) The promo clip arrived too late for Top Of The Pops to show it as the record had started going down the chart when it arrived. Paul and Linda were then invited onto this show as consolation. The two of them were not happy as can be seen.

Olivia Newton-John

BBC2 The Beggars Opera 8.00 - 10.15 pm

Roger Daltrey as MacHeath

TVAM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

Elvis Costello in Glasgow

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Cliff Richard talks about his favourite films

Gary Numan on tour

TVS DJ 5.35 - 6.00 pm

content unknown

LWT Punchlines 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Joe Brown

TVS The Roots Of Rock N Roll 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

content unknown

TSW No Nukes Festival 11.15 pm - 12.15 am

content unknown

Granada The Boomtown Rats 12.10 - 1.10 am

LWT John Watts 1.00 am – end

on his European tour


Sunday 30th October 1983

BBC2 Did You See…? 8.45 - 9.30 pm

David Essex on review panel


Monday 31st October 1983

BBC1 Film ‘83 10.55 - 11.23 pm

Location report on Kenny Everett’s film ‘Bloodbath at the House of Death’

BBC2 Riverside 7.00 -7.35 pm

The Specimen at the Bat Cave Club

Danielle Dax


Tuesday 1st November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Cliff Richard interview

BBC1 Russell Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Robin Gibb

BBC2 Rock School 6.40 - 7.05 pm (first edition)

Guitar - Deidre Cartwright

Drums - Geoff Nicholls

Bass - Henry Thomas

The Bass with John Taylor of Duran Duran, John Entwistle

BBC2 Barclay James Harvest 7.05 - 7.40 pm (repeat)

Live in Berlin

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.55 pm

Eurythmics - Right By Your Side

Adam Ant - Puss In Boots

Melanie - Every Breath Of The Way

Thames Des O’Connor Tonight 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Tom Jones

Border ABBA 11.30 pm - 12.00 am

C4 Loose Talk 10.55 - 11.55 pm

The The - This Is The Day


Wednesday 2nd November 1983

BBC1 One Night In Lincoln  11.00 - 11.28 pm (repeat)

Mike Harding

BBC2 Eight Days A Week 5.40 - 6.10 pm

Panel - Toyah, Martin Fry, John Peel

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm (first in second series)

from San Francisco

David Bowie - interview

Bo Diddley - interview and stops King from filming him in concert

Jimi Hendrix Foundation article

BBC2 Karen Kay 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Hank Marvin

The Barron Knights


Thursday 3rd November 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.10 pm

Hosted by Peter Powell, Mike Read

A live broadcast

ABC - That Was Then But This Is Now

Donna Summer & Musical Youth - Unconditional Love (promo clip)

Elton John - Kiss The Bride (and Zoo)

Peter Powell says happy birthday to one of the cameramen

The Police - Synchronicity II (promo clip)

USA chart with Jonathan King - Stevie Nicks, Quiet Riot, Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson, The Fixx - promo clips, Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton (US TV clip)

Mike Read teaches Peter Powell the Status Quo chord on a guitar

Status Quo - A Mess Of The Blues

Chart 30 - 21

Madness - The Sun and The Rain (promo clip)

Chart 20 - 11

Shakin’ Stevens - Cry Just A Little Bit

Chart 10 - 1

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip) number one

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 The Kenny Everett Television Show 9.00 - 9.30 pm (repeat)

content unknown

BBC2 Ebony 10.25 - 10.55 pm (first in new series)

Eek-a-Mouse

Anglia Country Music Festival 7.00 - 7.30 pm

content unknown

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championships 8.00 - 9.00 pm

semi finals

Leee John

C4 Movemental 9.05 - 9.30 pm

Tiger

Invader

Gard Bird

The Dread-Ites

C4 Ian Dury 11.45 pm - 12.40 am

Documentary


Friday 4th November 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

Modern Romance

David Joseph

BBC1 Show Business 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Tommy Steele

BBC1 My Kind Of Music 10.15 - 10.45 pm

Moira Anderson with Tony Hatch and his orchestra

Granada Harvest Jazz Festival 12.50 - 1.15 am

content unknown

C4 The Tube 5.15 - 6.45 pm

First anniversary show. Leslie Ash was in hospital so was missing.

Jools Holland introduction

Tony Fletcher (editor of Jamming fanzine) becomes co-host

The Equals - Stand Up And Be Counted (promo clip), Eddy Grant - War Party (promo clip)

Kitchenware Records article with The Kane Gang - Small Town Creed (Tube film), Hurrah - Around and Around (Tube film), The Daintees - Crocodile Cryer (Tube film), Pre Fab Sprout - Don't Sing (Tube film)

Rough Trade Records article with Geoff Travis interview, The Smiths - This Charming Man (Tube film at B2 Gallery, Wapping, London)

French and Saunders in the pub

Tracie - Give It Some Emotion (promo clip), chat with Jools, her top ten videos (Spandau Ballet, The Jacksons, The Style Council, Madness, Godley & Creme, Meat Loaf, Aretha Franklin, Pete Townshend, West Side Story, The Weather Girls promo clips)

Jools Holland - Crazy Over You (Tube film with French & Saunders)

Elvis Costello - interviewed by Tony Fletcher, Joe Loss with Declan McManus (NME Pollwinners clip)

SPK - Metal Dance (live with a part of the stage on fire)

Jonathan Perkins - Silver Spur, ? (live)

Eddy Grant - Till I Can't Take Love No More (live vocal over the record)

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Shipbuilding, Everyday I Write The Book, Clubland, Clown Time, TKO (Boxing Day) (live) the final song was unbroadcast

C4 Paul Hogan’s England 9.05 - 10.05 pm

Bucks Fizz

Dexy’s Midnight Runners


Saturday 5th November 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.15 pm

Eddy Grant

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.35 pm

Elton John

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

UB40

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

Granada Pop Goes Guy Fawlkes 11.05 - 11.55 pm

Hosted by Gary Byrd from Alton Towers

Dave Edmunds

Culture Club

Spandau Balley

Roman Holliday

Carmel

LWT No Nukes Festival 12.50 am - end

live in Holland

Bad Manners

Steel Pulse


Sunday 6th November 1983

Granada Pop Goes Guy Fawlkes 4.30 - 5.00 pm and various times around the ITV network - thirty minute edited version of 5th November 1983


Monday 7th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Dean Friedman

BBC2 Riverside 7.05 - 7.35 pm

Compilation show - Big Country, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Hasi Fantasi, Virginia Astley, Trevor Horn, The Smiths

BBC2 Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In 8.00 - 8.30 pm (repeat)

Sammy Davis Jr

C4 Grove Music 11.45 pm - 12.45 am

music from Ladbroke Grove, London


Tuesday 8th November 1983

BBC1 Sixty Minutes 5.40 - 6.40 pm

Mick Jagger interview

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

ABC

BBC2 Rock School 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Deirdre Cartwright (guitar), Geoff Nicholls (drums) and Henry Thomas (bass)

Guitar strings and drum heads - with Wilko Johnson, Neil Murray, Bootsy Collins, Bernard Edwards, Iain Paice, Carl Palmer, Sly Dunbar

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

The Walkers - Whatever Happened To The Party Groove

Kim Wilde - Dancing In The Dark

Blancmange - That’s Love That Is

Will Powers - interview

Bruce Foxton - interview

Thames Des O’Connor Tonight 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Elaine Paige

C4 Loose Talk 10.50 - 11.50 pm

The Joeys

Tom Robinson

JoBoxers


Wednesday 9th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Buddy Greco

BBC2 Harty 7.05 - 7.35 pm

The Belle Stars

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from New York

The Police - interview and live at Shea Stadium

Twiggy, Anthony Newley

MTV

TSW / Channel Peter Sarstedt 11.35 pm - 12.15 am

C4 Shampw 11.05 - 11.55 pm

Film made by band Bando


Thursday 10th November 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by John Peel, Dave Jensen (dressed as Robin Hood's merry men)

Musical Youth - 007

Adam Ant - Puss N Boots (promo clip)

Marilyn - Calling Your Name

The Eurythmics - Right By Your Side

Chart 30 - 20

Limahl - Only For Love

Chart 19 - 10

The Cure - The Love Cats

Chart 9 - 1 (the 'ten top video show')

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip) number one

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 Strike Up The Band 11.15 - 11.45 pm

The Syd Lawrence Orchestra with Matt Monro, Tina Cross

anglia Cambridge Folk Festival 7.10 - 7.40 pm

content unknown

Central Magic Micro Mission (not listed in newspapers)

Synthesizer article with Francis Monkman

Tyne Tees Mixdown 10.32 - 11.00 pm (first in series)

The show presents more MOR/Easy artists

Hosted by Paul Burnett

News items by Brian Matthew

C4 The Malibu World Disco Dancing Championships 8.00 - 9.00 pm

The final

Imagination


Friday 11th November 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

The Thompson Twins

Jimmy The Hoover

BBC1 Show Business 6.55 - 7.20 pm

George Michael

Modern Romance

BBC1 My Kind Of Music 10.15 - 10.45 pm

Anne Lorne Gilles

Alan Price

BBC2 The Innes Book of Records 10.30 - 11.00 pm (repeat)

Neil Innes

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 pm

Georgie Fame

Frankie Vaughan

Central Auf Weidersehen Pet 9.00 - 10.00 pm (first in series)

Theme by Joe Fagin - That's Livin' Alright

Features Gary Holton from the Heavy Metal Kids

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Dr John was due to be on but cancelled

Jools Holland and Leslie Ash introduction

Muriel Grey talks about Just Seventeen magazine

Mark Miwurdz

Jools talks to old gents in a pub about Just Seventeen magazine

Ray Davies - interviewed By Leslie and Jools upstairs at the pub looking at the Don't Forget To Dance promo clip, Gotta Move (Shindig), Waterloo Sunset (Beat Club)

Gerry Anderson interviewed by Jools about Terrahawks and goes backstage, Kate Kestrel - SOS

Mark Miwurdz

The Assembly - Never Never (live)

Jools at the piano in the foyer explaining that Dr John couldn't be here

MTV sting animations

The Fixx - Running, One Thing Leads To Another (live)

The Toy Dolls (repeat clip from first show)

The Rolling Stones - Under Cover (edited version of promo clip with Muriel Gray looking away during a shooting scene in mock horror, but they later show the shooting in slow motion)

Mick Jagger and Julien Temple - interview in London studio about the clip

Carmel - Willow Weep For Me (live)

Wham! - Young Guns (Go For It) (film used in the stage show), interviewed by Tony Fletcher, Wham Rap (promo clip)

The Call - The Walls Came Down, ?, Back From The Front (live) the final song was not broadcast

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Denym

Gerant Jarman


Saturday 12th November 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 pm -12.15 pm (including the Lord Mayor's Show)

JoBoxers

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.40 pm

Status Quo

BBC1 Blankety Blank 6.40 - 7.15 pm

Cilla Black

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

Chas and Dave

TVS DJ 5.35 - 6.00 pm

Tracie

LWT Punchlines 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Joe Brown

TVS Profiles In Rock: Supertramp 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight 11.45 pm - 1.10 am

content unknown


Sunday 13th November 1983

BBC1 Top Secret 5.20 - 6.00 pm

Lynsey de Paul

LWT The Royal Variety Show 7.15 - 10.00 pm

The Rock Steady Crew


Monday 13th November 1983

BBC2 Sussex Folk Plus Jamboree 7.05 - 7.35 pm

hosted by Johnny Silvo

Prelude

Diz Disley

Peter Rowan

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Herb Apert


Tuesday 14th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Boxcar Willie

BBC2 Rock School 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Drums: Carl Palmer

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Limahl - Only For Love

Eddy Grant - Till I Can't Take Love No More

ABC - That Was Then But This Is Now

Thames Des O’Connor 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Sheila Ferguson


Wednesday 16th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Kay Starr

Mike Batt

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.35 pm

Toyah

BBC1 One Night In Lincoln 11.00 - 11.25 pm (repeat)

Mike Harding

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Hawaii

George Benson

BBC2 Karen Kay 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Tony Christie

BBC2 Arena: Eddie Cochran - Three Steps To Heaven 10.00 - 10.50 pm (repeat)

Joe Brown, Sharon Sheely


Thursday 17th November 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Jimmy Savile, Gary Davies

Aztec Camera - Oblivious

Shakin’ Stevens - Cry Just A Little Bit (promo clip)

Double Dutch team from Connecticut chat to Jimmy Savile

Madness - The Sun and The Rain

Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - Say Say Say (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

The Assembly - Never Never

Chart 20 - 11

The Rolling Stones - Undercover Of The Night (edited version of promo)

Chart 10 - 1

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip) number one

Michael Jackson - Thriller (playout record with double Dutch skipping team and end credits)

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.15 - 11.55 pm

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Jerry Reed

BBC2 Ebony 10.20 - 10.50 pm

Winston Reedy

report on the need for a black radio station in London

Tyne Tees Mixdown 10.32 - 11.00 pm

Hosted by Paul Burnett

News items by Brian Matthew

Ulster Music Of Man 11.00 pm - 12.00 am

content unknown

TVS Portrait of a Legend: Stevie Wonder 12.00 - 12.30 am


Friday 18th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Rosemary Clooney

Brook Benton

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

Blue Zoo

Haywoode

BBC1 Show Business 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Ringo Starr - interview

BBC1  My Kind Of Music 10.15 - 10.45 pm

Barbara Dickson

Colin Blunstone

BBC2 Old Grey Whistle Test 11.15 pm - 12. 00 am

Billy Joel - live in 1978

scheduled to be Whistle Test On The Road (first of six shows) The Truth live at Aston University, Birmingham

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Ozzy Osbourne rises out of a coffin

Imagination - New Dimension, State of Love (live)

Jools Holland and Leslie Ash

Wham! arriving at the studio

Ozzy Osbourne (dressed as Dracula standing up in a coffin) - interview by Jools, Bark At The Moon (promo clip)

Ready Steady Go! article with John Platt interviewed by Tony Fletcher, clips of The Beatles, Them, Lulu, chart run down, The Rolling Stones

Yardbirds article with John Platt interviewed by Tony Fletcher, A Heart Full Of Soul (1968 TV clip with Jimmy Page)

Simon Napier-Bell - interviewed by Leslie Ash, Yardbirds (NME Pollwinners clip)

REM - Radio Free Europe, S. Central Rain, Talk About The Passion (live)

Dr John - Such A Night (pre-recorded in Tube studio)

Mark Miwurdz

Wham! - A Ray Of Sunshine, Love Machine (not live) Before Love Machine George Michael requests fans not to buy the new remix single from their old label

Clips of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry movies

Marc Bolan clip - preview of next weeks' show

Jackson Browne - Tender Is The Night (promo clip) Jools claims this was played as money had changed hands

Z Z Top - Under Pressure, Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man, Tube Snake Boogie (live) the final song was not broadcast

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm

from the Asylum, Nottingham

Marcia & The Modettes

Jackie Kenton

Pegasus

Hyson Green’s Realistics

Natural Ites


Saturday 19th November 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.12 pm

Toyah

Status Quo

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.35 pm

content unknown

BBC1 Blankety Blank 6.35 - 7.10 pm

Jonathan King

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 5.25 - 6.05 pm (repeat cancelled)

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

TVS DJ 5.35 - 6.00 pm

content unknown

LWT Punchlines 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Tony Blackburn, Cheryl Baker

TVS The Roots Of Rock and Roll 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

content unknown

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight 11.20 pm - 1.10 am

content unknown

LWT Fela In Concert 1.00 am - end

Fela Ransome Kuti live in Paris


Sunday 20th November 1983

LWT Sunday Sunday 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Marvin Hamlisch

Yorkshire Harvest Jazz 12.20 - 12.45 pm

content unknown


Monday 21st November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Dana

BBC2 Sussex Folk Plus Jamboree 7.05 - 7.45 pm

introduced by Johnny Silvo

Roaring Jelly

The Cat’s Whiskers

English Country Blues Band

Merribell’s Gospel Choir


Tuesday 22nd November 1983

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Debbie Harry

BBC2 Rockschool 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Rhythm and Blues

TVAM Through The Keyhole 7.55 - 8.05 am

Captain Sensible

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Belle Stars - The Entertainer

Tom Robinson - Atmospherics Listen To The Radio (Robinson changes the lyric “Have Another Cigarette” To “Avacado Vignarette”)

Marilyn - Calling Your Name

Toyah Willcox

Musical Youth


Wednesday 23rd November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Ian Dury

BBC1 Harty 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Tracey Ullman (as a singer)

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Denver

Kenny Rogers

BBC2 Karen Kay 9.30 - 10.00 pm

Ronnie Scott

BBC2 Arena: Juke Box Jazz II 11.00 - 11.50 pm

Hosted by George Melly, Slim Gaillard

Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Nat Cole Trio, Louis Armstrong

TVAM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Eartha Kitt


Thursday 24th November 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Simon Bates, Richard Skinner

A Live broadcast

Paul Young - Love Of The Common People

Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together (promo clip)

The Smiths - This Charming Man

The Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now

Marilyn - Calling Your Name

Chart 30 - 21

Simple Minds - Waterfront

Chart 20 - 11

Style Council - A Solid Bond In Your Heart (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip) number one

The Eurythmics - Right By Your Side (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Ebony 10.20 - 10.50 pm

Winston Reedy

Tyne Tees Mixdown 10.32 - 11.00 pm

Hosted by Paul Burnett

News items by Brian Matthew

Yorkshire John Miles In Concert 11.30 pm - 12.30 am


Friday 25th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Alvin Stardust

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

Limahl - Only For Love

Chas & Dave - My Melancholy Baby

BBC1 Children In Need 6.55 pm - 1.15 am (with other shows included throughout the evening)

Kenny Everett

BBC1 (Scotland) Double Bill 9.40 - 10.10 pm

Billy Jo Spears

BBC1 James Last Plays The Beatles 11.05 - 11.55 pm

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 11.40 pm - end

Introduced by Mark Ellen

Level 42 live at The Ace, Brixton

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Kid Creole was scheduled to appear

French and Saunders intro and throughout the show as the two fans

Jools Holland and Leslie Ash

The Style Council - Solid Bond (promo clip)

Gary Crowley interviewed by Leslie Ash

The Who – A Whole Scene Going 1966 clip, Substitute (promo clip), Pictures Of Lily (Beat Club)

Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher (film clip) included as Kid Creole was meant to be on the show

Tom Tom Club - Pleasure Of Love (promo clip)

Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul 1968 TV clip as shown previous week

Paul Young - interviewed by Leslie Ash, Love Of The Common People (promo clip nightclub version)

Einstürzende Neubauten - film clip

John Peel talks about Marc Bolan to Gary James

Marc Bolan - film article with Ringo Starr, Tony Visconti and previously unseen home movie footage

Mickey Finn talks about Marc Bolan to Gary James

The Fall - introduced by John Peel, Smile, ? (live)

The Europeans - American People, Innocence, Tunnel Vision (live) singer sets off a fire extinguisher on stage

The Pretenders - clip from The US Festival

The Style Council - Ever Changing Mood, Head Start For Happiness, Hangin’ On A Memory (live) the set continues after the live transmission has finished

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm

From Huddersfield

Progression All Stars

Karen Williamson

Jab Jab

Brasilia


Saturday 26th November 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.12 pm

Limahl

David Grant

The Flying Pickets

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 6.35 pm

content unknown

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 5.40 - 6.20 pm (repeat from yesterday)

BBC2 Rhythm On Two: Peter Paul & Mary 9.45 - 10.15 pm

part two of a concert from the Southport Theatre

Central Saturday Show

Toyah

TVS DJ

content unknown


Monday 28th November 1983

BBC2 Sussex Folk - Plus Jamboree 7.05 - 7.35 pm

Albion Band, Christy Moore

BBC2 The Bob Monkhouse Show 8.30 - 9.25 pm

Kenny Everett


Tuesday 29th November 1983

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Randy Edelman

BBC2 Rock School 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Heavy Metal - Clips of Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Jimi Hendrix

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Guest host Nick Beggs (Kajagoogoo)

The Assembly - Never Never

Howard Jones - What Is Love

Toyah - The Vow

Vikki Benson - Easy Love

Thames Des O’Connor

Chas and Dave


Wednesday 30th November 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Jethro Tull - Fly By Night, interview

Chris Barber

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Los Angeles

content unknown

Thames Up The Elephant And Round The Castle 8.30 - 9.00 pm (first episode)

Sit-com with a theme by Keith Emerson


Thursday 1st December 1983

BBC1 Blue Peter 5.10 - 5.40 pm

Shakin' Stevens

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Dave Lee Travis, Steve Wright

Slade - My Oh My

Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Islands In The Stream (USA TV clip)

The Flying Pickets - Only You

Genesis - That’s All (promo clip)

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon

Radio Times covers presentation

Cliff Richard - Please Don't Fall In Love (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

Tracey Ullman - Move Over Darling (promo clip)

Chart 20 - 11

Aztec Camera - Oblivious

Chart 10 - 1

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip, end credits and audience dancing) number one

BBC2 Ebony 10.20 - 10.50 pm

content unknown

ITV Little Girls Don't 2.30 - 3.30 pm (repeat)

play with Toyah Willcox

Yorkshire Nazareth Live 11.30 pm - 12.30 am

TVS Portrait of a Legend: Olivia Newton-John 12.00 - 12.30 am

Tyne Tees Mixdown 10.32 - 11.00 pm

Hosted by Paul Burnett

News items by Brian Matthew


Friday 2nd December 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

Lynsey de Paul & Neil Adams

Kim Wilde

The Look

BBC1 Show Business 6.55 - 7.20 pm

content unknown

BBC1 The Chieftains Image Of Ireland 10.45 - 11.20 pm

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 11.35 pm - 12.20 am

Introduced by David Hepworth

Tom Robinson and the Crew at Goldiggers, Chippenham

TSW / Channel Thank God It's Friday 10.35 pm - 12.10 am 1979 movie with Donna Summer, The Commodores etc

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Culture Club - Victims (promo clip)

Boy George - phone call from London with Jools

Hull article with Jools Holland - The Red Guitars - Good Technology (Tube film), Indians In Moscow - Naughty Miranda (Tube film), Luddites - Doppleganger (Tube film), John Bentley (ex-Squeeze) chats with Jools, Swift Nick (poet), International Rescue - This Town (live in The Spider Club)

Muriel Grey talks about Boystown / Hi-NRG chart Miquel Brown - So Many Men (promo clip), Divine chat with Muriel Grey (pre-recorded during rehearsal)

Divine - Shake It Up

Mark Miwurdz

The Icicle Works - Chop The Tree, Wonderful Colours (live) During rehearsals Chrissie Hynde asked the band if they would support The Pretenders on an American tour

Fats Waller - Your Feet's Too Big (silent film of women exercising)

Dress designers Peter Leathers and Michelle Hogard who had made Leslie's dress

Muriel Grey talks about The Tube Late Night Extra later tonight Michael Jackson - Thriller

David Bowie - Watch That Man, Queen Bitch (Ziggy Stardust concert movie), David Bowie - chat with Jools about the show

Simple Minds - Waterfront (promo clip)

The Pretenders - 2000 Miles, Middle of The Road, ?, I Hurt You (live) the final song was not broadcast

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Mikey Dread at Highfiled in Leicester

Oneness

Eastern Vibration

C4 What The Censor Saw: Carnal Knowledge 11.20 pm - 1.05 am 1969 movie with Art Garfunkel

C4 The Tube: Late Night Extra: Michael Jackson’s Thriller 1.05 am - close

Channel 4 couldn't begin showing it until MTV in the USA had finished. Later on a Tyne Tees editor reversed the transformation scene making it look as though he was going from a werewolf to Jackson, leading to the girl screaming.


Saturday 3rd December 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.12 pm

BA Robertson

Bucks Fizz

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.50 - 5.35 pm

Elton John - Cold As Christmas and interview

BBC1 Blankety Blank 6.35 - 7.10 pm

Kenny Everett, Cleo Laine

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 5.30 - 6.10 pm (repeat)

TV-AM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 pm

The Eurythmics

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

content unknown

Yorkshire 3-2-1 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Frankie Vaughan

LWT The Cannon and Ball Show 7.00 - 7.45 pm

Cliff Richard

Rocky Sharpe & The Replays

LWT Punchlines 7.45 - 8.15 pm

Dana

LWT After Midnight 12.00 - 12.40 am

Marilyn in chat show

LWT Lene Lovich 12.40 am - end

Live in Canada

TVS The Roots of Rock N Roll 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

The Doobie Brothers

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight 11.20 pm - 1.10 am

content unknown


Sunday 4th December 1983

LWT Sunday Sunday 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Bucks Fizz


Monday 5th December 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Modern Romance

BBC2 Sussex Folk - Plus Jamboree 7.05 - 7.35 pm

Renaissance

BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In 8.00 - 8.30 pm (repeat)

Sammy Davis Jr

BBC2 The Bob Monkhouse Show 8.30 - 9.25 pm

Rosemary Clooney

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Rick Wakeman

ITV Record Tokens advert with Alan Freeman


Tuesday 6th December 1983

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

Duran Duran backstage in Manchester

Videostars 9.25 - 10.50 pm

play about a cable television company written by Howard Schumann

Tim Curry

BBC2 Rock School 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Funk with Larry Graham, Bootsy Collins, Nile Rogers

TV-AM Good Morning Britain 6.25 - 9.25 am

Sandie Shaw interview

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Michael Barrymore

Dominic & Julie From Guys n Dolls

Real Life - Send Me An Angel

Peter Schilling - Major Tom

The Pretenders - 2000 Miles

Thames Des O’Connor Tonight 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Brenda Lee


Wednesday 7th December 1983

BBC1 Harty 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Slade

BBC1 One Night In Lincoln 11.10 - 11.40 pm (repeat)

Mike Harding

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.30 pm

from Toronto

Boy George

Channel Guensey Jazz Five 10.00 - 10.05 pm

TSW / Channel Harvest Jazz at Paul Masson 12.05 - 12.40 am


Thursday 8th December 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by Mike Read, Tommy Vance

The Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now

Billy Joel - Tell Her About It (promo clip)

Paul Young - Love Of The Common People (repeat 24th November 1983)

Tina Turner - Let’s Stay Together (promo clip)

Tears For Fears - The Way You Are

Chart 30 - 21

Howard Jones - What Is Love

Chart 20 - 11

Culture Club - Victims (promo clip)

Chart 10 - 1

The Flying Pickets - Only You number one

Wham! - Club Fantastic Megamix (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Ebony 10.20 - 10.50 pm

content unknown

Ulster Music of Man 11.00 pm - 12.00 am

content unknown

Yorkshire Jerry Lee Lewis 11.30 pm - 12.30 am


Friday 9th December 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack 4.55 - 5.40 pm

Toyah - Wow

David Grant - The Midnight

BBC1 Show Business 6.55 - 7.20 pm

Spandau Ballet in America

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 11.20 pm - 12.10 am

The Smiths at the Assembly Rooms, Derby

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Jools Holland outside in the queue

Leslie Ash in the green room

Gary Holton in Auf Weidersehen Pet clip, interviewed by Leslie Ash

Gary Holton - Looking For The Right Girl (live)

Cucumber Videos article with Green Cross Code advert, Tom Tom Club - Pleasure Of Love (promo clip), Donald Fagan - New Frontier (promo clip), Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton chat to Muriel Grey, Nick Heyward - On A Sunday (promo clip)

Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Really Glad You Came, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, Percy The Poet (live)

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax (Tube film), Relax (promo clip night club version)

Mark Miwurdz

Natural Ites and The Realistics - Picture On The Wall, Nuclear Weapon (live)

Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter (promo clip)

Mick Jagger – interviewed by Jools in a London hotel room, plus Rolling Stones archive clips, Under Cover (heavily edited version of promo clip)

Simple Minds - Waterfront, Upon The Catwalk, Book Of Brilliant Things (live) the live set continued after the live transmission finished

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.30 pm

Recorded at The Dolphin pub in Slough

Mighty Stripes

Rush

Natural Roots


Saturday 10th December 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.12 pm

Elton John

The Police

Slade

BBC1 The Late Late Breakfast Show 5.55 - 6.40 pm

Rod Stewart (via satellite)

BBC1 The Two Ronnies 8.10 - 9.00 pm

Elaine Paige

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 5.35 - 6.15 pm (repeat from yesterday)

TVAM Data Run 8.40 - 9.25 am

The Pretenders filming promo for 2000 Miles

Central Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

The Jets

The Flying Pickets

TVS DJ 5.35 - 6.00 pm

content unknown

Yorkshire 3-2-1 6.00 - 7.00 pm

Marion Montgomery

Georgie Fame

LWT Cannon & Ball 7.00 - 7.45 pm

Status Quo - Margeuerita Time, sketch with Cannon and Ball

The Platters

LWT Punchlines 7.45 - 8.15 pm

Joe Brown

TSW Pink Floyd In Pompeii 11.35 pm - 12.45 am

Granada Alexis Korner and Friends in Concert 12.30 - 1.25 am

LWT Randy Edelman in London 1.15 - 1.45 pm

TVS Women In Rock

content unknown


Sunday 11th December 1983

LWT Freeze Frame 11.30 am - 12.00 pm

Culture Club


Monday 12th December 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Duran Duran

BBC1 International Pro-Celebrity Golf 2.00 - 3.15 pm (repeat)

Glen Campbell

BBC2 Sussex Folk Plus Jamboree 7.05 - 7.35 pm

Donovan

Incantation

BBC2 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In 8.00 - 8.30 pm (repeat)

Tiny Tim

TVS Profiles In Rock: Toto 12.05 - 12.35 am


Tuesday 13th December 1983

BBC1 Harty 7.05 - 7.40 pm

The Flying Pickets

BBC2 Rock School 6.15 - 6.40 pm

Reggae with Sly & Robbie

BBC2 Barry at Blenheim 9.25 - 10.10 pm (repeat)

Barry Manilow

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz 4.20 - 4.45 pm

Paul McCartney – interview, Pipes Of Peace (promo clip)

Bucks Fizz - Rules Of The Game

Status Quo - Marguerita Time

Rick Springfield - The Human Touch

Limahl

Thames Give Us A Clue 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Suzi Quatro


Wednesday 14th December 1983

BBC1 Harty 6.40 - 7.10 pm

Paul McCartney and George Martin mixing Pipes Of Peace, plus promo clip

BBC2 Entertainment USA

from Washington DC

The Weather Girls

BBC2 Dianne Solomon Entertains 11.20 - 11.55 pm (repeat)

live at Blazer's, Windsor

Dianne Solomon

BA Robertson

Paradox

C4 Arts Review Of The Year 9.00 - 11.00 pm

Barbara Dickson

Boy George


Thursday 15th December 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Hosted by Simon Bates, Janice Long

Status Quo - Marguerita Time

UB40 - Many Rivers To Cross (promo clip)

Slade - My Oh My

Barry Manilow - Read 'Em and Weep (promo clip)

Chart 30 - 21

The Pretenders - 2000 Miles

Chart 20 - 11

Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Islands In The Stream (USA TV clip)

Chart 10 - 1

The Flying Pickets - Only You (dressed as snowmen) number one

Kool and The Gang - Straight Ahead (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC2 Ebony 10.20 - 10.50 pm

Bob Marley article on Buffalo Soldiers

Report on the Dread Broadcasting Company, a pirate radio station

Thames A Plus 1.30 - 2.30 pm

Bertice Reading


Friday 16th December 1983

BBC1 Crackerjack

Bucks Fizz

Tears For Fears

Plus repeat clips of

Chas & Dave - Melancholy Baby

Modern Romance - Best Years of Our Lives

Suzi Quatro - Heart Of Stone

Limahl - Only For Love

Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Jackie Wilson Said

BBC1 Show Business 6.40 - 7.05 pm

Location report for the Kenny Everett Christmas Show from a cemetery

BBC1 The Chieftains Images of Ireland 10.15 - 10.50 pm

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 11.35 pm - 12.20 pm

Introduced by Mark Ellen

Aztec Camera at Aston University, Birmingham

HTV I’m Coming Home 12.30 am - end

Tom Jones special

C4 The Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

French and Saunders

Dress designers Peter Leathers and Michelle Hogard who had made Leslie's dress

Muriel Grey and a preview of the show

Jools Holland

Paul McCartney - Pipes Of Peace (promo clip) Muriel Grey refers to it as 'Pipes Of Piss'

Madness - Wings of A Dove (promo clip)

Inspirational Choir of the First Born Church of the Living God (live)

Peter Leathers and Michelle Hogard filmed article with Leslie Ash as the model

Tony Fletcher

Killing Joke - Dominator, Eighties, Frenzy (live)

Colour newsreel of The Cavern, Liverpool

Paul McCartney - filmed interview in London by Leslie Ash

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Ferry Cross The Mersey, Relax (live)

Tina Turner - Get Back (preview clip of next week's show)

Echo & The Bunnymen - Nocturnal Me, Ocean Rain, Thorn of Crowns, The Killing Moon (live)

C4 Rockers Roadshow 9.15 - 10.00 pm

Mikey Dread

Pre-Wax

Medium Wave

Beshara


Saturday 17th December 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.15 pm

Duran Duran

Boy George

The Police

Slade

BBC1 Little & Large Show 5.25 - 6.00 pm

Lonnie Donegan

Bucks Fizz

BBC1 Can’t Stop The Music 6.00 - 8.00 pm 1980 Village People movie

BBC1 The Two Ronnies 8.00 - 8.50 pm

Stephanie Lawrence - The Right To Sing

BBC2 Whistle Test On The Road 6.15 - 6.55 pm (repeat from yesterday)

Aztec Camera

LWT The Saturday Show 10.30 am - 12.15 pm

The Flying Pickets

TVS DJ 5.35 - 6.00 pm

Modern Romance

Wham!

Nik Kershaw

Bucks Fizz

Boy George on tour article

LWT Cannon & Ball 7.00 - 7.45 pm

Shakin’ Stevens

Sarah Brightman

LWT Punchlines 7.15 - 7.45 pm

Dana, Stephanie Lawrence

Tyne Tees Rock Around Midnight 12.30 - 1.30 pm

content unknown

LWT Electric Light Orchestra 1.00 am - end


Sunday 18th December 1983

LWT Sunday Sunday 5.30 - 6.30 pm

The Flying Pickets


Monday 19th December 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.45 pm

Nick Heyward - On A Sunday, Stolen Tears

BBC2 The Bob Monkhouse Show 8.30 - 9.25 pm

Marvin Hamlisch

Tyne Tees Music Special 11.20 pm - 12.20 am

content unknown

Channel Women In Rock 11.25 pm - 12.20 am


Tuesday 20th December 1983

BBC1 Perry Como’s French-Canadian Christmas 10.55 - 11.45 pm (repeat)

BBC2 Rock School 5.40 - 6.05 pm

Crossover - Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Police

Thames Sounds Like A Story 12.10 - 12.30 pm

Mark Wynter reads a story

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz Christmas Special 4.15 - 4.45 pm

The Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger

Blancmange - That's Love That It Is

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue

Spandau Ballet - Gold

Adam Ant - Puss In Boots

The Police - Every Breath You Take

Yorkshire Emmerdale Farm 7.00 - 7.30 pm

Features a punk rock singer, Maggie (played by Jacqueline Reddin)

Thames Des O’Connor 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Grace Kennedy

Thames Cher at Caesar’s Palace 11.20 pm - 12.25 am


Wednesday 21st December 1983

BBC1 Harty 6.40 - 7.15 pm

Shakin’ Stevens

BBC1 Barbara Mandrell 11.25 pm - 12.00 am (repeat)

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandress Sisters

Bobby Vinton

Andrea Crouch

BBC2 Entertainment USA 9.00 - 9.25 pm

from New York

content unknown

BBC2 Barry at Blenheim 9.55 - 10.40 pm (repeat of part two)

Barry Manilow

HTV West Johnny Mathis Chante Noel 12.10 - 12.40 am


Thursday 22nd December 1983

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 7.30 - 8.05 pm

Hosted by John Peel, Dave Jensen

A live broadcast

Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody

Culture Club - Victims (promo clip)

Tears For Fears - The Way You Are

Billy Joel - Tell Her About It (promo clip)

Dennis Waterman & George Cole - What Are We Gonna Get ‘Er Indoors (live vocals)

Chart 30 - 21

Paul McCartney - Pipes Of Peace (promo clip)

Chart 20 - 11

Howard Jones - What Is Love

Chart 10 - 1

Flying Pickets - Only You number one

Roland Rat - Rat Rapping (playout record and audience dancing)


Friday 23rd December 1983

BBC1 Pebble Mill 1.00 - 1.50 pm

Cilla Black

BBC1 Crackerjack 5.00 - 5.40 pm

Chas & Dave

The Jets

BBC2 Arena: The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert 9.15 - 10.30 pm

live at the Royal Albert Hall, London

BBC2 Whistle Test Pick Of The Year 11.50 pm - 1.30 am

Introduced by David Hepworth and Mark Ellen - they announce that the Stone Fox Chase intro was being dropped "quite a relief for us" and the show's title was now just Whistle Test

Big Country - A Thousand Stars

Bow Wow Wow - Baby Oh No (promo clip)

Eurythmics - The Walk

Joni Mitchell - Chinese Cafe (live clip)

Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust (In Concert Clip)

Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter

Neil Young - Computer Age (live clip)

Spandau Ballet - Foundation (In Concert clip)

Kate Bush - The Dreaming (promo clip)

Japan - Night Porter

Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream For Crow (promo clip)

Fashion - Move On

Ultravox - Hymn

Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey (promo clip)

Carmel - I Can't Stand The Rain

Grace Jones - Demolition Man (One Man Show clip)

Marillion - Forgotten Sons

Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding

David Bowie - China Girl (promo clip, full version)

Granada Pop Goes Christmas 5.15 - 5.45 pm

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Merry Christmas Everybody

David Essex - A Winter's Tale, Ooh la blonde

Musical Youth - Rudolph the red nosed reindeer

The Nolans - Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Shakin' Stevens - Blue Christmas

St. Winifred's Choir - Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Toyah - I believe in Father Christmas

Mari Wilson and the Wilsations - Santa Claus is coming to town, We wish you a merry Christmas

C4 The Tube

No live bands in the studio with Jools and Leslie making live links. The show has a Prisoner theme with Jools as Number 6 and Leslie as Number 2.

The Weather Girls - Dear Santa (promo clip)

A Day In The Night Of New York - Jools and Leslie in New York clubs film report - Roger Trilling, Danceteria nightclub, Klaus Nomi - Lightning Strikes (promo clip), Afrika Bambatta & Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock (promo clip), The Roxy nightclub, Rod Stewart seen in crowd, Arthur Baker chats to Jools, New Order - Confusion (promo clip), Nona Hendrix live clip and chat to Leslie, The Peech Boys chat to Jools, Quano Quango - Love Tempo (live)

Billy Bragg - (live)

Tina Tuner - Cat People, The Acid Queen, River Deep Mountain High, Hot Legs, Get Back, Where The Heart Is, Nutbush City Limits, Let's Stay Together (with Heaven 17, but an alternate take with different costume to previously seen), Help (live extended set from 28th October 1983)

U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (live at Red Rocks)

C4 Rockers Roadshow 11.55 pm - 12.40 am

from barr Hill school, Coventry

Splashdown

Glasshouse

Shaper 7


Saturday 24th December 1983 Christmnas Eve

BBC1 Pop Quiz Christmas Special 5.55 - 6.30 pm

Panel: Dave Edmunds (captain), Mari Wilson, Leee John vs Roger Taylor (captain), Limahl, Midge Ure

Clips: various promo clips from 1983, Gerry & The Pacemakers - Fery Cross The Mersey (Ready Steady Go!), Level 42 - Living It Up (promo clip), The Animals - Baby Let me Take You Home (Ready Steady Go!), Yardbirds - Shapes Of Things (NME Pollwinners), Wham! - Young Guns (promo clip), Mud - Tiger Feet (TOTP)

BBC1 The Little and Large Show 6.30 - 7.10 pm

Joe Brown

Chas and Dave - Melancholy Baby

BBC1 Flash Gordon 7.10 - 8.55 pm 1980 movie with Queen soundtrack

BBC1 Val Doonican’s Christmas Party 8.55 - 9.40 pm

The Nolans

BBC2 Sky at Drury Lane 6.55 - 7.45 pm

BBC2 Whistle Test Presents: Paul Young and The Royal Family 10.00 - 10.45 pm

Paul Young and The Royal Family live at the Hammersmith Odeon (the '12 days of Christmas' tour)

LWT Data Run's Christmas Party 8.40 - 9.25 am

Lynsey de Paul

The Belle Stars

The Lotus Eaters

Tracey Ullman

Madness

LWT Adam Ant - The Prince Charming Revue 1.00 - 2.20 pm

live at the Dominion Theatre, London

LWT The Krankies At Christmas 4.30 - 5.15 pm

Modern Romance

Barbara Dickson

David Grant

Yorkshire 3-2-1 6.45 - 7.45 pm

Dana

Julie Rogers

LWT Cilla Black Christmas Eve 7.45 - 8.45 pm

The Bee Gees via satellite

George Benson

Julio Inglasias

C4 Unforgettable Swingtime 4.35 - 5.05 pm

hosted by Pat Phoenix

Kay Starr

Ronnie Hilton


Sunday 25th December 1983 Christmas day

BBC1 The Christmas Raccoons 8.35 - 9.00 am

the voices of Rita Coolidge, Rupert Holmes

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 1983 2.00 - 3.00 pm

Hosted by Simon Bates, Janice Long (dressed as the principal boy), Mike Smith (dressed as a pantomime dame), Andy Peebles

Freeez - I.O.U.

David Bowie - Let's Dance (promo clip)

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (promo clip)

Shakin’ Stevens - Cry Just A Little Bit

Men At Work - Down Under (promo clip)

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (promo clip)

The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Irene Cara - Flashdance (What A Feeling) (promo clip)

Adam Ant - Puss ‘N’ Boots

Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know? (promo clip)

Bucks Fizz - When We Were Young

Lionel Richie - All Night Long (promo clip)

Heaven 17 - Temptation

UB40 - Red Red Wine

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (promo clip)

The Flying Pickets - Only You

K.C. & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up (playout record and audience dancing)

BBC1 The Two Ronnies 7.15 - 8.05 pm

Elton John - Cold As Christmas

BBC1 The Spinners at York 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

BBC2 the Bob Monkhouse Show 10.05 - 11.00 pm

Bertice Reading

LWT Jimmy Tarbuck’s Christmas All-Stars 7.45 - 9.10 pm

Shakin’ Stevens & Bonnie Tyler – Rockin’ Good Way

The Temptations

The Four Tops

Andy Williams

C4 Twice Knightly 6.15 – 7.15 pm

The Barron Knights special

C4 The King Of Comedy 1983 movie with The Clash


Monday 26th December 1983 Boxing Day

BBC1 The Keith Harris Christmas Party 4.35 - 5.10 pm

Shakin’ Stevens

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show 7.15 - 7.50 pm

The Police

Thames Give Us A Clue 5.30 - 6.00 pm

Bob Geldof

Thames Eric & Ernie’s Christmas Show 8.45 - 9.45 pm

Peter Skellern

C4 Renaldo & Clara 1977 movie 9.30 pm - 1.45 am

Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Ronnie Hawkins, Ronnee Blakely, Jack Elloitt, Joni Mitchell, Roger McGuinn, David Blue, Arlo Guthrie, Roberta Flack


Tuesday 27th December 1983

BBC2 The Wiz 4.25 - 6.35 pm 1978 movie with Diana Ross, Michael Jackson

Thames The Mike Yarwood Hour 7.45 - 8.45 pm

The Three Degrees

Thames Shirley Bassey – A Special Lady 11.15 pm - 12.45 am (repeat)

C4 Rockers Roadshow 12.30 - 1.15 pm

from The Rialto in Handsworth, Birmingham

B B James

Assignment

Amlak

Reality

C4 Supersonic 4.00 - 5.00 pm

Elton John - I'm Still Standing

Bonnie Tyler - It's A Jungle Out There

John Cougar - Tumbling Down

Modern Romance - Good Friday

Shakin’ Stevens

Meat Loaf

Adam Ant

Status Quo

Marilyn

Soft Cell

Limahl

Bonnie Tyler & Shakin’ Stevens

C4 ITV Comedy Classics: The Morecambe & Wise Show (repeat 19th March 1966)

Herman’s Hermits


Wednesday 28th December 1983

BBC1 The Best Of Three Of A Kind 9.00 - 9.30 pm

content unknown

Thames Jim Davidson’s Special 8.00 - 9.00 pm

Suzi Quatro

Gary Glitter


Thursday 29th December 1983

BBC1 Blue Peter Review Of The Year 5.05 - 5.35 pm

Elton John

BBC1 A Question Of Sport 6.00 - 6.35 pm

Max Boyce, Georgie Fame on panel

BBC1 Top Of The Pops 1983 part two 7.00 - 7.55 pm

Hosted by Peter Powell, Adrian John, Gary Davies, Richard Skinner, Tommy Vance

The Daily Mirror has The Assembly making an appearance

JoBoxers - Boxer Beat

Mike Oldfield With Maggie Reilly - Moonlight Shadow (promo clip)

Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side

Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know (promo clip)

The Cure - Love Cats

USA chart of the year Jonathan King - Michael Sembello (promo clip), The Police (live clip)

Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love (promo clip)

The Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home) (promo clip)

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence

Spandau Ballet - True

Howard Jones - New Song (with Jed with tinsel around his chains)

Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (promo clip)

The Style Council - Long Hot Summer

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - Say Say Say (playout record and audience dancing)

Yorkshire An Evening with Charles Aznavour 11.45 pm - 12.50 am

TSW / Channel Randy Edelman 11.45 pm - 12.15 am

Central Peter Sarstedt 11.45 pm - 12.30 am

C4 The Snowman 7.30 - 8.00 pm

with David Bowie introduction


Friday 30th December 1983

BBC1 Cheggers Plays Pop 5.05 - 5.40 pm

Gary Davies & Bernadette Nolan are team leaders

David Grant

Thompson Twins

Bucks Fizz

LWT Tom Jones - Home Is Where The Heart Is 10.30 - 11.30 pm

live from St David's Hall, Cardiff

with the Treorchy Male Voice Choir

C4 The New Year's Tube 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Compilation show with co host Dame Edna Everage

The Police - Every Breath You Take (Shea Stadium, New York)

Simple Minds

U2 - at Red Rocks

Public Image Limited

Wham!

Culture Club

David Bowie -

Paul Young -

The Jam -

The Eurythmics –

Elvis Costello –

The Smiths

Divine

C4 Unforgettable Christmas Show 8.00 - 9.00 pm

The Beverley Sisters

Freddie 'Fingers' Lee

Coast to Coast

Lipstick

Clive Dunn - Grandad

Mike Morton Band

C4 Paul Hogan's England 9.00 - 10.00 pm

Paul Young

Dire Straits

C4 Max Boyce Meets The Dallas Cowboys 10.55 - 11.55 pm (repeat)


Saturday 31st December 1983

BBC1 Saturday Superstore 9.00 am - 12.15 pm

Howard Jones

David Essex

Wham!

BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It 5.20 - 5.55 pm

Chris Barber

BBC1 The Little and Large Show 5.55 - 6.30 pm

Roy Wood

Status Quo

BBC1 A Farewell Celebration Of The Good Old Days 10.45 - 11.45 pm

Frankie Vaughan

BBC1 At Last It’s 1984!

The Shadows

Granada Pop Goes New Year 5.05 - 6.05 pm

Culture Club - Mr Man, Victims

Rick Springfield

Tracey Ullman - Shattered

The Eurythmics - No Broken Hearts, Here Comes The Rain Again

Limahl - Over The Top

The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods -live

Yorkshire Petula 8.35 - 9.35 pm

Petula Clark

Paul Jones

Billy Eckstein

C4 Unforgettable Swingtime 4.35 - 5.05 pm

Hosted by Pat Phoenix

Rosemary Clooney

Denis Lotis

C4 Party At The Palace 8.00 - 9.00 pm (Camden Palace)

Mari Wilson

Gary Byrd

Janet Kay

C4 The Music Machine 9.00 - 10.40 pm 1979 movie disco musical


Also this year

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Television Show

ABBA - - linking sketch

Tyne Tees Razzamatazz

Adam & The Ants - Puss In Boots

Granada Hold Me Tight

Altered Images - Bring Me Closer

BBC2 Russell Harty

Deborah Harry talks about Videodrome

C4 Loose Talk

Yazoo -

C4 Whatever You Want - Joe Strummer

ITV The Academy Awards

Joe Cocker - - Up Where We Belong

BBC1 Three Of A Kind

Phil Collins - sketch

BBC1 Breakfast Time

Elvis Costello - reviews newspapers

BBC2 Eight Days A Week

Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding (Rockpalast)

BBC1 News 9-83

The Everly Brothers - Reunion article

BBC1 Pebble Mill 12-83

Fairport Convention - two songs

BBC1 Late Late Breakfast Show 12-83

Genesis - That’s All, interview

C4 The Norman Gunston Show

Mick Jagger - interview

BBC2 Leo Sayer Show

Jethro Tull - Fly By Night

BBC1 Late Late Breakfast Show 12-83

Billy Joel - interview

C4 No Problem

Kid Creole - plays himself

C4 Switch interview

The Coconuts -

C4 The Tube

Killing Joke - The 80s

Thames Thames At Six

Mike Oldfield - interview

BBC1 Nationwide 8-83

The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger, interview

BBC1 Saturday Morning Picture Show

The Police - interview

BBC1 Nationwide

John Lydon - interview

BBC2 Entertainment USA

Lou Reed - interview

BBC1 South East At Six 10-83

Capt Sensible -

BBC1 Harty

Slade - My Oh My

BBC2 Entertainment USA

Rod Stewart - interview

C4 The Tube

The Stranglers - live

BBC1 Saturday Superstore

The Style Council - My Ever Changing Mood, plus one

BBC1 Time Of Your Life

The Troggs - Wild Thing, interview

BBC1 The Kenny Everett Show 4-83

U2 - Like A Song

BBC1 Breakfast Time

Rick Wakeman - interview, I’m So Straight I’m A Weirdro (promo clip)

BBC2 Dancers documentary about Sponooch dance troupe with music by Wakeman, repeated from 1982

Central Magic Micro Mission 12-83

Rick Wakeman - demos synthesizers

ITV Wham! - Fantastic TV ad 8-83

Central Starburst

Roy Wood - Goin’ Down the Road

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David Bowie at press conference at Claridge’s, London

ITV Janet Street Porter

Deborah Harry interview about Videodrome

C4 Loose Talk

The Cocteau Twins - Song To The Siren

Thames The English Programme - The Tube: Three Days To Go

a schools' documentary about the making of A Midsummer Night’s Tube

BBC1 Breakfast Time (June)

Eric Clapton interview

ITV Alliance advert

possibly Godley & Creme soundtrack

ITV boiler advert

song by George Melly

BBC1 Pebble Mill

Elvis Costello - Everyday I Write The Book