Top of the Pops
Thursday, 19.30, 00.15, BBC4

Don’t get too worried about that mention in the Radio Times that there are “no immediate plans” to carry this on into 1978, because of course there aren’t any immediate plans to show it, it doesn’t need to be shown immediately, and that sounds very much like telly-speak for “we can’t be arsed checking with the controller one way or the other”. It’s still going strong here anyway with a fascinating episode from 18th August 1977, given there’d been some pretty bloody momentous pop news two days earlier so we get to see a rather more subdued than usual Travis having to deal with it. But don’t worry, The Dooleys will cheer us up.

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