FINAL resting place of the one-time broadcasting institution, by then very much on its last legs thanks to the machinations of Derek Griffiths and Barnaby. Glory days of youngsters giving a flying fuck about the exploits of My Naughty Little Sister and The Yompity Yo were long gone, and later years saw attempts to update wildly anachronistic approach by bringing in folk-rockers like Nola York and finally desperately involving Noel Edmonds in some capactity, but to no avail. Cancelled in 1982, to much still-enduring wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Listen With Mother
1967 to 1982
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Top of the Pops
Thursday, 19.30, 01.05, BBC4For the first time in a while, two consecutive episodes, so it’s a completely different line-up to the last time and some belated debuts for Ian Dury and Sham 69 who we’d have otherwise seen two weeks ago, in a classic Pops juxtaposition with another Cilla flop and the first appearance of a record that, even skipping all the Savile and Travis episodes, you’re going to hear a hell of lot over the next few months.
and one of the loveliest little theme tunes – Gabriel Faure’s Dolly Suite: Berceuse. Thank goodness I can still vaguely remember this, and always associated with clothes airing on the clothes horse and the warm glow from the dials and tuner of the radiogram in the corner.
Does anyone know what the ratings were in the final years? I must admit it was on anachronism and could never really compete with Watch With Mother.