Yes It's Number One

A forty minute show three days before Christmas, because that's what they did back then. Why not play Fantasy BBC4 Editing? Again provid...

Again, the combined forces of Neil Barker and UK Gold When It Was Good fill in a blank: Geldof seems to have had a thing about ripping u...

By sheerest coincidence, because the cycle hasn't changed, all the lost/skipped shows this year (so far) have coincided with Thursdays o...

Rokotto – Boogie On Up First of three (not counting the dance) we won't see again are Dundee's own contribution to funk - sounds li...

Well, sort of. You know the circumstances, let's just get to this one and try to ride out the inevitable flamewar together, shall we? ...

So we reach the final actually wiped TOTP of them all, unless there's some been misplaced or not left in good condition since then. Ther...

Funny how it looks like, by the sheerest of coincidences, all four wiped TOTPs from 1977, the last four wiped shows in its history, will all...

The start of this year has been about fits and starts on the show, everything coming round plenty of times. That's the case with much of...

Just the four shows have been wiped in 1977, though there may be more that are unbroadcastable for whatever reason - UK Gold and Einsfestiva...

Evidently the last missing show of the year, and with only four to come in 1977 we're slowly reaching a point of kept stock. As the show...

Missing post-April show seven of eight, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason why the wiped set were from the first three mon...

After the Legs & Co naming ceremony on the 11th another piece of TOTP history this week as David 'Kid' Jensen made the first of ...

We've done quite well for surviving shows recently, seven in a row, but now the meat of the wipings kicks in with four out of six lost p...

There's a little awkward patch of wiped shows here. From September to before Christmas 1976 six shows out of 17 have been wiped, and whi...

Another of the wipeouts comes next, this one with Diddy David Hamilton in charge, which is interesting for reasons I'll get to. Pussycat...

The second of eight missing shows from this run would have gone here, and as well as depriving Tony Blackburn of his repeat fee this is what...

As previously mentioned, eight shows from the second half of 1976 are missing from the BBC archive, which is why we're getting these Sky...