Top of the Pops BBC4

[Booers]

I was working at a well known High Street burger restaurant that begins with M around this time and absolutely loathed it, but these songs on the radio there made it just about bearable and are some of my all time favourites too!

This isn't the BBC, you can state it was McDowell's.

 

[letuinmybackdoor]

This isn't the BBC, you can state it was McDowell's.

I did enjoy listening to everywhere by Fleetwood Mc.

 

[Vasilios]

Prove Your Love is a masterpiece

 

[little ern]

The U&Eden channel start showing triple bills of episodes of TOTP from 1999 at 9am from Sunday 20th April.

 

[AcerBenII]

Anyone remember when Andi Peters left Live & Kicking to launch this ill-fated ITV Saturday morning music show

 

[heartmightmelt]

I honestly don't know how he got so many presenting and exec producer gigs.

 

[AcerBenII]

I think he's a great presenter

 

[hamicle]

Anyone remember when Andi Peters left Live & Kicking to launch this ill-fated ITV Saturday morning music show

I don’t remember that at all!

 

[heartmightmelt]

I don’t remember that at all!

Same. At least I remembered the unlocked memories of the Dannii Minogue weekend morning chart show (filmed in Glasgow) once I watched the clips online. But this absolutely nothing. Probably didn't watch it once because Andi Peters was involved.

 

[Servalan]

Anyone remember when Andi Peters left Live & Kicking to launch this ill-fated ITV Saturday morning music show

And that qualified him to take over TOTP … how?!?!?

 

[AcerBenII]

And that qualified him to take over TOTP … how?!?!?

Because he later went on to create the more successful T4

 

[2014]

Andi's a stud now at least!

 

[Servalan]

Because he later went on to create the more successful T4

I get what you are saying … but T4 and TOTP were quite different beasts. Unfortunately the BBC didn't quite get that …

 

[AcerBenII]

I get what you are saying … but T4 and TOTP were quite different beasts. Unfortunately the BBC didn't quite get that …

I don't think one flop show invalidated the rest of his experience in youth TV though. He'd also produced other programmes for the BBC. I believe he was a producer as well as a presenter on The O Zone for instance. I didn't like what he did to the show either, but I can understand why on paper he was a good fit.

 

[Vasilios]

Wasn't he also erm smashing the annual Smash Hits Poll Winners Party around that time too?

 

[CDMCLP]

Benidorm's Jake Canuso back as a dancer yet again, this time with Clock. His TOTP career was varied and certainly lasted a long time!

I don't remember Wotshername - Danny Dyer's sister in EastEnders - being in the Something About the Way You Look Tonight video. I'd have known her from Grange Hill at this point, then This Life.

Much as I love Tina Moore's Never Gonna Let You Go, did we really need a repeat of it from weeks ago as the opening performance?!

 

[m_dimitrov]

I'm a bit behind by a few episodes but I just wanted to say I can only imagine what it is to experience those garage sounds for the first time in 1997, it sounds so ahead of its time in the best way.

 

[Leo1977]

The Story of 1985 will be repeated for the first time in a few years, as well as Big Hits 1985 on Friday 9th May:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p01kv81d/2025/05/09