Top Of The Pops is returning to television screens five years after it was axed, with the BBC showing weekly reruns of classic shows in the programme's original time slot.
The BBC showing repeats? How novel...
Although the series began in 1964, originally recorded in a Manchester church, many editions were famously lost or taped over in the days when TV stations were less rigorous about cataloguing their shows. Individual performances have been used for editions of TOTP2, but they have rarely been shown in full. It is hoped the reruns will continue to run for subsequent years.
But now the BBC is to draw on its huge cache to retransmit old editions of the programme, episode by episode, each Thursday night at 19:30 from 7th April on BBC Four, the digital channel. The series will start at 1976, the point at which the BBC's full archive of shows begins.
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