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Post by Brian Evans on Jul 30, 2006 19:10:10 GMT
Will I don't suppose they did a bad job for the last show. I am surprised David Jenson, Noel Edmonds and Steve Wright weren't there though. I thought Jimmy turning out the lights at the end was a nice touch.
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Post by James Poole on Jul 30, 2006 19:16:22 GMT
Yes it was a good send off i will miss the show,now lets have old shows repeated nice too see the old faces back i thought peter powell and gary davis would have been there
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Post by garyjordanbrum on Jul 30, 2006 20:50:47 GMT
No comment you wait until the press reports in the papers Monday & Tuesday
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Post by Brian Denton on Jul 30, 2006 22:45:38 GMT
I've just applied to have the following posting on the BBC Message Board in which they are asking for people's memories etc of TOTP. Looking through the other postings, there are comments made about the excessive pay of BBC executives, somebody calling Pans People 'mooses' (delightful sexism there) and various other slighting comments, so my restrained and grammatical posting should sail past the moderators:
"I was disappointed to see that even on the final programme nobody could come out and mention the fact that almost the whole of the 1960s and early 70s Top of the Pops archive has been destroyed by the BBC. It made a nonsense of the narrative thread - what would somebody think to see more TOTP of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1 hit) than The Beatles? Or to pretend that David Bowie's first appearance was the iconographic Starman in 1972, when in fact it had been 3 years earlier with Space Oddity, now alas wiped forever?"
We shall see.
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Post by Matthew North on Jul 31, 2006 15:58:20 GMT
Oy!
"think to see more TOTP of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1 hit) than The Beatles?"
for a starter there is no beatles totp peformances in the archives, Arthurs peformace is probably the only peformace of anything of the underground scene that got on to totp that still exists. (or does a move clip stuill exist I cant really remember)
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Post by Stephen Doran on Jul 31, 2006 18:21:07 GMT
fire brigaide-the move feb 1968? ;D
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Post by Neil Barker on Jul 31, 2006 18:50:11 GMT
Yeah Steve, surprised they didn't show that one again!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2006 19:14:29 GMT
It was disappointing but pretty much as expected. I was glad though that Jimmy Saville at least made a reference to The Stones clip being missing; but "lost" it certainly wasn't - wiped or not recorded is more like it.
The issue of so much TOTP missing wasn't really addressed though; it seemed totally bizarre to me to refer to famous artists' appearances without either showing the clip or explaining why they couldn't! Many of the general public watching would not have known the reasons.
I was sad when Jimmy switched the lights off for a final time. Let's hope the show does return eventually. Good ol' BBC shooting itself in the foot as usual though.
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Post by Neil Barker on Jul 31, 2006 19:24:59 GMT
There were some downright embarrassing links on there. That's what happens when you employ script writers though I suppose!
The link with Tony Blackburn and Rufus Hound about acts who hadn't appeared on TOTP could have been interesting, but in the end it made absolutely no sense whatsoever, especially when they followed it with Michael Jackson (who has appeared on TOTP both solo and with the Jackson 5/Jacksons).
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Post by hartley967 on Jul 31, 2006 19:31:56 GMT
What an abysmal end to TOTPs?
Apparently some of the audience started walking out during the recording as they were so bored.
How many times must they show the Slade ' bathroom' set from Xmas 73
The sixties/seventies section looked like it was just lifted from the 10th anniversary show, including the greasy Supremes clip?
apart from the same old ,same old clips, flat 2 dimensional tired presentation.
With as Neil noted a couple of bizzare links which made no sense
Yes its about time it was retired.
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Post by StevePhillips on Aug 2, 2006 12:43:52 GMT
I didn't quite understand the criteria for the selection of the full, "classic" performances that were shown. Who the hell was that bloke and his band all dressed up as aircraft crew? Classic?!?!
The scripted-links-pretending-to-be-off-the-cuff were pretty lame too. And apart from Sir Jim, they didn't really represent the 60s DJ's much - they should have had one other from the original four (Saville, Jacobs, Murray, Freeman).
Still, the ending with Sir Jim turning out the lights was very poignant.
Steve
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Post by William Martin on Aug 2, 2006 17:17:43 GMT
Are the rumours true that TOTP2 will be back and possibly a revamped TOTP but under a different name?
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Post by Paul Cooksley on Aug 2, 2006 18:15:38 GMT
Well.....
The "story" about half the audience "storming off" half way through leaving a nearly "empty studio" that I have read about was utter rubbish! I was at the recording in TC3 on Wednesday night - and I didn't see anyone walk out at all. I am not saying that some were perhaps, rightfully so, disappointed at the fact there were no live acts in the studio - but no one walked out to the best of my knowledge!
On the subject of the archives, I mentioned this myself in the 9 television and radio interviews that I did last week for the BBC. On Friday, I spoke live on air with Jimmy Savile, and brought up the archives subject directly with him. I said what a "crying shame" that there is so little left of the 1960's..... He replied that the reason there is "so little left" is because the original editions were ( and I quote) "recorded on film" and "film deteriorates"hence why the BBC don't have much left!!!!! I didn't have the heart or the time on air to correct him - but he did acknowledge the fact that "only the BBC could loose something so wonderful" - his sentiments about the archives and show in general..........
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Post by garyjordanbrum on Aug 10, 2006 10:47:21 GMT
What an abysmal end to TOTPs? Apparently some of the audience started walking out during the recording as they were so bored. How many times must they show the Slade ' bathroom' set from Xmas 73 The sixties/seventies section looked like it was just lifted from the 10th anniversary show, including the greasy Supremes clip? apart from the same old ,same old clips, flat 2 dimensional tired presentation. With as Neil noted a couple of bizzare links which made no sense Yes its about time it was retired. TOTP2 comes out of retirement though but only here: gaztotp.blogspot.com/this is what the final countdown should have been like and I'm only half way through with good links as well. If there is anything you would like to suggest just post a comment on the blog. |
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