TOTP Einsfestival Broadcasts

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It's odd as there's no record of this appearance in the show nor in any subsequent editions around then. My guess is that it was a session that was cancelled at the last minute (although how the info of Bassey appearing found it's way into the details for that show is a puzzle!) Maybe some details for another show (not TOTP) got mixed in somehow? I wonder if she ever appeared on anything at that time to promote these songs?

[James C]

Just caught this classic clip from 11/04/74!


www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxkqoNi8I4&feature=channel_page

[ian s]

Jun 20, 2009 20:31:26 GMT James C said:

Just caught this classic clip from 11/04/74!


www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxkqoNi8I4&feature=channel_page

That was the highlight of that edition for me!

The Wombles had two songs in the top thirty that week!

[Brian Evans]

For me it was Abba doing Waterloo!!

Great performance

[Oliver Roemer]

Hi,

it looks like the censor has striken again, there seemed to have been no Gary Glitter on last nights TOTP broadcast of 28/12/1972.

The only sad and ironic thing about it was, that Michael Jackson died last night and that this TOTP showed him and his brothers in all their early days glory with "Rockin' Robin" in 1972 at the BBC !!!

[Pete Seaton]

and that perf was rpt on BBC News At One today !!!

[Paul Watkins]

I've noticed that they are not repeating the 27th December 1973 edition. Anyone know a reason for the BBC not suppling this one?

I assume it exists in broadcast quality as the only repeated clip 'Wizzard - Ball Park Incident' looks pretty good to me.

[Mark Leech]

Paul,

The whole thing exists in perfect quality - the Tremeloes performance has also been repeated in the past on TOTP2, back in 1998.

Regards

Mark

[Oliver Roemer]

And once more, another "censored" edition of TOTP (25/01/1973) without Gary Glitter ! (as I mentioned earlier, the edition of 28/12/1972 was also censored !!!).

[Oliver Roemer]

The next edition to be broadcast on Eins Festival will be the show of 01/02/1973, I suppose it will be in black & white.

[Kev James]

At least Einsfestival transmits the shows in the original format with links intact.

Unlike the appallingly butchered ARTE transmissions - no original links, cropped to 16x9 and a gratuitous logo. Truely awful!

I saw the first of the repeats on Monday - I will not bother to view any more!

[Dale Rumbold]

Having a bog-standard Sky+ system, I cannot get this channel can I? I have researched the frequency / transponder etc but when I 'Add Channels' all I get is various RTE + DW-TV.

[Chris H]

Jul 8, 2009 13:40:45 GMT Dale Rumbold said:

Having a bog-standard Sky+ system, I cannot get this channel can I? I have researched the frequency / transponder etc but when I 'Add Channels' all I get is various RTE + DW-TV.

Correct.... you need a dish on Astra 19.2 deg east, your Sky set up is on 28.2 deg east, hence why you are getting something else.

[Oliver Roemer]

Hi Dale Rumbold,

I don't know how Sky+ is working, but you should be able to get arte digital via the satellite position on 19,2° east on Astra 1F, transponder 51, freq. 10744 H, SR - FEC 22000-5/6.


NEWSFLASH!

Here are some news about the missing / edited / censored clips of Gary Glitter on Eins Festival:

Today I spoke on the phone to a Mr. Diedrichs, who is responsible for the programme content of the TOTP transmissions on Eins Festival.
Mr. Diedrichs told me, that the decision not to broadcast the clips of Gary Glitter was done and agreed based upon an editorial meeting at Eins Festival and that the editing was done by the BBC at the request of that decision before they send them the tapes.
The missing Rolling Stones clip of TOTP from 27/12/1971 was omitted for copyright reasons, funny enough, as this clip was shown today on the arte channel (also partly owned by German TV ).

So, unfortunately now we know who censored the broadcast, it was decided here in Germany at an editorial meeting at WDR/Eins Festival in Cologne, so blame them!!!

I just can't understand, why they don't ask the viewers opinion about such a thing before they're making a decision like this!?

The people at the combined German / French culture channel arte don’t seem to have such problems, for today they showed an edition from last year that included the missing clip of Gary Glitter's "Rock 'n 'Roll Pt. 2" that was omitted in the 28/12/1972 edition of TOTP, broadcasted on Eins Festival on 26/06/2009.

Furthermore, I asked if the next broadcast (TOTP from 01/02/1973) will be in colour or in black & white, unfortunately Mr. Diedrichs couldn't tell me for sure, but he admitted that maybe a planned future transmission of TOTP from 16/11/1972 might only be available in black & white.

Sadly, the unbroadcast copies of the TOTP editions from 15/10/1970 and 14/01/1971 will not be screened at all and they will be wiped as they are of no substantial use to the archive of WDR / Eins Festival in Germany and as part of their contractual agreement with the BBC.

Please, don't misunderstand this, the originals (as imperfect as they are) will stay in the archive of the BBC, only the German copies will be wiped later as well as all of the episodes that are now broadcasted on Eins Festival.
Mr. Diedrichs told me however, that the broadcasted episodes will still be kept in the archive for a while for a later rebroadcast.

Best Regards,

Oliver.

[Koen Br]

Thanks for that information, Oliver. Good to see some definite answers to questions we've had for weeks.

It's a bit weird Arte and Eins Festival have different policies regarding Gary Glitter and the Stones... as a completist, it's reassuring to read these clips have at least been broadcast recently, so I could probably get them off Youtube/whatever and edit them back in - if I could be bothered, that is. ;-)