1 9 8 4 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes BBC Radio 1 went on the road (hence the title) with host DJ Peter Powell -…
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1 9 7 4 – 1 9 7 5 (UK) 40 x 30 minute episodes Following the demise of the children’s TV pop show Lift Off…
Unashamed and supremely slick commercial for the group, maintaining a gentle air of self-parody while at the same time being a celebration of all the…
1 9 8 4 – 1 9 8 5 (USA) One year after the debut of NBC’s Friday Night Videos (network television’s first attempt to respond to the…
1 9 8 2 – 1 9 8 5 (Australia) 144 x 90 minute/60 minute episodes Sounds host Donnie Sutherland presented this late-night mix of music…
1 9 6 8 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes Conceived as “Radio 1 in vision” and replacing Juke Box Jury on Friday nights, All Systems Freeman…
1 9 6 2 (UK) 26 x 30 minute episodes Despite its title, this early ATV music series featured very little authentic jazz, focusing instead on…
Starting out as a two-minute sketch on Idle’s post-Monty Python comedy show, Rutland Weekend Television, The Rutles took on a life of their own when Saturday Night…
1 9 7 7 (UK) 17 x 60 minute episodes Director Tony Palmer bumped into John Lennon by chance on a Manhattan street in the autumn…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 0 (UK) This live-music television series aired on ITV from 1979 to 1980 and featured live performances from…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 8 9 (USA) American Bandstand became a powerful symbol of American teenage culture with its nearly four-decade look at the…
“This is Alan Freed . . . and this is rock’n’roll.” With these words, the young hearts of New York beat fast as the celebrated radio…
1 9 9 0 (Australia) 1 x 300 minute episode The first National Australian Music Day was celebrated in 1990 with the country’s largest rock…
“We’re gonna be too big for Hamburg. We’re gonna be too big for Liverpool. We’re gonna be too big for our own bloody good!” The…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 7 2 (Australia) 1 9 7 6 (Australia) Bandstand was the longest-running Australian pop television show of its time, and…
For many years, the idea of creating films specifically for young people was not commonplace. Before the 1950s, adults did not quite grasp that there…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 7 2 (West Germany) 83 x 30/60 episodes Debuting on 25 September 1965, Beat Club was initially hosted by…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (UK) 30 x 25/30 minute episodes BBC2’s The Beat Room – billed as “non-stop beat and shake”…
1 9 6 6 (USA) 26 x 30 minute episodes Hosted by the Nashville-based WLAC disc jockey Bill ‘Hoss’ Allen and presented from a single studio…
1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 7 (Australia) Though ostensibly a music TV programme, this Saturday afternoon show from the Australian ABC network was…