Top Of The Pops 1969

2-1-69: Presenter: Stuart Henry (Wiped) (264th)

(1) SCAFFOLD – Lily The Pink (and charts)
(3) MARMALADE – Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da
(7) LOVE SCULPTURE – Sabre Dance
(NEW) MANFRED MANN – Fox On The Run
(13) DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – Son Of A Preacher Man ®
(16) HERMAN’S HERMITS – Something’s Happening ®
(14) JUDY CLAY & WILLIAM BELL – Private Number (crowd dancing)
(2) THE FOUNDATIONS – Build Me Up Buttercup ®
(1) SCAFFOLD – Lily The Pink ®

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9-1-69: Presenter: Stuart Henry (Wiped)
(265th)

(1) MARMALADE – Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da (and charts)
(NEW) BILLIE DAVIS – Make The Feeling Go Away
(5) FLEETWOOD MAC – Albatross (crowd dancing)
(8) HERMAN’S HERMITS – Something’s Happening ®
(6) LOVE SCULPTURE – Sabre Dance
(12) STEVIE WONDER – For Once In My Life (crowd dancing)
(4) BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND – I’m The Urban Spaceman
(NEW) THE MOVE – Blackberry Way
(1) MARMALADE – Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da

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16-1-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped)
(266th)

(1) MARMALADE – Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da (and charts)
(NEW) LONG JOHN BALDRY – It’s Too Late Now
(15) EDWIN STARR – Stop Her On Sight (S.O.S.) (video)
(18) THE MOVE – Blackberry Way
(11) DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – Son Of A Preacher Man ®
(26) KASENETZ-KATZ SINGING ORCHESTRAL CIRCUS – Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run) (video)
(NEW) CARTOONE – A Penny For The Sun
(12) MANFRED MANN – Fox On The Run
(1) MARMALADE – Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da

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23-1-69: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped)
(267th)

(1) MARMALADE – Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da (and charts)
(NEW) LEAPY LEE – Here Comes The Rain
(19) DONALD PEERS – Please Don’t Go
(2) FLEETWOOD MAC – Albatross (video)
(NEW) AMEN CORNER – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice
(4) HERMAN’S HERMITS – Something’s Happening
(3) STEVIE WONDER – For Once In My Life (crowd dancing)
(8) THE MOVE – Blackberry Way
(1) MARMALADE – Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da ®

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30-1-69: Presenter: Stuart Henry (Wiped)
(268th)

(1) FLEETWOOD MAC – Albatross (and charts)
(6) MANFRED MANN – Fox On The Run ®
(NEW) THE BANDWAGON – You
(NEW) HARMONY GRASS – Move In A Little Closer
(12) MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS – Dancing In The Street (crowd dancing)
(16) DONALD PEERS – Please Don’t Go
(NEW) SANDIE SHAW – Monsieur Dupont
(4) THE MOVE – Blackberry Way ®
(1) FLEETWOOD MAC – Albatross (video)

6-2-69: Presenter: Alan Freeman (Wiped) (269th)

(1) FLEETWOOD MAC – Albatross (and charts)
(15) AMEN CORNER – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice
(23) WILSON PICKETT – Hey Jude
(NEW) DON PARTRIDGE – Breakfast On Pluto
(4) JOHNNY NASH – You Got Soul (crowd dancing)
(21) PETER SARSTEDT – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)
(2) THE MOVE – Blackberry Way ®
(1) FLEETWOOD MAC – Albatross (video)

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13-2-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped)
(270th)

(1) AMEN CORNER – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice (and charts)
(NEW) THE BEE GEES – The First Of May
(11) THE ISLEY BROTHERS – I Guess I’ll Always Love You (crowd dancing)
(16) WILSON PICKETT – Hey Jude ®
(6) DONALD PEERS – Please Don’t Go ®
(NEW) BARRY RYAN – Love Is Love
(12) PETER SARSTEDT – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)
(1) AMEN CORNER – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice ®

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20-2-69: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped)
(271th)

(1) AMEN CORNER – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice (and charts)
(NEW) GENE PITNEY – Maria Elena
(9) ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK – The Way It Used To Be
(24) HARMONY GRASS – Move In A Little Closer
(18) CILLA BLACK – Surround Yourself With Sorrow
(NEW) DICK EMERY – If You Love Her
(17) SAM & DAVE – Soul Sister, Brown Sugar (crowd dancing)
(2) PETER SARSTEDT – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)
(1) AMEN CORNER – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice

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27-2-69: Presenter: Stuart Henry 
(272th)

(1) PETER SARSTEDT – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) (and charts)
(36) CLIFF RICHARD – Good Times (Better Times) WATCH
(20) SANDIE SHAW – Monsieur Dupont WATCH
(19) MARVIN GAYE – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (crowd dancing)
(4) DONALD PEERS – Please Don’t Go
(NEW) THE HOLLIES – Sorry Suzanne WATCH
(9) GLEN CAMPBELL– Wichita Lineman (video)
(11) CILLA BLACK – Surround Yourself With Sorrow WATCH
(1) PETER SARSTEDT – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) WATCH
>> this edition exists at the BBC with no opening title sequence, and poor sound
for the first part of the show. The DJ links are mute after Sandie Shaw’s performance.

6-3-69: Presenter: Alan Freeman (273th)

(1) PETER SARSTEDT – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) (and charts)
(49) DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK & TICH – Don Juan
(NEW) STEVIE WONDER – I Don’t Know Why (I Love You)
(21) LOVE AFFAIR – One Road
(NEW) LULU – Boom Bang-A-Bang
(24) THE TYMES – People
(11) THE BEE GEES – The First Of May
(1) PETER SARSTEDT – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) ®

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13-3-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped)
(274th)

(1) PETER SARSTEDT – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) (and charts)
(4) CILLA BLACK – Surround Yourself With Sorrow
(16) MARV JOHNSON – I’ll Pick A Rose For My Rose
(NEW) VAL DOONICAN – Ring Of Bright Water
(1) PETER SARSTEDT – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) ®

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20-3-69: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped) (Exists as audio)
(275th)

(1) PETER SARSTEDT – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) (and charts)
(13) CLIFF RICHARD – Good Times (Better Times) ® * WATCH
(7) SANDIE SHAW – Monsieur Dupont ®
(38) THE TREMELOES – Hello World
(16) LOVE AFFAIR – One Road
(22) LULU – Boom Bang-A-Bang
(NEW) TONY BLACKBURN – It’s Only Love
(12) THE HOLLIES – Sorry Suzanne
(1) PETER SARSTEDT – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)

* although this show is wiped, this performance still exists

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27-3-69: Presenter: Stuart Henry (Wiped)
(276th)

(1) MARVIN GAYE – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (and charts)
(15) THE FOUNDATIONS – In The Bad Bad Old Days (Before You Loved Me)
(NEW) JOHN ROWLES – One Day
(5) DEAN MARTIN – Gentle On My Mind (danced to by Pan’s People)
(21) DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES – Israelites
(4) THE HOLLIES – Sorry Suzanne
(16) NOEL HARRISON – The Windmills Of Your Mind
(9) LULU – Boom Bang-A-Bang ®
(25) THE WHO – Pinball Wizard
(1) MARVIN GAYE – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (video)
>> After presenting 18 editions, Stuart Henry makes his last appearance on TOTP.

3-4-69: Presenter: Alan Freeman (Wiped) (Exists as audio) (277th)

(1) MARVIN GAYE – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (and charts)
(12) CLIFF RICHARD – Good Times (Better Times)
(8) JOE SOUTH – Games People Play (crowd dancing)
(4) LULU – Boom Bang-A-Bang
(25) MARY HOPKIN – Goodbye
(18) THE BEACH BOYS – I Can Hear Music (video)
(9) THE FOUNDATIONS – In The Bad Bad Old Days (Before You Loved Me)
(3) THE HOLLIES – Sorry Suzanne ®
(39) THE MARBLES – The Walls Fell Down
(1) MARVIN GAYE – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (video)

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10-4-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped) (Exists as audio)
(278th)

(1) MARVIN GAYE – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (and charts)
(9) THE WHO – Pinball Wizard
(3) DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES – Israelites
(27) CLODAGH RODGERS – Come Back And Shake Me
(32) JOHNNY NASH – Cupid
(NEW) FLEETWOOD MAC – Man Of The World
(15) NOEL HARRISON – The Windmills Of Your Mind ®
(16) THE TREMELOES – Hello World ®
(1) MARVIN GAYE – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (crowd dancing)

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17-4-69: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped)
(279th)

(1) DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES – Israelites (and charts)
(15) CLODAGH RODGERS – Come Back And Shake Me
(12) JOHNNY NASH – Cupid
(NEW) THE FLIRTATIONS – What’s Good About Goodbye My Love
(2) MARY HOPKIN – Goodbye ®
(18) STEVIE WONDER – I Don’t Know Why (I Love You) ® *
(NEW) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (video)
(16) BOB & EARL – I’ll Keep Running Back (crowd dancing)
(6) THE WHO – Pinball Wizard ®
(1) DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES – Israelites

* although this show is wiped, this performance still exists

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24-4-69: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped) (Exists as audio)
(280th)

(1) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (and charts)
(27) HERMAN’S HERMITS – My Sentimental Friend
(8) CLODAGH RODGERS – Come Back And Shake Me ®
(9) NOEL HARRISON – The Windmills Of Your Mind ®
(34) JEFFERSON – The Colour Of My Love
(NEW) ROY ORBISON – My Friend
(16) JUNIOR WALKER & THE ALL STARS – Road Runner (crowd dancing)
(14) STEVIE WONDER – I Don’t Know Why (I Love You) ® *
(4) THE WHO – Pinball Wizard
(1) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (video)

1-5-69: Presenter: Alan Freeman (Wiped) (Exists as audio) (281th)

(1) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (and charts)
(37) MANFRED MANN – Ragamuffin Man
(7) BOB & EARL – Harlem Shuffle
(11) FLEETWOOD MAC – Man Of The World ®
(15) HERMAN’S HERMITS – My Sentimental Friend ®
(NEW) MARSHA HUNT – Walk On Gilded Splinters
(20) THE ISLEY BROTHERS – Behind A Painted Smile (crowd dancing)
(2) MARY HOPKIN – Goodbye ®
(1) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (danced to by Pan’s People)

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8-5-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped) (Exists as audio)
(282th)

(1) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (and charts)
(NEW) DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK & TICH – Snake In The Grass
(3) CLODAGH RODGERS – Come Back And Shake Me
(5) HERMAN’S HERMITS – My Sentimental Friend
(4) THE WHO – Pinball Wizard ®
(NEW) SANDIE SHAW – Think It All Over
(9) FRANK SINATRA – My Way (video)
(7) FLEETWOOD MAC – Man Of The World
(1) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (video)

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15-5-69: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped)
(283th)

(1) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (and charts)
(NEW) JOE SOUTH – Leanin’ On You
(NEW) THE HERD – The Game (video)
(3) FLEETWOOD MAC – Man Of The World ®
(NEW) TONY & TANDY – Two Can Make It Together
(2) HERMAN’S HERMITS – My Sentimental Friend ®
(15) MANFRED MANN – Ragamuffin Man
(11) TOMMY ROE – Dizzy (crowd dancing)
(1) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (video)

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22-5-69: Presenter: Tony Blackburn (Wiped)
(284th)

(1) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (and charts)
(10) MANFRED MANN – Ragamuffin Man
(6) FRANK SINATRA – My Way (video)
(2) HERMAN’S HERMITS – My Sentimental Friend ®
(13) THE FIFTH DIMENSION – Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (Medley) (crowd dancing)
(NEW) FRANKIE VAUGHAN – The Same Old Way
(NEW) THE BANDWAGON – Let’s Hang On
(NEW) STATUS QUO – Are You Growing Tired Of My Love?
(3) FLEETWOOD MAC – Man Of The World ®
(1) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (video)

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29-5-69: Presenter: Alan Freeman (Wiped) (Exists as audio)
(285th)

(1) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (and charts)
(NEW) PETER SARSTEDT – Frozen Orange Juice
(9) TOM JONES – Love Me Tonight (video)
(NEW) BOBBIE GENTRY – Touch ‘Em With Love
(2) FLEETWOOD MAC – Man Of The World
(8) MANFRED MANN – Ragamuffin Man ®
(NEW) THE BEE GEES – Tomorrow Tomorrow
(14) DES O’CONNOR – Dick-A-Dum-Dum (King’s Road)
(1) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (danced to by Pan’s People)

5-6-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped) (286th)

(1) TOMMY ROE – Dizzy (and charts)
(25) CLIFF RICHARD – Big Ship
(9) EDWIN HAWKINS SINGERS – Oh Happy Day (video)
(17) CHICKEN SHACK – I’d Rather Go Blind
(15) JACKIE WILSON – (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher (crowd dancing)
(22) JETHRO TULL – Living In The Past
(NEW) MARMALADE – Baby Make It Soon
(4) THE BEATLES – The Ballad Of John And Yoko (video)
(1) TOMMY ROE – Dizzy

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12-6-69: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped)
(287th)

(1) THE BEATLES – The Ballad Of John And Yoko (and charts)
(46) SCOTT WALKER – Lights Of Cincinnati
(3) EDWIN HAWKINS SINGERS – Oh Happy Day (video)
(NEW) AMEN CORNER – Hello Suzie
(34) FAMILY DOGG – Way Of Life
(14) DES O’CONNOR – Dick-A-Dum-Dum (King’s Road) ®
(15) JETHRO TULL – Living In The Past ®
(13) CLIFF RICHARD – Big Ship ®
(1) THE BEATLES – The Ballad Of John And Yoko (video)

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19-6-69: Presenter: Tony Blackburn (Wiped)
(288th)

(1) THE BEATLES – The Ballad Of John And Yoko (and charts)
(18) FAMILY DOGG – Way Of Life
(21) THE BEACH BOYS – Breakaway (video)
(14) CHICKEN SHACK – I’d Rather Go Blind ®
(NEW) THE KINKS – Drivin’
(NEW) THE TREMELOES – Once On A Sunday Morning
(4) BOOKER T. & THE M.G.’S – Time Is Tight (crowd dancing)
(17) THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN – Something In The Air
(1) THE BEATLES – The Ballad Of John And Yoko (danced to by Pan’s People)

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26-6-69: Presenter: Alan Freeman (Wiped)
(289th)

(1) THE BEATLES – The Ballad Of John And Yoko (and charts)
(3) JETHRO TULL – Living In The Past ®
(9) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Proud Mary (crowd dancing)
(NEW) BILLY PRESTON – That’s The Way God Planned It
(28) AMEN CORNER – Hello Suzie
(12) PETER SARSTEDT – Frozen Orange Juice ®
(NEW) ALAN PRICE – Falling In Love Again
(NEW) CILLA BLACK – Conversations
(1) THE BEATLES – The Ballad Of John And Yoko (video)

3-7-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped) (290th)

(1) THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN – Something In The Air (and charts)
(NEW) CLODAGH RODGERS – Goodnight Midnight
(2) ELVIS PRESLEY – In The Ghetto (video)
(27) DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES – It Miek
(14) SCOTT WALKER – Lights Of Cincinnati
(12) CRAZY ELEPHANT – Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’ (danced to by Pan’s People)
(15) AMEN CORNER – Hello Suzie ®
(19) MARMALADE – Baby Make It Soon ®
(1) THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN – Something In The Air

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10-7-69: Presenters: Pete Murray & Tony Blackburn (Wiped)
(291th)

(1) THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN – Something In The Air (and charts)
(NEW) VANITY FARE – Early In The Morning
(21) JOHN LENNON & THE PLASTIC ONO BAND – Give Peace A Chance (video)
(16) DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES – It Miek
(7) FAMILY DOGG – Way Of Life
(44) DONOVAN with THE JEFF BECK GROUP – Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love Is Hot)
(9) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women
(1) THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN – Something In The Air ®

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17-7-69: Presenter: Tony Blackburn (Wiped)
(292th)

(1) THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN – Something In The Air (and charts)
(15) BILLY PRESTON – That’s The Way God Planned It ®
(23) CLODAGH RODGERS – Goodnight Midnight
(9) MARMALADE – Baby Make It Soon
(18) ROBIN GIBB – Saved By The Bell
(43) LOVE AFFAIR – Bringing On Back The Good Times
(3) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women ®
(NEW) VAL DOONICAN – Don’t Cry My Angelina
(1) THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN – Something In The Air

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24-7-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped)
(293th)

(1) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women (and charts)
(20) CILLA BLACK – Conversations ®
(8) CLODAGH RODGERS – Goodnight Midnight
(16) JOE DOLAN – Make Me An Island
(5) ROBIN GIBB – Saved By The Bell
(NEW) THE EQUALS – Viva Bobby Joe
(38) THE MOVE – Curly
(2) JOHN LENNON & THE PLASTIC ONO BAND – Give Peace A Chance (video)
(1) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women ®

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31-7-69: Presenter: Alan Freeman (Wiped)
(294th)

(1) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women (and charts)
(11) BILLY PRESTON – That’s The Way God Planned It ®
(13) CILLA BLACK – Conversations ®
(38) DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES – No Matter What Sign You Are (video)
(12) DONOVAN with THE JEFF BECK GROUP – Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love Is Hot) ®
(29) GEORGIE FAME – Peaceful
(9) MARMALADE – Baby Make It Soon
(19) LOVE AFFAIR – Bringing On Back The Good Times
(1) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women ®

7-8-69: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped) (295th)

(1) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women (and charts)
(19) THE MOVE – Curly
(4) CLODAGH RODGERS – Goodnight Midnight
(7) JOE DOLAN – Make Me An Island
(17) VANITY FARE – Early In The Morning ®
(NEW) HUMBLE PIE – Natural Born Bugie
(39) ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK – I’m A Better Man
(3) ROBIN GIBB – Saved By The Bell ®
(1) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women ®

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14-8-69: Presenter: Tony Blackburn (Wiped)
(296th)

(1) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women (and charts)
(20) THE EQUALS – Viva Bobby Joe ®
(13) ZAGER & EVANS – In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus)
(9) LOVE AFFAIR – Bringing On Back The Good Times
(43) THE BEE GEES – Don’t Forget To Remember
(12) MARVIN GAYE – Too Busy Thinking ‘Bout My Baby (crowd dancing)
(29) FAIRPORT CONVENTION – Si Tu Dois Partir
(7) CILLA BLACK – Conversations ®
(1) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women ®

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21-8-69: Presenter: Alan Freeman (Wiped)
(297th)

(1) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women (and charts)
(19) ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK – I’m A Better Man ®
(2) ROBIN GIBB – Saved By The Bell
(NEW) THE FOUNDATIONS – Born To Live Born To Die
(14) THE EQUALS – Viva Bobby Joe
(18) THE BEE GEES – Don’t Forget To Remember
(4) STEVIE WONDER – My Cherie Amour (video)
(12) THE MOVE – Curly ®
(1) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women ®

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28-8-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped)
(298th)

(1) ZAGER & EVANS – In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus) (and charts)
(10) VANITY FARE – Early In The Morning
(NEW) CHICKEN SHACK – Tears In The Wind
(8) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Bad Moon Rising (crowd dancing)
(11) HUMBLE PIE – Natural Born Bugie ®
(44) THE PEDDLERS – Birth
(6) THE EQUALS – Viva Bobby Joe
(27) TOMMY ROE – Heather Honey
(1) ZAGER & EVANS – In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus) ®

4-9-69: Presenter: Tony Blackburn (Wiped) (299th)

(1) ZAGER & EVANS – In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus) (and charts)
(NEW) DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – Am I The Same Girl
(2) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Bad Moon Rising (video)
(10) HUMBLE PIE – Natural Born Bugie
(17) ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK – I’m A Better Man ®
(NEW) CLIFF RICHARD & HANK MARVIN – Throw Down A Line
(5) THE BEE GEES – Don’t Forget To Remember
(13) THE MOVE – Curly ®
(1) ZAGER & EVANS – In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus) ®

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11-9-69: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped) (Exists as audio)
(300th)

(1) ZAGER & EVANS – In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus) (and charts)
(4) HUMBLE PIE – Natural Born Bugie ®
(44) RADHA KRISHNA TEMPLE – Hare Krishna Mantra (video)
(NEW) SANDIE SHAW – Heaven Knows I’m Missing Him Now
(17) CROSBY, STILLS & NASH – Marrakesh Express (danced to by Pan’s People)
(19) BOBBIE GENTRY – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (video)
(7) THE EQUALS – Viva Bobby Joe
(1) ZAGER & EVANS – In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus) ®

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18-9-69: No show

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25-9-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped)
(301th)

(1) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Bad Moon Rising (and charts)
(4) BOBBIE GENTRY – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again
(7) OLIVER – Good Morning Starshine (video)
(NEW) BARRY RYAN – The Hunt
(14) CLIFF RICHARD & HANK MARVIN – Throw Down A Line ®
(NEW) FAT MATTRESS – Naturally
(12) BOB DYLAN – Lay Lady Lay (video)
(1) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Bad Moon Rising (crowd dancing)

2-10-69: Presenter: Tony Blackburn (Wiped) (302th)

(1) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Bad Moon Rising (and charts)
(7) CLIFF RICHARD & HANK MARVIN – Throw Down A Line ®
(14) KAREN YOUNG – Nobody’s Child
(12) RADHA KRISHNA TEMPLE – Hare Krishna Mantra (video)
(19) SOUNDS NICE feat. TIM MYCROFT – Love At First Sight (Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus)
(17) LOU CHRISTIE – I’m Gonna Make You Mine
(32) THE HOLLIES – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother
(1) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Bad Moon Rising (danced to by Pan’s People)

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9-10-69: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped)
(303th)

(1) TOTP ORCHESTRA – Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus (and charts)
(NEW) ESTHER OFARIM – Saturday Night At The World
(11) LOU CHRISTIE – I’m Gonna Make You Mine
(13) DAVID BOWIE – Space Oddity
(16) THE HOLLIES – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother ®
(2) BOBBIE GENTRY – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (video)
(20) THE TEMPTATIONS – Cloud Nine (crowd dancing) (and credits)
>> The No. 1 record, "Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus" by Jane Birkin & Serge
Gainsbourg, was not shown as it was banned by the BBC at the time.

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16-10-69: Presenter: Alan Freeman (Wiped)
(304th)

(1) BOBBIE GENTRY – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (and charts)
(3) LOU CHRISTIE – I’m Gonna Make You Mine ®
(11) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (video)
(8) DAVID BOWIE – Space Oddity ®
(18) SOUNDS NICE feat. TIM MYCROFT – Love At First Sight (Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus) ®
(30) JOE COCKER – Delta Lady
(1) BOBBIE GENTRY – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again

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23-10-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (300th TOTP) (Wiped)
(305th)

(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (and charts)
(8) FLEETWOOD MAC – Oh Well
(NEW) PETER SARSTEDT – As Though It Were A Movie
(5) THE HOLLIES – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother ®
(NEW) THE TREMELOES – (Call Me) Number One
(17) THE UPSETTERS – Return Of Django (danced to by Pan’s People)
(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (video)

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30-10-69: Presenter: Tony Blackburn (Wiped)
(306th)

(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (and charts)
(49) JOE DOLAN – Teresa *
(13) FRANK SINATRA – Love’s Been Good To Me (video)
(18) JIMMY CLIFF – Wonderful World, Beautiful People
(NEW) CLODAGH RODGERS – Biljo
(12) JOE COCKER – Delta Lady ®
(4) FLEETWOOD MAC – Oh Well
(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (crowd dancing)

6-11-69: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped) (307th)

(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (and charts)
(NEW) LULU – Oh Me Oh My (I’m A Fool For You Baby)
(18) THE PLASTIC ONO BAND – Cold Turkey (video)
(19) JETHRO TULL – Sweet Dream
(NEW) ARTHUR CONLEY – Star Review
(13) THE TREMELOES – (Call Me) Number One ®
(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (video)

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13-11-69: Presenter: Alan Freeman (Wiped) (Exists as audio)
(308th)

(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (and charts)
(NEW) MALCOLM ROBERTS – Love Is All
(NEW) NANCY SINATRA – The Highway Song (video)
(3) THE TREMELOES – (Call Me) Number One
(2) FLEETWOOD MAC – Oh Well ®
(12) JETHRO TULL – Sweet Dream
(6) THE BEATLES – Something (video)
(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (crowd dancing)

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20-11-69: No show

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27-11-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped)
(309th)

(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (and charts)
(NEW) THELMA HOUSTON – Jumping Jack Flash
(17) ROLF HARRIS – Two Little Boys
(NEW) DAVE CLARK FIVE – Good Old Rock ‘N’ Roll
(NEW) DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – Brand New Me
(14) BLUE MINK – Melting Pot
(5) KENNY ROGERS & THE FIRST EDITION – Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town (video)
(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (video)
>> TOTP begins broadcasting in colour.

4-12-69: Presenter: Tony Blackburn (Wiped) (310th)

(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (and charts)
(45) CLIFF RICHARD – With The Eyes Of A Child
(12) ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK – A Winter World Of Love
(17) MARVIN GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL – The Onion Song (crowd dancing)
(7) BLUE MINK – Melting Pot ®
(21) MALCOLM ROBERTS – Love Is All
(NEW) LOU CHRISTIE – She Sold Me Magic
(NEW) CILLA BLACK – If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind
(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (video)

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11-12-69: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped)
(311th)

(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (and charts)
(NEW) THE KINKS – Victoria
(5) BLUE MINK – Melting Pot ®
(20) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Green River (video)
(NEW) MARMALADE – Reflections Of My Life
(3) ROLF HARRIS – Two Little Boys
(2) KENNY ROGERS & THE FIRST EDITION – Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town (video)
(NEW) TOMMY ROE – Jam Up And Jelly Tight
(1) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (video)

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18-12-69: Presenter: Tony Blackburn (Wiped) (Exists as audio)
(312th)

(1) ROLF HARRIS – Two Little Boys (and charts)
(NEW) VANITY FARE – Hitchin’ A Ride * WATCH
(10) CUFFLINKS – Tracy (video)
(38) GEORGIE FAME – Seventh Son
(6) ELVIS PRESLEY – Suspicious Minds (crowd dancing)
(20) CLIFF RICHARD – With The Eyes Of A Child
(16) DAVE CLARK FIVE – Good Old Rock ‘N’ Roll ®
(1) ROLF HARRIS – Two Little Boys ®

* although this show is wiped, this performance still exists

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25-12-69: Presenters: Jimmy Savile & Pete Murray (Wiped)
(314th)

(-) THE SCAFFOLD – Lily The Pink *
(-) FLEETWOOD MAC – Albatross (video)
(-) CLODAGH RODGERS – Goodnight Midnight *
(5) BLUE MINK – Melting Pot
(-) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Bad Moon Rising (crowd dancing)
(-) MARMALADE – Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da *
(-) PETER SARSTEDT – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)
(-) ZAGER & EVANS – In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus) (video)
(-) THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN – Something In The Air
(-) THE BEATLES & BILLY PRESTON – Get Back (video)
(-) THE ROLLING STONES – Honky Tonk Women * WATCH
>> After presenting 98 editions, Pete Murray makes his last regular appearance on TOTP.

* although this show is wiped, these performances still exist

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26-12-69: Presenters: Alan Freeman & Tony Blackburn (Wiped) (Exists as audio)
(315th)

(-) TOMMY ROE – Dizzy
(-) HERMAN’S HERMITS – Something’s Happening
(-) THE BEATLES – The Ballad Of John And Yoko (video)
(-) AMEN CORNER – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice (crowd dancing)
(-) MARY HOPKIN – Goodbye ®
(-) DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES – Israelites
(34) LOU CHRISTIE – I’m Gonna Make You Mine
(-) MARVIN GAYE – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (video)
(40) BOBBIE GENTRY – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again ®
(1) ROLF HARRIS – Two Little Boys
(12) DAVE CLARK FIVE – Good Old Rock ‘N’ Roll
(-) THE ARCHIES – Sugar Sugar (crowd dancing) (and credits) *
>> After presenting 93 editions, Alan Freeman makes his last regular appearance on TOTP.

* although this show is wiped, this performance still exists

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31-12-69: Presenters: Jimmy Savile & Elfi von Kalckreuth (Pop Go The Sixties)
(316th)

THE WHO – I Can See For Miles WATCH
ADAM FAITH – What Do You Want WATCH
ADAM FAITH – Someone Else’s Baby
THE TREMELOES – Silence Is Golden WATCH
LULU – Boom Bang-A-Bang WATCH
KENNY BALL & HIS JAZZMEN – Midnight In Moscow
THE BACHELORS – Charmaine
SANDIE SHAW – (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me
SANDIE SHAW – Puppet On A String (German Version) WATCH
MARMALADE – Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da WATCH
ASCOT DANCERS with THE JOHNNY HARRIS ORCHESTRA – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
THE KINKS – Days WATCH
HORST JANKOWSKI – A Walk In The Black Forest (video)
THE HOLLIES – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother WATCH
HELEN SHAPIRO – Walkin’ Back To Happiness WATCH
TOM JONES – Delilah
THE ROLLING STONES – Gimme Shelter WATCH
CILLA BLACK – Anyone Who Had A Heart (video)
THE SHADOWS – Apaché WATCH
CLIFF RICHARD – Bachelor Boy WATCH
CLIFF RICHARD – Congratulations
THE BEATLES – I Feel Fine (footage from Shea Stadium, New York 15-8-65)
THE BEATLES – Help (footage from Shea Stadium, New York 15-8-65)
THE BEATLES – Twist And Shout (footage from Shea Stadium, New York 15-8-65) (and credits)