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All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 The Who

    • October 16, 2007
    • BBC Four

    A colourful nugget of pop by The Who, mined from the BBC's archive.

  • S01E02 The Shadows

    • October 23, 2007
    • BBC Four

    A colourful nugget of pop by The Shadows, mined from the BBC's archive.

  • S01E03 The Kinks

    • October 24, 2007
    • BBC Four

    A mindbendingly colourful nugget of pop by The Kinks, mined from the BBC's archive.

  • S01E04 The Moody Blues

    • October 30, 2007
    • BBC Four

    A colourful nugget of pop by the Moody Blues, mined from the BBC's archive.

  • S01E05 Marmalade

    • October 31, 2007
    • BBC Four

    A colourful nugget of pop by Marmalade, mined from the BBC's archive.

  • S01E06 Helen Shapiro

    • November 6, 2007
    • BBC Four

    A colourful nugget of pop mined from the BBC's archive, as Helen Shapiro performs Walking Back to Happiness.

  • S01E07 The Johnny Harris Orchestra

    • November 7, 2007
    • BBC Four

    A colourful nugget of pop mined from the BBC's archive, as the Johnny Harris Band perform Satisfaction.

  • S01E08 Nana Mouskouri

    • November 13, 2007
    • BBC Four

  • S01E09 The Move

    • November 14, 2007
    • BBC Four

    A colourful nugget of pop mined from the BBC's archive, featuring Birmingham's The Move.

  • S01E10 Tony Bennett

    • November 17, 2007
    • BBC Four
  • S01E11 The Scaffold

    • November 20, 2007
    • BBC Four
  • S01E12 Alan Price

    • November 21, 2007
    • BBC Four
  • S01E13 The Tremeloes

    • November 28, 2007
    • BBC Four

Season 2

  • S02E01 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity

    • July 22, 2008
    • BBC Four

    Pop moments from the BBC's sixties archive. Recorded in 1968 for Top of the Pops, Julie Driscoll sings to the smoking hot accompaniment of keyboard wizard Brian Auger's Trinity on their hit version of Bob Dylan's This Wheel's On Fire.

  • S02E02 Herman's Hermits

    • July 23, 2008
    • BBC Four

    Pop moments from the BBC's sixties archive. Britain's inoffensive pop conquerors of America, who anticipated the sound that the Monkees would later call their own, perform Something Is Happening on the Wednesday Show in 1968. Peter Noone leads the band on the song that made number six in the Swiss charts.

  • S02E03 Dusty Springfield

    • July 29, 2008
    • BBC Four

    A colourful nugget of pop mined from the BBC's archive. From her own series recorded in 1967, Dusty Springfield performs the Bobby Hebb classic, Sunny, which had been a hit in the UK for Cher and Georgie Fame.

  • S02E04 Procol Harum

    • July 30, 2008
    • BBC Four

    A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum was one of the 1960s' most popular and most-played songs. It's performed here by the group who first recorded it, on Top of the Pops in 1967.

  • S02E05 Sandie Shaw

    • August 2, 2008
    • BBC Four

    Pop moments from the BBC's 60s archive. From a rehearsal for a Top of the Pops performance, Sandie gives an accidentally aloof ice-queen rendering of Long Live Love so the cameras can practice their positions. An otherworldly performance of her number 1 hit from 1965.

  • S02E06 Peter and Gordon

    • August 5, 2008
    • BBC Four

    Pop moments from the BBC's sixties archive. From a 1964 edition of Crackerjack, pop folk duo Peter Asher and Gordon Waller sing A World without Love written by Paul McCartney - who was going out with Peter's sister at the time.

  • S02E07 Julie Felix

    • August 6, 2008
    • BBC Four

    Pop moments from the BBC's sixties archive. A 1966 performance from the singing star of The Frost Report. Going to the Zoo calls for audience participation and the audience wind themselves up into a near-monochrome frenzy as they sway slightly in their seats and softly join in.

  • S02E08 Status Quo

    • August 12, 2008
    • BBC Four

    Pop moments from the BBC's sixties archive. A youthful Status Quo, complete with ruffled shirts and sideburns, sing their first hit single, Pictures of Matchstick Men, on a 1968 episode of Top of the Pops.

  • S02E09 Cilla Black

    • August 13, 2008
    • BBC Four

    Pop moments from the BBC's sixties archive. Back to 1968 and a song taken from Cilla Black's very own show, Cilla and her dancers perform a cover version of the Stevie Wonder classic Uptight.

  • S02E10 Bruce Forsyth

    • August 19, 2008
    • BBC Four

    Pop moments from the BBC's sixties archive. In a real Brucie bonus from 1968, we see Bruce tickle the ivories in his own inimitable way on the Harry Seacombe show. He performs the 1965 pop instrumental A Walk In The Black Forest.

  • S02E11 The Rolling Stones

    • August 20, 2008
    • BBC Four

    Pop moments from the BBC's sixties archive. Performing the opening track to their album Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones are pure sixties psychedelia singing Gimme Shelter on Pop Goes the Sixties from 1969.

  • S02E12 The Pretty Things

    • August 26, 2008
    • BBC Four

    Pop moments from the BBC's sixties archive. Taking their name from a Bo Didley song, The Pretty Things groove out during a performance of Midnight To Six Man from their album Get The Picture? on A Whole Scene Going in 1966.