After forty years TOTP was one of the longest running programmes in the world. The back archive is staggering and it seems such a shame that the BBC will never be able to add to it with future musical acts.
Even though a lot of the acts mimed you still got to see how they really perform, unlike the studied performances they give in videos.
Big blond Babs in Pan's people was defintely my favourite, and I remember tut-tutting aged seven at the outrageousness of Marc Bolan.
It's very sad.
I'm sure with the right regular time slot it could have survived.
