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RE: Top of the Pops - Michael Kenchington - 05-02-2023

(05-02-2023, 01:27 PM)Happy2001 Wrote:  

(05-02-2023, 01:18 PM)VMPhil Wrote:  DLT - was banned at the time of his conviction, but I think he doesn't turn up on the repeats again until the final show in 2006 (which will be banned anyway if we even get that far, see above)

He's appeared on a few shows rerun by the BBC including the 1/10/92 edition of Top Of The Pops with other Radio 1 DJ's introducing Status Quo but no editions he's hosted have (re)appeared in the 8pm episodes.

What about Jonathan King?

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RE: Top of the Pops - TIGHazard - 05-02-2023

(05-02-2023, 02:47 PM)Michael Kenchington Wrote:  

(05-02-2023, 01:27 PM)Happy2001 Wrote:  He's appeared on a few shows rerun by the BBC including the 1/10/92 edition of Top Of The Pops with other Radio 1 DJ's introducing Status Quo but no editions he's hosted have (re)appeared in the 8pm episodes.

What about Jonathan King?

Banned, then unbanned (I think he sued?) then when convicted again, banned.

The banning of presenters goes as far as references by other presenters. There's a Simon Bates or Gary Davies episode from 1987 where they removed a Savile impression. And presumably this will get 8-8-2003 completely banned

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RE: Top of the Pops - Happy2001 - 05-02-2023

(05-02-2023, 03:20 PM)TIGHazard Wrote:  

(05-02-2023, 02:47 PM)Michael Kenchington Wrote:  What about Jonathan King?

Banned, then unbanned (I think he sued?) then when convicted again, unbanned.

The banning of presenters goes as far as references by other presenters. There's a Simon Bates or Gary Davies episode from 1987 where they [color=#333333][font='Open Sans', 'segoe ui', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]removed a Savile impression. [/font][/color]

25/4/85 hosted by Mike Read & Gary Davies was edited remove a impression of Saville by Mike Read.

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RE: Top of the Pops - James2001 - 05-02-2023

Nicky Campbell does one in a 1988 edition too, also edited by BBC4.

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RE: Top of the Pops - TIGHazard - 05-02-2023

(05-02-2023, 03:43 PM)James2001 Wrote:  Nicky Campbell does one in a 1988 edition too, also edited by BBC4.

That's what I was thinking of, just mixed the two incidents up.

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RE: Top of the Pops - TIGHazard - 06-02-2023

Perhaps I'm wrong (most likely I am), but James bringing up the Malcolm McLaren presented episode before has got me thinking, what if that is the HD test episode?

https://tvforum.uk/forums/post1193825#post-1193825 

https://missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/6581/top-pops-1250-line-query?page=1 

The missingepisodes thread mentions that there was a NHP between 1994/1995 that was shot in HD.

The Malcolm McLaren episode of TOTP is the only one of the year that has this letterboxing effect on it



Cropping out the bars gives this frame size (looks about 14:9)



The Popscene folder also has 3 copies of it - the raw studio footage/inserts that James mentioned before, a timecoded ex-archive copy of the full show (no other ex-archive copy has a timecode) and a broadcast VHS copy of the episode.

If they were trialling a different look to the show, why did they do it when they had a guest presenter instead of Mayo, Goodier, etc?

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RE: Top of the Pops - James2001 - 06-02-2023

I'm pretty certain it's not, it's just something they were doing for effect. Went with Malcolm's quite strange hosting style.

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RE: Top of the Pops - Michael Kenchington - 07-02-2023

According to the trivia section of the Top of the Pops page on TV Tropes and here's the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/TopOfThePops 

It is assumed if episodes from the 90's or 2000's are re-run, then performances by Lostprophets, R. Kelly or Marilyn Manson will also be removed.

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RE: Top of the Pops - Division2023 - 09-02-2023

(05-02-2023, 03:20 PM)TIGHazard Wrote:  

(05-02-2023, 02:47 PM)Michael Kenchington Wrote:  What about Jonathan King?

Banned, then unbanned (I think he sued?) then when convicted again, banned.

The banning of presenters goes as far as references by other presenters. There's a Simon Bates or Gary Davies episode from 1987 where they removed a Savile impression. And presumably this will get 8-8-2003 completely banned

Won't BBC Four have shut down anyway before they are due to reach this point.

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RE: Top of the Pops - Happy2001 - 09-02-2023

Tomorrow's 8pm repeats (12/2/81 & 13/2/86) have now been replaced by Sings Bacharach and David! after Burt Bacharach's passing.

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