[James2001]

Here's the two episodes BBC4 are skipping over. Needless to say, there's a Gary Glitter warning:

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Also come across on YouTube the full versions of the Celine Dion and Mariah Carey videos TOTP somehow claimed were "live by satellite" even though they clearly weren't live

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Quite a fair bit at the end of the Celine video that TOTP themselves never showed (even though the video was made for them). When they reshowed the Mariah video on the 22/12 edition (the Gary Glitter one), they'd actually added the words "Top Of The Pops" to the opening of the video (which wasn't there on the original showing)

TOTP did show the more familar videos for both songs on later editions (they alternated both videos during their chart runs).

Also interesting Celine was, acording to the caption, already on her 7th week on the chart on the song's first appearance on the 1st December, but didn't reach number 1 even after then for another 2 months- must have been very rare for a song to take so long to climb (not to mention staying at number 1 for 7 weeks after such a slow climb), especially as we're into the start of the era of songs going straight in at number one.