First watched : Autumn 1975
This was the only ITV pop programme I made a point of watching. It wasn't one of Muriel Gray's productions at Granada but an LWT effort presented from his console desk by producer Mike Mansfield , noted for his snowy-white hair and camp voice. He would cue the acts from the gantry rather than presenting to camera in keeping with the show's "peep behind the curtain" approach of showing backstage operations. It had a certain ramshackle charm.
The acts were lip-synching and often placed in highly incongruous settings for their music . Ronnie Lane did his ruralist fantasy song The Poacher with a machine blowing detergent bubbles at him. Most performed their current chart hits as you'd expect but some of the older acts performed hits from the past such as Jethro Tull and Arthur Brown.
The show lasted a couple of years.
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