Top of the Pops was the longest running weekly, music chart show featuring videos and performances on BBC1, UK which ran for over 42 years from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006 and featured around 2,000 episodes in total. The show saw many changes through the decades, in style, design, fashion and taste. Due to the BBC's former policy of deleting old programmes, the vast majority of the episodes from the first ten years of the programme's history have been lost. Of the first 500 episodes (1964–73) only about 20 complete recordings remain in the BBC archives. That's why only four of the seven ABBA studio performances exist in their full-length episodes). The 1976 Mamma Mia performance exists only in a Christmas retrospective episode; So Long from 1974 has been found

Frida wore the full 1974-1975 tour outfit including the high collar which she doesn't appear to have worn on any other TV appearance.

Programme running order:

Alvin Stardust - Tell Me Why
KC & The Sunshine Band - Sound Your Funky Horn
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (VIDEO)
ABBA - So Long
George McCrae - You Can Have It All
Hello - Tell Him
Mud - Lonely This Christmas
Rupie Edwards - Ire Feelings (Skanga)
The Rubettes - Juke Box Jive
The Tymes - Ms Grace
The Wombles - Wombling Merry Christmas
Barry White - You're the First, The Last, My Everything (danced to by Pans People)
Rod Stewart & The Faces - You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anythin" (crowd dancing) (end credits).

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