TOTP 80.10 06/03/1980

In their infinite wisdom, BBCFour have decided not to repeat this particular episode presumably because it was hosted by then Radio 1 deejay Dave Lee Travis who has been struck off a lot of Christmas card lists lately.

I am however indebted to Twitter followee Lee @leethommo Thompson who regularly publishes his vintage hand-written TOTP lists and who kindly tweeted me the list for this week's missing episode. And quite a cracker it would have been...

Mr. Thompson has also informed me that this was Martha & the Muffins' only live in the studio appearance and there will also be no repeat to come either as we get the filmed video next week. We can only live in a hope for repeats of the likes of Squeeze, The Lambrettas and UK Subs. But, er, Tony Rallo......?

In other chart action, power-ballard songstresses Marti Webb and Kern Finney were putting the scares on Blondie, still at the top spot. Cliff and the Whispers were slipping down whereas both Peter Gabriel and Rainbow obviously benefited from their respective promo-video showings last week and have both gone Top 10. (Post) punk rockers Stiff Little Fingers, the Police and The Vapors (highest new entry into Top 30) all going strong, as are (post) disco-ers Gibson Bros. and Liquid Gold.

Full chart here, and stick around for the next show.. coming soon!