Juke Box Jury


Juke Box Jury is a music panel show which ran on BBC Television between 1 June 1959 and 27 December 1967. The programme was based on the American show Jukebox Jury, itself an offshoot of a long-running radio series.
The series featured celebrity showbusiness guests on a rotating weekly panel who were asked to judge the hit potential of recent record releases. By 1962 the programme was attracting 12 million viewers weekly on Saturday nights.
The concept was later revived by the BBC for one series in 1979 and a further two series in 1989/1990.

Format

Juke Box Jury took a format where a guest panel reviewed new record releases in a 25-minute programme, extended to an hour for some Christmas shows. The format was drawn from that of the US TV series, Jukebox Jury. Host David Jacobs each week asked four celebrities to judge newly released records on his jukebox and forecast which would be declared a "hit" or a "miss" – the decision accompanied by either a bell for a 'hit' or a hooter for a 'miss'. A panel of three members of the audience voted as a tie-breaker if the guests' decision was deadlocked, by holding up a large circular disc with 'Hit' on one side and 'Miss' on the other. Most weeks the performers of one of the records would be hidden behind a screen and emerge to "surprise" the panel after they had given their verdict.
The series was usually broadcast from the BBC TV Theatre, Shepherd's Bush Green, London. Each programme normally consisted of between seven and nine records. Those editions which were pre-recorded normally followed a live transmission, and broadcast in the regular slot.

History

1959–1967

Juke Box Jury was first broadcast on BBC Television on 1 June 1959. Originally on Monday evenings, the BBC show was moved to early Saturday evenings starting on 3 September 1959 due to its immediate popularity. The series was produced by Russell Turner.
The original panel consisted of Pete Murray, Alma Cogan, Gary Miller and Susan Stranks, who gave a 'teenager's view'. However, the panel of judges changed from week to week and mainly featured current stars from music, television and film. The panel normally comprised two male and two female guests, many of whom appeared more than once. Actor Eric Sykes was often a panelist and Katie Boyle was a frequent Juror, as were Lulu and Cilla Black, who appeared twelve and nine times respectively. From 31 December 1966, a regular panel was established for eight consecutive editions. Jimmy Savile, Simon Dee, Alan Freeman and Pete Murray sat in judgement for all these programmes, having first appeared together on 3 December 1966. From 25 February until 1 April, the foursome continued as regular panelists, but alternating in pairs each week, with Savile and Murray appearing together, followed by Freeman and Dee. Among the diverse others from the world of entertainment who appeared were Thora Hird, Alfred Hitchcock, Spike Milligan, Lonnie Donegan, Johnny Mathis, Roy Orbison and David McCallum.
By October 1959 Juke Box Jury had reached a weekly audience of almost 9 million viewers. Bill Cotton took over production of the series during 1960, to be followed later in the year by Stewart Morris and then Neville Wortman, who was to remain the producer until the series ended in 1967.
On 7 December 1963, the panel was the four Beatles, while George Harrison and Ringo Starr both appeared separately later, as did their manager Brian Epstein, who was twice a panellist. John Lennon had already appeared on 29 June 1963. Then on 4 July 1964 the five members of the Rolling Stones formed the panel, the only time there were more than four Jurors on the programme. Keith Richards later wrote of this appearance: "We didn't give a shit.... We just trashed every record they played."
By early 1962, Juke Box Jury had a weekly audience of over 12 million viewers, while the Beatles appearance on 7 December 1963 garnered an audience of 23 million, and news of the Rolling Stones' appearance the following June garnered 10,000 applications to the BBC for tickets for the recording. The attraction of the programme deftly crossed generational boundaries – younger viewers revelling in the appearance of their current pop stars, while older adults identified with the often anti-pop sentiments of the panellists from a non-musical or older background, confirming "adult and youthful prejudices at the same time"'.
In January 1967, the Sunday tabloid newspaper News of the World in a series of attacks on the new hippy sub-culture and LSD, castigated David Jacobs in one article for playing the Mothers of Invention single "It Can't Happen Here" on a Juke Box Jury broadcast in November 1966 as it was 'recorded on a trip', and also blamed two of the jury for voting it a hit. The jury on this occasion included Bobby Goldsboro, Susan Maughan and comedian Ted Rogers. In fact, by the time of the article, the BBC had already cut seven minutes from 7 January 1967 programme because of drug references in one of that week's chosen songs, "The Addicted Man" by the Game, which had resulted in universal disapproval by the Jurors during an extended discussion. This was part of a new policy for the programme during its last year of broadcast, when a regular panel of four disc jockeys was introduced, with a more detailed discussion of each song.
On 24 December 1966 and again on 5 August 1967 the Seekers became only the fourth band to appear as Jurors in the series, appearing just a few weeks after The Bachelors. The programme had by this time seen a drop in ratings, and from 27 September 1967 Juke Box Jury was moved from its prime place in the Saturday evening schedules and transmitted on early Wednesday evenings, replaced in the key Saturday slot by Dee Time. At the end of 1967, Juke Box Jury was dropped from the BBC schedule because of its falling ratings, and the last broadcast was on 27 December 1967, with original Jurors Pete Murray and Susan Stranks appearing once more.
David Jacobs hosted a one off Juke Box Jury in 1989 to mark the centenary of the phonograph. Pete Murray was on the panel.

Post 1967

The programme has been revived twice, first in 1979 with Noel Edmonds as presenter, and then with Jools Holland for two seasons in 1989/1990, ending on 25 November 1990. The 1979 series was most notable for a panel containing Johnny Rotten, who gave a characteristically acerbic performance before walking out before the end of 30 June 1979 programme.
BBC Radio Merseyside has run a radio version of Juke Box Jury for some years, hosted by Spencer Leigh and normally broadcast under the programme name On The Beat although it is often scheduled as Juke Box Jury. The broadcaster Chris Evans also ran a variation of the format in 2008 on his BBC Radio 2 'Chris Evans Drivetime' programme, where listeners were invited to text either 'hit' or 'miss', plus their comments, to the programme.
The format also crossed over into children's television on Going Live and later Live and Kicking having a segment entitled 'Trev and Simon's Video Galleon.

Surviving recordings

Because of the BBC's policy of wiping tapes of its programmes in the 1960s, and the practice of not recording live programmes, only two episodes are thought to still exist in their complete form, although transcripts also exist of the Beatles' appearances – both solo and together. In 2001, during a year-long drive to find lost archive material, the BBC announced that an audio recording of the Beatles' appearance in December 1963 had re-surfaced, a tape taken directly from the television broadcast.

Theme music

For the first six weeks of the programme, the theme to Juke Box Jury was "Juke Box Fury", written by composer and arranger Tony Osborne and recorded by his band under the name Ozzie Warlock and the Wizards.
The programme's producer Russell Turner then replaced the theme with another instrumental, "Hit and Miss", performed by the John Barry Seven Plus Four, which remained the title music from 1960 to 1967. For the last few months of the original series this was replaced by a version recorded by the Ted Heath Band.
The 1989–1990 Jools Holland series also featured "Hit and Miss", this time recorded by Courtney Pine.

Cultural references

Juke Box Jury has a history of being parodied, and the format has been used a number of times for other programmes:
In 1959, the BBC refused Tommy Steele permission to use David Jacobs in a Juke Box Jury comedy sketch for his Tommy Steele Show on ATV. The sketch went ahead in October 1959 with another BBC personality, announcer McDonald Hobley taking Jacobs' part.
Benny Hill parodied the show as 'Soap Box Jury' on a show for the BBC on 4 March 1961. He impersonated David Jacobs and the panellists. The sketch ended with a shot of Hill as all four panellists in one shot, achieved through filming each "panellist" separately and keeping the other three-fourths of the lens covered, which made this a landmark in both Hill's career and the development of television production. The sketch can be seen on the DVD compilation Benny Hill: The Lost Years, which was released in 2005.
Also in 1961, comedian Jimmy Edwards promoted a tea-shop band 'The Burke Adams Tea-Time Three', who had a record judged a hit on Juke Box Jury, in "The Face of Enthusiasm", part of his Faces of Jim comedy series.
Finnish television ran its own version of Juke Box Jury called Levyraati. The Finnish version long outlasted Juke Box Jury – it ran from 1961 to 1992, and has both been revived since, and also re-imagined as Videoraati by Finnish cable TV channel MoonTV.
On 7 July 1962, BBC TV broadcast 'Twist Music With a Beat', a pop music programme about the dance craze 'The Twist', featuring a Twist competition between Juke Box Jury members and members of the cast of Compact. The show featured Petula Clark, Don Lang & His Twisters, Tony Osborne & His Mellow Men and the Viscounts.
A ten-minute version of Juke Box Jury also featured as part of a regular 1960s BBC Christmas Day variety show Christmas Night with the Stars on Christmas Day 1962 and 1963.
The 1963 Gordon Flemyng film about the pop music industry Just For Fun had a Juke Box Jury section which featured David Jacobs in his usual host position while Jimmy Savile, Alan Freeman and Dick Emery played the jury panel. The film was scripted by Milton Subotsky, who was one of the earliest guests on the programme.
In 1964, the Rolling Stones recorded an advert for the breakfast cereal Rice Krispies, which used themes from the programme including a jukebox, studio audience scenes and both the 'Hit' button and the 'Hit' signs that the audience jury used.
The British comedy duo French and Saunders, who appeared on the programme in 1989, referred to Juke Box Jury in their parody of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in their eponymous 1990 comedy series.
The Generation X 1978 song "Ready Steady Go!" referenced the programme in its lyrics: "I'm not in love with Juke Box Jury/I'm not in love with Thank Your Lucky Stars".
Ian Dury and The Blockheads named their November 1981 album, Juke Box Dury.
In 1989, BBC TV's Arena produced a programme titled "Juke Box Jury" to commemorate the centenary of the jukebox. Hosted by David Jacobs, it also featured Juke Box Jury regulars Pete Murray and Dusty Springfield, with Phil Collins and Sarah Jane Morris making up the rest of the team.
The Late Show programme, "Classical Juke Box Jury" was a spoof of Juke Box Jury, in which a panel of three people with a background in classical music voted on different versions of Beethoven's 9th Symphony by a variety of conductors.

Jurors

An incomplete list of the guest panellists. Each week had four guest 'Jurors', often plus one surprise artist chosen from among the records played that week.

1959–1967

David Jacobs was host throughout the series 1959–1967, with Pete Murray standing in on a number of occasions.
1959
1960
In addition to David Jacobs hosting, Vicki Smith was 'hostess' for the first few programmes.
1961
1962
1963
1964
  • 4 January 1964 – Peter Sellers, Dora Bryan, David Gell and a 'surprise guest' Cilla Black
  • 11 January 1964 – Andrea Allan, Eva Bartok, Pete Murray and a 'surprise guest' Dave Clark
  • 18 January 1964 - Jane Asher, Vic Lewis, Robert Morley and a 'surprise guest'
  • 25 January 1964 – Adam Faith, Carole Ann Ford, Jean Metcalfe and a 'surprise guest' Phil Spector
  • 1 February 1964 - Susan Maughan, Jane Morgan, Ian Fenner, Bruce Prochnik
  • 8 February 1964 – Alan Freeman, Allan Sherman, Vivienne Taylor and a 'surprise guest' Elke Sommer
  • 15 February 1964 – Lesley Duncan, Steve Race, Sally Smith and a 'surprise guest'
  • 22 February 1964 – Sam Costa, Susan Hampshire, James Garner and a 'surprise guest' Cilla Black
  • 29 February 1964 - Jane Asher, Dora Bryan, Brian Epstein, Gerry Marsden of The Pacemakers
  • 7 March 1964 – Terence Edmond, Annette Funicello, Bob Monkhouse, Karen Elliott
  • 14 March 1964 – Maureen Cleave, Millicent Martin, Matt Monro, Bobby Vee
  • 21 March 1964 – Kathy Kirby, Henry Mancini, Jean Metcalfe, Spike Milligan
  • 28 March 1964 - Arthur Askey, Ted King, Beverley Todd and a 'surprise guest'
  • 4 April 1964 - Julia Foster, Derek Johnson, Eric Sykes, Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary
  • 11 April 1964 - Sid James, Sarah Miles, Jimmy Young and a 'surprise guest'
  • 18 April 1964 – Iain Gregory, Cilla Black, Katie Boyle, Tommy Trinder
  • 25 April 1964 – Honor Blackman, Dick Emery, Alan Freeman, Mia Farrow
  • 2 May 1964 – Freddie Garrity, Maureen Cleave, Dick Haymes, Barbara Windsor
  • 9 May 1964 – Millicent Small, Carole Carr, Pete Murray, Frankie Vaughan
  • 16 May 1964 - Roy Castle, Judith Chalmers, Libby Morris, Billy Walker
  • 23 May 1964 - Stratford Johns, Lance Pervical, Jean Metcalfe, Polly Perkins
  • 30 May 1964 – Ken Dodd, Pete Murray, Rosemary Nicholls, Marjorie Proops
  • 6 June 1964 – Diana Dors, Charlie Drake, Bunny Lewis, Jessie Matthews
  • 13 June 1964 – Adam Faith, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Des O'Connor, Juliet Prowse
  • 20 June 1964 – Jane Asher, Davy Kaye, Stirling Moss, Anne Heywood
  • 27 June 1964 – Dorothy Dandridge, Bill Owen, Jimmy Savile, Janette Scott
  • 4 July 1964 – The Rolling Stones
  • 11 July 1964 - Lionel Jeffries, Stubby Kaye, Annie Nightingale, Tessie O'Shea
  • 18 July 1964 – Brian Epstein, Dora Bryan, Ian Hendry, Nancy Roberts
  • 25 July 1964 – George Harrison, Reg Varney, Carole Ann Ford and a 'surprise guest'
  • 1 August 1964 – Ringo Starr, Katie Boyle, Judy Cornwell, Ray Martine
  • 8 August 1964 - Unity Hall, Kenneth More, Chita Rivera, Cardew Robinson
  • 15 August 1964 - Max Bacon, Caroline Charles, Maureen Cleave, Laurence Harvey
  • 22 August 1964 - Bernard Bresslaw, Derek Johnson, Brenda Lee, Ginette Spanier
  • 29 August 1964 - Susan Baker, Millicent Martin, Stanley Unwin, Jimmy Savile
  • 5 September 1964 - Antony Booth, Diane Cilento, Laurie Henshaw, Barbara Roscoe
  • 12 September 1964 - Dawn Addams, Don Moss, Vivienne Ventura and a 'surprise guest'
  • 19 September 1964 - Honor Blackman, Arthur Askey, Adam Faith, Lulu
  • 26 September 1964 - Roy Castle, Pete Murray, Adrienne Posta and 'surprise guest' Sandie Shaw judged her single Wish I Was as a 'miss'.
  • 3 October 1964 - Jane Asher, Alan Freeman, Gene Pitney and a 'surprise guest'
  • 10 October 1964 - Judith Chalmers, Peter Cook, P. J. Proby, Julie Rogers
  • 17 October 1964 - Des O'Connor, Mary Wells, Jimmy Young and a 'surprise guest'
  • 24 October 1964 - Sid James, Andrew Oldham, The Marchioness of Tavistock and a 'surprise guest'
  • 31 October 1964 – Marianne Faithfull, Don Wardell, Petula Clark, Stubby Kaye
  • 7 November 1964 - Rolf Harris, Portland Mason, Gene Pitney, Maggie Stredder
  • 14 November 1964 - Joe Brown, Terence Edmond, Jackie DeShannon and a 'surprise guest'
  • 21 November 1964 – Liza Minnelli, Alma Cogan, Spike Milligan, Pete Murray
  • 28 November 1964 - Lulu, Jean Metcalfe, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise
  • 5 December 1964 - Diahann Carroll, Vic Lewis, Pete Murray, Sandie Shaw
  • 12 December 1964 - Lonnie Donegan, Shirley Eaton, Jimmy Edwards, Polly Elwes
  • 19 December 1964 - Marianne Faithful, Sheila Hancock, Tony Hatch, Kenneth Williams
  • 26 December 1964 - Alan Freeman, Nyree Dawn Porter, William Rushton, Susannah York
1965
  • 9 January 1965 - David Healy, Peggy Mount, Pete Murray, Dusty Springfield
  • 16 January 1965 - Katie Boyle, Maureen Cleave, Rupert Davies, Richard Wattis
  • 23 January 1965 - Angela Douglas, Virginia Lewis, Wolf Mankowitz, Del Shannon
  • 30 January 1965 - Paul Anka, Stubby Kaye, Julie Samuel, Miss World Ann Sidney
  • 6 February 1965 - Thora Hird, Linda Lewis, Don Moss, Gene Pitney
  • 13 February 1965 - Brian Epstein, Marianne Faithful, Adrienne Posta, Ted Ray
  • 20 February 1965 - Chris Hutchins, Lulu, Roy Orbison, Marjorie Proops
  • 27 February 1965 - Jane Asher, Bill Crozier, Georgie Fame, Jean Metcalfe
  • 6 March 1965 - Tom Jones, Barbara Mullen, Jacqueline Jones, Pete Murray
  • 20 March 1965 - Georgia Brown, Paul Jones, Edmund Purdom and a 'surprise guest'
  • 27 March 1965 - Peter Carver, Roy Castle, Marlene Laird, Joan Turner
  • 3 April 1965 – Katie Boyle, Adam Faith, Sue Lloyd, David Tomlinson
  • 10 April 1965 - Hermione Gingold, Stubby Kaye, Tom Springfield, Dionne Warwick
  • 17 April 1965 - Tony Bennett, Eartha Kitt, Marianne Faithful, Ted Rogers
  • 24 April 1965 - Val Doonican, Judy Huxtable, Pete Murray, Julie Rogers
  • 1 May 1965 – Dave Clark, Dora Bryan, Sarah Miles, Chris Andrews
  • 15 May 1965 - Tsai Chin, Russ Conway, Suzy Kendall, Les Reed
  • 22 May 1965 - Mrs. Mills, Pete Murray, Harvey Orkin, Sandie Shaw
  • 29 May 1965 - Bill Maynard, Don Moss, Barbara Shelley, Rita Tushingham
  • 5 June 1965 - Paul Jones, Alan Freeman, Luciana Paluzzi, Ginette Spanier
  • 12 June 1965 - Gay Byrne, Noel Harrison, Lita Roza, Jackie Trent
  • 19 June 1965 - Bill Crozier, Susan Hampshire, Stubby Kaye, Una Stubbs
  • 26 June 1965 - Sam Costa, Miriam Karlin, Sylvie Vartan, Bobby Vinton
  • 3 July 1965 - Astrud Gilberto, Magda Kanopka, Vic Lewis, Wolf Mankowitz
  • 10 July 1965 - Amanda Barrie, Chris Curtis, Dionne Warwick, Jimmy Young
  • 17 July 1965 - Ray Brooks, Angela Douglas, Stubby Kaye, Millie
  • 24 July 1965 - Georgie Fame, Goldie, Sheila Hancock, Pete Murray
  • 31 July 1965 - Jackie Collins, Alan Freeman, Jackie Rae, June Thorburn
  • 7 August 1965 - Katie Boyle, Billy Daniels, Don Moss, Helen Shapiro
  • 14 August 1965 - Ian Carmichael, Mike Hurst, Jacqueline Jones, Sue Thompson
  • 21 August 1965 - Carole Carr, Terence Edmond, Herman, Rosemary Nichols
  • 28 August 1965 - Jill Browne, Alan Clark, Lee Francis, Pete Murray
  • 4 September 1965 - Victor Borge, Helen Cherry, Adam Faith, Sandie Shaw
  • 11 September 1965 - Val Doonican, Dudley Moore, Barbara Ferris, Marion Montgomery
  • 18 September 1965 - Lucy Bartlett, Sam Costa, Rolf Harris, Nancy Wilson
  • 25 September 1965 – Petula Clark, Buddy Greco, Virginia Lewis, Jonathan King
  • 2 October 1965 - Tito Burns, Maureen Cleave, Vince Hill and a 'surprise guest'
  • 9 October 1965 - Louise Cordet, Julie Felix, Lance Percival, Leslie Phillips
  • 16 October 1965 - Danny Piercy, Gene Pitney, Marion Ryan, Ginette Spanier
  • 23 October 1965 - Lulu, Henry Mancini, Chrissie Shrimpton, Billy Walker
  • 30 October 1965 - Herman, Maurice Kinn and two 'surprise guests'
  • 6 November 1965 – Dave Clark, Lynda Baron, Alexandra Bastedo, Pete Murray
  • 13 November 1965 - Bill Kerr, Sandie Shaw, David Wigg, Muriel Young
  • 20 November 1965 - Ian Fenner, Suzanna Leigh, Kenny Lynch, Patrice Wymore
  • 27 November 1965 - Brian Epstein, Juliette Greco, Françoise Hardy, Hugh Lloyd
  • 4 December 1965 – Simon Dee, Carolyn Hester, Statford Johns, Ketty Lester
  • 11 December 1965 - Miss World Lesley Langley, Mickie Most, Dakota Staton, Johnny Tillotson
  • 18 December 1965 - Cilla Black, Con Cluskey, Peter Haigh, Edina Ronay
1966
  • 1 January 1966 - Max Bygraves and his family including 'Uncle Eric'
  • 8 January 1966 - Katie Boyle, Paul Jones, Dee Dee Warwick, Pete Murray
  • 15 January 1966 – Colin Blunstone, Tito Burns, Libby Morris, Veronica Strong
  • 22 January 1966 - Peter Cook, Bryan Forbes, Dudley Moore, Nanette Newman
  • 29 January 1966 - Spencer Davis, Maurice Kinn, Marion Ryan and a 'surprise guest'
  • 5 February 1966 - Alan Freeman, Hayley Mills, Marianne Faithful, Jimmy Greaves
  • 12 February 1966 – Pete Murray, Lulu, Eddy Arnold, Barbara Windsor
  • 19 February 1966 - Manfred Mann, Eva Bartok, Mike Douglas, Emily Yancy
  • 26 February 1966 - Scott Walker, Judy Geeson, Don Moss, Evelyn Taylor
  • 5 March 1966 - Eric Burdon, Malou Pantera, Gene Pitney, Briony Newton
  • 12 March 1966 - Bert Kaempfert, Patsy Ann Noble, Brian Matthew, Wendy Varnals
  • 19 March 1966 - Adam Faith, Shirley Anne Field, Jeannie Carson, Jimmy Young
  • 26 March 1966 - Nina & Frederik, Adrienne Posta, Ray Davies of The Kinks
  • 2 April 1966 - Millicent Martin, Kenneth Williams, Vicki Carr, Pete Murray
  • 9 April 1966 - Sandie Shaw, Dave Clark, Katie Boyle, Stubby Kaye
  • 16 April 1966 – Simon Dee, Val Doonican, Rosemary Nicols, Julie Rogers
  • 23 April 1966 - Roy Orbison, Jimmy Savile, Barbara Hawkins, Samantha Juste
  • 30 April 1966 - Roy Hudd, Judith Chalmers, Ian Fenner and a 'surprise guest'
  • 7 May 1966 - Spike Milligan, Lulu, Georgie Fame, Gunilla Hutton
  • 14 May 1966 - Helen Shapiro, Jimmy Witherspoon, Janice Whiteman, Frank De Vol
  • 21 May 1966 - Jonathan King, Pamela Donald, Bill Mann, Maureen Cleave
  • 28 May 1966 - Trini Lopez, Lulu, Maurice Kinn and a 'surprise guest'
  • 4 June 1966 - Petula Clark, Eric Burdon, Billy Walker, Geraldine Sherman
  • 11 June 1966 - Pete Murray, Anne Allen, Jay and a 'surprise guest'
  • 18 June 1966 - Richard Anthony, Ernestine Anderson, Sam Costa, Annie Nightingale
  • 25 June 1966 - Gene Pitney, Susan Maughan, Denny Piercy, Betty Marsden
  • 9 July 1966 - Geneveve, Alan Freeman, Blossom Dearie, Frederick Woods
  • 23 July 1966 - Paul Jones, Brian Matthew, Penny Valentine, Katie Boyle
  • 30 July 1966 - Dave Cash, Joy Marshall, Jackie Stewart, Susan Hampshire
  • 6 August 1966 - Bernard Cribbins, Rosemary Squires, Kay Medford, Barry Alldis
  • 13 August 1966 - Vivianne Ventura, Anthony Booth, Simon Dee, Sheila Southern
  • 20 August 1966 - Don Moss, Patsy Ann Noble, Meg Wynn Owen, Fred Emney
  • 27 August 1966 - Juliet Harmer, Engelbert Humperdinck, Danny Wells, Sarah Ward
  • 10 September 1966 - Jackie Trent, Judith Arthy, Pete Murray, Chris Farlowe
  • 17 September 1966 - Marion Montgomery, Fanny Cradock, Michael D'Abo, Chris Denning
  • 24 September 1966 - Lulu, Alma Cogan, Reg Varney, Jimmy Henney
  • 1 October 1966 - Una Stubbs, Lena Martell, Kenneth Home, Jimmy Young
  • 8 October 1966 - Lynn Redgrave, Penny Valentine, Lionel Bart, Ronnie Carroll
  • 15 October 1966 - Julie Rogers, David Hughes, Scott Hamilton, Truly Smith
  • 22 October 1966 - Sandie Shaw, Gary Stephens, Mike Felix, Marion Ryan
  • 29 October 1966 - Rita Tushingham, Moira Lister, Adam Faith, Johnny Devlin
  • 5 November 1966 - Brian Poole, Julia Foster, Dave Clark, Francoise Hardy
  • 12 November 1966 - Susan Maughan, Ted Rogers, Carole Carr, Bobby Goldsboro
  • 19 November 1966 - Herman, Katie Boyle, Ron Goodwin, Mia Lewis
  • 26 November 1966 - Cleo Laine, Eric Burdon, Virginia Ironside and a 'surprise guest'
  • 3 December 1966 - Alan Freeman, Simon Dee, Pete Murray, Jimmy Savile
  • 10 December 1966 - Julie Felix, The Bachelors
  • 17 December 1966 - Paul Jones, Rose Brennan, Mickie Most and a 'surprise guest'
  • 24 December 1966 - The Seekers,
  • 31 December 1966 - Simon Dee, Alan Freeman, Pete Murray, Jimmy Savile
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