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Edfu

Edfu (bḥdt, إدفو, ⲧⲃⲱ, ⲧⲃⲟ, ⲑⲃⲱ, ⲁⲧⲃⲱ; also spelt Idfu, or in modern French as Edfou) is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River between Esna and Aswan, with a population of approximately 60,000 people. Edfu is the site of the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus and an ancient settlement, Tell Edfu. About 5 km south of Edfu are remains of ancient pyramids.

Ancient Tell Edfu
The remains of the ancient settlement of Edfu are situated about 50 m to the west of the Ptolemaic temple – to the left of the older temple pylon. This settlement is known as Wetjeset-hor and the Greek name was Apollinopolis Magna (Ancient Greek: Apollinòpolis, Απολλινόπολις). According to Notitia Dignitatum, part of Legio II Traiana Fortis was camped in Apollo superior, which was the Roman name for the town.

Although unassuming and unglamorous to the visiting tourists, Tell Edfu is a monument that contains evidence of more Egyptian history and is of more archaeological interest than the Ptolemaic temple. Although major parts of the settlement show severe signs of erosion, cut away or have been exposed during sebakh-digging, enough is preserved to gain information from as far back as the Predynastic Period. The remains of the settlement (tell) provides an insight into the development of Edfu as a provincial town from the end of the Old Kingdom until the Byzantine period. The settlement at Edfu was the capital of the Second Upper Egypt nome, and played an important role within the region. The oldest part of the town which can be dated to the late Old Kingdom lies on the eastern part of the tell, not far from the Ptolemaic temple. There is evidence that the town flourished during the First Intermediate Period when it expanded extensively to the west. It is one of few settlements in southern Egypt that thrived when it seems that the north, especially around the delta, was in economic decline.

Today, the ancient mound of Tell Edfu is preserved in some areas up to 20 m high and contains complete archaeological sequences of occupation dating to the Old Kingdom until the Graeco-Roman period, more than 3000 years of history, therefore providing ideal conditions to study the development of a provincial town. A central part of the site was explored by Henri Henne from the Institute for Egyptology in Lille in 1921 and 1922. His team identified the remains of a small sanctuary from the Late or Ptolemaic period, possibly the Osiris chapel built by Psamtek I. Henne was followed by Octave Guéraud in 1928 then by Maurice Alliot in 1931 who each explored and excavated different aspects of the settlement remains. The top layers of the settlement containing the Byzantine, Roman and Ptolemaic remains and the Old and Middle Kingdom cemetery at the southern western corner were recorded by a Franco-Polish expedition in 1937–39. The expedition was organized in cooperation between the University of Warsaw and the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO) in Cairo, and was directed by B. Bruyère, J. Manteuffel and Kazimierz Michałowski. Three elaborate reports on the archaeology of Tell Edfu were published.

Unfortunately, since mid-1939 no new detailed discoveries or thorough research has been completed at the tell except for recent work done by Barry Kemp, from the University of Cambridge. Since 2001, the Tell Edfu project has been directed by Nadine Moeller (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago). The current work focuses on the eastern part of the site. So far the administrative centre of the ancient town has been discovered with remains of a columned hall dating to the late Middle Kingdom as well as a large granary courtyard that functioned as a grain reserve for this provincial capital. Latter dates to the Second Intermediate Period (17th Dynasty). At least seven large round silos have been excavated here with a diameter between 5.5 and 6.5 meters which makes them the largest ones so far discovered within an ancient Egyptian urban centre.

No larger remains dating earlier than the 5th Dynasty have been found at Edfu. The ancient cemetery comprised mastabas of the Old Kingdom as well as later tombs. Before the beginning of the New Kingdom, the necropolis was transferred to Hager Edfu, to the west and then in the Late period to the south at Nag’ el-Hassaya. The entire area was called Behedet. The god Horus was herein worshipped as Horus Behedet.

One of these mastabas belonged to Isi, a local administrator, who, it was quoted was the "great chief of the Nome of Edfu" in the Sixth Dynasty. Isi lived during the reign of King Djedkare Isesi of the Fifth and into the reign of Pepi I of the Sixth Dynasties. He was an administrator, judge, chief of the royal archives and a "Great One among the Tens of the South" [ref?]. Isi later became a living god and was so worshipped during the Middle Kingdom. As the Sixth Dynasty and the Old Kingdom drew to a close, local regional governors and administrative nobles took on a larger power in their areas, away from the royal central authority.

Temple of Horus
The town is known for the major Ptolemaic temple, built between 237 BC and 57 BC, into the reign of Cleopatra VII. Of all the temple remains in Egypt, the Temple of Horus at Edfu is the most completely preserved. Built from sandstone blocks, the huge Ptolemaic temple was constructed over the site of a smaller New Kingdom temple, oriented east to west, facing towards the river. The later structure faces north to south and leaves the ruined remains of the older temple pylon to be seen on the east side of the first court.

Pyramid ruins
The remains of one of seven small provincial step pyramids built along the Nile Valley, is situated about 5 km south of Edfu near the west bank village of Naga el-Goneima. The structure was built from rough reddish sandstone and rises to a present height of 5.5 m. The pyramid has been loosely attributed to King Huni of the Third Dynasty. The purpose of these pyramids is unknown. Further investigations and a detailed survey are carried out by the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago since 2010.

Apollonopolis Magna
In the Hellenistic period and under the Roman Empire, the city was known as Apollonopolis Magna or Apollinopolis Magna (Greek: πόλις μεγάλη Ἀπόλλωνος, Strabo xvii. p. 817; Agartharch. p. 22; Plin. v. 9. s. 11; Plut. Is. et Osir. 50; Aelian. Hist. An. x. 2; Ptol. iv. 5. § 70; Ἀπολλωνία, Steph. Byzant. s. v.; Ἀπολλωνιάς, Hierocl. p. 732; It. Ant. p. 160, 174; Not. Imp. Orient. c. 143; Latin: Apollonos Superioris [urbs]). Ptolemy assigns Apollinopolis to the Hermonthite nome, but it was more commonly regarded as the capital town of the nome Apollopolites. Under the Roman emperors it was the headquarters of the Legio II Trajana. Its inhabitants were enemies of the crocodile and its worshippers.

The ancient city derived its principal reputation from two temples, which are considered second only to the Temple of Dendera as specimens of the sacred structures of Egypt. The larger temple is in good preservation, and is being excavated. The smaller temple, sometimes, but improperly, called a Typhonium, is apparently an appendage of the former, and its sculptures represent the birth and education of the youthful deity, Horus, whose parents Noum, or Kneph and Athor, were worshipped in the larger edifice. The principal temple is dedicated to Noum, whose symbol is the disc of the sun, supported by two asps and the extended wings of a vulture. Its sculptures represent (Rosellini, Monum. del Culto, p. 240, tav. xxxviii.) the progress of the Sun, Phre-Hor-Hat, Lord of Heaven, moving in his bark (Bari) through the circle of the Hours. The local name of the district round Apollinopolis was Hat, and Noum was styled Hor-hat-kah, or Horus, the tutelary genius of the land of Hat. This deity forms also at Apollinopolis a triad with the goddess Athor and Hor-Senet. The members of the triad are youthful gods, pointing their fingers towards their mouths, and before the decipherment of the hieroglyphics were regarded as figures of Harpocrates.

The entrance into the larger temple of Apollinopolis is a gateway (πυλών) 50 feet high, flanked by two converging wings (πτερά) in the form of truncated pyramids, rising to 107 ft. The wings contain ten stories, are pierced by round loop-holes for the admission of light, and probably served as chambers or dormitories for the priests and servitors of the temple. From the jambs of the door project two blocks of stone, which were intended, as Ddnon supposes, to support the heads of two colossal figures. This propylaeon leads into a large square, surrounded by a colonnade roofed with squared granite, and on the opposite side is a pronaos or portico, 53 ft in height, and having a triple row of columns, six in each row, with variously and gracefully foliaged capitals. The temple is 145 ft wide, and 424 ft long from the entrance to the opposite end. Every part of the walls is covered with hieroglyphics, and the main court ascends gradually to the pronaos by broad steps. The whole area of the building was surrounded by a wall 20 ft high, of great thickness. Like so many of the Egyptian temples, that of Apollinopolis was capable of being employed as a fortress. It stood about a third of a mile from the river. The sculptures, although carefully and indeed beautifully executed, are of the Ptolemaic era, the earliest portion of the temple having been erected by Ptolemy VI Philometor in 181 BC.

Apollonopolis Magna became a Christian bishopric, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Ptolemais, the capital of the Roman province of Thebais Secunda. Papyrus documents record the names of perhaps five of its bishops. No longer a residential bishopric, Apollonopolis Magna is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.

Climate
Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as hot desert (BWh).

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Diagnosis in 96
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Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa

The Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa (Superior Center of Defense Information; CESID) was the Spanish intelligence agency before the current Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) took over as its successor in 2002.

History
Following the dissolution of the Information Service and Military Police, Servicio de Información y Policía Militar (SIPM) at the end of the civil war, the intelligence organizations of the Francoist period were the Central Documentation Service, Servicio Central de Documentación (SECED), the Political-Social Brigade, Brigada Político-Social (BPS)—a special branch of the plainclothes corps later renamed Brigada de Investigación Social (BIS) (Social Investigation Brigade)—and the Intelligence Service of the Civil Guard. Keeping files on the rural and urban population of every part of Spain, these bodies carried on close surveillance and political intimidation on behalf of the Francoist government.

But the most notable of all was the Segunda Bis which was the abbreviated name for the Servicios de Información del Ejército de Tierra, la Armada y el Ejército del Aire (Information Services of the Army, Navy and Air Force). It was the Second "Section", or Intelligence, of the respective Headquarters, hence the name "Segunda" or Second. During the 1940s, its main role was to counter the activities of the Spanish Maquis in their attempted resurgence in Spain who on October 1944, attempted an invasion of the Aran Valley. In 1957, its expenses amounted to 311,455₧ (€100,000).

The Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa was established in 1977 by Defense Minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado to replace the discredited former organizations in order to prepare Spain for a more democratic rule. On 2 November 1977 The Servicio de Información de la Presidencia del Gobierno (SIPG) was merged with the CESID.

By a royal decree of January 1984, CESID was defined legally as the intelligence agency of the prime minister. Nevertheless, it was fundamentally military in nature, and its head in 1988 was an army lieutenant general, Emilio Alonso Manglano. Observers speculated, however, that Manglano, who had held the post since 1981, eventually would be succeeded by a civilian.

Employing about 2,000 individuals as of 1988, CESID was staffed primarily by the military, supplemented by 500 members of the Civil Guard and by 80 plainclothes police. About 30 percent of the members of the staff were civilians, said to be selected usually from among close relatives of military officers. Women had been confined largely to administrative tasks, but they were increasingly being entrusted with operational assignments.

The principal operating units were domestic intelligence; foreign intelligence; counterintelligence; economics and technology (primarily industrial espionage); and operational support (principally application of devices for surveillance and eavesdropping). Considerable emphasis in external intelligence was allotted to North Africa and to the security of Ceuta and Melilla. Liaison was maintained with a number of intelligence services of North African and Middle Eastern nations, as well as with the Israeli agency, Mossad. Interception of ship transmissions in the strait area was another focus of activity. Domestic intelligence centered on exposure of plots against the government, monitoring activities of unrecognized political parties, and counterterrorism.

Although CESID was the senior agency, it did not have a firmly established coordinating function over other intelligence bodies, which included the General Headquarters of Information of the Ministry of Defense; the second sections of the army, the air force, and the navy staffs; and the Civil Guard Information Service (SIGC), dedicated to criminal and terrorist intelligence.

In addition, the National Police Corps had a General Commissariat of Information (CGI), with an antiterrorist mission that included a Foreign Intelligence Brigade to investigate international terrorism aimed against Spain. Considerable rivalry and overlapping of missions characterized the entire intelligence system. CESID, in particular, was reported to be seeking to gain exclusive jurisdiction over police foreign intelligence activities.

Directors

 * José María Bourgon López-Dóriga (1977–1979)
 * Gerardo Mariñas (1979–1981)
 * Emilio Alonso Manglano (1981–1995)
 * Félix Miranda (1995–1996)
 * Javier Calderón (1996–2001)
 * Jorge Dezcallar (2001–2002)


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Juke Box Jury

Juke Box Jury was 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 American series, which was televised, aired from 1953 to 1959 and was hosted by Peter Potter, Suzanne Alexander, Jean Moorhead, and Lisa Davis.

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 (the 'Jurors') to judge newly released records on his jukebox (a Rock-Ola Tempo II) 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.

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'. Murray appeared every week for the first 11 episodes, however, generally 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. Singers Gary Miller and Alma Cogan were regular panelists in the early shows. Actor Eric Sykes was often a panelist and Katie Boyle was a frequent Juror (appearing at least 37 times), 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 the 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. On November 8, 1967, the scheduled edition of the show was cancelled without notice, leading to speculation the show was to end. 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. Frequent jurors from the original run Katie Boyle & Lulu both returned for the Jools Holland era, which also included impressionist Steve Nallon on the panel impersonating the sitting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The 1979 series was most notable for a panel containing Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), who gave a characteristically acerbic performance before walking out before the end of 30 June 1979 programme.

The final televised edition of Juke Box Jury aired on BBC2 on 25 November 1990. Dusty Springfield was on the final panel, joining Alan Freeman who appeared on 30 September 1990, as the only personalities to feature as jurors in all three eras of the television run. Lulu appeared in the 1990s run, but was not a juror during the 1979 series, although her single "I Love To Boogie" was featured in the series; where it was erroneously judged to be a likely hit.

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" (also Garden/Goldmine and Grandprix).

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 (29 October 1960 and 12 November 1960) 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, one of whom was called "Fred Curry", a takeoff on Pete Murray and another "Lady Edgware", a takeoff on Lady Isobel Barnett – the joke being that Barnet and Edgware are neighbouring London suburbs. 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" (1990) 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 regular panellist Pete Murray standing in on a number of occasions.

1959
 * 1 June 1959 –  Pete Murray, Alma Cogan, Gary Miller, Susan Stranks
 * 8 June 1959 - Pete Murray, Gary Miller, Alma Cogan, Susan Stranks
 * 15 June 1959 – Alma Cogan, Gary Miller, Mandy Miller, Pete Murray
 * 22 June 1959 - Eric Sykes, Shani Wallis, Pete Murray, Susan Stranks
 * 6 July 1959 - Eric Sykes, Shani Wallis, Mandy Miller, Pete Murray
 * 13 July 1959 –  Eric Sykes, Petula Clark, Pete Murray, Susan Stranks
 * 27 July 1959 – Petula Clark, Eric Sykes, Pete Murray, Susan Stranks
 * 10 August 1959 –  Eric Sykes, Pete Murray, Jill Chadwick, The Poni-Tails
 * 17 August 1959 - Diana Dors, Pete Murray, Sheila Dixon, Dickie Dawson
 * 24 August 1959 - Venetia Stevenson, Pete Murray, Judy Carne, Dickie Dawson
 * 5 September 1959 – Eric Sykes, Cleo Laine, Susan Stranks, Pete Murray
 * 12 September 1959 - Peggy Cummins, Eric Sykes, Eric Robinson, Susan Stranks
 * 19 September 1959 - Bill Maynard, Petula Clark, Judy Carne, Peter Noble
 * 26 September 1959 –  Richard Dawson, Diana Dors, Eunice Gayson, Tony Vlassopolu
 * 3 October 1959 – Diana Dors, Tony Osborne, Dickie Dawson, Petula Clark
 * 10 October 1959 - Gary Miller, Milton Subotsky, Venetia Stevenson, Gloria Kindersley
 * 17 October 1959 - Digby Wolfe, Alma Cogan, Louie Ramsay, Jimmy Savile
 * 24 October 1959 –  Winifred Atwell, Paul Carpenter, Sandra Dorne, Digby Wolfe
 * 31 October 1959 – Digby Wolfe, Gary Miller, Venetia Stevenson, Lynn Curtis
 * 14 November 1959 - Gary Miller, Venetia Stevenson, Bunny Lewis, Jeanne Baldwin
 * 21 November 1959 - Joan Heal, Venetia Stevenson, Milton Subotsky, Pete Murray
 * 28 November 1959 - Digby Wolfe, Peter Noble, Judy Carne, Sylvie St. Clair
 * 5 December 1959 - Russ Conway, Eric Sykes, Nancy Spain, Joan North
 * 12 December 1959 – Russ Conway, Eric Sykes, Anthea Askey, Venetia Stevenson
 * 19 December 1959 - Eric Sykes, Russ Conway, Katie Boyle, Patricia Bredin

1960

In addition to David Jacobs hosting, Vicki Smith was 'hostess' for the first few programmes.

 * 2 January 1960 –  Gilbert Harding, Peggy Cummins, Pete Murray, Carolyn Townshend
 * 9 January 1960 – Gilbert Harding, Lionel Bart, Shirley Anne Field, Anita Prynne
 * 16 January 1960 - Joni James, Anthea Askey, Eric Robinson, Jimmy Henney
 * 23 January 1960 – Alan Freeman, Patricia Bredin, Katie Boyle, Cyril Shack
 * 30 January 1960 – Shirley Eaton, Bunny Lewis, Frank Weir, Susan Stranks
 * 6 February 1960 - Wolf Mankowitz, Michael Craig, Nancy Spain, Henrietta Tiarks
 * 13 February 1960 - Pete Murray, Alan Freeman, Carolyn Townshend, Esmee Clinton
 * 20 February 1960 - Ted Ray, Anthea Askey, Jeannette Sterk, Alan Freeman
 * 27 February 1960 - Eric Sykes, Lorrae Desmond, Henrietta Tiarks, Alan Freeman
 * 5 March 1960 – Spike Milligan, Jack Payne, Jacquay Kinson, Nancy Spain
 * 12 March 1960 - Pete Murray, Paul Carpenter, Katie Boyle, June Sylvaine
 * 19 March 1960 – Sam Costa, Ted Ray, Lord Donegall, Lee Hamilton
 * 26 March 1960 - Pete Murray, Jack Payne, Jean Metcalfe, Alan Freeman
 * 2 April 1960 – Frankie Day, Wolf Mankowitz, Eric Sykes, Katie Boyle
 * 9 April 1960 - Hattie Jacques, Paul Carpenter, Nancy Spain, Eric Sykes
 * 16 April 1960 – Anne Rogers, Eric Robinson, Sheila Gallagher, Gary Miller
 * 23 April 1960 - Jack Payne, Eric Sykes, Pete Murray, David Hughes
 * 30 April 1960 - Johnny Preston, Gary Miller, Humphrey Lyttelton, Buddy Kaye
 * 7 May 1960 - Nancy Pederson, Karen Post, Doug Levy, Ed Robertson (Four Teenage students from the American Dependent High School, Bushy Park)
 * 14 May 1960 – Katie Boyle, Russ Conway, Roy Castle, Jeannette Sterk
 * 21 May 1960 - Jack Payne, Jean Metcalfe, Bunny Lewis, Viscountess Lewisham
 * 4 June 1960 – Henrietta Tiarks, Ted Ray, Carole Carr, Pete Murray
 * 11 June 1960 – Peter West, Dora Bryan, Judy Carne, Jimmy Henney
 * 18 June 1960 - Digby Wolfe, Millicent Martin, Carole Carr, Eric Winstone
 * 2 July 1960 - Carmen Dragon, Pete Murray, Anthea Askey, Ed Robertson
 * 9 July 1960 - Katie Boyle, Peter Noble, Alan Dell, June Marlow
 * 16 July 1960 – Katie Boyle, Judy Carne, Sid James, Eric Sykes
 * 30 July 1960 - Arthur Askey, Anthea Askey, Peter Haigh, Susan Stranks
 * 6 August 1960 - Stirling Moss, Kenneth Wolstenholme, Bunny Lewis, Judy Huxtable
 * 13 August 1960 - Ted Heath, Millicent Martin, Pete Murray, Judy Thorburn
 * 20 August 1960 – Dave King, Nancy Spain, Henrietta Tiarks, Alan Freeman
 * 27 August 1960 - David Hughes, Sheila Buxton, Mildred Mayne, Lionel Bart
 * 3 September 1960 – no programme due to Olympics coverage
 * 10 September 1960 – Rosemary Squires, Paul Carpenter, Geoff Love, Annette Funicello
 * 17 September 1960 - Capucine, Terence Morgan, Jimmy Henney, Toni Eden
 * 24 September 1960 - Eric Sykes, Lita Roza, Katie Boyle, Don Moss
 * 1 October 1960 - Eric Sykes, Petula Clark, George Chisholm, Judy Carne
 * 8 October 1960 – Pete Murray, Katie Boyle, Janie Marden, Phil Foster
 * 15 October 1960 – Sydney Shaw, Jill Day, Bunny Lewis, Shirley Bassey (Bassey revealed on air as a 'surprise guest')
 * 22 October 1960 - Eric Sykes, Carole Carr, Jimmy Henney and 'A Surprise Guest'
 * 29 October 1960 – Carmen McRae, Pete Murray, Nancy Spain, Richard Wyler (surprise guest - Ted Taylor)
 * 5 November 1960 - Katie Boyle, Frank Muir, Denis Norden and 'A Surprise Guest'
 * 12 November 1960 – Jill Ireland, David McCallum, Frederik van Pallandt and Nina van Pallandt (Nina & Frederik), Colin Day (Day revealed on air as a 'surprise guest') This is one of the few surviving episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3y-wNnh3g0
 * 19 November 1960 - Jeanne Carson, Sid James, Eric Sykes and a 'surprise guest'
 * 26 November 1960 - Marion Keene, Pete Murray, Paul Carpenter and a 'surprise guest'
 * 3 December 1960 - David Kossoff, Lita Roza, Richard Wyler and a 'surprise guest'
 * 10 December 1960 – Larry Adler, Susan Stranks, Godfrey Winn and a 'surprise guest'
 * 17 December 1960 - Anne Shelton, Barbara Sheller, Tony Osborne and a 'surprise guest'
 * 24 December 1960 - Peter Sellers, Russ Conway, Katie Boyle and a 'surprise guest'
 * 31 December 1960 - Denis Norden, Frank Muir, Beth Rogan and a 'surprise guest'

1961
 * 7 January 1961 – Lisa Gastoni, Jimmy Henney, Pete Murray and a 'surprise guest'
 * 14 January 1961 - Dick Bentley, Steve Race, Katie Boyle and a 'surprise guest'
 * 21 January 1961 - Dickie Valentine, Peggy Mount, Petula Clark and a 'surprise guest'
 * 28 January 1961 - Gloria DeHaven, Frankie Vaughan, Pete Murray and a 'surprise guest'
 * 4 February 1961 - Marion Ryan, Monty Babson, Keith Fordyce and a 'surprise guest'
 * 11 February 1961 – Sid James, Katie Boyle, David Kossoff and a 'surprise guest' (Possibly Mary Peach)
 * 25 February 1961 - Lita Roza, Glen Mason, Susannah York and a 'surprise guest'
 * 4 March 1961 - Frankie Howerd, Shirley Abicair, David Gell and a 'surprise guest'
 * 11 March 1961 - Eric Sykes, Katie Boyle, Jimmy Young and a 'surprise guest'
 * 18 March 1961 – Glynis Johns, Lita Roza, Alan Freeman and a 'surprise guest'
 * 25 March 1961 - Lana Morris, Wolf Mankowitz, Ray Orchard and a 'surprise guest'
 * 1 April 1961 – Beatrice Lillie, Brian Mathew, Jean Bayless, Eric Sykes
 * 8 April 1961 – Cliff Richard, Janet Munro, Ray Orchard and a 'surprise guest'
 * 15 April 1961 – Katie Boyle, Zena Marshall, Harry Robinson and Graham Hughes, a teenager from the audience, who was a guest
 * 22 April 1961 - Jack Jackson, Ian Carmichael, Jill Brown, Frances Bennett
 * 29 April 1961 - Arthur Askey, David Gell, Jane Murdoch and a 'surprise guest'
 * 6 May 1961 – Tony Bennett, June Thorburn, Eric Winstone and a 'surprise guest'
 * 13 May 1961 - Stubby Kaye, Katie Boyle, Bunny Lewis and a 'surprise guest'
 * 20 May 1961 - Feddie Mills, Jean Metcalfe, Michael Bentine and a 'surprise guest'
 * 27 May 1961 – Diane Todd, Jack Payne, Alan Freeman and a 'surprise guest'
 * 3 June 1961 - Russ Conway, Jack Jackson, Kim Tracy and a 'surprise guest'
 * 10 June 1961 – Sonya Cordeau, Robert Morley, Cliff Richard and a 'surprise guest' Anthea Askey
 * 17 June 1961 – Alma Cogan, Lonnie Donegan, Nelson Riddle and a 'surprise guest' Mandy Miller
 * 24 June 1961 – Shirley Bassey, Jack Jackson, Jimmy Henney and a 'surprise guest' George Hamilton IV
 * 1 July 1961 – Brian Matthew, Stubby Kaye, Sally Smith and a 'surprise guest'
 * 8 July 1961 – Sam Costa, Helen Winston, Jack Jackson and a 'surprise guest'
 * 15 July 1961 - Jimmy Young, Lana Morris, Paul Hollingdale and a 'surprise guest'
 * 22 July 1961 – Bunny Lewis, Katie Boyle, Eydie Gormé, Steve Lawrence
 * 29 July 1961 – Spike Milligan, Benny Green, Eira Hughes and a 'surprise guest'
 * 5 August 1961 - Sammy Cahn, Jack Payne, Helen Shapiro and a 'surprise guest'
 * 12 August 1961 - Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Fyfe Robertson, Kenneth Allsop
 * 19 August 1961 - June Whitfield, Alan Freeman, Glen Mason and a 'surprise guest'
 * 26 August 1961 - Pete Murray, Jane Asher, John Paddy Carstairs and a 'surprise guest'
 * 2 September 1961 - Eric Sykes, Shirley Abicair, Scilla Gabel, Ray Orchard
 * 9 September 1961 - Juliet Mills, David Kossoff, Jimmy Savile and a 'surprise guest'
 * 16 September 1961 - Shirley Anne Field, Matt Monro, Pete Murray and a 'surprise guest'
 * 23 September 1961 - Janet Munro, Cyril Ornadel, Jane Asher and a 'surprise guest'
 * 30 September 1961 - Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Jack Jackson and a 'surprise guest'
 * 7 October 1961 - Alan Dell, Anne Aubrey, Carole Carr and a 'surprise guest'
 * 14 October 1961 - Pete Murray, Muriel Young, Lew Luton and a 'surprise guest'
 * 21 October 1961 – Adam Faith, Alan Freeman, Helen Shapiro and a 'surprise guest'
 * 28 October 1961 - Jimmy Young, June Marlow, Bunny Lewis and a 'surprise guest' Zsa Zsa Gabor
 * 4 November 1961 - Julia Lockwood, Jackie Lane, Sam Costa and a 'surprise guest'
 * 11 November 1961 - John Leyton, Rita Tushingham, Leila Williams and a 'surprise guest'
 * 18 November 1961 – Petula Clark, Katie Boyle, Bunny Lewis and a 'surprise guest'
 * 25 November 1961 - Jack Jackson, Carole Carr, Morey Amsterdam and a 'surprise guest'
 * 2 December 1961 – Harry Fowler, Jill Browne, June Thorburn, Pete Murray
 * 9 December 1961 – Acker Bilk, Jane Asher, Jimmy Edwards
 * 16 December 1961 - Charlie Chester, Alan Dell, Sandy Scott, Barbara Shelley
 * 23 December 1961 - Katie Boyle, Rosemary Squires, Arthur Askey, Jimmy Young
 * 26 December 1961 - 'Christmas Special:' Jean Metcalfe, Haley Mills, Pete Murray, Alan Rothwell
 * 30 December 1961 – Carole Carr, Anita Harris, Sid James, Bunny Lewis

1962

 * 6 January 1962 - Sam Costa, Alan Freeman, Sandy Scott, Nancy Spain
 * 13 January 1962 - Shirley Bassey, Susan Castle, Kenneth Hume, Ross Parker
 * 20 January 1962 – Miriam Karlin, Alan Freeman, Jimmy Henney, June Thorburn
 * 27 January 1962 - Shirley Eaton, Frank Muir, Pete Murray, Viera
 * 3 February 1962 - Carole Carr, Denis Norden, Barbara Shelley and a 'surprise guest'
 * 10 February 1962 - Frances Bennett, Leslie Crowther, Alan Dell, Monica Evans
 * 17 February 1962 – Petula Clark, George Elrick, Jean Metcalfe, Jimmy Young
 * 24 February 1962 – Paul Anka, Tony Orlando, Sheila Tracy, Carole Carr
 * 3 March 1962 – Buddy Greco, June Thorburn, Bobby Vee, Shani Wallis
 * 10 March 1962 - Katie Boyle, Alan Freeman, Steve Race, Lita Roza
 * 17 March 1962 - Carole Gray, Millicent Martin, Edward J. Mason, Ray Orchard
 * 24 March 1962 - Jimmy Young, Carole Carr, Pete Murray, Barbara Shelley
 * 31 March 1962 - Jane Asher, Alan Dell, Jimmy Henney, Jean Metcalfe
 * 7 April 1962 – Jack Jackson, Sam Costa, June Marlow, Brenda Lee
 * 14 April 1962 - Sid James, Miriam Karlin, Carole Carr, Robert Farnon
 * 21 April 1962 - Nina & Frederik, Alma Cogan, Neil Sedaka
 * 28 April 1962 – Alan Freeman, Jean Metcalfe, Katie Boyle, Johnny Burnette
 * 5 May 1962 - Rosemary Squires, Dora Bryan, John Leyton, Pete Murray
 * 12 May 1962 - Jean Metcalfe, Harry Rabinowitz, Leila Williams and a 'surprise guest'
 * 19 May 1962 - Steve Race, Sean Connery, Jane Asher, Janet Munro
 * 26 May 1962 - Eartha Kitt, Rupert Davies, Jimmy Young, Vera Day
 * 2 June 1962 - Alan Dell, Helen Shapiro, June Thorburn, Terry-Thomas
 * 9 June 1962 - Dora Bryan, Anne Shelton, David Rose and a 'surprise guest'
 * 16 June 1962 - Nelson Riddle, Carole Carr, Anne Heywood and a 'surprise guest'
 * 23 June 1962 - Arthur Askey, Jean Metcalfe, Bill Crozier and a 'surprise guest'
 * 30 June 1962 - Stubby Kaye, Jimmy Henney, Jenny Angeloglou and a 'surprise guest'
 * 7 July 1962 - Rosemary Clooney, Roy Castle, Jane Asher and a 'surprise guest'
 * 14 July 1962 - Jack Jackson, Godfrey Winn, Katie Boyle and a 'surprise guest'
 * 21 July 1962 - Alan Freeman, Carole Carr, Gary Miller, Sheila Hancock
 * 28 July 1962 – Alan Dell, Susan Stranks, Shirley Eaton and a 'surprise guest' Jimmy Justice
 * 4 August 1962 - Brian Rix, Jimmy Young, Rose Brennan and a 'surprise guest' Susan Hampshire
 * 11 August 1962 - Stubby Kaye, Juliet Mills, Nancy Spain, Bunny Lewis
 * 18 August 1962 - Ray Conniff, Jean Metcalfe, Eric Sykes, Sylvia Syms
 * 25 August 1962 - Dora Bryan, Jack Jackson, David Tomlinson and a 'surprise guest' Malou Pantera
 * 1 September 1962 - Katie Boyle, Jimmy Henney, Robert Morley, Elaine Stritch
 * 8 September 1962 - Dick Emery, Maggie Fitzgibbon, Alan Freeman and a 'surprise guest' Joan Darling
 * 15 September 1962 - Rupert Davies, Dion, Fenella Fielding and a 'surprise guest' Jane Asher
 * 22 September 1962 - Ian Carmichael, Hy Hazell, Mike Sarne and a 'surprise guest'
 * 29 September 1962 - Liz Fraser, Stan Stennett, Tony Withers and a 'surprise guest' Anne Shelton
 * 6 October 1962 – Petula Clark, Hattie Jacques, Pete Murray, and a 'surprise guest' Eric Sykes
 * 13 October 1962 - Angela Huth, Sid James, Don Moss and a 'surprise guest' Ketty Lester
 * 20 October 1962 - Claire Bloom, Beryl Reid, Jimmy Young and a 'surprise guest' Jess Conrad
 * 27 October 1962 - Polly Elwes, Sid James, Steve Race and a 'surprise guest' Beryl Bryden
 * 3 November 1962 - Sam Costa, Pete Murray, June Thorburn and a 'surprise guest'
 * 10 November 1962 - Jane Asher, George Hamilton, Stubby Kaye and a 'surprise guest' Catherine Boyle
 * 17 November 1962 - Edie Adams, Alan Dell, and two 'surprise guests' Ian Carmichael, Alexandra Bastedo
 * 24 November 1962 – Jean Metcalfe, Dora Bryan, Kenneth More, Bobby Vee
 * 1 December 1962 – Arthur Askey, Helen Shaprio and two 'surprise guests' Johnny Mathis and Janette Scott
 * 8 December 1962 - Carole Carr, Adam Faith, Edmund Purdom and a 'surprise guest' Linda Ludgrove
 * 15 December 1962 - Lonnie Donegan, Nancy Spain, Mai Zetterling and a 'surprise guest' John Leyton
 * 22 December 1962 - Alma Cogan, Sheila Hancock, David Tomlinson and a 'surprise guest' Jack Jackson
 * 25 December 1962 - "Christmas Night With The Stars" Special: Sid James, Sydney Tafler, Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, Jill Curzon
 * 29 December 1962 - Shirley Anne Field, Robert Morley, Jimmy Young and a 'surprise guest' Polly Elwes

1963

 * 5 January 1963 - Alan Freeman, Spike Milligan, Anne Shelton and a 'surprise guest' Layi Raki
 * 12 January 1963 - Stubby Kaye, Pete Murray, Siân Phillips and a 'surprise guest' Una Stubbs
 * 19 January 1963 – Katie Boyle, Susan Maughan, Rolf Harris and a 'surprise guest' Jack Jackson
 * 26 January 1963 – Jane Asher, Carroll Baker, Brian Hyland, Pete Murray
 * 2 February 1963 – Sean Connery, Diana Dors, Jean Metcalfe, Mike Sarne
 * 9 February 1963 - Anthea Askey, Arthur Askey, Steve Rogers, Anne Rogers
 * 16 February 1963 - Pete Murray, Robin Richmond, Annie Ross, Nancy Spain
 * 2 March 1963 - Harry H. Corbett, Alan Dell, Dusty Springfield and a 'surprise guest' Millicent Martin
 * 9 March 1963 - Carole Carr, Spike Milligan, Chris Montez, Janette Scott
 * 16 March 1963 - Katie Boyle, Angela Douglas, David Gell, Sid James
 * 23 March 1963 - Jane Asher, Henry Mancini, Pete Murray and a 'surprise guest' Marcie Blane
 * 30 March 1963 - Jimmy Henney, Hattie Jacques, Eric Sykes, Margaret Whiting
 * 6 April 1963 – Alan Freeman, Dolores Gray, Barbara Windsor, Jimmy Young
 * 13 April 1963 - Arthur Askey, Steve Race, Sabrina, June Thorburn
 * 20 April 1963 - Alan Dell, Louise Dunn, Harry Fowler, Julia Lockwood
 * 27 April 1963 - Keith Fordyce, Sheila Hancock, Henry Mancini, Jean Metcalfe
 * 4 May 1963 - Dora Bryan, Judith Chalmers, Pete Murray and a 'surprise guest'
 * 11 May 1963 - Carole Carr, Angela Douglas, Del Shannon, Johnny Tillotson
 * 18 May 1963 - Jacqui Chan, Polly Elwes, Don Moss and a 'surprise guest'
 * 25 May 1963 - Eva Bartok, Sam Costa, Jimmy Henney, Nancy Spain
 * 1 June 1963 - Tony Meehan, Barbara Murray, Pete Murray and a 'surprise guest' Annie Ross
 * 8 June 1963 - Liz Fraser, Millicent Martin, Lance Percival, Jimmy Young
 * 15 June 1963 - Juliette Gréco, Jean Metcalfe, Peter Sellers, Maurice Woodruff
 * 22 June 1963 - Jane Asher, Sandy Baron, Alan Dell, Dorothy Peterson
 * 29 June 1963 – John Lennon, Katie Boyle, Bruce Prochnik, Caroline Maudling
 * 6 July 1963 – Steve Race, Ian Carmichael, June Ritchie, Alma Cogan
 * 13 July 1963 – Albert Finney, Esma Cannon, Pip Hinton, Bunny Lewis
 * 20 July 1963 - Keith Fordyce, Frances Nuyen, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams
 * 27 July 1963 - Carol Deene, David Gell, Nancy Spain and a 'surprise guest'
 * 3 August 1963 - Jimmy Henney, Janette Scott, Angela Douglas, Jimmy Young
 * 10 August 1963 - Carole Carr, Ted King, Barbara Windsor and a 'surprise guest'
 * 17 August 1963 – Pat Boone, Polly Elwes, Carole Ann Ford, Vic Lewis
 * 24 August 1963 – Tom Courtenay, Little Peggy March, Peter Noble and a 'surprise guest'
 * 31 August 1963 – Terence Edmond, Jean Metcalfe, Don Moss, Polly Perkins
 * 7 September 1963 - Jane Asher, Alan Freeman, Tommy Roe and a 'surprise guest'
 * 14 September 1963 - Sam Costa, Louise Dunn, Annie Nightingale, Bruce Prochnik
 * 21 September 1963 - Dora Bryan, Alan Dell, Adam Faith and a 'surprise guest'
 * 28 September 1963 – Katie Boyle, Jess Conrad, Pete Murray, Barbara Windsor
 * 5 October 1963 - Bunny Lewis, Julia Lockwood, Wolf Mankowitz, Helen Shapiro
 * 12 October 1963 - Jim Backus, Tonia Bern, Kenny Lynch and a 'surprise guest'
 * 19 October 1963 – Terence Edmond, Dusty Springfield, Steve Race and a 'surprise guest' (Possibly Cliff Richard)
 * 26 October 1963 – Brian Epstein, Jimmy Henney, Barbara Young and a 'surprise guest'
 * 2 November 1963 – Cilla Black, Dick Haymes, Pete Murray and a 'surprise guest' Heinz
 * 9 November 1963 - Alan Freeman, Fergus McClelland, Annie Ross and a 'surprise guest'
 * 16 November 1963 – Edmund Purdom, Linda Christian, Alan Dell, Jane Asher (deputising for Dee Dee Sharp, who was unable to appear)
 * 23 November 1963 – Cilla Black, Sid James, Don Moss, Anna Quayle
 * 30 November 1963 - June Ritchie, Nancy Spain, Jimmy Young and a 'surprise guest'
 * 7 December 1963 – The Beatles, (surprise guest – Cilla Black)
 * 14 December 1963 – Neal Arden, Katie Boyle, Freddie Garrity and a 'surprise guest' Gay Emma
 * 21 December 1963 – Alma Cogan, Angela Douglas, Rolf Harris, Mitch Murray and a 'surprise guest'
 * 25 December 1963 "Christmas Night With The Stars Special" - Stanley Baxter portrayed four panelists
 * 28 December 1963 - Polly Elwes, Matt Monro, Jimmy Savile and a 'surprise guest'

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 (Millie), 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 (This jury was reunited in 1983 for the BBC's The Time of Your Life hosted by Noel Edmonds, when Shaw was again a surprise for the three jurors who had just (accurately as it transpired) 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 Loog 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, 'Uncle' Eric Bygraves, Anthony Bygraves, Maxine Bygraves
 * 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, Sara Leighton
 * 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 (Declan Cluskey, Con Cluskey, John Stokes)
 * 17 December 1966 - Paul Jones, Rose Brennan, Mickie Most and a 'surprise guest'
 * 24 December 1966 - The Seekers, (Judith Durham, Bruce Woodley, Keith Potger & Anthony Guy)
 * 31 December 1966 - Simon Dee, Alan Freeman, Pete Murray, Jimmy Savile

1967

 * 7 January 1967 – 18 February 1967 (all 7 editions) - Pete Murray, Alan Freeman, Jimmy Savile, Simon Dee
 * 25 February 1967 - Pete Murray, Jimmy Savile, Virginia Wetherill, Penny Valentine
 * 4 March 1967 - Simon Dee, Alan Freeman, Ross Hannaman, Geraldine Sherman
 * 11 March 1967 - Pete Murray, Miss World Reita Faria, Jimmy Savile, Judy Geeson
 * 18 March 1967 - Alan Freeman, Julia Foster, Simon Dee, Maggie Clews
 * 25 March 1967 - Jayne Mansfield, Lulu, Pete Murray, Jimmy Savile
 * 1 April 1967 - Una Stubbs, Alan Freeman, Virginia Ironside, Simon Dee
 * 8 April 1967 - Jimmy Savile, Maggie London, Mike d'Abo, Polly Devlin
 * 15 April 1967 - Pete Murray, Nyree Dawn Porter, Ray Davies, Charlotte Bingham
 * 22 April 1967 - Paul Jones, Janet Munro, Gerald Harper, Andee Silver
 * 29 April 1967 - Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Vicki Carr, Anneke Wills
 * 6 May 1967 - Val Doonican, Sandie Shaw, Alan Freeman, Isabel Black
 * 13 May 1967 - Cliff Richard, Anita Harris, Roy Hudd, Leila Pasha
 * 20 May 1967 - Leslie Crowther, Julie Felix, Shirley Anne Field, Kenny Everett
 * 27 May 1967 - Dusty Springfield, Keith Barron, Judith Chalmers, Mickie Most
 * 3 June 1967 - Bernard Cribbins, Amanda Barrie, Vince Hill, Annie Nightingale
 * 10 June 1967 - Gene Pitney, Georgia Brown, Lance Percival, Isabel Black
 * 17 June 1967 - Rolf Harris, Jackie Trent, David Symonds, Charlotte Rampling
 * 24 June 1967 - Del Shannon, Dawn Addams, Pete Murray, Sheila Steafel
 * 1 July 1967 - Janette Scott, Chris Denning, Mel Tormé, Penny Valentine
 * 15 July 1967 - Adam Faith, Annette Andre, Ray Fell, Salena Jones
 * 22 July 1967 - Alan Freeman, Anita Harris, Billy Walker, Maggie Clews
 * 29 July 1967 – Engelbert Humperdinck, Lulu, Ted Ray, Beverley Adams
 * 5 August 1967 – Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Mike Quinn (The Seekers), Barbara Windsor
 * 12 August 1967 - Libby Morris, John Walker, Bruce Johnston, Ross Hannaman
 * 19 August 1967 - Beryl Reid, Vince Hill, Pik-Sen Lim, David Symonds
 * 26 August 1967 - Jessie Matthews, Tsai Chin, Cat Stevens, Tony Blackburn
 * 2 September 1967 - Beatrice Lillie, Georgie Fame, Viviane Ventura, Keith Skues
 * 9 September 1967 - P. J. Proby, Yolande Bavan, Pete Murray, Jennifer Lewis
 * 16 September 1967 - Neil McCallum, Marjorie Proops, Dave Cash, Annette Day
 * 23 September 1967 - Clement Freud, Kiki Dee, James Fox, Penny Valentine
 * 27 September 1967 - Sandie Shaw, Alan Freeman, Joan Bakewell, Mike Newman (replacing Richard Deacon)
 * 4 October 1967 – Bob Monkhouse, Julia Foster, Chris Denning and a 'surprise guest'
 * 11 October 1967 - Jimmy Savile, Ronnie Corbett, Sheila Steafel, Anita Harris
 * 18 October 1967 – Tony Hall (replacing Cy Coleman), Ted Ray, Penny Valentine and a 'surprise guest'
 * 25 October 1967 - Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent, Stuart Henry and a 'halloween surprise guest'
 * 1 November 1967 – Mickie Most, Reg Presley and two 'surprise guests'
 * 8 November 1967 - Show Cancelled. Scheduled guests had been: Tony Blackburn, Gene Pitney, Brenda Lee.
 * 15 November 1967 - Lulu, Lord Arran, Scott Walker and a 'surprise guest'
 * 22 November 1967 – Long John Baldry, Jean Metcalfe (replacing Julie Felix), Pete Murray, Felice Taylor
 * 29 November 1967 - J. J. Jackson, Les Reed, Aimi MacDonald, Penny Valentine (who replaced Emperor Rosko)
 * 6 December 1967 – Twiggy, Justin de Villeneuve, Tony Blackburn, Julie Felix
 * 13 December 1967 – Hattie Jacques, Barry Mason, Emperor Rosko and a 'surprise guest'
 * 20 December 1967 - Pete Murray, Bobby Vee and two other guests
 * 27 December 1967 – Pete Murray, Susan Stranks, Lulu and Eric Sykes

1979 series
Hosted by Noel Edmonds. Each show featured a jury of four celebrities and one or two surprise guests whose records were judged by the jury.

(The series had a one-week break on 21 July.)
 * 16 June 1979 – Jury: Pete Murray, Bob Geldof, Linda Lewis, Isla St Clair. Surprise guest: Patti Boulaye.
 * 23 June 1979 – Jury: Flick Colby, Anne Nightingale, Joe Brown, David Wilkie. Surprise guests: Child & Violinski.
 * 30 June 1979 – Jury: Elaine Paige, Johnny Rotten, Alan Freeman, Joan Collins. Surprise guests: The Monks & Adrian Munsey.
 * 7 July 1979 – Jury: Dusty Springfield, Tony Blackburn, Jonathan King, Britt Ekland. Surprise guests: Black Lace.
 * 14 July 1979 – Jury: Jimmy Savile, Lorraine Chase, Amii Stewart, Billy Idol. Surprise guests: Sparks.
 * 28 July 1979 – Jury: Mike Batt, Patti Boulaye, Bob Geldof, Mike Read. Surprise guests: Dollar & Jimmy Pursey.
 * 4 August 1979 – Jury: Rick Wakeman, Judie Tzuke, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Pursey. Surprise guests: The Starjets.
 * 11 August 1979 – Jury: Tina Charles, Kenny Everett, Lesley Judd, Sting. Surprise guests: Chas & Dave.
 * 18 August 1979 – Jury: Dave Bartram, Keith Chegwin, Dana, Bonnie Tyler. Surprise guests: Pan's People.

1989 series
(filmed in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1989), hosted by Jools Holland

 * 24 September 1989 – Julian Clary, Jermaine Jackson, Simon Climie, Paris Gray. (Isaac Hayes was billed to appear, but did not take part)
 * 1 October 1989 – Fish, Cat, Adrian Edmondson, Courtney Pine
 * 8 October 1989 – Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Francis Rossi, Julia Fordham
 * 15 October 1989 – Siouxsie Sioux, Tony Hadley, Helen Lederer, Frank Bruno
 * 22 October 1989 – Tim Rice, Adeva, Vic Reeves, Norman Cook
 * 29 October 1989 – Lulu, Kit Hollerbach, Gary Stretch, Glen Tilbrook
 * 5 November 1989 – David Essex, Antoine de Caunes, Ade Edmondson, Rebel MC
 * 12 November 1989 – Leee John (replaced by a late Mica Paris half-way through), Matt Goss, Luke Goss, Tom Watkins
 * 19 November 1989 – Jerry Sadowicz, Tim Pope, Mark Shaw, Zeke Manyka
 * 26 November 1989 – Simon O'Brien, Lloyd Cole, Pam Hogg, Slim Gaillard
 * 3 December 1989 – Jermaine Stewart, Carol Decker, Bruno Brookes, Jeremy Hardy

1990 series
(filmed in London, 1990) host – Jools Holland

 * 23 September 1990 – Maria McKee, Peter Hooton, Michelle Collins, Richard O'Brien
 * 30 September 1990 – Alan Freeman, Neneh Cherry, John Fashanu, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer
 * 7 October 1990 – Anthony Wilson, Rachael Lindsay, Shaun Ryder, Barbara Windsor
 * 14 October 1990 – KRS-One, Rowland Rivron, Jakki Brambles, Kevin Kennedy
 * 21 October 1990 – Jonathan Ross, Jonathon Morris, Black Francis, Kym Mazelle
 * 28 October 1990 – Craig Ferguson, Tracey MacLeod, Robert Smith, Durga McBroom
 * 4 November 1990 – Katie Boyle, Margaret Thatcher portrayed by Steve Nallon
 * 11 November 1990 – Neil Campbell, Brian Travers
 * 18 November 1990 – Bernard Sumner, Pat Cash, Linda Hartley, Bootsy Collins. (Betty Boo was scheduled but did not participate).
 * 25 November 1990 – Dusty Springfield, Bob Geldof, Monie Love, Rowland Rivron

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Edward Leader Williams

Sir Edward Leader Williams (28 April 1828 – 1 January 1910) was an English civil engineer, chiefly remembered as the designer of the Manchester Ship Canal, but also heavily involved in other canal projects in north Cheshire.

Early life
Williams was born in Worcester on 28 April 1828, the son of a civil engineer also named Edward (responsible for works to make the River Severn navigable; also a keen amateur artist and friend of John Constable) and his Quaker wife Sarah Whiting. His brother Benjamin Williams Leader became a notable landscape artist. The family lived at Diglis House in Worcester (today the Diglis Hotel).

Career
After attending the Royal Grammar School Worcester Williams became an apprentice to his father. In 1856 he was chosen out of 110 applicants to be chief engineer for the development of the navigable northern section of the River Weaver in Cheshire. He began to specialise in canal construction and in 1865 produced plans for enlarging the Weston Canal, a short stretch of canal linking the river near Frodsham to docks at Weston Point, Runcorn.

On 1 September 1872, he joined the Bridgewater Navigation Company and worked on the Bridgewater Canal.

Manchester Ship Canal
After submitting proposals in competition with another engineer (Hamilton Fulton), Williams was then appointed by Daniel Adamson in 1882 to design a new ship canal linking Manchester with the Irish Sea. Williams became chief designer and chief engineer, helping the Manchester Ship Canal Company formulate its proposals for the necessary Act of Parliament. From its initial reading in 1883, it took two years for the Bill to receive Royal Assent, and a further two years before the first construction work started, in November 1887.

The canal opened in 1894, and has been described as "a feat without precedent in modern history". As well as the canal itself, major engineering landmarks of the scheme included the Barton Swing Aqueduct (carrying the Bridgewater Canal over the Ship Canal) and a neighbouring swing bridge for road traffic at Barton.

After the official opening of the Manchester Ship Canal on 21 May 1894, Edward Leader Williams of the Oaks, in the Parish of Dunham Massey, in the County Palatine of Chester was knighted by Queen Victoria on 2 July by Letters Patent.

Williams' other works include the Anderton Boat Lift (1875) near Northwich in Cheshire, which links the navigable stretch of the River Weaver with the Trent and Mersey Canal.

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Railway roundhouse

A railway roundhouse is a building with a circular or semicircular shape used by railways for servicing and storing locomotives. Traditionally, though not always the case today, these buildings surrounded or were adjacent to a turntable.

Overview

Early steam locomotives normally traveled forwards only. Although reverse operations capabilities were soon built into locomotive mechanisms, the controls were normally optimized for forward travel, and the locomotives often could not operate as well in reverse. Some passenger cars, such as observation cars, were also designed as late as the 1960s for operations in a particular direction. Turntables allowed locomotives or other rolling stock to be turned around for the return journey, and roundhouses, designed to radiate around the turntables, were built to service and store these locomotives.

Most modern diesel and electric locomotives can run equally well in either direction, and many are push-pull trains with control cabs at each end. In addition, railroads often use multiple locomotives to pull trains, and even with locomotives that have distinct front and rear ends, the engines at opposing ends of a locomotive "consist" (a group of locomotives coupled together and controlled as a single unit) can be aligned so they face opposite directions. With such a setup, trains needing to reverse direction can use a technique known as a "run around," in which the engines are uncoupled from the train, pull around it on an adjacent track or siding, and reattach at the other end. The engineer changes operating ends from the original locomotive to the one on the opposite end of the locomotive consist.

Railroad terminals also use features such as balloon loops and wyes (Commonwealth: triangle) to reverse the orientation of railroad equipment. Because of the advent of these practices, modern roundhouses are frequently not round and are simply large buildings used for servicing locomotives. Like much other railroad terminology, however, the structure has retained its traditional name. The alternative term engine-house encompasses both semi-circular and rectangular structures and broadly describes all buildings intended for storage and servicing of locomotives. Shops or workshops are buildings containing hoists and heavy machinery capable of major repairs beyond routine servicing. Some roundhouses include shop facilities internally or in adjoining buildings.

Since the great dieselisation era of the 1940s and 1950s, many roundhouses have been demolished or put to other uses, but a few still stand and remain in use on the railroads. Early roundhouses were too small for later locomotives. The buildings' peculiar shapes can make it challenging to adapt them to new uses, but they can also be visually pleasing.

Purpose
Roundhouses were originally constructed to service steam locomotives. In North America, regular daily serving began with a hostler moving an engine to an ash pit to remove the detritus of burned wood or coal. The locomotive's tender would be refilled with fuel, water, and sand, and the engine would be placed above an inspection pit so that workers could inspect it for any maintenance needs, like wear on its brake shoes and wheels. The engine's many moving parts would also be thoroughly lubricated, although this meant that engines typically required frequent cleanings to remove old lubricating fluid along with dirt and anything else that stuck.

At larger 24-hour North American roundhouses, steam locomotives would often be turned around and made ready for service within a few hours of arrival. However, locomotives with major issues or in need of semi-regular maintenance required additional time. Larger roundhouses were adequately staffed with boilermakers, blacksmiths, and pipefitters so that this work could be accomplished on-site; only the most extensive work, such as major unexpected repairs or scheduled major maintenance, required the transport of locomotives to specialized backshops.

History by country
The location of the first roundhouse is thought to be Birmingham. England, built in 1837. Some turntables that were built in earlier days rapidly became unsuitable for the longer locomotives introduced. For example, the Roundhouse in London was built in 1846 to turn around steam locomotives on the line to Birmingham, but newer locomotives were too long within ten years—the building has been preserved and used for other purposes over the years.

Australia
Valley Heights roundhouse, 75 km west of Sydney, New South Wales, is the oldest surviving roundhouse in Australia, and has been preserved as a railway museum.

Canada
The London Roundhouse Project London, Ontario, Canada, is an extensive renovation of the Michigan Central Railroad steam locomotive repair shop which was built in 1887. It is to become the new home of Ellipsis Digital and Engine SevenFour, a pair of emerging technology companies.

The Canadian National Railways roundhouse at the Turcot Yard in Montreal, built in 1906, was the largest ever built in Canada. Its demolition in 1962 to make way for the Turcot Interchange illustrated a profound change in transportation habits across North America.

The Steam Whistle Brewing brewery in Toronto, Ontario is located in the building known as the John Street Roundhouse, a former Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive repair facility.

The Canadian Pacific 374 steam engine is on display at the former CPR Drake Street Roundhouse in Vancouver, now the Roundhouse Community Centre. VIA Architecture was the architecture firm responsible for designing the station.

The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Roundhouse in Victoria, British Columbia

France
Several roundhouses exist in France; two exist at Chambéry, built between 1906 and 1910. Another two exist at Avignon, and three exist at Lyon with other roundhouses being at Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Dijon, Bayonne, Colmar, Paris, Marseille, Clermont-Ferrand, Mulhouse, Nevers, Toulon, Valence, and Saint Etienne.

Germany
Several roundhouses survive in Germany, The roundhouse at Augsburg is home to a museum. The German Museum of Technology shows a doubled roundhouse.

Hungary
The former Budapest North Depot in Budapest is home to a railway museum since 2000.

Indonesia
At its height, there were four railway roundhouses in Indonesia. Three of them still survive in the present day: the roundhouse near Lempuyangan station in Yogyakarta, the one in Tebing Tinggi station in North Sumatera,  and a former roundhouse inside Jatibarang sugar mill in Central Java which is now used as a mini railway museum.

Italy
2 roundhouses exist at Turin and are still in use by the FS.

New Zealand
There were 3 roundhouses in New Zealand. Elmer Lane in Greymouth was one of the largest and most famous roundhouses in New Zealand and had up to 17 total berths. The last remains were demolished in the 1990's. None of the original roundhouses survive however Mainline Steam as part of their Mercer project will build a roundhouse at Mercer.

Norway
Norway has had many roundhouses, and many still survive. Examples include Voss, Ål, Kongsberg on the Bergen line. Hamar, Otta and Oppdal on the Dovre line, Lodalen - Oslo (covered) and Egersund on the Sørland line.

North Korea
A roundhouse is known to exist at Manpo-Jian.

Japan

Roundhouses were a significant feature of Japanese railways. Many smaller roundhouses are still in use today as fully operational buildings on a few private and third-sector railways.

One Japanese roundhouse that remains intact is at the Kyoto Railway Museum. The museum comprises a number of structures classified by the Japanese Government as 'Important Cultural Properties'. One of these structures is the museum roundhouse, as it is the oldest reinforced-concrete car shed extant in Japan.

Poland

The museum roundhouse in Wolsztyn, in western Poland, continues to supply steam locomotives for regular national rail services (as of 2011).

Portugal
The Roundhouse at Entroncamento is home to the Portuguese National Railway Museum.

Switzerland
The Uster roundhouse in Uster.

Taiwan (ROC)
Changhua Roundhouse in Changhua City built in 1922 is the only surviving roundhouse in Taiwan and is still in use as of 2022.

United Kingdom
Probably the first railway roundhouse, designed by Robert Stephenson, was built in 1837 in Birmingham, at Curzon Street station. Its central turntable, inspection pits, and an exterior wall were uncovered in March 2020 during work to build HS2.

Another was built in 1839 at Derby, England by the North Midland Railway. A guidebook of the time says:

"The engine-house is a polygon of sixteen sides, and 190 ft in diameter, lighted from a dome-shaped roof, of the height of 50 ft. It contains 16 lines of rails, radiating from a single turn-table in the centre: the engines, on their arrival, are taken in there, placed upon the turn-table, and wheeled into any stall that may be vacant. Each of the 16 stalls will hold two, or perhaps more, engines."

This roundhouse narrowly escaped demolition when the works closed down, and was classified as a listed building. It was restored in 2010, being converted into a brand new site for Derby College, with a new addition called the 'Stephenson Building' including the other survival of demolition – the original Midland Counties Railway workshop. The new site was opened in September 2009. Tours can be arranged through Derby Tourist Information Centre.

In Leeds, Thomas Grainger designed the roundhouse near Armley Gyratory that was opened in 1847, with accommodation for 20 trains from the Leeds & Thirsk Railway. It was operational until 1904.

The Fenton, Murray and Jackson building in Leeds (1831–1843), a private workshop, may previously have been laid out in a radial pattern like a roundhouse.

The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London was built in 1847, but was too small for its function within 20 years (it is now an arts center and concert venue).

Barrow Hill Engine Shed, which is home to a number of preserved locomotives is still in use.

United States
It is estimated that there were about 3,000 roundhouse sites in the United States, although at least three times that number of structures were built between 1840 and 1950, since many were torn down and rebuilt as locomotives became increasingly larger. Although the United Kingdom was home to the earliest roundhouse (1837), the US was not far behind, with several being built around 1840 for the earliest railroads. It is likely that the first in the US was built by the Baltimore and Ohio at Mt. Clare (Baltimore), although this cannot be confirmed because early records have been lost. Early roundhouses, especially those built in cold climates, were fully enclosed with the turntable under cover as well as the stalls. Once locomotives became too large to fit in these structures, they were torn down and replaced with "donut" shaped structures that surrounded an open turntable. Although some roundhouses used by Class 1 railroads were built as a full-circle with as many as 52 stalls, the vast majority were only part of a circle with 12 or fewer stalls.

Nearly every locomotive terminal in the country was anchored by a roundhouse, especially if a railroad owned more than a few locomotives. The largest concentration of roundhouses was in Chicago, with over 75 in and around the metropolitan region during the early 1900s. Other cities where multiple railroads terminated or were major division points also had over 20 roundhouses, such as Boston, Cleveland, St. Louis, Sioux City, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati.

The largest "as-built" roundhouse ever constructed is believed to have been the Boston and Maine's East Somerville roundhouse outside of Boston (today the site of the Boston Engine Terminal). It was built with stalls 112 ft long, 90 ft of open space between the roundhouse and the turntable, and a 110 ft turntable, giving it a diameter of 525 ft. However, several roundhouses were enlarged over time that eventually became larger than the one in Boston. For example, the Union Pacific roundhouse in Cheyenne, Wyoming was lengthened in 1930 to accommodate the new 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" articulated locomotives being delivered. After the expansion it was 560 ft in diameter and constituted a near full-circle. A portion of this roundhouse still stands and is used by Union Pacific to store heritage rolling stock.

The vast majority of roundhouses were torn down beginning in the 1950s as railroads converted motive power from steam to electric-diesel, which needed far less maintenance. Some were converted to service diesel engines, while others were used as storage or sold to other parties. Several dozen roundhouses stand today in active use by modern railroads and museums, although the majority of those still standing have been abandoned. An average of two per year are demolished or otherwise destroyed.

The only roundhouse still in use as a locomotive servicing facility by the same railroad that constructed it is the Long Island engine house in Queens, New York. The largest surviving roundhouse by interior square footage is owned and operated by the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina. It was built by the Southern Railway in 1924 and contains 37 stalls.

The B&O Railroad Museum complex in Baltimore, Maryland contains the restored railcar maintenance roundhouse of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Built in 1884, it is said to be the world's largest 22-sided building.

The roundhouse in Aurora, Illinois, constructed in 1856, was purchased and restored by NFL football player Walter Payton. After Payton's death, the roundhouse was occupied by a micro-brewery and renamed Two Brothers Roundhouse, with a plaque mounted in Payton's honor. It is believed that this roundhouse is the oldest of its kind still standing in the United States.

North America
The vast majority of roundhouses built in the US and Canada no longer exist, lie in ruins, or have been repurposed; however, a small number of them still exist and continue to operate in their intended capacity as locomotive storing and servicing facilities. Of the roughly 3,000 roundhouses that once existed in North America, fewer than 200 roundhouses are extant in the US ; in Canada, none exist east of Montreal. Below is a list of locations with operational roundhouses that are also open to the public.

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Douglas Drysdale

Charles Douglas Drysdale (October 1915 – 1984) was a Scottish nationalist activist and businessman.

Drysdale was born in Glasgow in October 1915, the second son of William Drysdale of Drysdales of Yoker, the pump manufacturers who supplied most of Glasgow's shipbuilding industry. He qualified as an engineer, and spent the war years with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME), achieving the rank of major and being awarded the MBE.

At the end of the war, Douglas and his elder brother, Ian Drysdale, left Drysdales (which had been bought out by Weir Pumps by then) and started Drysdale Brothers (Larbert) Ltd, Bronze Founders and Engineers.

He became active in the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 1962, having moved from Glasgow first to Dunblane and then to Dollar, Clackmannanshire. His wife, Olwen Drysdale, started the Dollar Branch of the SNP in 1962 and they were both very active politically.

Despite having no previous political experience, he was elected as the SNP's Vice Chairman with responsibility for Organisation and Finance in 1964. In 1966, his area of responsibility was reduced to only Finance.

Drysdale first stood for the SNP at the 1964 general election in Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire, taking 12.2% of the vote and narrowly failing to hold his deposit. At the 1966 general election, Drysdale increased his vote share to just over 20%, one of the SNP's best results. However, he became unhappy with the leadership of Arthur Donaldson, and in 1967 he stood for the leadership of the party against Donaldson. He had little support among the party's grassroots, and was heavily defeated, 362 votes to 37.

He had a major stroke in 1969, but continued to be supportive of the cause for independence as much as he could until his death in 1984. His elder daughter Karen married the SNP National Organiser, Ian Macdonald, in 1963, and his younger daughter Lorna married Robert Anderson, who was involved in the "Tartan Army" Scottish nationalist direct action movement of the mid-1970s.

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