Top of the Pops - or its informal acronym, TOTP - first hit our screens on New Year's Day back in 1964. Its debut airing was hosted by Jimmy Savile. The pilot for the show was called 'Teen and Twenty ...

It may have escaped your sheltered little alternative existence, but Top Of The Pops, the greatest music television programme ever, has reached the considerable milestone of 2000 episodes. The 'Pops ...