Behind the Scenes at Top of the Pops

[@trmorris92]

RIP Stanley Appel (1933-2023)

[@jacksugden8190]

I once was that studio on an open day at Elstree many years ago.

[@homevideotransfer-vhstodvd9744]

Full marks to the Video Editor of TOTPs, he was obviously a very talented guy even though he a career of 40 years spent in dark dingy edit suites staring at many screens without much daylight in his life; he did manage to escape though, and has now found the light.

[@jamessmith-un3zv]

AAAAAndyy Peters!!!

[@trmorris92]

Ahh yes, Andi Peters. The man who would eventually go on to completely wreck TOTP and consign the weekly show to the dustbin of history.

[@ajs41]

How did he wreck it?

[@givemethevalium]

Of course Andi would go on to utterly destroy the venerable series. He now spends his mornings reading our premium rate phone numbers as a latter-day Keith Chegwin, but without his intellect

[@ajs41]

How did he destroy it? I wasn't watching at the time.

[@Hertfordshire247]

@@ajs41 He killed it.

[@KEITHMU]

Got to laugh at Stanley Appel saying the programme is much better since the move! Although even if he didn't think that he wouldn't admit it I suppose!

[@leonardssenkindu5802]

KeithMu it should have stayed at white city

[@erkicaplatz7212]

Andi is a very talented presenter but not sure about his links with the bbc

[@ajs41]

What do you mean by "his links with the BBC"?

[@Zappa943]

Andy oh Andy you knob.

[@MexboroughBuildings]

This is went it went downhill rapidly

[@ajs41]

The new presenters only lasted for about two and a bit years.