The document summarizes information about several early British television shows that helped popularize rock and roll and pop music: The Six-Five Special (1957-1958) was the BBC's first rock and roll program, airing live at 5 past 6 on Saturdays. Thank Your Lucky Stars (1961-1966) was a popular ITV pop music show that featured performances by British and American artists and was essential viewing for British teenagers. Top of the Pops (1964-2006) was a long-running BBC chart rundown show featuring some of the best-selling popular music artists of each week. Juke Box Jury (1959-1967) was a BBC panel show based on a 1948 American show where a

1. How Television Jumped on the Pop Bandwagon

2. Six – Five Special Format: Rock and roll, jazz, sport and general information Narrated by: Pete Murray, Josephine Douglas, Freddie Mills, Jim Dale Theme music composer: Don Lang and his Frantic Five Opening theme: "The 6.5 Special's steamin' down the line, The 6.5 Special's right on time" Country of origin: United Kingdom Language: English No. of episodes: 96 Production Producer: Jack Good, Josephine Douglas Running time: 55 minutes Broadcast Original channel: BBC Original run: 16 February 1957 – 27 December 1958 The Six-Five Special is a British television programme launched in February 1957 when both television and rock and roll were in their infancy in Britain. It was the BBC's first attempt at a rock and roll programme, an innovation and much imitated, even today. It was called Six-Five Special because of the time it was broadcast - it went out live at five past six on Saturday evening. It began immediately after the abolition of the Toddlers' Truce, which had seen television close between 6 and 7pm so children could be put to bed.

3. Thank Your Lucky Stars Presented by: Keith Fordyce, Brian Matthew, Jim Dale Judges: Janice Nicholls, Jimmy Savile, Pete Murray, Alan Dell, Sam Costa, Barry Alldis, Kent Walton, Jimmy Young, Don Moss Country of origin: UK Language: English No. of seasons: 8 No. of episodes: 250 Production Producer: Phillip Jones Production company: ABC Television Distributor: ITV Broadcast Original run: 1961 – 1966 Thank Your Lucky Stars was a British television pop music show made by ABC Television, and broadcast on ITV from 1961 to 1966. Many of the top bands performed on it, and for millions of British teenagers it was essential viewing. As well as featuring British artists, American guests were frequent visitors. The Beatles second national television performance was on the programme, the first being on Tuesday Rendezvous on December 4, 1962. The TYLS Merseyside specials are very fondly remembered and gained huge audiences. The show bowed out on 25 June 1966, after two thousand artists had appeared on it. One of the main reasons was the power of the Musicians' Union in the 1960s and being a largely mimed show, TYLS was a prime target.

4. Top of the Pops For much of the 1960s the show's theme music was an organ-based instrumental track, also called "Top of the Pops", by the Dave Davani Four. November 1971 to 1978, 1980 to July 1981: Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" based on the CCS release, but using session musicians, 1978 to 1980: No opening theme tune: A contemporary chart song was played over the countdown stills July 1981 to April 1986: "Yellow Pearl" by Phil Lynott was commissioned as the new theme music. April 1986 to October 1991: "The Wizard", a composition by Paul Hardcastle. October 1991 to February 1995: "Now Get Out Of That" composed by Tony Gibber. February 1995 to May 1998 the theme was a track called "Red Hot Pop" composed by Vince Clarke of Erasure. May 1998 to November 2003, updated version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" November 2003: was a remixed version of "Now Get Out Of That" used between October 1991 and February 1995, composed by Tony Gibber. Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. It was traditionally shown every Thursday evening on BBC 1, before being moved to Fridays in 1996, and then moved to Sundays on BBC Two in 2005. Each weekly programme consisted of performances from some of that week's best-selling popular music artists, with a rundown of that week's singles chart. Every year there was a special edition of the programme on Christmas Day featuring some of the best-selling singles of the year.

5. Juke Box Jury Juke Box Jury was a panel show on BBC television from 1 June 1959 until 1967. It was based on a show on US television in 1948, starring Hollywood DJ Peter Potter,itself an offshoot of a long-running radio series. Format: Music Starring: David Jacobs Theme music composer: John Barry Opening Theme: Hit and Miss Original channel: BBC 1 Original run: 1959 - 1967