I love it!

Such a shame its just a den of chavs now

Well that was exciting.Can hardly contain myself

has paul seen this yet?!

Why so fast??

I don’t know how this video has been outside of my radar until just now! Thrilled to discover another great tribute to this era, lovely video.

Stevenage was still relatively the same until the late 1980s just seemed to go down hill from the 90s onwards. Was such a lovely place and so many shops and department stores .

When I moved there in 1963 it was a great place to live with the over spill of londoners. It's not the same today

Wonderful discovery Of The Beatles!!!

It´s November 2023...The Beatles Number one on the charts, Incredible!

A true Hero

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Bravo…excellent video. Well done you!👏👏👏

What moron would wipe legendary footage

Brilliant footage, he’s a good look alike for Jon Pertwee from certain angles, nice fellow. The car looks awesome, it would be fantastic to see it return to the show in some way even for one episode. 😊

At 1:32 gets stuck behind an "Irish Paddy Hoppa Bus!"

Top of the Pops Erased Media: Queen - Seven Seas Of Rhye (1974) First Version (Found) David Bowie - Starman (1972) (Found) The Beatles - Paperback Writer (1966) (Found, no original audio) The Beatles - Rain (1966) (Still lost :( why) And if you know more examples write in comments.

He's a kid after my own heart!

I was born in Stevenage in 1959, I still live there and can tell you that its an overcrouded shit hole now.

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I was born in '71 and grew up in Stevenage. It looked like a much more pleasant and enjoyable place to be than during when I was a teen onwards. I live stateside now but still in contact with Barclay friends. I hear its really gone to the dogs though.

The TV station's policy of reusing the same recording tapes to record so many different TV programs as a cost-saving measure during the 60s was definitely regrettable. So many episodes of TOTP were easily lost bcoz of that.

I got lost a few times but remembered most. Thanks

If only the people then could see how dystopian the future would be. They'd be horrified.

Not a Costa in sight Nightmare 😮

When it was still shiny and bright! That music though, to this video!!!!

It's not really Paul McCartney brother, he died years ago , that's a lookalike.

Now do "Doctor Who Missing Episodes Documentary | The Troughton Years"

0:07 - That is Swingate House, I myself worked in that building in 2019 before it’s demolition in 2022. Also known as the building that collapsed during demolition.

To fast

It really makes you wonder what other lost footage is out there that is yet to be rediscovered and restored.

I just stumbled upon this after following Doctor Who since i was younger back in 05" I love how you how much effort you put into creating this video.. not only effort but the well worded way you went about everything Hope you keep it up!! - 3 years in the making but i hope you are still going!!

I was born in Stevenage in 1960 and we lived there till 1969.., very happy times. Went to school at St Nicholas in Six Hills Way.. Dread to see the place now..😬 - Excellent job of upscaling, really good..

Bet the BBC wish they could delete Jimmy Saville too ? Hypocrisy ?

Not many people living in stevenage would remember this. Most of the people from 70’s have moved out a longtime ago. It was our town and as a teenager we had the best era in this town, brings tears to my eyes just thinking of the good time that we had. Mid 70’s joined the working world and literally everyone had a job and the weekends used to be wonderful. The old culture and values have disappeared and now we are left with a town with million problems. It was a town to be proud of.

This was a lovely place to live some real fond memories of Stevenage , I still support Stevenage FC

Given how poor quality it is why did they bother? And why not show the whole thing on the TV for the fans?

I hope David scored a quid for his trouble. To Beatboys collectors, the footage would have been worth its proverbial (Carry that) weight in gold(en slumbers)

Shame on BBC for destroying a piece of music history with The Beatles and Tom Jones performing on TOTP. Would love to see Elton's "Rocket Man" performance, now 50 years old. Thankful viewers have been able to help reconstruct those lost performances. But at the time, TPTB didn't think of the cultural impact many of these shows (and the performers) would have on future generations. However, as one poster mentioned, the Beat Club and other German music shows were preserved in pristine quality in Germany. Those performances can be seen on their official YT channel.

I have some old reel to reel and cassettes taped from the Radio from around 1967 to 1970 or so, haven’t heard them in over 50 years!

"......and I thought, I'm sure I got that upstairs...."

It's August 2022 and THE BEATLES are still the TOP musical group of all time..

Wondering now how many other rare TV & radio gems that are just lying about in shoe boxes etc. in attics and cellars around the World - maybe you could make a whole TV series about such discoveries and get them transferred to modern media formats, while these 8 mm films and VHS, Betamax and audio tapes can still be played?

I can't believe that they are wearing suits when they looked so MOD on the promo film!!

The essential thing to remember - as well as video tape and film being relatively expensive then - is that once something had been shown once or maybe twice there was really no market for it. In 1966 the UK had just two national TV channels (which were on air for only about 8 hours per day), there was no internet, no home video recorders and TV content was almost never shown in cinemas because the movies business and the TV business were still things apart and saw themselves as at war with each other. The BBC - like ITV - was mainly about providing entertainment programmes - and odd as it may sound now there was a bit of a national outcry if very many things were repeated. TV was still a comparatively young industry and building comprehensive archives of everything it made was not very high up its agenda, just because - well, what for? Who would want it and how would they watch it? So, unless a show was sold for showing abroad, once it had been aired once or maybe twice, then it was largely considered disposable. That applied equally to Coronation Street and to The Beatles on TOTP. I was 13 in 1966 and I would love to have owned a copy of this - but I had no camera, no projector and - at that stage - not even a cassette recorder to grab the soundtrack - and it was the same for almost everyone. It's very hard to convey to young people today the degree of fame which the Beatles had (FAR FAR more than it's even possible for anyone to have today) - just because we lived in a world of so few media channels and the Beatles were on all of them every day in some way or another. In the same way, today's media world is also so different that I can see why the decision to discard so much of this stuff could seem incomprehensible.

oh wow, are we'uns getting on then ... where did it all go so fast?

The Beatles also mimed to their classic "B" Side "Rain" on that broadcast. What were the producers of Top of The Pops thinking? What a dereliction of duty! I'm glad that Germany's "Beat Club" preserved their footage.

Paul and Ringo ought to get on this and allow the recording with the lyrics.