Star Town

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== Broadcast ==
== Broadcast ==
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BBC1, 22 October 1978 to 10 December 1978 (8 episodes in 1 series)
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BBC1, 22 October 1978 - 23 December 1978 (7 programmes in 1 series)
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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==

Revision as of 18:45, 5 June 2015

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Host

Terry Wogan

Broadcast

BBC1, 22 October 1978 - 23 December 1978 (7 programmes in 1 series)

Synopsis

Hrrnk! If we haven't just dredged up another El Tel format from the Seventies. Wogan, who really ought to know better, fronts this re-hashed version of Top Town but - and here's the twist - each town being represented by a celebrity. We've listed the talent below you give you some idea of the superstardom involved.

Group "Hear and Now" regale us with their talent

Each match-up in the first knock-out round saw two of the eight participating towns put up the cream of their talent, and - in the Eurovision style - the other cities would give votes by a spokesperson on a telephone.

And for 50 blanks it was... Leeds

Celebrity captains

Blackpool - Tessie O'Shea
Leeds - Eddie Waring
Morecambe - Thora Hird
Edinburgh - Janet Brown
Bristol - Leslie Crowther, Acker Bilk*
Coventry - Stanley Unwin
Cardiff - Stan Stennett
Blackpool - Les Dawson, Tessie O'Shea*

  • For some bizarre reason, the celebs changed for the second semi-final.

Trivia

El Tel: "I used to do that programme completely cream crackered. I finished the morning radio show, get into a car, go all the way up to Manchester, record the programme, leave Manchester at about two o'clock in the morning and get back, and get up at five o'clock in the morning to do the radio show."

See also

Top Town

Pictures

The tension mounts as scoring is finalised
The scoreboard in full
Accordion boy
Leeds are the winners this week

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