12 July 1979

Thursday 12 July

1979-07-12

TV

 * BBC One
 * 11.25 am Cricket: First Test England v India from Edgbaston First day.
 * 4.55 pm Blue Peter Special Assignment. Twin Towns with Lesley Judd in Cambridge and Peter Purves in Heidelberg
 * 6.45 pm Holiday Report. The first of four programmes with John Carter and Norma Shepherd. The latest news of developments affecting your holiday. Resort reports from Britain and abroad.
 * 6.55 pm Doctor Who. The Pirate Planet Pt.1 Starring Tom Baker. A four-part story by Douglas Adams The Doctor has to fight a vicious Pirate Captain and the mysterious Mentiads when a whole planet vanishes.(first shown 30.09.78)

Radio

 * BBC Radio 1
 * 4.31 pm Kid Jensen including at 5.30 Newsbeat with Laurie Mayer and at 6.00 The New Album Chart
 * N1 ELO - Discovery, N2 Tubeway Army - Replicas, N3 Queen - Live Killers
 * 7.00 pm Talkabout The last in the present series of this pop current affairs programme brings together, as usual, a celebrity, an ' expert ' or two and a panel of under-20s to argue out a topical issue, under the watchful eye of Cindy Kent.
 * 10.00 pm John Peel - Peel notes that the Public Image Limited single is at #32 in that week's singles chart, and the Siouxsie & The Banshees single is at #33. Selections from the new Joy Division LP Unknown Pleasures. Repeat of session by Agony Column.

Top of the Pops
presented by Mike Read
 * 1) Slick – Space Bass (And Charts) (16)
 * 2) Siouxsie & the Banshees – Playground Twist (33)Siouxsie & The Banshees - Playground Twist - Top Of The Pops - 1979
 * 3) Thom Pace – Maybe (17) Rpt.
 * 4) The Beach Boys – Lady Lynda (Danced To By Legs & Co) (8)
 * 5) The Police – Can’t Stand Losing You (38)
 * 6) Rickie Lee Jones – Chuck E.’s In Love (Video) (30)
 * 7) Stonebridge Mcguinness – Oo-Eeh Baby (New)
 * 8) Janet Kay – Silly Games (2) Rpt
 * 9) Public Image Ltd – Death Disco (32)PIL - Death Disco - Top Of The Pops - 1979
 * 10) Supertramp – Breakfast In America (Video) (26)
 * 11) Chantal Curtis – Get Another Love (51)
 * 12) Thin Lizzy – Do Anything You Want To (Video) (14)
 * 13) Judie Tzuke – Stay With Me Till Dawn (58) Judie Tzuke Stay With Me Till Dawn TOTP 12 07 1979
 * 14) Tubeway Army – Are ‘Friends’ Electric? (1) (rpt.) Tubeway Army Are Friends Electric TOTP 12 7 1979
 * 15) Donna Summer – Bad Girls (and credits) (22)