File:Legs & Co - I Believe You - TOTP TX- 03-11-1977

Peter Powell looks at the weekly pop chart from 3th November 1977 and introduces Electric Light Orchestra, The Jam, The Carpenters, The Barron Knights, Queen, Status Quo, David Bowie, Showaddywaddy, ABBA, Smokie and a Legs & Co dance sequence.

"And now, a little bit of beauty" Peter Powell's debut, and what a debut, like a hyper active school boy after downing a pint of his favorite E additive enhanced squash, he jumps, he 'wows' - he is just excited, very excited, very very excited at hosting TOTP - so excited he is bursting at the seems, or he needs a wee but won't put his hand up to be excused.

This is the modern face of TOTP, and he has his R1 tee-shirt tucked in his flared jeans (radical or what - power to the people and all that).

Give it 11 years Peter, give it 11 years....

And so to Legs & Co, my turn to be hyper and excited, he jumps, he 'wows'...(you get the picture) dancing to Dorothy Moore's third successful single (after Funny How Time Slips Away and Misty Blue (danced to by Ruby Flipper)) I Believe You (also at hit for The Carpenters in 1978).

What a dance, by far my favorite so far (well after 'The Shuffle' and 'Turn To Stone') - (I even rated it 10 out of 10 in the recent OFTD poll on the dance - come to the forum and check out the poll, the dances and other goodies on offer).

The stage is sparse with what looks like McDonald™ or garden centre arches (constructed by the BBC prop department probably for about 70p with change - they had a budget thou didn't they - I think most of it was wasted on the "Turn To Stone" routine a couple of weeks later).

It also looks like Flick has been raiding BBC shower rooms for bath mats or shower curtains and magically transformed (maybe with the help of Lesley Judd, Peter Purves and John Noakes) into some kind of poncho for the girls to wear in green & yellow with (you guessed it) matching leggings.

But, oh the girls, they look so beautiful bathed in yellow/amber glows, dancing between, and around the arches, each in turn pausing for a close up.....you could almost kiss them they are that close (I near did - but I'm in my 40's now, and not 8 anymore, but almost thou, almost).

Sensual, sophisticated, bathed in a sexual aural, knowing glances, stolen moments, 6 visions of beauties on a shiny black dance floor (looking like some futuristic discotheque or something out of Buck Rogers) enticing you through the hoops....is it hot in here or is it just me??

Others may disagree, but this is how I like my Legs girls.

Why oh why is Rosie on her own with her lonely arch, was she naughty and had to be separated, and annoyingly at the end of the routine, she is faded/blurred out on her close up, and back to Peter Powell, he jumps, he 'wows'.....you get the picture.

I'm off to join Peter in a darkened room with a damp flannel on my head.....

BBC4 showing in High Quality MPEG2...