Thank Your Lucky Stars

Host

Keith Fordyce, Don Moss, Brian Matthew plus others

Co-hosts

Janice Nicholls (3 years)

Broadcast

ABC for ITV, 1 April 1961 to 18 June 1966 (about 160 episodes in 6 series)

Synopsis

Pop music programme which is best known for its 'Spin-a-disc' segment, clearly intended to replicate the success of Juke Box Jury.

Let's get spinning

Close your eyes if you're playing the game at home.

Spin-a-disc invited a panel of "typical teenagers" to review the latest singles - usually those from the USA hit parade - and award up to five points for each one. The winning disc became their Record of the Week.

SEVEEEEEEEEEEN!!!

And that was a "hit" from the panel.

A young teenager Janice Nicholls with a broad Staffordshire accent came to fame on the show thanks to her catchphrase "Oi'll give it foive". She was regularly asked back as the third member of the panel.

Brian Matthew

Janice Nicholls.

Trivia

The Beatles' first professional television performance was on this show. On the final Goodbye Lucky Stars show, the producers cheekily intercut their original performance with shots of the real audience supposedly "watching" them.