These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.

The material is searchable, can be browsed by ‘Theme’ or ‘Decade’, and filtered by media type.

You can download individual items from the collection, or use the search and filtering to produce your own downloadable collections.

Notes on downloading:

  • Downloading video items will include both the video files and a ‘poster image’ for each video
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Search Results

2977 results found

  1. The Undertones

    The Undertones backstage at 'Top of the pops' 1978

    60 KB

    1970s, music, images

  2. Tom Robinson

    Tom Robinson Band apppearing on 'Top of the Pops' 1978

    36 KB

    1970s, music, images

  3. Magazine

    Magazine appearing on 'Top of The Pops' 1978

    87 KB

    1970s, music, images

  4. Blondie

    Blondie appearing on 'Top of the Pops' 1978

    109 KB

    1970s, music, images

  5. Kate Bush

    Kate Bush performing her song 'Wuthering Heights' on 'Top of the Pops' in 1978.

    34 KB

    1970s, music, images

  6. Don Williams

    Don Williams appearing on 'Top of The Pops' 1978

    45 KB

    1970s, music, images

  7. Grandstand

    World Cup Grandstand 1978' Alan Weeks, Barry Davies, Jimmy Hill, John Motson, David Coleman, Frank Bough, Archie Macpherson and Tony Gubba

    130 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  8. Sports Day

    Emrys Wyn Jones and Jayne McAulay in the ' Buckets and bags' team game 1978

    98 KB

    1970s, childhood, images

  9. Devo

    Devo appearing on 'Top of the Pops' 1978

    123 KB

    1970s, music, images

  10. Sham 69

    Sham 69 performing 'Angels with Dirty Faces' on 'Top of the Pops' 1978

    86 KB

    1970s, music, images

  11. Thin Lizzy

    Thin Lizzy (l-r) Brian Robertson, Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham - performing their song 'Rosalie' on 'Top of the Pops' in 1978.

    104 KB

    1970s, music, images

  12. Superstars Bobby's Bike

    Bobby Charlton taking part in the cycling event in heat one of 'Superstars' 1979

    56 KB

    1970s, sport, images