After 42 years, 10 different theme tunes, more than 150 presenters and 2,204 programmes, the UK's longest running weekly chart show, Top Of The Pops, marks its final countdown this weekend with a retrospective celebrating the greatest moments in its history.

The hour-long studio show Top of the Pops - the Final Countdown - on BBC TWO, Sunday 30 July, 7.00-8.00pm - reunites many of the show's best-known presenters including Sir Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Janice Long, Mike Read, Pat Sharp, Reggie Yates, Edith Bowman and many more.

The show celebrates the programme's glorious history with many of the greatest performances through the decades including The Rolling Stones, Spice Girls, Wham, Madonna, Beyonce and Robbie Williams.

And there is a look back at some of the show's most memorable presenters, titles, dancers and audiences.

Like the very first show, this programme will begin with the Rolling Stones - on this occasion performing The Last Time from the Sixties on tape - and conclude with this week's No.1.

Laughter and tears are guaranteed.

The producer is Sally Wood.

At 10.00pm on Sunday 30 July BBC TWO shows a one-off documentary, Top Of The Pops: The True Story, detailing the history of the show, with contributions from presenters and artists, along with classic footage.

It is followed at 11.00pm by Pan's People: Digging the Dancing Queens.

For anyone growing up in the Seventies, the dance troupe Pan's People were an essential element of Top of the Pops.

Each week they would offer their sometimes highly individualistic interpretation of a current hit record.

For teenage girls they were glamorous role models, the big sisters they would like to have or the older girls they wanted to be. For adolescent boys, the appeal was more primal.

And for dads everywhere, their appearance on screen was the cue to put down the newspaper, stop moaning about the incomprehensible lyrics and turn their attention to the hot pants and boob tubes.

This documentary takes an affectionate look back at the heyday of Pan's People and finds out what went on behind the sequins, satin and smiles.

The programme is produced and directed by Paul Smith.

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