History Trivia / TopOfThePops

** Episodes featuring Jonathan King hosting a US charts segment are edited to remove him due to his pedophilia convictions, until they were dropped in 2018 and his segments were allowed to appear uncensored again. This occasionally also removes other performances as he sometimes linked back to a performance happening back in the UK.
** Episodes featuring performances by Rolf Harris are edited for similar reasons. It is assumed if episodes from the 90's or 2000's are re-run, then performances by Music/{{Lostprophets}}, Music/RKelly or Music/MarilynManson will also be removed.

** All references to who's hosting next week's show that mentions banned presenters (e.g Saville/DLT) are edited out of the BBC Four repeats

** Episodes featuring Jonathan King hosting a US charts segment are edited to remove him due to his pedophilia convictions. This occasionally also removes other performances as he sometimes linked back to a performance happening back in the UK.

** new episodes of The Story of and Big/Biggest Hits from BBC Four to BBC Two in 2022 starting with 1991.

** Since the Savile sex abuse scandal broke, [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2226604/Now-BBC-drops-Jimmy-Saviles-Top-Of-The-Pops-Archive-episodes-binned-Corporation.html the BBC has announced it will no longer show reruns]] of any of his TOTP episodes, rendering a substantial chunk of the surviving run only available through home recordings; Dave Lee Travis' conviction for sexual assault has likewise caused the episodes he presented to be pulled from reruns, as did Mike Smith's/Adrian Rose's decision not to allow the BBC to extend the licence to rebroadcast their episodes. Going forward, the only place to watch footage of episodes hosted by Savile, Travis,Smith and/or Rose is likely those uploaded to video-sharing services (including those uploaded prior to the ITV-aired exposé).

* Screwed By The Lawyers: Due to The Rightholders of The Doors not allowing the BBC to play their songs on TV (Including Covers), episodes containing original/Covered material of The Doors are either edited out or skipped on BBC Four

** Jonathan King was edited out from both the 7:30pm and the late night repeat of 15/07/76 in 2011 leading to him suing the BBC causing them to say that he would never be edited out again. This lasted until 2016 when he was arrested again on further allegations of paedophilia leading to all visual apperances and the majority of verbal references being cut from the BBC Four repeats but since 2018 when his criminal charges collapsed any appearances of him are now aired unedited

** Jonathan King was edited out from both the 7:30pm and the late night repeat of 15/07/76 episode in 2011 leading to him suing the BBC causing them to say that he would never be edited out again. This lasted until 2016 when he was arrested again on further allegations of paedophilia leading to all visual apperances and the majority of verbal references being cut from the BBC Four repeats but since 2018 when his criminal charges collapsed any appearances of him are now aired unedited

** Jonathan King was edited out from both the 7:30pm and the late night repeat of 15/07/76 episode in 2011, this lead to him suing the BBC causing them to say that he would never be edited out again. This lasted until 2016 when he was arrested again on further allegations of paedophilia leading to all visual apperances and the majority of verbal references being cut from the BBC Four repeats but since 2018 when his criminal charges collapsed any appearances of him are now aired unedited

** The UK Gold repeats (1993-97) edited out or shortened links and edited out studio performances or videos to either insert commercial breaks or to shorten the show to fit the timeslot

** The UK Gold repeats (1993-97) edited out or shortened links to either insert commercial breaks or to shorten the show to fit the timeslot

** Since the Savile sex abuse scandal broke, [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2226604/Now-BBC-drops-Jimmy-Saviles-Top-Of-The-Pops-Archive-episodes-binned-Corporation.html the BBC has announced it will no longer show reruns]] of any of his TOTP episodes, rendering a substantial chunk of the surviving run only available through home recordings; Dave Lee Travis' conviction for sexual assault has likewise caused the episodes he presented to be pulled from reruns, as did Mike Smith's decision not to allow the BBC to extend the licence to rebroadcast his episodes. Going forward, the only place to watch footage of episodes hosted by Savile, Travis, and/or Smith is likely those uploaded to video-sharing services (including those uploaded prior to the ITV-aired exposé).

** Episodes featuring performances by Rolf Harris are edited for similar reasons. It is assumed if episodes from the 90's or 2000's are re-run, then performances by Music/{{Lostprophets}} and Music/RKelly will also be removed.

** Episodes featuring performances by Rolf Harris are edited for similar reasons. It is assumed if episodes from the 2000's are re-run, then performances by Music/{{Lostprophets}} will also be removed.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: And how! Not even mentioning the charts and the featured songs, the audience and their fashions and the video effects and graphics combine to make each episode a time capsule of the year it came from.

* MissingEpisode: The weekly run of ''TOTP'' from 1964-2006 consisted of over 2200 episodes, of which 508 were wiped by Creator/TheBBC and have no known surviving recordings; only four complete episodes exist from the 1960s (one and most of another with the presenter's links mute), the earliest from Boxing Day 1967, and the show's archive only exists in full from 1977 onwards. And as mentioned above, much of ''that'' is now banned. In a bit of irony, the only surviving footage of Music/TheBeatles performing on ''TOTP'' (the first verse of a 1965 performance of "Ticket to Ride") exists due to being used in an [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase episode]] of ''Series/DoctorWho'', which itself was far from immune to the archive purges.

** Since the Savile sex abuse scandal broke, [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2226604/Now-BBC-drops-Jimmy-Saviles-Top-Of-The-Pops-Archive-episodes-binned-Corporation.html the BBC has announced it will no longer show reruns]] of any of his TOTP episodes, rendering a substantial chunk of the surviving run this. Going forward, the only place to watch footage of Savile-hosted episodes is likely those uploaded to video-sharing services (including those uploaded prior to the ITV-aired exposé).
** This trope also applies to the Mike Smith episodes (see above).

* MissingEpisode: Most early episodes of ''TOTP'' were wiped by Creator/TheBBC; only four complete episodes exist from the 1960s (one and most of another with the presenter's links mute), and the show's archive only exists in full from 1977 onwards. And as mentioned above, much of ''that'' is now banned.
** In a bit of irony, the only surviving footage of Music/TheBeatles performing on ''TOTP'' exists due to being used in an [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase episode]] of ''Series/DoctorWho'', which itself was far from immune to the archive purges.

** After Creator/JimmySavile was exposed as a prolific child predator in October 2012, the episodes he presented were dropped from the schedules. When similar allegations were made against Dave Lee Travis (who, unlike Savile, is still living as of 2017) his episodes were also withdrawn, permanently after he was convicted.

** Also in effect for the short-lived US version, which only aired on Friday late-nights during its' short time on Creator/{{CBS}}.

** Famed glam rock musician Gary Glitter appeared as a guest presenter on multiple episodes throughout TheNineties. After being arrested and convicted for possessing child pornography on his computer in 1997, all episodes featuring him were removed from rotation; his later arrests and convictions for soliciting sex from minors in southeast Asia ensured that these episodes' absence from airwaves would be permanent.