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Thank Your Lucky Stars

★ 7.5 42 votes 1961–1966 9 seasons · 250 episodes Ended ITV1
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About

Thank Your Lucky Stars was a British television pop music show made by ABC Television, and broadcast on ITV from 1961 to 1966. Many of the top bands performed on it, and for millions of British teenagers it was essential viewing. As well as featuring British artists, it often included American guest stars. It would appear from the surviving footage that the bands mimed their latest 45. Occasionally a band was allowed to do two numbers, and if you were pop royalty like The Beatles or The Rolling Stones you could do four numbers. Audience participation was a strong feature of Thank Your Lucky Stars, and the Spin-a-Disc section, where a guest DJ and three teenagers reviewed three singles, is a very well remembered feature of the show. Generally American singles were reviewed. It was on this section that Janice Nicholls appeared. She was a former office clerk from the English Midlands who became famous for the catchphrase "Oi'll give it foive" which she said with a strong Black Country accent. After she was dropped from the show she trained as a chiropodist and ran a practice in Hednesford in Staffordshire. Billy Butler was another reviewer and dozens of teenagers had their fifteen minutes of fame on the show.

All Seasons

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Season 11961
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Season 21961
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Season 3
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Season 41963
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Season 51963
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Season 61964
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Season 71964
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Season 81965
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Season 91965
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Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Brian Matthew Self - Host, Self, Self - Guest DJ
Janice Nicholls Self
Jim Dale Self - Host, Self
Pete Murray Self - Host, Self - Guest DJ, Self
Adam Faith Self, Self - Guest Host, Self - singer
Mark Wynter Self, Self - Guest Host
Billy Fury Self
Keith Fordyce Self - Host, Self - Guest DJ
The Shadows Themselves
Petula Clark Self

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