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Documentary looking at Top Of the Pops' changing musical direction in 1978, when pop singles were slowly being replaced in the chart by disco, punk and New Wave. It looks the show's treatment of particularly punk and New Wave acts, and New Wave performers in general swallowing their pride and appearing on TotP, a show which was still seen mainly as Light Entertainment.

Comedy sketches, dancing, and musical guests.

A film about how a much-derided music actually changed the world. Between 1969 and 1979 disco was born through gay liberation, female desire in the age of feminism and led to the birth of modern club culture before taking the world by storm. This in turn led to the 'Disco Sucks' movement and the inevitable backlash.

The export version of an Australian television special that ABBA made in 1976, featuring the super group singing a number of their songs in the TV studio, interspersed with filmed scenes in and around Sydney, Australia. The special was included on the deluxe edition of the 'ABBA' CD.

The second of Dick Emery's three Thames Specials includes studio and film comedy sequences, dancing and musical guests.

This documentary explores the changes that took place on Top of the Pops in 1980, a year that both pop music and TOTP changed. A new generation of British pop arrived and the veteran TOTP orchestra was laid off, resulting in a Musician's Union strike that took the program off the air for nine weeks. A new producer also introduced a series of celebrity guest co-presenters and doubled the studio audience. Featuring many interviews with stars, and the music of the time.

A documentary looking at Doctor Who's third year on air (1965-66) featuring interviews and archive footage. Included on the DVD of the story 'The Gunfighters'.

A look at the Top of the Pops show in 1981 when it embraced 80's 'New Pop' with a new theme tune and titles and, as Legs and Co leave, invite a swathe of club kids and cheerleaders in to create a permanent 80s party atmosphere. Britain is torn between rioting, unemployment and the royal wedding, a mood captured in the Specials' Ghost Town, which the band perform on Top of the Pops, and then promptly split up in their dressing room at Television Centre.

The year 1982 as seen through the eyes of Top of the Pops, a year which saw record unemployment and the Falklands War. The year marked the peak of British 'new pop' as Wham, ABC and Culture Club made sensational appearances, and Shalamar's Jeffrey Daniel premiered the moonwalk on British TV. Dexy's Midnight Runners re-invented themselves with a new Irish sound and the show pushed its presentation with professional 'cheerleaders' in the audience. 1982 also saw the reemergence of John Peel as a regular presenter.

In 1979, Top of the Pops celebrated its 800th edition, and also saw the show record its highest audience of 19 million viewers. 1979 is maybe the most diverse year ever for acts on Top of the Pops with disco at its peak, new wave, 2 Tone, reggae, rock, folk and New Romantic records all making the top five. This program looks at the year in which the traditional Top of the Pops MoR clashed head on with New Wave, and the UK was falling apart with almost continuous strikes.

A look at the making of the Doctor Who story Kinda featuring interviews with cast and crew. Included on the DVD release.

Join Elisabeth Dermot Walsh - known as scheming Dr Zara Carmichael from Doctors (2000), as she talks to fellow actors who either started in soaps, ended up there, or just briefly passed by. Chicken Soap for the Soul is a dive into the highs, lows, and unexpected twists that make soaps so special - both in front of, and behind the camera.

Janet Fielding, Keith Jayne, Eric Saward and Michael Owen Morris return to Shapwick in Dorset where the Doctor Who story The Awakening was shot. A look at the making of the story, this appeared as a DVD extra on the release of Doctor Who: The Awakening.

Beryl and Sandra are both getting sad. It's Beryl's last day in the flat before her big wedding day. Sandra gives her a wedding present early, it's sexy pink underwear. Then a strange woman phones twice looking for Robert, and she won't say what it's in reference to. They track her down though, and she turns out to be pregnant. On the big day, some street urchins let the tires of the wedding cars down, and everyone has to go to the wedding partly on the bus, and then hitching a lift in a lorry.

It's Beryl's birthday, and Sandra is planning a surprise party for her. Among her presents she gets a hamster in the post from Robert. Only Beryl hates 'rodents', or at least she does until she finds out that the hamster is pregnant. She also has a massive goldfish bowl, a far too big knitted jumper, and a strange blue hat from Mrs Hutchinson. They then discover that Thingy has gone missing so the race is on to find it.

Beryl is really happy, and has been singing the Wedding March ever since Robert proposed to her. The kitchen is a mess though, and Sandra would rather have her freedom. Robert is coming up from London, and has arranged to meet Beryl at the posh Apollo. Beryl asks Sandra for help in buying a ring, and a dress, she wants a 'solitaire with two stones'! While in the restaurant toilet getting changed into her posh dress though, a woman pinches all her things, clothes and all, leaving her in just her bra, panties and heels!

Sandra has told Carol that she's now dating her ex, Bill, and she's not too happy about it. The two mothers find out though, and can't stop arguing. To try and keep the peace Sandra tells Bill not to phone her again. Carol goes and confesses, only the Father tells her that she must help them be together. To try and forget about Bill, Sandra decides to re-arrange the furniture. Carol manages to get Sandra and Bill together at a restaurant, but she gets a shock when Bill tells her that not only does he eat meat, he works at an abattoir! When she gets home though, she finds out that Carol is all dolled up and about to go on a date with Paul!

Beryl seems to be having trouble with her ring. First it gets attached to Robert while they are saying goodbye at the train station. Then the morning it arrives back in the post, she leaves it in Sandra's trifle dish and she swallows it. Both panicked, Sandra is rushed to hospital, with parents and Paul in tow.

Sandra's brother is coming to visit her from Australia. She hasn't seen him for 8 years and is getting quite excited. Sandra thinks that Beryl should start seeing him as it will stop her 'moping about Robert'. Beryl's a bit shocked though when he invites her jogging with him...at 6 in the morning! As the two of them get closer, there are shocks all round when Mrs Hutchinson finds a marriage certificate.

After sleeping in and being late for work yet again, Beryl's boss gets fed up and sacks her. For good measure, he also sacks Sandra. During the hunt for work, Sandra fancies the vacancy for 2 farm hands in Caerphilly, Wales. She doesn't mention in the application form that her and Beryl aren't men, so the farmer gets a bit of a shock. They bungle along, until they are asked to kill Henrietta the chicken for dinner!

Sandra is alone and missing Beryl. She's put an advert in the local Echo for a flatmate, and finally gets a call from a clumsy, brash girl called Carol. Sandra though, wants someone older, Carol's only 19 and she wants someone she can 'converse with'. That doesn't include Paul, who keeps pestering her.

Beryl is making her own wedding dress, but has to be careful as Robert is staying with her and Sandra for the week. They then get another visitor, as the lady from the kennels phones and asks Sandra if she'll look after Skip the dog for the weekend. Unfortunately he's a big lump, and just sleeps on the sofa - Robert's bed. There's more trouble when the girls' mothers discover that he's staying there!

Sandra's mother comes around, and gets introduced to Carol. She gives her the third degree, but declares that she 'can talk to her', and they get on strangely well. Sandra is on a new keep fit craze, but then gets a phone call - there's a family crisis and her mother has walked out again. Sandra and Carol trace her to a local hotel where they think she's having an affair.

Hard up for cash, Sandra gets a job in a local dog kennels. Beryl meanwhile has trouble at the laundrette, and becomes the main cleaner around the flat, constantly interrupting Sandra and Paul when they try to be all romantic, and ruining all Sandra's clothes. Beryl thinks she's a failure. A phone call to Robert though, freaks her out when a woman answers. Sandra then makes matters even worse when she declares that Paul has proposed. With everyone around her getting divorced though, how does she tell Paul that she actually doesn't want to marry him? Beryl then gets a surprise call from Robert!

The girls have one week off and only £25. Sandra's parents have parted, her dad is in a bedsit - she needs a holiday somewhere. With Jamaica out of the question, they decide to go pony trekking across the Pennines, but first they need to sort out Sandra's parents. Arriving at Sandra's mothers though, they see a strange man arriving with some flowers!