Pick Of The Pops was first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1955.
Initially the show did not feature the charts, but in September 1957 Alan Dell introduced the format of running through the charts of the week, playing the top tens from various music papers plus entries to top 20s.
When Fluff replaced David Jacobs in 1961 POTP was part of a Saturday-evening programme called Trad Tavern. It became a separate programme, moving to the Sunday evening slot in January 1962.
Denys Jones (producer 1961–1972) and Fluff split the programme into four "units": chart newcomers, new releases, LPs and the Top 10. It continued, with slight changes to the format, until September 1972 when it was replaced with Solid Gold Sixty presented by Tom Browne.
