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Prior to joining the New Seekers Lyn Paul had appeared on television as a young girl in early episodes of Coronation Street. In 1967 she had also appeared on Simon Dee's Dee Time (BBC1) with The Nocturnes.

The New Seekers made their first television appearance on The Frankie Howerd Show two years later, before Lyn Paul had joined the group. These pages list most - though not all - of the New Seekers' appearances on television in the UK and the USA in the years that followed. Click on the thumbnail images to view some of these again on YouTube.


1969 1970 1971 1972
1973 1974 1975-79 1980-89
1990-99 2000-09 2010-19 2020-24

The New Seekers' appearances on Top Of The Pops are included here but are also listed in more detail on the Top Of The Pops page.

Television appearances by Lyn Paul, her sister Nikki Belsher, and members of the New Seekers as solo artists or as members of other groups have also been included, among them television shows featuring:

Audio (Kathy Ann Rae)
Chips (Nicola Kerr)
Eve Graham
Ferry Aid (Mick Flinn / Donna Jones / Marty Kristian / Paul Layton)
Lips (Mick Flinn / Donna Jones)
Murray Head (Nicola Kerr)
The Mixtures (Mick Flinn)
Peter Oliver
Prima Donna (Danny Finn)
Pussyfoot (Donna Jones)
Springfield Revival (Mick Flinn / Donna Jones)
Starbuck (Brian Engel)
Swarbriggs Plus Two (Nicola Kerr)


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Broadcast Date Show / Featured Guests and Songs Channel
Tuesday, 7th December 2010, 9.00pm. Coronation Street: 50 Years, 50 Moments
The programme featured clips of viewers' fifty favourite moments from ITV's favourite soap accompanied by interviews with some of the people involved in the making of those moments. Moment no. 28 was the first episode, broadcast on 9th December 1960. This segment featured interviews with: Anne Cunningham, Philip Lowrie, Lyn Paul, William Roache and Tony Warren.

iTV1

Lyn Paul on 'Coronation Street: 50 Years, 50 Moments'.

Thursday, 9th December 2010, 6.00am. Daybreak
Guests included: Lyn Paul. Lyn talked about appearing on Coronation Street when she was a young girl.

iTV1

Lyn Paul on 'Daybreak'.

Friday, 1st April 2011, 10.00pm.

Repeated on Saturday, 2nd April 2011, 2.50am (BBC FOUR), Monday, 4th April 2011, 1.00am (BBC FOUR), 13th August 2012, 1.25am (BBC FOUR), 20th April 2014, 10.00pm (Yesterday) and 28th April 2014, 1.25am (Yesterday).
Top Of The Pops: The Story of 1976
A documentary looking back at the Top Of The Pops shows from 1976. The programme featured a clip of the New Seekers singing It's So Nice (To Have You Home) from the Top Of The Pops episode of 24th June 1976. The commentary preceeding the clip claimed that "by now the Top Of The Pops party didn't seem to be for its younger viewers and it was trying to cater for all the family."

BBC FOUR

Eve Graham and Marty Kristian (New Seekers)  on 'Top Of The Pops: The Story Of 1976'.

Thursday, 14th July 2011, 7.30pm.

Originally broadcast on 24th June 1976 (BBC1).

Repeated on Friday, 15th July 2011, 12.00am (BBC FOUR) and Sunday, 17th July 2011, 1.00am. (BBC FOUR).
Top Of The Pops [repeat]
Hosted by: David Hamilton.
In April 2011 BBC FOUR began transmitting every episode of Top Of The Pops from 1976 - in the corresponding week of 2011. The re-runs included the episode featuring the New Seekersperforming It's So Nice (To Have You Home).

BBC FOUR

Eve Graham on 'Top Of The Pops'.

Sunday, 14th August 2011, 4.00pm.

Originally broadcast on 7th November 1987, 5.45pm (Yorkshire Television).

Repeated on 21st January 2012, 5.00pm (Challenge).
3-2-1
Series 10, Episode 10 [repeat]
Hosted by: Ted Rogers.
Guests: John Chilton's Feetwarmers, Flaming Hamsters, George Melly, The Brian Rogers Connection, Sinitta, Rondo Veneziano and Nikki Belsher, performing the song and dance number Dancing Is Everything.

Challenge

Nikki Belsher on '3-2-1'.

Friday, 6th January 2012, 9.00pm.

Repeated on Saturday, 7th January 2012, 1.05am (BBC FOUR), Monday, 9th January 2012, 12.00am (BBC FOUR) and 22nd July 2012, 12.40am (BBC FOUR) and 12th May 2014, 10.00pm (Yesterday).
Top Of The Pops: The Story of 1977
It was the year of The Queen's Silver Jubille. Punk band the Sex Pistols may have stormed the pop charts with God Save The Queen but the biggest hits of the year were still by mainstream acts. The programme featured a clip of the New Seekers singing I Wanna Go Back from the Top Of The Pops episode of 27th January 1977. According to the accompanying commentary; "Youngsters watching Top Of The Pops in '77, however, remained utterly captivated."

BBC FOUR

Eve Graham (New Seekers) singing 'I Wanna Go Back' on 'Top Of The Pops'.

Saturday, 21st January 2012, 5.00pm.

Originally broadcast on 7th November 1987, 5.45pm (Yorkshire Television).

Repeated on 14th August 2011, 4.00pm (Challenge).
3-2-1
Series 10, Episode 10 [repeat]
Hosted by: Ted Rogers.
Guests: John Chilton's Feetwarmers, Flaming Hamsters, George Melly, The Brian Rogers Connection, Sinitta, Rondo Veneziano and Nikki Belsher, performing the song and dance number Dancing Is Everything.

Challenge

Nikki Belsher on '3-2-1'.

Thursday, 2nd February 2012, 7.30pm.

Originally broadcast on 27th January 1977 (BBC1).

Repeated on Friday, 3rd February 2012, 12.10am (BBC FOUR), Saturday, 4th February 2012, 11.00pm (BBC FOUR) and Sunday, 5th February 2012, 3.35am (BBC FOUR).
Top Of The Pops [repeat]
Hosted by: Tony Blackburn.
Featuring: New Seekers, I Wanna Go Back.

BBC FOUR

Kathy Ann Rae, Marty Kristian and Danny Finn on 'Top Of The Pops'.

Saturday, 28th April 2012, 9.30pm.

Originally broadcast on 5th August 2000, 9.05pm (BBC2).

Repeated on 2nd June 2001, 7.00pm (BBC2), 24th December 2001, 10.45pm (BBC2) and 21st June 2003, 11.35pm (BBC2)
I Love 1972 [repeat]
Presented by: David Cassidy.
Featuring: David Cassidy and Donny Osmond; T. Rex and the New Seekers. The programme remembered the days of Fruit Salad sweets; Action Man and roller skates; Magpie and Blue Peter; Love Thy Neighbour; Cabaret; Mark Spitz; The Harlem Globetrotters; The Joy of Sex and Cosmopolitan.

BBC2

Lyn Paul on 'I Love 1972'.

Wednesday, 9th May 2012, 12.30pm. Loose Women
This edition of the show featured Coca-Cola's famous "hilltop" ad with the gathered multitude miming to the New Seekers' I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke.
iTV1
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012, 6.00pm.

Repeated on Sunday, 1st July 2012, 12,22am (BBC2).
TOTP2
Presented by: Mark Radcliffe.
Featuring: The Mixtures, The Pushbike Song (from the Top Of The Pops episode of 25th February 1971). The commentary urges viewers to "pay attention to the drummer who's overcome the tricky miming problem by not actually hitting the drums at all. Genius!"

BBC2

Mick Flinn of The Mixtures, Pushbike Song (Top Of The Pops).

Sunday, 23rd December 2012, 6.30pm.

Originally broadcast on: 25th December 1973 (BBC1).
The Morecambe & Wise Show Christmas Special [repeat]
Starring: Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.
Featuring: the New Seekers, You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me.

BBC2

Lyn Paul on 'The Morecambe and Wise Show Christmas Special'.

Sunday, 12th May 2013, 4.00pm.

Originally broadcast on 15th November 1986 (Yorkshire Television).

Repeated on 8th September 2007, 6.00pm (f tn).
3-2-1
Series 9, Episode 12 [repeat]
Pop On The Box
Hosted by: Ted Rogers.
Guests: Gloria Gaynor, The Searchers and Lyn Paul, singing Saving All My Love For You.

Challenge

Lyn Paul on '3-2-1'.

Wednesday, 17th July 2013, 7.30pm.

Originally broadcast on 20th July 1978(BBC1).

Repeated on Thursday, 18th July 2013, 1.30am (BBC FOUR) and Sunday, 21st July 2w013, 1.10am (BBC FOUR).
Top Of The Pops [repeat]
Hosted by: David 'Kid' Jensen.
Featuring: the New Seekers, Anthem (One Day In Every Week).

BBC FOUR

The New Seekers performing 'Anthem (One Day In Every Week)' on 'Top Of The Pops', 20th July 1978.

Wednesday, 31st July 2013, 7.30pm.

Originally broadcast on 17th August 1978 (BBC1).

Repeated on Thursday, 1st August 2013, 12.40am (BBC FOUR) and Sunday, 4th August 2013, 12.30am (BBC FOUR).
Top Of The Pops [repeat]
Hosted by: Noel Edmonds.
Featuring: the New Seekers, Anthem (One Day In Every Week).

BBC FOUR

Danny Finn (New Seekers) performing 'Anthem (One Day In Every Week)' on 'Top Of The Pops', 17th August 1978.

Sunday, 20th April 2014, 10.00pm.

Originally broadcase on 1st April 2011, 10.00pm (BBC FOUR).

Repeated on 28th April 2014, 1.25am (Yesterday), 25th December 2014, 11.00pm (Yesterday) and 26th December, 11.20pm (Yesterday).
Top Of The Pops: The Story of 1976 [repeat]
The programme featured a clip of the New Seekers singing It's So Nice (To Have You Home) from the Top Of The Pops episode of 24th June 1976. Speaking as the clip played, TOTP presenter David Hamilton said: "You had to introduce what was in the charts that particular week... If a record appealed to the mums and dads, or maybe the grandparents liked them, you know, so be it."

Yesterday

Monday, 12th May 2014, 10.00pm.

Originally broadcast on 6th January 2012, 9.00pm (BBC FOUR).

Repeated on 24th December 2014, 11.25pm (Yesterday).
Top Of The Pops: The Story of 1977 [repeat]
The programme featured a clip of the New Seekers singing I Wanna Go Back from the Top Of The Pops episode of 27th January 1977. "The joy of it was... that it was family viewing. It was Thursday night, so it was pay day. You'd go to a supermarket, get loads of crips, you know, as your treat. Have a shandy, if you were lucky." Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers)

Yesterday

Nicky Wire on 'Top Of The Pops: The Story of 1977'.

Wednesday, 26th November 2014, 6.15pm. The Mustard Show
Presented by: Darren Eadie and Beth Davison.
Guests: Lyn Paul and Olly Day, who were interviewed about The Cromer Christmas Show 2014. The programme featured a clip of the New Seekers performing I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing.

Mustard TV

Lyn Paul on 'The Mustard Show'.

Wednesday, 7th January 2015, 7.00pm. The One Show
Presented by: Matt Baker and Alex Jones.
Guests: David Dimbleby, James Corden and Emily Blunt.
The programme featured an item on litter louts which included a clip from the New Seekers, 1973 Keep Britain Tidy campaign ad (We've Got To Do It Now).

Marty drops some litter...
Eve: Marty, that's really silly.
Peter: Yeah, if everyone did that the place would be a disaster.
Lyn: It's also dangerous and it's a health hazard.
Marty: Well, I never really thought about it like that.

BBC1

Lyn Paul in the New Seekers' 'Keep Britain Tidy' video.

Tuesday, 9th February 2016, 5.00pm. Live at Five
An early evening magazine show broadcast daily on STV. Lyn Paul was interviewed by Angus Simpson about her role as Mrs. Johnstone in Blood Brothers, which was playing at the Edinburgh Playhouse (8th - 13th February).

STV

Lyn Paul on 'Live at Five' (STV).

Monday, 11th September 2017, 5.00pm. Live at Five
Hosted by: Ewen Cameron and Susie Cormack Bruce
Live at Five grabbed another chat with Lyn Paul about her role as Mrs. Johnstone in Blood Brothers, which was playing at Glasgow's Kings Theatre (5th - 16th September).

STV

Lyn Paul on 'Live at Five' (STV).


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Broadcast Date Show / Featured Guests and Songs Channel
Friday, 11th December 2020, 9.00pm. The Sound Of TV with Neil Brand
Episode 2
Neil Brand took a look at some of the television jingles and advertisements that have lodged themselves in our collective memory, including a certain Coca-Cola commercial. "Despite starting life as a throw away jingle, the song has become a landmark of the power and persuasion of TV advertising music." The programme opened with a clip from Coca-Cola's famous hilltop commercial, with Neil Brand providing his own accompaniment, seated at a piano on London's Primrose Hill.

BBC FOUR

Neil Brand sitting by a piano on Primrose Hill.

Thursday, 14th January 2021, 9.00am Rip-Off Britain - Holidays
Series 9, Episode 9
Presented by: Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville.
The programme focused on the huge impact that the coronavirus pandemic had had on travel, including a report on the holidaymakers whose trip to the Lake District had been ruined by mountains of rubbish. To help illustrate the issue of the environmental damage caused by littering, the programme played clips from the New Seekers' 1973 Keep Britain Tidy campaign video.

BBC ONE

The New Seekers, 'Keep Britain Tidy' video.

Friday, 29th October 2021, 10.00pm Britain's Biggest 70s Hits: 1971
The second episode of a Channel 5 series that took a look back at the biggest hits from "the most colourful decade of the 20th Century." Episode 2 featured the beiggest-selling singles of 1971, amongst them the New Seekers' first Top 10 hit in the UK Never Ending Song Of Love and The Mixtures' Pushbike Song.
Channel 5
Friday, 5th November 2021, 10.00pm Britain's Biggest 70s Hits: 1972
The third episode of Channel 5's '70s show featured the biggest-selling hits of 1972, two of them by the New Seekers - Beg, Steal Or Borrow (no. 15) and I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony) (no. 5). David Grant describes the New Seekers as "the boys and the girls next door - only more polished and talented than you are."
Channel 5
Tuesday, 27th October 2022, 6.00am - 9,00am BBC Breakfast
Presented by: Jon Kay and Sally Newgent.
Lyn Paul was interviewed as part of a feature on the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. Lyn lent her support to Manchester's bid to host the contest.
BBC ONE
Friday, 5th January 2024, 8.30pm Top Of The Pops: 1971 [repeat]
Hosted by: Tony Blackburn.
Featuring the biggest hits and best performances from 1971, among them the New Seekers, Never Ending Song Of Love.
BBC 4
Friday, 19th July 2024, 8.30pm Top Of The Pops [repeat]
Hosted by: David Jensen.
Featuring: New Seekers, Anthem (One Day In Every Week).
BBC 4
Monday, 30th December 2024, 7.00pm Top Of The Pops: 1971 [repeat]
Hosted by: Tony Blackburn.
Featuring: New Seekers, Never Ending Song Of Love.
BBC 4
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