Show Winner: Pride (six-piece group)
Viewers Winner: Gingham (five-piece group)
Panel: Mickie Most, Lionel Blair, Shaw Taylor and Jack Parnell
Host: Derek Hobson… Read More 19 Jun 76 – Series Four (27) – 100th Show
The original series of ATV’s New Faces talent show ran between 1973 and 1978 and there was a brief revival on Central TV between 1986 and 1988. Using the many news articles available from the British Newspaper Archives, limited available original TV footage and the extensive research of lost archives organisation Kaleidoscope I have managed to… Read More The History of New Faces
Show Winner: Paul & Avis (vocal duo)
Viewers Panel Winner: Raffles (vocal duo)
Panel: Bryan Blackburn, Clifford Davis, Ted Ray and Jack Parnell
Host: Derek Hobson… Read More 24 Apr 76 – Series Four (19)
Show Winner: Easy Street (four-piece group)
Viewers Panel Winner: Tony Stanley (impressionist)
Panel: John Smith, George Elrick, Tony Hatch & Lonnie Donegan
Host: Derek Hobson… Read More 27 Dec 1975 – Series Four (2)
Show Winner: Mick Miller (comedian)
Panel: Mickie Most, Tony Hatch, John Smith & George Elrick
Host: Derek Hobson… Read More 12 July 1975 – Series Three (42)
Show Winner: Johnny Carroll (comedian)
Viewers Choice: Glentones (nineteen-piece band)
Panel: Tony Hatch, Mickie Most, Clifford Davis & Arthur Askey
Host: Derek Hobson… Read More 22 Jun 1974 – Series Two (11)
Born Charlotte Rickards in 1952 in Pontypridd, Wales but brought up in Birmingham, Charlie was discovered by comedian Les Dawson who helped her to begin a career as a compere and singer at Birmingham’s Cavendish night club in 1970.… Read More Charlie James
