YMMV / Top of the Pops

• Harsher in Hindsight: In Autumn 2012, about a year after his death, a massive Scotland Yard investigation confirmed that Jimmy Savile was a real-life Depraved Kids' Show Host — specifically, a serial sex offender who abused youths who appeared on this show — which effectively makes all of the episodes he presented this. That said, the scandal has affected many more people than just Savile — Dave Lee Travis (another former presenter of the show) was also arrested in connection with various sex offences, for example. (Travis was eventually found not guilty on 12 out of 14 counts against him; he was subsequently found guilty of at least one count of indecent assault as of 23rd August 2014, though cleared of another and on a third the jury were still undecided.)
• Overshadowed by Controversy: The show's reputation is forever tainted by being hosted by Jimmy Savile and Dave Lee Travis, both serial sex offenders.
• Unintentional Period Piece: And how! Not even mentioning the charts and the featured songs, the audience and their fashions and the video effects and graphics combine to make each episode a time capsule of the year it came from.

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