Bob Dylan

Episode 2

Janis Ian

Episode 4

Peter Frampton

Episode 6

Ralph McTell

Episode 8

Linda Ronstadt

Episode 10

Jackson Browne

Heart / Racing Cars

Macon Whoppee (Capricorn Summer Picnic)

Rod Stewart in concert

Pick of the Year

Episode 16

Episode 17

The Eleventh House

Ry Cooder & The Chicken Skin Band

Average White Band

Episode 21

Manhattan Transfer

Episode 23

Episode 24

Andrew Gold

The Kinks

Bandit

Emmylou Harris & The Hot Band

Episode 29

Episode 31

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Dory Previn in concert

George Benson / Udio Lindberg

Episode 35

Eric Clapton

1976/7

That Was The Whistle Test That Was

The Old Grey Whistle Test

BBC Two

1971/2

1972/3

1973/4

1974/5

1975/6

1977/8

1978/9

1979/80

1980/81

1981/2

1982/3

1983/4

1984/5

1985/6

1986/7

Specials

The Old Grey Whistle Test is an influential BBC2 television music show that ran from 1971 to 1987. It took over the BBC2 late night slot from "Disco Two", which had been running since January 1970, while continuing to feature non-chart music. It was devised by BBC producer Rowan Ayers. According to presenter Bob Harris, the programme derived its name from a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years before. When they got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the old greys—doormen in grey suits. The songs they could remember and whistle, having heard it just once or twice, had passed the old grey whistle test.