Ramones

Rezillos / Steven Bishop

The Police

Jethro Tull in concert

Episode 5

Siouxsie and the Banshees / The Cars / John Cooper Clarke / Steely Dan / Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger

Episode 7

Episode 8

Buzzcocks

Devo

X-Ray Spex

Muddy Waters / Devo

Episode 13

Rod Stewart in concert

Pick of the Year, Part 1

Pick of the Year, Part 2

Episode 17

Episode 18

Episode 19

Emerson, Lake & Palmer special

Episode 21

Episode 22

Episode 23

Episode 24

Episode 25

Episode 26

Episode 27

Episode 28

Episode 29

Iggy Pop / Tom Waits

Johnny Winter in concert

Episode 32

Episode 33

Episode 34

Episode 35

Episode 36

Thin Lizzy in concerts

1978/9

That Was The Whistle Test That Was

The Old Grey Whistle Test

BBC Two

1971/2

1972/3

1973/4

1974/5

1975/6

1976/7

1977/8

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.