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Television Appearances
51 documented broadcasts across the UK, Europe, and the US — including 10 programmes currently available to watch in the Video Archive.
1964
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TV196416 Nov 1964Unverified recordA Farinas appearance on BBC2’s The Beat Room is cited in later recollection and attached to the 16 November 1964 episode. The surviving programme listing does not name the band, so this remains a…Broadcast record →
1968
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20 Jan 1968Family's first documented continental television exposure. ORTF filmed the band at London's Speakeasy Club for Bouton Rouge. INA notice CPF86617413 identifies a single Family performance but does not identify the song ti…Broadcast record → -
TV19683 Feb 1968Another Bouton Rouge transmission drawn from Family's Speakeasy Club session. Family appeared in a Disque rouge segment performing the song catalogued by INA as My Friend. INA notice CPF86617414 records a 47:30 episode b…Broadcast record →
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10 Feb 1968Available to watchFamily returned in a Disque rouge segment filmed at London's Speakeasy Club. INA notice CPF86617412 identifies the song as My Friend, the same title used for the 3 February broadcast. The archive descriptions do…Watch video → -
TV196821 Mar 1968Family appeared in Londres, ville ouverte, a London-focused edition of ORTF's youth magazine Seize Millions de Jeunes. Their performance was filmed in a London club and begins at approximately 22:05 in the 30:18 programm…Broadcast record →
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TV196828 Mar 1968Family appearance on the West German TV news-magazine Deutschlandspiegel. The surviving footage captures Family in Mk II line-up early in their UK breakthrough year.Broadcast record →
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28 Jun 1968Family travelled to the Netherlands at the end of June to play Theater Bellevue in Amsterdam for a filmed broadcast of the Dutch music programme Rood Wit & Blauw, their first documented appearance on…Broadcast record → -
TV196813 Nov 1968Family featured on Make It My Place, a BBC-2 interior-design programme broadcast at 19:00. The show followed designers redecorating the band's shared house on Lots Road, Chelsea, with focus on Ric Grech's room (designed…Broadcast record →
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28 Dec 1968Family closed 1968 with a Point Chaud musical segment in Albert Raisner's ORTF-1 variety programme Samedi et Compagnie. The band mimed Old Songs New Songs, reportedly taped earlier in December in Paris to promote…Broadcast record →
1969
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11 Apr 1969Family appeared on BBC1's late-night review show How Late It Is on Friday 11 April 1969 at 10:50 p.m., alongside Jon Hiseman's Colosseum and Dudley Moore. The band performed Dim with a live vocal…Broadcast record → -
10 May 1969Back in London, the BBC broadcast a live-in-studio set featuring "The Weaver's Answer," "Observations From A Hill," "How-Hi-The-Li," "Processions," and "A Song for Me." Sadly, the video tape was wiped with the rest of…Broadcast record → -
TV19695 Dec 1969A listings-based Family booking for the Dutch AVRO pop programme Doebidoe, reportedly featuring a mimed performance of Observations from a Hill. No recording of this episode is currently known to survive, so the appearan…Broadcast record →
1970
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TV19701970Family recorded Holding the Compass and Drowned in Wine in the studio for the ORTF programme Variations. The visible Weider-era line-up places the recording in 1970, although an exact session date has not been…Broadcast record →
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24 Jan 1970Available to watchBrief (1-minute) live performance clip of Family on stage in Hamburg, Germany — "A Song For Me". Survives in the archive.Watch video → -
7 Mar 1970Danmarks Radio broadcast a Family edition of Toppop, filmed in Studio 3 at TV-Byen, Gladsaxe, on 27 November 1969. The DR production record identifies the featured song as A Song for Me, gives the…Broadcast record → -
23 Mar 1970Available to watchFamily interpret 'Love Is a Sleeper' and 'Drowned in Wine' in front of the live audience at the Antenne Culturelle du Kremlin-Bicêtre, taped for ORTF's Monday-night variety strand Tous en scène. Realised by the…Watch video → -
16 Apr 1970Available to watchDanish TV broadcast on Popklubben ('Beat Goes On II' promotion) of film recorded at Brøndby Pop Club (Nørregård Hallen, Brøndby) on 22 November 1969. The episode also features Burning Red Ivanhoe. The performance of…Watch video → -
9 May 1970Family appeared on BBC2's Disco 2, the album-oriented rock programme that preceded The Old Grey Whistle Test, performing the new single Today. The programme's standard setup for bands used a live vocal over a…Broadcast record → -
27 Jun 1970Family appeared in Beat-Club episode 56, broadcast by Radio Bremen on 27 June 1970, performing The Weaver's Answer. The segment had been recorded in advance because Family were appearing at the Kralingen Festival in…Broadcast record → -
27 Aug 1970Available to watchFamily's first Top of the Pops appearance, performing The Weaver's Answer to promote the Strange Band EP. The record was listed at No. 40 on the programme's chart. The performance was shown again on…Watch video → -
22 Sep 1970Family performed a mimed The Weaver's Answer in Hilversum for the inaugural edition of AVRO's TopPop, first broadcast on 22 September 1970. The Dutch programme was created by director Rien van Wijk and presented…Broadcast record → -
25 Sep 1970Family taped a 30-minute live music special for Granada TV's new music programme Doing Their Thing, broadcast only in the North-West region of the UK by Granada Television. Five-song performance in front of a…Broadcast record → -
31 Oct 1970Family's segment featured live footage from the Taverne de l'Olympia, Paris. The most-remembered moment came on 'The Weaver's Answer' — Roger Chapman's microphone lead failed mid-song, forcing the band into an improvised…Broadcast record →
1971
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16 Jan 1971ORTF's second channel aired the Olympia Paris concert footage on 16 January as part of Pop 2 (often billed Pop Deux), the successor to Bouton Rouge. The broadcast carried 'Holding The Compass', 'Part Of…Broadcast record → -
27 Feb 1971Available to watchTélévision Suisse Romande's Pop Hot broadcast footage from the 8–10 January 1970 Paris Underground Music Festival, also billed Opération Underground Music 666. This is a 1971 transmission of material filmed thirteen mont…Watch video → -
TV197130 Mar 1971Family captured on the West German cinema-newsreel UFA-Dabei in the 'Daughter Of The Fireplace' segment. Mk IV / Weider line-up. The footage survives in an offline private archive.Broadcast record →
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1 Apr 1971First documented broadcast of the 24-minute Family special made as an ORTF–RTB coproduction and shown in Belgium as Pop Shop. Adrian Maben directed and Michèle Arnaud produced for ORTF. The same master was broadcast…Broadcast record → -
16 Apr 1971Available to watchWest German television programme Studio III presented live Family excerpts identified in the archive export as London Now in Berlin. The footage appears to come from the London in Berlin Now concert at the…Watch video → -
24 Apr 1971French broadcast of the 24-minute Family special first shown by Belgian RTB as Pop Shop on 1 April 1971. INA notice CPF09005525 records the ORTF–RTB coproduction at 24:00, broadcast on the second channel at…Broadcast record → -
1 Jul 1971Weider's last TV with Family. Pre-recorded plug for In My Own Time one day ahead of UK release; the same tape repeated on the 22 July edition when the single had climbed to No.…Broadcast record → -
TV197111 Jul 1971RTB repeat of the 24-minute Family special first shown as Pop Shop on 1 April 1971 and in France as Stop Pop on 24 April. The Pop Shop chronicle at memoire60-70.be identifies this transmission…Broadcast record →
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5 Aug 1971John Wetton's first known television appearance with Family. The band performed In My Own Time, listed at No. 11 on the programme's chart. The familiar double-neck-guitar staging was now performed by Charlie Whitney and…Broadcast record → -
25 Sep 1971Family appeared in Beat-Club episode 71, broadcast by Radio Bremen on 25 September 1971, performing Holding the Compass. The programme survives in the Radio Bremen archive. A performance of Part of the Load was…Broadcast record → -
8 Oct 1971Family performed In My Own Time on the Swiss German-language programme Hits à Go-Go, broadcast from Hamburg on 8 October 1971. The surviving footage shows the band without Rob Townsend and with an unidentified…Broadcast record → -
TV19712 Nov 1971Family appeared in the seventh edition of The Old Grey Whistle Test, presented by Richard Williams and Ian Whitcomb. The band performed Spanish Tide and Between Blue and Me. Both performances survive in the…Broadcast record →
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TV197111 Dec 1971TSR's Pop Hot broadcast material from Family's 13 June 1971 Montreux performance. The surviving programme material includes Holding the Compass and A Song for Me. Further selections from the Montreux recording were sched…Broadcast record →
1972
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TV1972Jan 1972Unverified recordMorgunblaðið reports that RÚV “recently” aired a British television programme about Family, paired with a Jack Bruce feature. The column says the Family segment was recorded “when John Weider was still in the band”…Broadcast record →
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15 Jan 1972The first episode of Rockenstock — a new ORTF rock-magazine strand that bumped Family up to a 1ère chaîne 22:55:00 slot for the show's launch. INA notice CPF86651297 catalogues the broadcast at 30:00 duration.…Broadcast record → -
8 Feb 1972Available to watchDaniele Gilbert's daily Télé-Midi 72 lunchtime variety strand — broadcast 12:31 on the 1ère chaîne ORTF from Maison de la Radio at 116 avenue du Président-Kennedy, Paris. Family performed a full studio mime of…Watch video → -
TV197219 Feb 1972A further Pop Hot broadcast using Family's 13 June 1971 Montreux performance, including Holding the Compass and a 16-minute A Song for Me. Michel Dami produced and Alain Morisod presented. The footage survives in…Broadcast record →
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27 Feb 1972Available to watchSpotlight was a Swedish TV2 pop programme. Dagens Nyheter scheduled the 27 February 1972 edition for 20:30, marked for colour, with the next programme at 21:00. This establishes a scheduled half-hour slot, not a…Watch video → -
TV197225 Mar 1972Further Family segment on TSR's Pop Hot, a Buddy Miles / Family double-bill broadcast (per Feuille d'avis de Lausanne, 25 March). Footage derived from the 13 June 1971 Montreux Casino set.Broadcast record →
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6 Apr 1972RTB repeat of the 24-minute Family special first shown as Pop Shop on 1 April 1971 and in France as Stop Pop on 24 April. The programme had also been repeated by RTB on…Broadcast record → -
5 Oct 1972Family performed Burlesque on Top of the Pops, broadcast while the single was at No. 30 on the programme's chart. The band were touring North America and playing Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens that evening,…Broadcast record →
1973
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TV197310 Feb 1973BBC2's late-Saturday arts programme Full House, introduced by actor Joe Melia, featured Family performing My Friend the Sun and Top of the Hill. The latter played over the closing credits. This is Family's final…Broadcast record →
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25 Sep 1973Available to watchPresenter: Bob Harris. The 25 September episode of The Old Grey Whistle Test carried Edinburgh-Festival reggae coverage and included an interview segment with Roger Chapman framing the farewell tour. The Bob Harris Archi…Watch video →
1975
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TV197525 Mar 1975Chapman-Whitney Streetwalkers recorded a full live set at WDR's Studio L for the German Rockpalast series — the band's first major televised appearance in the new five-piece configuration. The nine-song set was: Downtown…Broadcast record →
1976
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TV197610 Feb 1976
1977
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TV19771 Mar 1977
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TV197719 Apr 1977Streetwalkers' final documented live performance. The band disbanded later that year (press announcement 17 December 1977).Broadcast record →
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TV197730 Jul 1977