Seaside Special

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Seaside Special was a BBC light entertainment TV programme in the 1970s. It was an outside broadcast and was always filmed in a big top in a British seaside resort. The programme was invented by BBC producer Michael Hurll.

Although very successful in its day, many now regard the programme as epitomising the worst aspects of 1970s television. It was essentially a variety show, with the likes of Little and Large, Keith Harris and Orville, Lena Zavaroni, Bernie Clifton, Showaddywaddy, The Wurzels, Sacha Distel, Peters and Lee and Nana Mouskouri (to name but a few) all having put in appearances. Some segments of the show were filmed outside the big top, including one memorable occasion when the Brotherhood of Man sang "My Sweet Rosalie" whilst sitting in a particularly unstable looking lifeboat. The programme also featured a beauty contest, usually presented by Terry Wogan, in which participants competed to be "Miss Seaside Special".

The show's theme, "Summertime City", written and sung by Mike Batt, was a UK Top 10 hit in 1976.

Seaside Special was briefly revived in the 1980s, but by then the tastes of the viewing public had moved on and the new version was not a success.

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