The Beat Room

The Beat Room
Directed by	James Moir
Presented by	Pat Campbell
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	29
Production
Producer(s)	Barry Langford
Production company(s)	BBC
Release
Original network	BBC Two
Original release	6 July 1964 – 29 January 1965

The Beat Room was a British television series presenting beat, rhythm and blues and other pop music, shown on BBC2 in 1964-65.

The series was produced by Barry Langford and directed by James Moir. Acts, introduced by an off-screen presenter, Pat Campbell, performed live before an audience. The resident house band was initially Wayne Gibson and the Dynamic Sounds, but was replaced by Peter and the Headlines mid-run. The show also featured a sextet of female performance dancers, the Beat Girls. created especially for the show. In all, 29 programmes were made.

The first show, broadcast on Monday 6 July 1964 at 6.35 p.m., featured The Animals, Lulu & the Luvvers, and Millie Small. The show was broadcast on Mondays, with Saturday repeats during the middle of the run. The final show was shown on 29 January 1965.

There was a 75-minute New Year's Eve special in 1964, Beat in the New.

Tapes of all but one of the programmes were later destroyed. The only remaining programme (originally broadcast on 5 October 1964) held by the BBC featured Tom Jones, Julie Rogers, The Kinks, John Lee Hooker, and The Syndicats. This was repeated on BBC4 in 2007.

the following episode listing is based on Radio Times information

The Beat Girls were created for this programme, managed and choreographed by Gary Cockrell, and are most famous today for providing most of the dancers who formed Pan's People though most joined after the Beat Room period. They were based out of the Dance Centre.

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