BRITISH TELEVSION APPEARANCES



THE SEVENTIES

1970

TOP OF THE POPS

1/70

Song of My Life, I Want to Hold Your Hand- duet with Cliff Richard.

DEAN MARTIN SHOW

4/1/70

Guest: Petula Clark.

AN EVENING WITH PETULA
(BBC-2)

4/2/70

First half of '69 Albert Hall Concert.

PETULA
(ITV)

26/12/70

Petula's third American Special.
Guests: Peggy Lee, Dean Martin, the Everly Brothers, David Frost.
Beautiful Sounds, duet with Peggy Lee (I'm A Woman/Wedding Bell Blues), Games People Play (with The Everly Brothers), duet medley with Dean Martin on a horse (Hey Good Lookin'/Detour/Things/I Walk The Line/Just A Little Lovin'), medley (Come Together/Great Come And Get It Day), When Johnny Comes Marching Home (with Lee), Fool On The Hill


Beautiful Sounds










1971

ROD MCKUEN SHOW

1/71

I've Got Love Going for Me, Wind of Change

IT'S CLIFF RICHARD
(BBC -1)

2/71

The Song of My Life, Groovy Kind of Love (duet with Cliff.)

GOLDEN SHOT
(ITV)

2/71

The Song of My Life

THIS IS TOM JONES
(ITV)

1971

Sole guest: Petula
Watch What Happens, I Think I Love You -duets with Tom, You And I, The Song Of My Life, Why Can't I Cry, My Funny Valentine, This Guy's In Love With You, Our Love Is Here To Stay -duets with Tom.

TOP OF THE POPS
(ITV)

6/71

World Song

GOLDEN SHOT
(ITV)

17/10/71

World Song

World Song

PETULA AND FRIENDS
(BBC-1)

12/71

Guests: Rolf Harris, Warren Mitchell, Manitas de Plata.
I Just Can't Wait to Hold You, I Don't Know How to Love Him



Petula Clark:
Boxing Day (Monday)
BBC1 Colour
Petula Clark, who makes, music with some friends in a television special, talks to Russell Miller

'THE
TOGETHERNESS
I DISCOVER
AT CHRISTMAS'


PETULA CLARK and her husband/manager Claude Wolff live in a spacious house over- looking the lake at Geneva in Switzerland. It has 20 rooms, a music room in the basement and a beautiful garden with a swimming pool.
     Despite this, Mr and Mrs Wolff lead amazingly ordinary lives. She has never been cast in the mould of the flamboyant show-biz star lady ` and still isn't. He is a cheerful, handsome, tousle-haired Frenchman who provides the business acumen as her manager as well as being a devoted husband and father.


There's no cook, no
nurse, no one else at all,
I send them all home'
-------------------

     They're nuts about each other and crazy about their daughters (Katie, eight and Barbara, ten) who go to the International School in Genevaand are consequently completely bilingual.
      At Christmas it's just me, Claude and the kids,' says Petula. `There's no cook, no nurse, no one else at all. I send them all home and take over everything myself, including the cooking. We open our presents after lunch, then we clear up all the mess and drive up to Megeve, a ski resort just over the border in France.
      We stay in a very small hotel, which is by no means smart but is just a groovy place to stay. There is always a mixture of ordinary families and a show-business crowd staying there, but it works and always has. `Christmas evening is really great. We go and play in the snow and it is very gay. The show-business sort of crowd mix in with the family crowd and it all gets very wild.


'Christmas evening is really great. We go out and play in the snow'
---------------------------------
.

      `Boxing Day we start skiing - if we are capable - and we normally stay up there until New Year's Eve when we come home and have a big party.' She smiles at the prospect, then switches back to children and schools
      `Actually a very important part of Christmas for me now is not all that, but the party at the children's school before they break for the holidays 'Because of the United Nations, there are children from all over the world, and of all colours, at the school. On the last day before Christ- mas they put on a little show. There are no lights in the room and all the children, dressed in white, come in carrying candles. Then they sit round and tell stories about their dif- ferent countries and sing in dozens of different languages.
      `It's quite incredible, the feeling of brotherhood and togetherness you get there. That's what Christmas should be.'                
RADIO TIMES DATED 16/23 DECEMBER 1971

ROYAL GALA
(ATV)

25/12/71

Charity event in aid of World Wildlife Fund, Royal Family in attendance. Recorded 19/11/71.
Guests: Petula, Glen Campbell, Rex Harrison, Bob Hope, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, George Kirby, Millicent Martin, Rudolph Nureyev, Antoinette Sibley.







with Glen Campbell

Greeting Queen Elizabeth

TOP OF THE POPS
(ITV)

12/71

I Don't Know How to Love Him

STARS ON SUNDAY
(ATV)

12/71

Thank You

1972

STARS ON SUNDAY

16/1/72

Petula, Lovelace Watkins, Brendan O'Dowda, Bobby Bennett

SATURDAY VARIETY

19/2/72

DES

1972

I Don't Know How to Love Him

I Don't Know How to Love Him

IT'S CLIFF RICHARD
(BBC-1)

1972

Host: Cliff Richard.
Guest stars: Petula, the New Seekers, Una Stubbs with the Flirtations.
I Don't Know How to Love Him

SACHA'S IN TOWN

1972

PARKINSON
(BBC-1)

28/10/72

Guests: Petula, George Melly, Michel LeGrand
Interview. Once Upon a Summertime/What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life/The World of You and I/Watch What Happens/Windmills of Your Mind/Paris was Made for Lovers/I Will Wait for You

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

17/12/72

Recorded 17/12/72
Guest: Anthony Newley
Musical World ~ I Want To Make It With You ~ The World Is A Circle ~ A City Of Strangers/Without You ~ Medley I'm A Brass Band/When I'm 64/Something/ With A Little Help From My Friends ~ Medley With Brass Band, Simple Song (English Version Of Comme Une Priere) ~ Scarborough Fair ~ Look At That Face/Where Would I Be?/Once In A Lifetime/ Typical English/Who Can I Turn To?/People Tree/ The Good Old Bad Old Days ~ Medley With Anthony Newley, Mother Of Us All.

TOP OF THE POPS
(BBC -1)

12/72

Wedding Song

STARS ON SUNDAY
(ATV)

25/12/72

Host: Petula
Guests: Shirley Bassey, Hughie Green, Bobby Bennett.
I Don't Know How to Love Him

1973

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
(ITV)

1/8/73

Weekly talent show.

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC TV)

10/3/73

PETULA'S SIXTH SERIES - 1973 Series
Show One: GIRLS WHO MAKE MUSIC
Guest: Frank Owens (Petula's American music director)
I Hear Music~ Hide Your Heart~ I Got The Wedding Bell Blues~ Time And Love~ Both Sides Now~ Big Yellow Taxi~ I'd Like To Be A Good Friend~ Groovy Kind Of Love/You're So Vain/What Would I Be/ Until It's Time For Me To Go ~ Medley: Beautiful/ Tapestry/ You Got A Friend






An alpine weekend with the Wolffs


On the eve of Petula Clark's new series for BBCtv which shows an unfamiliar side to her singing, Deirdre Macdonald spent five days in the luxury resort of Megeve, finding out why she and her husband want as little fuss as possible made about her being famous

The Sound of Petula, Saturday 8.0 BBC1 Colour
Val Meets the VIPs
Wednesday 5.15 BBC1 ColourMonsieur et Madame Claude Wolff.
They married in June 1961
      'Claude is realistic, strong,and determined'
      PETULA CLARK is looking forward to her new TV series. `I think these shows, more than most, will give me the chance of showing how I really feel,'she says. `I shall be able to do songs that really matter to me, not just the ones that I am best known for.'
     Each of the six shows, she says, is completely different. For instance, there will be one featuring the songs of the Beatles, and one on the best of Burt Bacharach. For the first, The Girls Who Make Music, she says she and producer Yvonne Littlewood `have chosen songs by the best of today's girl writers and composers - for example Carole Ring, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Buffy Sainte-Marie: And one of the shows will make a point of Petula's French connections - a side to her which not too many of her British fans know about.
     Off-screen, she's properly known as Mine Claude Wolff - has been since 1961 - and she's more French than English now, even to taking her holidays in Megeve, in the French Alps.
     From Geneva, where the Wolffs live overlooking the lake, it's only an hour and a half's drive. The Hotel Castel- Champlat is more a pension than a Hilton: warmth and comfort and heavy, old-fashioned mahogany furniture. `There are posher hotels in Megeve,' says Petula, `where you change



Petula and five-month-old Patrick--the apple of everybody's eye

'Lovely little man,
   aren't you, papichon?'
for dinner and all that. But this is nicer for the children.
      `A lot of people choose it. Sacha Distel used to come here before he built his chalet, and Alain Delon has stayed here, too. Nobody stares at you.'
      Petula is used to being stared at, having been a child star, and thus as she puts it having `to grow up in public.' Both she and Claude are determined to see their children run no such risk.      Next day we go off for lunch at a place a few miles above Megeve. Claude's telling funny stories that Petula knows and loves.
      `Listen to this one, it's lovely .` `Patrick's teeth are on the way. Aren't they, papichon?' She dips her finger in sterilising white wine, wipes It dry and investigates his gums with satisfaction.
      The Wolffs are building their own chalet in Megeve. At the moment it's still only a shell, and when we get to the site, the architect and electrician launch into long and elaborate discussions with Monsieur and Madame about where power-points should be. `Half the fun at this stage,' says Petula, `is trying to picture what it will be like. The sauna will be here, and that's a sun terrace. The card-playing room - that's Claude's. Nothing to do with me! This little room under the eaves will be


the favourite, I suspect.' The chalet, the Wolffs' little holiday home, has assumed mansion proportions. `We wanted a nice, cosy little chalet like Sacha's, really cosy and intimate,' says Petula. `Then I decided I'd really like an indoor swimming pool. That's real luxury, I know. But you can't have a pool and cosiness! `Tomorrow, we lunch with Sacha and his family,' declared Claude. Claude is Sacha's manager, too, and the two families are close friends. So, next morning around mid-day a cable lift takes us two-thirds of the giddy way towards the Chalet la Foretiere, our rendezvous with the Distels. We negotiate the last stretch on foot, slipping and slithering and laughing, and arrive out of breathe. Only Katie's with us today Barbara has gone skiing with Jean, the instructor, and the baby has remained at the hotel. The sun's hot. `Tu es trop vite pour moi, mais je suis plus grande que toi, Julien,' promises Petula as Sacha's younger son lands a well-aimed snowball smack in her face. `Cafe pour Germaine?' asks Claude. `They call me Germaine here,' says Petula. `That's so that if I'm falling on my skis and they call out to me people don't turn to stare. Germaine in France is a bit like Nellie in England. Petula is too recognisable, so Germaine gives me a bit of anonymity.'
      Sacha has suggested a better route for us down the mountain. `Longer, maybe, but easier,' he claims. And there follows an hour and a half of helpless hysteria as we try to walk down a racing


slope to the foot of the mountain. The Distels cope with ease - Sacha's wife Francine was an Olympic skier. But the Wolffs and their guests have less success. Petula can hardly move for laughing at long-suffering Allan Ballard, the photographer, who's fallen half-a-dozen times already. Sacha's wife lends him her ski- sticks and Sacha's taken one of his cameras. `He looks like a Land Rover,' says Claude, as Allan veers from side to side.
      `The ski-racers scream with fear going round this bend,' says Sacha. `It's the only way they can make it.' Then, nearer the bottom he picks up one of his small sons, piggy-back. `Ah, that's what he wanted all the time.' That, by then, is what we all wanted.
      Back at the Castel-Champlat, Barbara has had a triumphant day on the ski-slopes with the instructor who says her skiing is 'formidable' and competitions are in sight. Both parents are thrilled.
      Their daughters have been brought up with wealth and comfort and happiness all their days; that's all they know.' We try to make them aware of the relative differences,' says Petula. 'We try to make them aware that they're fortunate. They saw real poverty for the first time in Marrakesh last year

'I stop and say to myself that it's a very special kind of life we live.'

and they were shocked. But it's not their fault they're fortunate, so it's difficult... `I couldn't cope without Claude. He organises every- thing. Marriage isn't always easy. I can't pretend that it is.There has to be an awful lot of compromise. I think our daugh- ters have love, a love of life. hope it's not beaten out of them by bad experiences.But we won't be able to protect them from everything.'
      Claude, she says, is realistic and strong, determined and optimistic. `I'm much more pessimistic. People who only know me through my hit re- cords see me as a nice little blonde lady who sings happy songs. That's not quite the way it is. I'm not always comfortable inside. I don't really like me very much. I'm not really the sort of person I would like to be. I would like to be much more sure of myself.II know how lucky we are but even my life can seem hum-drum sometimes and I can get depressed too. Then I stop and say to myself that it's a very special kind of life we live.
In the village square of Megeve in the French Alps
--and with Claude on the slopes above it.

VAL MEETS THE VIPS

17/12/72

Host: Valerie Singleton.

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

17/3/73

1973 series
Show Two: SONGS OF THE BEATLES
Recorded 14 February 1973.
Guest: Frank Owens
With A Little Help From Your Friends ~ She Loves You/All My Loving/She Loves You/ Can't Buy Me Love ~ Medley: I Want To Hold Your Hand/ Help/ Eleanor Rigby/ And I Love Him, Hey Jude (with Frank Owens) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Long And Winding Road, Yesterday.

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

24/3/73

1973 series
Show Three: THE SONGS IN MY LIFE
Recorded 28 February 1973
I Know A Place/ The Other Man's Grass/ I Couldn't Live ~ The Wedding Song ~ Vintage Petula Medley: Romeo/ Adonis/ Sailor/ Baby Lover/ Cinderella Jones/ Where Did My Snowman Go?/ Little Blue Man/ I Love A Violin ~ I Can't Remember ~ Swiss Valley ~ Walking Backwards (Old Film Clip) ~ You And I ~ Downtown ~ This Is My Song.

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

31/3/73

1973 series
Show Four: PETULA AND HER FRENCH CONNECTIONS
Recorded 7 March, 1973
Guest: Sacha Distel
Live for Life ~ Love Story ~ A Man And A Woman ~ Watch What Happens ~ Sacha - Imagine ~ What Are you Doing The Rest Of Your Life?/ Gingerbread Man ~ Petula & Sacha ~ Madam Poupee (Sung In English) ~ My Heart Goes Boom!/I'll Go Sailing/ I Wish You Love ~medley with Sacha ~ The Good Life - Sacha ~ Comme Je T'aime Mon Amour ~ Live for Life

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

7/4/73

1973 series
Show Five: THE BACHARACH & DAVID SONG BOOK
Recorded 14 March, 1973
Guests: Marion Montgomery, Anita Harris, and Barbara Windsor
This Girl's In Love With You, Close To You/Wives & Lovers ~ medley, Magic Moments, The Look Of Love/Always Something There To Remind Me/ Make It Easy On Yourself (Marion) / Walk On By (Anita) Anyone Who Had A Heart (Barbara) /....& I'll Never Fall In Love Again (Petula, Marion, Anita & Barbara) (A Medley Of Songs With Petula, Marion, Anita & Barbara), A House Is Not A Home, What The World Needs Now Is Love

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

14/4/73

1973 series - Last show of the season
Show Six: MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC
Recorded 21 March, 1973
Day By Day ~ Put Your Hand In The Hand ~ Everything Is Beautiful ~ If ~ Look To The Rainbow/ How Are Things In Glocca-Morra?/ Old Devil Moon/ Look To The Rainbow ~ Finian's medley ~ I Don't Know How To Love Him ~ Songs About Rain Medley: Soon It's Going To Rain/ Here Is That Rainy Day/ April Showers/ Come Rain Or Come Shine/ It Might As Well Rain Until September ~ No Regrets (Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien) ~ I Believe In Music










      AT THE END OF A RAINBOW they say there is always a pot of gold, and in this case it was Petula Clark, filming scenes in Savill Gardens for her television show.
      They were filming her singing "April Showers," and as it was such a sunny, cloudless day, the BBC film unit had to bring along their own rain and rainbow.
RAINBOW EFFECT
     A generator pumped water out of a large hosepipe at the rate of 100 gallons a minue. The sun glistening through the shaft of water produced a rainbow effect, as can be seen from the picture above.
      While film crew and spectators stood about in their shirt sleeves, Petula was wrapped up in a raincoat, rain hat, and carrying an umbrella.
     Petula filmed two songs at Windsor, "April Showers" and "Here's that Rainy Day." They are for the last show in the series: "The Sound of Petula--Your Kind of Music," which will be broadcast on April 21. She described Savill Gardens as "fabulous place. . .incredible."



SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM

28/10/73

Host: Jim Dale
Guests: Petula, Rudolph Nureyev, Merle Parke
I Couldn't Live Without Your Love ~ Silver Spoon Killing Me Softly ~ What the World Needs Now

STARS ON SUNDAY

9/12/73

Petula, Raymond Burr, Forbes Robinson, Michel Galois, The Bachelors, Carol Herbert.

1974

CLUNK - CLINK!

9/2/74

Host: Jimmy Saville
Guests: Petula & Olivia Newton John.
Fixin' to Live

SFTA AWARDS
(ITV)

6/3/74

SFTA - Society of Film & Television Arts Awards
Co-hosts: Petula & Eamonn Andrews. In the presence of Princess Anne & Captain Mark Phillips.

LIVE IN LONDON - Part I
(BBC-2)

9/3/74

Part I of Petula's Valentine's Day Concert recorded at the Albert Hall.
Colour My World/You are the Sunshine of My Life ~ Don't Sleep in the Subway ~ London medley ~ You and I ~ The Other Man's Grass ~ Without You ~ Music ~ This Is My Song~What the World Needs Now is Love

Songs Performed
PART I
Colour My World/You are the Sunshine of My Life
Don't Sleep in the Subway
Alone Again, Naturally/Get Down
London medley
You and I
The Other Man's Grass is Always Greener
Without You
Music
This is My Song
What the World Needs Now is Love

LIVE IN LONDON - Part II
(BBC-2)

3/10/74

Part II of Petula's Valentine's Day Concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall.
I Can See Clearly Now ~ Killing Me Softly With His Song ~ I Know a Place ~ Yesterday Once More/GI Jive/Mona Lisa/Your Cheatin' Heart/The Man That Got Away ~ I Couldn't Live Without Your Love ~ Une Histoire d'Amour ~ You've Got a Friend ~ I Don't Know How to Love Him ~ My Love/Downtown

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC TV)

5/10/74

1974 Series ~ Show One
FAVOURITE THINGS
Guest: Peter Ustinov
Let's Sing A Love Song, I've Got A Name, My Favourite Things, Touch Me In The Morning, Little Shoe Maker (singers), Knick-A-Knack-A-Knock, This Is A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening, Nymphs and Shepherds ~ with Peter Ustinov, Look At That Face/Funny Face ~ medley, Lets Sing A Love Song ~ Complete, Let's Sing A Love Song

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC TV)

12/10/74

1974 Series ~ Show Two
DANCING ON A SATURDAY NIGHT
Lets Sing A Love Song Dancing On A Saturday Night/I've Got The Music In me ~ medley, In The Old Fashioned Way, I'm In A Dancing Mood/Lets Face the Music And Dance/ It Only Happens When I Dance With you ~ medley, Leg Of Mutton Dance/Ball In The Jack/Black Bottom/ The Lambeth Walk/Hokey-Pokey/Let's Twist Again/ The Pony/The Bugaloo/Kung-Fu ~ Song & Dance, Won't Somebody Dance With Me?, Alone Again Naturally, I've Got The Music In Me/Long Tall Glasses/ Dancing On A Saturday Night ~ medley, Let's Sing A Love Song







The Lambeth Walk
Won't Someone Dance With Me?


THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

19/10/74

1974 Series ~ Show Three
WHAT'S NEW?
Guest: Telly Savalas
Let's Sing A Love Song, Have You Heard The News?, Let's Put It All Together/Feel Like Makin' Love ~ medley, Think Pink/On How To Be Lovely/Lovely To Look At/ I Was Never Lovelier/'s Wonderful/Looking At The World Through Rose-Coloured Glasses/Everything Is Comming Up Rosy ~ medley, Send In The Clowns, Gratifaction, The Story Of My Life ~ Telly Savalas, You And Me Against The World ~ duet with Telly Savalas, Super Lovin' Lady

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

26/10/74

1974 Series ~ Show Four
THE ROARING FORTIES
Guests: The Pointer Sisters
Let's Sing a Love Song, Opus One/I've Got A Guy In Kalamazoo/ They Had Rhythm ~ medley, Skylark, It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow/Let's Be Buddies/ Let Me Sing And I'm Happy/Mares Eat Oats & Does Eat Oats/ Open The Door Richard/Three Little Fishes/Shoo, Shoo Baby/ Put Them In A Box & Tie Them With Ribbon/When The Lights Go On Again All Over The World ~ medley, Long Ago And Far Away/I'll Get by ~ medley, Steam Heat ~ The Pointer Sisters, I'm Beginning To See The Light, On The Sunny Side Of The Street/Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree/ Sentimental Journey/You Are My Sunshine ~ With Pointer Sisters, You'll Never Know, Let's Sing A Love Song

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

2/11/74

1974 Series ~ Show Five
HIS AND HERS
Guest: Jack Jones
Let's Sing A Love Song, What Good Is A Gal Without A Guy?, Have You Met Jack Jones?/I Must Know/We've Only Just Begun/I Won't Last A Day Without You ~ with Jack Jones, Killing Me Softly With his Song, The Most Beautiful Girl In The World ~ Jack Jones, There's Got To Be Something Better Than This/ In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning/ I Didn't Know What time It Was/ Show Me The Way To Go Home/ When I Am Not Near The Girl I Love/ I Believe In You/How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life?/ Bewitched/Let's Call The Whole Thing Off/ Where Would You Be Without Me?/We Can Work It Out/ I'll String Along With You ~ Sketch & Songs With Jack Jones, Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling/ If You Could Read My Mind ~ medley, You Are The Sunshine Of My Life/Sunny/Sunshine On My Shoulder/Get Happy/Ain't No Sunshine ~ Medley With Jack Jones, Let's Sing A Love Song

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

16/11/74

1974 Series ~ Show Six
TALE OF A SCORPIO
Guests: Diana Dors, Georgia Brown
Let's Sing A Love Song, Children Of The Stars, The Gypsy, That Face - All Of You/That Cold Feeling/ I Get A Kick Out Of You/On A Slow Boat To China/ They Can't Take That Away From Me/We Get Along Without You Very Well/Make It With You/Moonlight Becomes You/Make Someone Happy/Everyone Is Beautiful ~ medley Ode To Autumn ~ Petula Reads Poem By Keats, The Waiter, The Porter And The Upstairs Maid/ Dream/Something's Gotta Give ~ medley, Three Little Maids From School ~ With Diana Dors & Georgia Brown, A Scorpio Song, People, Let's Sing A Love Song


with Diana Dors and Georgia Brown





8:55
THE SOUND OF PETULA.
The Tale of a Scorpio.
Astrological extravaganza from Pet, whose birthday was yesterday. Personally, I can't get on with Scorpios in general, but guests Georgia Brown and Diana Dors admittedly represent the sign at its most magnetic.

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

23/11/74

1974 Series ~ Show Seven
OFF TO THE MOVIES
Guests: David Essex & Michael York
Let's Sing A Love Song Off To The Movies, If This Isn't Love, Stardust ~ David Essex, Prepare Ye The Way Of The Lord/Day By Day ~ With David Essex, Who?/What'll I Do?/Ain't We Got Fun ~ medley, Sililoquy From Romeo & Juliet ~ Read By Michael York, A Musical Sketch In A Movie Theatre: You Oughta Be In Pictures,(Petula,David, Michael)/ Falling In Love Again (Petula)/ Eveything Stops For Tea (Michael)/ Blue Suede Shoes (David)/ There's No Business Like Show Business (Petula)/ Everybody Loves Somebody (Michael)/ Leaning On A Lamp-post (David)/ Sit Down your Rockin' The Boat (Petula, David, Michael)/ Wherever We Go (Petula, David, Michael), The Way We Were, Let's Sing A Love Song.

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

13/11/74

1974 Series ~ Show Eight
AND ALL THAT JAZZ
Guest: Oscar Peterson
Jazz Man, The Man I Love, I Got Rhythm/I Hear Music/Lullabye Of Birdland/ Way Down Yonder In New Orleans/ Basin Street Blues ~ medley, Don't Get Around Much Anymore/ In My Solitude/Mood Indigo ~ medley, When I Fall In Love/Let There Be Love ~ With Oscar Peterson* Jazz Man

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

7/12/74

1974 Series ~ Show Nine
THE ONE MAN BAND
Guest: Gilbert O'Sullivan
One Man Band, 15 Times ~ With Gilbert O'Sullivan, Baby I'm A Want You/Everything I Own ~ medley, Night & Day/Bigin The Beguine/I Concerntrate On, You/Let's Do It/You're Sensational/It's De-Lovely ~ medley, Mad About The Boy, Can't Get You to Love Me, Fire And Rain.

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

14/12/74

1974 Series ~ Show Ten
THE YOUNG AT HEART
Guest: Susan Hampshire
Young At Heart, They Make Me Feel So Young/Young At Heart, When I Was A Child, A medley of nursery rhymes: Come To The Fair, Sunrise, Sunset, Other People's Babies ~ With Susan Hampshire, Up, Up And Away/When I See Elephants Fly ~ With Susan Hampshire, God Bless The Child, Let's Sing A Love Song


Other People's Babies
Up, Up, and Away

with guest star Susan Hampshire

THE SOUND OF PETULA
(BBC-1)

21/12/74

1974 Series ~ Show Eleven
PETULA SINGS CHRISTMAS
Guest: Frankie Howerd
Happy Holiday/Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, The Twelve Days Of Christmas ~ Petula's Lyrics, Typically English/The Twelve Days Of Christmas, To Give, Santa ~ Frankie Howerd, Sing A Song Of Christmas/The Holly & The Ivy/ The First Noel/We Three Kings/This Is Christmas/ O Come All Ye Faithful ~ medley, Would You Ever?, A Song For You, Happy Holiday ~ Close Orchestra & Singers

1975

TOP OF THE POPS
(BBC TV)

17/4/75

I Am Your Song

TV TIMES AWARDS

19/4/75

Host Jimmy Tarbuck.
I've Got a Name. Petula wins for MOST POPULAR FEMALE SINGER ON TELEVISION.

1974 TV Times Awards


Voted
MOST POPULAR
FEMALE SINGER ON TV



As the award show ended, Eamon Andrews
suddenly arrived on stage to surprise Petula
with her second "This is Your Life."

THIS IS YOUR LIFE, PETULA CLARK
Volume Two

19/4/75


Guests: The Wolff family, Cecil Madden, Charles Aznavour, Mai Zetterling, Jimmy Young, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent, Val Donnigan, the Carpenters, Sasha Distel, Peter Ustinov.

This is Your Life Petula Clark
(Volume Two)
April 19, 1975

Eammon Andrews surprises Petula
during the T.V. Times Award Show.









With husband, Claude Wolff



With daughters Barra and Kate



With an overwhelmed Patrick.

PEBBLE MILL AT ONE

29/5/75

1976

WEDNESDAY AT EIGHT

10/11/76

Host: Tom O'Connor.
Guests: Petula, Paul Melba, Roger de Courcey & the Nolan Sisters.
Your Song ~ Beatles medley: And I Love Him/When I'm 64/We Can Work it Out/All You Need is Love (with Petula's back up singers and dancers, Friends)










     will never forgive me-had been at work as a professional entertainer for five years by the time she was Kate's age. Now just 44 she continues her love-hate relationship with showbusiness and is determined to protect her children from its pressures.
      "I am in this business because I like singing and I like music. The rest of it I do not like very much, and I suppose my children have been protected more because of those feelings.
      From the beginning, Claude and I decided we didni want the children to become 'showbiz' kids. We did not want them to be over-hip. The girls are quite hip, of course, but in a natural way. At weekends, this place is full of their friends and there is no feeling that our kids know more or are more aware. None of it has rubbed off on them," says Petula, obviously with some relief.
      They are different from most families in that Barbara was born in London, Kate in Paris and Patrick in Geneva, and they travel more. Last year, they spent six months in Los Angeles where Petula was working. "Professionally,Los Angeles is where I should be living, because although I am now in semi-retirement, most of my work is out there. We rented a house and put the girls into the French school there and it was really a kind of test to see how everyone would enjoy it. The girls don't like America very much. I can't say I like Los Angeles but certainly, from a work point of view, it is very exciting."
      But for Petula there is no lasting conflict of interest since her family comes first. "I had a funny childhood. It was in the war andd I was working. I have always tried to create something comfortable and warm for my family, something I didn't really have as a child. For example, I light fires. Perhaps they don't even need that, but I feel I want to try and make everything warm and cosy for them. Pehaps it is more important that I need to be giving it to them."
      Petula, who fights this inner battle between being attracted to music and singing- it is a real turn-on, something quite sexual and sensual"-and repelled by the business itself, says she would not be appalled if her children wanted to be entertainers. But she would not let them start now. There will be no more child stars inher life as far as Petula Clark is concerned.
      "I'd like them -to finish their education for one thing. I have never known anything else and never done anything else. I have no memory of anything except being a singer." She talked about her daughters. "Barbara is very
beautiful and at the moment just concerned with being beautiful. She has got to that adolescent thing where she cares a lot about her clothes and is beginning to care about boys, although it is not very serious yet. "She speaks English and French perfectly, is studying Spanish, and not thinking of anything more ambitious than being an air hostess, and that's fine.
      "Kate looks quite a bit like me. Both girls dance very well, with a great sense of music and rhythm, Kate is a wonderful dancer, in fact, and says she would like to dance for fun and live on a farm the rest of the time to be with animals. It sounds pretty good but I try to tell her that, sadly, it doesn't usually work out that way." Petula knows the difficulties better than most. "To be really at the top, to be terrific at my job and get everything out of myself I know is there, I should go at my career 100 per cent. I should be living in the States, working with writers and searching all the time, but, of course, I don't do that..."
      Pet turns down 90 percent of the work offered to her. Or, to be more precise, Claude turns it down for her. "He will reject something financially interesting if it means we are not going to be around on one of the children's birthdays. He knows that would be a problem for me. The husband/business manager relationship has worked well, though there are things even Claude cannot understand completely. "I need a couple of hours to unwind after a show. Instead of being very tired, you are really very exhilar- ated. Claude may have been sitting backstage playing cards, and when the show is finished he is ready to go home, but I would like to go out and dance, or sit around with the musicians talking and singing. "Claude is aware of all this, but he is not really part of it because lie hasn't been on stage. He hasn't felt this thing, this heat, coming back from the audience. But that is really the only difficulty between us, although it can be quite heavy at times."
      There is another thing, of course. Petula would still like to one back to England. "I would like to live in London and for the children to be educated there and taste everything London has to offer. Claude wou1dn't mind, but there is the tax problem. Since he is also my business manager, he has to think about that."
      Claude looked out of the window, at the snow-decked Mont Blanc range, and thought about it. Petula went back to the piano, while Patrick put one of his his cars in for repairs.

WORLD OF MUSIC
(bbc-2)

17/12/76


PETULA LIVE IN CONCERT AT THE NEW LONDON THEATRE
Your Song ~ Don't Sleep in the Subway/I Know a Place/Downtown medley ~ Broadway medley: (with her male singers and dancers, Friends)~Annie Get Your Gun/Sweet Charity/Jesus Christ Superstar ~ La Vie en Rose~ Could it Be Magic ~ Land of Make-Believe ~ Everytime We Say Goodbye

Daily Mail

Trailing clouds of stardust

Pick of the Day
WORLD OF MUSIC
BBC 2 9:40:
     With a bubble haircut effervescent as a magnum of vintage champagne, and white silk dress slit from the neck to the waist, Petula Clark is my idea of the perfectly sophisticated, sexy lady.
      She returned to Britain from Las Vegas with a one-woman show, 32 musicians, and four dancers, which mixed all the savoir faire of Continental cabaret with the stardust of American vaudeville.
      At least that was my reaction when I saw Pet's first British theatre show in 15 years. You can judge for yourself when the show, recorded at the new London Theatre, is transmitted on BBC 2.
      "I'm goin' to give you a good time," she sings. She certainly does that


Daily Express

WORLD OF MUSIC
(BBC 2, 9:40)

Nothing minority channel about this show. It has the broad middle of the road appeal that would guarantee audiences of 15 or 16 million on BBC 1 or ITV.
      It's not short of stars either. Tonight Petula Clark brings her Las Vegas show to British fans who couldn't get to her tour de force at London's New Theatre earlier in the year.
      Those who persist in thinking of Mme. Clark as "our Pet" should be reminded that she considers herself as embodying the qualities of Annie Oakley, Sweet Charity and Mary Magdalene, and consequently numbers tonight include "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun," "Big Spender," and "I Don't Know How to Love Him."          


LOOKS FAMILIAR
(ITV)

21/12/76

Host: Denis Norden
Guests: Petula, Frankie Vaughan, Lionel Blair.

CELEBRATION
(ITV)

25/12/76

Host: Sir Geraint Evans.
Guests: Petula, Ray Smith, Y Diliau, the Llandaff Cathedral Choir & the Ardwyn Singers
Happy Holiday ~ Holy Night ~ The Christmas Song

A JUBILEE OF MUSIC
(BBC-1)

31/12/76

Petula, Vera Lynn, Acker Bilk, Max Bygraves, Ken Dodd, Val Doonican, Rolf Harris, Kathy Kirby, Lulu, Matt Monro, Cliff Richard, Helen Shapiro, Norman Wisdent.

WELCOME 1977

31/12/76

Various entertainers (American & British) send New Years greetings to BBC viewers. Petula sends her best wishes for '77 from her home in Megeve.

1977

MICHAEL PARKINSON SHOW
(BBC-1)

18/2/77

Guests: Petula, Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse.
I'm Not in Love ~ You're My Destiny ~ You and I (duet with Newley)

PERRY COMO'S HAWAIIAN HOLIDAY

22/2/77

American television special.
Guests: Petula, Don Ho, George Carlin.
Gimme a Smile ~ Hawaiian medley with Como ~ What I Did for Love


Perry Como's Hawaiian Holiday


Petula, Perry, & George Carlin

Sunbeam Advertisements

Winter 1977

Advertisements for the Chrysler Sunbeam automobile begin to air.

PERRY COMO'S OLDE ENGLISH CHRISTMAS

23/12/77

Guests: Petula, LeoSayer, Gemma Craven & Chorus
Medley w/ Cast: Good King Wenceslas/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/The Holly & the Ivy/I Saw Three Ships/Joy to the World/We Wish You a Merry Christmas ~ Where Is Love ~ There's a Kind of Hush (duet with Como) ~ You're My Destiny ~ The Pantominme Tradition ~ Hot Diggity with cast.

Perry Como's Olde English Christmas





STARS ON CHRISTMAS SUNDAY

25/12/77

Petula, Shirley Bassey, Hughie Green, Bobby Bennett, the Beverley Sisters, Beryl Reid, the Poole Family

1978

THE BEST OF YARWOOD

3/9/78

Starring Mike Yarwood including Russell Harty meets Petula Clark. Eric Morecambe meets Twiggy. Tribute to Frank Sinatra Written by ERIC DAVIDSON , NEIL SHAND with Petula Clark Twiggy, Janet Brown

THE MUPPET SHOW
(ITV)

12/3/78

Boy From Ipanema ~ Tomorrow

THE MAN WHO TALKS TO ANIMALS

24/3/78

Featuring Percy Edwards. Hosted by Esther Rantzen.
Guests: Petula, Bruce Forsyth & Peter Sellers.

MIKE YARWOOD IN PERSON

25/3/78

Guests: Petula, Carol Cleveland, Michael Sharvell-Martin.
I'm Not in Love

PEBBLE MILL AT ONE

27/4/78

Put a Little Sunshine in Your Life ~ You're My Destiny

SNOWTIME SPECIAL

28/4/78

Host: Petula
Guests: Charles Aznavour, Manhattan Transfer, The Three Degrees, Claude Francois, Udo Jurgens, Wolfgand Danne & Jillian.
I'm Not in Love ~ If You Leave Me Now

I'M DICKIE--THAT'S SHOWBUSINESS
(ITV)

27/5/78

I'm Not in Love ~ You're My Destiny

GOLDEN GALA

12/7/78

Host: Petula
Guests: Too numerous to mention.
Super Loving Lady ~ I Don't Know How to Love Him

LONDON NIGHT OUT

12/7/78

Host: Tom O'Connor
Top of the Bill: Petula
Guests: Vince Hill, Black Abbotts, Janet Brown.
Put a Little Sunshine in Your Life ~ Don't Cry for Me, Argentina ~ I Couldn't Live Without Your Love

CLEO


(ITV)
19/11/78

Host: Cleo Lane
Guests: Petula, Caterina Valente, John Dankworth.
Men medley (with Lane & Valente) ~ Ne Me Quitte Pas (If You Go Away--in French & English) ~ How Come You Do me Like You Do ~ Moving Out Today ~ (Medley with Cleo & Caterina) I Hate Men/I Am Woman

BRUCE FORSYTH'S BIG NIGHT
(ITV)

9/12/78

Guests: Petula, Tony Godden, Ed "Stewpot" Stewart
I'm Not in Love ~ Just a Dance With Time ~ Newley/Bricusse medley with Forsyth

CHRISTMAS SNOWTIME SPECIAL
(BBC 1)

9/12/78

You're My Destiny ~ Assorted Christmas Carols

AT THE TURN OF THE YEAR
(ITV)

31/12/78

New Year's Eve concert performed in Chichester, England.


In 1978, international singing star Petula Clark made a nostalgic return to Chichester, England to give a special concert in celebration of the New Year. Petula spent much of her childhood in Chichester -but her concert at the renowned Festival Theater was her first ever performance in the city which means so much to her. She responded magnificently to the occasion, presenting a rousing program of songs chosen to welcome the New Year. Among the hits she performed were "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love", "The Other Man's Grass" and "Who Am I?", and she included two of her own compositions -"Don't Stop The Music" and "On With The Show" --plus favorites from her films "Goodbye Mr. Chips" and "Finian's Rainbow" It was stunning concert on an emotional occasion -truly a night to remember with warmth and affection throughout the year.

Broadcast 31/12/78 in the UK on ITV

The songs from the original show are: Your Song ~ On With the Show ~ I Couldn't Live Without Your Love/Who Am I/ Look to the Rainbow/The Other Man's Grass is Always Greener ~ Fill the World With Love (w/ Chichester Cathedral Choir) ~ You and I ~ Don't Stop the Music ~ I've Just Begun ~ What the World Needs Now ~ Fill the World With Love reprise.


1979

MICHEL LEGRAND AND FRIEND

6/1/79

Hits medley ~ Windmills of Your Mind (duet with Legrand) ~ Don't Cry for Me Argentina.
(Edited version of Canadian production from '77.)

PETULA AND SONGS OF LOVE

6/1/79

Smiley, I'm Not in Love, I Really Didn't Mean to Write this Song Today, Music Hall Medley, Don't Cry for Me, Argentina, Put a Little Sunbeam in Your Life, What Am I Doing Here, If You Leave Me Now, A Paris, You're My Destiny

MY KIND OF MOVIE

10/1/79

Host: Sue MacGregor.
Petula introduces one of her favourite movies: Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole starring Kirk Douglas.

THIS IS YOUR LIFE STEPHAN GRAPELLI

21/2/79

Host: Eamonn Andrews

TRACES OF LOVE

4/4/79

One hour "musical play" television special, starring Petula and featuring Paul Jones and David Kernan. .
Petula's songs: Traces of Love, I'm Feeling Too Good Today, Pick Yourself Up, Every Time We Say Goodbye, Planes, I've Just Begun, I Go To Rio - duet with Paul Jones, You Don't Send Me Flowers Any More - Petula & David Kernan.

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT EUROPE
(BBC-1)

29/5/79

Quiz show featuring three Britons who live abroad test their European Knowledge. Petula, James Hunt, & Frederick Forsyth versus Henry Cooper, Clare Francis, and Sir David Hunt.

EUROGALA
ITV

3/6/79

Petula hosts the two-hour gala to mark the European elections. Guests: Mara O'Hara, Mireille Mathieu, and the Kessler Twins.
Ode to Joy (with children's choir)~ What the World Needs Now ~ Un Enfant

SEASIDE SPECIAL

25/8/79

Starring: Petula, The Wurzels, The Grumbleweeds, Frank Carson & Bobby Knutt.
Colour My World ~ I Could Have Given Much More

PEBBLE MILL AT ONE

18/10/79

Starring: Petula, The Wurzels, The Grumbleweeds, Frank Carson & Bobby Knutt.
With a Little Luck ~ I Could Have Given Much More

BASIL BRUSH SHOW

3/11/79

I Could Have Given Much More ~ I Remember it Well (duet with Brush)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE CHARLES AZNAVOUR

19/12/79

LONDON NIGHT OUT CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
(ITV)

24/12/79

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