After the opening credit sequence featuring Bobby Midgeley’s ‘Drum Roll’ theme the first show begins as it would for the rest of the decade with the call to arms “yes, it’s number one, it’s Top Of The Pops” (spoken by Jim Moir, later to become a producer on the show) followed by a sample of that week’s number one, in this case, The Beatles – I Want To Hold Your Hand, while the opening camera shot scanned up the brand new top twenty chart board with host Savile in front. Moir then exclaimed “and a welcome to this week’s top DJ, Jimmy Savile”, who would then announce what the number one was, read a list of the new entries and introduce the first record.