Editing Pan's People (section)

===Early work and line-up changes===
Their first TV appearance was in the Belgian TV programme ''Vibrato'' in January 1967, with the initial line-up.<ref>{{cite web |title=PP on Vibrato, 1967 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpoHi2FAMzY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/PpoHi2FAMzY |archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In February/March 1967, Felicity Balfour's contract was terminated, due to her being unsettled in the group. After Pan's People, amongst other subsequent activities she performed with the Denise Shaune dancers, and worked in musical theatre, notably forming part of the original London cast of ''[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rice |first=Tim |title=Oh What a Circus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m4ECNNvdvTYC&q=%22felicity+Balfour%22+dancer&pg=PT183 |date=October 2012 |access-date=13 June 2017 |quote=Felicity Balfour, captivating dancer in the first West-End Joseph |isbn=9781444762174}}</ref>

Following an audition, Balfour was replaced by '''Ruth Pearson''' (1946–2017).<ref>{{cite web|author=Jessica Gibb |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ruth-pearson-dead-pans-people-10706175 |title=Pan's People star Ruth Pearson has died at the age of 70 |website=Mirror.co.uk |date=27 May 2017 |access-date=30 June 2017}}</ref> Like Lord, Pearson was an original Beat Girls member, performing in the group until early 1966, then in a prior Beat Girls breakaway group, [[The Beat Room#October 1965-December 1966 - UK and Dutch TV programmes|Tomorrow's People]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Top of the Pops 2 interviews |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/trivia/pans_people/ruth_pearson/page1.shtml |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 June 2017 |quote=There was a disagreement about how our current group the Beat Girls were going and three of us left and formed our own group called Tomorrow's People. Then about a year later we split up and I had heard that the girls had formed Pan's People...They weren't sure for a time and I had an audition. And then they later contacted me and told me I was in.}}</ref>

Pearson also did some of the group choreography over the first two years in the group.<ref name="Throw"/>

The new line-up with Pearson appeared on ''[[Dickie Valentine|The Dickie Valentine Show]]'' in September and October 1967, replacing the Beat Girls from the 1966 series. All the Pan's People in this line-up, except for Pearson, had appeared in the earlier series.<ref>{{cite web |title='The Dickie Valentine Show' TV Pans People 1967 |url=https://www.rexfeatures.com/search/?kw=dickie+valentine&js-site-search_submit=Go&order=newest&iso=GBR&lkw=&viah=Y&stk=N&sft=&timer=N&requester=&iprs=f |website=Rex Features |access-date=15 June 2017}}</ref>

The group were to appear in a ballet performed with [[the Yardbirds]] in December 1967,<ref>{{cite web |title=NME: The Rock and Roll Years |url=http://theafterword.co.uk/its-wonderful-to-be-here-its-certainly-a-thrill-its-1967-on-the-afterword-almanac/ |access-date=13 June 2017 |quote=An hour-long ballet written by [[the Yardbirds]] and with all music played by the group, is premiered at the Paris Olympia on 13 and 14 December. Still untitled, it is being presented by French impresario Bruno Coquetrix, and the initial performance will be filmed for subsequent TV screening in France and Sweden. The ballet will be danced by BBC-TV dance team Pan's People, choreographed by Flick Colby, and the director is Sean Murphy.}}</ref> but it was cancelled shortly before it was to be performed.

Also in December 1967, Penny Fergusson left to do other work, and was replaced by '''Louise Clarke''' (1949–2012).<ref>{{cite journal |title=Louise Clarke: Obituaries |url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/feature.php/37307/louise-clarke |journal=The Stage |date=12 September 2012 |access-date=23 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015133326/http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/2012/09/louise-clarke/ |archive-date=15 October 2012}}</ref>
In February 1968 three of Pan's People (Lord, Colby and Wilde) appeared on the West German show ''Beat Beat Beat'' with [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Tom Jones – Beat Beat Beat – 1968 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9-49I-fQg |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623235802/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9-49I-fQg |archive-date=23 June 2015 |url-status=dead |website=Youtube |access-date=3 June 2017}}</ref> This series was unique in that Ruth Pearson got sole choreography credit.

In the final change before the ''Top of the Pops'' era, Lorelly Harris chose to leave in March 1968, ultimately going into the [[Margaret Kelly Leibovici|Bluebell Girls]]. She was replaced by '''Andrea (Andi) Rutherford'''<ref name="Girls Who Bring Glamour"/> (1947–2015).<ref name="AndreaObit">{{cite web |title=Family Announcements: Andrea Rutherford |url=http://www.family-announcements.co.uk/hertfordshire/view/3951726/andrea |newspaper=Hertfordshire Mercury |date=10 December 2015 |access-date=19 June 2016}}</ref>