Editing Pan's People (section)

===''Top of the Pops'' before Pan's People===
''Top of the Pops'' began on 1 January 1964<ref name="Popscene"/> as a weekly programme playing a selection of records from the current charts. From November 1964, ''Top of the Pops'' had an all-girl dance troupe regularly appearing, the [[Go-Jos]], formed and choreographed by another ex-Beat Girl, [[The Jo Cook Dancers|Jo Cook]]. Through to the beginning of 1968, professional dancing had been restricted to approximately monthly appearances by this group, performing to one track on the show typically where the artist couldn't attend.

This situation began to change in January 1968: whilst still in the Beat Girls, Diane South appeared solo on the show, dancing to the song "[[Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)]]".<ref name="DianeS">{{cite web|title=Diane South - Biography|url=http://www.panspeople.com/?q=node/283|website=PansPeople|access-date=3 June 2017|archive-date=26 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126051026/http://www.panspeople.com/?q=node%2F283|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On several occasions Pan's People presented brochures to the BBC with a view to appearing on ''Top of the Pops'', the last being in March 1968, but up to this point they had not been employed on any BBC programme.<ref name="Badman"/>