About Top of the Pops Archive

The TOTP archive has been a real labour of love of mine for the past 5 years. Slowly I have built the site manually using a mixture of CSS, PHP, HTML & the ever increasing TOTP database. As APIs have been updated, and as web standards have improved over the years the design of the site has altered slightly over time.

2017: Humble Beginnings

Where it all started. Due to the amount of time it took to generate the TOTP Archive database - nearly 9 months of work. Then the pages were generated. Everything was tested on a local server, and the TOTP archive was not available for the general public to view on the internet.

2017 Episode Page - Desktop View

2017 Episode Guide Year Page - Desktop View

2017 Episode Guide Page - Desktop View

2017 Episode Page - Mobile View

2019: totparchive.co.uk

2019 Homepage - Desktop View

2019 Episode Guide Page - Desktop View

2019 Episode Page - Desktop View

2019 Episode Guide Page - Mobile View

2020: New host. New Look

Just before the COVID pandemic hit we moved to a new host and server. cnjb.co.uk was decommissioned and totparchive.co.uk became the primary domain. There was also a visual reset, as we moved away from Bootstrap 4, to Bootstrap 5. We also went through a bit of a neon phase, with pink and blue elements dominating the site in 2020.

2020 Homepage - Desktop View

2022 Homepage - Desktop View

2022 Episode Guide Month View - Desktop View

2022 Presenter Guide Month View - Desktop View