Juke Box Jury

Juke Box Jury is a music panel show which originally ran on the BBC Television Service from 1 June 1959 until 27 December 1967. The programme was based on the American show Jukebox Jury, itself an offshoot of a long-running radio series. Throughout its run the series featured celebrity showbusiness guests on a rotating weekly panel judging the hit potential of recent releases. By 1962 the programme attracted 12 million viewers weekly on Saturday nights. The concept was later revived by the BBC for one series in 1979 and a further two series in 1989/1990.

Links To Peel
Peel made an appearance on the show in 1967 sitting next to Katie Boyle, an Italian born British actress. On the 14 July 1979 (BFBS) show, Peel made a comment on his appearance of the show:

"'Formerly Johnny Rotten or John Lyndon as he's now reverted to being, was recently on the revived Juke Box Jury in this country which is an extremely tedious programme in the old days. I know that because I was on the penultimate one before they took it off the air, rightly so, many years they should have taken it off I think.'"

According to Radio Times listings, the penultimate episode of Juke Box Jury in the 60's was broadcast on 27th December 1967, however on that show, Peel is not named. The 20th December 1967 show in the Radio Times does not mention the guests on the show and is more likely to be the one which Peel appeared on, as all the other dates of 1967 in the Radio Times have published who was going to be on the show. The surprise guests on the programme tended to be the musicians whose records were getting reviewed.

Because of the BBC's policy of wiping tapes of its programmes in the 1960s, and the practice of not recording live programmes, it seems unlikely that Peel's appearance on the show has survived.