New Faces

Original series: 1973–1978

Series One Final (1973)

Series Two Final (1974)

Series Three Final (1975)

Series Five Final (1977)

Series Six Final (1978)

Revived version

1986 final

1987 final

1988 final

Famous winners and contestants

• Jeffrey Hooper – Appeared in the Grand Final of series two in July 1974.
• Marti Caine - Series three winner in July 1975.
• Lenny Henry – Multiple wins in 1975.
• Michael Barrymore
• Joe Pasquale – 2nd in 1987. Pasquale won his heat but he came second in the final.
• Roy Walker
• The Chuckle Brothers – Appeared under the names Paul and Barry Harman in 1974.
• Malandra Burrows – Appeared in the first All Winners Final in November 1974 and was the youngest heat winner at nine years old.
• Carline and Walling
• Nick Van Eede - Appeared in band Twice Bitten. Would later have huge success with Cutting Crew with his song (I Just) Died In Your Arms in 1986 & 1987
• Victoria Wood - Appeared in the first All Winners Final in November 1974.
• Terry St. Clair – Appeared on series two in June 1974.
• Roger De Courcey and Nookie Bear – Winners of the 1976 Grand Final.
• Nicol (musician)|Nicol] and Marsh's Easy Street – Runners-up in 1976.
• Mick Miller
• Les Dennis - Appeared in series one, two and twice in series three making the All Winners Final in November 1974.
• Showaddywaddy - Runners-up in the Grand Final of series one in December 1973.
• Jim Davidson
• Gary Wilmot and Judy McPhee
• Billy Pearce
• Aiden J. Harvey - Winner of series two.
• Patti Boulaye – Appeared in the last 1970s edition of the show and was the only contestant ever to receive the maximum 120 points.
• Stevie Riks – Highest scoring contestant ever on the show.
• Max Bacon
• Sweet Sensation – From Manchester and fronted by 15-year-old Marcel King went on to become the first black British born soul band to hit the number spot in UK charts in September 1974 with hit record 'Sad Sweet Dreamer'.
• Andy Cameron
• Sheer Elegance – Pop trio who went on to have two hit singles in 1976.
• Lance Ellington- 1977 winner sang with the late Bet Hannah as singing duo Koffee'n'Kreme.
• Roy 'Chubby' Brown – 10 December 1977.
• Paul Zenon - 21 November 1986.
• Bonnie Tyler - Appeared with her group Imagination in Series Two
• Our Kid - Won an edition in May 1976 and scored a number two hit single on the UK Singles Chart with "You Just Might See Me Cry".

Other winners and contestants

• Penny Black – Extremely popular female-fronted five-piece band from Walsall. Appeared 4 December 1976 opening the show performing Kiki Dee's "I Got the Music in Me". Penny Black's TV lineup included Tiki Jones, Barry Underhill, Rob Wood, Roger Hayward, and John Perkins. An EP was recorded to coincide with the New Faces TV appearance. Penny Black performed with various personnel changes with Underhill an ever present from 1974 until 1989 when they changed their name to PARIS and introduced a revamped modern 'romantics' image initiated by their latest female vocalist, Paula Tuckley. Penny Black/PARIS performed around the UK heavily throughout the 1970s and 1980s establishing a strong fan base. They recorded "Inside These 4 Walls" written by Underhill/Wood in 1982, with "Teenager in Love" on the B-side, before disbanding in late 1991, however, Underhill & Wood continued as a duo until 2000. PARIS reformed in July 2012 with the original band members to perform a 'One Night Only' Charity gig in November that year, however the gig was so successful they decided to carry on performing, until Underhill left the band in early 2014 and PARIS finally disbanded shortly afterwards.
• The Glentones – 18 piece high school big band playing music from the Glenn Miller era.
• Charlie James – Female singer – Heat winner, December 1973.
• Mike McCabe – Comedian.
• Bokkle Green – Pop music duo from Wolverhampton performing a song written by member Kevin Clark on the 24.11.73 episode. Kevin went on to become a successful musician, songwriter & record producer.
• Martin Berger
• Al Brown – Comedian and father of television personality Claire Sweeney.
• Pete Hartley – Won audience vote in 1987.
• Pete Price
• Dave Curtis – Vocalist.
• Son of a Gun – Won in 1975 with 111 points beating Paul Shane. They did a number of TV shows and were signed to RCA. They lost to Al Dean in the All Winners Final, which also featured Lenny Henry.
• Sparrow
• M3 – Three sisters, Marilyn, Mary and Maureen Stevens.
• Walker and Cadman
• Professor Steve Green – Pianist and doctor.
• Dragon's Playground – Band.
• David Gold – Vocalist.
• Jimmy Tamley – Beat Joe Pasquale.
• Crick's Canine Wonders
• Darren Stuart
• Frank Leyton
• Frank Yonco and Kit Connor
• The Mad Hatters
• Rabbit – Cabaret band.
• Sandra Christie – Voice of Edith Piaf.
• The Libra Brothers. Three-piece band from Barnsley – members were Frank Cawthrow, Charlie Foster and Gordon Scholey.
• Rod and Mark Lyons – Father and son ventriloquist duo who had a minor hit single in Germany with the Neil Sedaka song "Oh, Carol!".
• Ground Pepper – Band. Song – Draculamania 1 March 1975 series 3 episode 24
• Pyramid - comedy showgroup from Gateshead – Steve Laidlaw, Allen Meche and Brian Pick.
• Colin "fingers" Henry
• Inter-City Union six-piece Soul/Funk group from London.
• The comedy character John Shuttleworth is managed by "Ken Worthington", a fictional Clarinet player and fictional New Faces runner-up. Worthington's voice is provided by actor Graham Fellows.

Transmissions

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