Summer Of My Life - Simon May from Top Of The Pops October 1976 (from Einsfestival 10.3.2010). A 1.5M prime focus dish was used to receive this, but you don't really need such exotic kit. A modest 60-80cm dish (at 19.2 deg. east) and a free-to-air digital satellite receiver is all that's needed. Proof that great TV needn't cost money.
For those too young to remember, Tony is absolutely right about the record breaking long hot summer (and drought) of 1976. Sept. & Oct. did indeed seem to make up for it. Happy days!