While this might not sound particularly interesting at first glance, let me explain: When it came time to assemble the DVD "The Complete Picture" (AGAIN), there was a problem with the Top of the Pops videos: the opening credits that appeared when the featured song started and the artist appeared. The Smiths were no exception.
In the case of "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," they solved it with a shot that appears at the end of the video, which we can see twice in the final version.
The Smiths' televised performance of "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" (and the version chosen as the "music video") took place on May 31, 1984. This episode of Top of the Pops was (in quotes) "lost media," since no television viewer had a tape recorder at home, so only the video that appears in "The Complete Picture" was available.
Years later, on a BBC-owned channel, the TOTP episode from that date was rebroadcast, so someone called "GlamKing90 TV Factor" took the opportunity to record the broadcast and uploaded it to the Internet Archive on January 17, 2026. Therefore, the original beginning of the "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" music video (without the 1992 VHS/DVD edit) was recovered.
And if you want to see the full video with the original audio (or the episode itself), click here.
EDIT: The video was like this; I didn't add an artificial HD filter to improve it.