TV Series

Series Name:	Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
Format:	TV Series
Years:	1976 - 1982
Country:	UK
Language:	English
Genre:	Children & Family
Rating:	6.3 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	20 Have Seen
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Selected Cast	Noel Edmonds
	Keith Chegwin
	John Craven
	Maggie Philbin

Comments and Reviews


henry29 15th May 2015		Swap Shop E-Bay on the telly!. No for Me It was Sally James those wet T-Shirt moments will live on In Me memory forever. And If You reading this Sally, Thanks for making a Young Man grow Old Happily. H.



RadoxTheGreen 14th May 2015		HTV man? You'll like what I'm about to load up then Biggie.



BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		Good Man Radox - West Country Man like meself (you mention HTV, which was pretty early in picking up on ATV's Tiswas). But enough about that great show - we're talking about Swap Shop. Mmm... interesting dialogue since I've been away guys. Thanks for the contributions. However I must add that Swap Shop was vastly superior in one thing only - mediocrity. Tiswas was punk, anarchy, imrovisational comedy and freedom. Swap Shop was Auntie Beeb, Conservatism, boredom and carefulness combined.



RadoxTheGreen 14th May 2015		I've clicked seen it, but I have to admit it would get switched over once Tiswas started on HTV. Keith Chegwins gurning mug leering out the screen, or the potential of seeing Sally James in a wet T-Shirt. Forgone conclusion really.



cannyuk SUBS 14th May 2015		Yay somebody added this. Was going to do it myself when I saw that Tiswas rubbish on here.



biffbampow 14th May 2015		There's nothing big or clever about flinging flans at people. Swap Shop was a vastly superior show. True, but I'd had gladly smashed a flan into the face of Keith Chegwin!



TopPopper 14th May 2015		There's nothing big or clever about flinging flans at people. Swap Shop was a vastly superior show.



BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		It was that bleedin' TopPopper that uploaded it! I knew it! :-D



biffbampow 14th May 2015		I plead my innocence! I didn't add this show (but I have just added one that's TRULY horrid... gimme a K... gimme an R... an A... an N... another K... I own up to that!) but couldn't resist adding my views as I do wherever applicable! Yep... in total agreement with you about the radio DJ's thing and about John Peel being the sole exception since his turns on TOTP were brilliantly funny though I will give credit to David "Kid" Jensen for playing along with him and helping make Peel's acidic jibes even funnier. Yes, there was something rather smug and complacent about the BBC and I detested that whole Radio One presenter gang thing they had back in the day where the DJ's really believed they were bigger than the music they were playing. That was awful.



BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		Argh biffbang, you've only gone and done it - uploaded an entry of my hate-show! You'll be praised by TopPopper but nay by me ;) Excruciating - the BBC using Radio hosts as TV presenters never really worked, the only exception being John Peel presenting Top Of The Pops totally dead-pan. The music was all mimed, the guests were people like, erm, John Craven (and others under contract to the BBC), and it just stank of the BBC's safeness and medocrity. (...deep breath and rest). Rant over. After purging myself of the above, I can ironically still remember the bloody phone-in no. : 01 811 8055



biffbampow 14th May 2015		OK... let's be reasonable here. In it's defence, this originated from an idea from the Blue Peter team. They simply wanted something to liven up the usual Saturday morning kids tosh which was usually cartoons, old American shows and those badly dubbed European dramas, so by having Noel Edmonds as a linking device with the idea tossed in that kids could ring in to try swapping their unwanted toys, the idea mutated into this show. It was up against stiff competition in Tiswas though I don't think that had yet been picked up by most ITV regions... and it became a hit. Though live and therefore things could and did often go wrong, the BBC always had that polite grip on it that kept it on a leash... I think sometimes some presenters felt tempted to inject a bit more anarchy into it but never dared to go all the way so there was always a safe clinical feeling about... a bit like the difference between Blue Peter and Magpie. The BBC opted for scripts and rehearsals whereas ITV one got the feeling they just went for it and indeed barely ever rehearsed. This was what I was "permitted" to watch and apart from if there were guests on that I liked, I hated the show. I never could stand the tidy bearded one and even as an under ten, I always thought Keith Chegwin was a complete irritating tw@ My main memories seem to come from the final year when B.A.Robertson seemed to be popping up a fair bit and that led to the Brown Sauce fiasco as Cheggers, Edmonds and Philbin under Robertson's production decided to copy Tiswas and try and make a hit record... "If You Wanna Be A Winner" was horrific... and they gave it plenty of airtime and promotion. The funniest thing is, everybody seems to have forgotten there would be long boring sequences when the old cartoons and TV shows would be shown which was the whole idea of the show... to link those and get kids watching tired old non-BBC shows - even I can't remember what they were... it's just the in between live bits I can seem to recall... and given what horrors Edmonds went on to and Cheggers simply being Cheggers, I'd rather NOT recall any of it!



TopPopper 14th May 2015		Let's hear it for Swap Shop, folks.

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