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About
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Data Sheet
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Media Gallery
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Stills Gallery
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Star Awards
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Harry Copter
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Brown Sauce
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Swap Trek
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Last Show Script
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Rock Garden Party
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Publicity Cards
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It Started With Swap Shop... |
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At 9.30am on Saturday, 2 October 1976, the face of Saturday morning television changed forever as the BBC launched The Multi-Coloured Swap Shop.
Compared to the normal menu that had been used this was new and radical. A live three-hour (OK, 2¾ hour...) programme with pop music, cartoons, live phone-ins, an outside broadcast and much more was ambitious and brave - but the BBC pulled it off and a new type of television was born.
Originally planned for 6 shows, little did we know at that point that Swap Shop would run for 6 years and a total of 146 editions. It would spawn it's own awards show, two supergroups, several specials, four books and a top twenty hit single!
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 | | It started with Swap Shop. Find out about the show that set the ball rolling. |
 | | Who, what, where? The data sheet tells all. |
 | | Time warp back and relive music and video clips from the show. |
 | | A selection of stills that should revive memories of the Swappie. |
 | | Who won an Eric, and in which year? |
 | | Remember Swap Shop's most curious Collector? Here's Harry Copter! |
 | | Video, stills and facts about the unlikeliest group to enter the Top 20. |
 | | To boldly go where no Saturday Morning show would ever go again... |
 | | See the entire camera script from the last ever Swap Shop. |
 | | Details of the 1978 spring bank holiday event, with exclusive pictures. |
 | | See our collection of the show's Publicity Cards. |
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