do you remember Swap Shop on TV?

Question

what would you swap and want for your swap?

Answer 1

Entirely live (whooooo!)
'Fronted' by Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin and John Craven.
Oh, and Maggie Philbin.
Remember the 'Swaporama' events?

Answer 2

I remember swap shop, i used to watch Tiswas and then turn over for the gozilla cartoon (but how much did i hate godzuki)

Noel had experimented with kids' TV the previous year, in a series of short afternoon phone-in shows called Z-Shed, where he would converse with the kids on a set topic much as he did on the radio.

The Multi-coloured Swap Shop aimed to add to this phone-interactivity with pop guests, news, chat and, crucially, the swaps - originally conceived as a platform for kids to talk about their hobbies (one child was invited onto each show to show
off their wares - a boy with an extensive lightbulb collection, who'd been on Blue Peter previously, was the first such guest), and celebrities who happened to collect stuff pitched in too.

Swaps were also the main crux of the phone-ins - a toycentric bartering system sprang up during the course of each edition, its progress commented on by Noel - and of course Keith Chegwin was despatched to a damp recreation ground to hold second-hand board games just out of the reach of a hundred tiny hands.

At the centre of operations, Noel, behind his DJ-style desk, held affable court. This was, remember, a long time before he started running about over-frantically in the name of adult entertainment. Seated, stripey t-shirt on chest and mug of BBC tea in hand, Edmonds was the quintessential 'eccentric uncle' type that kids' TV thrived on back then. Sometimes he moved to the right of the desk and stood up, or even further to the right and sat on a sofa. Cheggers' (pre nuude tv quiz show) braying laugh on the monitor as he drowned in a sea of Buckaroo bidders in a Leeds rec was as 'manic' as the show ever threatened to get, and if that put some kids off, for others it was an ideal pre-lunch pace.

Answer 3

Yes! I definitely remember it. I aksed my Mum if I could ring and try and swap my rabbit for a Cindy horse!! I was only about 5 at the time though. Needless to say she said no.

Answer 4

Swap channels for TISWAS

Answer 5

I would swap Noel Edmonds for someone who doesn't give me an involuntary response to punch his face really hard......they should ban that fellow from leaving his house or opening his curtains - it's for the public good.

Answer 6

I remember it well although I prefered Tiswas. I would swap an etch-a-sketch for a space hopper.

Answer 7

Anyone remember Zed Shed

Answer 8

yeah id swap a multicoulored jumper 4 any thing...
i agree with asbo tiswas was better espeically the adult version
OTT = over the top

Answer 9

Yep - Do you also remember 'Eric' and the big plastic ball that was lowered with letters in it?

I'm afraid though, I was one of the people who turned over to TISWAS - Custard pies, Sally James, Trevor Mc donut, Sally James, Buckets of water (And Sally James).

Answer 10

ought to be Tiswas, it blew the sanitised replace keep out of the water. It replaced into the only element properly worth getting away from mattress for at 10.30 Sat morning. I continuously felt the BBC teach replaced into extra geared in the direction of families who could seem on "Ask The kin" (remember that!)