1976: Making MULTI-COLOURED SWAP SHOP | Blue Peter | Making Of... | BBC Archive
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- Blue Peter's Lesley Judd takes a look behind the scenes of the popular Saturday morning children's television programme, Multi-Coloured Swap Shop. Lesley joins the show's team of telephone operatives - who take hundreds of calls from young viewers eager to swap their toys with one another - and sees some of the production techniques that get the ambitious live broadcast on air every Saturday.
Originally broadcast 22 November, 1976.
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As a kid I was never allowed to watch Saturday morning TV, my mum shooing me out the house to go play with my friends.
Years later I learnt that with dad on shift work, this was the only occasion that they could enjoy ‘private time’ together!
@@stephenchappell7512 - Sunday school on a Saturday? Bit of an oxymoron there!
@@stephenchappell7512 - Swap Shop was only ever broadcast on a SATURDAY, which is why I thought it was odd that you were going to SUNDAY school, but never mind, whatever. 🤷♂️
I'm so pleased my childhood was in the 70s and 80s
The late 70s and 80s for children and adults were amazing due to the sheer variety of stuff. Whatever your tastes in cartoons/movies/tv/music, it was out there.
It feels like back then, anyone who came up with an idea, no matter how bizarre, got the green light to run with it and give it a go. These days it has to tick certain boxes and has to stick to a set formula.
I feel sorry for kids these days and what they will never get that we had.
Yeah a great time to be alive, unlike now it's a real effort to get through the days
Absolutely!! Brilliant memories ❤
My letter was on Swap Shop in '76 read out by David Soul. I am a proud owner of a Swap Shop pen !
Swap shop was essential viewing for us kids in the 70s
What an interesting film, not only to see how it all worked and all the people involved behind the scenes but to look back at the clothes and hairstyles of the 70s was lovely. Good days.
So much fun this clip. The whole atmosphere, it doesn't get more 70s than this. 😅👍
I remember this exact broadcast. It made it into the Blue Year Book too. It brings back affectionate memories of a simpler time.
Lesley Judd also appeared in Micro Live, my absolute favourite TV programme of all time !!
@PeegShite McGee lol 🤣
@PeegShite McGee No, it was funny, I didn't even realise my typo. What the hell is a Mirco anyway 🤣😁
My hero as a nipper was John Craven, i loved the casual yet informative style he represented both on Swap Shop and Newsround.
I have tried to incorporate those Cravenesque qualities into my adult life as well.
What an example to us all.
He was always in strange places..
"As you can clearly see I am on Mt. Everest with this friendly chap called Steve."
"As you can clearly see I am aboard a soviet hunter-killer submarine with this chap called Ivan."
"As you can clearly see I am adrift in the mid-Atlantic and have been for weeks."
I remember watching this (actually only the bit where Lesley said, "The most important thing - your swap."), but I didn't remember that Swap Shop once had a different number to the one that is still burned in my memory bank: oh-one-eight-double-one-eight-oh-five-five!
IIRC, in the opening episode of the second series, Noel explained that the number had been changed because the original one, for some reason, kept being mis-dialled by kids and some poor woman in a house elsewhere in London kept getting the calls!
Dear Noel, my name is Jonah’s, I’m 52 and a half and I would like to swap 2023 for any year from 1977 to 1980.
I never phoned in to Swap Shop, but I did go to a "Swaparama" once in Slough and got Noel, Cheggers and Maggie Philbin's autorgraphs.
Did Noel ever attend a Swaporama? Surely he would be holding the fort in the studio?
@@maninthestreet01 You’re right actually, now that I think of it, it was just Cheggers and Maggie plus B.A. Robertson (who wrote the theme tune and their single “I Wanna Be A Winner” as Brown Sauce).
Yseeing this kind of thing seeing this type of TV from the past makes me feel sad just how it's all gone makes me year up a bit im 47 and remember watching swap shop it's childhood memories and when I was at my happiest .
Great show, loved it as a kid, the work everyone did on the fly is very, very impressive.
But Tiswas was my fav. Pointless fact, I'm 56
I'd be keen on those pop records if they're still available. And the punching bag/ gloves.
Punch bag here, what you swapping?
Fantastic - one of the first Saturday Morning TV programmes I remember being excited about as a child ; was always made to feel uncool not watching TISWAS but that was because it wasn't broadcast in our region!
All those rotary phones 😊
I’d like to swap 2023 for 1974 please.
I'd go back in a second. It was better then.
I would too - but mostly because my wife hadn’t been born yet 😂
Yes please! 😅
Me too!!
Swap Shop was 1976.
I'd give anything to go back to those days.
Me too
The Internet and mobile phone signal was rubbish back in 1976, though...
@@theaylesburycyclist8756 Libraries and phone boxes were great though
I can’t say I remember this particular episode (aged 4) but I probably would have watched it. The good old days of W12 8QT 👍👍
I would have been around 1, so I definitely don't remember it. Not this episode anyway! :)
The 1970s - All those man-made fabrics!
I’m surprised the static electricity they generated didn’t interfere with the phone lines.
Love the 16mm film quality and just how well it captures that time.
@3:14 - Remember what old CRT TV’s used to smell like? Imagine the whiff from all those tubes in the control room! Probably quite nostalgic, actually.
I imagine it just smells like stale cigarette smoke, in there.
@@northernsnow6982 yeah - I guess the ashtray’s were removed from all those behind-the-scenes desks, because they knew that something for the kids was being filmed on that day 🤣
@@iixorb yeah, because you had a clear view of all the desktops in that room, for the second it was featured in the clip. Oh wait, no you didn't. We only saw one square foot of one persons workstation, as they panned through the room. That tiny area had controllers, a keyboard and paperwork for what's currently at task. Considering the person working the workstation needs that area clear for their hands, as to type or use those controls, they aren't going to have an ashtray set there.
And yes, because it's a children's program they are going to hide the smoking, even at that time in history. Just like you don't see any drinking. Yet on certain adult news programs of the time, you'd see drinking and smoking at the anchors desk, right there on screen. Why? Because news it was a program for adults, and not the "Swap Shop" show for kids on Saturday mornings. 🙄
@@iixorb sorry I was supposed to finish that with.......Bahaha 🤣
I can still remember the smell of the Granada TV shop when I was taken there by my mum to pay the monthly TV rental
EBAY, from 1976 !!! , miss them days x
You should definitely follow this up with the infamous incident from the successor Saturday morning programme Going Live involving Elliott Fletcher’s notorious question to Five Star!!😳
I lived in England from 1979 to 1981 and Swap Shop was one of my absolute favourites.
A few years later (maybe ‘79?) a friend of mine at school did a swap on there. I can’t remember what he swapped and what he got in return but I do remember he wasn’t very happy with the outcome 😂. Simply waaaaay too much red tape associated with doing something like this, nowadays (health and safety, GDPR etc)
I tried and tried and never got through to Swap Shop. I had so many things that people wanted to swap but was never able to.
If you listen very closely, after Leslie says “What’s your swap” you can hear the ATV Zoom 2/In Colour fanfare 2:14
What kids did before the internet, Ebay and mobile phones lol
Don't forget that we rode our bikes outside until the break of dawn.
The internet existed then, but there was no web yet so it was just a novelty for rich kids and colleges.
Amazing footage, I really enjoyed this. 😊👍
Never saw this episode. We didn't have a television. Two or three months later, we did get one so I could watch Doctor Who, after I'd seen it at a friend's house. And of course, we could now watch Multi-coloured Swap Shop. In black and white. 😄
If it was today, every one of the young women would either have a strong regional accent or come from an ethnic minority. How things have changed.
Really fascinating. Thank you! :)
these kids must be nearly 60 by now.
In 1976 ENG was still in its infancy, so thanks to film we can see this in good quality. I wonder for how long the BBC used film for factuals? Well into the mid-1980s I suppose. Hey, BBC Archive, please share more meta about your uploads!
I never cease to be fascinated to see footage shot on film from past times scanned in high resolution. Your whole impression of an era changes when you see it in clear detail - like looking through a window into the past.
Out of 144 editions..33 survive.The rest were wiped in the 1990s..shame
Ridiculous. And we thought wiping had stopped by the 90s. No episodes left either of Noel's other Saturday show,lucky numbers.
There's no skool like the old skool 🤪
I liked Swap Shop, my sister liked Tiswas. It was always tense on a Saturday morning to see who would get ‘control’ of the TV first.
Noel Edmonds was an awesome presenter !! Who can forget Mr. Blobby from Noel's House Party !! lol
Wonderful entertainment !!
@PeegShite McGee BLOBBY BLOBBY BLOB!!!
Wow, was 11yrs old then.
"Good morning ! You're through to Swap Shop !....You'd like to swap the car keys to your Lotus Esprit for a crate of Brown Ale ? Ha ! That sounds like a VERY good swap ! Can I just have your name, please ?" "Keith Chegwin." "Erm...."
'The Swap Shop Girls' - Not sure that would be acceptable nowadays!
Todays world is insane!
we moved to arizona in 1980.
there's a scene in the goodies where the camera pulls back showing the curb and a car passes and the recollection of seeing something for the first time in decades.. meaningless things like noel edmunds hair cut or the socialism in the swapshop logo. that sense of separation people post about looking at the modern world.. i've lived it for over forty years (:
hyraeth :) but i understand this word doesn't translate to english :D
i loved the sheer sense of community in post war britain in the 70s, compared to the casual hostility of AZ. how rupert could wander around and get along with strange people. but yes 43 years since i heard and saw that.
📞🐨"Ah, yes. Good morning.
Sorry, what was that name again?"
(0:05)
the clothes they wore were cool
Most of the kids that were ringing in are probably retired now on a final salary pension 😀
To think... almost everyone working on it were Oxbridge graduates.
And for those who think times were better then, it was the time of high inflation, 3 day week, strikes... actually about as bad as it is now. But of course you were a kid and didn't know about inflation or high interest rates.
Yeah, I remember my single mom working a part time job. It was enough money to own a house, a car, any toy/sports equipment I ever asked for, fresh home cooked meals daily, (I'm talking meat, with vegetables on the side), along with any food we wanted to eat throughout the day. I had siblings and we were all provided for, including further education in university.
Now a days, there are families with two parents working, at least one job each, and they can't afford to rent an apartment. Places called "tent city", are popping up everywhere. Not because they are freeloaders, but because they can't afford housing while working more than 2 jobs.
It's not just people being nostalgic for times when they were a kid. You'll learn that when you get some experience in life, instead of saying the same bullcrap, about nostalgia as every other inexperienced person on the internet. Think about the way people lived then, and compare that t how much we have to work as families, today.
Even 3 years ago, food was so much cheaper than it is today, forget about 50 years ago. You used to be able to buy a car with a years salary, and you could fix it yourself, not anymore. ▶️From 1920-1974 (54years including the great depressions inflation, and inflation from 2 world wars and the Vietnam war), the price of gas went from $0.20 per gallon, to $0.39 per gallon. That's less than double the price, in over 50 years time. Then from 1974-present(50 years), the price went from $0.39 per gallon, $3.50 per gallon. That's close to 10 times the amount in exactly 50 years. If inflation was the same, our gas would only cost $0.88 per gallon on this day. ◀️
We payed less % in taxes, and got more service for that money. Open your eyes to the facts and numbers, before parroting what you hear online, just because it kinda short of sounds like it might make sense.
@@northernsnow6982 It's very true. A single earner could provide for a family back then thanks to the policies the country had pursued since the end of the war. Luckily Thatcher came along to thoroughly dismantle reliable work that could sustain people in security and cut the social safety net to ribbons. And every administration since she stepped down did more of the same. But it worked out very nicely for the ultra-rich.
@@northernsnow6982 Well, I think you were lucky. My mum was a,single mum in the 80s and worked full time and we needed 2 lodgers to give us enough money. True about house prices though. 40+ years of neo-liberal economics have screwed us up. Regeanomics has killed the middle class.
@@thecaveofthedead so the country has gotten worse since the 70's? Because of politics you say? It's a world problem these days, not just an island problem of back then. It doesn't matter what the reason, it was easier cheaper living back then. Life was definitely more simple, getting paid enough money to take care of yourself, with simple on the job training. Now, in some places you have to be educated just to have a job doing bodywork on a car.
But you're absolutely correct, having gas prices go up by 2 times the amount, during war inflation, compared to it going up 9 times the amount in the same amount of time without war inflation, is exactly the same.
@@northernsnow6982 It happened everywhere because Thatcher and Reagan were the thin end of a wedge of new economics called Neoliberalism - basically mask-off capitalism. Everything for the few, nothing for anyone else, with absolute nonsense about 'trickle-down' wealth to hide the scam. It's now spread almost everywhere with a handful of exceptions in Scandinavia and Latin America.
So most countries have improved in terms of social attitudes to groups who were treated cruelly in the '60s and '70s. And our access to consumer goods has never been better. But our access to and quality of necessities keeps getting worse.
Adults in the '70s were usually better off than their parents. Not so their own kids.
ebay before ebay lol
Al of our operators are busy, please hold the line, your call is important to us...... In a few words please tell us what your call is about..... I'm sorry I didn't get that.
Plenty of female telephone operators available in this example.
Thank god for child protection laws.
Is it true Jimmy Savile was a regular visitor to the call centre to collect the call detail slips?
He was nowhere near that studio. He was concentrating on his own show a few studios down
you can quit the jokes. they're all masons. all of them. and no one you know has got even a bit of balls to deal with them. free west papua
People spoke so posh in those days lol
I’m not surprised really that they can’t hear the viewer’s voice very well on the telephones, the audio sounds abysmal.
Seems odd I never heard of swap shop..
You weren't missing much, Noel Edmunds was terribly dry on that show. The best part were the attempts of bartering toys by British school kids, "I'll swap by one armed yoda with broken lightsaber for a Spectrum 48K" etc.
No script..and in the days before internet..Phoning up and getting through was a novelty
@@philward2538 I tried many times and never managed (late 70s) but my mate got through and swapped something. He wasn’t very happy though with whatever it was 🤷♂️🤣
@@ytthrowaway4584 true been in California all my life
I could never get through - it was always a pre-recorded voice "lines from Carlisle are engaged"...;(
I have a Samsung S8 and Samsung Note 5 which i want to swap for a Man Utd season ticket.
Noel I would like to swap 2024 for 1979 please the year I left school
I never liked it when Saturday morning TV changed from Cartoons, Harold Lloyd slapstick, Champion The Wonder Horse etc to Swap Shop and Tiswas, and they turned out to be the early forerunners of the daytime TV format rubbish that really took off in the 80's onwards.
Swap Shop or Tiswas?
Swap Shop was for the ‘terribly nice’ children.
Tiswas was better, anarchic fun which is what kids TV shows should be about e.g. The Banana Splits. Swap Shop was scripted really badly and presented badly by radio DJ types (So was Saturday Superstore) who should have stuck to just short skits before playing the next record on the radio.
Tiswas definitely.
Swap Shop for me, Tiswas for my brother. We had to keep changing channels depending what each was doing at the time. There was only one tv in the house of course.
If I was bored with what was on the one side, would switch to the other side using my right foot to change the channel!
Hi could I swap my Gary Glitter LP for a signed poster of uncle Jimmy please? 😊
Fascinating stuff.
Looking back I can't believe how boring these Saturday and school holiday TV shows were, Swap Shop, Saturday Superstore (Mike Read Zzzzzz Zzzzz), Why Don't You etc. I think Going Live! had a better format and better presentation and they were on the right track with that show. On the 'other side' ITV No.73 was terribly boring after the anarchic fun of Tiswaz, I guess it's just hit or miss based on whichever production team gets lucky enough to win the commission. Get Fresh on ITV wasn't bad either with that alien that did impersonations.
They kept us glued to the TV though, whilst mum’s did the ironing/cleaning/shopping/breakfast/lunch etc and dad’s did…. 🤔 actually what DID my dad actually do, on Saturday mornings 🤷♂️😂
Why Don’t You was awful, with those terribly stilted kids.
@@AtheistOrphan I don't think that the kids were even 'drama school or lessons' type kids; they were middle class kids for the most part who looked really out of place in a contrived situation involved in very boring activities that were meant to motivate other kids at home. It gave me a sinking feeling when it came on TV, I thought to myself could my young life be as dull as this ? really ?
@@davedogge2280 - Exactly! Plus the irony of titling a programme that seemingly went on for hours ‘Why don’t you switch off your TV and do something less boring instead’ was not lost on even a 10 year-old me.
Why does this system seem more democratic than what we have now? Maybe i am so cynical. getting back to human rather than AI
Is it just me or did women just look so much more feminine back then? Maybe it's just because I was at an impressionable age ....