Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, more commonly known simply as Swap Shop, was a British children's entertainment programme that was broadcast on Saturday mornings on BBC1 for 146 episodes in six series between 1976 and 1982. It was ground-breaking in many ways: by being live; being nearly three hours in length; and using the phone-in format extensively for the first time on TV. The content of the programme included music, visits from celebrities, competitions, and cartoons, but the main element was that children would offer to swap something they no longer wanted in return for something else.

Series 1, Episode 13

ABBA were standing in a decorated BBC Canteen with Keith Chegwin (Cheggers). As their 'swap', they offer a silver disc for the Greatest Hits album in return for the answer to a question (the name of their home town in Sweden).  Frida, Agnetha and Björn each said a few words and Agnetha commented that the album took about three years to record!  The Money, Money, Money PROMO was then shown.

The episode was a "Swap of the Pops" special with other guests being Showaddywaddy, Mud, Smokie (who would go on to work with Agnetha on her Wrap Your Arms Around Me album), John Christie, White Rhino, Pussycat (their dreadful Mississippi knocked Dancing Queen from the No.1 spot in the UK and I've never forgiven them for that), The Wurzels, Dr Hook and Britain's only Quackologist!

The programme's successor was Saturday Superstore on which Agnetha and Benny appeared in November 1982.

Keith Chegwin died on 11 December 2017.


 

Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, 1976; 
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (Swap Shop Awards), 1978; 
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (Benny & Björn), 1979; 
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (Björn on telephone), 1981; 

 

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Title: MULTI-COLOURED SWAP SHOP - SWAP OF THE POPS
Caption: Sequences showing pandas in zoo. Noel EDMONDS presents the best bits from the first series of The Multi-Coloured Swap Shop. Includes kite flying, Blackpool, Whipsnade Zoo, Abba, Rod STEWART, Sherbet, Paul NICHOLAS, Taveres, Showaddywaddy etc. vt, ex lib & cprt film & vt
Guid: LCH1978E
Transmission date: 27 Dec 1976
Clip #: BBC_LCH1978E
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Noel EDMONDS presents the best bits from the first series of The Multi-Coloured Swap Shop. Includes kite flying, Blackpool, Whipsnade Zoo, Abba, Rod STEWART, Sherbet, Paul NICHOLAS, Taveres, Showaddywaddy etc. vt, ex lib & cprt film & vt
Sequences showing pandas in zoo. 
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Pandas: Var s' two pandas in zoo enclosure i/cut intv with their keeper about what they eat (0ms0s-2ms6s). Var s' keeper plays with baby panda (2ms6s-2ms51s). S' baby panda playing i/cut intv keeper about the baby's rejection by its mother (2ms51s-3ms42s). Ground level s' baby panda (3ms42s-3ms52s). Var tra s' as panda plays around, and tries to play with camera (3ms52s-4ms32s).
EX LIB VT: Paul NICHOLAS perf Grandma's Party, ex 20/11/1976 (2m29s), Showaddywaddy perf Under The Moon Of Love, ex 30/10/1976 (3m04s), Strawbs perf Hard, Hard Winter, ex 09/10/1976 (2m46s), TWIGGY perf Vanilla Ole ex 27/11/1976, source Phonogram (46s), Simon MAY perf Summer Of My Life, ex 06/11/1976 (26s), The Wurzels perf Morning Glory, ex 13/11/1976 (2m37s), Smokie perf I'll Meet You At Midnight, ex 16/10/1976 (3m14s), Mike OLDFIELD perf Portsmouth, ex 13/11/1976, source Virgin (1m58s), Alison BAKER perf Chopin's Black Key Etude, ex 04/12/1976 (1m44s),
EX LIB VT: DANA perf Fairy Tales, ex 27/11/1976, source GTC (2m54s), Mud perf Lean On Me, ex 06/11/1976 (3m28s), John CHRISTIE and orchestra perf Here's To Love, ex 04/12/1976 (3m46s). FILM SEQS: SP S FILM: Blackpool with Keith CHEGWIN and Blackpool beauty queen Sue HEMPEL. They go on various rides inc log ride, carousel, roller coaster at Blackpool's fun fair. (1m54s).
BBC Item Type: Programme
BBC SubCatalogue: LONPROG

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