Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1976)

Country

United Kingdom

Rated

U

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This was a British children's show that aired live on Saturday mornings. Kids could call in to swap toys and other items with each other. It was one of the first TV programs to let viewers participate by phone.

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What happens

Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, more commonly known simply as Swap Shop, is a British children's television series that aired on BBC1 from 2 October 1976 to 27 March 1982. It was groundbreaking in many ways: by broadcasting on Saturday mornings, being live, being three hours in length, and using the phone-in format extensively for the first time on TV. The show rivalled the growing success of rival broadcaster ITV's Tiswas, though the latter was initially only broadcast in the ATV region in the Midlands and, at the time of Multi-Coloured Swap Shop's inception, had yet to be taken up by other ITV franchises around the country. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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