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The show was hosted by [[Noel Edmonds]] with [[Keith Chegwin]], [[John Craven]] and, from 1978, [[Maggie Philbin]].

Also featured was Posh Paws, a stuffed toy dinosaur. Edmonds once explained that his name was actually spelt "Pohs Paws", because that is ''Swap Shop'' backwards as suggested in the phone in by 5 -year -old Duncan Beck.

Another person named was "Eric" (Ilett), the often-referred-to but never-seen technician whose job was to lower a plastic globe containing postcards sent in by viewers as answers to competitions. Eric performed a similar task on the BBC's ''[[Ask The Family]]'' when technical assistance was required as part of the programme.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}

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===Telephone number===

The telephone number for the show from the second series onward was 01 811 8055.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saturdaymornings.co.uk/page.sm?ref=plradiotimes1977feature&s=Y|title=Calling Up Swap Shop|publisher=Saturday Mornings -– A celebration of BBC Saturday Morning television since 1976}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saturdaymornings.co.uk/page.sm?ref=plgiveusacall&s=Y|title=Give Us A Call On...|publisher=Saturday Mornings}}</ref> The first series had a different number, 01 288 8055, before being changed to the number retained throughout the rest of the show's run, and retained for its successor, ''[[Saturday Superstore]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2561459.stm|title=118: Who you gonna call?|work=BBC News|date=10 December 2002|access-date=4 November 2016}}</ref>

The number was well known and remembered by children<ref>{{cite book|title=Wiffle Lever to Full!|first=Bob|last=Fischer|publisher=Hachette UK|p=69|year=2009|isbn=978-1-848-94329-2}}</ref> and was groundbreaking for the BBC, who previously had received viewer feedback mainly by letter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/12/interacting_with_listeners_at_bbc_audio_and_music.html|title=Interacting with listeners at BBC Audio & Music|publisher=BBC|first=Jem|last=Stone|access-date=4 November 2016}}</ref>

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This first ever question for the live audience was, 'Where will the next Olympic games be held (1980)?'. Moscow was the answer.

''Swap Shop'' is poorly represented in the BBC archive. For some time it was believed that either the programmes were never routinely recorded in the first place, or they [[Wiping#BBC|had been wiped]] on the orders of the BBC's Archive Selector Adam Lee in 1993. The truth, as related by ex-''[[Blue Peter]]'' editor [[Richard Marson]] on the archive television forum ''The Mausoleum Club'' in 2006, is that almost every edition of ''Swap Shop'' was recorded in full every week onto two 90-minute [[2 -inch Quadruplex videotape|Quad tapes]]. These tapes were held by the BBC until the late 1980s, at which time the Deputy Head of Children's Television, Roy Thompson, allowed many of them to be wiped and sold to Australia as recycled stock. Although Quad tape was considered obsolete in the UK, Australia was still using it extensively at that time, and as the ''Swap Shop'' tapes had no physical splices in them, they were considered ideal for reuse.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mausoleumclubforum.org.uk/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=13855&page=1|title=Junked BBC Childrens Shows|publisher=The Mausoleum Club Forum|date=2006}}</ref>

As a consequence of this action, many of the clips used in the retrospective ''It Started With Swap Shop'' and as extras on some DVD releases of other BBC shows had to be taken from domestic video recordings that had survived in private hands. Amongst the editions wiped were those featuring appearances by [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], [[XTC]], ''[[Trumpton]]'' creator [[Gordon Murray (puppeteer)|Gordon Murray]], and numerous cast and crew members of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.

Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin and John Craven reunited in 1999 for a parody of ''Swap Shop'' transmitted at the end of the last ever episode of ''[[Noel's House Party]]''. In the skit, Edmonds -– playing his "younger self" -– wakes up in the ''Swap Shop'' studio after supposedly dozing off, and explains to the others that he has just had a horrible dream of him being "trapped in a big house for 8 years", and recounting the events of a typical ''Noel's House Party'' episode, and then the three discover that [[Mr Blobby]] is also in the studio.

On 20 December 2007, the BBC announced that ''Swap Shop'' was returning to [[BBC Two]] for a 13-week run.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7154363.stm|title=Basil Brush brings back Swap Shop|date=20 December 2007|publisherwork=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> Barney Harwood presented the new show with [[Basil Brush]]. The revived series was titled ''[[Basil's Swap Shop]]''. The BBC commissioned a second series of the Saturday mornings series.

==''It Started With Swap Shop''==

A special programme celebrating the 30th anniversary of BBC children's Saturday morning shows was recorded in December 2006. The show, called ''It Started With Swap Shop'', was made by [[Noel Edmonds]]' Unique TV company. Highlights of the programme saw the original presenting team reunited, other presenters from its successor shows ''[[Saturday Superstore]]'', ''[[Going Live!]]'' and ''[[Live & Kicking]]'' make an appearance and celebrity fans came along to 'make a swap'.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saturdaymornings.co.uk/itstarted/|title=It Started With... Swap Shop|publisher=Saturday Mornings}}</ref>

The 130 -minute programme was recorded in front of a studio audience at [[BBC Television Centre]] on 15 December 2006 and was broadcast on [[BBC Two]] on Thursday 28 December 2006 at 9.00pm with a shortened repeat (110 minutes) on Sunday 31 December 2006 at 6.10pm, again on [[BBC Two]]. The shortened version of the programme was broadcast on [[BBC Four]] on 28 May 2007 at 7.00pm as part of the channel's ''Children's Television Onon Trial'' season.

Other than the original ''Swap Shop'' team of [[Noel Edmonds]], [[John Craven]], [[Keith Chegwin]], [[Maggie Philbin]], live appearances were made by [[Mike Read]], [[Andi Peters]], [[Emma Forbes]], [[Trevor Neal]] and [[Simon Hickson]]. A recorded contribution was made by [[Phillip Schofield]] and [[Sarah Greene]]. Telephone calls (some prerecorded) were taken from [[Delia Smith]], [[Dame Edna Everage]] and [[Cliff Richard|Sir Cliff Richard]]. Other guests included [[Johnny Ball]], [[Nicki Chapman]], [[Fearne Cotton]], [[Lenny Henry]], [[Arlene Phillips]], [[Chris Moyles]] and [[Michael Crawford]] who appeared on a video link from Australia. A surprise appearance came from [[Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen]] as part of Trev and Simon's Draper Brothers sketch.

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==Annuals==

<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Noel_Edmonds.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Harry Copter/[[Noel Edmonds]] from Swap Shop Book 4.]] -->

''Swap Shop'' was so popular that during its run 4 annuals were published.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saturdaymornings.co.uk/archive/archiveshow.shtml?cat=Books |title=Archive -– Books |publisher=Saturday Mornings |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070116013947/http://www.saturdaymornings.co.uk/archive/archiveshow.shtml?cat=Books |archive-date=16 January 2007 }}</ref>

The publishing dates for the books were as follows:

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! Series !! Start date !! End date !! Episodes

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| '''1''' || 2 October 1976<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6068045961764ddaae5101c30f64668f |title=Multi-Coloured Swap Shop -– BBC One London -– 2 October 1976 |publisher=[[BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> || 26 February 1977<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/46c2819c66264c13b96d4ecf45ab14f2 |title=Multi-Coloured Swap Shop -– BBC One London -– 26 February 1977 |publisher=[[BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> || 21

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| '''2''' || 8 October 1977<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/00fb33aad7794298a1d510c9dc54e803 |title=Multi-Coloured Swap Shop -– BBC One London -– 8 October 1977 |publisher=[[BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> || 25 March 1978<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/5af3f9a199dd4f27accbbe8cd8ae840d |title=Multi-Coloured Swap Shop -– BBC One London -– 23 March 1978 |publisher=[[BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> || 24

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| '''3''' || 30 September 1978<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/49ac6f3859714cfe89644a19e9f9e564 |title=Multi-Coloured Swap Shop -– BBC One London -– 30 September 1978 |publisher=[[BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> || 24 March 1979<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/5dc2c05daccd4beb9fb8ee903d58294e |title=Multi-Coloured Swap Shop -– BBC One London -– 24 March 1979 |publisher=[[BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> || 26

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| '''4''' || 29 September 1979<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/43db5cb60b104728ad5c664afc9d0e52 |title=Multi-Coloured Swap Shop -– BBC One London -– 29 September 1979 |publisher=[[BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> || 22 March 1980<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6dc300161331427092ca3d48147c8b14 |title=Multi-Coloured Swap Shop -– BBC One London -– 22 March 1980 |publisher=[[BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> || 26

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| '''5''' || 27 September 1980<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8d1b5224bcff49879fedd0b712cee9cb |title=Multi-Coloured Swap Shop -– BBC One London -– 27 September 1980 |publisher=[[BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> || 28 March 1981<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6bedba5c189d4fdabd660f9b9b5085d6 |title=Multi-Coloured Swap Shop -– BBC One London -– 28 March 1981 |publisher=[[BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> || 27

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| '''6''' || 3 October 1981<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/5f6f4ca355c54d47acb9b405f2d02987 |title=Swap Shop -– BBC One London -– 3 October 1981 |publisher=[[BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> || 27 March 1982<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bf32ea5d939941d08115e2c6cb16b49d |title=Swap Shop -– BBC One London -– 27 March 1982 |publisher=[[BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> || 25

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Out of the 146 episodes that were made in total, 41 survive which are Episode 21 of Series 1, Episodes 4-54–5 & 21 of Series 2, Episode 24 of Series 3, Episodes 1-21–2, 7, 12, 15, 17, 21 & 25 of Series 4, Episodes 1-21–2, 12, 14-1814–18, 21, 23, 25 & 27 of Series 5 and Episodes 1, 3, 5-75–7, 11, 13, 15-1715–17, 19-2219–22, & 24-2524–25 of Series 6.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?showname=Swap+Shop&type=lostshow|title=TVBrain -– Kaleidoscope -– Lost shows -– TV Archive -– TV History|website=Lostshows.com|access-date=7 June 2018}}</ref>

Due to industrial action by the ABS union at the BBC over Thursday 21 and Friday 22 December 1978, the edition which should have aired on Saturday 23 December 1978 was not transmitted. The reason being that the strike was only settled between the union and the BBC at 10.00pm on Friday 22 December 1978, and it was impossible for the live Swap Shop to be up and running in time for the 9.30am start that next day. Instead BBC One returned to the air after being blacked out for two full days, at 3.00pm on Saturday 23 December 1978. Swap Shop finally returned on Saturday 30 December 1978.

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