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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.
Spin-off programmes were created to widen the appeal of ''Multi-Coloured Swap Shop''. On Boxing Day 1976, ''Swap of the Pops'' was broadcast on BBC1, featuring pre-recorded performances by pop acts of the era, linked by Noel Edmonds. The first ''Swap Shop Star Awards'' were shown in March 1978, in which special awards ('Erics') were given to sportspeople, actors and other celebrities, as voted for by viewers of ''Multi-Coloured Swap Shop''. The programme returned for subsequent editions in 1979, 1980 and 1981. A live outside broadcast, ''Noel Edmonds Rock Garden Party'', was shown in May 1978 with Edmonds presenting numerous musical acts performing at the Jubilee Gardens on London's South Bank.
''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 [[Lost television broadcast#Wiping|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>
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