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Multicoloured Swap Shop Returns...

(October 2006)

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PO
Pootle5
Westy2 posted:
cylon6 posted:
Westy2 posted:
Pootle5 posted:
Westy2 posted:
One 1974 edition of Blue Peter came from the sets for Tom Baker's Who debut 'Robot', which was in studio as well at the time.

I remember an edition of Swap Shop 'spoofing' Breakfast TV or what they were expecting breakfast tv to be. (I think they called it AM UK ?)

Does that edition still exist in the archives? What was the transmission date?

By the way, who prefered the first Swap Shop set, as recreated on the show, or the second & final one with the circular desk?

Who's bright idea was to make it 2 hours 10 mins? I can only get 2 hours on a recordable DVD!


Can't you alter the setting to make it fit on to a DVD? The quality shouldn't be harmed too much?



It won't play back on a normal DVD player if I do that!


I changed the recording speed to fit it on. Got 6 hours when you do it as super long play.


Still won't play back on a standard one speed DVD player though!

(My setup is one of these BUSH VCR/DVD RW jobs from Argos that only takes 1x - 2x discs & they're a pain in the bum to find at the best of times, plus, depending on the brand/mood of the recorder, bloody disc errors occasionally too!)


Bush... hmmm, I see now.
PO
Pootle5
stevek posted:
Pootle5 posted:

I liked all the sets - I used to (try and) recreate them in Lego... Embarassed


so did I, recreated the late late breakfast show set as well as other tv sets, but I was mad on tv production at the time, even made little lego camera and boom mikes. shame I never photographed them.



Yes I made cameras too - I was especially proud of the one on a crane that I made. I used the base of the plane propeller pieces for my cameras, as they sort of looked like a camera lens! I wish I'd tried harder to get into TV as a career now, ah well! As it turns out Lego influenced my chosen career in a more direct and greater way though I suppose - I just wish it were as much fun now!
SA
saturdaymorning
Has anyone got one of the montages[either the back in time one or the one at the end] in wmv,avi or mpg format?
AS
Asa Admin
Ahhh, wonderful nostalgia fest. "We don't do duvets" - it's like being 10 years old all over again.

Great show and Noel looked to be revelling in presenting an (as)-live show, going behind the scenes at TVC and with the studio audience too.

Nice to see Andi and Emma and Philip and Sarah popping up as well.

I agree about them glossing over the last ten years though - Zoe and Jamie's era and Dick and Dom should probably have had a little more airtime. Nice message from the TMi team though.
CY
cylon6
Westy2 posted:


Still won't play back on a standard one speed DVD player though!

(My setup is one of these BUSH VCR/DVD RW jobs from Argos that only takes 1x - 2x discs & they're a pain in the bum to find at the best of times, plus, depending on the brand/mood of the recorder, bloody disc errors occasionally too!)


That's odd I use 1x-2x Philips discs on my Sharp DVD/VCR combi and I haven't had any problems apart from one or two bad discs.
SA
saturdaymorning
Dick and Dom got enough airtime.I mean,they were in two clip compilations and they shouldn't really be counted as the sixth saturday morning show.They were a winter replacement for the saturday show.
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A former member
saturdaymorning posted:
Dick and Dom got enough airtime.I mean,they were in two clip compilations and they shouldn't really be counted as the sixth saturday morning show.They were a winter replacement for the saturday show.


Confused dick & dom did the winter..... and Swap shop did the winters.. ER there should be counted as if there did the winter then there main programme. - 30 weeks a year
SA
saturdaymorning
The saturday show was all year round.It wasn't just the main show,it was the ONLY show.Dick and Dom came along and it was still the main show.It was just in the summer.

BTW,apparently ITV1 are having a one-off documentary about Tiswas.I was looking forward to it but i think it's JUST about Tiswas.Not the shows after.
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A former member
where did ther cut the 20mins then on this evening show?
SA
saturdaymorning
If anyone from Tiswas Online is reading this,please stop praising Dick and Dom and be a bit fairer to the ministry of mayhem and the saturday show.They were both trying to get viewers after the previous ones had lost their viewers.
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A former member
saturdaymorning posted:
If anyone from Tiswas Online is reading this,please stop praising Dick and Dom and be a bit fairer to the ministry of mayhem and the saturday show.They were both trying to get viewers after the previous ones had lost their viewers.


the Saturday show ( bbc) was awful! if it wasn;t for Dick N dom the BBC would be lost!

and there first verion of M)M I never like niether! it was after the second revamp with Mid June 2005 - Dec 2005 which I think was it best period along with the last few Months of Saturday showdown!

41 days later

PT
Peter Thomas
saturdaymorning posted:
If anyone from Tiswas Online is reading this


Well, I am now.

saturdaymorning posted:
please stop praising Dick and Dom and be a bit fairer to the ministry of mayhem and the saturday show.


We have been fair to them. They really were pretty poor efforts. That's my honest opinion.

We praise Dick and Dom because... well, we appeared on the show, and saw how it all worked with our own eyes! I've been on a few TV shows in my time, but that one was really magical, the dedication and enthusiasm of all the staff. Plus it fully deserves the "new Tiswas" tag for emerging from a small channel, annoying the establishment, and throwing gunge around at any given moment in time.

One of my friends has appeared on Ministry Of Mayhem, but easily prefers Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow, it was simply more entertaining. Spelling competitions or "You'll never do that with a carcass on your hands"? I know what I prefer.

saturdaymorning posted:
They were both trying to get viewers after the previous ones had lost their viewers.


And didn't succeed really well at that. Plus it's the forced "be trendy" ethos that made those shows a chore rather than a pleasure to watch.

SM:TV had an amiable cheap game slot (Wonkey Donkey) - that's the spirit of creative and silly television - which is why SM:TV is a well-remembered ITV Saturday morning hit.

When I saw Stephen Mulhern and Holly Willoughby trying to be amusing, they were trying to shoehorn in adult innuendoes in the most unsubtle way, and dying on their butts for it.

We don't actually mention the BBC's The Saturday Show all that much at all on our forums. We do happen to mention The Saturday Show made by Central for ITV in 1982-84 quite a lot, because that's what 'replaced' Tiswas, which was also a poor effort.

The Satuday Show (Central) was made by largely the same production crew of Tiswas, but the format was not anarchic, just rather whimsical.

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