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Pop Music on British Television 1955 - 1999

A week-day tea-time pop alternative to ITV's Get It Together and Runaround, directed by Top of the Pops' Johnnie Stewart. Hosted by Keith Chegwin, ex-child actor and part host of Saturday morning's Multi-Coloured Swap Shop.


Two teams of kids, divided up into reds and yellows, representing their school would participate in silly games, occasionally accompanied by a current pop hit. Two or three pop acts would appear in the studio each week, many of them big names of the time.


A pilot edition had been recorded with Flintlock performing Mony Mony, Tina Charles - I'll Go Where The Music Takes Me and The Jarvis Brothers - One Glance. It's likely that all the pop clips were recorded away from the studio and just placed later in editing.


It's a show that's been forgotten about by pop show historians, probably choosing to ignore it due to their aversion to the host, which is unfair. There's plenty to investigate here, but when seventies/eighties compilations are broadcast this one is usually, and needlessly, absent.




CHEGGERS PLAYS POP


BBC1

10th April 1978 - 7th November 1986