July 2007
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New Updates This Month:
There's a lot going on at Saturday Mornings HQ at the moment away
from this very site which is keeping our attention, but here are a
couple of new items for the Archive and a few bits of video
that have been awaiting uploading - one of them for quite a while...
First a find that we're quite pleased about - a Saturday
SuperStore mug, and secondly there's a T shirt from the CBBC
yellow era.
You'll find a new Video clip over on the It Started With
Swap Shop site featuring the introduction the show had on its
repeat showing on BBC FOUR during their 'Children's
Television on Trial' season, and here on the main site there's the Christmas
titles for TMi which we've finally managed to get on the site
some six and a bit months after they first broadcast...
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May 2007
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New Updates This Month:
We've finally found a few spare minutes to update the Archive and
Publicity Cards sections with some of the goodies we've manages to
find over the last month or so...
In the Pens section we've got a earlier SuperStore pen
that looks just like the Swap Shop one, in the Badges section
there's a rare SuperStore badge featuring the show's 'SS'
logo and there's also a badge from the Saturday Picture Show.
The Other Items section now has one of the iconic SuperStore
items in it - the Saturday SuperStore Paper Carrier Bag! The CBBC
section now has a Mug with the 'bugs' branding and there's
also another mug - a rare one - in the Not Quite... section
from the 1982 celebration of 60 Years of Children's Programmes.
There's a new Angellica Bell card in the
CBBC section of Publicity Cards, which is joined by two cards
of Sophie McDonnell and one of Mohini Sule. There's
also another card featuring Dick and Dom which can be found
in their section.
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April 2007
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New Updates This Month:
We may have not updated the site much during March, but we did keep
our eyes open for new items to add to the site...
Only Archive updates for the moment with a copy of the Going
Live! Cat Book and a copy of Beeb Magazine Issue 1 (heavily
featured on that week's SuperStore if you remember...)
There's also another 5 issues for the L&K Magazine archive
- all helping to fill the huge gap in the earlier years.
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March 2007
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New Updates This Month:
A lack of updates this month down wass mainly to the webmaster
producing a second website for Unique Television's latest
project...
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February 2007
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New Updates This Month:
First, a couple of items for the Archive we
slipped in a little while ago. There's a Saturday SuperStore script
and a 'I've been on Swap Shop' sticker.
Then we added a couple of revised Publicity Cards for the
Live & Kicking section - there's a signed card of Emma Forbes
(1st series) that replaces the copy we had and also the rare signed John
Barrowman card too.
We've added a few old video clips to the Swap Shop Sound
and Video section.
• Programme Titles from 6 December 1980
• Lucky Numbers Titles
• Last Swap Shop Opening
• Last Swap Shop Closing
Our thanks to Ian Norman for providing the recordings from which
these clips have been taken.
As we allow ourselves to be distracted by CBBC in
general, we've been quietly collecting Publicity Cards over
the past few months, and our efforts can now be seen in the new CBBC
Publicity Card section.
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January 2007
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New Updates This Month:
New Year, new ideas!
We sort of tripped across the BBC Programme Catalogue on the
Internet one idle lunchtime. This provides data feeds through the BBC
Backstage programme that can be used freely on other websites.
So, with a quick bit of programming we've managed to add a BBC
Catalogue item to all our sections that will allow you to call up
the details of every Saturday morning programme - main and summer!
The content of the Programme Catalogue is provided by the BBC and is
not under our control - so if there are gaps or inaccuracies then we
can do nothing about them.
The first part of the It Started With Swap Shop
site is now available.
And a really rare Publicity Card for the Summers section
has come our way
(then again, all of the summer ones tend to be...) featuring the UP2U
team and signed by Anthea Turner.
Our thanks to Peter Cross for sending in a file of Yazoo
performing Get Set Now which was one of the themes used for
summer replacement Get Set. You can hear that in the Summer Sound
and Video gallery.
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December 2006
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New Updates This Month:
A new feature called Give Us A Call On... looking at the
history of the main telephone numbers used by the programmes is now
available in the Features section.
Time for an Archive update - nine new items
for the CBBC section, and more specially a new addition to
the Clothing section. We picked up a couple of Plastic
Swap Shop Hats which were handed out to the audience of It
Started With Swap Shop when we attended the recording on 15
December (and a great night it was too!)
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November 2006
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New Updates This Month:
Thanks to the very nice people at TMi, we've
just received by email a huge JPEG copy of the show's publicity
card featuring Sam, Mark and Caroline.
We've processed it down to the normal size, and you can see it in
the new Publicity Card section from the TMi menu.
The first part of a new feature, Multi-Coloured Saturdays, is
now online looking back at a 1996 programme of the same name that
celebrated 20 years of the BBC's Saturday Morning programmes.
Two new items for the Archive. The first of these is another SuperStore
pen - of a slightly more clunky throw-awayable type. The second
is a really great addition to the Archive being a copy of the script
for the first TMi.
And... there's a rather special badge that joins the Archive...
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October 2006
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New Updates This Month:
Happy 30th Birthday BBC Saturday Morning
Television!
Just a few minor housekeeping updates at present to fill a couple of
gaps (one being on the bbc.co.uk News and Press links page)
and we've introduced a Team page to the TMi
section.
We've spent a great deal of the month putting together the It
Started With Swap Shop site for Unique TV Productions to
promote their BBC TWO 30th Anniversary Christmas special - so
not much else got done! That's one reason that we changed server
during the month... and also explains why the Sound and Video has
moved to a new server too...
Incidentally, once the announcement about the programme went out on
bbc.co.uk, the site took more than 40 times the traffic in nine
hours than it normally does in a day..!
We have found time however to add TMi into the site logo -
it's developing into a rather fine programme worthy of the Saturday
morning slot.
Hopefully we'll have a little more time to update the site during
November. |
September 2006
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New Updates This Month:
We've introduced a slight redesign to the site to celebrate the 30th
Anniversary of the first edition of Swap Shop!
Along with the redesign, we've added our TMi section,
featuring some information about the show along with video of
trailers and the opening of the first show.
More items for the Archive... another CBBC T Shirt, an
L&K Bag, a SuperStore Cassette tape and another script
- this one for Going Live!
And to Publicity Cards... In Going Live! there's new Phillip
and Sarah cards (hand signed versions of a couple of
preprints), in Replacements there's Kojo from the Mighty
Truck of Stuff, and the one that pleases us most this time
around is the first Maggie Philbin black and white card from Swap
Shop. |
August 2006
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New Updates This Month:
Finding items for the Archive can be quite exciting at times,
and the last few weeks has been just that! Our largest find
is a Swap Shop flag (the result of a competition held by the
show) and it is a real flag and it is very large! The L&K
Magazine Archive has got a key issue too - no less than ISSUE
1 from October 1993.
We've just got hold of Packer the Bear - a MTOS product. See
him in the Other Items section.
We've added a CBBC section to the Archive to house our
growing collection of CBBC items (obviously enough) - a bit of a
side step content wise, but why not! See new CBBC items an Inflatable
Radio, Card Torch, Water Bottle, Keyring,
Bag and T Shirt.
Just to bring the Replacements up to date, we've added the
titles from The POD to the section's Sound and Video
and we've also update the section's Shows guide. |
July 2006
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New Updates This Month:
It's only 11am on the 1st of July (at the time of writing) and it's
already pretty hot at Saturday Mornings HQ - so be warned, if the
weather keeps this up then the updates will be few and far between
for the foreseeable. (see the update for July 2005...)
Anyway, just a small update at the moment with something for the Archive
in the shape of a copy of the VHS Dick and Dom video, and an updated
Publicity Card for the SuperStore section - this being a
signed version of the second David Icke card.
Update 8th July: It's quite a bit cooler now, so we're a lot
happier and we can get on with some work on the site.
We've been fighting technical problems in the last week that
prevented us from updating the site. Our provider has now sorted
them out and we're actually coming to you from a brand new server
which makes things a lot easier for us. Anyway...
We've added another script to the Archive - this one is from
L&K's second series, and has been signed by some of the
presenters and guests. And a change of L&K Publicity Card
for Trev & Simon as we have one that you can see Simon's
signature on - obviously he ran out of really pale ink! |
June 2006
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New Updates This Month:
So May came and went, we went away on holiday and the site didn't
get any updates... But enough of that, here's some odds and ends
we've added to the web world that is Saturday Mornings this
month...
We managed to source a couple more short clips of the Goodies at
the Swap Shop Rock Garden Party, so we've edited them all
together and the resulting clip replaces the previous version in the
show's Audio and Video gallery (and on the Rock Garden Party
page as well).
A few more nice Swap Shop items are now in the Archive.
We've got hold of 3 more scripts from the final year of the show,
and also the Back Page of the Radio Times from the week of
the last Swap Shop - this was of course John Craven's weekly
column and was suitably enough about the Swappie. You can see these
items in the Scripts and Magazines sections of the Archive.
Talking of the Archive... somehow we managed not to document our Dick
and Dom CD, but it's there now in the Records and CDs section
along with a signed copy of the CD too!
We've also quietly been picking up copies of Live and Kicking
Magazine - and our efforts can be seen in our gallery of the
front covers. See the L&K Magazine link in the show's
menu for those. |
April 2006
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New Updates This Month:
We've added a brand new feature. It's no secret around these parts
that we were great fans of DC Harry Batt, so as a way of
making up for the lack of any more 'Geordie Copper capers' we've
added a selection of his finest moments in a features called, rather
obviously, Nae Body Move!
Away from Harry, there's some new Publicity cards for the
Saturday Show section - well one new and one revised. The
revised card is the Dani & Joe one, and the new one is a
gem featuring Tiny & Mr Duk.
With the start of Mighty Truck of Stuff we've bundled it into
the Replacements section and have the titles from the show, and also
from the preview show Show Me the Truck.
A bit of juggling in the Archive sees the creation of our
Not Quite Saturday Mornings - But Near Enough... section. This
is to put those items that almost fit but don't quite - a bit
obvious really. So we've moved our Children's BBC Mug and it will be
joined in the near future by a couple of other items...
Just a quick mention for the new RSS feed of site updates
that we're trialing (see the big orange RSS button down the page) -
if you've got a news reader and subscribe to the feed you'll get the
latest updates as they happen.
It's not often we get excited... but we've just got hold of
what must be one of the rarest publicity cards - we've never seen it
before now!
Who's is it? Well, wander over to the Swap Shop section of
the publicity cards and see none other than Posh Paws! |
March 2006
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New Updates This Month:
So, Dick and Dom have gone from our screens, but their
presence has left a very distinctive mark on Saturday Mornings!
We've added two more video clips from the show both featuring songs!
One is the rather cool Harry Batt song and the other features
the Prize Idiot singing his goodbyes!
Over in the Archive you can see two more of the books that
were released with D&D branding, along with a copy of the 2006
book that has been signed.
Away from the duo, we've got a couple of music tapes from L&K
that join their CD relations in the Archive.
Three additions to the Publicity Cards to mention. One of Noel
Edmonds (in glorious Black and White) joins the Swap Shop
selection, the missing Andi Peters card is now alongside his
other two on the L&K page, and finally we've got a card from FBi
that has been signed on the back by the three hosts. |
February 2006
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New Updates This Month:
To make up for the real lack of any decent updates so far this year,
we've been on a quest to dig out some old bits from deep in our
archives and add a smattering of new stuff too - just trying to keep
you all happy!
First the new... We've added another 3 books from the current
glut of Dick and Dom related merchandise and also the board
game from the show too. See these in the Books and Other
Items sections of the Archive. There's also a Video
offering from the boys' show with Raymond Newsreader making an
appearance with his Dad.
Then the not so old... An updated version of video we had of
the opening of the very first Live & Kicking from 1993 is
now on the site. Apart from being in our larger format, it also now
includes the team opening the show. And talking of L&K
we've got two L&K cards that were signed by Andi and Emma in the
Archive - see Other Items for those.
Then the old... Something for those of us who remember
watching Swap Shop some twenty-something years ago (yes, the
webmaster is really that old!) - we've added a couple of video
clips. Firstly you can see Noel closing the AM-UK special and
the credits that followed, and then how about reliving those moments
of the Swap Shop Top Ten Swaps Board! We've dug out the
entire sequence from the last but one Swappie. Remember those
'wants' that started 'Anything to do with...'? |
January 2006
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New Updates This Month:
The Christmas Present Videos for 2005 have now been retired,
but will make a return at a later date in a different shorter
version.
Anyway, we've got some new stuff in the Archive - including
one gem! There's a spate of Dick and Dom material avaiable at
the moment, and we've got the first two of our items (with more to
come soon!) namely the Mucktivity Book and the Fantastic
FunFile.
A bit more Dick and Dom for you in the Publicity Card
section as we've got there latest card (preprinted) and also an
early CBBC card (hand signed)
The gem for the Archive is a Saturday Picture Show Mug
- a really rare item from the first season of the show in 1983. |
December 2005
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New Updates This Month:
Christmas is here again, and that means that we've been
digging about looking for the annual 'present' that we give.
This year, we've dug out two video clips for you, one old
(from the last Going Live!) and one quite new for you to sit back
and enjoy!
Just time for a quick mention to the Dick and Dom Christmas
Trailer in their Sound and Video gallery, and the new Archive
addition of yet another Saturday Show T-Shirt. |
November 2005
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New Updates This Month:
As we've just passed our five years on the web, we thought we might
finally get around to filling some of the gaps on the site, and put
up some of the content we've had sitting around gathering dust!
Take a look at the Dick and Dom section and you'll see that
it now has a Data Sheet like all the other shows, and there's
a list of the Bungalow Games - at least the ones we can
remember, and there's a new list of the Celebs that are
braving the Bungalow.
Over in the Going Live! section, we've put the Last Show
Script up for viewing - watch out for the First L&K
Script sometime soon!
There's a couple of new Archive items - a Saturday Show Crew
T Shirt and a Singing Corner record.
Nae Body Move - we've got a new video clip. You can see what
happened when the first game, featuring DC Harry Batt, played on
Dick and Dom went completely to pieces... |
October 2005
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New Updates This Month:
We've finally finished the second stage of our massive Sound and
Video clear up!
One final stage to go on this project - that's to re-master
many of the clips to better standards where possible. We've also
taken the decision to add some 'Saturday Mornings' titles to the
beginning of the clips - lasting about 3 seconds - these can been
seen mostly on the newer clips at present.
Talking of video... there's two new Dick and Dom clips in the
appropriate gallery both of which are trailers.
And to finish this update, there's a pile of new material in the Archive
and that you can find out about on the Archive menu. |
September 2005
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New Updates This Month:
We've updated the site with five new videos from across
the years.
The most obvious ones are the two 'summer job' trailers for Dick
& Dom that have aired since 29 August promoting the start
of the new series on 10 September. During the process of adding
these in, we spotted that two existing D&D video clips managed
to drop off the site when we updated the galleries - so those are
back too.
As for the rest, we'll start with the oldest first. We've got a
clip from SuperStore with an early appearance of Matt Lucas in
the coffee shop - find that one in the Before They Were Famous
feature.
Then there's a couple of clips where things went a little awry.
One from Going Live! when Phillip has a great problem
explaining something that seems so simple, and one from Live
& Kicking where Jamie can be seen being bitten by the
curse of dialing out live on air.
That brings the total number of sound and video clips on the site
to 141...
Actually, make that 143... we've just added the latest Dick
& Dom titles, along with the Totally Totally Serious
News report on the duo... |
August 2005
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New Updates This Month:
The Swap Shop fans among you should know immediately what
the event was that took part on South Bank in 1978. It was of
course the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop Rock Garden Party that
took place on May Bank Holiday at Jubilee Gardens.
Thanks to Peter Lane, we now have some exclusive photos
that he took of the event and have put then to good use on a new
page in the Swap Shop section remembering the event and
detailing the stars who took part. Go on, have a look and see Darts,
Showaddywaddy, Patti Boulaye and The Goodies!
One new item for the Archive - Live & Kicking
Magzine - October 1978 - This is the edition that introduces
Steve and Emma as the new hosts.
Publicity Cards are getting harder to find (mainly as we've got a
lot of them now!), so here's news of the first new one for a
while. Check out the L&K page for a new Andi Peters
addition.
There are ideas in the pipeline for the site and content, so watch
out for them (or join the mailing list...) |
July 2005
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New Updates This Month:
Yes, it's been a bit quiet around these parts for the last month
or so.
What with it being too hot at times to be
cooped up in a small box room with a panting computer,
and the webmaster spending some quality time away, not a lot has
appeared to have happened.
The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted the three new Archive
items that were added rather quietly.
And you take your eye off the site for five minutes, and find that
Live & Kicking has rightfully taken the top slot of the
Favourite Show poll. (This was correct at the time of
writing, and note the bias of the webmaster!)
There are bits and pieces planned for the near future, and some of
the furniture needs shifting, so keep watching...! |
June 2005
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New Updates This Month:
As the Webmaster starts to find less time over the Summer months
to be locked away for hours on end in a small dark room, as in
previous years, the updates will become less frequent - so make
the most of them when they come along!
Talking of the news... those of us who remember Swap Shop might
have even forgotten that in the final series John Craven
presented a news bulletin at both 10 and 12 o'clock. Well
for your delectation, the 10 O'Clock News from the
penultimate Swappie is now available for viewing in the show's Sound
and Video gallery.
Two new items for the Archive to report - see them listed
in theffLatest Aquisitions section of the Archive.
And we can finally reveal one of the mysteries behind Live &
Kicking as we publish two pictures of the 'never seen' voice of
the programme. Yes, Mitch Johnson - see him on his very own
page of the Live & Kicking section titled simply 'Mitch'. |
May 2005
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New Updates This Month:
We've been a little busy behind the scenes reworking the Archive and
Publicity Card sections making them a lot easier to update and
manage. If you're interested in the technical details, we've
utilised some rather nice PERL scripting that allows us to run the
two sections from a couple of database files instead of creating
dedicated HTML pages. As the pages are created when you select them,
effectively we can reduce the number of pages that the two section
use on the site from around 100 to just 5!
A Going Live! sticker has come our way, so that is on display in the
Archive's Stickers section.
A new version of the Swap Shop second series Publicity
Card of Keith Chegwin is now on the site too - quite a
nice addition as it's got a little more than just a signature.
But our best update this month happened almost by luck. Whilst
surfing channels one Saturday evening we happened upon BBC FOUR
showing a documentary about writer Russell T Davies (he of the new
Doctor Who). So what I hear you cry! Well, he was the man
responsible for the rewritten version of On The Waterfront's Flashing
Blade and we just happened to record two short clips of the show
which you can now see on the site. Just Flash across
to the Sound and Video gallery in the Summer Replacements section!
A quick mid-month update sees two new cards for the collection, and
an updated one too. Dick and Dom finally make it to the site,
along with a copy of a pre-print Parallel 9 card kindly sent
in by Mike Walters. The revised card is the L&K Trev and
Simon which is signed - although it looks as if Simon used
disappearing ink as his scribble is rather pale!
And we finally bring the camera script from the last ever Swap
Shop to the site. You can read your way through the 51 pages and
see what happened way back in 1982 - just visit the Swappie's
section! We've still got the others in the archive to add to the
site and that will happen sometime later in the year... hopefully! |
April 2005
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New Updates This Month:
March 11 saw Comic Relief, and Dick and Dom did
their bit in the Bungalow. We've added a new feature called
Comic Relief in da Bungalow that covers the short series of
show. It includes details of the celebs, video and background of Comic
Relief.
The Saturday Show returned to the screens late in March,
and you can view the 2005 trailer and the opening of the first
show of the series in the show's Sound and Video section.
Something new for the Archive too - a round SuperStore
sticker joins the collection.
And after a great deal of searching, we've finally got a Live
& Kicking publicity card of Emma Ledden! This replaces
the 'donated' image - and the keen eyed will also spot a revised Steve
Wilson card too!
Talking of Publicity Cards, we've also found a second David
Icke card for the SuperStore section along with a team
picture too.
And there's also a new card of Angellica Bell from the
latest Saturday Show season.
There's also an addition to the Archive in the shape of
another copy of the Radio Times. This one's from October 1976 and
features the listing of the very first Swap Shop.
And we've put another version of the Dick & Dom titles
in the Sound and Video section for the lads. This one was
used for the 'Best Bits' programme in 2005 and is slightly
different to the previous two versions in the gallery.
There's another new Feature - this time we have a look at
what happened when SuperStore invited the leaders of the main
political parties on the show, and particularly the rough ride
that Maggie Thatcher got! |
March 2005
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New Updates This Month:
We've got a few updates to start March...
Firstly, as the Dick & Dom video clips are going down a
storm - how about a couple more? We've got Dick and Dom opening
the loft hatch from Buttons, Balls & Bungalaa (work it out for
yourself!) and also a lovely little song they sang to open a show
just before Christmas!
A somewhat scary publicity photograph has come into our possession
featuring a 'dragged up' Noel Edmonds ready for the 1980 Christmas
Swap Shop version of Cinderella. You'll find this lurking in the Archive's
Photos section - just be warned...
A quick look at the menu line at the top of the screen will show a
slight change. We've added our e-cards section as last, and
moved a few other bits (links and credits) into the Other section.
e-cards allows you to pick one of a selection of our card
pictures and send them to a friend with a message - why not give
it a go!
A rather prized item finds its way into the Archive - yes,
we've got our hands on a genuine Dick & Dom T-shirt!
We've been digging about in our older material and got a
stack of new video clips for your delight - they are...
• Swap Shop - Mr Speck's Entrance
• Swap Shop - Lamb's Debut
• Swap Shop - Maggie's Lucky Dip
• Swap Shop - Hair Piece?
• SuperStore - Line 3 for Prince Edward
• SuperStore - Mike & John Get Things Going
• SuperStore - Two Left Feet - An Appreciation?
• Going Live! - Hello to Alan Davidson
• Going Live! - Gordon the Gopher - Compilation
• Live & Kicking - Karaoke Chaos!
And in the Swing Your Pants Feature...
• We Don't Do Duvets
• Back to the Future! |
| February 2005 |
New Updates This Month:
We start the new month with updates to the Archive and various
Sound and Video galleries.
You can find out what's new in the Archive from the latest
section on its menu, but we've added 2 pictures, a music sheet, a
signed record, a bum bag and some sticky bogies - nice!
As for the Sound and Video additions... We've added three
clips from Double Dare - see them in the Going Live! section,
and a trailer for Dick and Dom too. There's also a revised
'clean' version of the Saturday Starts Here titles (Going Live!
section) that removes a couple of glitches that were on the
original capture.
There's a number of video clips awaiting processing, so check back
later in the month for more.
Later in the month...
Still more video awaiting processing, but a couple more Dick
and Dom clips for your delight! During the show, BBCi runs an
interactive quiz called Buttons, Balls and Bungalaa and
from this we feature the titles, game intro titles and ending
caption. We've also got what happens when Dom loses the Donkey
Derby game!
Also, one for the Swappie fans! At last the 1977 Radio Times
feature makes its long awaited appearance (its a long article and
typing it took ages!) |
| January 2005 |
New Updates This Month:
We've given the site a fresh new look, and most noticeably we've
got a new logo. It's made up from the Saturday off the
SuperStore logo, and Mornings is made up in the style of
Live & Kicking (and a bit of a pain it was to create too!)
We've also tweaked all of the site's graphics, but still kept the
unique feel that the site has always had.
A couple of new features are under test on the home page. We've
got Webmaster's Choice where the webmaster (hey, that's
me!) chooses something from the site that he thinks you might like
to see, and there's Fact File which show a random selection
of some show related facts.
You may notice that the polls have a new look too - and the
Favourite Show poll results are now displayed in full of the home
page. We restarted the poll to allow us to add Dick and Dom into
the mix - only fair! Live & Kicking was the leading show when
the old poll shut - what will be the new favourite? Cast your
vote!
The site gets a Mailing List system programmed by the
webmaster (such a talented chap!) so that you can add your name
and get updates e-mailed directly to you as soon as they appear on
the site. |
Click here to see Updates prior to
2005
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