Multi Coloured Swap Shop
Discussion
remember these:
It's hard to imagine now just how high a TV programme was in the national consciousness; in the early 80's it seems everyone watched TV on a Saturday morning, and the fake scarves were big sellers on market stalls.
I remember watching avidly waiting for something that I could swap - I wanted to phone in and offer something to swap just to see what I could get ... something like swapping my Top Trumps "Worlds Fastest Cars" deck for the largest Scalextric set - I just couldn't see why that wouldn't be appealing.
I was reminded of it by my 8 year old daughter, apparently there is a new Saturday programme called somebody or others swap shop.
What I was wondering, though, was why in the almost 30 years since the program was on air, have I never met anyone who either swapped something themselves, or knows a swapper? They say there ae 5 degrees of separation in the world, surely something as momentous as being a TV swapper would come up in conversation at some point? Or has my memory been sold, and in fact the whole "Swap Shop" element of the show was just some researcher behind the scenes pretending to have toys and games they no longer wanted?
It's hard to imagine now just how high a TV programme was in the national consciousness; in the early 80's it seems everyone watched TV on a Saturday morning, and the fake scarves were big sellers on market stalls.
I remember watching avidly waiting for something that I could swap - I wanted to phone in and offer something to swap just to see what I could get ... something like swapping my Top Trumps "Worlds Fastest Cars" deck for the largest Scalextric set - I just couldn't see why that wouldn't be appealing.
I was reminded of it by my 8 year old daughter, apparently there is a new Saturday programme called somebody or others swap shop.
What I was wondering, though, was why in the almost 30 years since the program was on air, have I never met anyone who either swapped something themselves, or knows a swapper? They say there ae 5 degrees of separation in the world, surely something as momentous as being a TV swapper would come up in conversation at some point? Or has my memory been sold, and in fact the whole "Swap Shop" element of the show was just some researcher behind the scenes pretending to have toys and games they no longer wanted?
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