This is Saturday Mornings

Celebrating BBC Saturday Morning television since the launch of Multi-Coloured Swap Shop in October 1976.

The site was last updated on 06 April 2008.

The Programmes

Each of the following programmes has it's own dedicated section on Saturday Mornings.

Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
Saturday SuperStore
Going Live!
Live & Kicking
The Saturday Show
Dick and Dom in da Bungalow
TMi

Use the red menu line or just click on a show's logo shown on the left of each page.

There's also a section covering all of the Summer Replacement programmes.

Going Flash...

Since it's launch back in 2000 Saturday Mornings has used Real Media for all of it's Sound and Video, but now we're making a move towards providing them using Flash Player.

We've developed the first version of the Saturday Mornings Media Player which will open Flash video into the page itself instead of launching a stand-alone player. 

The Benefits
You, the site visitor, should see a vast improvement in the time it takes for the clips to start to be viewable (it has to be said that the latest version of Real Player takes an age to open and buffer the clips)

For us, we get a vast improvement in getting the clips into Flash format as the encoding tool is just so much easier to use and we can queue up multiple videos for encoding (unlike RealProducer), set it off and go and get a cup of tea whilst it does its job!

It's going to be a long project to convert the clips, but the first lot is up on the site now just look for the Flash logo (as to the right) in the Sound and Video galleries - and one last thing, you're going to need Flash Player Version 8 or above installed to be able to use the Saturday Mornings Media Player. We've tested IE, Firefox and Safari and they all work fine.

My Custom Saturday Mornings

Don't forget you can customise some of the elements of the site... Click here to show the My Custom Saturday Mornings page


It Started With... Swap Shop was broadcast in December 2006 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of BBC Saturday Morning Television, and Saturday Mornings was very lucky to be asked to involved with the programme.

Visit the Saturday Mornings It Started With... sub-site which documents
this very special programme.


Latest Updates - April 2008

We've added a 'search' box and button to the site's header so that you can now look for specific content from any page on the site instead of just the Home Page.

Totally Addicted to BBC Saturday Morning Television

We're totally addicted to BBC Saturday Morning television, here's what you can find over and above our main content about the shows on this site.

The Features section allows us to cover some aspects in more depth, but also lets us stroll slightly away from the site's subject whilst keeping it in sight. We've covered Before the Swappie, Spin Off Shows and what happened when the then Prime Minister visited Saturday SuperStore. We also get to showcase our favourite videos in Swing Your Pants (Trev & Simon) and Nae Body Move (Harry Batt)., and take a nostalgic look at those favourite numbers that we used when prompted to Give Us a Call On...

The Archive displays items that have a connection with Saturday Mornings. We've got all sorts of stuff from mugs, pens, badges, book, t-shirts, sticker and records to more unique items like a Swap Shop Flag and the real Saturday SuperStore Clock

Publicity Cards - the signed pictures that the programmes send out. We've spent the last few years collecting as many as we can find from across the 30 years. From Swap Shop to TMi we've got (most of) them.

Contact Us

The Saturday Mornings webmaster is Martin Whale.

If you'd like to send an email to the webmaster please visit the Contact Us section where full details can be found.

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