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Country of origin United Kingdom No. of series 9 Running time 25 minutes First episode date 10 April 1978 Language English | 6/10 IMDb Original language(s) English No. of episodes 77 (inc. 4 specials) Final episode date 7 November 1986 Number of episodes 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Game show, Children's television series Similar Multi‑Coloured Swap Shop, Game show, Saturday Superstore, Crackerjack, Naked Jungle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cheggers Plays Pop was a British children's game show broadcast on BBC1 from 10 April 1978 to 7 November 1986 hosted by Keith Chegwin, who is commonly known to the British public as "Cheggers". The show's format consisted of a series of physical and mental challenges undertaken by two teams of children representing their respective schools, together with studio performances by contemporary pop music acts. The participating schools were predominantly from the North West area of the UK due to the choice of studio (BBC Manchester).
Contents
There were two teams. Reds and Yellows. Team captains were popular based celebrities of the time.
Games involving balls and inflatables were played by the teams and a pop quiz too. Each episode also had a current chart single being performed in it.
The beginning game was always quite eyecatching. For a while the first game was called Space Invaders. At the end of the show, Cheggers would always blow his whistle and jump onto the inflatable that the final game had been played on; he led the children who all jumped on it in mayhem style to end the show.
Cheggers plays pop may 1978 the wurzels
Christmas Specials
Nearly every single episode exists in the BBC archives with 74 out of 81 episodes surviving from the archives, which includes all 9 episodes of Series 1 & 9, all 11 episodes of Series 2, all 8 episodes of Series 3-5 & 8, Episodes 1, 3-4 & 7-8 of Series 6, Episodes 1, 4 & 7-8 of Series 7 and all 4 Christmas Specials.
