Why not let us have an evening of archive BBC Saturday morning television on BBC FOUR to celebrate the 50th anniversary - Saturday 3rd October 2026 works for us! #saturdaymornings

This title montage was used to open the 16 February 1980 edition of Swap Shop which used title sets from earlier series and replaced the usual series 4 title style. This used the earlier version of the Mike Batt theme opening with the guitar riff rather than the second version with the drum roll.

If we didn't mention your favourite Saturday morning programme in either of our last two posts, then you probably spent your childhood watching the wrong channel! #saturdaymornings

The SUMMER programmes from 50 years of BBC Saturday morning television.

The main EIGHT programmes from 50 years of BBC Saturday morning television.

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A mention to TMi's Mark Rhodes who's celebrating 50 years of Saturday morning television all week on his BBC WM breakfast show (06:00-10:00). He's asking for listener's memories from a decade each day from across Saturday morning tv, although the BBC programmes were the best!

Who thought allowing Mr Blobby into BBC ONE network control was a good idea? #saturdaymornings

2 MILLION views in 30 days (across our social media accounts). This shows there's still an audience who remember how they enjoyed THEIR Saturday mornings. #saturdaymornings

Let's add another 'minor' anniversary being celebrated by the BBC this year to the list... 50 years is very special, come on BBC COMMIT TO CELEBRATE! #saturdaymornings

A short clip of TMi's Mark Rhodes talking about 50 years of Saturday morning television on his BBC WM programme! #saturdaymornings

Time to make some more noise... There's now only 60 days to go until 2 October 2026 which marks 50 years of BBC Saturday morning television. Come on BBC, surely you're not going to let a major milestone in British television broadcasting just go unnoticed? #saturdaymornings

How the BBC COULD celebrate the 50th anniversary of Saturday morning television. A reminder of some of the ideas that we suggested earlier this year. Just OUR thoughts, but come on BBC COMMIT TO CELEBRATE #saturdaymornings

An attempted take over of Live & Kicking was made on 7 February 1998 by Johnny and Denise of The Big Breakfast. #saturdaymornings

After the introduction of a revised phone jingle the week before that 'wedged' an extra 1 into the number, the new phone jingle arrives from Dallas. #saturdaymornings

The last of three clips from Live & Kicking on 11 February 1995. Here's Don outside the dry cleaners, it seems that Dougie is away (and coincidentally Trev was off ill) and Sissy hasn't turned up to help, so he's shut up shop early. #saturdaymornings youtu.be/cSu943FZbv8

Live & Kicking - 11 February 1995 - Don (an no Dougie) At The Dry Cleaners

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The second of three clips from Live & Kicking on 11 February 1995. It's time to announce the six winners of the Valentine's competition, but someone (Andi) seems to have lost their three winning entries... #saturdaymornings

The first of three clips from Live & Kicking on 11 February 1995. Here's Andi announcing that this was the day they were adding the 'one' to the phone number. #saturdaymornings

Sage and Onion need to find out what's next on the programme, so a running order is just the thing. But, can they catch one? #saturdaymornings

Here's the behind the scenes footage of Emma and Andi lending their vocal talents to the recording of the 'Up Your Jumper' phone jingle under the direction of L&K's music man David Arnold. #saturdaymornings

The result of the last video on the final edition of Trev and Simon's Video Galleon doesn't go quite to plan as the galleon comes under attack. Abandon ship! #saturdaymornings

The second series of Saturday Mash-Up! brought us 'Question Slime' where one of the morning's guests were subjected to a sliming each time they answered a question incorrectly. Here's Oti Mabuse taking the full force of the slime on 5 January 2019. #saturdaymornings youtu.be/qEB869CkM_s

Saturday Mash-Up! - 5 January 2019 - Question Slime with Oti Mabuse

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TMi from 11 November 2006. Sam and Mark would be given a collection of objects and challenged to use them to make a game to be played during TMi. However, the Bird of Decision always had the final say if the game was a success or not. #saturdaymornings youtu.be/ONsmh2V1OXE

TMI - 11 November 2006 - Surely They Can't Make a Game Out of That?!

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Here's a montage of stings used on Live & Kicking from series 1 to series 6. A change of programme logo for series 7 meant that these small creative pieces were retired. #saturdaymornings

This is a MIMO promo from the sixth series of Live & Kicking featuring the full team. The catchy tune is 'Real Good Time' by Alda Bjork Olafsdottir. #saturdaymornings

A short MIMO insert from the beginning of Live & Kicking series 4 featuring Kermit and Clifford from 'Muppets Tonight' which was being shown on BBC 1 at the time. #saturdaymornings

This promo from Live & Kicking's fifth series brings some of the team from behind-the-scenes to front-and-centre. #saturdaymornings

News just in... well, in 2018 anyway... Here's the CBBC trailer for the second series of Saturday Mash-Up! with Hacker at the news desk, Yasmin reporting on location and Jonny with the forecast. #saturdaymornings

Getting the team back together on 8 September 2007. Here are Mark, (the much missed) Caroline and Sam all getting their call for TMi series 2. #saturdaymornings youtu.be/cPUdpyXynbY

TMi - 9 September 2007 - Getting the Team Back Together

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It's the first programme of the re-booted second series of The Saturday Show on 21 September 2002. Their brand new viewer game 'Loose Goose' has been given quite a build up and we're ready to go. Shame it didn't work! #saturdaymornings youtu.be/_qk9snUbUfE

The Saturday Show - 21 September 2002 - The New 'Loose Goose' Game Fails

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