Cheggers Plays Pop

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Cheggers Plays Pop
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Genre Children's game show
Presented by Keith Chegwin
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series9
No. of episodes77 (inc. 4 specials)
Production
Production location New Broadcasting House [1]
Running time25 minutes
Production company BBC Manchester
Original release
Network BBC1
Release10 April 1978 (1978-04-10) 
7 November 1986 (1986-11-07)

Cheggers Plays Pop is a British children's game show broadcast on BBC1 from 10 April 1978 to 7 November 1986 hosted by Keith Chegwin, who was 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.

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There were two teams. Reds and Yellows, Generally from schools in the North West area of the UK as the show was filmed at the BBC Manchester studios. Team captains were popular 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.

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.

Transmissions

Series

SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
110 April 197819 June 19789
22 April 197911 June 197911
331 March 19809 June 19808
46 April 198115 June 19818
55 April 198214 June 19828
620 April 19838 June 19838
717 April 19845 June 19848
812 September 198531 October 19858
912 September 19867 November 19869

Christmas Specials

Date
22 December 1980
30 December 1981
26 December 1982
30 December 1983

Availability of episodes

Copies of almost all episodes are present in the BBC archives, with 75 out of 81 episodes surviving, [2] The six missing episodes being:

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