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It's approaching the end of the week, so here's another edition of L&K Friday.
This recording has some pre-broadcast footage.
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L&K Friday - 23 January 1998
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January 23, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Here's Bob 'n' Baz, it's just a little bit windy outside Television Centre this morning...
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Bob 'n' Baz on a Windy Day - 16 December 1995
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January 21, 2026 at 3:39 PM
'Allo there dear viewers... nothing dodgy to see here...
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January 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A little something from Live & Kicking series 4...
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January 17, 2026 at 4:53 PM
How about another edition of L&K Friday?
This one is from 16 January 1998.
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L&K Friday - 16 January 1998
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January 16, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Here's the montage of the five versions of the Live & Kicking titles, some of the differences here are much more subtle.
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January 16, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Going Live! used several different sets of titles over the six series, so here's a montage of the different versions.

All can be seen in our new GL! titles guide:
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January 16, 2026 at 8:37 AM
The 100th programme sequence we posted had the clean audio from the montage video, here's a shorter version with Mitch's voice over.
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January 11, 2026 at 12:56 PM
We came across a clean copy of the end montage from the 100th edition of Live & Kicking so though it might be fun to overlay it on the original broadcast.
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January 10, 2026 at 12:19 PM
All of our 50th anniversary videos can be found in the special playlist on our YouTube channel. Why not subscribe?

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50 Years of BBC Saturday Morning Television - YouTube
Videos from our celebration of 50 years of BBC Saturday Morning Television
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January 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
The first edition of L&K Friday from 9 January 1998.

The recording includes some pre-broadcast studio footage.

This programme includes the infamous Peter Andre phone-in question.
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L&K Friday - First Edition - 9 January 1998
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January 9, 2026 at 2:29 PM
It's Friday, so here's a trail for what we've got coming up for you a little later today...

The first edition of L&K Friday which was broadcast 28 YEARS AGO today!
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January 9, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Some Saturday Show items for the archive, from over 20 years ago!
Here’s a couple of pens and an unused note pad.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:52 AM
From Live & Kicking on 6 April 1996.
Andi takes a visit to the BBC1 Network Transmission Area to have a look at how things work, and whilst there takes the opportunity to play television's most exciting game show!
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Live & Kicking - 6 April 1996 - Andi Peters Visits the BBC1 Network Transmission Area
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January 7, 2026 at 11:20 AM
The first Multi-Coloured Music Show was broadcast on 5 May 1980 and featured many of the specially recorded music performances made especially for Swap Shop.

Music shows were also broadcast in 1981 & 1982.

ℹ️ Two songs have been removed for copyright reasons.
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Multi-Coloured Music Show - 5 May 1980
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January 4, 2026 at 10:19 AM
It's the detail that matters...

Most of our 50 years logo uses our house font 'Monserrat' but the 1976-2026 block uses two very appropriate fonts.

1976 is in 'Futura' which was used by Swap Shop and 2026 is in 'BorisBlackBloxx' which is used by Saturday Mash-Up!
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January 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
For the 50th Anniversary celebration we thought we'd dig out the oldest recording we have in our archive - Swap Shop from 10 November 1979 which features Benny and Bjorn from ABBA.
ℹ️ This recording has a Burnt In Time Code.
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Swap Shop 1979 11 10
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January 3, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Part of our 50th Anniversary celebration - The St-iii-ng Files.
The start of a collection of Sting's appearances on Going Live! and Live & Kicking - more coming soon!
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The St-iii-ng Files
Sting was a favourite guest on both Going Live! and Live & Kicking, especially when crossing swords with Trev & Simon. We've collected some of his appearances from across the years.
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January 1, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Our section dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of BBC Saturday Morning Television went live at midnight.
It maybe a little bare at the moment, but we've got a whole load of content that we'll be publishing over 2026.
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50 Years of BBC Saturday Morning Television
Our section dedicated to celebrating the 50th Anniversary of BBC Saturday Morning Television
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January 1, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Let's start our 50th anniversary celebrations, by going back to 1 January 1994.
In the pre-recorded edition of Live & Kicking, there was music, Run the Risk and Andi, Emma and John were trying to work out 'The Secret of Burgh Island'.
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Live & Kicking - 1 January 1994
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January 1, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Happy New Year from Saturday Mornings.
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January 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
2025 was a big year for Saturday Mornings with our 25th anniversary, however 2026 is an even bigger one with the 50th anniversary of BBC Saturday Morning Television.
Join us from the 1st January for the start of our year long celebration!
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December 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
As it's Saturday we thought we'd post a little bonus for interest.
Here are the two and a bit minutes of pre-programme studio activity from the 1993 Christmas Day edition of L&K that are on the recording.
The audio mutes for about 50 seconds before broadcast.
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December 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🎅 Saturday Mornings wishes you a very Merry Christmas 🎄

Our present today is the edition of L&K that went out LIVE on 25 December 1993.

ℹ️ This version is INCOMPLETE - see the next posts in the thread for what's missing/incomplete.
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December 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
A nice play on MIMO from series 6 with the 'Mistletoe Miss Out' sting which...

Sorry, we seem to be suffering some interference from a prior year's Christmas broadcast.

Hopefully things will sort themselves out by tomorrow morning... 🎄🎅
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December 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM