Tuesday 13 September 2016
492 Cheggers Plays Pop
First viewed : 1 June 1981
As this durable kids TV show had been running for three years before I tuned in , I suppose I need to answer why a pop fan like me hadn't dropped by before. I can't really remember as I had no great animus against Cheggers. I guess it was a mixture of wanting to pull out of kids TV, feeling that pop was too important to be trivialised and fear that it might unearth someone my age who knew more about pop.
I know the date's right because I remember 999 , enjoying a brief second wind commercially, appearing and being struck by one of the class of '77 now entertaining school kids. Looking at the date I suspect I was watching it as comedown TV after one of my O Level exams.
The show was a mixture of Runaround, Crackerjack , We Are The Champions and the soon-to-come Pop Quiz , interspersed with two or three lip-synching appearances by bands who had a single out.
It ran from 1978 to 1986.
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