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Every boy's first crush in the 80s!

That's an understatement. There was no more beautiful woman on British TV that I can think of in the 80s.

No they continued. The 2 inch master tapes of most of Multicoloured Swap Shop were erased in the late 1980s and sold as blanks to Australian TV. In the case of local TV news (Look North from Newcastle for example) there seem to be no tapes of the studio programmes over several decades though the film reports survive. Not everything can be kept but some strange decisions have been made. Also the BBC got itself into a pickle by adopting the Panasonic D3 tape format in the early 90s. Eventually Panasonic discontinued it and it seemed there wouldn't be enough replacement tape heads to enable all the D3 tapes (hundreds of thousands) to be transferred. At one point the BBC implied it was selecting D3 programmes to keep. But then it was suggested it would mainly be duplicates that weren't copied. Who knows? And it's difficult to find out. In isn't only the BBC. Things have gone from the ITV companies and those that made programmes for Channel 4. Recently it was reported that no one seems to know the whereabouts of the master tapes of the Channel 4 series "Out On Tuesday."

Interesting. It seems Leo Sayer was on Saturday Superstore on 8 October 1983 but also on 14 January 1984. Yes I have a few bits. Nick Heyward, Chris Packham/Margaret Thatcher, Aha and another one.