Moments in Time: Noel's House Party
You could barely move in the 1970s and 80s without seeing or hearing Noel Edmonds. He'd been hugely successful on Radio 1 and that involved regular appearances on Top of the Pops .' All that led to Multi Coloured Swap Shop on Saturday's mornings and onwards to the Saturday night spot. Initially he presented The Late Late Breakfast Show and The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow and in 1991 it morphed into Noel's House Party running until 1999. At one stage, a senior corporation executive at the BBC said he considered the show to be the most important one on the channel. In many ways he was right as the shows high ratings grabbed the viewers and they stayed there for the rest of the evening. Noel's House Party was set in a fictional house in the wonderfully named village of Crinkley Bottom, cue dirty joke. The strength of the show wasn't in the quality of the jokes that is for sure but every week viewers would see sever...