Magpie (TV series)

It was a magazine format show, intended to compete with the BBC's Blue Peter, but it attempted to be more "hip", focusing more on popular culture.

The first presenters were the former BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Pete Brady, Susan Stranks and Tony Bastable.

Unlike its rival programme, however, it asked for cash donations rather than stamps or secondhand goods, familiar on Blue Peter.

The cash totaliser was a long strip of paper which ran out of the studio and along the adjacent corridor walls.

The theme tune was played by the Spencer Davis Group under the alias of The Murgatroyd Band, and composed by Eddie Hardin (lead voc., keyb.