Basil and Barney's Swap Shop

Basil and Barney's Swap Shop
GenreChildren's
Presented byBasil Brush
Barney Harwood
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes51
Production
Executive producersAlison Gregory
Ged Allen
ProducersIan France
Keith Cotton
Toby Smith
Tom Forbes
Running time60 minutes
Production companyThe Foundation
Original release
NetworkBBC Two (2008-10)
CBBC (2010)
Release5 January 2008 (2008-01-05) –
25 September 2010 (2010-09-25)
Related
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
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Basil and Barney's Swap Shop (known as Basil's Swap Shop in the first two series) is a British children's television series that was produced for CBBC and ran on Saturday mornings on BBC Two and CBBC Channel from 5 January 2008 to 25 September 2010. Based on the original BBC children's Saturday morning show Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, which ran on BBC One from 1976 to 1982, it was hosted by Barney Harwood, along with veteran puppet character Basil Brush, from whom the show takes its title.