About this season
Shang-a-Lang was a children's pop music TV series starring the Scottish band, the Bay City Rollers. It was produced in Manchester by Granada Television for the ITV network and ran for one 20-week series in 1975. It featured the band in a number of comedy sketches and performing their songs to a live studio audience made up of their teenage fans. This resulted in chaotic scenes at times as some members of the audience attempted to run onto the studio floor to meet their heroes, resulting in security officers having to forcibly restain or even eject them from the studio. The show's theme song "Shang-a-Lang", was a hit single for the group, peaking at number 2 in 1974 in the UK.
Episodes (21)
1. Episode 1
Aired 1 April 1975
Bay City Rollers - Summer Love Sensation, Bye Bye Baby, It's For You. Lieutenant Pigeon - I'll Take You, Home Again Kathleen, Twynn - Smile
2. Episode 2
Aired 8 April 1975
Bay City Rollers - Keep On Dancing, Once Upon A Star, Rock and Roll Honeymoon. Him & Us dance to Inner Sleeve - Here We Go , Twynn, Big Jim Sullivan
3. Episode 2
Aired 22 April 1975
Bay City Rollers - Disco Kid, La Belle Jeane & All Of Me Loves All Of You. Mr Big - Lucky Man The Goodies - Funky Gibbon.
4. Episode 4
Aired 29 April 1975
Bay City Rollers - Bye Bye Baby, My Teenage Heart & Will You Be Mine. The Rubettes - I Can Do It. Big Jim Sullivan, Him & Us dance to Micki Anthony - Get Your Dancing Shoes On.
5. Episode 5
Aired 6 May 1975
Bay City Rollers - Angel Baby; Summer Love Sensation (on film) and Keep on Dancing. Cliff Richard -It's Only Me You Left Behind. Big Jim Sullivan, Him and Us dance to L.O.V.E by
6. Episode 6
Aired 13 May 1975
Bay City Rollers - Let's Go; Hey Beautiful Dreamer and Angel, Angel. Bilbo Baggins - Hold Me Cliff Richard, Big Jim Sullivan.
7. Episode 7
Aired 20 May 1975
Bay City Rollers - My Teenage Heart; Marlina and Shang a Lang. The Shadows - Let Me Be the One. (on video) Bruce Welch, Big Jim Sullivan, Him and Us dance to Chuckles - The Music Goes Round.
8. Episode 8
Aired 2 June 1975
Bay City Rollers - Once Upon A Star, Angel Angel & La Belle Jeane or Give A Little Love. Mac & Katie Kissoon - Don't Do It Baby. Slade - Thanks For The Memory.
9. Episode 9
Aired 9 June 1975
Bay City Rollers - Angel Baby; Rock and Roll Honeymoon; My Teenage Heart. Gary Glitter & Glitter Band - Love Like You and Me. Middle of the Road - Hitchin a Ride in the Moonlight. Him & Us dance to Bay City Rollers - The Disco Kid.
10. Episode 10
Aired 16 June 1975
Bay City Rollers - Let's Go, When Will You Be Mine and Keep On Dancing. Showaddywaddy - Three Steps to Heaven. Alan Price, Big Jim Sullivan. Him & Us dance to The Wombles - Womblin' White Tie & Tails.
11. Episode 11
Aired 23 June 1975
Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night; There Goes My Baby; Summer Love Sensation, Shout & Shang A Lang. The Goodies - Black Pudding Bertha. Kristine - King of the Cops, Gilbert O'Sullivan - I Don't Love You But I Like You
12. Episode 12
Aired 30 June 1975
Bay City Rollers - Bye, Bye Baby; Shang a Lang; Ain't it Strange and Rock and Roll Honeymoon. Bunny - You're Getting to Me Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - He Doesn't Love You. Him & Us dance to The Marionettes - Three For All (theme tune for the film).
13. Episode 13
Aired 7 July 1975
Bay City Rollers - Disco Kid; Give a Little Love; Remember' and All of me Loves All of You. Lynsey de Paul - Rhythm and Blue Jean Baby. Russel Harty.
14. Episode 14
Aired 14 July 1975
Bay City Rollers - Let's Go, Angel, Angel and Saturday Night. Johnny Nash - Tears on my Pillow. Him and Us dance to Roy Wood - Oh What A Shame.
15. Episode 15
Aired 21 July 1975
Bay City Rollers - Shout, Give a Little Love, When Will You be Mine and Keep on Dancing. David Cassidy - I Write the Songs Son of a Gun - A Man of My Word.
16. Episode 16
Aired 28 July 1975
Bay City Rollers - Once Upon a Star, Marlina, Give a Little Love and Disco Kid'. Olivia Newton-John - Follow Me. Simon & Garfunkel, 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, Robin Nedwell, Pipe Major Ingram.
17. Episode 17
Aired 4 August 1975
Bay City Rollers - Give A Little Love, My Teenage Heart, La Belle Jeane, Rock and Roll Honeymoon. Linda Lewis - It's In His Kiss. Alvin Stardust - Sweet Cheating Rita. Him & Us dance to The Ryders - A Rose Has To Die.
18. Episode 18
Aired 11 August 1975
Bay City Rollers - Angel Baby, Hey Beautiful Dreamer and Give a Little Love. Sparks - Get in the Swing.(on video) T.Rex - New York City. (on video) Him & Us dance to Nicky Rolfe - Miss Mistrust.
19. Episode 19
Aired 18 August 1975
Bay City Rollers - I Only Wanna Be With You, Give it to Me, Saturday Night. The Glitter Band - Love in the Sun. Him & Us
20. Episode 20
Aired 25 August 1975
Bay City Rollers - Keep on Dancing, Just a Little Love, & Shang a Lang. Paul Curtis - Call Me Back The Drifters - There Goes My First Love. Lulu, Boy Meets Girl, Gordon Honeycombe.
21. Episode 21
Aired 25 December 1975
(The Christmas Show - 48 Minute Special) Bay City Rollers - Lets Go. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Who Knows Perhaps Maybe. Him & Us dance to The Ronettes 'Sleigh Ride' David Cassidy - I Write The Songs (promo). Gilbert O'Sullivan - Can't Get Enough of You. Graphics Film by Jim Quick of Darlene Love's 'White Christmas'. Showaddywaddy - Heavenly. Bay City Rollers - Lovely To See You (on film) Gilbert O'Sullivan - Marriage Machine. Bay City Rollers - Don't Stop The Music Him & Us dance to Jean Claude Bollare's 'Dolannes Melody'. Elton John - Step into Christmas. (promo) The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me & Can I Take You Home Little Girl. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Christmas Song (I'm Not Dreaming Of A White Christmas). Gilbert O'Sullivan & Bay City Rollers - My Sweet Lord.