Runaround TV Series - musical guests?

[Kev Hunter]

I've recently caught (hope there's a vaccine for it) a few editions of the series "Runaround" from 1980, hosted by Mike Reid - the cockney chap - on TPTV, Sunday mornings and have been surprised to see that the show had musical guests on it. Not the obvious ones either - so far I've seen Jona Lewie with Kirsty MacColl (ok, that wasn't a great example) but also Graduate, the pre-Tears For Fears band that included Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, and The Sinceros. So now I'm keen to see who else graced this frankly awful kids' show - a quick Google just now didn't find any information about who else might have plugged their latest single on it.

[mattchurchett]

The excellent TV Pop Diaries lists musical guests for most editions. Not as a complete episode guide though, you’ll have to look through each year from 1975 to 1981.

[Kev Hunter]

Update: last week the Photos were the musical guests, with their then-current single "Irene". For some reason these episodes of Runaround don't seem to be being shown in broadcast order.