Sam & Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up (also called Sam & Mark's Big Wind-Up for repeat compilations featuring just the pranks and Sam & Mark's Big Christmas Wind-Up for Christmas specials) is a British children's entertainment series aired on the CBBC Channel since 16 September 2011. It is presented by Sam & Mark. It is effectively the replacement for TMi (later known as Sam & Mark's TMi Friday). A fifth series started airing from 18 December 2015, and a sixth series began airing from 16 December 2016 and finished on 31 March 2017. A seventh series began airing in January 2018.
Format Each episode begins with Sam & Mark speaking to children in the audience who are said to have an embarrassing member of their family. They happen to bring out one of the audience member's mother/father and get them to do their embarrassing feat. They allow their children to get back at them by playing a game called 'Mum/Dad on a Wheel' which has been recently changed to 'Mum/Dad Pin Bowling'.
Another segment is 'In Yer House' which involves Sam & Mark having to put on a disguise and play-act towards a certain child/victim without being seen, and once they are, they are 'rumbled'. There are four rounds to this game.
Episodes
Series 1 (2011) Episode no. Airdate Celebrity guest(s) 1 16 September 2011 Sugababes 2 23 September 2011 Joe McElderry and Six D 3 30 September 2011 Joe Swash and Nicola Roberts 4 7 October 2011 Loick Essien 5 14 October 2011 Stacey Solomon and Rizzle Kicks 6 21 October 2011 7 28 October 2011 The Wanted 8 4 November 2011 Daniel Anthony and Cover Drive 9 11 November 2011 Pixie Lott 10 18 November 2011 The Saturdays 11 25 November 2011 Joe McElderry and Six D 12 2 December 2011 Oh My! 13 9 December 2011 Parade
Series 2 (2013) Episode no. Airdate Celebrity guest(s) 1 11 January 2013 Lawson 2 18 January 2013 Amelia Lily 3 25 January 2013 JLS and Scouting for Girls 4 1 February 2013 One Direction and Lemar 5 8 February 2013 A*M*E and Hacker T. Dog 6 15 February 2013 Conor Maynard and Flawless 7 22 February 2013 Lilygreen & Maguire 8 1 March 2013 The Mend 9 8 March 2013 Tyler James
Series 3 (2014) Episode no. Airdate Celebrity guest(s) 1 17 January 2014 Akai Osei and Lucy Spraggan 2 24 January 2014 Union J, Jack Carroll and Elyar Fox 3 31 January 2014 Bobby Lockwood and Loveable Rogues 4 7 February 2014 The Vamps and Chris Johnson 5 14 February 2014 The Struts 6 21 February 2014 Jessie J, Maisie Smith and Young Kato 7 28 February 2014 The Luminites and Ceallach Spellman 8 7 March 2014 Matt Cardle and Richard & Adam 9 14 March 2014 Tich and Lawson 10 28 March 2014 Compilation episode
Series 4 (2014-15) Episode 1 was a Christmas special which aired over 1 month before the start of the main series (episodes 2 - 11) Episode no. Airdate Celebrity guest(s) 1 15 December 2014 Union J and The Vamps 2 23 January 2015 Union J, Jedward and Harvey 3 30 January 2015 Rough Copy, Cel Spellman, Andrew Whyment and Sam Aston 4 6 February 2015 Ward Thomas and Rachel Riley 5 13 February 2015 Bars and Melody and Zoella 6 20 February 2015 Magalie Vae 7 27 February 2015 Ed Petrie and Overload Generation 8 6 March 2015 Jermain Jackman 9 13 March 2015 Compilation episode 10 20 March 2015 Compilation episode 11 27 March 2015 Compilation episode
Series 5 (2015-16) Like the last series, episode 1 was a Christmas special which aired just under 1 month before the start of the main series (episodes 2 - 11) Episode no. Airdate Celebrity guest(s) 1 18 December 2015 The Overtones, Chris Johnson, Akai Osei, Leona Vaughan and Amy-Leigh Hickman 2 15 January 2016 The Vamps and Peter Andre 3 22 January 2016 Joe Swash 4 30 January 2016 Nathan Sykes 5 5 February 2016 Jennie McAlpine, Ted Robbins and Ian Kirkby 6 12 February 2016 Naomi Wilkinson 7 19 February 2016 Bars and Melody and Lauren Layfield 8 26 February 2016 Kimberly Wyatt 9 4 March 2016 Ed Petrie and Shannon Flynn 10 11 March 2016 Lindsey Russell and Ben Shires 11 18 March 2016 Compilation episode
Series 6 (2016-17) Like the last two series, series 6 began with a Christmas episode in December followed by the rest of the series in January. Episode no. Airdate Celebrity guest(s) 1 16 December 2016 Hacker T. Dog and The Vamps 2 27 January 2017 Tom Fletcher, Lauren Layfield, Katie Thistleton and Ward Thomas 3 3 February 2017 Amy-Leigh Hickman, Jessica Revell and Union J 4 10 February 2017 Daniel Brocklebank, Iain Stirling, Katharine Merry, Kelly Gallagher and The Tide 5 17 February 2017 Matilda Ramsay and Gavin James 6 24 February 2017 Nikki Bella, Joe and Jake and Johnny & Inel 7 3 March 2017 Kevin Simm and Fergus Flanagan 8 10 March 2017 Hacker T. Dog, Simeon Qsyea, Jedward, Bec Hill and Ben Haenow 9 17 March 2017 Leona Vaughan, Dolly-Rose Campbell and Collabro 10 24 March 2017 Beth Tweddle, Nile Wilson and Bars and Melody 11 31 March 2017 Compilation show
Series 7 (2018) This series is the first since series 3 to not feature a Christmas special, instead there is an extra regular episode. Episode no. Airdate Celebrity guest(s) 1 5 January 2018 Isabel Clifton, Polly Allen and Yes Lad 2 12 January 2018 Cel Spellman, Lindsey Russell, Karim Zeroual and Matt Terry 3 19 January 2018 Katie Thistleton and Callum Beattie 4 26 January 2018 Jonny Nelson, Yasmin Evans, Ed Petrie and Naomi Wilkinson 5 2 February 2018 6 9 February 2018 7 16 February 2018 8 23 February 2018 9 2 March 2018 10 9 March 2018
Series 8 (2019) Like the last 3 series, series 8 began with a Christmas episode in December followed by the rest of the series in January. Episode no. Airdate Celebrity guest(s) 1 25 January 2019 2 1 February 2019 3 8 February 2019 4 15 February 2019 5 22 February 2019 6 1 March 2019 7 8 March 2019 8 15 March 2019 9 22 March 2019 10 29 March 2019 11 5 April 2019
Accolades Sam & Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up has been nominated for 6 British Academy Children's Awards and won three. It won twice for Best Presenter in 2013 and 2015 and won Best Entertainment in 2016.
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