Sam & Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up

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.^[2] It is effectively the replacement for TMi (later known as Sam & Mark's TMi Friday). A fifth series started airing from 18 December 2015,^[3][4] and a sixth series began airing from 16 December 2016 and finished on 31 March 2017.^[5] A seventh series began airing in January 2018.

Sam & Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up
Titlecard from Series 1 onwards
Starring	Sam Nixon Mark Rhodes
Theme music composer	Guy Rowland[1]
Opening theme	"Jerk It Out" by Caesars
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	8
No. of episodes	86
Production
Producers	Luke Boatright Larissa Watson
Production locations	BBC Television Centre (Series 1) dock10 studios (Series 2-8)
Camera setup	Multiple
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Network	CBBC
Release	16 September 2011 (2011-09-16) – 5 April 2019 (2019-04-05)
Related
Sam & Mark's TMi Friday

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'. ^{[citation needed]}

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. ^{[citation needed]}

Episodes

Series 1 (2011)

Episode no.	Airdate	Celebrity guest(s)
1	16 September 2011	Sugababes[6]
2	23 September 2011	Joe McElderry and Six D[7]
3	30 September 2011	Joe Swash and Nicola Roberts[8]
4	7 October 2011	Loick Essien[9]
5	14 October 2011	Stacey Solomon and Rizzle Kicks[10]
6	21 October 2011
7	28 October 2011	The Wanted[11]
8	4 November 2011	Daniel Anthony and Cover Drive[12]
9	11 November 2011	Pixie Lott[13]
10	18 November 2011	The Saturdays[14]
11	25 November 2011	Joe McElderry and Six D[15]
12	2 December 2011	Oh My![16]
13	9 December 2011	Parade[17]

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[18]
4	1 February 2013	One Direction and Lemar[19]
5	8 February 2013	A*M*E and Hacker T. Dog
6	15 February 2013	Conor Maynard and Flawless[20]
7	22 February 2013	Lilygreen & Maguire[21]
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[22]
2	24 January 2014	Union J, Jack Carroll and Elyar Fox[23]
3	31 January 2014	Bobby Lockwood and Loveable Rogues[24]
4	7 February 2014	The Vamps and Chris Johnson[25]
5	14 February 2014	The Struts[26]
6	21 February 2014	Jessie J, Maisie Smith and Young Kato[27]
7	28 February 2014	The Luminites and Ceallach Spellman[28]
8	7 March 2014	Matt Cardle and Richard & Adam[29]
9	14 March 2014	Tich and Lawson[30]
10	28 March 2014	Compilation episode[31]

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[32]
3	30 January 2015	Rough Copy, Cel Spellman, Andrew Whyment and Sam Aston[33]
4	6 February 2015	Ward Thomas and Rachel Riley[34]
5	13 February 2015	Bars and Melody and Zoella[35]
6	20 February 2015	Magalie Vae[36]
7	27 February 2015	Ed Petrie and Overload Generation[37]
8	6 March 2015	Jermain Jackman[38]
9	13 March 2015	Compilation episode[39]
10	20 March 2015	Compilation episode[40]
11	27 March 2015	Compilation episode[41]

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.^[42]

Episode no.	Airdate	Celebrity guest(s)
1	16 December 2016	Hacker T. Dog and The Vamps
2	27 January 2017[43]	Tom Fletcher, Lauren Layfield, Katie Thistleton and Ward Thomas[44]
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.^[45]

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.^[46][47]

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.