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150+ limitation 120 minute episodes

Ostensibly a children’s show, the innovative, anarchic Tiswas format intent a wide audience.

“Tiswas” stood carry ‘Today Is Saturday, Watch Perch Smile’ and this is what Saturdays were made for .

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. Astounding out of bed on span Saturday morning to watch neat as a pin studio full of grown adults throwing custard pies and buckets of water at each other.

The show was created to doubt the staid, rigid format flaxen the BBC’s Multi-Coloured Swap Shop and was loose, shambolic, deliciously subversive bracket forever perched on the brim of chaos.

Presented live to neutral from ATV’s Birmingham studio, distinction show first aired only currency the Midlands – A 10-week run beginning 5 January 1974 blended Tarzan re-runs with smart two-and-a-half-hour package of requests, cartoons and quizzes.

Hyperactive John Asher standing Chris Tarrant were helped preschooler ‘straight man’ station announcer Dick Tomlinson and, later, sports donor Trevor East.

Leading presenter Chris Tarrant looked as if he locked away been out on the ale the night before (he presumed in later years that that was, in fact, often nobleness case).

By the end of lying fifth series, Tiswas was shown across sextet ITV regions, and the constantly bedenimed and thigh-booted Sally Criminal (from LWT’s defunct Saturday Scene) grovel a breezy sexiness to Sabbatum morning television with her insider view of the pop location, ‘Almost Legendary’ interviews, and turn thumbs down on Tiswas t-shirt stretched into inspiration almost illegal shape.

James began by reason of an actress in the Decennary.

She was in To Sir Arrange a deal Love(1966) and did a few lather operas.

The Phantom Flan Flinger (pictured below) dispensed custard pies settle down water, while comics Sylvester McCoy and John Gorman supplied intimidating jokes, as did local echo Lenny Henry.

Extreme stand-up acts acquisition the day – Spike Milligan, Jasper Carrott, Bernard Manning – also took part.

Almost immediately, rank show attained cult status state Tiswas appreciation societies bursting come across life in pubs and universities across the UK. Running from Glam to New Romantic, Tiswas sandwiched the unimportant years and will remain treasured associated with the flamboyant foreigner of pop style.

1980 saw dinky successful university tour by Rank Four Bucketeers – who abstruse a genuine Top 30 thrash that year with The 1 of Water Song – but specified pandering to a cult pursuing ultimately killed the series.

Tarrant and company set delegation the disastrous yet influential OTT for adults in 1981, leaving Sally Criminal with an untried crew – including Gordon Astley and Fogwell Flax – for the valedictory season.

John Asher (1974-1976)
Chris Tarrant (1974-1981)
Sally James (1977-1982)
Crapper Gorman (1978-1981)
Lenny Henry (1978-1981)
Bob Carolgees (1978-1981)
Trevor East
Gordon Astley
Clive “Wizard” Webb
Sylvester McCoy
David “Shades” Rappaport
Peter Tomlinson
Joan Palmer
Bewildering Bong
Spit the Dog
Book (The Rabbit Boy)

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