bhowells

I have to say that Tarrant was marvelous on Tiswas, ocasionally he would do a filmed report on a serious subject and adopt a very serious persona. He was well equipped for this as he had been a reporter for ATV regional news.

I wasnt a great fan of OTT and the other adult style Tiswas shows, but I find it absolutely impossible to dislike the guy.

I couldnt ever envisage Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, presented by anyone else other than Chris Tarrant.

bhowells

We musnt forget other Tiswas favourites like ex Scaffold member John Gorman, Bob Carolgees and Spit the dog and that very funny and wacky magician Clive Webb and wasnt there a guy on there whose speciality was singing Frankie Laines ,"Mule Train ." whilst whacking his head with a tray.

billy farmer

i always watched Swap Shop and would look forward to it every saturday. i have always liked Noel Edmonds and would later watch the Late, Late Breakfast Show, Telly Addicts and Noel's House Party. there were many things i liked about Swap Shop - Swaporama with Keith Chegwin who i always watched presenting Cheggers Plays Pop, John Craven's News Swap (always watched John Craven's Newsround), i always enjoyed watching the guests they had on the programme especially the ones from Doctor Who, Maggie Philbin, the stuffed toy dinosaur Posh Paws, cartoons and the unseen Eric who lived in the studio rafters and used to winch down a plastic ball containing postcards for the prize pick. i have got the single by Brown Sauce - I Wanna Be A Winner/Swap Shop theme. i never watched Tiswas which i thought was very silly i would switch over to ITV when Swap Shop was finished on BBC1 and the last few minutes of Tiswas were on and i didn't like what i saw at all and from the clips of Tiswas i have seen since i have never taken to it.

catch me if you can, hunt me if you dare!

jaycad

that's richard beckinsale in a dress with a bit of lippy!!

''no diggin'!!!!!!''

Steve Crook

If it it then he's been bodybuilding. That's an impressive set of pectorals

Steve

batman

.... he looks a bit chilly in this pic. Obviously didn't have his porridge fo breakfast!

"Do you know why fattries are called fattries .... it's because they are big and people make things in them."

EHV_Emmetts

I don't recall this happening?

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Tarrant brings Tiswas back to ITV

BristolUK

Funnily enough I found Tiswas Reunited on youtube earlier. It was fantastic.

davidb

tiswas wasnt screened on the tyne tees region where i grew up ,we had a show with that alaister "razzmatazz "pirrie ,it was rubbish ! luckily i could pick up yorkshire on the redifusion tv so i was able to see it although it was a bit fuzzy .those two ant and dec people were on the tiswas reunion show last year saying how much they loved the show when the were growing up ? they must have had redifusion as well then [ dont think so ] and theyre a little young arent they ? they would have only been toddlers .have i discovered a new tv scandal ?

Amethyst_Isle

Tiswas ran from 5 January 1974 to 3 April 1982.

Ant was born on November 18th 1975 ,Dec was born on September 25th 1975,so maybe they visited relatives.

Multi Coloured Swap Shop for me all the way.

There's a lot of dignity in that, isn't there? Going out like a raspberry ripple.

davidb

it simply wasnt the phenomonon in the tyne tees area that it was in other parts of the country .because of the fact tyne tees didnt screen it that kind of killed any chance of it becoming the cult it was in other parts of the country .when ant and dec spoke about it on the reunion show it was as if that had never been

Harleybloke

Sally or Noel.........................................?

Yep, it's a toughy........................

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

davidb

actually ive told a fib about tyne tees not screening tiswas ,they did ,the last series when chris tarrant had left [ it was rubbish ] he was replaced by a man who all i can remember about ,was that he wore a union jack suit jacket like pete townshend wore in the early days of the who . what was he called ? the sparkle had gone from the show completely by now

Amethyst_Isle

New presenting team consisted of Midlands DJ Gordon Astley, former Darts frontman Den Hegarty and comic impressionist Fogwell Flax. Veteran Tiswas presenter Sally James stayed on, but decided to quit towards the series' end.

Does anyone remember Sally James presenting Saturday Scene on LWT ? the first Saturday morning TV show for kids in which Sally interviewed so many stars of the time Gary Glitter was one of them,they even released an LP (which I owned but not now :-( ) of her many interviews called Saturday Scene,believe it or not but Supersonic was part of Saturday Scene before becoming a show of it's own.

There's a lot of dignity in that, isn't there? Going out like a raspberry ripple.

Pricey

I'm sure my take on this will be familiar to many of my generation. My parents - particularly my mother - were very snobby about ITV which was considered to be a working class TV station whilst the beeb was nice and middle class. This impression was reinforced by saturday afternoon wrestling, wheel tappers and shunters, love thy neighbour and on the buses plus the blatant rip off nature of most ITV output (Magpie a Blue Peter rip-off, World of Sport a Grandstand rip off etc etc). Swapshop was so worthy whilst Tiswas was deliberately and proudly stupid. Consequently, I loved Tiswas and hated Swapshop mostly in order to annoy my parents.