Early Tiswas opening titles (1975) 

It's a kids' show and he's wearing a "Campaign fo real ale" T Shirt! Fantastic!

This is the TISWAS I remember...from the days when it was a Midlands-only programme produced by ATV. My family emigrated to Australia in 1976, so I missed the later, nationally-networked version of the show (the one with Sally James, etc.). To me, TISWAS is all about John Asher and "Atomic Butterfly" (the original and the best TISWAS theme...I don't care what anyone says!).

this is and always will be the best opening titles of tiswas.....ever! 30th august 1975 i remember it well! John Asher & Peter Tomlinson are legends, where are they now??? also Richard Barnes as well, he was well up for the splashingly great fun! i laughed with glee!

So great! I adore the other Tiswas theme and didn't even know about this early version.

this theme tune is awesome, it is a theme that needs more respect.

Nice to see them reusing the opening from The Golden Shot.

First time I've seen that since it was last aired! Thanks for putting it on.

I remember my nan saying I ahould watch Saturday Swapshop (which started I think about 18 months after Tiswas) I remember the newsreader going through on a rope doing the Tarzan yodel before every episode of Tarzan. Before it was Terry Thomas fishing, or Ulf Goran play guitar, ot Trueman and Arlott on Cricket or something (banana splits, arabian nights) Bring it back - it was ACE

just great thanks. facinating to see the early stuff again. cheers

This was the best. Brummie owned and made. I was quite annoyed when it went national and we had to share it with everyone else.

I actually prefer this theme tune, this is how I remember the show.

Saturday mornings were great back then.

Loved Tiswas before I have started secondary school

I was 7 tiswas is were I ever first saw a clip of Bruce lee

Tiswas appeared in the Midlands in about 1974 on ATV with John Asher and Chris Tarrant. (UPDATE.... I have researched and discovered that I am wrong, by the looks of it.... Barnes and Asher and others who got the ball rolling...was Tarrant in from the start? ) Asher stayed a couple of years before it went national. He recorded a version of Let's Twist Again which made the Top Twenty before jetting of to the USA to find his fortune... Sally James used to host a LWT Saturday morning kids show which generally read out requests and showed cartoons. I believe she replaced Asher and then The Phantom arrived along with 'Spit the Dog' , Leggy Henry and other silly ( but funny ) characters. In the early days there were lots of sub 'spots' on the show such as Tiswas Tarrant Time, Tiswas was Terry Time, Tiswas Tomlinson Time. The Tea, Toast and Tray of Treaties Times would be just prior to the 'feature film' of the day- probably a Tarzan or Lone Ranger... which was boring by comparison with the start of the prog. And of course ( this woudn't happen today ) when Asher and Tarrant sat at their paper-covered, disorganised desk, they would introduce guest-kids onto the show by lifting them up BY THEIR EARS from between the two presenters... what fun ! :-) Brill Times !

I really dig his CAMRA shirt!

This was the original and best theme.

Brilliant.

Saturday only morning i be out of bed and down stairs by 7

Love the T Shirt saying CAMRA Even then there was a Campaign for Real Ale

dacrlit SSVC are the Services Sound & Vision Corporation, they are a charity who run the BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) who provide radio & television services for the British Armed Forces stationed around the world.

young enough to not remember this sequence

I remember when it started (the original Birmingham only series), the first few weeks were boring and John Asher was rubbish, then one morning John Asher was reading something or other and a boxing glove on a stick appeared from off camera and punched him in the head. THEN it was a different program (because Chris Tarrant started his take over). It was great (until Tarzan).

I see someone else picked up on the CAMRA T shirt ;-)

John Asher opens one of the very early Tiswas's. Mr Asher went off to America I believe and others, Inc Sally James who came up from LTV I think. The early episodes were chaotic when scripts got soaked and lots of ad-libbing ensued. Great Telly! 👍

Started off in the ATV region originally but gradually other ITV regions starting ditching their Saturday morning programmines and hooking up for Tiswas from ATV Birmingham.

0:02 _Now_ it's Saturday!

We dont just throw this show together The show for Kids who thought swaop shop was oh so stuk up

youre wrong Chris Tarrant WASN'T the first present John Asher was......

Kids weren't patronised in those days. Wheras now we have a juvenile adult population.

A great programme though the graphics were tragic I'm going away Tp practice some magic!

Me & my girl we love each other.

xx

Tiswas: Today.......... Is.............. Saturday!

@spookyphill Richard Barnes presented a short for BFBS on the eve of the first live micro relay from the UK to Germany of the ITN and BBC news programmes in December 1982. Someone has uploaded it to RU-vid, but the person is adamant it's from 1983.

Now we know who Richard Whiteley went to for style tips! It's kinda creepy how much he looks like a young Richard Whiteley.

LOL ahhh yes would a presenter apear on a modern kids show wearing a CAMRA shirt?

The programme was not popular with studio cleaners!Visited the show in its early days...mayhem!

What does SSVC TV stand for please?

"rain" not "drain" bruh

Likewise -brill. Best happy energetic into music - at the time and not too bad now.

What is the song?

Compost Corner - this is what they want!

Interesting - I would have been 3 when this aired........got to be honest though, Chris, Sally (drool), Lenny, Frank, Bob and John G made this show.......right kids?

Was that John Asher doing the intro? he left the show and did a record ` lets twist again` it didn`t chart and i never heard of him after that .

Tiswas was often full of adult inuendo that just over the kid's heads. Thats what made is so funny! This was removed from later 1980's shows as political correctness got a foothold and the program soon folded.

The opening titles for the 1975 series look like recycled Golden Shot titles.

who were those presenters?

Just what were they thinking allowing a presenter to wear a CAMRA (campaign for real ale) t-shirt on a kids show? Thank goodness for the later sensibilities of Chris Tarrant and Sally James :)

@supergav67 HA!!! U KNOW THIS MATE!!!!

Matt Hancock's relation?

0:02 Today is not Saturday, that's tomorrow. So go to bed.

CAMRA member. Campaign For Real Ale

i never forgave kate bush for not showing up for an interveiw once... shows my age eh???

Every time i watch these kind of clips from the 80s/70s it makes me hate the PC brigade even more.