All the celebrities who appeared on TISWAS, had a wonderful, great sense of humour. It was so much fun, chaos and laughter. One of the best, and amazing UK children's programme ever. 😅😂🤣😎😍🥰😁
I just remember the Genesis band members dressed up as flowers on compost corner while Lenny Henry dressed as David Bellamy daubed their faces with God only knows what. I think that got me into Genesis!
I feel so lucky to have had Tiswas on Saturday mornings when i was a kid ! The Multi Coloured swap shop was on BBC1 . You had the swap shop kids and the Tiswas kids , the Tiswas kids were obviously more mental than the geeky swap shop kids , great times .
Swap Shop just wasn’t funny, and how the concept of watching kids try and swap jigsaws with bits missing ever got the green light I’ll never know. Tiswas had much cooler guests who’d be encouraged to go a little crazy. With Tiswas, you never knew what was going to happen - with Edmonds and John Craven, you were never sure whether anything would happen.
@@Cromper The Big Breakfast had a lot of the same ingredients as TISWAS, live crowd & crew participation, anarchy, silliness, in-jokes, anarchy, cheap TV relying on presenters humour & chemistry, did I mention anarchy & silliness? and both were shows for children but also aimed at young-at-heart adults? IMHO ;-)
The funny thing was Chris Tarrant often said there was usually no script to follow - They would just make stuff up on the spot abs carry it off - brilliant
I remember my dad wouldn't go shopping with my mum every Saturday ....until Tiswas as had finished.....it was loved by young and old,.....it was totally bonkers, but great entertainment........they were simpler times, but times of more fun
The greatest kids show ever made - no question, and still funny. Punk rock, Zoo TV which looked, beautifully, like it might fall apart at any second. Long live the Phantom Flan Flinger!
Watching this as an Adult ,,, it doesnt look like this was ever made for kids :) Now I know why my mum always let me watch it, and usually watched it with me !
I lived in the uk in the late 70's and early 80's. watched it every Saturday with my brother and father. later we found out that it was more popular with adults.
God You're so right - I remember when it was inexplicably replaced with no real warning by No 73 and although I was probably around 8/9 years old ITV Saturday Mornings were never the same. I started watching Saturday Superstore around that time and rarely went back to ITV 😑
It was stupid. I must have been the only person in my school that thought so. It is just not funny, a guy pouring wine on his head and calling it something dumb like Cote de Knickers. It was just always throwing custard pies, ALWAYS the same. Swap Shop was way, way better
Oh, yes! I suppose things were pretty marvellous in 'the good old days'. Four year old kiddies digging coal! Three year old kiddies er, digging coal as well as the four year old kiddies. I suppose you think that was the limit, don't you? Well Ive got news for you. I think old people are really boring. And the only reason you don't understand our music is because you don't like it!
I lived in the U.K. from '79 to '83 and this was the best show on t.v. It was said that more adults watched this show more than kids. So they started a show called OTT, but it wasn't as popular. Tiswas was the best.
My life has never been the same since Tiswas ended. Thanks so much for uploading. I laughed a lot and have strained a few muscles. It's been worth it. The kids haven't got a clue. Look at their faces as Frank Carson tries to make the adults laugh.
Yep, whenever I switched on swap shop, it was Edmonds (self righteous brothers) chatting to some kid about their stamp collection. There was no contest, Saturdays were Tiswas.
I have tried to describe this to my New Zealand friends, all I could say was its like Monty Python for children, full of chaos, that adults would get up with a hangover to watch
Ha ha, many 's the time I'd been out with my mates in Stretford, Manchester, and got up with a hang-over and watched TISWAS. You know the stars that came on didn't do it for the money...they must've spent literally pennies on the backgrounds and special effects for that show. 🤣Stars like Robert Plant, Genesis, Cozy Powell, Motorhead, Quo, weren't there for the money, Michael Palin, Olivia Newton-John, good grief even Jackie Chan turned up. Cozy Powell actually drove down the morning after a concert for Rainbow the night before in Manchester. He wasn't promoting anything...AND judged a competition for junior drummers! Frank Carson once got ' flanned ' on there, only for Tarrant to shout out, ''Frank, what are you doing here, you are not even booked for today!''
My dad wouldn't let me watch Tiswas, it was too low brow apparently. Those few Saturday mornings when he was out , and I would turn the TV onto ITV were precious!
I can still hear my mum & dad shouting up the stairs while me , my brothers and sisters were still in our beds....." It's on...hurry up"......Then blasted the Tiswas Song out..Happy,happy days!!!!!
I was in my late 20's when these were aired. I had to work Saturdays so I used to Video Tiswas and watch it that evening when I got home from the pub. Am still a big kid now.
We once sacrificed watchi g tiswas one saturday to go to a local live swapshop so we could shout turn over and watch tiswas everytime they went live...😂
The funniest kids program ever on TV What progress we have when you consider the wokies and health and safety would never allow a program like that to be made theses days.
I was on Tiswas around 1977/78 when Chris got us children to hold cards which spelt Cartoon. We were all in the wrong place and Chris started moving us in to the right place and splatting us with egg custard's. I'm trying to find this particular episode
The Big Breakfast had a lot of the same ingredients as TISWAS, both were childrens shows but also aimed at young-at-heart adults, live crowd & crew participation, anarchic, silliness, in-jokes, anarchy, cheap TV relying on presenters chemistry with their banter and give and take humour, did I mention anarchy & silliness? IMHO ;-)
Then again most of us didn't get the adult humour I personally remember tiswas as condensed milk sandwiches the dying fly spit the dog and phantom flan finger watching it back as an adult is funny, I said to my 80 yr old mum the other day that greased lightening lyrics were rude didn't notice till adulthood and she said no it wasn't I wouldn't of bought you that if it was rude I said take a listen 😅
Loved this program. Head over heels in Love with Sally, too, in that way you are when you’re young 🤪 look at children’s tv now. Not at all the same quality.
Judging by the not so stealthy meat and veg undercover yet on display lol in compost corner I am surprised my God fearing parents allowed me to watch this lol 😂
The BBC had Blue Peter. TISWAS had Green Nigel - with the legendary David Rappaport. No comparison really. And what other show could get on one of the Pythons!
Sally James. Sally James. Sally James... Sigh. I'd just graduated from Magpie's Susan Stranks. The world divided into TISWAS fans and Swapshop fans. Still does, come to think of it. This must have been the last time ITV had the better of two competing shows, telly selly time notwithstanding.
.....not quite the elephant in the room, but green leotards. And wouldn't just ruin your day to get out of your chair to change channels to see what Noel was swapping with Cheggers.
Just classic. Cannot believe as a kid I was an MCSS viewer. BP not Magpie as well. Dont remember my parents having a problem with ITV as many of my mates parents did.
Hi - do you have an original copy of the Genesis fan club episode? I'm actually in it and would like to get a better copy...my dad is their manager so I'd really like to get a decent copy as I was only 13 and there aren't any other videos of me at that age!
Brilliant.. I was born in 73 but i can still remember watching this.. My parents didn't like it and my gran was appalled at the idea of being smashed in the face with a custard pie (i think she thought the plates were pottery). And not forgetting old lenny lenny len with the oooooooookkkkkkkkkkk in the strong west indies accent of which i used to copy. Apparently it was a nod to Eric dunkley song (OK Fred).
