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Jan 3, 2024 · The show had a New Wave feel with The Specials, The Pretenders, Elvis Costello and Motorhead among its fans, while hungover students voted Tiswas high in music paper polls. – BFI
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Tiswas (/ ˈ t ɪ z w ɒ z /; an acronym of "Today Is Saturday: Watch And Smile") was a British children's television series that originally aired on Saturday mornings from 5 January 1974 to 3 April 1982 and was produced for the ITV network by ATV.
- Children's Entertainment
Story by Mike Lockley. • 1w. We take a look back at the incredible Birmingham-based children’s Saturday morning TV show Tiswas filmed at studios near Broad Street. Children incarcerated in...
Apr 14, 2024 · By the autumn of 1981, everyone knew Motörhead. Whether revered as the kings of greasy biker grebo, fast’n’loose dirty rock’n’roll, or reviled as the sort of dirty ruffians who turned everything up to 11, drank too much and flipped dirt-encrusted middle-fingers to the dull and boring British public, Lemmy, Philthy Animal Taylor and ...
Episode #8.21: With Adam Ant, Motörhead, The Polecats, Status Quo. Adam Ant is interviewed backstage at the Birmingham Odeon. Pre-shot on 16mm film, this footage is retained, though the rest of the episode is missing from the ITV Archives.
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- 1982-01-23
- Adam Ant, Motörhead, The Polecats
Pop Music on British Television 1955 - 1999. "This is what they want." History now has it that Tiswas was the first decent Saturday morning show, and although it predates Swap Shop the honour would actually go to Ed and Zed or Zokko on the BBC.
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One of the show's main features was The Cage, in which adults were securely locked and subjected to a pelting of buckets of water, gunge or whatever was in the large metal bathtub balanced ...
