Tizwas kid or Swapshop kid?

[stephec]

Tiswas. 😂

 

[cougie uk]

Swap Shop but occasionally visiting Tiswas when SS had something boring on.

Did anyone on here actually swap something on the show ? Noel Edmonds almost invented eBay there.

 

[Sharky]

Oh dear., making me feel old. Don't think my parents had a tv until I was 6 and then it only received BBC. Think we had to wait until 5pm for children's hour.
My children may know about these progs you are discussing.

 

[johnnyb47]

Definitely a Tiswas watcher

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Who can remember the number?













01 811 8055

 

[figbat]

Swap Shop for me, Tiswas was always a bit too OTT for my liking.

This.

 

[MartinQ]

Noel Edmonds needed to be flanned. A lot. Even then, I probably wouldn't have watched it.

 

[biggs682]

Swap shop , ours was aBbc house none of that common Itv

 

[Fnaar]

Tiswas, obviously, a reflection of my preference in the Magpie/Blue Peter dichotomy, where I favoured the corvid-themed televisual presentation

 

[captain nemo1701]

Swap Shop.

Our region in ITV land - Tyne Tees- didn't carry Tiswas until its later series before it ended, so missed a lot of it. Wasn't it local to Brum for its first few years?.

There is some debate about who got a first with 70's Saturday morning kids telly with 3-hour long shows punctuated by cartoons etc. I think Tiswas started out a a series of links between other programmes, so wasn't really an entity in itself until later. Still, found it just too silly, with distracting OTT slapstick.

I watched Swap Shop from its inception but vaguely recall an earlier Saturday morning show which was 'introduced' by a computer & featured a weekly serial which was illustrated and was about an environmental catastrophe causing the world to freeze. I think it featured the cult newspaper strip character 'Garth'. The show also featured a weekly time-travel visit to the past to see different dinosaurs...that's all I can remember!!.

Of course, even way back...HR Pufnstuff??

 

[Low Gear Guy]

We didn't have a television.

 

[Threevok]

I watched both, usually by flicking back and forth during adverts / Cheggers and Maggie moments

I never watched Saturday Superstore though. I found Mike Reed too patronising

 

[Dirk]

ABC Minors.

 

[raleighnut]

Tiswas but only if it was raining, if it was sunny I'd be out on the bike

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Saturday morning TV? Not a chance, back in those days we played out all day, no slobbing in front of the box then.