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Tiswas: Best of (DVD)
Category: Family
Price: £6.39
Product Description
It's what Saturday mornings were made for ! Saturday mornings would never be the same again when in 1974 ATV launched a children's TV show which broke every rule in the book... ' TISWAS ! Beware! The Phantom Flan Flinger is BACK! Previously well behaved children were positively encouraged to act like monsters... Previously sane presenters were reduced to a state of lunacy... Major rock stars and top comedians would willingly subject themselves to the humiliation of 'Compost Corner', 'The Cage', The Dying Fly'; plus the diabolical ambushes from 'The Phantom Flan Flinger'! As Churchill may have put it - ' Never in the field of Television have so few people dispersed so much water to so many! ' For nearly 10 years ' TISWAS ' reigned supreme as THE Saturday morning kids programme. Nothing even came close to it - cages full of celebrities and non-entities covered with gunge, custard pies and buckets of water thrown in joyous abandon and Sally James in thigh-length boots... As Chris Tarrant, ringleader of this circus, was known to shout regularly ' This is what they want! ' And it was. And we loved it. So join Chris Tarrant, Sally James, Lenny Henry (doing his now-legendary impressions of David Bellamy and Trevor McDonald), Bob Carolgees, Spit the (Punk) Dog, John Gorman and the Phantom Flan Flinger - who manages to claim celebrity victims including Frank Carson, Slade and Spike Milligan - and you have all the ingredients for the mayhem and anarchic fun that was ' TISWAS '. Relive those moments with this compilation of extraordinarily silly bits and remember there's a 'Bucketeer' in all of us... you know it makes sense... sort of! ' Gwapple me gwapenuts! Fwet not 'TISWAS' fans - a second volume featuwing Pweviously unseen matewial is cuwwently being pwepared!' This is what they want! ' The best kids' show for grown-ups there ever was!' - Ali Coterall, The Guardian Guide | |
