[TV] Tiswaz or Saturday Superstore

[BadFish]

Like the question needs asking . .

 

[A mex eyecan]

 

[Monkey Man]

Were they actually up against each other? The most usual question is Tiswas v Swap Shop but maybe Superstore overlapped once Swap Shop was gone.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Tiswas every time against anything it might have been up against.

 

[Live by the sea]

No idea not seen either - Double dare on Nickelodeon for me .

 

[BadFish]

Were they actually up against each other? The most usual question is Tiswas v Swap Shop but maybe Superstore overlapped once Swap Shop was gone.

Wow i kind of forget they were two separate things, they seem to live in my memory as the same thing.

Looked like I f***ed up a question that only has one reasonable answer

 

[chaileyjem]

PS: Tiswas not Tiswaz ended in April 1982 and Saturday Superstore (ie: the replacement for Swap Shop) started in Sept 1982.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Didn't it stand for Today is Saturday, Watch and Zmile?

 

[BadFish]

oooo posh!

No idea not seen either - Double dare on Nickelodeon for me .

 

[Brovion]

Wow i kind of forget they were two separate things, they seem to live in my memory as the same thing.

Looked like I f***ed up a question that only has one reasonable answer

And just to add to your humiliation a pedant writes:

It was actually 'Tiswas' (with an 's'). It was supposedly an acronym for 'This Is Saturday Watch And Smile'

You're welcome!

 

[BadFish]

I would like to formally apologise for the absolute mess I have made of this thread.

Custard pie in the face for me.

 

[BadFish]

Going Live or Number 73?

 

[Hamilton]

Didn't it stand for Today is Saturday, Watch and Zmile?

Wake and Smile I think.

Anyhow - Swap Shop.

 

[Monkey Man]

I'll stick my neck out here and say that Tiswas was overrated. Just a bit too self-consciously "wacky" for my tastes. Yes, Sally James ... but also Lenny Henry, Bob Carolgees and Chris Tarrant.

I suspect a lot more people say they watched and preferred it than actually did, partly because Edmonds went on to be such an odious sort of bloke.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Going Live or Number 73?

To this day, Sandi Toksvig is always that "Awful Sandwich Quiz woman" to my mum

 

[Is it PotG?]

Posh Paws all day.

 

[BadFish]

To this day, Sandi Toksvig is always that "Awful Sandwich Quiz woman" to my mum

Rolf the sex pest was a regular wasn't he?

 

[BadFish]

Posh Paws all day.

Five Star were f***ing crap

 

[Is it PotG?]

Five Star were f***ing crap

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

TISWAS all the way. Swap Shop was all soppy bollox well-meaning BBC Blue Peter type tosh, whereas TISWAS was anarchic ultra-violent slapstick. Bob Carolgees And Spit The Dog! The Phantom Flan Flinger! Pulling kids up by their ears! Chris Tarrant and Sally James were just perfick. Even Lenny Henry was moderately funny. Oh, and I always remember that the only band they ever got in to interview who failed to read the room were The Clash