YEAR OF PRODUCTION:
COMPANY:		 1974-1982
ITV REGIONS

 
BACKGROUND

Saturday morning television was Tiswas. Its shadow fell over everything else. Oh, to
switch over from the fair-to-middling first half hour of the earlier-starting Swap Shop
(the Beeb's regular scheduling of John Craven's too-sober-for-Saturday News Swap
segment at this time can't have helped their case) to see that ITV clock - "And now,
with the time coming up to ten o'clock, let's go over to studio one to see what's happening,"
quoth the announcer in none-more-understated manner. This didn't give any clue (or indeed
warning) to the madness to follow. As chairman Chris Tarrant maintained, "This is what they
want!" Did Swap Shop have John Peel and Buster Bloodvessel in a cage?*

Did Noel Edmonds have the joys of Wunda-Gloo at his disposal?...No! 

Source material: Satkids website 

 

 
PRESENTERS
Chris Tarrant
Sally James 
Lenny Henry 
John Gorman 
Clive Webb

Bob Carolgees 
John Asher

Trevor East 
Sylvester McCoy 
Frank Carson 
Fogwell Flax 
Emil Wolk 
Den Hegarty 
David Rappaport 

Gordon Astley 
 

 

 
Matthew Lewis contacted CultTV International about this reunion 
with Chris Tarrant on The Frank Skinner Show in October 2002.
 

 
TRIVIA FAX

When Chris Tarrant left and was replaced by Gordon Astley, who by all accounts
was not an entirely fitting replacement. 

The cast tried to repeat the formula for an adult audience with OTT, but failed horribly. 

Sylvester McCoy of course, went onto play Doctor Who in 1987.