02 Aug '07 - 160 W - + 9 - 19 Spit The Dog, Custard Pies and Tiswas

Tiswas (“Saturday, Saturday, Saturday is Tiswas, never a day to miss ‘cos, Saturday is Tiswas day...”) a bizarrely anarchic show that was shown on Saturday mornings in Britain in the ‘80s. Here’s a brief reminder...



Elsewhere on The 80s Empire, our ‘80s correspondent has made passing mention of Spit The Dog. For the benefit of those people who don’t remember Spit (or were too young or living in far distant lands beyond the shores of this sceptred isle), here is a lovely little video of the mangy mutt on Tiswas with his owner, Bob Carlogees.

Supposedly for children, Tiswas gained a dedicated audience among somewhat older folk too (as you may deduce from the ages of the not-so-young youngsters in the Spit The Dog video who queue up in order to be physically assaulted by a glove puppet before being shoved into a cage...)

Now that’s what I call entertainment!

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