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Tiswas Reunited

General talk about the show (June 2007)

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NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Steve in Pudsey posted:
The logger recordings wouldn't necessarily have been of anything approaching good quality, there was no need for them to be.


The recordings made for the IBA would have probably been okay on any medium they could get their hands on. It would only be the IBA who would be seeing them.

Don't forget though, the programmes would have been recorded anyway for the archive (and maybe wheeled out again for the Christmas Tapes), but ATV, like other broadcasters of the time, went down the purging route in the years before home video recording really took off when VHS went mainstream. Apparently ATV used poor quality tapes for masters and now none of them are broadcast quality.
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tvarksouthwest
Tragic really - for the sake of ATV's desire to save money in the short term, thousands of hours of archive material has now been lost. Material which could now be making ITV plc a killing in the form of DVD releases.
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A former member
Remember this was the 70's AND cost cutting was EVERYTHING!
PT
Peter Thomas
russnet posted:
Peter Thomas posted:
Good! Sw*p Sh*p was so boring, they had to draft in some post-Sw*p Sh*p shows to make their reunion interesting.

Are your vowel characters not working on your keyboard Smile I'm sure your fingers can put an A and O into those two words!


Swop Shap?

russnet posted:
The set up for the shows were different anyway, One looking across the board at Saturday Morning TV on the Beeb and the other purely on one show.


Well, not quite across the board. Some massive omissions were made by Little Noelly. What's wrong with Zoe and Jamie's era of Live and Kicking for a start?

russnet posted:
I enjoyed both shows. Sure, the T*SW*S Laughing reuninon was the more rowdy of the two shows. I'm not too sure on the editing of the programme though, very disjointed.


They went 40 minutes over in the recording, they had to cut out loads of stuff. Hopefully the DVD should restore a lot of it in its extended version.
PT
Peter Thomas
Markymark posted:
623058 posted:
can I ASK what was the FIRST ALL regional Saturday morning show?
No73?

No, LWT's 'Our Show' I think, although Southern TV picked up the last series, before both companies opted for Tiswas ?


Do have a look here, and you'll find you're wrong: http://www.tiswasonline.com/look_in.php

I think 623058 is right with Number 73.

Central's Saturday Show didn't get shown in TSW, so that doesn't count.
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A former member
It still nice to know that in 77-78 Tiswas was shown in half the UK

THANK you for that link!
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A former member
Also going to put money on it that both STV and Granada showed Tiswas in Late 78 and early 79: just after Sat banana

AS there no details at this point of time:
MA
Markymark
Peter Thomas posted:
Markymark posted:
623058 posted:
can I ASK what was the FIRST ALL regional Saturday morning show?
No73?

No, LWT's 'Our Show' I think, although Southern TV picked up the last series, before both companies opted for Tiswas ?


Do have a look here, and you'll find you're wrong: http://www.tiswasonline.com/look_in.php

I think 623058 is right with Number 73.

Central's Saturday Show didn't get shown in TSW, so that doesn't count.


Oh my mistake, I thought that 623058 meant what was the first show that only ever got shown in one region ? He should have said, what was the first show to be screened nationally.

In any case I'd got LWT's Saturday Scene and Our Show mixed up. SS was hosted by Sally James ISTR ?
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A former member
GOOD news I'm able to fill in some gaps in the STV : and TISWAS - shown in early 1979!!

5th March 1977:

0915 Plain sailing
0945Be sport
1010 Film white Rabbit
Noon: Super sonic
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2nd/ 9th Dec 1978

9:20 Adventures In Rainbow Country
9:45 Saturday Banana
10:15 The Monkees
10:45 Saturday Banana
11:30 Lucan

16, 23rd:
0900 Tazarn
09:45 Saturday Banana
10:15 The Monkees
10:45 Saturday Banana
11:30 Lucan

6th Jan - 31St march 1979:
0930 Adventures In Rainbow Country Or Plus Soccer

10am the Saturday show:
1130 Chopper squard *** Expect on 10th , 17th. 24 Feb when it was 1130: the flintstone and 1200 Wait till you father gets home

7th April - 26th may

09.35 Catch 79
10.00: call it macaroni - What ever that was!!
10.30 Tiswas WAS SHOWN Expect 12th may for a crap film and then the cup final!

2nd June - 4th August
09.35 Code R or Gizzy admas
From 7th July Cuir cul- galice programme: : 10AM

10.30:The Mersey Pirate was show

27th Oct: Tiswas was BACK!!!
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A former member
I do believe the reason STV kept with the Sat Banana in Late 78: was there just contracted to show the WHOLE run to be broadcaster:

I believe it was just the same for like of Granada and borders, Anglina TV
who ALL went back to Tiswas as soon as banana finsed

also the reason for STV never went back to tiswas is : Chopper Squad as this was shown From January - End of march
WE
Westy2
Is there any way of downloading the Tiswas radio show files on upandhappy.com for offline listening?

I've tried, but seem to get stuck on a Quicktime screen!

(Before you ask Lee, no I'm not bootlegging them!)
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A former member
are any of the links now Working:

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