When Chris Tarrant looks back on a broadcasting career that now spans six decades and includes the quizzing juggernaut that is Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, he doesn’t need to phone a friend to ...

But the antics on Tiswas, which stood for Today Is Saturday, Watch And Smile, would not wash today – as they ­discovered at a 2007 reunion show. She said: “When you think of all the health and safety ...

Chris Tarrant believes there is no way that Tiswas would be made in this day and age. Before he started hosting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Chris rose to fame while co-presenting the popular ...

She was the star of one of Britain’s most-loved and anarchic children’s TV shows. And now 40 years on from the first broadcast of Birmingham-made Tiswas, former presenter Sally James is still working ...

He made a mint hosting Who Wants To Be Millionaire? – but Chris Tarrant has revealed how he used to get paid just £25 for fronting the anarchic Saturday morning show Tiswas which made his name. The ...

Thousands of British TV programmes are to be digitised before they are lost forever, the British Film Institute says. Anarchic children's show Tiswas and The Basil Brush Show are among the programmes ...

Chris Tarrant has admitted there's 'no way' he could have gotten away with his hazardous antics on 1970s series Tiswas, if it were to air in the present today. The TV presenter, 75, who fronted the ...

They may have been brought up during a golden age of children’s television, but the gaping financial black holes of the TISWAS Generation – ThIrty Somethings Without Any Savings – mean many will have ...

TISWAS was yesterday ranked alongside the Apollo moon landing and Live Aid as one of the greatest landmarks in TV history. TISWAS was yesterday ranked alongside the Apollo moon landing and Live Aid as ...

If you were a child of the 60s or 70s, Spit the Dog will have been very much part of your Saturday mornings. Along with his sidekick, comedian Bob Carolgees, they were an essential part of Tiswas, the ...

In the first part of our serialisation of his rollercoater memoirs in yesterday's Daily Mail, Chris Tarrant told how he immediately smelt a rat when the 'Coughing Major' scooped top prize on Who Wants ...