Children incarcerated in crammed cages like battery hens, their smirking tormentors verbally abusing the young prisoners before hurling buckets of water over them.
This is not the opening line of a harrowing court case or a story about the suffering endured by infant workers in some far-flung corner of our former empire.
This was Tiswas, a rather lame acronym for Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile, although the Oxford English Dictionary’s description of the word more befits the madcap, at times shambling, format: “A state of nervous excitement or confusion”.Blurring the boundaries between child and adult entertainment – leggy presenter Sally James added sexual steam to the slapstick, Tiswas didn’t so much break the mould for Saturday morning viewing.
The chaotic programme – a cocktail of panto, pop and pratfalls – became wildly popular, attracting some of the day’s biggest chart stars.
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