I played on a tour (entertaining UK armed forces) in Germany in the mid 80's, and backed Carolgees and Spit as they totally owned audiences. A great deal funnier than you may think.
I was born in 87 and first heard about Spit The Dog from some TV quiz competition in 2000 where one of the answers you could respond to the question with was Spit The Dog!
It's one f the reasons people of my generation, born in 1973, were screwed from the outset lol! I wouldn't change Spit though. Good God that dog was amazing 🙂
A lot of the programmes were never recorded in full by ATV - whatever recordings are in existence are largely those recorded by contributors to the show and are recorded straight from the telly - so the quality may vary! Most of it was fairly topical in nature, so, if ATV had recorded it and kept it in their archives and some company either rebroadcast it on a channel or issued each and every show on DVD, it would contain a lot of material that would be lost on a modern audience! Even the ATV-only shows, which, I think were only fillers between other programmes, before it became a full show in its own right - often featured Warner Bros cartoons like Bugs Bunny - and contemporary pop videos by the popular performers of the era! Even so, it might have allowed viewers whose ITV regions refused to air the programme, instead preferring to show war movies and Ealing comedy films instead - I’m talking to you, Tyne-Tees! And you, Ulster! According to continuity announcer Lyn Spencer, some of the films Tyne-Tees insisted on screening often attracted more viewers than Swap Shop - but that’s to be expected when parents had full control over the TV set - even for children’s programming - parents thought that “majority vote = age of majority, which would never have been reached even if we became pensioners! This was at a time before even video recorders became the norm in a domestic environment - the option available was to turn on the television just before the programme started (some older sets - particularly those black and white ones - took a good five minutes to go through a little routine) and actually sit and watch the programme- they didn’t even have catch up players! If you were not able to watch it for whatever reasons (usually parents not liking the programme and just not letting you watch it, either - we don’t like it, so you’re not seeing it, was their mantra! Today, thanks to digiboxes with built-in HDDs and even online streaming players, it’s almost impossible to miss any programmes that you want to watch - just set the HDD! Or watch on catchup! The kids of today have a lot of stuff we didn’t have as kids!
I played on a tour (entertaining UK armed forces) in Germany in the mid 80's, and backed Carolgees and Spit as they totally owned audiences. A great deal funnier than you may think.
Great to see them again.and made m laugh for first time in ages .Thanks
Absolutely brilliant
I was born in 87 and first heard about Spit The Dog from some TV quiz competition in 2000 where one of the answers you could respond to the question with was Spit The Dog!
It's one f the reasons people of my generation, born in 1973, were screwed from the outset lol! I wouldn't change Spit though. Good God that dog was amazing 🙂
Genius
Brilliant
Unfortunately this was really bad quality recording, but reminds me as a kid how fun tiswas was
A lot of the programmes were never recorded in full by ATV - whatever recordings are in existence are largely those recorded by contributors to the show and are recorded straight from the telly - so the quality may vary!
Most of it was fairly topical in nature, so, if ATV had recorded it and kept it in their archives and some company either rebroadcast it on a channel or issued each and every show on DVD, it would contain a lot of material that would be lost on a modern audience! Even the ATV-only shows, which, I think were only fillers between other programmes, before it became a full show in its own right - often featured Warner Bros cartoons like Bugs Bunny - and contemporary pop videos by the popular performers of the era! Even so, it might have allowed viewers whose ITV regions refused to air the programme, instead preferring to show war movies and Ealing comedy films instead - I’m talking to you, Tyne-Tees! And you, Ulster!
According to continuity announcer Lyn Spencer, some of the films Tyne-Tees insisted on screening often attracted more viewers than Swap Shop - but that’s to be expected when parents had full control over the TV set - even for children’s programming - parents thought that “majority vote = age of majority, which would never have been reached even if we became pensioners!
This was at a time before even video recorders became the norm in a domestic environment - the option available was to turn on the television just before the programme started (some older sets - particularly those black and white ones - took a good five minutes to go through a little routine) and actually sit and watch the programme- they didn’t even have catch up players! If you were not able to watch it for whatever reasons (usually parents not liking the programme and just not letting you watch it, either - we don’t like it, so you’re not seeing it, was their mantra!
Today, thanks to digiboxes with built-in HDDs and even online streaming players, it’s almost impossible to miss any programmes that you want to watch - just set the HDD! Or watch on catchup! The kids of today have a lot of stuff we didn’t have as kids!
😂😂