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 ...

Great grandad Benny Mills didn’t over-egg his 80th birthday. But he still ended up with a custard pie in his face. Yet the Small Heath born pensioner barely batted an eye-lid – because during his ...

In 1980, I won the TV equivalent of a golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yes, I made it onto the set of Tiswas, the anarchic Saturday morning TV show that posh parents refused to let ...

Thousands of people across the country are set to be glued to their screens when Tiswas returns with a 90-minute special featuring original host Chris Tarrant and members of the classic 1970s line-up.

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 ...

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, an anarchic slice of ...

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 ...

There was no way the angelic schoolchildren singing There’s No One Quite Like Grandma were going to escape unscathed from TV’s craziest show. Sure enough, halfway through their chart-topping hit, a ...

Anarchic 1970s children's programme Tiswas will return to ITV next year with original presenter, Chris Tarrant. He will host a one-off show featuring classic sketches and interviews with guests who ...

The first heats of the Burton Regatta in July 1979 were well under way before the rest of the town rolled up to Watson's Meadows for a day of fun. As a sea of cars and men were running up and down the ...

The children's TV legends were joined on their trip down memory lane by fellow presenters John Gorman, 86, and Bob Carolgees, complete with Spit the Dog. The famous four - who had a 1980 chart hit as ...