Editing Chris Tarrant (section)

=== ''Tiswas'' and ''O.T.T.'' ===
{{Main|Tiswas|O.T.T. (TV series)}}

Tarrant rose to prominence after becoming a co-presenter on ''[[Tiswas]]'', a children's television show broadcast on a Saturday morning from January 1974 to March 1981, alongside [[Sally James (presenter)|Sally James]]. It also featured the young [[Lenny Henry]] and occasionally [[Jim Davidson]] together with [[Bob Carolgees]] and his [[puppet]], Spit the Dog. [[John Gorman (entertainer)|John Gorman]], former member of [[The Scaffold]], was also a presenter.

In 1982, along with Bob Carolgees, John Gorman, Randolph Sutherland and Lenny Henry, Tarrant hosted the short-lived Saturday late-night show ''[[O.T.T. (TV series)|O.T.T.]]'' ("Over the Top"), which was billed as an adult version of ''Tiswas'' but was not such a success. Despite being short-lived, the show was very popular amongst adults. After this, Tarrant did a stint on the breakfast television station [[TV-am]]. Sally James presented the concurrent and final series of ''Tiswas'' alone.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tiswasonline.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412161613/http://www.tiswasonline.com/|url-status=dead|title=Tiswas Online|archive-date=12 April 2015|website=tiswasonline.com|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref>