Wacaday
 
Wacaday was shown during school holidays on TV-am, ITV, between 1985 and 1992. Presented by Timmy Mallett (who was very wacky indeed) and lasting 30 minutes, regular wacky features included Holiday postcards, Hero of the day, Manic minute, Drop your toast, Foreign reports, Wac saw puzzle, Making things, Fingers in your ears time, Talent on the telly, Wactors and Wactresses and, perhaps most memorably, Mallet's Mallet. This was a game where two contestants sat opposite each other on pink and yellow stools, and had to say a word which was linked to the word that the last contestant said. If any contestant paused for too long, or said a word that Timmy disapproved of, he would hit them over the head with his inflatable mallet. The one who had the least hits at the end won a prize (anything from a Wham record to a Super Nintendo - which were very good prizes in those days) and the loser got a 'Wacky plaster.' This game has been played in many a school playground, since. For each series of Wacaday, Timmy Mallet would go filming to a different foreign country, and bring back reports, some of which were educational. Destinations included France, Majorca, Egypt and Germany. Other regulars to the show, were Magic the Cocketeil Pinky Punky, the talking mallet and Michaela Strachan, who joined the show in 1990, and did film reviews and fashion slots. This show was hugely popular, and certainly very different to what most shows were like.
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