Warning. This post features an overuse of brackets.
O.T.T. (short for Over The Top) as a very short-lived music/comedy programme of 12 episodes across 1 series that was broadcast between January and April 1982. It was a show aimed at adults but was a spin-off from the weekly children’s programme TISWAS (Today Is Saturday: Watch And Smile) that ran for eight series between 1974 and 1982.
As far as I know, the programme featured the live TV debut of Fun Boy Three and Bananarama, performing the single that would peak at #4 in March 1982.
With huge thanks to ohnoitisnathan19 for posting the clip, which then cuts to comedian Lenny Henry is his then regular character Algernon Razzmattaz, a gentle send up of Rastafarian culture.
A reminder that the song was written by jazz musicians Melvin “Sy” Oliver and James “Trummy” Young, and first recorded in 1939.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
OTT was legendary on the school playground;
“Did you know there was a TISWAS for grownups?”
“REALLY?!?! I bet it’s amazing”
Never seen but oft spoken about
Kids at school used to talk about the Balloon dance section of OTT- not sure anyone had seen it but everyone talked about it