Shammy Dab

Shammy Dab is a Scottish comedy panel game show that aired on Grampian Television from 8 January 1985 to 1 June 1989.

Shammy Dab
Genre	Comedy panel game
Presented by	Bill Torrance Johnny Beattie Dougie Donnelly
Starring	Andy Cameron George Duffus Art Sutter
Country of origin	Scotland
Original language	English
No. of series	6
No. of episodes	54
Production
Running time	30 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production company	Shihallion Television
Original release
Network	Grampian Television
Release	8 January 1985 (1985-01-08) – 1 June 1989 (1989-06-01)

History

Shammy Dab was created in 1975 by Bill Torrance as part of a series for Radio Forth in Edinburgh entitled Fair Flummoxed. The radio version mainly featured Scottish country dance bands.^[1]

The name was changed to 'Shammy Dab' (referring to a cheap wall decoration where a wall was stippled with a wet sponge - when done well, it was said to be a shammy dab).^[2]

Transmissions

In later years, the series was also aired on Border Television and Scottish Television.

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	8 January 1985	12 February 1985	6
2	14 May 1985	18 June 1985	6
3	11 March 1986	22 April 1986	7
4	14 July 1986	18 August 1986	6
5	20 January 1987	14 April 1987	13
6	16 February 1989	1 June 1989	16