CULT TV show Thingummyjig is making a comeback after 30 years – and Stirling’s Monument Dance Centre is providing the choreographer and dancers.

Louise Murray - one of the original Thingummyjig Dancers - is putting the finishing touches to the sparkling routines for the iconic show.

On Saturday 5 April, nine talented Monument girls will appear in the Thingummyjig revival in Haddington – Louise’s daughters Ailsa, Charis and Kiera plus Lynne Atkins, Lucy Rice, Leah and Sophie Tytek, Sarah Hoskins and Mirren Mack.

Running between 1976 and 1983 and set in the hay-baled TV studios where the audience was encouraged every week to “waggle yer wallies”, Thingummyjig was one of STV’s top-rated music and dance programmes.

The family-favourite show became cult viewing with its kitsch blend of tartan, music and ceilidh dancing plus the weird and wonderful wit of Jack McLaughlin, the host dubbed ‘The Laird o’ Coocaddens’ – who 30 years on will return to present the Haddington night.

In its day it featured variety acts such as Fran and Anna, Alasdair Gillies and The Tartan Lads.

Other stars of the show, such as Alistair MacDonald, Tom Alexander, Morag Mackay and the John Carmichael Band will form part of the line-up in Haddington.

Louise said: “Over 30 years ago I was one of the original Thingummyjig dancers so this has been a real sentimental journey back in time for me.

“Cliff Martin, the original director of Thingummyjig, got in touch to say he’d been planning a revival of the show. He asked if I could take on the choreography and arrange the dancers, and I had no trouble getting them. It’s going to be a wonderful night with some of the original performers plus a new generation of Scottish variety acts.” The Thingummyjig Ceilidh Show on April 5 in Haddington will be filmed for global distribution by Cliff Martin and he intends taking it on the road to other venues across Scotland later in the year.