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Saturday Live

3 SeasonsTMDb 7.0

EnglishEnded

1 · Tracey Ullman

2 · Lenny Henry

3 · Pamela Stephenson

4 · Chris Barrie

5 · Michael Barrymore

6 · Hale & Pace

7 · Ben Elton

8 · Fascinating Aïda

9 · Peter Cook

10 · Steven Wright

Crew and Cast

Storyline

Saturday Live was a British television comedy and music show broadcast by Channel 4 from 1985 to 1987, and in 1988 as Friday Night Live. Influenced by the American show Saturday Night Live, it was produced by Paul Jackson. The series made stars of Ben Elton, Harry Enfield, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, and featured appearances by Patrick Marber, Morwenna Banks, Chris Barrie, Emo Philips, Craig Ferguson, Craig Charles and many others. The show featured comic duo Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall in their act The Dangerous Brothers. All episodes were transmitted live, although some material was pre-recorded. Recordings of shows were edited into compilation repeats, retitled Saturday Almost Live. The show was succeeded by Friday Night Live, a shorter and slightly more tightly-formatted show with Elton as the permanent host, which ran for a single series in 1988. The show's titles consisted of reforming clay animations, highly comparable to early MTV idents.

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Info

Status
Ended
First aired
25 January 1986
Last aired
29 April 1988
TMDB score
7.0 / 10 (4 votes)

Production

Created by
Paul Jackson
Studios
LWT
Networks
Channel 4

Episodes

Seasons
3
Episodes
30
Type
Scripted
In production
No

Languages

Original
English
Spoken
English