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Saturday Live

📅 1986 ⭐ 6.7 GB GB

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.

Seasons & Episodes
Series 1 10 episodes
E1
Tracey Ullman 1986-01-25
E2
Lenny Henry 1986-02-01
E3
Pamela Stephenson 1986-02-08
E4
Chris Barrie 1986-02-15
E5
Michael Barrymore 1986-02-22
E6
Hale & Pace 1986-03-01
E7
Ben Elton 1986-03-08
E8
Fascinating Aïda 1986-03-15
E9
Peter Cook 1986-03-22
E10
Steven Wright 1986-03-29
Series 2 10 episodes
E1
Episode 1 1987-02-07
E2
Episode 2 1987-02-14
E3
Episode 3 1987-02-21
E4
Episode 4 1987-02-28
E5
Lenny Henry 1987-03-07
E6
Episode 6 1987-03-14
E7
Episode 7 1987-03-21
E8
Episode 8 1987-03-28
E9
Episode 9 1987-04-04
E10
Episode 10 1987-04-11
Friday Night Live 10 episodes
E1
Episode 1 1988-02-19
E2
Episode 2 1988-03-04
E3
Episode 3 1988-03-11
E4
Episode 4 1988-03-18
E5
Episode 5 1988-03-25
E6
Episode 6 1988-04-01
E7
Episode 7 1988-04-08
E8
Episode 8 1988-04-15
E9
Episode 9 1988-04-22
E10
Episode 10 1988-04-29
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