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Saturday Live

Saturday Live

75
Balasaur Score
Worth a look

1986–1988 · TV · 3 seasons · 30 episodes

The read

A Balasaur Score of 75 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.7/10. The series ran 3 seasons across 30 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.

Synopsis

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.

Ratings

IMDb7.7/10

4 audience votes

Seasons

1Series 110 ep1986
2Series 210 ep1987
3Friday Night Live10 ep1988

Key crew

Cast

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Bottom

1991–1995

Shares: Adrian Edmondson · Rik Mayall · Comedy

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