Hey Hey It's Saturday began as a children's programme broadcast Saturday morning. It went a bit further than just being a kid's show and gathered an adult audience. The show was moved to Saturday night and became very successful. There were some terrific moments in the show over the years. It eventually fell out of favour and was cancelled, and a revival attempt several years later did not succeed.
It was often entertainment in the background for us as we primped and preened ourselves before going out Saturday night at around 10pm. Yes, kiddies, we went out early back in the olden days, not at midnight.
One of our favourite segments was Media Watch, no connection to the current hard hitting ABC Media Watch now broadcast, with it's focus on poor media and journalism.
Typos, poor grammar and poor punctuation have alway been with us. I had a good laugh at the not so subtle humour.
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Ah... the good old days of innocent fun.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately (or fortunately?) for some reason embedded videos aren't playing sound on my computer, so I missed it this time around - however I saw it at the time. When they attempted to resurrect, I was working in advertising. I am not sure if it was one of the programs that was such shite that Kerry, on seeing it on air, called and got it taken off immediately - I know that there was a reality show incorporating dating, dance and weightloss that didn't last past the first ad break!
ReplyDeleteI am around your age, and at the time me and my friends would never watch that show as we thought ourselves too sophisticated. Now looking back at the videos I can appreciate how good it was, and mostly all adlibbed too, not scripted.
ReplyDeleteI remembered watching some of the shows at the time
ReplyDeleteOh, that was fun to watch. I can see why they moved it to a later time.
ReplyDeleteRevivals are often not the same as the original programmes. Time has moved on, the audience has different expectations and public values are (hopefully) different.
ReplyDeleteDo you remember Happy Hammond and the Tarax Show?
Good to rewatch Andrew. Rather liked the show back then.
ReplyDeleteI remember loving that segment and stopping whatever else was going on to pay attention.
ReplyDeleteWell I have never seen this programme but perhaps we are returning to childhood ways. They announced on the radio yesterday we shall see a return of Bagpuss from 1974. He sat in the window, of I think, an antique shop. A saggy old cloth cat.
ReplyDeletePeople go out at midnight? Oh I am old.
ReplyDeleteDarryl and John were clever people. Wilbur was great, too.
ReplyDeleteThere's no way I'd ever go out at 10, by then it's late enough that I just want to go to bed
Watching programmes from years past is interesting. Those I hated I now quite like, and those I thought wonderful make me wonder why.
ReplyDeleteSame here!
DeleteHa! I've never seen that show but the clip was funny. I think the host had a few shots before he went on the air with the bird. And who was that guy they kept cutting to -- not the guy singing "Danke Schoen" but the other one? The cartoonist? The announcer?
ReplyDeleteHe was a cartoonist, who quickly drew cartoons for whatever was being discussed.
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