''Hey Hey it's Saturday'' was a British children's Saturday morning television programme that aired on the breakfast television channel
TV-am
TV-am was a TV company that broadcast the ITV franchise for breakfast television in the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 until 31 December 1992. The station was the UK's first national operator of a commercial breakfast television franchise ...
.
Based on the
Australian Saturday morning/night television programme of the same name, it ran from July 1990 until September 1991. The programme was produced by
Clear Idea Productions. It was presented alternately by
Timmy Mallett,
Tommy Boyd
Timothy Leslie "Tommy" Boyd (born 14 December 1952) is a British television and radio presenter. He gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s as host of the children's television programmes ''Magpie'', '' Wide Awake Club'', and ''The Saturday ...
,
Mike Brosnan and
Michaela Strachan.
It was a replacement for ''
WAC '90'', which was previously known as the ''Wide Awake Club'', and it was replaced by ''
TV Mayhem''.
The programme included several animated and live-action television series such as ''
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Alvin and the Chipmunks, originally David Seville and the Chipmunks and billed for their first two decades as the Chipmunks, are an American animated virtual band and media franchise first created by Ross Bagdasarian for Novelty records in ...
'', ''
Captain N: The Game Master'', ''
Maxie's World'', ''
Top Banana'', ''
Dink, the Little Dinosaur'', ''
Animals in Action'', ''
The New Archies
''The New Archies'' is an American animated sitcom produced by DIC Entertainment, DIC Animation City, based upon the characters by Archie Comics. The series, originally produced for NBC's Saturday-morning cartoon, Saturday morning schedule and br ...
'', ''
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show'', ''
Captain Planet and the Planeteers'', ''
The Adventures of Portland Bill
''The Adventures of Portland Bill'' is a British stop motion animated children's television series made in 1983. It is set in a fictional lighthouse on the Guillemot Rock, just off the coast from the fictional village of McGuillycuddy. Norman ...
'' and the American situation comedy series ''
The Charmings''.
References
External links
Museum of Broadcast Communications
1990s British children's television series
1990 British television series debuts
1991 British television series endings
British children's television series
British English-language television shows
ITV children's television shows
TV-am original programming
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