Paul Jackson
Director
Saturday Live (1986)
Specials
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.
Released Jan. 25, 1986
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Genres: Comedy
Keywords: imdb.comedy-team, imdb.politics, imdb.british-comedy, imdb.alternative-comedy, imdb.stand-up-comedy, imdb.sketch-comedy
Production Companies: LWT
Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S0E1 - Pilot - Lenny Henry
Jan. 12, 1985, midnight
S0E2 - The Best of Saturday Live
Jan. 4, 1986, midnight
S0E3 - Saturday Almost Live 1 - Episode 1
Sept. 13, 1986, midnight
S0E4 - Saturday Almost Live 1 - Episode 2
Sept. 20, 1986, midnight
S0E5 - Saturday Almost Live 1 - Episode 3
Sept. 27, 1986, midnight
S0E6 - Saturday Almost Live 1 - Episode 4
Oct. 4, 1986, midnight
S0E7 - Saturday Almost Live 1 - Episode 5
Oct. 11, 1986, midnight
S0E8 - Saturday Almost Live 1 - Episode 6
Oct. 18, 1986, midnight
S0E9 - Saturday Almost Live 2 - Episode 1
Oct. 3, 1987, midnight
S0E10 - Saturday Almost Live 2 - Episode 2
Oct. 10, 1987, midnight
S0E11 - Saturday Almost Live 2 - Episode 3
Oct. 17, 1987, midnight
S0E12 - Saturday Almost Live 2 - Episode 4
Oct. 24, 1987, midnight
S0E13 - Saturday Almost Live 2 - Episode 5
Oct. 31, 1987, midnight
S0E14 - Saturday Almost Live 2 - Episode 6
Nov. 7, 1987, midnight
S0E15 - Saturday Almost Live 2 - Episode 7
Nov. 14, 1987, midnight
S0E16 - Saturday Almost Live 2 - Episode 8
Nov. 21, 1987, midnight
S0E17 - Saturday Live Again
Dec. 1, 2007, midnight
S0E18 - Saturday Live: The Best of Series 1 (Part 1)
April 16, 2007, midnight
S0E19 - Saturday Live: The Best of Series 1 (Part 2)
April 16, 2007, midnight
S0E20 - Saturday Live: The Best of Series 2 (Part 1)
Feb. 4, 2008, midnight
S0E21 - Saturday Live: The Best of Series 2 (Part 2)
Feb. 4, 2008, midnight
S0E22 - The Very Best of Friday Night Live (Part 1)
June 2, 2008, midnight
S0E23 - The Very Best of Friday Night Live (Part 2)
June 2, 2008, midnight
S0E24 - Saturday Live: Fry and Laurie, Harry Enfield and Ben Elton (Part 1)
Oct. 5, 2009, midnight
S0E25 - Saturday Live: Fry and Laurie, Harry Enfield and Ben Elton (Part 2)
Oct. 5, 2009, midnight
S0E26 - Saturday Live: Fry and Laurie, Harry Enfield and Ben Elton (Part 3)
Oct. 5, 2009, midnight
S0E27 - Friday Night Live (Channel 4's 40th anniversary show)
A one-off show commissioned to celebrate 40 years of Channel 4 which began broadcasting in November 1982.
Oct. 21, 2022, midnight
Channel 4
Jan. 25, 1986
April 29, 1988, midnight
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