Series

Saturday Live

1986 · 3 seasons · Comedy

IMDb

7.7

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.

Ben Elton

Harry Enfield

Stephen Fry

Hugh Laurie

Rik Mayall

Adrian Edmondson

• Paul JacksonDirector
• Geoff PosnerDirector
• Geoff PerkinsDirector

First aired

January 25, 1986

Last aired

April 29, 1988

Status

Ended

Original language

English

Episodes

30

Genres

Comedy

• Series 110 episodes · 1986
• Series 210 episodes · 1987
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  Friday Night Live10 episodes · 1988