The Saturday Show (ITV TV series)
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The Saturday Show was Birmingham-based Central Television's flagship Saturday morning kids TV show, which ran on ITV for two series between 1982 and 1984. It was originally planned that Big Daddy would present it and that it would be called Big Daddy's Saturday Show, and a trailer to this extent complete with logo was shown on ITV the Saturday morning before the show was due to air. It was then announced during the week that Big Daddy was dropping out, and that second host Isla St Clair would now take the lead, with ex-Magpie host Tommy Boyd replacing the wrestler, and with Jeremy Beadle being used as an occasional "stand in" host. The late actor David Rappaport was also a fixture playing the character "Shades", as was soccer legend, Jimmy Greaves.
It was never made publicly clear why Big Daddy dropped out so close to transmission and if a settlement was ever reached between him and Central.
The programme was shown on all ITV stations except TSW, which made its own Saturday morning programme, also confusingly called "The Saturday Show". TSW's show was later renamed "Freeze Frame".
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