

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.

Jan 12, 1985
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Jan 4, 1986
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Sep 13, 1986
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Sep 20, 1986
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Sep 27, 1986
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Oct 4, 1986
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Oct 11, 1986
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Oct 18, 1986
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Oct 3, 1987
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Oct 10, 1987
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Oct 17, 1987
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Oct 24, 1987
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Oct 31, 1987
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Nov 7, 1987
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Nov 14, 1987
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Nov 21, 1987
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Dec 1, 2007
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Apr 16, 2007 - 2h 0m
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Apr 16, 2007 - 2h 0m
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Feb 4, 2008 - 2h 0m
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Feb 4, 2008 - 2h 0m
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Jun 2, 2008 - 2h 0m
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Oct 5, 2009
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Oct 21, 2022 - 1h 35m
A one-off show commissioned to celebrate 40 years of Channel 4 which began broadcasting in November 1982.