Talk:Hey Hey It's Saturday
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[edit] Cartoon Corner
Wasn't Cartoon Corner originally on at something like 4:00 pm weekdays? I thought the Saturday morning show had always been called Hey Hey It's Saturday, but I might be mistaken. — Stumps 13:14, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Various bits of HHIS trivia
I didn't want to add this to the main article - given that a lot of it comes from my hazy memory, maybe others can verify.
[edit] Spin-offs
Ossie Ostrich Video Show (OOVS) - weekday kid's show circa 1984-85, aired at 4:00 PM. Featured Ossie, Jacki McDonald, and Doug Tremlett (as "Wally").
Our Place - late afternoon comedy/variety, circa 1989-90. Featured Shane Bourne, Wilbur Wilde and Red Symons.
Guess What? - weekday kid's game show, 1992-93. This was a vehicle for cartoonist Andrew Fyfe, who drew a scene on a whiteboard and the contestants had to guess what the picture was. The show's co-hosts were Alison Brahe (1992) and Jacqui Rindt (1993).
[edit] Various regular segments
None of these lasted the full run of the show, but some lasted at least 1 year or so. Just mentioning ones which didn't appear in the main article:
- Discussion (Gavin Wood talking about new album releases)
- Beat It (music quiz, celebrity contestants)
- Ad Nauseam (quiz about TV adverts, audience contestants)
- Masterslime (one-off segment replacing Chooklotto, featured a contestant answering questions, wrong answers punished by having slime poured on him)
- Brain Drain (quiz)
- Celebrity Head (game where celebrity contestants had to guess the name that had been placed on a card on their head; regulars were Wilbur Wilde, Rhonda Burchmore and Russell Gilbert)
- The Great Australian/Aussie Joke (featured Shane Bourne and Maurie Fields)
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- Another, c.1984/1985 was Mann Talk where Colette Mann presented news and reviews of latest release films. Asa01 09:54, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The final timeslot change
I seem to recall that the original reason Hey Hey moved to a 6:30 timeslot was due to Channel 9 broadcasting the 1985 Ashes cricket tour.
[edit] Red Faces
- The Melbourne University Comedy Revue made a couple of appearances, most memorably parodying the Thunderbirds. The revue eventually became the D Generation, and later, Working Dog Productions.
- Chainsaw juggler Marty Coffey first appeared as a Red Faces contestant.
- Odd scores given: "THEY WIN" by Red Symons; "FWEE" by Clive Robertson; "π" by Harry Connick Jr.
- Memorable acts: The Woodville Allstars; the Bobsled Team (1988).
[edit] Other stuff
Comedian Trevor Marmalade was a regular on Hey Hey in the early 1990s, before becoming the resident comedian on The Footy Show. In some ways, the Footy Show has taken over where Hey Hey left off.
--Bricks J. Winzer 11:47, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hey Hey
What's with the Hey Hey disambiguation link at the top of the article? It leads nowhere and it seems there was nothing at the link to begin with. Also there's not even a Hey Hey article for the whatever disambiguation to point to or from. If it's not there for a reason... it should be taken away Gohst 06:54, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- I took it away when I updated the infobox yesterday. --Lakeyboy 05:48, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
