Noel's Saturday Roadshow

Noel's Saturday Roadshow
Noel's Saturday Roadshow
Format Live entertainment
Starring Noel Edmonds
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of series 3
No. of episodes 48
Production
Running time 60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel BBC One
Picture format 4:3
Original run 3 September 1988 (1988-09-03) – 15 December 1990 (1990-12-15)
Chronology
Preceded by The Late, Late Breakfast Show
Followed by Noel's House Party

Noel's Saturday Roadshow was a BBC television light entertainment show broadcast live on Saturday evenings from 3 September 1988 to 15 December 1990. It was presented by Noel Edmonds, his first major TV project since the demise of The Late, Late Breakfast Show two years earlier. The programme contained several elements which had been found in its predecessor, such as phone-in quizzes, celebrity interviews and bands performing in the studio.

The premise for the new show was that unlike the Late Late Breakfast Show, which had been broadcast from the BBC's studios each week, the Roadshow would come from a new, different and exotic location each week. These 'locations' were in fact elaborate studio sets dressed to resemble each week's location, such as the North Pole, a space station, Hollywood, Niagara Falls. The irony of this was not lost on Edmonds, whose self-deprecating presentation style frequently made light of the low budget production values.

The programme was a slow-burning success, and following the third series in 1990, Edmonds' popularity and reputation were sufficiently reestablished with the public for Edmonds to pitch Noel's House Party to the BBC.

The show also introduced regular features such as the Gunge Tank, the Gotcha Oscars and Wait 'Till I Get You Home, which would all be carried across and subsequently developed in House Party. Another item was "Clown court", where a guest actor from a TV series would be on trial for all the bloopers made during the shooting of that show, for example Sylvester McCoy for the title role of Doctor Who, and Tony Robinson for his character of Baldrick in Blackadder the Third.

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