When I was growing up Saturday meant just one thing: a night around the television with Hey Hey It’s Saturday. Daryl, Ossie, Dickie Knee, Red, Wilbur and the gang brought variety into our loungerooms and supported local musicians in a way no other variety show has done since. Ten years since it left our screens it’s back, at least temporarily.
Channel Nine has commissioned two live reunion specials to screen later this year. If they rate well, there’s talk the program will return as a regular weekly series.
“It is exciting. There’s been a lot of talk about the show coming back and it has finally happened,” he said.
“We are ringing various cast members to say it is going to happen 10 years after it last happened. It is emotional for us as a cast and it must be for the audience who have missed the show over the years.”
The announcement comes after 18 months of negotiations, and a massive push by fans through Facebook. More than 43,000 supporters joined a Facebook group to bring back the show. The work’s not quite done, but this is certainly the first step.