Talk:Hey Hey It's Saturday

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. &mdash; Stumps 13:14, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I thought so too. But I seem to remember it originally being hosted by someone called "Skeeter" as "Skeeter's Cartoon Corner".Supt. of Printing (talk) 14:50, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

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.

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).

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)


 * 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)

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.

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).

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)
 * Yep, particularly the Sydney-based Footy Show, which it is fair to say could be categorised as more of a variety show rather than a sports show. The Melbourne Footy Show tries that but is more 50/50 and does a poorer job of both variety and football coverage IMO ;)  R o  gerthat  Talk  11:29, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

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)

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is v was
I have a small problem with Aillema's edit from 23:38, 5 October 2007 based on the Tense guidelines. While the guideline states "(Fiction) exist(s) in a kind of perpetual present tense, regardless of when the fictional action is supposed to take place relative to "now". Thus, generally you should write about fiction using the present tense, not the past tense." I agree with this. However, the edited sentence was talking about the fiction (The TV program) itself and not the story or characters within. Outside the scope as opposed to inside it. The container versus the contained. Therefore I believe the correct statement should read as it was prior to the edit: "Hey Hey It's Saturday was a long running..." I won't change it yet but await some feedback. What do people think?

Also based on the same guideline, if the show was considered true fiction, you should say Daryl Somers is the host of the show, even though the show is not longer running, and because this is within the scope of the "fiction". However because it really isn't fiction I would probably dispute this too. Feeback welcome. - Rick69p 00:44, 6 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree with you Rick. This guideline does not apply to Hey Hey. I see that Lakeboy it already revert the change -- Ianblair23 (talk) 11:52, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

A Tad Revisionist
This article is bollocks, especially the section about why the show was taken off the air. A network doesn't take a program off if it's still rating...ever! It was being trounced by the football that had been moved into the timeslot against it in Sydney and Brisbane. It was still rating OK in Melbourne but not Sydney and Brisbane. Somers would have kept it going forever. Nine pulled the plug before it totally tanked. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.168.1.209 (talk) 11:34, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

One Red Faces contestant they will never re-screen
The Gravybillies featuring Fred Negro managed to win Red Faces buy taking a pile of money and counting it out into Red Symond's hand while they were playing. After they show they were invited to stay back and watch the broadcast off the KISS concert. Fred decided to get into a food fight with John Blackman instead and they were kicked out of the studio.

Tim Chuma (talk) 15:52, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Ah... Who cares? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.189.80.86 (talk) 07:32, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Criticism
While for many of the years of its screening, Hey Hey was a much-loved family favourite, by the end of its run it had become a tired old joke. It's sexist, racist & homophobic humour had come to be seen as old-fashioned, unfunny and embarrassing. This was the context of its being cited in 'The Castle'; as representative of a tired old mainstream comedy.

Taking this as evidence of the show's cultural significance (as the article does) is a misreading. Daryl Somers himself was quite incensed by this joke at his expense, and I believe was quite scathing towards the Working Dog crew at the following Logies for being insufficiently respectful to the previous generation of comedians and the history of their craft.

While it may run the risk of tarnishing the memory of what was for many an Australian entertainment favourite, I think the article should be changed to reflect this context (or at least have this misreading of The Castle's citation removed).

118.208.135.61 (talk) 21:18, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Ignoring the racist jokes, the sexist and homophobic jokes I think, are at least done well, and not designed to overly shock or embarass viewers. As for the racist jokes, watch the Big Brother Friday night games sometime. Mexican night-they threw bombs filled with taco salsa onto a mexican flag. There were a number of sexist or racist remarks made on the show and the apologies made in those cases were few and minimal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.174.217.133 (talk) 23:57, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

My description of the show's criticism above has now twice been amended with the following caveat: (The pre-ceeding is a statement of opinion of an individual and not necessarily the opinion of all). I find it irrelevant and patronising, and have just removed it for the second time. It is in fact not merely the opinion of an individual - the show has been the subject of sustained and impassioned criticism by the public and media both in Australia and overseas, and this has been its tone. Of course it's not the "opinion of all", but it certainly warrants mention on the page. To this end, I have just added a criticism section, which could well be expanded to balance the hagiographic tone of the page.

118.209.85.107 (talk) 03:43, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Chronology
What about 1976 hiatus ? As I remember it, the show disappeared while Daryl was doing Bandstand 76. RJ4 (talk) 08:40, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Media Watch Press
This segment actually started off as just "Media Watch", but was later split into separate "Press" and "TV" segments as the amount of material grew. RJ4 (talk) 08:40, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Co-hosts
Wasn't Denise "Ding-Dong" Drysedale a co-host for a time? Supt. of Printing (talk) 12:48, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed.
 * In the early years, Daryl & Ossie worked as a duo on Hey Hey. It was not like the co-hosts of later years who only appeared on the host set for particular segments.  Ossie should be in the host box with Daryl, at least for the years 1971-1983.
 * RJ4 (talk) 14:02, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

What Cheeses Me Off?
How many people have forgotten this segment, Along with the stripper for Daryls birthday in the mid 1970s... All we saw were the ballons..... Hey Hey use to eat Wombat and its hand puppet for breakfast right into the early 1980's... Practical jokes, they could get away with anything of a saturday morning and alway did!!! (No Packer scrutiny at that time) Since they moved to saturday nights in the early 1980's, They became more subdued and family orientated... They never had the same fun and get away with things when they moved to night time..... I wasnt very happy when they moved to night time, but red faces and the great ozzie joke etc sort of made up for the balls up laughter I used to get at 8,9, 10 years old of a Saturday morning.. I think it should go back to saturday mornings where they can get away with all the shit and fun of a non-politically correct-timeslot!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.30.3.166 (talk) 13:30, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Socioeconomic/educational level comments are unsubstantiated
The comments within the article relating to the show's audience being comprised specifically of "the lowest socioeconomic group" and the reunion being driven by those of lower socioeconomic and educational levels are unsubstantiated opinion and ought to be removed unless solid demographic studies can be quoted in their support. I'm happy to give people the benefit of the doubt, but it's difficult not to feel that these assumptions have been made from an elitist viewpoint, especially when my personal experience is that plenty of well-educated, well-to-do people enjoy the show - I am one of them.

Myfanwy

Moldershaw (talk) 03:28, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Rotocapture
There's mention of Maurie being rotocaptured in, but I have no idea what rotocapturing is, and I can't find it in any dictionary on the internet. Is it a real word? Can it be linked to an article? Avatar 1 (talk) 21:18, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Molly Appearance
The box which says who appeared when is wrong for Molly, because I lived in Australia from '89-'92, and he was on it then. Does anybody know how to correct this? Also, can somebody please give me something more important to think about? Ta. D.--SquidSix (talk) 20:35, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Origins
"The program went into recess in 1978 when Daryl and Ossie took the bold step of leaving the Nine Network for the rival 0-10 Network to present a prime time game show, simply titled The Daryl And Ossie Show, with hostess Monique Daams."

In 1978, the show was produced for GTV9 and sold interstate. There was no "Nine Network", in the sense that we understand the term today. If GTV9 is what's meant, then that's what the page should say. Grassynoel (talk) 13:29, 13 April 2010 (UTC)


 * The Wikipedia article on the Nine Network states that the network is 50 years old. Similarly, the GTV article has Frank Packer buying GTV-9 around 1960. Two stations is not a wide network, but since the stations were in the two largest markets, it cannot be easily dismissed. RJ4 (talk) 16:28, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Hey Hey By Request specials in the 2000s?
The article insists that Nine began to re-air the Hey Hey By Request specials in June 2006. This is not correct as I distinctively remember it being 2005 when the first special aired. A year later in 2006 was when I recall the second special being shown. NJM2010 (talk) 04:28, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Tense and historical perspective in the article
Could all editors remember that this is an encyclopedia article. There are numerious mentioned in the article, in the future tense, to things that have now past. The article needs to be cleaned up in this regard. In general it is better to not even include reports about something that may happen, until it actually has. Ashmoo (talk) 13:53, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Starring list in Infobox
There seems to be an edit war developing between two different version of the "starrring" list. One list seems to include people who were only guests, while the other leaves out regular cast members. It is better to sort this out on the talk page, rather than just continually undo each other's edits. RJ4 (talk) 10:10, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually it's just one editor who keeps changing and who has been reverted by other editors for this and for inexplicably changing to American spelling. This is an issue that was raised at WP:AWNB. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 10:47, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Almost every episode of Hey Hey is now available online - dedicated season and episode pages?
heyhey.tv was recently relaunched with almost every episode of the program available. I believe is a moment we need to be scouring this resource to get information content on this iconic series. Is there scope to expanding this topic into separate pages with episode listings, etc? 2001:8003:DD5A:8D01:C8DA:1475:E60B:FDBA (talk) 23:56, 10 October 2021 (UTC)