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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)[reply]

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.

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).

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)[reply]

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.

- 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).

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)[reply]

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 ;) Rogerthat ^Talk 11:29, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

I took it away when I updated the infobox yesterday. --Lakeyboy 05:48, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I have a small problem with Aillema's edit 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)[reply]