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| No. 73 | |
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 Door to the No. 73 house as featured in opening credits | |
| Genre | Children's Entertainment |
| Created by | John Dale |
| Directed by | Nigel Pickard Michael Kerrigan Mike Adams Janie Grace Alistair Clark |
| Presented by | Sandi Toksvig Neil Buchanan |
| Starring | Andrea Arnold Nick Staverson Kim Goody Patrick Doyle Jeannie Crowther Richard Addison Tony Aitken Tony English Nick Wilton Tony Hippolyte Michael Maynard Kate Copstick Julian Callaghan Nadia de Lemeny Richard Waites Robert Debenham Jo Connor David Rubin Tessa Morton Frank Sidebottom |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 189 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Richard Leyland Anna Home J. Nigel Pickard Janie Grace John Dale |
| Producers | John Dale J. Nigel Pickard Jeff Dowson Tim Edmunds |
| Production company | TVS |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 2 January 1982 – 27 March 1988 |
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No 73, later retitled 7T3, is a British 1980s children's TV show produced by TVS for the ITV network. It was broadcast live on Saturday mornings and ran from 2 January 1982 to 27 March 1988. The show had an ensemble cast amongst others, Sandi Toksvig, Neil Buchanan, Patrick Doyle, Andrea Arnold, Kim Goody and Kate Copstick.[1]
When TVS won the contract to provide ITV coverage for the South of England in 1980, the first thing they set up was a children's department. A team put together with a background in theatre and drama, soon decided to produce a Saturday morning show that differed from the usual Tiswas and Saturday Superstore formula: This show would feature actors in character as hosts, performing their own comedic storyline around the usual guests, music videos, competitions and cartoons. Much of the show was improvised and a whole week of rehearsals plus an extensive dress rehearsal on Friday preceded each live broadcast on Saturday morning.[2]
- ^ "Former Cambridge student Sandi Toksvig 'honoured' to be awarded OBE | Anglia - ITV News". Itv.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ Bentley, David. "10 top Saturday morning children's TV shows you loved to watch when you were a kid". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 20 May 2016.