No. 73

No. 73
Door to the No. 73 house as featured in opening credits
GenreChildren's
Entertainment
Created byJohn Dale
Directed byNigel Pickard
Michael Kerrigan
Mike Adams
Janie Grace
Alistair Clark
Presented bySandi Toksvig
Neil Buchanan
StarringAndrea 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 originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series8
No. of episodes189
Production
Executive producersRichard Leyland
Anna Home
J. Nigel Pickard
Janie Grace
John Dale
ProducersJohn Dale
J. Nigel Pickard
Jeff Dowson
Tim Edmunds
Production companyTVS
Original release
NetworkITV
Release2 January 1982 (1982-01-02) –
27 March 1988 (1988-03-27)
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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]

  1. ^ "Former Cambridge student Sandi Toksvig 'honoured' to be awarded OBE | Anglia - ITV News". Itv.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  2. ^ 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.