Noel's Saturday Roadshow

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Noel's Saturday Roadshow
Format	Live entertainment
Starring	Noel Edmonds
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	48
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC1
Picture format	4:3
Original run	3 September 1988 – 15 December 1990
Chronology
Preceded by	The Late, Late Breakfast Show
Followed by	Noel's House Party

Noel's Saturday Roadshow was a BBC television light entertainment show broadcast live on Saturday evenings from 3 September 1988 to 15 December 1990. It was presented by Noel Edmonds, his first major TV project since the demise of The Late, Late Breakfast Show two years earlier. The programme contained several elements which had been found in its predecessor, such as phone-in quizzes, celebrity interviews and bands performing in the studio.

The premise for the new show was that unlike the Late Late Breakfast Show, which had been broadcast from the BBC's studios each week, the Roadshow would come from a new, different and exotic location each week. These 'locations' were in fact elaborate studio sets dressed to resemble each week's location, such as the North Pole, a space station, Hollywood, Niagara Falls. The irony of this was not lost on Edmonds, whose self-deprecating presentation style frequently made light of the low budget production values.

The programme was a slow-burning success, and following the third series in 1990, Edmonds' popularity and reputation were sufficiently reestablished with the public for Edmonds to pitch Noel's House Party to the BBC.