Michael Grade former London Weekend Television controller who would go on to become BBC1 controller in the 1980s takes a look at the battleground of Saturday night television from the late 1960s onwards.
However a typical Saturday night television in my day was the end of Grandstand, some cartoons, Basil Brush, Doctor Who, Generation Game, Mike Yarwood/Dick Emery/Two Ronnies and then Starsky & Hutch/Kojak followed Match of the Day and then Parkinson.
This show concentrated more on light entertainment formats. Generation Game, Blind Date, Game for a Laugh, Noel's House Party, Strictly Come Dancing, Pop Idol.
Other shows get a brief look in. The Two Ronnies, Bruce Forsyth going over to ITV, the fight over football rights. The US shows were ignored and also the big Saturday movies.
In terms of nostalgia it works pretty well. You get to find about the skulduggery between the two channels and Grade was involved somewhere with his bag of 'dirty' tricks.
However as it been mentioned in another review every time a new format comes on people think they are doing something new when its really an old format just polished up. Ant & Dec stating there was no show with telephone votes on Saturday night television before Pop Idol, well Bob Say's Opportunity Knocks did it in the 1980s.