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Emma Forbes.

That's right.

They were excellent.

He says, "Of course it was a children's program, and indeed was brazenly ripped off from Going Live.

They even hired one of the key Going Live directors to help them get it right, and the fact that the original female lead was to be Emma Forbes is another giveaway.

The innovation was to achieve it on a daily basis.

As Samira pointed out, the sheer number of items that was required, it was a pretty brutal working environment.

Live & Kicking had started on, uh, BBC One, uh, just four days earlier on the 2nd of October, taking over from Going Live.

Andy Peters, Emma Forbes, and John Barrowman were the hosts, with Trevor and Simon doing the comedy, and it went head-to-head, um, with, you know, What's Up Doc? on ITV.

Four days old and already the thing every kid was arguing about at school, Lee, because, uh, Going Live was a tough act to follow.

Andy Peters had been a big name since his days in the broom cupboard on Children's BBC, so plenty of people tuned in just for him.

So for the younger lot, the must-see telly was on a Saturday morning.

Live & Kicking had just taken over, uh, uh, from Going Live on BBC One that October, with Andi Peters fresh out of the broom cupboard, plus Emma Forbes and John Barrowman.

Trev and Simon came over from the old show, too, and they had Take That on the very first, uh, edition.

Well, Andi Peters out of the broom cupboard and onto Saturday mornings felt like a massive promotion at the time, and it was.