5.6 /10 1 Votes
Country of origin United Kingdom No. of episodes 44 (BBC Two)
182 (ITV) Distributor Fremantle Media Presented by Des O'Connor | 5.5/10 IMDb No. of series 7 (BBC Two)
17 (ITV) Running time 30–60 minutes First episode date 17 January 1977 Genre Talk show | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production company(s) Thames Television (1983–1999, 2001–2002)
Central Television (1993–1998) Awards National Television Award for Most Popular Talk Show Nominations British Academy Television Craft Award for Sound Supervisor Similar Today with Des and Mel, The Comedians, An Audience with, This Is Your Life, Wogan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Des O'Connor Tonight is a British variety chat show hosted by comedian and singer Des O'Connor. It was originally broadcast on the BBC from 1977 until 1982, where it then moved to ITV in 1983 starting on 1 November and ran until 24 December 2002 after it was axed by ITV after nearly 26 years on air.
Contents
Freddie starr on des o connor tonight again
Des O'Connor Now!
In 1984, O'Connor did a series of chat shows live from the Royalty Theatre London, which contain 9 episodes.
Fokker joke
Stan Boardman talked about Focke-Wulf but made it sound like he was using the swear word: it resulted in the end of live broadcasts of the show, until the 1990s.
References
Des O'Connor Tonight Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA