Starring Chris Evans Running time 30 min. First episode date September 1991 Networks ITV, TV-am | Country of origin United Kingdom Original network TV-am (ITV) Final episode date October 1991 | |
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Original release September 1991 – October 1991 Similar Ghost Train, The Mersey Pirate, The Saturday Starship, UP2U, Gimme 5 | ||
TV Mayhem was a British children's short-lived Saturday morning television series that was originally a replacement for Hey Hey It's Saturday after it was cancelled and aired from September 1991 for just six weeks on the breakfast television channel TV-am.
The show was presented by Chris Evans, who later went on to co-host The Big Breakfast in 1992 on Channel 4.
Cartoons that were aired included all the animated segments from Wake, Rattle and Roll (which were Fender Bender 500 and Monster Tails) and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures.
It was cancelled after TV-am lost its licence to GMTV on 16 October.
Neither Hey Hey It's Saturday nor TV Mayhem ever enjoyed the success of the Wide Awake Club or WAC '90.
After TV Mayhem got axed, TV-am replaced it with a new Saturday morning block programme for children called Cartoon World, which as the name suggests, only showed cartoons. This ran from November 1991 to TV-am's demise in December 1992.