Hey Hey It's Saturday was a long-running
variety television program on Australian television. It initially ran for 27 years (there was a recess in 1978), debuting on the
Nine Network on 9 October 1971 and broadcasting its last episode on 20 November 1999. Its host throughout its entire run was
Daryl Somers, who would later become
executive producer of the program. The original producer, Gavin Disney, left the program in the 1980s and Somers then jointly formed his own production company,
Somers Carroll Productions, with on-screen partner
Ernie Carroll, the performer of Somers' puppet sidekick
Ossie Ostrich.