The Saturday Show 1967-1981

The Radio Sweden Saturday Show was born one rainy Saturday night back in 1967. In the dungeon laboratories of (what later became, briefly) Radio Sweden International, Dr. Roger Wallis was hard at work, dressed in his usual blood-splattered white coat.

A bat knocked over the wrong tune and - Presto! The Saturday Show was born!

With help from Sydney Coulson and, from 1968, 13 years of hindrance from Kim Loughran, the Saturday Show became one of the top entertainment programs ever on short wave, second only to the annual potato crop statistics from some unidentified central European station.

Over the years other voices joined in: Jonny Mair, George Wood, Fanny Francke and a cast of several others whose names have been withheld to protect the guilty. The whole mess was put together by an ace team of sound technician engineer people, including Göran the Giant, Luvan, and Bengt ”Flash” Gorton.

Here are excerpts from the Saturday Show cassette issued as the program went off the air in 1981:

Smoking Saturday Show (3:01)
Smoking
Torsdag 02 juni 2005 kl 15:45 (Radio Sweden)
Berry Picking Follies Saturday Show: Berry Picking Follies (4:10)
Saturday Show: Berry Picking Follies
Torsdag 02 juni 2005 kl 15:47 (Radio Sweden)
Standard Swedish joke Saturday Show: Standard Swedish joke (3:02)
Saturday Show: Standard Swedish joke
Måndag 08 november 2010 kl 11:21 (Radio Sweden)

Looking for a Cabinet Saturday Show: Looking for a Cabinet (5:26)
Saturday Show: Looking for a Cabinet
Torsdag 02 juni 2005 kl 15:50 (Radio Sweden)
New Year’s Resolution 1978 Saturday Show: New Year’s Resolution 1978 (3:37)
Saturday Show: New Year’s Resolution 1978
Torsdag 02 juni 2005 kl 16:23 (Radio Sweden)
Police & Lawyers Saturday Show Police & Lawyers (5:29)
Saturday Show Police & Lawyers
Torsdag 02 juni 2005 kl 15:48 (Radio Sweden)
ABBA’s White Christmas Saturday Show: ABBA’s White Christmas (3:09)
Saturday Show: ABBA’s White Christmas
Torsdag 02 juni 2005 kl 15:52 (Radio Sweden)
What is Life? Saturday Show: What is Life? (7:09)
Saturday Show: What is Life?
Torsdag 02 juni 2005 kl 15:54 (Radio Sweden)
Social Anthropology Saturday Show: Social Anthropology (3:59)
Saturday Show: Social Anthropology
Torsdag 02 juni 2005 kl 15:57 (Radio Sweden)
Income Tax Guide Saturday Show: Income Tax Guide (2:32)
Saturday Show: Income Tax Guide
Torsdag 02 juni 2005 kl 15:57 (Radio Sweden)
Left vs Right Speaker Saturday Show: Left vs Right Speaker (1:53)
Saturday Show: Left vs Right Speaker
Torsdag 02 juni 2005 kl 15:58 (Radio Sweden)

The Saturday Show Record (Pre-1975)

Listen to side 1 Saturday Show record side 1 (9:17)
Saturday Show record side 1
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Listen to side 2 Saturday Show record side 2 (8:46)
Saturday Show record side 2
Torsdag 04 augusti 2005 kl 14:33 (Radio Sweden)

Alice in Swedenland

Drugs (October 4, 1980) Alice in Swedenland 1 (2:36)
Drugs (October 4, 1980)
Torsdag 04 augusti 2005 kl 15:42 (Radio Sweden)

Racism (December 27, 1980) Alice in Swedenland 2 (4:08)
Racism (December 27, 1980)
Torsdag 04 augusti 2005 kl 15:40 (Radio Sweden)

Housing (March 14, 1981) Alice in Swedenland 3 (4:21)
Housing (March 14, 1981)
Torsdag 04 augusti 2005 kl 15:47 (Radio Sweden)

While just about everything else was written by Kim and Roger, the Alice in Swedenland sketches were written by George Wood.