In a May 2020 interview with Tiswas Online, John Gorman explained that Saturday Stayback was borne out of restrictions placed on OTT (1982) by ITV.
With the title "OTT" banned and all the scripts requiring vetting, Chris Tarrant rejected doing a second series, and went ahead with Stayback as a replacement project. Gorman stated that Stayback was "Good, but it lacked that attack that we'd had with OTT."
With the title "OTT" banned and all the scripts requiring vetting, Chris Tarrant rejected doing a second series, and went ahead with Stayback as a replacement project. Gorman stated that Stayback was "Good, but it lacked that attack that we'd had with OTT."
The decision to promote the series in TV listings as "Saturday Stayback" appears to have been one taken quite late on - the theme song and onscreen title only ever refer to the show as "Stayback".
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