In the mid-1980s Olly was joined occasionally in the links items by Richard Evans and Annie Roach, who eventually took over the hosting roles, and towards the end of its run the show featured the birth of the puppet alien Thingee and the introduction of Jason Gunn as a presenter.
After School was ended in December 1988 and the following year in February 1989 the mid-afternoon programming block was split up into two separate links shows, After 2, for younger children (which had Jason Gunn and Thingee carrying over as presenters), and 3.45: Live!
[3] Olly Ohlson was chosen by producer Ian Cumming to be the anchor for the show in order to be a male role model for viewers and because of his knowledge of te reo Māori.
Screening at 7am and, later, 6.30am (prior to What Now at 8am) on Saturday mornings until December 1991, The Breakfast Club was a wrapper programme which would mostly air cartoons from the US and Canada including Popples, Groovie Goolies, Bobby's World, My Little Pony, Galtar and the Golden Lance, Denver, the Last Dinosaur, Heathcliff, The Raccoons and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
After three years of both After 2 and The Breakfast Club, TVNZ decided to replace them with Jase TV and The Son of a Gunn Show on weekdays and extend its Saturday morning programme What Now to three hours from February 1992.