The actor David Rappaport was also a fixture playing the character "Shades" who had also been in the final series of Tiswas.
It was never made publicly clear why Big Daddy dropped out so close to transmission; no settlement was ever reached between him and Central.
The initial attempt failed due to interference on the feed from the studio floor, but it was re-broadcast the following week and many viewers successfully recorded and loaded the programme.
The third series was renamed to The Saturday Starship where the show was given a massive revamp with the set being themed around a space ship.
Chris Baines presented one of the first environmental strands on children's TV in the UK, and this led to The Ark series in 1988.