Children's Television
From 1977 to 1980, Boyd was co-presenter of the ITV children's flagship magazine programme Magpie replacing Douglas Rae. In 1981, he devised, wrote, and presented, "What's Happening?", a news quiz. He also presented the Saturday TV-am show Wide Awake Club from 1986–1990, and its Sunday spin-off WAC Extra, throughout the 1980s. In 1982 he joined the cast of Jigsaw, including Janet Ellis, Sylvester McCoy and David Rappaport. Tommy also hosted his own Children's BBC progamme called Puzzle Trail.
Between 1982 and 1984, Boyd also fronted Central Television's Saturday morning kids TV show The Saturday Show alongside Isla St Clair and followed this with Saturday Starship in 1985 (co-presented by Bonnie Langford). From April 1991 – December 1992, he spent a period as the presenter for ITV's children's strand. In 1993/4, Boyd worked on the The Children's Channel, a satellite television channel.
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