List of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway episodes

The following is a list of episodes for the British entertainment series Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, that began airing in 2002.

As of 2018, 15 series will have been broadcast, and will be summarized below. The ratings of the each series are listed.

The first series began on 8 June 2002 and contained six episodes. The first series is notable for containing a number of segments which didn't make it past the first series.

Series 1. An early format of the game in which Ant & Dec phone an unsuspecting member of the public and ask them to pick a number between one and nine. Whatever prize is behind that number on the corresponding screen is the prize the person wins. Although the game continued until series nine, this format was only used in series one.

Series 1. A spoof reality show in which Jeremy Beadle is locked up in the dungeons of Spitbank Fort in the Solent. Each week, a different member of the public was locked up with Beadle for seven days, and is then given a task to perform live the following Saturday. If they are successful, £5000 would be awarded to them, and they would be released, and Beadle would win a luxury to make his prison life easier. In an attempt to rival Channel 4's smash hit series Big Brother, Banged Up with Beadle was accompanied every week by a spin-off ITV2 show of the same name, presented by Donna Air and Brendan Courtney. During the spin-off, the member of the public performing the task is released, and the new contestant takes their place, to save time broadcasting it during SNT. It also featured footage of the contestant and Beadle practising for Saturday night. This game only lasted one series.

Series 1. Each week, a contestant is given sixty seconds to impress Ant, who is labelled by his co-workers as "a miserable git", and make him laugh. If they succeed, they win a trophy. If they fail, they are gunged. This game also lasted one series, and was compared to the Challenge Ant segment of SMTV Live.

Series 1–3. A spoof version of Jim'll Fix It in which audience members who had written to Jimmy Savile in their youth, but have never been lucky enough to fulfil their dreams, are given the chance to have their dreams realised twenty years later. This game lasted a total of three series, but was later dropped.

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