The Big Breakfast known as 'The Cottage'. After renovation following a fire, it has also been used for a number of television shows. Mark Lamarr, Keith Chegwin, Paul Ross, Richard Orford, Richard Bacon and Mike McClean were "down your doorstep" outside broadcasters, often turning up live and unannounced at an unsuspecting viewer's house, while rooms within the Lock Keeper's Cottages featured the puppets Zig and Zag and video games guru Ben the Boffin. The show's style, with hand-held cameras moving around all of the set, meant that many of the crew members could be seen on screen. This led to them getting nicknames,
The Big Breakfast (Australian TV program) Bailey also presented. The show ended on 5 July 1995 and was then replaced by "Cheez TV" another Australian children's morning series that also showed cartoons. The Big Breakfast (Australian TV program) The Big Breakfast was an Australian children's breakfast television series presented by Tim Bailey that aired on Network Ten from 21 December 1992 until 5 July 1995. The series aired every weekday morning from 7:00am to 8:30am and later from 6:30am to 8:30am (same timeslots as several over Australian children's breakfast television series such as "Cheez TV" and "Agro's Cartoon Connection") and featured competitions, music videos and cartoons