Bendayan to Correa (1988) The heavy schedule of a long running variety television show took its toll on
Amador Bendayan's health at the end of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s. His abuse of cigarettes and his struggle with
diabetes mellitus made it sometimes impossible to please his audience, forcing him to rest down, with his absence being covered by other hosts, including model and actress Miriam Ochoa, César González (''"el amigo de todos" - "Everybody's friend"
), journalist and broadcaster Napoleón Bravo and Gilberto Correa, who at the time was the host of another successful Venevision show "De Fiesta Con Venevisión"
(and would eventually take over as permanent host of SSS'' until 1996). Meanwhile, people were patient enough to wait for Bendayan's constant returns, welcoming him with the now memorable slogan of "Ánimo Amador!" ("Cheer up, Amador!") which later became a stample of the show during the entire decade. Bendayan's wish for a better respect to artists around the country was fulfilled in 1985, when he hosted an event celebrating his idea of
La Casa del Artista (The Artist's House, which was inaugurated officially in late 1988). But despite his efforts, Amador's health was rapidly deteriorating by this time and was forced to retire completely from the show, while the audience still watched his show and the many musical performers would sign a flipchart pleading for his return. In late July 1989, agonizing in his deathbed, Bendayan made producer Ricardo Peña write a letter as a farewell message to Venezuela and his wish to continue producing the show with Gilberto Correa, who was in charge of reading Bendayan's last will on a special aired the day after he died, on August 4, 1989. Amador Bendayan's death was a hard blow on everyone who worked or participated on the show, particularly on Ricardo Peña. Despite the grief, the show kept on with new host Gilberto Correa and co-host
Milka Chulina, generating higher ratings and focusing even more on multitudinary events, like state fairs (i.e.
Feria de San Sebastian), the
Super Bingo de la Bondad, and the
Festival de la Orquidea (an event founded by Bendayan in 1982, to celebrate the Maracaibo Chiquinquira Fair).
Correa to Sarcos (1996-97) took over as host in 1997. A 2-dimensional version was used during Correa's final season, and for a brief period during Sarcos's tenure.
Daniel Sarcos's youthful energy caught the eye of Gilberto Correa, who at the time saw his own inevitable retire that same year. Sarcos started in 1996 by covering the "Mega Match Sensacional" segment for his first year on the show, while Correa was hosting in the main studio. Sarcos later took over as permanent host during a
Feria de San Sebastian edition of the show, which took place on January 18, 1997. Shortly after, the stage received a huge makeover. One of the best known segments on the show was
La Guerra De Los Sexos, introduced in 2000, later becoming its own show in early 2009. The talent show segment, "El Precipicio Reforzado" was added in 2006, featuring a jury of three people dressed like
Juan Gabriel (played by El Moreno Michael), El Chacal (from
Sabado Gigante), Alejandro Corona (later dropped in 2007),
Doña Gumersinda,
Don Francisco, etc. This segment was renamed "El Precipicio Disparatado" in 2011. They have many other new segments covering many slots of the show's duration, generating criticism amongst its viewers. Despite this,
Súper Sábado Sensacional still goes strong over 40 years on air, maintaining its place as one of the longest running variety shows in Latin America. A tribute was made to Amador Bendayan for the 20th anniversary of his death. Former host Gilberto Correa, as well as many other previous guests of
Súper Sábado Sensacional all returned to participate in the tribute. The original
Sábado Sensacional theme song was used for the intro of this episode. Nearly two months after the airing of Bendayan's tribute, executive producer Ricardo Peña died in his home of natural causes. On Saturday of that week, Daniel Sarcos, along with nearly all of Venevision's employees paid tribute to Peña during that airing of
Súper Sábado Sensacional. Peña served as executive producer on the show since 1977.
Sarcos to Villalobos (2010-16) Sarcos later signed a contract with a network in Ecuador.
Venevision got deeper into details with the situation, and by January 2010, Sarcos finally admitted that he has signed a contract with
Ecuavisa, and was willing to still continue with Venevision, but production executives did not allow it. His contract with Venevision expired, and Sarcos left
Súper Sábado Sensacional. On February 13, 2010, entertainer
Leonardo Villalobos debuted as host of
Súper Sábado Sensacional, following his departure from his previous show,
Portada's. On August 25, 2012, Venevision would suspend production of the program due to the events related to the Amuay Tragedy. In 2013, the program would celebrate its 40th anniversary, featuring appearances from Mariángel Ruiz and Viviana Gibelli to present some of the program's specials or contests.
Villalobos to Silva (2016-present) After seven years hosting the program, Leonardo Villalobos left Super Sabado Sensacional in 2016, due to outside commitments in the Dominican Republic. On August 1, Venevision named Henrys Silva and new co-host Fanny Ottati were hired as the new hosts of Super Sabado Sensacional, starting on August 6, 2016. Jose Andres Padron would also join the program as a co-host that year. During this period, he program's format focused only on events, contests, and presentations of Venezuelan artists, due to Venezuela's economic crisis at the time. In March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Venevision halted production of SSS and rebroadcasting prior episodes during that period. Otati would depart from the program that year. SSS resumed production on May 7, 2022, hosted by Silva and Padron. A new co-host, Nieves Soltedo would join the program as of the May 20, 2022 edition. In June 2023, Padron would later leave the program in to host Portadas. On June 4, 2023, Venevisión and the Mayor's Office of Maracaibo confirmed the return La Festival del Orquidea (Orchid Festival) after a ten-year absence. Daniel Sarcos would return to the program as a special MC at the Festival. Wilmer Ramirez also returned to the program to replace Padron as SSS co-host. He previously hosted segments from 1992-1996. ==Notable guests==