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I'd forgot about the Zig and Zag Show - was that on C4 or CITV?

Considering the endcap says "A Meridian Presentation for ITV", what do you think?

One of Caron Keating's last times presenting Blue Peter in November 1998. Both Caron and Yvette Fielding stepped in presenting the show after Richard Bacon was sacked after the 40th Birthday celebrations the month before.

Although never shy about her puppies appearing on screen, I really wasn’t expecting Linda Cunningham to show off her Muff in Central’s continuity studio one afternoon in 1984. But it seems she did....

I blame Mollie Sugden for this.

That'll teach me to watch all the way to the end.

There was a Zig and Zag series on Channel 4 as well, they did Zig and Zag: Entertainment Cops on Christmas Day 1994, which was quite an entertaining show, and then a whole series eighteen months later called Zig and Zag's Dirty Deeds, which wasn't, particularly, as they'd lost it by then.

There was also a video released around the same time called Zig and Zag's Million Quid Vid which like Dirty Deeds was a sitcom, and like Dirty Deeds wasn't very funny, although I don't remember anything about it other than a running joke about the Docklands Light Railway being rubbish and unreliable, which I'm not sure meant a lot to the target audience but was presumably very cathartic to write. It's a shame they never did a VHS of the best bits of The Crunch, it would have been loads funnier than what they did release. They were never the same away from Evans and the bathroom.

Think Zig & Zag were one of those acts who found their niche and their peak in the 1990s, since things sort of seemed to change (and not necessarily for the better) once they came out of the bathroom on the Big Breakfast.

Still, they had a half-arsed music career in the 1990s, even if both of their "better known" songs over here anyway (since they were number 1 in Ireland apparently) were (musically) rehashes of their collaborative partners...

Anyway here's Zig & Zag on TFI Friday:

There was a Zig & Zag cartoon on the CBBC channel a few years back, which always struck me as odd, seeing as the target audience wouldn't have even been born when they were popular.

The pair responsible for them had a few other characters, there's Podge and Rodge who used to pop up occasionally, and there was the Bronx Bunny Show which was on Channel 4 late night in the early 00s.

There was also a Zig and Zag series on MTV - the creators, Ciaran and Mick, have been adding content to their Twitter feed, alongside lots of the other projects they've worked on, and are currently developing.

And there are some of us on here who've been on the double-Z bandwagon since the Dempsey's Den days...

I have a video of me being “interviewed” by Zig and Zag in 1997 at the long-gone Museum of the Moving Image in London. Quite clever tech for the time - a camera would record you looking at a TV screen answering their questions from a pre-recorded tape, and when you purchased the VHS of your interview they’d magically blue-screened Zig and Zag to be in the same room as you, the TV screen replaced by them reacting to your answers. It replaced an earlier version with Barry Norman as the interviewer, and other options (if you fancied something a bit more highbrow) were Emma Forbes and Eamonn Holmes.

Ah, The Museum of Moving Image. The first time i saw a clip of Neighbours was there. I remember they had a clip of Neighbours on a loop in one of their gallery's.