Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood trade the live bedlam of Dick & Dom in da Bungalow for a tightly edited Saturday-morning set-up: the pair front a tatty fictional theatre where guest troupes like Pappy’s and Idiots of Ants perform on-stage while green-lycra wrestlers The Devastation Brothers send threatening video messages from the car park. Recorded at Teddington Studios, the hour-long show keeps the anarchy but ditches the three-hour sprawl, slotting sketches between backstage skits involving Kelly-Anne Lyons as the owner’s scene-stealing daughter and Tony Way as one half of the flatulent tag-team. Each episode closes with improv duo Abandoman spinning audience suggestions into a musical finale, usually while Lyons is handed a triangle or kazoo and told to keep up.
The 13-part run, broadcast weekly from 8 January to 2 April 2011 on BBC Two and CBBC, hides clip shows among the numbered episodes: 1.11, 1.12 and 1.13 recycle highlights under loose framing gags about estate agents, amnesia and a forgotten documentary crew. Recurring inserts include Super Granny Nanny, Cubs and toy-TV parody BEAR, all introduced by a haunted set that switches itself on. Guest stars range from Stephen K. Amos to Catherine Tate, enduring plots about royal job offers, rodent infestations and Dom in a wedding dress.
Production Details
CBBC / 1 Season / 8 Episodes / 2011 - Present
Writer(s): Josh Cole
Main Cast
Tony Way as
John Willie Hopkins as Various
