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Auf ins 90er Rabbit Hole ... https://youtu.be/7bv_36P_f-w?si=0kPeDTAYlXDBsjrH #ZigAndZag ...

All this talk about #ZigandZag today has sent me off in search of their old videos. I found this on YouTube.
I've only watched five minutes of it, but man, they were ridiculous!

https://youtu.be/8XoEEqE0spM

#mastodaoine

Hey folks, hope you all had a good day yesterday wither you were celebrating Christmas or not. Hope you had a great day. and I hope you’re having a great day reading this today on whatever day it is when you read it. Were now in that part of Christmas between Christmas and new years.

It’s less of an issue now a days because I’ve rarely had that much time off. But when I was a kid the week off between then when it wasn’t a week day it was not Christmas day or new years.

You were in a kind of middle timeless zone. It’s an odd time because the tv isn’t regular tv there’s films on and things. Maybe the regular presenters are still not back.

Actually speaking of telly to go on a tangent, was there ever another kids show like The Den? Here in Ireland where the presenters would find themselves on Christmas eve helping Santa Clause or going on some big festive adventure. Zig and Zag, Dustin and Socky have saved Christmas I don’t know how many times.

Not to say we took it for granted or anything these felt epic. I should say for people a bit younger or folks out of the republic of Ireland. The Den was a show where presenter Ian Dempsey followed by lots of others during the years would be joined by very colourful characters originally Zig and Zag two aliens from the planet Zog who had made earth and Dublin city their home. And on Christmas eve they would somehow end up at the north poll where if you can belive it the once apparently a puppet (although they were faking being a puppet) Podge tired to stop Christmas from happening. Zig and Zag, later Dustin and Socky and the presenter would then save the day.

But here’s the thing about the den. the den wasn’t a adventure series. The Den was actually more of a programing block. in the evenings they would show kids tv shows. and The Den was a kind of a wrap around where they would tell you what was coming up, what you’d just seen. But in that it was a kind of univserse in itself.

There was Ted a teddy bear that would fly in and attack Ray Darcey (one of the presenters of the Den) There was Podge and later Rodge two villain characters (podge and rodge would go on to have two late night series of their own both very un kid friendly but completely hilarious) there was also Zuppy a puppy from Zog there was Socky a sock monster and of course Dustin the turkey who had many hit songs as well as a eurovison entry.

I’ll be honest folks when I started writing today I thought I’d write about that point in time in between Christmas and new years but here we are talking about this utterly iconic tv show. The people behind all of this I are geniuses. I don’t say that lightly they truly are. I mean there’s a reason Zig and Zag are equally iconic in the UK where they had other tv shows.

All this to say, Thank you Zig, Zag, Dustin and Socky and all the brilliant presenters for saving Christmas.

Well, eh. is it still a tangent if you never get back to the original thing?

anyway hope you’re all having a great day and see ya next time where who knows what I’ll talk about.

https://michaelmuto.com/2023/12/26/post-christmas-and-then-a-big-long-section-where-i-talk-about-how-brilliant-the-tv-show-the-den-was/

#Christmas #IrishTV #NewYears #TheDen #TVShows #UKTv #ZigAndZag

I often see pictures in the clouds, but I think the chubby baby I spotted yesterday is the winner.
Still trying to decide if it's Zig or Zag on the left, telling her a bedtime story.
#cloudphotography #zigandzag

Flashback 1988! Found on a cassette an ad for radio 2FM with #ianDempsey #zigandzag promoting the #MichaelJackson concert in #Cork

Here’s a taste of what’s coming next week from DJ Mek For the first time #ZigAndZag #ChristmasNo1 will be available to stream on all the platforms. The original 1990 version on its own. The 2020 re-recorded version as an EP with a number of never before heard instrumental by Mr Spring and two remixes by DJMek! 🙌🙌🎄#rap #1990 #IrishNo1 #single

This is from the 2000th Big Breakfast Show (2000). Hadn't seen this before.

Lot of math to unpack there, but even we forgot the total that #ZigAndZag clocked up! 🧐 #BigBreakfast

Big Breakfast TV show hosts and how many shows they were in.

Zig and Zag appeared on 1361 Big Breakfast shows

We've met enough cool people over the years in our various guises. But very few top Zig's inclusion in #Sparks documentary. The clip was when the band performed on #ZigAndZag 's #MTVEurope show back in 1994.

ON THIS DAY! In 1995 #DavidBowie took this photograph of #ZigAndZag at the pre-show of the MTV Europe Awards.

A photograph of Zig and Zag taken by David Bowie in 1995

This week in 1991 - #ZigAndZag were No.1 in the Irish single charts with ZigZaggin' #Single #IrishCharts #Music #KidsTV #Ireland

Line art by @MickOHara
Colours by Ciaran

Zig and Zag - Zigzaggin' casette single 1991

Only managed to pick this up the other day on #Discogs marketplace. We have most samples of merchandise we released over the years, but not all. This is a 12” DJ release for the clubs.
Distributed by Flying Records in Naples in 1994. Cool to have a copy at last 🙌🙌#zigandzag #themgirlsthemgirls #vinyl #vinylcollection #1994 #music #italy

12 inch vinyl of Zig and Zag single Them Girls Them Girls

A little about us - we’re a performing/writing partnership working in the entertainment world since 1987. We’re private and never done an interview in-person. We joined the bird site to promote our #screenwriting work and keep in touch with #animation people we work with.
But that expanded into making friends with people in other areas of interest.
We post about our work past and present #ZigAndZag #PodgeAndRodge and talk about #music #comics #TV #film #illustration #graphicnovels #comedy

There was a time when #Blur weren’t megastars and people mistakenly called Damon ‘Damien’ on a regular basis! #zigandzag #thebigbreakfast #chrisevans #retrotv #music #channel4