Zig and Zag’s Dirty Deeds

1 9 9 6 (UK)
8 x 30 minute episodes

The fuzzy felt puppets – aliens from Planet Zog – first landed on Ireland RTE’s show Den TV, then switched to Channel 4’s morning flagship The Big Breakfast, before finally going it alone in Zig and Zag’s Dirty Deeds.

Here, the vindictive, neon-toned duo performed ‘mission impossibles’ for filthy lucre on behalf of celebrity clients.

Chris Evans hired them to stage a musical called ‘Gingerella’, boy band Upside Down hired their services to wreck the career of rivals Boyzone, they helped Coronation Street star Reg Holdsworth attract show business personalities to the opening of his restaurant ‘Planet Reg’, and assisted supermodel Elle MacPherson in her attempts to retrieve some stolen unflattering photos.

It was like Challenge Anneka but without the laughs.

Scatological and incomprehensible, it was really not worth wasting time on. Unless you were eight years old or younger or found the word “poo” funny.

Zig
Ciaran Morrison
Zag
Mick O’Hara