1 9 9 5 – 1 9 9 8 (Australia)
56 x 50 minute episodes
10 x 50 minute episodes
A blend of variety, talk show and sketch comedy created and hosted by ‘Rampaging’ Roy Slaven (John Doyle) and HG Nelson (Greig Pickhaver) as an offshoot of the duo’s long-running, improvised radio comedy series This Sporting Life which premiered on the Triple J radio network in 1986 and ran until 2008.
Aussie variety stalwart Ian ‘Turps’ Turpie performed as the club president and master of ceremonies for the show, also performing musical numbers and starring in several recurring comedy sketches, including “Turps about the House” in which he played the flatmate of the Nissan Cedrics, police drama “Sam Stain” which also starred TV presenter Indira Naidoo, and Star Trek spoof “Captain Ajax” which featured actor Harold Hopkins as Dogrooter and a sultry cameo appearance from Channel Ten newsreader Anne Fulwood.
The Nissan Cedrics were a singing duo – composed of Dannielle Gaha and Louise Anton – who provided musical links and jingles to introduce guests and regular segments and also occasionally performed full-length songs.
Club Buggery ran for two series of 28 episodes each before being retitled as The Channel Nine Show (retaining the same basic format) for a further series of ten episodes in 1998.
Also in 1998, they took the show to the UK for a season where it was broadcast from Norwich in Norfolk, under the title Roy and HG’s Planet Norwich.
The duo moved to Channel Seven in 2000 with the game show Win Roy & HG’s Money, which was really just a warm-up for their infamously hilarious nightly coverage of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, The Dream.
The success of The Dream led to further series on Seven, The Monday Dump (2001) and The Ice Dream (2002), from the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. They took The Dream concept to the 2003 Rugby World Cup with The Cream and launched another series of The Dream during the 2004 Athens Olympics.
In 2005, they returned to the ABC for The Memphis Trousers Half Hour, beamed “live” from various cities in the United States (in reality, all episodes were recorded in Sydney’s ABC studios).
Ian Turpie died in 2012 from oesophagal cancer, aged 68.
Rampaging Roy Slaven
John Doyle HG Nelson
Greig Pickhaver Ian Turpie
Himself The Nissan Cedrics
Dannielle Gaha
Louise Anton
Also in 1998, they took the show to the UK for a season where it was broadcast from Norwich in Norfolk, under the title Roy and HG’s Planet Norwich.
