Hale and Pace

Hale and Pace are a British Comedy duo who have starred in several TV sketch series. Gareth Hale and Norman Pace met at a teacher-training college in Eltham, south-east London, and roomed together. They discovered much in common, particularly humour, and began playing clubs in a comedy band. This developed into sketch writing. Their early break came on The Entertainers (1984), Pushing Up Daisies (1984) and the Saturday Gang (1986).

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Gareth Hale - Norman Pace - Eltham - London - 1984 - Saturday Gang - 1986

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After a single on-off special for London Weekend Television in Christmas 1986, they were given a full series in 1988. Their relationship with ITV lasted a decade, with most of their programmes going out around 10pm on a Sunday. Their most famous comic creations are the bouncers The Two Rons - also known as The Management; and children's TV presenters Billy (Hale) and Johnny (Pace). A number of their TV sketches caused controversy, especially a scene performed when they pretended to have microwaved a cat.

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London Weekend Television - 1988 - ITV - Microwaved

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Hale and Pace moved across to the BBC in 1997 and starred in the three-part series, Jobs For The Boys, a non-comedic show in which they took on a variety of employment challenges. A hybrid variety/comedy/quiz/people-show hotchpotch h&p@bbc (1999) was a flop. Similarly, their dramatisation of the Dalziel and Pascoe detectives for ITV in 1994 did not lead to success, and the BBC later attempted the serialisations with more success, with Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan in the title roles.

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BBC - 1997 - Jobs For The Boys - H&p@bbc - 1999 - Dalziel and Pascoe - 1994 - Warren Clarke - Colin Buchanan

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