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anyone remember this telly programme from the sixties?

Reading Mayfield's post about how people used to cut the bread and butter

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_chat/thread/1341501

brought back fond memories of the Ronnie & Ryan Show on BBC Children's television back in the sixties. In black & white of course. It was a Welsh tv comedy programme for kids in English. The two heroes played all the parts.

The bit I remember was the family sketch:

Mam, wearing a scarf turban-style on her head like Ena Sharples is cutting & buttering bread as in Mayfield's post. (Possibly she has a fag drooping from her mouth?)

Dad, sitting in his trousers, braces and white vest is reading the paper at the table. (Possibly he has a pipe in his mouth).

Kids are sat at the table. They are Ryan & Ronnie dressed as kids and sitting on huge chairs to make them look small and it is all done with 'camera tricks' as we used to call them.

There is a loud knock at the door.

Kids chorus: "There's sambadee at the door! There's sambadee at the door!" over and over until finally, Dad shouts at them to shut up.

Mam says in her best Welsh accent "I wender hoo it ken beeee?"

Then Dad says all irritable like "FWhy dornt yoo try gowin' an' findin' owt?"

Every week it was the same sketch that I can recall and we loved it. :-D :-D :-D

they were quite brilliant

Great loss - both so young. Huge shock when Ryan died 1977, and Ronnie was never well in last 20 or so years he lived. Used to rofl at Ryan, but now think Ronnie (the Ernie Wise one) was just as funny.

Thanks so much for reminding us of that sketch, Sue :-D :-D

ps was very sad when Stan Stennett died late last year aged 85 - great comedian and great person. One of his best friends is still living and working in Cathedral Road, Cardiff - Wyn Calvin (aged 86). Couple of old troopers - Stan still working last summer and looking young as he ever did in Crosroads, Corrie etc. And Wyn is still in big demand, though I think he has given up what he is most remembered for - playing Dames in pantomimes. Greatest Dame ever.