Ryan and Ronnie

We used to watch this way back in the early seventies and absolutely loved it! The catchphrases are still in our memories and the characters Nigel Wyn and Phyllis Doris are etched into our brains. I used to love it when the sketch ended with "I don't know what to say!" delivered in a beautiful Welsh accent. I had not realised that there had been as many as 3 series but I just hope a DVD is brought out sometime to celebrate a surreal and off the wall comedy series. There is not even been any you tube videos to look at and enjoy all over again. I believe that the series was originally in the Welsh language so I imagined that someone somewhere has an archive of these fabulous series. I have never seen Ryan or Ronnie since the seventies and I imagine it is possible that they are no longer with us.

I grew up in an English market town on the border of Wales so our (black & white, manually tuned) TV was able to receive some of the Welsh channels. I remember watching this program in the Welsh language and, while not understanding the actual words, enjoyed the obvious physical humour. The soap parody "Our House" was hilarious and at some point I must have seen it in English because I remember some of the catch phrases. Mother (played by Ryan) would cut doorsteps of bread while holding the loaf clutched perpendicular to her ample "bosom" and the Daughter would complain when the Son pinched her bra to use as a Viking helmet.

The humour would feel very dated now but I have fond memories of a very funny family-oriented show.