Appearances
The characters first appeared in Harry Enfield's Television Programme in 1990 and continued to appear in the series for four years. The characters became very popular, appearing in adverts, featuring on their own compilation album, Let's Rock, and presenting the 30th anniversary special edition of Top of the Pops on New Year's Day 1994, They were deliberately dropped by Enfield in 1995 after the changes at Radio 1 had rendered the satire pointless, although they returned for Comic Relief in 1997.
Whitehouse and Enfield also reprised their roles to present a special edition of Pick of the Pops on 30 September 2007, commemorating the 40th birthday of Radio 2 and following the death of Alan Freeman. Dale Winton made the opening announcement but was quickly evicted by Smashie and Nicey who proceeded to play the top 40 from 27 September 1967. During the show Nicey accidentally confessed to being gay (which was previously alluded to in the 1994 special, and may be an allusion to Alan Freeman's admission, also in 1994, that he had been bisexual before he became celibate). At the end of the show he emotionally begged the Controller of BBC Radio to give him a job, "even if it's only on Digital Radio 8" (a fictional station).
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