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Dick and Dom, aka Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood, were the saviours of Saturday morning television. When Dick and Dom in da Bungalow first appeared on BBC1 in September 2003 it finally broke away from the long-running Swap Shop/Superstore/Going Live!/Live and Kicking format which had served Saturday mornings well for twenty-five years, by shunning pop bands and celebrities; instead the show was based around games, mess, mayhem, surrealism and Dick and Dom's banter and barbed asides, and not forgetting its most notorious creation, 'Bogies'. And it was rare amongst children's programmes in having a devoted following amongst people
much older than the target audience.

The show actually began one year earlier as a cheap filler for weekend mornings on the CBBC digital channel. But following the unexpected success of the show, it was promoted to BBC1, with the dismal Saturday Show relegated to the summer. The Sunday shows, meanwhile, remained CBBC channel-only - and possibly because of this still managed to retain an edge over Saturday's programmes.

Dick and Dom in da Bungalow was live, apparently unrehearsed and certainly unscripted. No other programme on television programmes allowed the participants, or 'bungalowheads', and presenters so much freedom to be themselves. Here is a random selection of images from the programme.

Go Go Dick and Dom!

Dick and Dom on the first ever Bungalow on 31st August 2002. Right: the inaugural pants dance

Left: 'Make Dick Sick'. There was also a variant known as 'Make Dom Vom'. Right: Dick and Dom host a rat party

The Forfeit Auction, hosted by Tomdickandharry, was usually the highlight of Sunday's Bungalows

Left: Tomdickandharry is turned into a cartoon. Right: from the same edition in May 2003, the infamous 'Codfather' Forfeit Auction

Tomdickandharry gets cut down to size

The Tim Henmuck Forfeit Auction in April 2004 descends into anarchy - 'Come on Tim!'

The Forfeit Auction was presented by a skeleton crew on Hallowe'en 2004

Left: more mayhem from the Forfeit Auction. Right: Batfink joined the boys for four shambolic games in 2004 - Batstink, Batsnap, Batthink and Battag

Da Bungalow was renowned for its special effects - Tomdickandharry gets trapped in a bauble (left); Dick and Dom leave the bungalow in a hot air balloon for Handbag Land (right)

Left: Dick and Dom in their younger days, when they had curly hair. Right: their neighbour, the Prize Idiot

Left: they meet the Prize Idiot's flat mate. Right: the Prize Idiot drives them round the bend

Left: Barky Cluckinson's Jazz Night. Right: The Barky Cluckinson Show

Left: Barky Cluckinson's Alfresco Pie Challenge. Right: Martin Floppyhorns

Left: the cat loved Stoke-on-Trent so much, he wrote a song about it! The following day's Bungalow, on 2 November 2003, was possibly the most bizarre edition of all time. There was the greatest range of ages in a single group of bungalowheads (7 to 12), and a seventh bungalowhead, a dummy named Brendan, also took part in the show. The Frankenstein Kid Forfeit Auction (above right) was a disaster, and at the end when Dom, who was by now at the end of his tether, asked the bungalowheads if they enjoyed the show he got no reaction from them, causing him to give up and walk out

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