Their early TV breaks came on The Entertainers (1984) and Pushing Up Daisies (1984), and they went on to appear in the Channel 4 sketch show Coming Next (1985) and Saturday Gang (1986).
The series was also notable for its amount of musical numbers with every episode featuring at least one original song performed by Hale and/or Pace.
[3] The Two Rons' studio sketches either take place on some dimly-lit stairs next to the bouncers' venue or above Hale and Pace, where they have been keeping an eye on proceedings.
[3] A number of writers worked on the series over the ten series, with a high number of writing duos contributing ideas for sketches including Carson & Tomlinson (script advisors Sean Carson and David Tomlinson), Nice & Smith and Hale & Pace themselves.
[5][6][7] In March 2022, the series was acquired by That's TV[5] for its comedy line-up which also included repeats of The Mrs Merton Show[8][9] and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Once Hale and Pace became more well known, more widely known stars appeared in their shows, with the snooker players Steve Davis and Jimmy White playing foil to the two cabbies in one episode.
The complete first series doubled with the 1986 Christmas Special was released in a 2 disc DVD set in the UK on 12 March 2012 by Network.
[3] Credited to Hale & Pace and the Stonkers,[17] the record, called "The Stonk", was based on a fictitious dance craze and was co-written by the two comedians along with Joe Griffiths.
Cozy Powell, Roger Taylor and Rowan Atkinson – appearing as his character Mr. Bean – performed on drums.
As well as their 1991 single "The Stonk", the duo also appeared as their characters "The Two Rons" in a firework safety campaign run around Guy Fawkes Night, in public information films that were run for several years from the late 1980 to early 1990s, in slots often directly after Children's BBC, but also occasionally during ITV commercial breaks.
[24] They 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.
In 1998, Hale and Pace could be seen in a BBC One programme called Oddbods, with the shows written by the duo in association with Richard Parker.