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Hale And Pace. Image shows from L to R: Norman Pace, Gareth Hale. Copyright: London Weekend Television
Hale & Pace

Hale & Pace

  • Double act

Press clippings

Oddbods (BBC1) was Hale and Pace's first comedy for the BBC and not at all the kind of thing they are known for. [...] Though I would walk several miles to miss a mime and break into a loping run to avoid [g=75]Mr Bean, I quite liked this primary-coloured human cartoon.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 1st September 1998

As far as I know, Hale and Pace are the world's only double act consisting of two straight men, and LWT's joke department should, by rights, face immediate prosecution under the Trade Descriptions Act (1972).

Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 10th October 1994

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