What are the names of these two puppets that first appeared on British TV in 1987?
Zig and Zag are an Irish puppet duo, featured on Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), performed by Ciaran Morrison and Mick O'Hara.
The characters are a pair of furry extra-terrestrial twins from the planet Zog. They made their television début on 22 September 1987 on RTÉ's Dempsey's Den. Two years later they won a Jacob's Award (Irish TV award) for TV Personalities of the year. In 1992 Zig and Zag found fame in the UK when they joined the team of the Channel 4 breakfast show "The Big Breakfast". During the 1990s the characters spawned a merchandising range of comic books, videos and embarked on a recording career – scoring a UK top-five single with "Them Girls Them Girls".
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Risteard Toibin
Who wrote this question because they would really want to check their facts. Zig and Zag first appeared on television on a programme for children called Dempsey’s Den on RTÉ 2 channel. This means it was not the UK but Ireland and Irish terrestrial tv. Zig and Zag are Irish. Even if they did move to England afterward.