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The Krankies: The odd couple

So, off to meet Mr and Mrs Tough, or even Ian and Janette, but especially and for evermore The Krankies. "Fan dabi dozi!" - if you'll excuse my rather over-excited Krankie-speak, which some of you won't, but what do I care? ("Fan dabi dozi, fan double dabi dozi! Anyone seen me mam?")

They live on the south Devon coast, in Torquay. Torquay seems nice, I say in my banal and ingratiating way when I arrive at their house, a 1980s Spanish-style villa set high in the hills. "Aye," says Janette, who will always be more Glasgow than anywhere else, "it is, except on a Saturday night when the stag parties are out urinating on Debenhams." Fan dabi... nasty?

The house is white on the outside and very beige on the inside: beige walls, beige carpets, everything a furiously neutral beige. There's a Through the Keyhole souvenir key on the beige hearth and a china figurine of Pinocchio - Pinocchio is their favourite panto, it turns out - on the mantelpiece. But that's about it on the memento front. What did I expect? Cheesy summer-season posters all over the sho

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The Krankies

Scottish comedy duo

Janette and Ian Tough
Janette Tough as "Wee Jimmy Krankie" (looking at camera) and Ian Tough at a public event in the 1980s
Born	Janette: (1947-05-16) 16 May 1947 (age 77) Queenzieburn, North Lanarkshire, Scotland Ian: (1947-03-26) 26 March 1947 (age 77) Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Nationality	Scottish
Occupation(s)	Television presenters, comedians, singers.
Years active	1974–2024^[1]

The Krankies are a British comedy duo who enjoyed success as a cabaret act in the 1970s and on television in the 1980s, featuring in their own television shows and making pop records. Since this period, they have also regularly appeared in pantomime. The duo comprises wife Janette Tough (née Anderson) and her husband Ian. As the Krankies they portray schoolboy Wee Jimmy Krankie (Janette), and paternal figure Ian Krankie (Ian), though in their comedy act they also portray other characters. Beginning in the 1990s, they regularly appeared as the Krankies in episodes of the BBC comedy series Fre

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The Krankies are a Scottish duo that enjoyed success as a cabaret act in the 1970s and on television in the 1980s. They entered semi-retirement in 1991, but they have regularly appeared in pantomime since. They are Janette Tough (born May 16, 1947) who at only 4'5" played schoolboy Wee Jimmy Krankie; and her husband Ian Tough (born March 26, 1947), who played Jimmy's father.

They are probably best remembered as presenters/performers in the BBC's stalwart children's entertainment series Crackerjack.

In early 1981 they released a single named Fan'dabi'dozi, their catchphrase. It stalled at number 46. They had three television series — The Krankies Klub (1982), The Krankies Elektronik Komik (1985) and Krankies TV for Border Television in the early 1990s.

In 2004, Janette was badly injured in a fall during a performance in the pantomime "Jack and the Beanstalk", but has since made a full recovery.

Credit: wikipedia