Here are some of the most frequently asked questions about the famous rat. What was Roland Rat’s catchphrase? In 1985, Roland Rat moved from the BBC to ITV with Roland Rat: The Series. Roland is quoted as saying “I saved TVam and now I’m here to save the BBC.” There were 27 episodes over two series which included two Christmas Specials.

Although I haven’t managed to find the titles of all of the episodes, I have shared when they were first aired here. Roland and Kevin the Gerbil would travel around the United Kingdom, spending each week in a different town. In one episode, they met Austrian racing driver Roland Ratzenberger and raced the rat’s car, the ratmobile against Ratzenberger’s racing car.This was our first introduction to Glenis the Guinea Pig who gets rescued from the pet department in Harrods. We were treated to two different cover songs in Rat on the Road II during the school summer holidays. Firstly we had Kevin’s version of Cliff Richard’s Summer Holiday. Then, Roland did his own version of Elvis Presley’s Love Me Tender.

The show was a chat show filmed in Roland’s sewer home underneath London’s Kings Cross Railway Station.