Bobby & Laurie their peak in late 1964, busily touring the country and appearing in numerous concert and television performances. They had dozens of engagements and personal appearances every week, with as many as six shows on a Saturday night. One unusual performance was playing 'Tweedledum' and 'Tweedledee' in a Christmas pantomime production of "Alice in Wonderland" at the Tivoli Theatre in Melbourne in December 1964. In early 1965 the pair appeared on the "Teen Scene" music television show on the ABC, where they were famously dragged off the stage by screaming female fans. They appeared in the premiere episode of Channel 0's
V. R. Parton as Twin Orthodox Chess or Double King Chess, each player has two kings and two queens on a 10×10 board. A player wins by checkmating either one of the opposing kings. The normal chess rules apply, except that kings and rooks can only castle "short" (i.e. with kings shifting two squares toward the nearest corner), and pawns can move one or two steps at any stage. "While his pair of Queens will provide the player's main hopes for victory, his twin monarchs King Tweedledee and King Tweedledum jointly provide his sequence of headaches!" Parton makes note that the only way