Friday 26 June 2020

Mork & Mindy (animated) / Blankety Blank


Nostalgia proves as fickle a mistress as ever, with Doctor Velvet and Blackout looking back over the television of their youth. A quick jaunt across the pond drops in on everyone's favourite alien with the Mork & Mindy animated show, while back on home turf Sir Terence Wogan is king of the ruddy castle in Blankety Blank.

Is a cartoon spinoff of a live-action show which already petered past its natural conclusion ever a good idea? Who has the temerity to upstage the understated magnificence of Derek Griffiths? And what were they putting in the gin at the Television Centre green room?

There's only one way to find out...




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Friday 19 June 2020

Rentaghost / You're Only Young Twice


In the opening gambit of the new series, Doctor Velvet and Blackout fittingly dust off inaugural episodes of Rentaghost and You're Only Young Twice*, and place them neatly on the parlour table ready for discussion...

Will the systematic postmortem and subsequent dissection of a theme tune be successfully cathartical to Blackout? As an infant, who had a pathological fear of shouting, stout women? Just who is Ronnie Cobain and why does he have such a penchant for his trusty platignum?

Listening to this episode may provide some answers...




* Unfortunately there are no links here to watch these episodes. While your hosts endeavour to find publicly-accessible versions of the shows we review to act as reference material, we do not upload them ourselves. Normal service will resume next week (assuming the links are still valid by then - what can one do?)

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Friday 12 June 2020

New Series Trailer - Pipkins/Jossy's Giants/The Krypton Factor


In this prelude to the new series of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour, we listen to the highlights of Doctor Velvet and Blackout's retrospective glancing at 'The Glove Puppet' episode of Pipkins, the 'Home And Away' instalment of Jossy's Giants and a 1984 round of The Krypton Factor.

Who's in charge of the naming system down at Pipkins' puppet-workshop? Why does Scarborough look so foggy that Jossy may as well have used Brigadoon as a filming location? And what happened to Jenny in Gordon Burns' assault course? We may just find out*...

(*we won't)



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The Undersea Aventures Of Captain Nemo

Not quite ready to surface from hibernation, The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour ekes out the last of the dark nights by curling up at the fi...