Friday 7 January 2022

The Tomorrow People: The Living Skins


In the first of a two-part reciprocation under the UK Podcast Exchange Visit Programme®, Messrs Velvet and Blackout of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour arrive on the doorstep of The ExtonMoss Experiment bearing travel sickness, clanking bottles, and vociferous opinions...

Under the shared microscope of retrospective televisual appreciation, this critical quartet dissect The Tomorrow People's 1978 duology The Living Skins, where cutting-edge Fashion™, extra-terrestrial terror and unexamined pages from the RADA coursework syllabus collide.

What are the odds of gathering four sci-fi geeks in a room and learning two of them haven't seen one of the most iconic genre-series of all time? What are the chances of a low-budget 1970s television production accurately predicting the late-80s horror of shell suits? What's the betting there won't be any gin left?

Unleash the Play-button to find out...



WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:


Programme:
The Tomorrow People: A Harmless Fashion
Broadcast: Mon 06 November 1978, 16:45
Channel/Production: Thames Television, ITV
Writer: Roger Price
Music: Dudley Simpson
Director/Producer: Stan Woodward, Vic Hughes
Starring: Nicholas Young, Elizabeth Adare, Miki Holoway, Misako Koba, Nigel Rhodes, Philip Gilbert, Ralph Lawson

Programme:
The Tomorrow People: Cold War
Broadcast: Mon 13 November 1978, 16:45
Channel/Production: Thames Television, ITV
Writer: Roger Price
Music: Dudley Simpson
Director/Producer: Stan Woodward, Vic Hughes
Starring: Nicholas Young, Elizabeth Adare, Miki Holoway, Misako Koba, Nigel Rhodes, Philip Gilbert, Ralph Lawson, Dave Carter



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The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour is a free podcast from iPorle Media, which holds production copyright. Opinions and recollections expressed are not to be taken as fact. The title and credit music is by Doctor Velvet, with additional live accompaniments by Ozzy Bognops. Audio segments from television programmes are presented for review and informational purposes only under fair use, and no ownership of these is claimed or implied by this show. Email enquiries to PeggyMountPod@gmail.com

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