The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night

Ah, Summer bares its all once again; that golden orb at its zenith heralding the start of Sunburnt Party Season™ where conversation flows like wine and wine flows like a regulation-breaching sewage outlet. Although at The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour, so does the conversation. And so it falls, the propitious gentlemen of The ExtonMoss Experiment podcast have once again thrown open their doors for a visit by Doctor Velvet and Blackout. Naturally once arriving, this latest meeting of minds involves pulling the curtains, uncorking the gin and watching television that's half a century old...

Coming under the new-fangled antique microscope this solsticetide is BBC Two's 1972 one-off Victorian supernatural / inventor / detective drama The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night, a seminal piece of sci-fi TV from Dalek-scribe Terence Nation and starring the redoubtable Robert Hardy, the jocund John Rhys Davies and the inscrutable James Cossins.

When is the United Kingdom's fledgling rail network going to connect with the isolated 400m stretch of privately-owned track to which Baldick so proudly lays claim? When will our hero's servant-folk get tired of blindly doing a billionaire's bidding and tell him to go dig the hole himself? And when will the wine react with the cork and go bad?

Find out by pressing the PLAY button on this mysterious, unearthed device that's up to the eyes in clarts...

The ExtonMoss Experiment · Episode 112: The Incredible Robert Baldick

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night
Broadcast: Mon 02 October 1972, 21:25
Production/Channel: BBC Two
Writer: Terry Nation
Music: Anthony Isaac
Producer/Director: Anthony Coburn, Cyril Coke
Starring: Robert Hardy, John Rhys Davies, Julian Holloway, Reginald Marsh, James Cossins, Barry Andrews, Ron Welling, Dave Mobley, Paul Humpoletz

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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

Scream (1984)

Well, the weather may be warming up but there's a chill in the air at MountPeg Towers. Producer Ken's back from the paper shop and he's brought something to put the willies right up Doctor Velvet and Blackout. Naturally, their combination of morbid curiosity, short memory span and chronic boredom means they're only too willing to oblige...

Setting up stall for dark things to come once the TV schedules re-ignite, the first issue of 1984 horror comic Scream comes in for a playfully gruesome dissection. All manner of horrors await our heroes as reality melts, death is only a heartbeat away, and dreams and nightmares collide in 32 pages of panic that'll have everyone cowering under the continental quilt...

Is a shovel the best implement for fighting off a horde of rabid cats? Is the front garden the best place for burying an unembalmed body?And is neat vodka suitable for sterilising plastic fangs?

If you think you're brave enough, click Play and find out...

WE HAVE BEEN READING:

Title: Scream
Cover Date: 24 March 1984
Publisher: IPC Magazines
Editor: Ghastly McNasty (w/ Barrie Tomlinson)
Features: The Dracula File, Monster, The Thirteenth Floor, Tales From The Grave: The Undertaker, A Ghastly Tale, Fiends and Neighbours, Library Of Death: At Death's Door, Terror Of The Cats
Contributors: Gerry Finlay-Day, Eric Bradbury, Alan Moore, Heinzl, Ian Holland, Josè Ortiz, Tom Tully, Jim Watson, Les Lilley, Graham Allen, Barrie Tomlinson, Cam Kennedy, John Agee, Josè Gonzalez

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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