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 fireside with a good book. Well, the hosts welcome a new guest, crack open a bottle or two and watch a version of that book on the telly. Obviously...
Coming under subaquatic scrutiny this week is 1975's Canadian animated odyssey, The Undersea Adventures Of Captain Nemo, in which everyone's favourite Victorian squid-puncher gets a nuclear-powered modern - if educational - twist.
What are the temporal implications of casually inventing Zoom-meetings and Wikipedia decades before the technology required to run them? What are the legal consequences of failing to control an accent in a built-up screenplay? And what are the ethical considerations around having two unpaid child dogsbodies in an enclosed space where someone's smoking 80 Capstan Full-Strength a day?
Get someone to push Play for you and find out...
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Programme: The Undersea Aventures Of Captain Nemo
Broadcast: Monday 26 June 1978, 10:20
Production/Channel: Rainbow Animation, ITV
Writers/Producers/Directors: Jean Mathieson & Al Guest
Starring: Billie Mae Richards, Len Carlson
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