Saturday, 8 March 2025

Children Of The Stones


With the first stirrings of spring on the breeze, an archive-television reviewer's thoughts naturally turn to fresh air, greenery and neolithic menhirs. A quest for savage nature leads to this episode of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour being 33% outside broadcast, as well as seeing the return of a beloved special guest back in the studio!

Yes, ancient rituals, cutting-edge science and new age ephemera collide, as that rusty old chopper has been broken out of the shed and ridden into the depths of rural Wiltshire for sardonic scrutiny of the first episode of HTV's iconic Children Of The Stones! For once, our hosts aren't the weirdest people in the vicinity. Although that doesn't stop them trying...

When is it permissible to run over an old lady standing in the middle of the road? When is it okay to knock off your academic research for the day and knock back whisky in the pub instead? And when is someone - anyone - going to send a Going Metric: Tins Of Paint leaflet to Blackout?

The sooner you press Play, the sooner you'll find out...



WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:


Programme:
Children Of The Stones
Broadcast: Monday 10 January 1977, 16:45
Production/Channel: HTV, ITV Network
Writer: Jeremy Burham, Trevor Ray
Music: Sidney Sager
Producer/Director: Peter Graham Scott
Starring: Gareth Thomas, Peter Demin, Iain Cuthbertson, Veronica Strong, Katharine Levy, Ian Donnelly, Freddie Jones, Ruth Dunning




Blackout went to Avebury for this episode.
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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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