While other podcasts are celebrating the changing of the clocks with fleecy onesies and pumpkin spice lattes, The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour likes to draw further terror from the most breathlessly claustrophobic of televisual scenarios for their annual Halloween Special. If the stiffness of their drinks doesn't serve as a psychological buffer, it can always be used as disinfectant...
Yes, Messrs Velvet and Blackout are donning their sitcom hazmat suits and paying a visit to Shepherd's Bush, where Steptoe and Son are pondering the end of their ragtag, torturous existence and investigating what could possibly come next. Guidance for Albert and Harold comes in the form of a familiar face, and soon one of them is trying to kick the bucket (HYACINTH BUCKET, THAT IS ANOTHER SITCOM JOKE BECAUSE OF WHO IS IN THIS, DO YOU SEE?)
Was the tenebrous ambience of 1970s set design an aesthetic response to an era of power cuts? Is it even possible to hold a seance in a house where there should already be a sneaking realisation that you yourself might actually be dead and in hell? And what have Megadeth done to annoy Blackout?
Hit the Play button and the answers will drift ethereally from beyond...
WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:
Programme: Steptoe and Son: Seance In A Wet Rag And Bone Yard
Broadcast: Thu 10 October 1974, 21:30
Production/Channel: BBC One
Writer: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Music: Ron Grainer, Dennis Wilson
Producer/Director: Douglas Argent
Starring: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H Corbett, Patricia Routledge, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, Gwen Nelson, Gilly Flower, David J Grahame
Of note, this week...
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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