Voice From The Gallows / The Ice House

Ah, the sound of hooves clopping across the rooftops and a smell of pumpkins and absinthe left out for Father Samhain can mean only one thing: it is truly the most woe-nderful time of the year! The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour’s Halloween Special reaches once more into the casket for only the finest knitwear, slacks and bejewelled shawls, because here we dress for dinner...

Our hosts begin by venturing - as is so oft the case – off down the old pub, where a Voice From The Gallows ensures the spirits they find aren’t just restricted to Harry Hewart’s decanter collection. Following these rather alarming events, a check-in at a luxury country spa retreat is called for, with the charming if rather eccentric regulars keeping the gin cooled down at The Ice House.

How many eggs does someone have to smash before you realise that the RightMove summary may not have been entirely transparent about the history of this house? How many phallic symbols have to be smeared on your bedroom window before you realise that the TripAdvisor review may not have been entirely representative of this hotel? And how many times to we have to petition LWT for a Diamond Lady spin-off sitcom?

Gently press the Play button with a croquet mallet and/or mell hammer, and find out…

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: Worlds Beyond: Voice From The Gallows
Broadcast: Friday 10 October 1986
Production/Channel: George Walker Television Prod, Thames Television, ITV
Writer: Brian Clemens
Music: Ian Stanley, Darryl Way
Producer/Director: Alan Radnor, Bob McIntosh / Sue Butterworth
Starring: Darren McGavin, Connie Booth, Dannelle Saunders, James Aubrey, James Hazeldine

Programme: A Ghost Story For Christmas: The Ice House
Broadcast: Monday 25 December 1978, 23:35
Production/Channel: BBC Television, BBC One
Writer: John Bowen
Producer/Director: Rosemary Hill / Derek Lister
Starring: John Stride, Elizabeth Romilly, Geoffrey Burridge, David Beames, Gladys Spencer (DIAMOND LADY)

Of note, this week:












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Murder On The Moon (aka Murder By Moonlight)

Demonstrating how polite and sociable podcasters ought to behave, the fine gentlemen of The ExtonMoss Experiment have kindly invited The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour over for drinks, nibbles and deconstruction, and so it comes to pass that Doctor Velvet and Blackout are - once again - bribed into leaving the house.

And tonight's deconstruction is every bit as psychological as it is televisual, as 1989's nano-budgeted, space-faring whodunnit Murder By Moonlight (aka Murder On The Moon) comes under the telescope, eliciting far more whys than hows in the ensuing conversation...

What's happened that glass whiskey bottles are no longer allowed on the moonbase? What's happened that convincing accents of any description are no longer allowed on the moonbase? And what on (or off-) earth has happened that four grown men are watching what's happening on this moonbase??

Open the airlock, punch Play and find out....

The ExtonMoss Experiment · Episode 159: Murder By Moonlight

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: Murder On The Moon (aka Murder By Moonlight)
Broadcast: Saturday 26 August 1989, 20:15
Production/Channel: Tamara Asseyev Productions, ITV
Writer: Carla Jean Wagner
Music: Trevor Jones
Producer/Director: Ron Carr, Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Starring: Brigitte Nielsen, Julian Sands, Jane Lapotaire, Celia Imrie, Georgina Hale, Rico Ross, Brian Cox, David Yip, Stuart Milligan

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Dungeons & Dragons / Mr & Mrs

There was much excitement earlier this week as the Antiques Roadshow film crew pulled into the grounds of Birtley Priory to be met by Pod Producer Ken eagerly clutching a battered C90 cassette, complete with an illegibly scrawled label and browned sellotape over the record-tab. The raw enthusiasm of Fiona Bruce, hoping this could be a secretly recorded rehearsal session of The Beatles, quickly turned to despondent anger when the assembled crowd was treated to a priceless raw cut of one of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour’s Lost Episodes™…

Yes, unearthed from the archives (Pod Producer Ken found it wedged down the back of the toilet), and meticulously digitally restored (he’s edited out the clunks of him hitting the Record and Stop buttons), this hitherto-unheard recording charts the time some years back that the boys from The ExtonMoss Experiment dropped round for a gin, a chinwag and a deep-dive into the Dungeons and Dragons and Mr and Mrs.

What are the odds of six separate roleplaying characters all rolling a Ø for personality? What are the chances of Derek Batey shelling that prize money out of what is clearly going to be his own bank account? And how likely is the podcast to get sued if the un-bleeped version of this is ever aired?

Clamber into the clapped-out rollercoaster, pull the Play lever and find out…

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: Dungeons & Dragons: The Night Of No Tomorrow
Broadcast: Monday 10 September 1984, 16:30
Production/Channel: Marvel Productions, Toei Animation / BBC One
Writer: Mark Evanier, Kevin Paul Coates, Dennis Marks
Music: Johnny Douglas
Producer/Director: Karl Geurs, Gary Gygax / John Gibbs, Bob Richardson
Starring: Willie Aames, Don Most, Adam Rich, Peter Cullen, Teddy Field III, Katie Leigh, Sidney Miller, Tonia Gayle Smith, Frank Welker

Programme: Mr & Mrs
Broadcast: [unconfirmed Tx date] 1979, 17:15
Production/Channel: Border Television, ITV Network
Devised by: Roy Ward Dickson
Music: Jackie Trent, Tony Hatch
Producer/Director: Derek Batey / William Cartner
Starring: Derek Batey, Susan Cuff

Of note, this week:

The competition mentioned in this episode is NO LONGER RUNNING because it was recorded three years ago and someone WON. Yeah that's right, you had your chance then.


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The Paradise Club

Horror and hard rock have long gone hand in grimy hand, and this outing of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour's After Dark strand harkens back to an historical moment where three chords and hairspray attempted to go mainstream. Because when the lead singer of the world's largest metal band stars in a Tuesday night BBC One drama, you know it's not long before he'll be recognised in Waitrose.

Yes, the volume is turned up to eleven as the doors of 1990's The Paradise Club are booted well and truly booted open, as the world's unlikeliest brothers play host to London's least stage-ready band, who perform to unfeasibly small audiences that have never before heard any music. As connoisseurs of loud tunes and questionable television, this is of course PeggyMountPod's perfect cultural fodder...

Has the BBC drama department only got one casting director for everything they make? Has the money that would normally spent on extras for the club scenes gone to PRS royalties for a soundtrack that the show's Sanatogen-necking audience might actually recognise? And how much does this podcast owe Bruce Dickinson for repeatedly howling ♫ 'TATTOO-OO-OOED MILLIONA-A-A-A-AIRE' throughout*?

Press Play on a shoddily-recorded bootleg that you bought for £2 off the market, and find out...

* Absolutely nothing. Blackout's already bought Tattooed Millionaire on at least five different releases, it's more than paid for**.

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: The Paradise Club
Broadcast: Tuesday 06 November 1990, 21:30
Production/Channel: Zenith, BBC One
Writer: Murray Smith, Russell Murray
Music: Dave Lawson
Producer/Director: Selwyn Roberts / Renny Rye
Starring: Leslie Grantham, Don Henderson, John Altman, Bruce Dickinson, Janick Gers, Andy Carr, Dickie Fliszar

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Misty Holiday Special (1979)

Because is it even the holidays if you don't get a comic whose cover confirms that it is indeed The Holidays? The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour continues down its path of discordant nostalgia all the way to the paper-shop, and has convinced its mam to buy a cultural antidote to the relaxing positivity of the Summer months...

Yes, demonstrating that Goth Never Sleeps, our hosts are greeted by the magical Misty as she plays host to a literary coven of supernatural scripture in her 1979 Holiday Special. Not quite as garish as 1984's Scream, Misty proves that less can be more and that not every tale of terror needs to be a coded warning to curtail the moral compass of its readership.

What level of witchery should you employ if a supermarket threatens to move into your village? What happens if you live near an aviary and you're deaf in one ear? And what does it say about the era when the thematic inspirations for your children's comic are the benefits of a comprehensive insurance policy and moors murders?

Drink three bottles of green fjzz, press Play and find out...

WE HAVE BEEN READING:

Title: The Misty 1979 Holiday Special
Cover Date: July 1979
Publisher: IPC Fleetway
Contributors: Pat Mills, Barry Clements, Malcolm Shaw

Of note, this week:











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Doctor Who and The Dogs Of Doom (1980)

Basking in the heat of the long-awaited Summer Holidays is one thing, but boredom and agitation are always round the corner for The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour. Luckily, this can be easily (if temporarily) averted with a visit to the newsagent for a ten pence mix-up and a crisp new comic...

And so an unprecedented horror-turn from a childhood favourite serves to provide the perfect chills for the hot weather, and prompts the need for a restorative tipple! Yes, our hosts have whiled away the hours reading 1980's Doctor Who opus The Dogs Of Doom, and now manage to invest a little more time dissecting it, as well.

Who decided that virus-warfare as an aid to pan-galactic expansionist colonialism would make a fitting subject for a childrens' comic? Who knew the CB-radio boom of the late 1970s would have cultural ripples for the next five centuries? And who's picking up the tab for the dry-cleaning of Sharon's A-line frock?

Materialise a Play button about two feet lower down than it should be, and find out...

The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour · Doctor Who and the Dogs Of Doom (1980)

WE HAVE BEEN READING:

Title: Doctor Who And The Dogs Of Doom
Cover Date: April 1980
Publisher: Marvel UK
Contributors: Pat Mills, John Wagner, Dave Gibbons, Steve Whitaker, Charlie Kirchoff

Of note, this week:

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