tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13470723676713114172024-03-15T06:23:26.005+00:00The Peggy Mount Calamity HourA casual cultural critique of vintage television, where Britain's best-loved battleaxe is never far from our minds.
<br>Presented by two men who love nostalgia but are terrible at remembering things...PeggyMountPodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03460416978757003858noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1347072367671311417.post-1106949411407728662024-03-15T06:22:00.000+00:002024-03-15T06:22:54.185+00:00The Undersea Aventures Of Captain Nemo<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.skittlez.co.uk/peggymountpod/blogger83.jpg" /><meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" /><meta name="twitter:site" content="@PeggyMountPod" />
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<br><font size="2">Not quite ready to surface from hibernation, <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> 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...
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<br>Coming under subaquatic scrutiny this week is 1975's Canadian animated odyssey, <a href="https://youtu.be/JljzW1ljIH4?si=604BtOUFNrFXUFG7" target="_blank"><b>The Undersea Adventures Of Captain Nemo</b></a>, in which everyone's favourite Victorian squid-puncher gets a nuclear-powered modern - if educational - twist.
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<br><blockquote><i>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?
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<br>Get someone to push Play for you and find out...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>The Undersea Aventures Of Captain Nemo</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Monday 26 June 1978, 10:20</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>Rainbow Animation, ITV</b>
<br>Writers/Producers/Directors: <b>Jean Mathieson & Al Guest</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Billie Mae Richards, Len Carlson</b>
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<br><font size="2"><b>JINGS!</b> They said it couldn't be done! Well, they said it <i>shouldn't</i> be done, and they turned out to be right. Yes, it's another edition of <b>The Peggy Mount Hogmanay Hour</b>, and drunken sassenachs Velvet, Blackout and Bognops have stormed the passport control booth at Hadrian's Wall on a haphazard hunt north of the border for some Caledonian culture...
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<br>Unfortunately that all sold out a week before Christmas, and all that's left in the gift shop is BBC One's near-legendary end of year debacle: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCd9_4xJj2Q" target="_blank"><b>Live Into '85</b></a>. Laird Tom O'Connor joins with Marquess Maggie Moone and Marquee Moira Anderson to host a rousing night of comedy, dancing, music and fun! Or again, that's what Tom had been booked for until discovering it had sold out etc. More guests appear entirely at their own risk. As at least one of them found out.
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<br><blockquote><i>Were the BBC cutting broadcast costs by pulling the plug on this while Big Ben was still chiming? Were Big Tom's Pipe Band cutting parking costs by keeping the minibus engine running outside? And what were the management of the Gleneagles Hotel hoping to achieve by combining their all-you-can-drink bar with the crèche?
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<br>Push Play to have the answers revealed and branded into your eardrums forever...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Broadcast: <b>Monday 31 December 1984, 23:40</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>BBC Scotland, BBC One</b>
<br>Music: <b>David Pringle</b>
<br>Director: <b>Alasdair MacMillan, Anne Somers</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Tom O'Connor, Moira Anderson, Maggie Moone, Bill Torrance, Chic Murray, John Grieve, Modern Romance, Buff Hardie, Steve Robinson, Pipe Major James Liddel, The Pipes and Drums of British Caledonian Airways, The Jim Johnstone Scottish Country Dance Band, The Tom McShane Dancers
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<br><font size="2">Christmas comes but once a year, yet thrice it 'casts into your ear(s)! Yes, with the dinner eaten and the games over, the party is in full swing as <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b>'s festive delving culminates its way to the yuletide jamboree! Approaching an advanced state of refreshment, Doctor Velvet, Blackout and Ozzy Bognops are in the mood for some salt-of-the-earth tinkling of The Old Joann-oh™, and so it's naturally to The Light Channel they turn.
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<br>And boogey-woogeying its way down to a studio-approximation of the East End is 1982's incomparable <b>Chas & Dave's Christmas Knees-Up</b> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rizRsvBluAA" target="_blank">YouTube edit</a> / <a href="https://www.itv.com/watch/chas-and-daves-christmas-knees-up/L0194/L0194a0002" target="_blank">ITVx version</a>), where the cockney duo rattle out a handful of their own hits while playing host to Jimmy Cricket, Lennie Peters, Cosmotheka, Albert Lee and Eric Clapton. Variety shows are bread and butter pudding to this podcast of course, and live musical acts come under particular scrutiny - so it's anyone's guess as to how far the goodwill of this particular season will stretch...
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<br><blockquote><i>Are Chas and Dave starting to regret phoning up their most famous mates for a jam? Has Lennie Peters come down to sort out some right muppet who's bin bad-maafing his mannah? And is Alyn Ainsworth hiding in the Rancor pit?
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<br>Put your beer in the sideboard here, let mother press Play and find out...</i></blockquote>
<br></font><font size="1">[Bonus points and/or an extra jellied eel will be awarded to listeners who can sing along AND do The Thirds]</font><font size="2">
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<br>Broadcast: <b>Sat 25 December 1982, 21:30</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>London Weekend Television, ITV</b>
<br>Music: <b>Alyn Ainsworth, Trevor Brown</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>David Bell, Alasdair Macmillan</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Chas Hodges, Dave Peacock, Mick Burt, Jimmy Cricket, Cosmotheka, Albert Lee, Eric Clapton</b>
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PeggyMountPodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03460416978757003858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1347072367671311417.post-55727050645528605792023-12-22T10:35:00.000+00:002023-12-22T10:35:28.182+00:00Give Us A Clue at Christmas<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.skittlez.co.uk/peggymountpod/blogger86.jpg" /><meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" /><meta name="twitter:site" content="@PeggyMountPod" />
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<br><font size="2">No, you're not seeing double - this is the second of <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> Christmas Specials! Although given that trouble co-ordinating and an inability to communicate clearly are the order of the day with this festive viewing, blurred vision just feels par for the course frankly.
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<br>To get them in the mood for games, our hosts revisit ITV's 1979 Christmas-edition of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tZzWcJdPxA" target="_blank"><b>Give Us A Clue</b></a>, a show whose very title suggests that things are supposed to get clearer as they progress. In actuality the exact reverse seems to have been true that day in Thames Television, but with an assemblage of light entertainment royalty such as this, who's keeping score? Certainly not Michael Aspel, that's for sure...
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<br><blockquote><i>Who proposed stripping the catering budget down to Netto egg sandwiches for the preceding eleven months to allow the off-licence run for this show to take place? Who was responsible for retooling the on-screen countdown clock, but then decided to blow that money on another bottle of port instead? And who's going to break it to the orphans that Dickie Davies has opened all their presents?
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<br>Rely on a production-runner to press Play thirty seconds sooner than they usually would, and find out...</i></blockquote>
<br></font><font size="1">[Bonus points and/or an extra Cadbury's Rose (just the one) will be awarded to listeners who know what a Spelk™ is]</font><font size="2">
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>Give Us A Clue</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Mon 24 December 1979, 19:00</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>Thames Television, ITV</b>
<br>Writer: <b>Vince Powell, Juliet Grimm</b>
<br>Music: <b>Alan Hawkshaw</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Juliet Grimm, Ian Bolt</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Michael Aspel, Una Stubbs, Lionel Blair, Paula Wilcox, Nyree Dawn Porter, Clodagh Rogers, Beryl Reid, Kenneth Williams, Spike Milligan, Russ Abbot, Dickie Davies</b>
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<br><font size="2">"And hark", proclaimed Producer Ken, "before the clock strikes Christmas Day, you will be visited by <b>three</b> podcasts!". <i>'Oh here we go'</i> thought Scrooge, just wanting to get on. "You must learn from the pod of telly past, the pod of telly past and then the pod of telly past." Well, he'd expected repeats at this time of year, but Scrooge didn't argue because he'd looked through the Radio Times and hadn't even taken the top off his red marker...
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<br>Yes it's the first of the festive specials from <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b>, and to set the scene the boys need to go <i>right</i> back to ITV's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03x5UBEx7lg" target="_blank"><b>Christmas With The Larkins</b></a>. Blazing a trail through the fledgling sitcom-market, Dame Peggy herself berates and bellows her way to a yuletide family gathering with all the farcical trimmings and mishaps we've come to expect over the intervening decades. What can go wrong? Oh, everything.
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<br><blockquote><i>How many trombone <i>wah-s</i> are acceptable as the comedown to a punchline? How many household appliances can be used to defrost a turkey? And how many instances of imminent or actual violence need to be in a script before Peggs will greenlight it?
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<br>Look, you're not pressing Play right - let Peggy take over and find out...</i></blockquote>
<br></font><font size="1">[Bonus points and/or an extra Quality Street will be awarded to listeners who pick up on the Stewart Lee reference secreted in this episode]</font><font size="2">
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>Christmas With The Larkins</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Fri 26 December 1958, 22:15</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>Associated Television, ITV</b>
<br>Writer: <b>Fred Robinson</b>
<br>Music: <b>Jackie Brown</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Bill Ward</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Peggy Mount, David Kossoff, Ronan O'Casey, Ruth Trouncer, Hilary Bamberger, Shaun O'Riordan, Barbara Mitchell John Barrard, Charles Lloyd Pack, Norman Mitchell </b>
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<br><font size="2">Darkness falls across the land, the drinking hour is close at hand; to tear apart your very soul, and delve into The Glory Hole! Yes, as dusk strikes on the year <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> turns its attention to a truly seminal piece of vintage television that's sure to put the willies up anybody...
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<br>Under the spooktroscope this Samhain is BBC1's legendary <a href="https://archive.org/details/Ghostwatch" target="_blank"><b>Ghostwatch</b></a>, the 1992 pseudo-documentary fronted by Sir Michael Parkinson, which exceeded its remit in terms of terrifying viewers and ultimately bequeathed a televisual legacy far greater than anyone had really intended. But cynicism is the enemy of awe as aeons pass, and there's no greater battle for emotional sincerity than the one playing in the viewing suite of MountPeg Towers this stormy evening.
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<br><blockquote><i>How big is the cupboard under the stairs in a two-bedroom semi in suburban west-London? How come that person looks like them out of that thing that you can't quite place? And how come the Beeb got around Equity stipulations by employing people who clearly weren't actors?
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>Ghostwatch</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Sat 31 October 1992, 21:25</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>BBC One</b>
<br>Writer: <b>Stephen Volk</b>
<br>Music: <b>Philip Appleby</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Ruth Baumgarten, Lesley Manning</b>
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<br><font size="2">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 <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b>, <i>so does the conversation</i>. And so it falls, the propitious gentlemen of <a href="https://soundcloud.com/the-extonmoss-experiment" target="_blank"><b>The ExtonMoss Experiment</b></a> 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...
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<br>Coming under the new-fangled antique microscope this solsticetide is BBC Two's 1972 one-off Victorian supernatural / inventor / detective drama <a href="https://archive.org/details/irb-ncn" target="_blank"><b>The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night</b></a>, 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.
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<br><blockquote><i>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? <b>And when will the wine react with the cork and go bad?</b>
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<br>Find out by pressing the PLAY button on this mysterious, unearthed device that's up to the eyes in clarts...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Mon 02 October 1972, 21:25</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>BBC Two</b>
<br>Writer: <b>Terry Nation</b>
<br>Music: <b>Anthony Isaac</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Anthony Coburn, Cyril Coke</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Robert Hardy, John Rhys Davies, Julian Holloway, Reginald Marsh, James Cossins, Barry Andrews, Ron Welling, Dave Mobley, Paul Humpoletz</b>
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<br><font size="2">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 <i>right</i> 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...
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<br>Setting up stall for dark things to come once the TV schedules re-ignite, the first issue of 1984 horror comic <a href="https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/scream/" target="_blank"><b>Scream</b></a> 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...
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<br><blockquote><i>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?
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<br>Title: </font><font size="3"><b>Scream</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Cover Date: <b>24 March 1984</b>
<br>Publisher: <b>IPC Magazines</b>
<br>Editor: <b>Ghastly McNasty (w/ Barrie Tomlinson)</b>
<br>Features: <b>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</b>
<br>Contributors: <b>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</b>
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<br><font size="2">The boys of <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> continue their turbulent odyssey of past periodicals as voices begin to break, clothes start to matter more, and you can be <i>entirely</i> judged on liking an incorrect song from the hit parade. Yes, it's a return to the awkward years of enforced superficiality as 1980s teen culture comes under the beeroscope.
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<br>And it rarely gets more awkward than this issue of legendary music mag, <a href="https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/smash-hits/" target="_blank"><b>Smash Hits</b></a>. Seemingly penned by a range of journalists who despise music, the Autumn 1987 advertisement-directory also features fictionalised interviews and lyrics for songs which never existed. For a relic of the pre-internet era, it's all remarkably meta...
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<br><blockquote><i>How many pints is Rick Astley going to neck as he tries to shake his interviewer? How many articles is Doctor Velvet going to take extreme exception to? And how many pounds is Blackout likely to spend on a Personal Cassette Player™?
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<br>You can press Play here, or dial 0898 [REDACTED] to find out...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Cover Date: <b>09 September 1987</b>
<br>Publisher: <b>EMAP</b>
<br>Editor: <b>Barry McIlheney</b>
<br>Features: <b>The Sisters Of Mercy, Michael Jackson, The Housemartins, Rick Astley, Then Jerico, Black, The Pet Shop Boys, Danny Wilson, Heart, Bon Jovi</b>
<br>Contributors: <b>Tom Hibbert, Lola Borg, Ian Cranna, Fred Dellar, David Keeps, Richard Lowe, Vici McDonald, Ro Newton, Derrin Schlesinger</b>
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<br><font size="2">It's Saturday morning once again, and what would the weekend even <i>be</i> without a trip to the paper shop, a plain paper bag full of unbranded sweets that have all been individually handled by the friendly newsagent, and a comic - <i>nay magazine, surely?</i> - to get stuck into before <b>World Of Sport</b> comes on?
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<br>This week, beguiled by colourful illustrations of fearsome aliens and a cover-mounted Free Gift, the hosts of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour have been have parted with twenty pence to partake in the first issue of the relaunched <a href="https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/eagle-2nd-serie-1982-1984/" target="_blank"><b>Eagle comic</b></a> from 1982. Aimed at boisterously opinionated boys who love sci-fi, horror and crime-fighting intrigue (and who have a penchant for collecting tat), this feels like it was created in a secret government lab to appeal to Doctor Velvet and Blackout...
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<br><blockquote><i>Will the mysterious man who embodied Sgt Streetwise ever be found? Will the post-apocalyptic survivors of London Town ever find a leader who actually understands the tube network? And will somebody <b>please</b> help Mike Read..?
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<br>Cover Date: <b>27 March 1982</b>
<br>Publisher: <b>IPC Magazines</b>
<br>Features: <b>Doomlord, Thunderbolt And Smokey, Sgt Streetwise, Dan Dare, The Tower King, The Collector</b>
<br>Contributors: <b>Alan Grant, Gary Compton, Tom Tulley, John Powell, Gerry Finlay-Day, Dave Watts, BJ Tomlinson, Gerry Embleton, Alan Hebden, José Ortiz, Roy Preston, Pat Wright, Ron Smith, Peter Davison, Daley Thompson, Mike Read</b>
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<br><font size="2">Yes, there's still nothing on the telly so the boys from <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> turn to the wise counsel of their local newsagent for solace, distraction and entertainment. Well, they sent Producer Ken down there. That Front Street's seen better days, mind...
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<br>His successful journey apparently via the Galaxy Far, Far Away, coming under the macrobinoculars this week is May 1983's <a href="https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/star-wars/" target="_blank"><b>Star Wars Summer Special</b></a>; subjected here to more editorial appraisal than it ever was in May 1983. With industrial genocide, trans-dimensional cults and hypnotic death-monkeys, this UK-centric spin on everyone's favourite feelgood fantasy is sure to test the very limits of the words "Star Wars", "Summer" and indeed "Special".
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<br><blockquote><i>What's happened with the timeline when Han Solo is working with the Rebels he met after the Death Star to steal a ship he already owned before the Death Star? What's happened with Imperial procurement when staff are turning up to work in a tracksuit their mam bought off the market? And who's responsible for casting Chewbacca's understudy?
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<br>Jump to hyperspace (or press Play) and find out...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Title: </font><font size="3"><b>Star Wars Summer Special</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Cover Date: <b>May 1983</b>
<br>Publisher: <b>Marvel UK</b>
<br>Editor: <b>Paul Neary</b>
<br>Features: <b>Flight Of The Falcon, Rust Never Sleeps, The Pandora Effect, Death Masque</b>
<br>Contributors: <b>Steve Parkhouse, John Stokes, Alan Moore, Alan Davis, Adolfo Buylla, Steve Moore, Jenny O’Connor</b>
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<br><font size="2">It's <i>almost</i> time for a new series of the <b>Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b>, but Doctor Velvet and Blackout are very aware that if they keep sitting in front of that box they'll go square-eyed. With that in mind, our heroes take a break from watching the telly, and begin a handful of vintage periodical retrospectives by <i>reading</i> about it instead...
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<br>First to plop onto the doormat is a September 1981 issue of <a href="https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/look-in/" target="_blank"><b>Look-In magazine</b></a>, the 'Junior TV Times' of the pre-deregulation era which created, trained and honed an entire generation of nitpicking television obsessives; the end result of which is podcasts like this one.
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<br><blockquote><i>How widely can the viewing demographic of 'pre-teen TV audience' be stretched, in an age where there are only three channels so 10yr olds watch pretty much anything they're allowed to stay up for? How narrowly does one of the hosts avoid a murderous rage, after poring over every page of a publication which apparently doesn't have time for proofreaders? And where do you have to live if you want to watch Chopper Squad?
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<br>Fill out a little form, hand it to your podsagent, hit Play and find out...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Title: </font><font size="3"><b>Look-In</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Cover Date: <b>5 September 1981</b>
<br>Publisher: <b>Independent Television Publications</b>
<br>Features: <b>Tiswas, Elvis, Ventriloquism, Buck Rogers, Worzel Gummidge, Cannon & Ball, Kate Bush, Smuggler, CHiPs, Spandau Ballet, Slaughtering</b>™
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<br><font size="2"><i>Finally</i> the weather starts to warm up, and as we all know in the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. The hosts of <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> are not young men, of course. They are resolutely (<i>and perennially</i>) middle-aged, and so their jaded thoughts are of mowing the lawn, if they must. Which, naturally, means going <i>In The Shed</i>.
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<br>That's right dear listener, this outing is another in the ongoing series of <b>Shed Sessions</b> recordings, and this time the proceedings are of a decidedly musical bent. The first stop is bathing in the quirky glory of nature with Sir Derek Griffiths' <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evNgyo7LKdg" target="_blank"><b>Heads And Tails</b></a>, and when the sun has set but the heat's still up it's round for drinks at Dame Cleo Laine's luxury pad, noting of course that she's always <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xodZI8h0dk" target="_blank"><b>In Company</b></a>...
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<br><blockquote><i>How many session fees is D.Griffith racking up after adhering to the M.Union rules about separate instruments requiring different lines in the budget? How many shots is J.Thaw necking every time he knows the camera isn't on him? And how many consecutive days had the presenters of this podcast been awake and drinking by this point?
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<br>B.like C.Laine, get immediately down to business and find out...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>Heads And Tails</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Fri 01 June 1979, 13:30</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>BBC One</b>
<br>Researcher: <b>Anne Denehy</b>
<br>Music: <b>Derek Griffiths</b>
<br>Producer: <b>Michael Cole</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Derek Griffiths, Sheep, Dogs, Pigs.</b>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>In Company</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Tue 20 December 1975, 21:30</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>BBC Two</b>
<br>Music: <b>Cleo Laine, Jonny Dankworth</b>
<br>Producer: <b>Don Sayer</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Cleo Laine, Jonny Dankworth, Sheila Hankcock, John Thaw</b>
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<br><font size="2">As the evenings get lighter and that man in the park with the tracksuit bottoms becomes more animated in his dealings with passers-by, all signs point to Winter finally beginning to end. And emerging from their hidey-hole in Mountpeg Towers like the Blue Peter tortoise with a hangover, the hosts of <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> uncork bottles once again to let their profane rambling drift across the streets below...
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<br>Don't get too excited, this is another entry to The Shed Sessions™, very much the lo-fi punk rock non-album-EP of the indie podcast movement; three guys grabbing the world by the TV schedules and laying down some hard facts and harder opinions of underground broadcasting in a post-truth age! So obviously they've chosen to dissect 1986 episode of the Pat Coombs voodoo adventure series, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqXrDxgpi78" target="_blank"><b>Ragdolly Anna</b></a>.
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<br><blockquote><i>Just how long is a coach journey which necessitates a full tin of cakes? Just how tall is Dummy? And just how high to you have to be to enjoy this programme?
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<br>Smuggle a cat onto public transport then spend the entire journey having a conversation into a wicker shopping basket to find out...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>Ragdolly Anna</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Thursday 30 January 1986, 16:15</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>Yorkshire Television / Siriol Productions, ITV</b>
<br>Writer: <b>Jean Kenward, Chris Stephens</b>
<br>Music: <b>Allan Taylor</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Jane Taylor, John Allen, Cat, Other Cat</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Pat Coombs, Michele Davidson</b>
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<br><font size="2">As another year draws to an appropriately ignominious end, the three brave souls of <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> weather the cold to trek north of The Border and warm their weary cockles by the fireside of Caledonian hospitality, and perhaps enjoy a dram or two into the bargain...
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<br>Yes, it's time for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgk3wZ-rkFQ" target="_blank"><b>The New Year Party</b></a>, BBC Scotland's televised Hogmanay bash from the arse-end of 1983, where the two Bs (McCue and Torrance), are joined by the two Ms (Moone and Anderson) for an evening of songs, dancing, comedy, dancing, pipes and yes why not let's have a bit more dancing. There's something for EVERYONE here! Providing everyone doesn't mind the dancing.
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<br><blockquote><i>How many laws of the space-time continuum have been broken in Glasgow to fit so many people into a studio which is clearly three adjoining store cupboards with the walls knocked through? How many officers of the Health & Safety Directive have been ignored in allowing those people to drink and smoke to their hearts' content throughout? And how many of Scotland's audiologists managed to rack up the overtime in January due to the catastrophic hearing damage caused by that Olympic-sized pipe band?
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<br>Mak your muckles, deep fry your kebabs, press Play and find out...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>The New Year Party</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Saturday 31 December 1983, 23:30</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>BBC Scotland, BBC One (Scotland)</b>
<br>Music: <b>David Pringle</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Anne Somers, Alasdair Macmillan</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Bill McCue, Bill Torrance, Moira Anderson, Maggie Moone, Hector Nicol, Sydney Devine, Colette, 'Tiger' Tim Stevens, The Boghall & Bathgate Pipe Band, The Double Bill Dancers, Pipe Major Robert H Martin, The Jim Johnstone Scottish Country Dance Band</b>
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<br><font size="2">Twas the night before Christmas and through MountPeg Towers, bottles of port, red wine and brown ale had been strategically placed into a series of time-lock-release safes to ensure an even spread of gradual inebriation throughout the twenty-fifth thereby ensuring it's not all gone after two hours.
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<br>Yes, the day is almost upon us and <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b>'s festive celebrations peak once more with the god-tier array of light entertainment name-dropping that is ITV's 1972 showcase, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNJICs_FcVo" target="_blank"><b>All Star Comedy Carnival</b></a> (that's right, the one from every fifth-or-so Steps Up The Mountain). With Blair, Grayson, Tarby, Wogan, Rod Hull, Moira Anderson <b>AND PEGGY MOUNT</b>, everything you have ever wanted waits in here...
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<br><blockquote><i>How slowly can time pass while you're waiting for a four-minute On The Buses Christmas Sketch to end? How quickly does a programme have to oscillate between low-brow autopilot sitcom and high-precision performance art to give viewers the televisual bends? And how on earth is your favourite* vintage TV podcast going to top this?
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<br>Unwrap. Press Play. Be as disappointed as every year.</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>All Star Comedy Carnival</b></font><font size="2">
<br><br>Broadcast: <b>Monday 25 Decemver 1972, 17:45</b>
<br><br>Production/Channel: <b>ATV, Granada, Thames, LWT, Yorkshire Television / ITV</b>
<br><br>Writers: <b>Brad Ashton, Bryan Blackburn, Roy Bottomley, Tom Brennand, Brian Cooke, Mike Craig, Eric Davidson, Harry Driver, Peter Dulay, John Esmonde, Bob Grant, Tony Hawes, Lawrie Kinsley, Bob Larbey, Stephen Lewis, Ron McDonnell, Johnnie Mortimer, Vince Powell, Maurice Sellar, Roy Tuvey</b>
<br><br>Music: <b>Ronnie Aldrich, Russell Burgess, Syd Lawrence, Johnny Patrick</b>
<br><br>Producers: <b>Stuart Allen, Philip Casson, Les Chatfield, Peter Dulay, Terry Henebery, Bill Hitchcock, Bryan Izzard, Philip Jones, Mike Lloyd, Bill Podmore, William G. Stewart, Mark Stuart</b>
<br><br>Directors: <b>Terry Henebery, Stuart Allen, Les Chatfield, Bryan Izzard, Mike Lloyd, David Mallet, Bill Podmore, William G. Stewart</b>
<br><br>Starring: <b>Jimmy Tarbuck, Peggy Mount, Moira Anderson, Anne Aston, Hylda Baker, Lynda Bellingham, Lionel Blair, Judy Buxton, Patrick Cargill, Leslie Crowther, Les Dawson, Ann George, Noele Gordon, Bob Grant, Larry Grayson, Doris Hare, Rod Hull, Tony Jacklin, Jimmy Jewell, Anna Karen, Penny Lane, Stephen Lewis, Hugh Lloyd, Larry Martyn, David Nixon, Sylvia Syms, Bob Todd, Rudolph Walker, Mona Washbourne, Carl Wayne, Terry Wogan, Harry Worth</b>
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<br><font size="2">Few things yell CHRISTMAS like that feeling of being locked in a room with a braying mob of party-game-obsessed family members who all seem to be merrily intoxicated past the point of caring, whilst you yourself are wondering how long you can politely leave it before REALLY getting stuck into the booze like a seasoned professional.
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<br>And so for the second instalment of this year's <b>Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> Christmas Specials, Thames Television have kindly brought that enforced bonhomie for us all to enjoy wherever, as the podcast hosts peruse the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMP5_-Pipfs" target="_blank"><b>Fresh Fields</b></a> Festive Effulgence from 1985. There's tidings, there's tinsel, and there are other words beginning with T which won't go into the show description because of adverse SEO reasons...
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<br><blockquote><i>How many mince pies is too many for Christmas day, and does the joke become funny at that point? How long should a straight, domestic-sitcom be left doing its thing before safely devolving into chaotic, drunken ad-libbing for optimum, refreshing effect? And how long can Blackout keep up this Scrooge-like, grumpy demeanour when faced with some of the cosiest Christmas television ever created?
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<br>Drag everyone into a circle in the living room, press Play and find out...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>Fresh Fields</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Wednesday 25 December 1985, 18:45</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>Thames Television, ITV</b>
<br>Writer: <b>John T. Chapman</b>
<br>Music: <b>Harry Stoneham</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Peter Frazer-Jones</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Julia McKenzie, Anton Rodgers, Ann Beach, Fanny Rowe, Ballard Berkeley, Daphne Oxenford, John Arthur, Zulema Dene, Debby Cumming</b>
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<br><font size="2">It's the most wonderful time of the year! By which we mean that time when normal, fusty TV scheduling goes out the window and all theme tunes are legally obliged to have a layer of sleigh-bells over the top. Yes, <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> gears up once again for another round of Christmas Specials, circling things in the Radio Times and going round all the supermarkets to look for the best offers on port...
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<br>And so, breaking the seal on the selection box in a traditionally early manner, our hosts peruse a particularly festive episode of BBC One's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOGA8EMwocM" target="_blank"><b>Record Breakers</b></a> from the heady days of 1972, with Messrs Castle, McWhirter and McWhirter poised and ready to note down any and all achievements worthy of acclaim. And also act like they haven't just been wasting your time if and when there are none.
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<br><blockquote><i>What grade of hallucinogen was Kubrick on when he came up with the idea for the McWhirter twins? What level of liability insurance is required for this intensity of hairstyling product under those studio lights? And what is the maximum sentence handed down for inadvertently killing a studio audience?
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<br>Get the tree out of the garage, pour yourself a small sherry, press Play and find out...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>Record Breakers</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Friday 22 December 1972, 17:15</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>BBC One</b>
<br>Producer: <b>Alan Russell</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Roy Castle, Norris McWhirter, Ross McWhirter, Rex Williams, Tom Barrett, Tommy O'Regan, Bill Duddy</b>
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<br><font size="2">Ever keen to provide wholesome cultural repasts for the dark winter nights, <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> reaches into its televisual trove of years past and pulls out a couple of absolute bangers to fill that entertainment hinterland betwixt Hallow'een and Christmas...
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<br>First up is is warmest, sweetest hug one can get from a programme as Doctor Velvet and Blackout venture oop-North with some magnets to hang out with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=634Yz-MbWG0" target="_blank"><b>The Flumps</b></a>. And to offset this excursion into unparalleled goodness, they jaunt back dah'n Sah'hf to mid 1980s London, as brash cynicism and sitcom-subversion are the order of the day with the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzR3XRSqCw" target="_blank"><b>Girls On Top</b></a>.
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<br><blockquote><i>What, exactly, is causing the laws of physics to routinely misbehave around the metal objects of Flump Towers? What, precisely, is causing the four headline stars of a prime-time sitcom to routinely speak over each others' lines in Oak Park Gardens? And what, for the love of all that is holy, have Alan Rickman's hairdresser and accent-coach been inhaling?
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<br>The answers are but one exquisitely animated - if thoroughly un-rehearsed - click away...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>The Flumps</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Monday 28 February 1977, 13:45</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>BBC One</b>
<br>Writer: <b>Julie Holder</b>
<br>Music: <b>Paul Reade, George Chisholm</b>
<br>Producer: <b>David Yates</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Gay Soper</b>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>Girls On Top</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Tuesday 23 October 1985, 20:30</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>Witzend Productions, ITV</b>
<br>Writer: <b>Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax, Tracey Ullman</b>
<br>Music: <b>Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Trevor Walton / Paul Jackson</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax, Tracey Ullman, Joan Greenwood, Helen Lederer, Helen Atkinson Wood, Alan Rickman</b>
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<br><font size="2">They say bad things come in threes, and that's certainly true as Doctor Velvet and Blackout chalk the final circle to complete this year's trilogy of terror on the eve of Samhain.
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<br>Because it's not really Hallow'een without some Draculas, and it's not really <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> without Peggy Mount, dark gods conspired (in 1992) to combine the two in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc5nIs9wlGg" target="_blank"><b>Virtual Murder: A Dream of Dracula</b></a>, and it certainly takes potions of hitherto unparalleled strength to sit through this hour of supernatural mayhem...
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<br><blockquote><i>How do a pair of (admittedly amateur) horror-obsessed cultural historians manage to completely miss the definitive televisual translation of one of cinematic and literary-culture's most enduring villainous touchstones? How does Mount always manage to get hallucinogenic head-decoration into her contract? And how does something this colon-clenchingly cheap get on the actual BBC telly when people will be watching, though?
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<br>Load up on the garlic, candlesticks and holy water bottles filled with port, then press Play to find out...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>Virtual Murder: A Dream of Dracula</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Friday 21 August 1992, 21:30</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>Pebble Mill Studios / BBC One</b>
<br>Writer: <b>Bennett Sims</b>
<br>Music: <b>Harry Robertson</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Brian Degas, Harry Robertson / Phillip Draycott</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Kim Thomson, Nicholas Clay, Peggy Mount, Jill Gascoine, Tessa Wyatt, Alfred Marks, Hugh Quarshie, Sam Kelly, Phillip Whitchurch, Ronald Fraser, Julian Clary, Stephen Yardley, Alan David</b>
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<br><font size="2">Unearthing horrors from the past is of course the default setting at <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b>, so Hallow'een makes that especially enjoyable. And what could be nicer on a wet, grey autumnal evening than a dram of something potent and a book by the fireside?
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<br>The second of this year's supernatural specials is but a turn of the page away, as Doctor Velvet and Blackout creak open the eldritch tome of 1979's <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1311227.The_Hamlyn_Book_0f_Horror" target="_blank"><b>Hamlyn Book Of</b></a> <a href="https://anonymfile.com/dqg9J/the-hamlynbookofhorror1979farsond.pdf" target="_blank"><b>Horror</b></a>, suppressing the hard-wired fear of more than four decades to give it another pass...
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<br><blockquote><i>How does a book which is already largely a historical study age over the decades, when compared with an evolving cultural appreciation of its original source material? Is the the compulsion to scare oneself with un-nerving media as universal and timeless as the horror-genre would suggest, or does it only feel that way to people already predisposed toward it? And can a book really give you the diarrhoea?
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<br>Light the thirteenth candle, press Play and see what answers float through the aether...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>The Hamlyn Book of Horror</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Published: <b>July 27th 1979</b>, hardcover.
<br>Publisher: <b>Hamlyn</b>
<br>Author: <b>Daniel Farson</b>
<br>Illustrations: <b>'The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited'.</b> Outrageous.
<br>Featuring: <b>Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Max Schreck, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe, M.R.James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Montague Summers and his absolutely <u>magnificent</u> hair.</b>
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<br> ...and these are the things we see when we close our eyes...
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<br><font size="2">Why, it seems to come around earlier each year! Yes, as the decorations go up once again and the dark nights seep firmly in to our homes and our very souls, <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> returns for another unholy trinity of Hallow'een themed podcast episodes to keep a chill in your spine as you shiver 'til dawn.
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<br>It's back to the video shop first of all, with Rankin/Bass's 1967 animated cabal <a href="https://archive.org/details/1967-mad-monster-party" target="_blank"><b>Mad Monster Party</b></a> coming under the critical eye of Doctor Velvet and Blackout, casting new judgement on classic creatures...
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<br><blockquote><i>Is it <b>really</b> that important to spend time working on the music and the comedy when you're putting together a musical comedy? Is the climactic euthanasia of a range of x-rated villains really a fitting subject for animated entertainment which will be a draw to a young audience? And is Phyllis Diller the ultimate, unabashed, unsanitisable horror?
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<br>The answers - like the drinks - are but a tap away and not for the faint of heart...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>Mad Monster Party</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Release/Broadcast: <b>18 Oct 1967 (UK cinemas), 30 May 1983 (ITV), 07 Apr 1994 (Channel 4)</b>
<br>Production: <b>Rankin/Bass</b>
<br>Writer: <b>Len Korobkin, Harvey Kurtzman, Arthur Rankin Jr.</b>
<br>Music: <b>Maury Laws, Ethel Ennis</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Arthur Rankin Jr. / Jules Bass</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Boris Karloff, Gale Garnett, Phyllis Diller, Allen Swift</b>
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PeggyMountPodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03460416978757003858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1347072367671311417.post-76887515907825318002022-09-16T15:48:00.001+01:002022-09-16T15:48:51.268+01:00Liz Dawn's House Party<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.skittlez.co.uk/peggymountpod/blogger65.jpg" /><meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" /><meta name="twitter:site" content="@PeggyMountPod" />
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<br><font size="2">A podcast with more confidence in sporting metaphors might use some reference to 'extra time' while talking about their bonus episode, so naturally <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> sees this series-extender as more of an improvised, last minute lock-in. Because there's nothing like having a great night, drinks flowing behind closed doors, after dark and in raucous company with plenty of laughter.
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<br>And speaking of nothing like a great night, our heroic triumvirate have drawn the curtains and uncorked the port to gatecrash <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg3nUvbtaFw" target="_blank"><b>Liz Dawn's House Party</b></a>, the 1996 straight-to-VHS version of The Stanford Prison Experiment where you can play along at home if you enjoy feeling trapped, belittled and punished.
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<br><blockquote><i>For maximum effect, is it best to insert a laugh-track to complement jokes or as a substitute for them? For a great duet, should you really book two club singers with the same range? For the love of god, when does it end?
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<br>We found out, and now so can you...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Don't forget, the <b>Peggy Mount Calamity Hour Quiz</b> is still open! Rules and entry-instructions can be found <a href="https://www.peggymountpod.com/2022/09/the-trap-door-name-that-tune.html">here</a>, and the <a href="https://www.skittlez.co.uk/peggymountpod/The_Peggy_Mount_Calamity_Hour_Quiz_Answersheet.pdf" target="_blank"><u>answer-sheet</u></a> can be downloaded here:
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>Liz Dawn's House Party</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>VHS only, 1996</b>
<br>Production: <b>Talent Television / Polygram Video</b>
<br>Writer: <b>Laurie Rowley</b>
<br>Music: <b>Andy Rumble</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Jeff Thacker / John Kaye Cooper</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Liz Dawn, Bill Tarmey, Faith Brown, Jimmy Cricket, Les Dennis, Russell Grant, Lily Savage, Fred Feast, Amanda Holden</b>
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<br><font size="2">It's the end of term! Yes, as <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b> parks up on the driveway to deliver the series' tenth episode, spirits are high as firmly-held convictions are batted around the studio like a game of opinionated tennis...
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<br>The show opens with our heroes lifting <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mluYB9YfzSI" target="_blank"><b>The Trapdoor</b></a> and finding something delightful they can all agree upon, before a challenge to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAZaYJZgz3w" target="_blank"><b>Name That Tune</b></a> becomes rather more animated as *someone* asserts that half a dozen Rights can be enough to somehow make half an hour of Wrong™.
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<br><blockquote><i>How many times can Trap Door be adapted to an 8-bit gaming format before it's any good? How many members do cruiseship-crooners Kaluki have to add to their roster before the law of averages says they'll land on a harmony? And how many times does Blackout get it Wrong™ in this?
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<br>Click on, listen in and find out...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>The Trap Door</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Monday 06 October 1986, 16:10</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>CMTB/Queensgate, Childrens' ITV</b>
<br>Writer: <b>Terry Brain, Charlie Mills</b>
<br>Music: <b>Bob Heatlie</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>John Howson / Terry Brain, Charlie Mills</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Willie Rushton, Nick Shipley</b>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>Name That Tune</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Circa 1984</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>Thames Television, ITV</b>
<br>Writer: <b>David Self</b>
<br>Music: <b>Peter Fenn</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Prod, Dir</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Lionel Blair, Maggie Moone, Kaluki, Tallulha Beckett, Alan Braden</b>
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<br><p align="center">...but <b>to business!
<br></font><font size="4"><mark>THE COMPETITION!</mark></b></font><font size="2"></p>
<br>As regular listeners will know, we've been running a competition throughout this new series. In each of the episodes (starting with <a href="https://www.peggymountpod.com/2022/07/star-wars-droids-starsky-hutch.html" target="_blank"><b>Droids / Starsky & Hutch</b></a>), Doctor Velvet poses a question after our discussion of a programme. The answers to these can be handily recorded on our very special Peggy Mount Calamity Hour Quiz Official Answer Sheet, <a href="https://www.skittlez.co.uk/peggymountpod/The_Peggy_Mount_Calamity_Hour_Quiz_Answersheet.pdf" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.:
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<br><b>So</b>. Here's what to do.
<blockquote><br>• Download the <a href="https://www.skittlez.co.uk/peggymountpod/The_Peggy_Mount_Calamity_Hour_Quiz_Answersheet.pdf" target="_blank"><u>sheet</u></a> and print it out.
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<br>• Complete the answers in the relevant boxes
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<br>• <b><u>Don't</u></b> post it on our social media, but stick the sheet <b>on your fridge</b> (or any fridge, it doesn't have to be yours), take a photo of that and e-mail it to <b>PeggyMountPod@gmail.com</b> with the subject line 'Fridge Competition'
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<br>• NB: Some of the answers are referenced in the preceding review-segments, some are observational references from the programmes themselves (linked to in the show-notes for each episode), and some are a little more... <i>creatively inspired</i>. With this in mind, we're not necesarily looking for a sheet full of correct answers (although do get them right where you can) - amusing and entertaining will (should (could (might))) be enough.
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<br>• The competition closes on the last day of September 2022. We'll select a winner on Saturday the first of October 2022, and contact them via the e-mail address they used for entry. There are no runner-up prizes. Our decision is final.
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<br>• Oh, I suppose you want to know what the prize is? Fair enough. It's <b>this <u>magnificent</u> fridge-magnet!</b>
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<br>(yeah, you're thinking '<u>a</u> fridge magnet? singular? wow, that's big of you'. But rest assured, when you see what these babies retail for <a href="https://www.redbubble.com/people/doctorvelvet/shop?artistUserName=doctorvelvet&collections=3038898" target="_blank">on our RedBubble store</a>, you'll see it's definitely worth getting one for free if you can. We'll even throw in some stickers as well. <i>They're</i> not on the RedBubble, they're <b>exclusive</b> for things like this.
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<br>• I mean, <i>do</i> buy a magnet if you <i>can</i>. We'd appreciate the absolute fuck out of that, obviously. We've got t-shirts as well. <i>The whack</i>. Look, the store's new that's why we haven't mentioned it on the episodes yet. If anything, this competition's like a promotion for it. We suppose. We don't run a P*treon, so merch is the thing, y'know? Who doesn't like cool things?
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<br>• <i>Buy the things...</i>*
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<br>• *Seriously, only if you can. We're very aware it's 2022 y'know? Hardly the time to be launching a frivolous online store for fans of drunken rambling. But like we said, it's merch here not P*treon.
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<br>• Wow, what a cringe-inducing promotion this is. Anyway, <b>GOOD LUCK!</b></blockquote>
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<br><font size="2">It's early mornings and late nights this week on <b>The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour</b>, as our hosts test the theory that the greatest things arrive at either end of a day's scheduling.
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<br>The first stop on today's televisual trek comes hiding in plain sight, as TVAM's premiere episode of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1ujpoDlgRU" target="_blank"><b>The Transformers</b></a> comes in for some arch reminiscence and critical scrutiny. And later, what better way to round off a long week than with Peggy Mount boldly waving the flag for sitcoms still to come, as we meet <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAegULXB2JM" target="_blank"><b>The Larkins</b></a>?
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<br><blockquote><i>Have we voyaged far enough across the galaxy for a being shaped remarkably like a re-arranged Freightliner FL86 to finally fit in? Have we travelled far enough back in time to find A Farce™ that Doctor Velvet can stomach? And how far do we have to go before the most literal lavatorial humour ceases to be the easiest way to derail a pair of childish podcast hosts?
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<br>If you're absolutely sure your electronic device is really what it purports to be, then go ahead and press Play to find out...</i></blockquote>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>The Transformers</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>'1985'</b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>Marvel / Sunbow / Toei Animation, ITV</b>
<br>Writer: <b>George Arthur Bloom, Henry Orenstein</b>
<br>Music: <b>Johnny Douglas</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Nelson Shin, John Gibbs</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Peter Cullen, Corey Burton, Scatman Crothers, Christopher Collins, Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Frank Welker, John Stephenson</b>
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<br>Programme: </font><font size="3"><b>The Larkins</b></font><font size="2">
<br>Broadcast: <b>Friday 19 September 1958, 22:15 </b>
<br>Production/Channel: <b>Associated Television, ITV</b>
<br>Writer: <b>Fred Robinson</b>
<br>Music: <b>Jackie Brown</b>
<br>Producer/Director: <b>Bill Ward</b>
<br>Starring: <b>Peggy Mount, David Kossoff, Ronan O'Casey, Frank Williams, Shaun O'Riordan, Ruth Trouncer</b>
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