The Pogles (but NOT Pogles' Wood)

As the weather begins to warm up, Doctor Velvet and Blackout of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour decide to take a leaf out of Mad Lizzie's book of exercise. Off they go for a bracing stroll to call on Simon and Ken at The ExtonMoss Experiment. Naturally this walk takes them via the off-licence, but that's only to be expected and since when has supporting a local business been a thing to be frowned upon?

Ever the hospitable gentlemen, ExtonMoss invite PeggyMountPod in for a tipple and a chinwag. Before you know it, all four are glued to the box as pre-school witchcraft illuminates the room with The Pogles arguably casting more magic than their woodland-sorcerous nemesis...

Which member of the gang would like to see all episodes of The Pogles fully restored? Which member of the gang would like to see all episodes of The Pogles fully restored and colourised? And which member of the gang would like to see all episodes of The Pogles fully restored, colourised and with the effects-work overseen by John Carpenter, Tom Savini and Eli Roth?

Fight your way out of that twig-cage, punch Play and find out...

The ExtonMoss Experiment · Episode 176: The Pogles

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: The Pogles: A Flower For Wishes
Broadcast: Thursday 19 August 1965, 10:45
Production/Channel: Smallfilms, BBC1
Writer: Oliver Postgate
Music: Vernon Elliott
Producer/Director: Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate
Starring: Oliver Postgate, Steve Woodman, Owlen Griffiths

Items of note...



Yes! Blackout went to the Postgate/Firmin SmallFilms exhibition in Canterbury and saw the actual Pogles and that actual witch from off of the episode! Unfortunately, he did this mere days after recording this episode, and so doesn't mention it once. Not even the fact that it's on. Typical. No culture.


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The Stone Tape

It's always nice to get out of the house of course, but the number of venues willing to welcome The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour grows vanishingly small (imagine being barred from a bottle-bank). Luckily, Simon and Ken of The ExtonMoss Experiment are always ready to share their convivial hospitality, on the condition that the gin is mixed only with some archive television that'll make your teeth curl.

On offer tonight is a thorough cultural appraisal of Nigel Kneale's 1972 exploration of memorical masonry, The Stone Tape . Although naturally, a piece of seminal televisual eeriness whose cultural footprint is still felt to this day doesn't mean that Doctor Velvet and Blackout are going to take it that seriously...

When will The Science™ progress beyond middle-aged men yelling at each other and drinking in a room full of wires? When can our brave televisual analysers stop trying to tie in macabre literary references and get back to discussing The Slacks? When does the screaming stop?

Get somebody to use four rolls of paper printing out the hand-typed program used to press Play, and find out...

The ExtonMoss Experiment · Episode 166: The Stone Tape

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: The Stone Tape
Broadcast: Tue 02 October 1973, 21:00
Production/Channel: BBC Two
Writer: Nigel Kneale
Music: Desmond Briscoe
Producer/Director: Innes Lloyd, Peter Sasdy
Starring: Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Bates, Reginald Marsh, James Cosmo, Christopher Banks

Of note, this week...



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The Keith Harris New Year Show

It's New Year's Eve at Mountpeg Towers, with messrs Velvet, Blackout and Bognops huddled round the Peggy Mount Calamity Hour drinks trolley making vague plans for the future whilst ruminating (as usual) on the past, scrawling optimistic lists of unrealistic resolutions. "Let's never do this again" warbled Mr Hussey famously, and he wasn't even reacting to being a guest on tonight's cavalcade of unleashed Showbusiness®...

Yes it's off to BBC Television Centre we lurch, bottles in hand, to witness an iconic British entertainer with decades of experience being given his very own Prime Time Variety™ show in one of the year's most prestigious broadcast slots. A triumphant moment such as this should of course be seared into the cultural memory of a nation, which is why - we're sure - that after Big Ben has chimed to countless toasts, conversation across the land quickly turns to the very first 1982 pilot-instalment of The Keith Harris Show.

Is it cheaper if one of the acts is married to the presenter? Is it cheaper if two of the acts are operated by the presenter? Look, there was clearly some sort of production budget here and it didn't make it to the stage, where did that money go..?

Catch the Play button as you're falling off that diving board, and find out...

(If you'd like to join in the New Year countdown with The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour, start this episode on Dec 31st at 23:03:40)

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: The Keith Harris Show
Broadcast: Friday 31st December 1982, 19:40
Production/Channel: BBC One
Writer: George Martin
Music: Art Day, Ronnie Hazlehurst
Producer/Director: Paul Ciani
Starring: Keith Harris, Bucks Fizz, Ray Dondy, Jacqui Scott, The Norman Maen Dancers

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The Box Of Delights / The Christmas Jottings of Hinge and Bracket

Ho-ho-holy snowballs, is it that time already? Yes, with the cheese and scotch advent calendars already suspiciously demolished, it's open house and time for the Peggy Mount Calamity Hour Christmas Special! Crackers will be pulled, bottles will be emptied, and two entertainment gems from the past will be lovingly dissected...

Professor Lionel Ziggy Zucho pops round for the first grinding of the festive conveyor belt with 1984's The Box Of Delights, which evoked days long gone even upon its first broadcast. Then that sepia glow is retained for a visit from Ozzy Bognops and a huddle round the radiogram for The Christmas Jottings Of Hinge and Bracket, bringing with them as they do a very special guest star.

Will young Kay Harker ever be magicked to a land where working-class people exist? Will footage ever be recovered of Patrick Moore and Deryck Guyler percussioning in the middle of an ice rink in a provincial leisure centre? And will Turkish Delight Vodka curdle the buttered-eggs?

Sift through that discarded wrapping paper for the hastily-ignored instruction leaflet on how to press the Play button, and find out...

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: The Box Of Delights
Broadcast: Wednesday 21 November 1984, 17:00
Production/Channel: BBC One, Children's BBC
Writer: John Masefield, Alan Seymour
Music: Roger Limb
Producer/Director: Paul Stone / Renny Rye
Starring: Devin Stanfield, Patrick Troughton, Robert Stephens, John Horsley, Carol Frazer, Geoffrey Larder, Jonathan Stephens, Bill Wallis, Crispin Mair, Joanna Dukes, Heidi Burton, Flora Page, Len Edwards, Glyn Baker, Anne Dyson

Programme: The Christmas Jottings of Hinge and Bracket
Broadcast: Wednesday 24 December 1986, 22:00
Production/Channel: BBC, BBC Radio 2
Writer: Gerald Frow
Music: Gordon Langford
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
Starring: Patrick Fyffe, George Logan, Peggy Mount, Deryck Guyler, Chris Emmet, Frances Jeater, Jean Hayward, John Carlin

Of note this week:






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Doctor Who: Dimensions In Time

Is it that time already? Who knows? Who knows what time even is? Certainly not the editing team of the Doctor Who 1993 Children In Need EastEnders crossover special, that's for sure. Not time, not flow and definitely not narrative coherence. But let's not jump ahead of ourselves...

Yes, to celebrate/commiserate/eviscerate the anniversary of Dimensions In Time and the November heralding of everyone's favourite cyclopic yellow bear, the hosts of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour call round at the best possible place to hold such a symposium: Podcasting House, the hallowed halls of The ExtonMoss Experiment. Because the longest 17 minutes of your life calls for only the finest gin and only the harshest commentary.

What would a positive appraisal of this programme sound like? What would a decent realisation of this concept look like? And what does Squatter's Cocktail™ actually taste like..?

Get cuddly Tel to helicopter-in on honorarium and push Play, to find out...

The ExtonMoss Experiment · Episode 163: Doctor Who - Dimensions in Time

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: Doctor Who: Dimensions In Time
Broadcast: Friday 26 November 1993, 19:00+
Production/Channel: BBC One
Writer: John Nathan-Turner
Music: Ron Grainer, Keff McCulloch, Cybertech Inc.
Producer/Director: John Nathan-Turner / Stuart McDonald
Starring: Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Kate O'Mara, Sophie Aldred, Nicola Bryant, Carole Ann Ford, Louise Jameson, Bonnie Langford, Elisabeth Sladen, Lalla Ward, Caroline John, John Leeson, Nicholas Courtney, Richard Franklin, Samuel West, Pam St. Clement, Gillian Taylforth, Wendy Richard, Mike Reid, Steve McFadden, Ross Kemp, Letitia Dean

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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.


Also...











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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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I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle

As noted several moons ago, The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour knows that the language of cinema is a little different to that of the small screen, but it’s a lesson they love to revisit nonetheless. This week’s study is of personal pronouns; as in ‘She'll probably regret wearing that’, ‘He made an egg sandwich that should be on trial’, and ‘I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle’…

Yes, Doctor Velvet and Blackout round out the podcast's After Dark series by shining a flickering torch into the dimmest days of the British Film Industry, to find the Boon reunion-party in full swing and drenched in red-dyed corn syrup. Still, there’s a vicar on-hand so it’s all good* clean** fun***.

Why did Anthony Daniels agree to a part in this? Why did Burt Kwouk agree to a part as long as he didn't have to speak? And why did Pod Producer Ken leave the room mid-way through and lock himself in the toilet, crying?

Put 20p in the pub jukebox, press Play, swing off a cast iron chandelier and find out…

* delete
** as
*** appropriate

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle
Released: Friday 06 July 1990 (UK cinemas)
Broadcast: Tuesday 15 February 1994, 00:10 (Sky Movies)
Production/Channel: Dirk Productions Ltd.
Writer: Mycal Miller & John Wolskel
Music: Dean Friedman
Producer/Director: Mycal Miller & John Wolskel / Dirk Campbell
Starring: Neil Morrissey, Amanda Noar, Michael Elphick, Anthony Daniels, Andrew Powell, Daniel Peacock, David Daker, Burt Kwouk, Paula Ann Bland

Of note this week...

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Knight Rider

The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour continues to explore the weekly cultural abyss of what really goes on After Dark. But as so often with the analysis of horror, the story of what scares us isn't quite as intriguing as what in turn reassures. And for a formative mind in the harsh striplights of the 1980s, there are few things so reassuring as the jet slacks, tousled demi-wave and leatherette blouson of the world's most mysterious techno-vigilante...

Yes, Doctor Velvet and Blackout are joined once again by the loveably irascible Ozzy Bognops, as their attention turns to that doyenne of Saturday teatime adventure, the Knight Rider. Because when things take a theatrically sinister turn on a Hollywood backlot and Michael Knight is sent to investigate, absolutely no nit will be left unpicked back at Mountpeg Towers...

How much money can you save by writing a screenplay set literally in the studio where it's going to be made, so that you don't have to do any set-dressing? How convenient is it to get your star's stuntman to play the star in a thing where your star plays his stuntman? And how many hints does a man have to drop that he just wants a job where he can go to the beach?

Tell your car to press Play, and find out...

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: Knight Rider: Fright Knight
Broadcast: Friday 07 March 1986 (U.S.)
Production/Channel: Glen A. Larson Productions, NBC Television / ITV Network
Writer: Glen A. Larson, James Byrnes, Samm Smith, Leonard Kaufman
Music: Glen A. Larson, Stu Phillips, Don Peake
Producer/Director: Gino Grimaldi, Gilbert Shilton
Starring: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Patricia McPherson, Peter Parros, Robert Englund, Michael Callan, Antony Ponzini

Of note, this week...

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