Wizbit / Odd One Out

Ever keen to test the contemporary legitimacy of old idioms, The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour has noted that while good things may come in small packages, it does not stand to reason that all small packages are good. And there are few things smaller and with more questionable good-ness than the subject of this week's podcast...

In a Daniels-centric outing, Doctor Velvet and Blackout are joined by Ozzy Bognops to cast a critical eye over the seminal children's fantasy series Wizbit, before ramping up the tension with a nail-biting edition of the prime time quiz show Odd One Out.

How many excuses can three people give for watching programmes which really are not aimed at them? How many questions does Michael want to get right before he gives someone else a chance to play the ruddy game? And how many other podcasts do you know that would cover a Paul Daniels double-bill where neither of those is his magic show?

It's fingers on Play Buttons and first to find out wins...

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WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: Wizbit
Broadcast: Weds 13 January 1988, 16:25
Production/Channel: White Magic Productions, BBC One
Writer: Barry Murray
Music: Mike McNaught
Producer/Director: Barry Murray, Phil Bishop
Starring: Paul Daniels, Debbie McGee, Adrian Hedley, Vicky Licorish, Rob Inglis

Programme: Odd One Out
Broadcast: Circa 1983
Production/Channel: Action Time / Ralph Edwards Productions, BBC One
Writer: Howard Huntridge, Neil Shand, Julia Smalley
Music: Ronnie Hazlehurst
Producer/Director: Roger Ordish, John Bishop
Starring: Paul Daniels

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The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour is a free podcast from iPorle Media, which holds production copyright. Opinions and recollections expressed are not to be taken as fact. The title and credit music is by Doctor Velvet, with additional live accompaniments by Ozzy Bognops. Audio segments from television programmes are presented for review and informational purposes only under fair use, and no ownership of these is claimed or implied by this show. Email enquiries to PeggyMountPod@gmail.com

Jigsaw / Terry & June

Doctor Velvet and Blackout are caught on-the-hop and without the best doilies out, as the podcast plays host to an impromptu visitor! Yes, The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour has its first guest of the series in the shape of Mr Ozzy Bognops, all the better to decode the linguistic mysteries of Jigsaw and the middle-class angst of Terry & June.

How many condenser mics could realistically be hired under the budget of a 1970s children's television programme? How long would you be expected to wait at a phonebox when meeting your other half, once you realise there's a BBC film crew ten yards away? And how large is the comedy-connoisseur crossover demographic between the Medfords and The Young Ones?

We're going to need a bigger drinks cabinet...

Ref the pro-level crossover of Ackles & Bream / Ackland & Bream of Purland Way in Carshalton from Terry & June (1979) and The Young Ones (1984): See? We're not making it up...



(and a tip-of-the-hat to daleteague17 on Flickr for also noticing this, confirming our suspicions through a cursory search before we even got the Young Ones DVDs off the shelf)

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The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour is a free podcast from iPorle Media, which holds production copyright. Opinions and recollections expressed are not to be taken as fact. The title and credit music is by Doctor Velvet. Audio segments from television programmes are presented for review and informational purposes only under fair use, and no ownership of these is claimed or implied by this show. Email enquiries to PeggyMountPod@gmail.com