Heads And Tails / In Company

Finally 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 The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour are not young men, of course. They are resolutely (and perennially) middle-aged, and so their jaded thoughts are of mowing the lawn, if they must. Which, naturally, means going In The Shed.

That's right dear listener, this outing is another in the ongoing series of Shed Sessions 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' Heads And Tails, 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 In Company...

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?

B.like C.Laine, get immediately down to business and find out...

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: Heads And Tails
Broadcast: Fri 01 June 1979, 13:30
Production/Channel: BBC One
Researcher: Anne Denehy
Music: Derek Griffiths
Producer: Michael Cole
Starring: Derek Griffiths, Sheep, Dogs, Pigs.

Programme: In Company
Broadcast: Tue 20 December 1975, 21:30
Production/Channel: BBC Two
Music: Cleo Laine, Jonny Dankworth
Producer: Don Sayer
Starring: Cleo Laine, Jonny Dankworth, Sheila Hankcock, John Thaw

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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

Bod / The Good Old Days

In this euphonious and mellifluous episode, Doctor Velvet and Blackout are joined once again by the estimable Oswald Bognops to partake of repartee a la television vintage. Rural yet congenial hospitality is the order of the day as our ‘wholly' trinity of annotators sample the delights of country living, courtesy of Bod and his mates, who’ve decided to open a rooming house of sorts ‘pon arable farmland. To follow, entertainment is prolific at the local music hall where The Good Old Days ensure a munificent and magnanimous musical meandering through the multitude of moldings made for the variety stage of yesteryear.

Just what is Aunt Flo doing? Are the bucolic yet polemical outdoor activities of Bod’s posse as wanton as semi-inebriated, under-graduate humour would infer? Did Maggie Henderson only work Saturdays? Does Ozzy Bognops drag his pianoforte to every social occasion? Could this be the last show in the current series? And once again…just what is Aunt Flo doing?

The answers are all in this specially-extended bumper issue!

To note...
Today's performance is brought to you by the Eternia National Ballet...



...and by someone our legal team has asked us to say is not in any way Mr. Noel Fielding Snr.



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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

Mork & Mindy (animated) / Blankety Blank

Nostalgia proves as fickle a mistress as ever, with Doctor Velvet and Blackout looking back over the television of their youth. A quick jaunt across the pond drops in on everyone's favourite alien with the Mork & Mindy animated show, while back on home turf Sir Terence Wogan is king of the ruddy castle in Blankety Blank.

Is a cartoon spinoff of a live-action show which already petered past its natural conclusion ever a good idea? Who has the temerity to upstage the understated magnificence of Derek Griffiths? And what were they putting in the gin at the Television Centre green room?

There's only one way to find out...

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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