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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Fangface / So Haunt Me

Spring may be round the corner, but it's always winter in our souls! Yes, as most normal people dare to celebrate the evenings getting ever so slowly lighter, The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour draws the heavy brocade curtains, lights a candle or two and reclines further into the misanthropic gloom. It certainly beats going outside, where the real horror lies.

In this extended trailer for their NEW SUPERNATURAL SERIES, Messrs Velvet, Blackout and Bognops move the glass of nostalgic criticism over the animated lycanthropic-farce Fangface, and try to make contact with BBC1's 1992 sitcom So Haunt Me. If there really *is* somebody there, all will be revealed After Dark...

How many stars of Capcom had a Before-They-Were-Famous career at Ruby-Spears? How many online auctions of original animation-cells would you have to win before you become the rights-holder of a cartoon? And how many sitcom-dads does it take sitting round the table until they can see the ghost?

Watch agog as an unseen spectral hand presses the Play button, and find out...

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: Fangface
Broadcast: Saturday 05 April 1980, 09:40
Production/Channel: Ruby-Spears/ABC, ITV
Writer: Norman Maurer, Mark Jones, Cliff Ruby & Elana Lesser
Music: Dean Elliott
Producer/Director: Jerry Eisenberg, Rudy Larriva
Starring: Frank Welker, Susan Blu, Bart Braverman, Jerry Dexter

Programme: So Haunt Me
Broadcast: Sunday 23 February 1992, 20:35
Production/Channel: Cinema Verity, BBC One
Writer: Paul Mendelson
Music: Rolfe Kent
Producer/Director: Caroline Gold / Verity Lambert, John Stroud
Starring: Miriam Karlin, Tessa Peake-Jones, George Costigan, Laura Simmons, Jeremy Green, Cheryl Hall

To note, this week...

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The Transformers / The Larkins

It's early mornings and late nights this week on The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour, as our hosts test the theory that the greatest things arrive at either end of a day's scheduling.

The first stop on today's televisual trek comes hiding in plain sight, as TVAM's premiere episode of The Transformers 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 The Larkins?

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?

If you're absolutely sure your electronic device is really what it purports to be, then go ahead and press Play to find out...

You can download a special sheet to print out then safely collate your Peggy Mount Calamity Hour Quiz answers each week, here.:

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: The Transformers
Broadcast: '1985'
Production/Channel: Marvel / Sunbow / Toei Animation, ITV
Writer: George Arthur Bloom, Henry Orenstein
Music: Johnny Douglas
Producer/Director: Nelson Shin, John Gibbs
Starring: Peter Cullen, Corey Burton, Scatman Crothers, Christopher Collins, Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Frank Welker, John Stephenson

Programme: The Larkins
Broadcast: Friday 19 September 1958, 22:15
Production/Channel: Associated Television, ITV
Writer: Fred Robinson
Music: Jackie Brown
Producer/Director: Bill Ward
Starring: Peggy Mount, David Kossoff, Ronan O'Casey, Frank Williams, Shaun O'Riordan, Ruth Trouncer

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The Real Ghostbusters / In Loving Memory

It may be warm outside, but the ever-present, preternatural chill in the heart of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour means that even the sunniest months are spent in gleeful contemplation of spooky televisual scheduling. And while Doctor Velvet and Blackout don't engage Full Pumpkin Mode™ just yet, they're still on the blower to a pair of organisations that can help potential patrons deftly dispose of the dead...

Grudgingly lifting the receiver through spent bubblegum and sarcasm is the very first episode of 1986 animated series The Real Ghostbusters, where the title's adjective is every bit as spurious as its proper noun. Next up it's morbid introspection of a far gentler pace, as Thora Hird and Christopher Beeny undertake to bring us all some antiquated laughs In Loving Memory.

Has there ever been a clearer case of buyer's remorse than DIC Enterprises winning the contract to adapt one of the most successful movies of all time to animation? Has there ever been a more bitter works-do than a pan-county gathering of rival organisations who all know how to quietly get rid of a body? And has there ever been a greater disparity of Pegs On The Line between the first and second halves of this podcast?

Figure out who you're gonna call and hit that button...

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WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: The Real Ghostbusters
Broadcast: Circa 1988, CiTV
Production/Channel: DIC Enterprises, ITV
Writer: Len Janson, Chuck Menville
Music: Shuki Levy, Haim Saban
Director: RIchard Raynis
Starring: Ron Masak, Arsenio Hall, Lorenzo Music, Maurice LaMarche, Frank Welker, Laura Summer

Programme: In Loving Memory
Broadcast: Monday 20 October 1980, 20:00
Production/Channel: Yorkshire Television, ITV
Writer: Dick Sharples
Music: Herbert Chappell, Alan Parker
Producer/Director: Ronnie Baxter
Starring: Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny, Derek Benfield, Liz Smith, Elisabeth Sladen

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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