Farmhouse Kitchen / Bullseye 1987 Christmas Celebrity Special

Well the halls are decked, the porches have been lamped and the back passage is well and truly stuffed, which can mean only one thing: it's time once again for The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour Christmas Special! Yuletide is a time for extravagance of course, when year-end budgets are well and truly blown in the name of celebration and merriment. So naturally, our hosts have found two exceptions.

First up on the roster is a look at what we're all going to be eating on the big day, as Dorothy Sleightholme and Stella Boldy show us round Yorkshire Television's innuendo-laden Farmhouse Kitchen, then it's round to Jim Bowen's for a game of the old arrers with some big names in 1987's Bullseye Christmas Celebrity Special. And if a tea-urn full of warm lager isn't quite your thing, some salted almonds are sure to help the drinks go round...

How contained is Bowen's umbrage at having to actually learn lines for a fully scripted show? How restrained is Sleightholme's fury at having to share her studio with a co-presenter? And how ingrained is the urge of three podcast hosts to scour online marketplaces for every single piece of vintage tie-in merchandise that was ever flogged on-screen?

Press the Play button before someone at Central Television realises nobody is keeping a score, and find out...

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: Farmhouse Kitchen: Preparing For Christmas
Broadcast: Friday 20 October 1978, 13:30
Production/Channel: Yorkshire Television, ITV
Music: Reg Wale
Producer/Director: Mary Watts, Andy Gullen
Starring: Dorothy Sleightholme, Stella Boldy

Programme: Bullseye 1987 Christmas Celebrity Special
Broadcast: Sunday 27 December 1987, 14:45
Production/Channel: Central Television / Chatsworth Television, ITV
Writer: Kate Herbert, W&R Chambers
Music: John Patrick
Producer/Director: Bob Cousins, Richard Bradley
Starring: Jim Bowen, Jan Leeming, Bob Carolgees, Duggie Brown, Geoff Capes, Rusty Lee, Steve Nallon, Jockey Wilson, Eric Bristow, Cliff Lazarenko

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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

Christmas Eve With Val Doonican (1986)

They said it couldn’t be done, but here we are at last - the twelfth day of Pegmas and the final seasonal serving of treasured, televisual treats. As was staunch tradition once upon a telly time, December 24th bestowed upon us the gentlest of light-entertainment repasts in the form of BBC One’s Christmas Eve with Val Doonican from 1986. Messrs Velvet, Blackout and Bognops pull on festive knitwear, a well-pressed slack and get seated ‘pon rocking chairs ready for the musical festivities.

Does every rented luxury property in Maidenhead come with a horse-drawn carriage as the de rigour form of commute? Where can I buy reproduction garments so that I may cos-play Val Doonican? Do we wish you, our devoted listener, the very merriest of Christmases?

Yes, we most certainly do.

Enjoy this final episode of the series (ish) and in particular have a chuckle at the end; it’s crackers.



To note:

Valorous Doonican's Pre-Crinkly Bottom:


The Mustard Gang...


ValDoon is here and he's going to fuck. shit. up...


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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