Murder She Wrote

Ah, the haunting season seems to arrive earlier every year, and what better way to avoid the hustle and bustle of shoppers laden with absinthe, last minute pumpkins and Tripe Trifle™ than to join the hosts of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour as they lean into the dark nights with some terrifying television?

This year's Hallowe’en special is a callback to the podcast's formative roots, as Murder She Wrote's Night Of The Tarantula comes under supernatural scrutiny. Leaving the good folk of Cabot Cove to manage without her for a few days, Jessica Fletcher takes a jaunt down to Jamaica to visit an old friend. But while she's packed the sort of wardrobe that could be used as an Ishihara test, it soon becomes apparent that Jess has forgotten to bring the spider-repellent. And the snake-repellent. Oh, and zombie-repellent…

How many glasses of wine can you get out of a bottle from the duty free at Sangster International airport? How many different accents can you crowbar into a single mansion lived in by one family? And how many lines in the sand has Danny La Rue crossed for Angela Lansbury to dish out this sort of theatrical vitriol?

Press Play before Arnold races out of the door, and find out…

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: Murder She Wrote
Broadcast: Friday 02 November 1990, 20:00
Production/Channel: Universal Television, ITV Network
Writer: Chris Manheim
Music: David Bell, John Addison
Producer/Director: Robert E Swanson, Robert Van Scoyk / Vincent McEveety
Starring: Angela Lansbury, John Rhys-Davies, Shani Wallis, Grand L Bush, Cheryl Arutt, Nancy Valen, Hurd Hatfield, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Patrick Massett, James Lancaster

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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

The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night

Ah, Summer bares its all once again; that golden orb at its zenith heralding the start of Sunburnt Party Season™ where conversation flows like wine and wine flows like a regulation-breaching sewage outlet. Although at The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour, so does the conversation. And so it falls, the propitious gentlemen of The ExtonMoss Experiment podcast have once again thrown open their doors for a visit by Doctor Velvet and Blackout. Naturally once arriving, this latest meeting of minds involves pulling the curtains, uncorking the gin and watching television that's half a century old...

Coming under the new-fangled antique microscope this solsticetide is BBC Two's 1972 one-off Victorian supernatural / inventor / detective drama The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night, a seminal piece of sci-fi TV from Dalek-scribe Terence Nation and starring the redoubtable Robert Hardy, the jocund John Rhys Davies and the inscrutable James Cossins.

When is the United Kingdom's fledgling rail network going to connect with the isolated 400m stretch of privately-owned track to which Baldick so proudly lays claim? When will our hero's servant-folk get tired of blindly doing a billionaire's bidding and tell him to go dig the hole himself? And when will the wine react with the cork and go bad?

Find out by pressing the PLAY button on this mysterious, unearthed device that's up to the eyes in clarts...

The ExtonMoss Experiment · Episode 112: The Incredible Robert Baldick

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night
Broadcast: Mon 02 October 1972, 21:25
Production/Channel: BBC Two
Writer: Terry Nation
Music: Anthony Isaac
Producer/Director: Anthony Coburn, Cyril Coke
Starring: Robert Hardy, John Rhys Davies, Julian Holloway, Reginald Marsh, James Cossins, Barry Andrews, Ron Welling, Dave Mobley, Paul Humpoletz

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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