Swap Shop / CHiPs

The heat is on as the weekend arrives for The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour at long last, and what better way to burst into the best two days than with some high-sugar cereal, high-profile casting and high-energy televisual nonsense?

Our hosts find themselves huddling around the gogglebox for the grand finalé of BBC's Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, following which there's just enough time to strap on eight wheels and fire up the funk to become an absolute health-and-safety liability for the grand finalé of the CHiPs's Roller Disco evening...

What does it say about children's British live TV programming that there's not a single guest in Television Centre under the age of 40, apart from the one boy that usually hangs around outside? What does it say about American policing that two people on high-powered motorcycles can't catch three people on roller skates but one person in a car can, and she wasn't even trying? And what does it say about impressionability that Doctor Velvet and Blackout are now actively considering buying Heelys?

Join the party, press Play and find out...

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WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: Swap Shop
Broadcast: Saturday 27 March 1982, 09:30
Production/Channel: BBC One
Music: B.A. Robertson
Producer: Chris Bellinger
Starring: Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin, Maggie Philbin, John Craven, Delia Smith, Barry Took, David Bellamy

Programme: CHiPs
Broadcast: Saturday 10 May 1980, 18:30
Production/Channel: MGM / NBC, ITV
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
Music: Alan Silvestri
Producer/Director: Cy Chermak / Don Weis
Starring: Erik Estrada, Larry Wilcox, Robert Pine, Fred Williamson, Leif Garrett

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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 ----- Labels: Peggy Mount, Swap Shop, CHiPs, Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin, Maggie Philbin, John Craven, Delia Smith, Barry Took, David Bellamy, Erik Estrada, Larry Wilcox, Robert Pine, Fred Williamson, Leif Garrett

1982: Screen Test / Tomorrow's World

If there are two things that The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour strives to champion at every turn, it's a) picking apart needless detail in things we've just watched, and b) The Future™. Their booze-fuelled discourse elevated once again by the magnificent Ozzy Bognops, our plucky protagonists wade bottle-opener-first into both...

This week it's 1982, where powers of observation, recall and generally giving a single cinematic fig are stretched to their very limits under the auspices of Brian Trueman and his Screen Test. Then, after tea, it's time to sit back down and be left utterly agog at the miraculous inventions and advancements which await our society in Tomorrow's World.

Is Trueman's fragile mortal shell about to be torn asunder by the God-like power he wields over his contestants? Are radio-telephones really going to become all of the rage outside of That London? And is there any greater tonic in these troubled times for the middle-aged man than Maggie Philbin in a pink jumpsuit?

These secrets lie herein...

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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