The Moomins / My Husband And I / Science Workshop

Yes, the sun is blazing and fun is being had, which means it must be time once again for our intrepid heroes to close the curtains, open some bottles and spend what is arguably the best part of the year huddled indoors furiously scribbling notes at the idiot's lantern about programmes that normal people watched three or four decades ago then promptly forgot.

In this trailer for the exciting NEW SERIES of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour, normal televisual service is resumed as Doctor Velvet and Blackout nurse a crushing hangover with The Moomins, pop over for drinks with My Husband And I, and invite Ozzy Bognops round to test the very nature of reality in the Science Workshop.

What is the Scandinavian for "a double alka seltzer, two hot dogs and back to bed for an hour while you STOP playing that flute"? Who has the right - or the might - to pick up Alan White's gauntlet of going round shops to perform impromptu audits on their scales? And how do we still not have day-jobs that involve necking Sherry with Mollie Sudgen in her office at 3pm?

The answers lie shortly after pressing that Play button...

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: The Moomins
Broadcast: Monday 24 January, 1983
Production/Channel: Semaphore / Jupiter Film / FilmFair, BBC One
Writer: Lucjan Dembinski, Maria Kossakowska, Tove Jansson, Anne Wood
Music: Graeme Miller, Steve Shill
Director: Lucjan Dembinski
Starring: Richard Murdoch (voice)

Programme: My Husband And I
Broadcast: Friday 09 January, 1987
Production/Channel: Yorkshire Television, ITV
Writer: Pam Valentine, Michael Ashton
Producer/Director: Graham Wetherell
Starring: Mollie Sugden, William Moore, Deddie Davies, Carol Hawkins

Programme: Science Workshop
Broadcast: Wednesday 18 January, 1984
Production/Channel: BBC Schools
Writer: Eurfron Jones
Producer/Director: Michael Coyle
Starring: David Hargreaves, Lilian Evans, Malcolm McFee

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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

Chorlton And The Wheelies / Are You Being Served?

Join us for a between-the-series bonus episode of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour, where teleportational trauma and practical menswear meet in a head-on collision. The social awareness of naive dragons and over-promoted store clerks is analysed under test conditions, as Doctor Velvet and Blackout pore over the first episode of Chorlton And The Wheelies, as well as a Series 4 outing from Are You Being Served?

How many times can a piece of music homage itself before creating a vortex? Which of our hosts would happily play a twelve hour game of hide-and-seek in an arena where a terrifying witch could pop out of thin air at any given moment? And what kind of school fails to give teenagers a fundamental grasp of double entendres?

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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

Think Of A Number / That's My Boy

This week’s retrospective televisual constitutional adopts a scholastic and erudite resonance as Doctor Velvet and Blackout commingle with the tawny and tangerine studio set of BBC Television’s Think Of A Number. Once comfortable, all manner of scientific and mathematical remonstrance are thrust their way courtesy of Mr Johnny (erstwhile Graham Thalben) Ball Esquire. Cerebral exertion completed, a comforting slice of 1980s domesticity is served by the wondrous talent that is Ms Mollie Sugden in That’s My Boy.

Will Mr Ball ever return to the Television Centre to record the episode about cryogenics that Blackout truly desires? Should the Hover-Chair(s) become a sanctioned item of furniture in the home of today? Can a successful title sequence be produced from PVA glue and blue card? Which malediction falls from a character’s mouth and created a memory lasting some thirty-seven years?

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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