The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour

Runaround/Family Fortunes

The energetic arrival of our eponymous hosts Doctor Velvet and Blackout is heralded this week amidst chaotic, trauma inducing cacophony, extraneous luminosity and (to adopt the apt regional parlance), some bang-on Callard and Bowsers, courtesy of Mr Michael Reid and his Runaround programme. After enjoying a harmonious recital by pop quartet The Jags, we move swiftly onward to prime time entertainment that tests the genius of the genes where the Killeen and Price families contend with each other in the inaugural episode of Family Fortunes hosted by Mr Robert Monkhouse O.B.E.

Have you ever wanted to learn about the mechanical intricacies of a three-wheeled Lambretta fire engine? Or perhaps you’ve wished to immerse yourself in the subtle nuances of silhouette portrait creation? What dish is associated with Spain? Why don’t ATV acknowledge the geographical existence of Welsh towns? Listen on, and see what our survey said…

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

Dramarama/Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World

Fear (feer)

noun

1 a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.

2 a specific instance of or propensity for such a feeling.

 

The demarcation of the aforementioned is the selected substratum for this week’s episode as Doctor Velvet and Blackout self-immerse and wallow in an ambience of foreboding and trepidation. The inaugural tentative steps begin amidst the bleak and exposed tableau of Romney Marsh following the supposedly-innocent day of schoolboy Peter in Dramarama’s ‘Snap’ before adopting a more global and ambulatory line of enquiry, throwing them headlong into the incongruous and skeptical climate of Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World.

 

Are we being watched? What is the socially accepted sine qua non for a 'too-wet mouth’? Could a Smogule™, worn with sky-blue slacks, become the sartorial de rigueur for Summer? Grab a polaroid camera, a crystal Mitchell-Hedges skull and stride on to find out…

 

 

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. For more information, email PeggyMountPod@gmail.com

Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends/Slinger's Day

In this week's friendly, neighbourhood episode we find Messrs Velvet and Blackout ambling in the aisles whilst speculating on the sartorial protocols of a University costume party in Upper State New York, and the flaws and truisms of a decidedly languorous machiavellian scheme pitted against Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. After a tentative rummage through the 'Bargain Bin', the topic turns to riotous retail mirth in the form of 80s supermarket sitcom Slinger's Day which is thoroughly checked-out.

 

Could a thirty-something Peter Parker web Slinger? Should a thirty-something Peter Parker web Slinger? Is Vicky Licorish as sweet as she sounds? More importantly, can Blackout locate a quality item of sitcom nostalgia? Onward...

 

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. For more information, email: peggymountpod@gmail.com

Jonny Briggs/Dick Turpin

The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour comes perilously close to living up to its doomful nomenclature as 'one' half of the presenting duo (no names) takes against an innocent, well-meaning 1980s children's programme with a gusto normally reserved for the news cycle of the 21st century. The esteemed company of Master Jonathan Briggs is closely followed by that of Mr Richard Turpin Esq, who naturally comes in for similar grumbling scrutiny. There is no pleasing some people (in this case, one person: NO NAMES).

Does a deliberately understated fashion accessory make Briggs the subconscious precursor to one William Elliot?  Did we ALL have 'those people' in our class who would get away with murder when the teacher wasn't looking? And what is the correct amount of red wine for a 6yr old to be aspiring to drink of an evening?

Let's find out...

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

Jigsaw/Terry & June

Doctor Velvet and Blackout are caught on-the-hop and without the best doilies out, as the podcast plays host to an impromptu visitor! Yes, The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour has its first guest of the series in the shape of Mr Ozzy Bognops, all the better to decode the linguistic mysteries of Jigsaw and the middle-class angst of Terry & June.

How many condenser mics could realistically be hired under the budget of a 1970s children's television programme? How long would you be expected to wait at a phonebox when meeting your other half, once you realise there's a BBC film crew ten yards away? And how large is the comedy-connoisseur crossover demographic between the Medfords and The Young Ones?

We're going to need a bigger drinks cabinet...

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

Gran/Matt Houston

Taking a stroll down a country lane we're greeted by Doctor Velvet and Blackout sitting in the 'Garden of Remembering', surrounded by random, rickety pieces of wood and copious lengths of twine. As a trusty tartan Thermos is unscrewed, musings turn to the tranquil daily motions of Gran before basking in the Texan heat to deliberate the covert, law-enforcing activities of billionaire private investigator Matt Houston. 

Will the be-spectacled reminiscences be tainted with the same shade of rose that adorns the coiffure of our titular septuagenarian? Can a blatant replicant of Mr Thomas William Selleck be sufficient to sway loyalty from a Hawaiian lei to a stetson and a Cuban heel? Immerse yourself in such irrelevant inquisition, and all will be revealed...

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. For more information, visit http://www.peggymountpod.com

Mork and Mindy The Animated Series/Blankety Blank

Nostalgia proves as fickle a mistress as ever, with Doctor Velvet and Blackout looking back over the television of their youth. A quick jaunt across the pond drops in on everyone's favourite alien with the Mork & Mindy animated show, while back on home turf Sir Terence Wogan is king of the ruddy castle in Blankety Blank.

Is a cartoon spinoff of a live-action show which already petered past its natural conclusion ever a good idea? Who has the temerity to upstage the understated magnificence of Derek Griffiths? And what were they putting in the gin at the Television Centre green room?

There's only one way to find out...

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. For more information, visit http://www.peggymountpod.com

Rentaghost/You’re Only Young Twice

In the opening episode of the new series, Doctor Velvet and Blackout fittingly dust off inaugural episodes of Rentaghost and You’re Only Young Twice, and place them neatly on the parlour table ready for discussion.

Will the systematic postmortem and subsequent dissolution of a theme tune be successfully cathartical to Blackout? As an infant, who had a pathological fear of shouting, stout women? Just who is Ronnie Cobain and why does he have such a penchant for his trusty platignum? Listening to this episode may provide some answers. 

 

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. For more information, visit http://www.peggymountpod.com

New series trailer: Pipkins / Jossy’s Giants / The Krypton Factor

In this prelude to the new series, we listen to the highlights of Doctor Velvet and Blackout's retrospective glance at Pipkins, Jossy's Giants and a 1984 episode of The Krypton Factor.

Who's in charge of the naming system down at Pipkins' puppet-workshop? Why does Scarborough look so foggy that they may as well have used Brigadoon as a filming location? And what happened to Jenny in the assault course? We may just find out*.

 

(*we won't)

 

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. For more information, visit http://www.peggymountpod.com