It's New Year's Eve at Mountpeg Towers, with messrs Velvet, Blackout and Bognops huddled round the Peggy Mount Calamity Hour drinks trolley making vague plans for the future whilst ruminating (as usual) on the past and scrawling optimistic lists of unrealistic resolutions. "Let's never do this again" warbled Mr Hussey famously, and he wasn't even reacting to being a guest on tonight's cavalcade of unleashed Showbusiness®... Yes it's off to BBC Television Centre we lurch, bottles in hand, to witness an iconic British entertainer with decades of experience being given his very own Prime Time Variety™ show in one of the year's most prestigious broadcast slots. A triumphant moment such as this should of course be seared into the cultural memory of a nation, which is why - we're sure - that after Big Ben has chimed to countless toasts, conversation across the land quickly turns to the very first 1982 pilot-instalment of The Keith Harris Show. Is it cheaper if one of the acts is married to the presenter? Is it cheaper if two of the acts are operated by the presenter? Look, there was clearly some sort of production budget here and it didn't make it to the stage, where did that money go..? Catch the Play button as you're falling off that diving board, and find out... (If you'd like to join in the New Year countdown with The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour, start this episode on Dec 31st at 23:03:40) 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 accompaniments from 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

Ho-ho-holy snowballs, is it that time already? Yes, with the cheese and scotch advent calendars already suspiciously demolished, it's open house and time for the Peggy Mount Calamity Hour Christmas Special! Crackers will be pulled, bottles will be emptied, and two entertainment gems from the past will be lovingly dissected... Professor Lionel Ziggy Zucho pops round for the first grinding of the festive conveyor belt with 1984's The Box Of Delights, which evoked days long gone even upon its first broadcast. Then that sepia glow is retained for a visit from Ozzy Bognops and a huddle round the radiogram for The Festive Jottings Of Hinge and Bracket, bringing with them as they do a VERY special guest star. Will young Kay Harker ever be magicked to a land where working-class people exist? Will footage ever be recovered of Patrick Moore and Deryck Guyler percussioning in the middle of an ice rink in a provincial leisure centre? And will Turkish Delight Vodka curdle the buttered-eggs? Sift through that discarded wrapping paper for the hastily-ignored instruction leaflet on how to press the Play button, and 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

Ah, the sound of hooves clopping across the rooftops and a smell of pumpkins and absinthe left out for Father Samhain can mean only one thing: it is truly the most woe-nderful time of the year! The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour’s Halloween Special reaches once more into the casket for only the finest knitwear, slacks and bejewelled shawls, because here we dress for dinner... Our hosts begin by venturing - as is so oft the case – off down the old pub, where a Voice From The Gallows ensures the spirits they find aren’t just restricted to Harry Hewart’s decanter collection. Following these rather alarming events, a check-in at a luxury country spa retreat is called for, with the charming if rather eccentric regulars keeping the gin cooled down at The Ice House. How many eggs does someone have to smash before you realise that RightMove summary may not have been entirely transparent about the history of this house? How many phallic symbols have to be smeared on your bedroom window before you realise that TripAdvisor review may not have been entirely representative of this hotel? And how many times to we have to petition LWT for a Diamond Lady spin-off sitcom? Gently press the Play button with a croquet mallet and/or mell hammer, and 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, with additional accompaniments from 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