The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour

Mar 07 2025 93 ep. 42 mins 36
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Vintage television through a modern (if blurred) lens. Doctor Velvet and Blackout watch the programming from their youth to find out how it holds up...

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Children Of The Stones

Mar 07 2025 58 mins  
With the first stirrings of spring on the breeze, an archive-television reviewer's thoughts naturally turn to fresh air, greenery and neolithic menhirs. A quest for savage nature leads to this episode of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour being 33% outside broadcast, as well as seeing the return of a beloved special guest back in the studio!Yes, ancient rituals, cutting-edge science and

Dead Of Night: The Exorcism

Feb 28 2025 33 mins  
Ever keen to multi-task, The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour's After Dark season is at this point so blasé with unseasonally ticking off items from the Hallowe'en schedule that they've started on the Christmas telly as well. Naturally, ghosts have no real concept of earthly time and so tend to turn up impromptu and behave appallingly. Much like dinner guests...Yes, this week the hoover

40 Minutes: Ghost Train

Feb 21 2025 48 mins  
Creepy cartoons and high-ectoplasm action series are all well and good to satisfy a 21st century lust for arcane entertainment, but sooner or later what's required is actual, verified, hard evidence of the afterlife. And with that in mind, The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour turns - once more - to Auntie Beeb for some documentary fact. This comes packaged in the form of 40 Minutes' Ghost

The Fall Guy

Feb 14 2025 41 mins  
This entire series of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour focuses on the more macabre facets of the magic lantern partly in a bid to help clear the supernatural backlog, and because sometimes a Halloween-themed programme crops up that's just too good to leave until Spooky-Season! (or is just too awful to take that coveted slot in the review-schedule, but let's try to be optimistic) World

Count Duckula

Feb 07 2025 33 mins  
The hosts of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour are well known for chasing the boundaries of terror and for crossing the streams, and tonight's lecture illustrates that just because something appears brightly coloured, that doesn't mean it can't also be steeped in darkness.Yes, the new series' exploratory jaunt into televisual devilry begins in earnest, and what better way to brush asid

New series trailer: Fangface/So Haunt Me

Jan 31 2025 17 mins  
Spring may be round the corner, but it's always winter in our souls! Yes, as most normal people dare to celebrate the evenings getting ever so slowly lighter, The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour draws the heavy brocade curtains, lights a candle or two and reclines further into the misanthropic gloom. It certainly beats going outside, where the real horror lies.In this extended trailer fo

Bruce Forsyth And The Generation Game

Dec 31 2024 54 mins  
As the annual festive battle wears on to decide whether the family will spend this evening watching new spangly Content™ from a surfeit of modern entertainment platforms or the much-loved VHS tape of yuletide specials from yesteryear instead, it is a time of high resolution - it is a time of low resolution - and it is of course time to try and forget about making New Year resolut

Farmhouse Kitchen (1978)/Bullseye Christmas Celebrity Special (1987)

Dec 24 2024 78 mins  
Well the halls are decked, the porches have been lamped and the back passage is well and truly stuffed, which can mean only one thing: it's time once again for The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour Christmas Special! Yuletide is a time for extravagance of course, when year-end budgets are well and truly blown in the name of celebration and merriment. So naturally, our hosts have found two

Murder, She Wrote

Nov 03 2024 43 mins  
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 roo

The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo

Mar 14 2024 25 mins  
Not quite ready to surface from hibernation, The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour ekes out the last of the dark nights by curling up at the fireside with a good book. Well, the hosts welcome a new guest, crack open a bottle or two and watch a version of that book on the telly. Obviously... Coming under subaquatic scrutiny this week is 1975's Canadian animated odyssey, The Undersea Adventu