Ever keen to show willing and set a tentative foot outside of what their therapist tag-team refers to as a 'comfort zone', the hosts of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour bite the bullet and wade into the unmitigated squalor of vintage televisual entertainment, pegs on noses and smelling salts at hand.
The first stop on this week's voyage of absolute judgement is Grange Hill comprehensive, where the curriculum appears to be taking second place to evening-jobs, underage drinking and non-sterile medical facilities (yes, it's THAT episode). Then it's a foray into grotty working life under the auspices of Wilberforce Maynard as The Gaffer, at which point it appears that alienating friends and developing a near-lethal narcotics habit actually had more laughs after all...
How many other podcasts start laying into sitcom continuity before the programme has even started properly? How many other presenters eschew All The Issues to fixate on Greater London bus routes of 30+ years ago and moshing to Status Quo? How many times does one have to Just Say No?
There's one way to find out, and it involves Just Pressing Play...
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Live Into ’85 (the New Year show)
Chas & Dave’s Christmas Knees-Up
Give Us A Clue at Christmas
The Larkins At Christmas
Ghostwatch
Scream! Comic (1984)
Smash Hits (1987)
Eagle Comic (1982)
Star Wars Summer Special (1983)
Look-In (1981)
Heads And Tails/In Company
Ragdolly Anna
BBC Scotland - The New Year Party 1983
All Star Comedy Carnival Christmas 1972
Fresh Fields: A Dickens Of A Christmas
Christmas Record Breakers 1972
The Flumps/Girls On Top
Virtual Murder: A Dream of Dracula
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