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...
Mad Monster Party
Liz Dawn’s House Party
The Trap Door/Name That Tune
Transformers/The Larkins
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop/CHiPs
Press Gang/Gambit
The Real Ghostbusters/In Loving Memory
Wizbit/Odd One Out
First Class/Dempsey & Makepeace
Super Gran/George & The Dragon
Star Wars: Droids/Starsky & Hutch
New series trailer: The Moomins/My Husband And I/Science Workshop
The Return Of Captain Invincible
The Boys In Blue
Condorman
Popeye
The Spaceman And King Arthur
Take The High Road/Family Fortunes Hogmanay Special
Ludwig/Christmas Night With The Stars
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