The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour

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 invest...

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 nat...

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? Ju...

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 co...