A Scare at Bedtime (1997)
Synopsis
A Scare at Bedtime was an Irish television show, produced by Double Z Enterprises and broadcast by RTÉ, featuring the two puppets Podge and Rodge as the hosts of a spooky tales and urban myths comedy show. It ran from 1997 until January 2006.
First Air Date: 1997-11-24
Last Air Date: 2006-01-06
Number of Seasons: 9
Number of Episodes: 166
Created By: Ciaran Morrison, Mick O'Hara
Networks: RTÉ2
Top Cast
- Mick O'Hara as Podge
- Ciaran Morrison as Rodge
- Stephen Rea as N/A
- Des Bishop as N/A
- P.J. Gallagher as N/A
- Gerry Ryan as N/A
Seasons
None (1997)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: The Quare Fella
Damien Mc Arsagone boasts how he had often outwitted the Devil, but he soon shuts up after a dance with a mysterious cloven hoofed girl!
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Ep. 2: Hitch Hiker
Donny O’Leprosy picks up a beautiful hitch-hiker only to be carjacked in the worst possible way.
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Ep. 3: Lazybones
Irelands laziest bollix Henry’ The Sleeper’ Madden sleeps over in a spooky house and has a permanent lie-in!
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Ep. 4: The Cravings
How long will poor Cormac McAnus resist the cravings for the other white meat?
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Ep. 5: Black Xmas
After downing a crate of stolen Napoleanic brandy, the Fitznobs of Ballywank Manor have a killer hangover – literally!
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Ep. 6: Pullin' Me Leg
In 1880 Oliver Feeley from Two–Mile-Hole visits his sister up in Dublin, but after a case of mistaken identity he ends up another victim of the notorious street justice of Judge Breakneck.
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Ep. 7: Appendix
A routine operation to remove his appendix turns into a nightmare for poor Donny Gussit, who loses more than he bargained for at the hands of an unscrupulous surgeon.
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Ep. 8: Sunbed
Another terrible tale of caution as Fionnula Fitzgiblet takes one sunbed treatment too many and ends up a ‘fried-maid’ instead of bridesmaid!
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Ep. 9: Lovers Peak
In this classic urban myth young lusty lovers Jack Morples and Mary Stenkirt drive to the secluded Lover’s Peak, where instead of making-out they meet-their-maker!
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Ep. 10: Tractor of Doom
When young man Toolin inherits his Father’s farmland, he tries to sell it. There are no takers as the locals warn that the field is sacred burial ground. Toolin laughs at their superstitious ways but that’s before he has a run-in with The Tractor of Doom.
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Ep. 11: The Eggtimer
Oxter McLaughlin treats his daughter Delores like a slave, she has to boil his eggs every day for exactly three minutes, no more, no less. But things reach boiling point when he discovers that Delores has fallen in love with a young librarian.
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Ep. 12: Brain Scooper
The town of Butt Crack, West Virginia is home to The Finkle family, but Papa Finkle has very strange ideas on how to literally ‘feed knowledge’ to his only son Jeffery.
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Ep. 13: Waster
Ruari O’Pluracy sits on his hairy hole day in, day out ever since his Father died whilst his Mother works to bone to put food on the table. And when his Mother passes away Ruari couldn't care less, that is until the priest comes to visit.
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Ep. 14: Vampire Leprechaun
Never get involved with a married woman. Especially when she’s the zombie bride of Irelands only Vampire Leprechaun Seamus Shenangan.
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Ep. 15: The Golden Arse
Ireland’s very own Indiana Jones; Pronsious Ni Crotch sets off for the lost Inca village of Licky Bumbum in search of the legendary ‘Golden Arse.’ But he’s in for a whole ‘pile’ of trouble once he moves the relic from its sacred site.
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Ep. 16: The Stud
Pony Mahony is the ultimate ladies man, but when he sets his eyes on the new beauty in town who questions his masculinity he decides on some plastic surgery. After the operation he’s even cockier than he was before!
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Ep. 17: Little Green Fellas
The 1965 the Earth’s doom was set by Finbar O’Pubicon who sold cow manure to a bunch of aliens who told him they needed the dung to grow plants on their dying planet, but they were planning on using it to fuel their battleships for an imminent invasion.
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Ep. 18: Clones
Science Fiction meets science fact in this futuristic tale of a hapless clone RX-75 who constantly dreams of one day leaving the cloning facility and living in the real world.
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Ep. 19: The Wailing
Anal Boyle is haunted by the blood curdling wail of the banshee that signalled the death of both his parents and when it follows him back to New York he is determined to put an end to the curse once and for all.
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Ep. 20: Tropical Diseases
Podge & Rodge’s alter-ego’s Fester & Ailin’ make their musical debut on Ballydung Radio with the video for their song about the dangerous of foreign travel.
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