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Count Duckula: A Christmas Quacker
Manage episode 455412826 series 1931255
🎄It’s 1990, and Santa’s lost in my confusing network of chimneys.
Prepare yourself for a more silly than spooky Christmas special that takes us from Castle Duckula to a concussion-induced space adventure and back.
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🎙 Guest:
Adam Parker Sibun (Merry Britsmas)
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. “A Christmas Quacker” on the Internet Archive (it’s mislabeled as another episode).
2. Nick Knacks on “Count Duckula.”
3. Count Duckula’s first appearance on “Danger Mouse.”
4. UK Christmas TV, an extensive archive of Christmas TV listings for the UK’s main channels.
5. Jack May (Igor) was the original English voice of Muzzy.
6. The Odd Case of Dennis the Menace: 2 separate comic strip characters with the same name debuting on the same day on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
7. Return to the Turducken Hunger Games.
8. The daydream scene in “Sidekicks.”
9. Mike Oldfield’s “In Dulci Jubilo.”
10. Today’s TV Trope: Blunder-Correcting Impulse.
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📼 Commercial Break:
Shreddies Cereal: Count Duckula Adventure Scratch & Win Game (1989)
Muzzy (circa 1989)
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“Count Duckula” and “A Christmas Quacker” © 1990 Carleton Productions.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
170 Episoden
Manage episode 455412826 series 1931255
🎄It’s 1990, and Santa’s lost in my confusing network of chimneys.
Prepare yourself for a more silly than spooky Christmas special that takes us from Castle Duckula to a concussion-induced space adventure and back.
****
🎙 Guest:
Adam Parker Sibun (Merry Britsmas)
****
💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. “A Christmas Quacker” on the Internet Archive (it’s mislabeled as another episode).
2. Nick Knacks on “Count Duckula.”
3. Count Duckula’s first appearance on “Danger Mouse.”
4. UK Christmas TV, an extensive archive of Christmas TV listings for the UK’s main channels.
5. Jack May (Igor) was the original English voice of Muzzy.
6. The Odd Case of Dennis the Menace: 2 separate comic strip characters with the same name debuting on the same day on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
7. Return to the Turducken Hunger Games.
8. The daydream scene in “Sidekicks.”
9. Mike Oldfield’s “In Dulci Jubilo.”
10. Today’s TV Trope: Blunder-Correcting Impulse.
****
📼 Commercial Break:
Shreddies Cereal: Count Duckula Adventure Scratch & Win Game (1989)
Muzzy (circa 1989)
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“Count Duckula” and “A Christmas Quacker” © 1990 Carleton Productions.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
170 Episoden
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