

A Scare at Bedtime
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.
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Podge & Rodge: A Scare At Bedtime Season 1
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Quare Fella
24-11-199710mDamien Mc Arsagone boasts how he had often outwitted the Devil, but he soon shuts up after a dance with a mysterious cloven hoofed girl!
- Ep 2
2.Hitch Hiker
01-12-199710mDonny O’Leprosy picks up a beautiful hitch-hiker only to be carjacked in the worst possible way.
- Ep 3
3.Lazybones
08-12-199710mIrelands laziest bollix Henry’ The Sleeper’ Madden sleeps over in a spooky house and has a permanent lie-in!
- Ep 4
4.The Cravings
15-12-199710mHow long will poor Cormac McAnus resist the cravings for the other white meat?
- Ep 5
5.Black Xmas
22-12-199710mAfter downing a crate of stolen Napoleanic brandy, the Fitznobs of Ballywank Manor have a killer hangover – literally!
- Ep 6
6.Pullin' Me Leg
29-12-199710mIn 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 Br...
- Ep 7
7.Appendix
05-01-199810mA 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.
- Ep 8
8.Sunbed
12-01-199810mAnother terrible tale of caution as Fionnula Fitzgiblet takes one sunbed treatment too many and ends up a ‘fried-maid’ instead of bridesmaid!
- Ep 9
9.Lovers Peak
19-01-199810mIn 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!
- Ep 10
10.Tractor of Doom
26-01-199810mWhen 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 sup...
- Ep 11
11.The Eggtimer
02-02-199810mOxter 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 di...
- Ep 12
12.Brain Scooper
09-02-199810mThe 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.
- Ep 13
13.Waster
16-02-199810mRuari 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 co...
- Ep 14
14.Vampire Leprechaun
23-02-199810mNever get involved with a married woman. Especially when she’s the zombie bride of Irelands only Vampire Leprechaun Seamus Shenangan.
- Ep 15
15.The Golden Arse
02-03-199810mIreland’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...
- Ep 16
16.The Stud
09-03-199810mPony 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...
- Ep 17
17.Little Green Fellas
16-03-199810mThe 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...
- Ep 18
18.Clones
23-03-199810mScience 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.
- Ep 19
19.The Wailing
30-03-199810mAnal 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...
- Ep 20
20.Tropical Diseases
06-04-199810mPodge & 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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