A Scare at Bedtime
A Scare at Bedtime
TV ShowReturning Series

A Scare at Bedtime

7.2 / 10
1997
9 seasons
166 episodes
Comedy

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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  • Ep 1

    1.The Quare Fella

    24-11-199710m

    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!

  • Ep 2

    2.Hitch Hiker

    01-12-199710m

    Donny O’Leprosy picks up a beautiful hitch-hiker only to be carjacked in the worst possible way.

  • Ep 3

    3.Lazybones

    08-12-199710m

    Irelands laziest bollix Henry’ The Sleeper’ Madden sleeps over in a spooky house and has a permanent lie-in!

  • Ep 4

    4.The Cravings

    15-12-199710m

    How long will poor Cormac McAnus resist the cravings for the other white meat?

  • Ep 5

    5.Black Xmas

    22-12-199710m

    After downing a crate of stolen Napoleanic brandy, the Fitznobs of Ballywank Manor have a killer hangover – literally!

  • Ep 6

    6.Pullin' Me Leg

    29-12-199710m

    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 Br...

  • Ep 7

    7.Appendix

    05-01-199810m

    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.

  • Ep 8

    8.Sunbed

    12-01-199810m

    Another 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

    19-01-199810m

    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!

  • Ep 10

    10.Tractor of Doom

    26-01-199810m

    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 sup...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Eggtimer

    02-02-199810m

    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 di...

  • Ep 12

    12.Brain Scooper

    09-02-199810m

    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.

  • Ep 13

    13.Waster

    16-02-199810m

    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 co...

  • Ep 14

    14.Vampire Leprechaun

    23-02-199810m

    Never 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

    02-03-199810m

    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...

  • Ep 16

    16.The Stud

    09-03-199810m

    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...

  • Ep 17

    17.Little Green Fellas

    16-03-199810m

    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...

  • Ep 18

    18.Clones

    23-03-199810m

    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.

  • Ep 19

    19.The Wailing

    30-03-199810m

    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...

  • Ep 20

    20.Tropical Diseases

    06-04-199810m

    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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