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On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes watched Triangle, the BBC's North Sea ferry-based soap opera that was one of Auntie's most high profile disasters. It's a programme so glacially-paced, stupid and confusing that both Edward and Ian watched a second episode independently in the vain hope that they might find out what was going on. Edward has deep misgivings about the food while Ian offers a measured critique of Kate O'Mara's "system" at the roulette table. But if there's something they could both agree on, it's boobs. Everybody likes boobs. If you'd like to see Triangle, you can watch it here. 

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On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian have been watching the BBC veterinary comedy-drama series All Creatures Great and Small. It's a programme with which Edward was already familiar but that Ian has never seen. Although he has seen Call The Midwife, which is in many ways very similar. Your heroes discuss the myriad design flaws with livestock, are disappointed by the contents of a tortoise and reminisce about a man Ian once knew who had an unfortunate and final encounter with a horse.

But ultimately, all you're still here for is the arm up a cow's backside which is of course is discussed at length. Pretty much arm's length, in fact. If you'd like to watch All Creatures Great and Small, you can find it here. 

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On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes get their glad rags on for the 1979 EMI World Disco Dancin' Championships. There's much discussion to be had about whether or not disco sucks (it doesn't) and what the alternative might have been, which brings a sobering conclusion. Racism is, once again, roundly criticised after a particularly unfortunate interview with a blameless Japanese dancing superstar, the dreamscape is explored and Ian rejoices to discover the identity of the competition's overall winner.

However, intrigue and tribulation awaits when Edward reveals his choice for next week's podcast. It's safe to say half of our panel were significantly underwhelmed. You can watch the 1979 Disco Dancin' Championships on YouTube here.

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This week's This Is Our Everest sees your heroes visit the 1980 ITV horror anthology series Hammer House of Horror. Ian has a number of issues with horror, probably caused by his baffling insistence on living relentlessly in the real world. Edward - a gibbering, credulous buffoon - is, on the other hand, predictably quite a fan. They work their way through a number of paranormal and supernatural occurences with a critical eye, touching on the existence (or otherwise) of poltergeists and cryptozoological phenomena on the way. Are they real? Opinion is, predictably, divided.

As if that wasn't already more than enough entertainment, all of a sudden Ian revolutionises proceedings by dropping a new feature in on the fly. What could be better? If you answered, "the re-emergence of a damn-near completely inexplicable 15-year old private joke", then you're most definitely in luck. You can watch a house bleeding to death here. If you enjoy this podcast and would like to support us, you can do so via Patreon.

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This Is Our Everest returns today, albeit as a far more sensible weekly edition, with Edward and Ian getting their RDA of The Price Is Right. Your heroes - one in particular - are both connoisseurs of the American programme, so how are they going to respond to the first edition of the Leslie Crowther-fronted UK series from March 1984? Pretty much as you'd expect, to be honest. In this bumper, seaside special, episode there's a gimlet eye run over the prizes on offer, endless talk of deep conspiracies and a rare mention of Carl Lewis.

The parsimony of the British race is given a kicking and, as always, there's a history lesson with regard to ITV regional franchises. It's what you are all here for, let's face it. If you'd like to see Leslie Crowther run wild for yourselves, you can find the episode here.

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The final door of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar inevitably reveals the terrifying spectacle of Fanny Cradock Cooks For Christmas. Our heroes both watch this monstrosity every Christmas regardless and it doesn't disappoint. There are thoughts on hygienic food preparation, painting pissy leaves with melted chocolate and the best way to mix a Christmas cake.

But really, you're all here for the same reason that we were: so settle down with a glass of something green, pop some mushrooms under your skin and crack open three dozen eggs as Edward and Ian do their best to convey the mighty mincemeat omlette in audio form. If you'd like to see it for yourselves, you can watch Fanny on YouTube here. (There are five fifteen minute long episodes.)

And that's it! We made it! Twenty-four Christmas shows throughout this version of the lockdown, over twenty-four days. We wanted to take the opportunity to thank everybody who has subscribed to and listen to this podcast for tuning in. We've been surprised at the popularity of these, and are happy to confirm that This is Our Everest will be returning in the new year on a weekly basis. 

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The penultimate day of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar goes back 50 years to the black and white world of Please Sir! Ian is fascinated by any programme that depicts London in the early 1970s, even if it is just for the social documentary aspect, and as such is much more kindly disposed to this programme than his colleague.

Your heroes discuss the potential emergence of a hitherto unheard London accent, the potential pitfalls of inviting only your enemies to your wedding reception and critique a preposterous incident in the annals of hospitality management. There's also a new proposal for a traffic light system for the dogging community and Edward trials the central running gag in his forthcoming, terrible, sitcom. If you'd like to watch Please Sir!, you can find it here.

Tomorrow, we reach the end of our festive journey, and it's time for a Christmas cracker. From 1975, it's Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas, and there are five fifteen minute episodes for your delectation, starting right here. 

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Day 22 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian join Chas and Dave for their 1982 Christmas Knees-up. It is a programme that acts as a salve on both of your heroes' battle-scarred psyches and also one which allows Ian to expand upon his sitcom-worthy childhood family Christmases in North London (or Tier 4, as it is now better known).

Expect pianos to be wheeled in and beer barrels to be breached by people who didn't really know which end was up. There's also thoughts on the career trajectory of Eric Clapton, the correct way to woo Patti Boyd and speculation as to the official line of succession to get into The Travelling Wilburys. If you'd like to watch Chas & Dave (and you probably should), you can find it here. 

For those of you who haven't had enough over-exaggerated Cockneyism, tomorrow's podcast will be on the 1971 Please, Sir! Christmas episode. 

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Day 21 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Ian break all known rules for this already stupid and pointless exercise, picking a 2011 festive edition of Yo Gabba Gabba. Edward is keen to find out whether or not having two young children has now addled Ian's brain to the point that this is now the sort of television programme he enjoys and is not disappointed to discover the answer.

That said, there are some excellent late gift ideas for the season courtesy of skateboarding royalty, Ian badly overestimates a 1990s TV heartthrob's age and a careful eye is run over the entire cBeebies schedule in case they're trying to recruit their viewers for far right extremism. Turns out, they are almost certainly not. If you'd like to watch Yo Gabba Gabba, you can find it here. 

Tomorrow - and we're on the final stretch of these wretched things now - it's time for The Chas & Dave Christmas Special, from 1982. 

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Day 20 of our Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watching the 1977 Fat Albert Christmas Special. It's your heroes' first encounter with this particular US television monolith but the helter skelter melding of the Nativity and A Christmas Carol soon takes a back seat to the inevitable questions. Can we really separate the art from the artist, when the artist in question did a Bill Cosby? How sanitary are junkyard clubhouses for human childbirth? And how exactly did Ian go a single day in his mad childhood without being murdered by strangers in a field, mangled on a dual carriageway or drowning in the fishing pit? We do our best to find out. You can watch Fat Albert right here.

Tomorrow morning, we're coming right up to the modern age, as Ian chucks all the rules about this podcast out of the window in order to make Edward sit through The Very Awesome Yo Gabba Gabba Christmas Show, from 2011.

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