A Scare at Bedtime
1997
📺 9 Seasons
🎬 166 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
⏱️ 10 min/episode
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.
Seasons
Season 1
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!
Season 2
Lorcan Piles wins the Lottery and offers to buy his best friend Mossie McGoolican anything he wants. But when Mossie asks for a night with ‘Carmel Sutra’-the Mistress of Pleasure, Lorcan finds out the true meaning of friendship.
Season 3
Enda Meeshank was studying genetic science and decided to do some extra curricular experiments in the bath of his flat. But the mixture of his very own genes from his bath and the chemicals he flushed away created a creature a little too ‘clone’ for comfort!
Season 4
Podge and Rodge show off their musicial side with a rap about waste management.
Season 5
Spunk Murphy is back to solve a most unusual case, Will he spot the colourful clues?
Season 6
An American prisoner of war wakes from an horrific dream to find reality not much different.
Season 7
A ventriloquist’s dummy with a life of its own decides he would be better off without his owner and plans to get rid of him. After all, no one would suspect a dummy and he could be free to live the life he’d always dreamed of. But he had overlooked one vital thing…
Season 8
Finbar Fury is saved from a life behind bars by an apparently altruistic boxing coach. Colonel Saunders sees world class potential in Finbar, who he witnessed accidentally killing a man in a dark alleyway. But no sooner has the Colonel turned his protégé into Finbar “Fists of” Fury – a serious contender – than his true motives begin to emerge.
Season 9
It was Dick Fitzwell’s turn to buy the lottery ticket for his work colleagues' syndicate. They had played for years, but never won more than a few Euro. So when all the numbers come up, they are ecstatic…until they discover that Dick hadn’t bought the ticket…
Crew
Writer
Mick O'Hara, Ciaran Morrison
Producer
Ciaran Morrison, Mick O'Hara
Network
RTÉ2
Production
Double Z Enterprises