In this Halloween Special, join Mimi the Orangutan French Maid, Sidekick & Podcaster, as she tells us of the great android detective Lupin Savant's latest case. It all began one afternoon dreary when a raven came tapping, tapping at his chamber door. Featuring Jess Mersky as The Advert.

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The Halloween Special 2220

In this summer special, Portentous is still missing so in the place of her usual column, the paper literally just plays half an hour of adverts. Find out about Barry Island's monkey-proof fencing, Saffron Walden's Vegan Meats, the upcoming Global Election and the fun, fun harmless hobby of gambling. Guest starring Clarissa Maycock, Frog Stone, Gareth Gwynn, Ben Partridge, Nat Metcalfe, Meabh de Brun, Jon Hunter, Jenny Laville & Max Davis

Portentous Perils: Literally Half an Hour of Adverts

In this Quarantined Special, Portentous documents in her personal journal how she's been spending her time trapped in the time loop in 2216. Mostly, she's been hiding from Senator Cthulu and his plague of Nano Clowns. How is she going to get out of this one? (Probably Science).

Portentous Perils: The Lockdown Special

Having accidentally Leaped into Cecily Spokeswoman due to Beckett's Theorem, Professor Von Pun is able to send us one of his traditional festive Round Robins, in the form of an audio file that cannot be stopped or muted. Discover how the Professor escaped Mars, brought festive cheer to Earth and had a lovely time with Moriarty at the Arctic Ocean Center Parcs.

Portentous Perils: The Festive Special 2219

It's Halloween 2219 & Cecily Spokeswoman has lots of festive messages for us from the corporate Martian overlords at Googapplmazon McUnilever, now that the megacorporation has bought sole rights to Halloween and the emotion known as 'fear'. Her main message is 'do not be afraid of the spacetime rifts opening up all over the place.' They really are nothing to worry about. Featuring Frog Stone as Cecily Spokeswoman, Alec Chapman as Professor Von Pun, Guy Kelly as Happiness George, Natt Tapley as the Gentleman an Gabby Hutchinson Crouch as everyone else.

Portentous Perils Halloween Special: Project Fear

The Quantum of Happiness: Our non-brand specific home AI has a recording from the vault for us - part of Happiness George's memoirs as he recounts his first meeting with Portentous, in which he did not get to eat any chocolates at all. He does, however, get a biscuit. Guest written by Jess Mersky, guest starring Guy Kelly as Happiness.

Portentous Perils Valentine's Special

With Professor Von Pun still mysteriously missing, this year's Evil Round Robin comes from a minor Moriarty. Cast out by all the other Moriarties for not being Moriartyish enough, the Moriarty from the movie Young Sherlock Holmes finds himself delivered from despair by a visit from a kindly guardian angel, who shows him he's a wonderful Moriarty, and also has a lot of Winterval Dinners to eat. Guest Stars Alec Chapman as The Moriarty.

Portentous Perils: The Festive Special 2218

With Portentous and the gang still missing, it falls upon Skellington Bones, the Old Intern, to put together a very special Halloween broadcast this year, with spine chilling reports from Honora O'Malley and Cecily Spokeswoman, and a letter to the editor from an irate Monkey Butler. Dare you brave the tale of the ghost from the Welsh town of Port Myntw? Guest stars Brendan Dodds, Meabh de Brun, Frog Stone & Paul Jenkins.

Portentous Perils: Too Spooky For Not Halloween

Episode 17: Let's Kill Cthulu. Von Pun & The Gentleman arrive in their Time Machine and tell the gang that due to a paradox they must travel back in time and kill President Cthulu, but there's a chance that this will cause a time loop. Von Pun & The Gentleman arrive in their Time Machine and tell the gang that due to a paradox they must travel back in time and kill President Cthulu, but there's a chance that this will cause a time loop.

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Episode 16: Baby, I'm a-Mazed. Believing Professor Von Pun & The Gentleman to not actually be Definitely Dead This Time, merely mysteriously missing, Portentous and the gang partner up once more with Lupin Savant to find them. They are not expecting, however, to fall into a deadly, intricate torture maze, filled with danger, an extremely muddled aesthetic and an awful lot of jumpsuits.

Portentous Perils Episode 16

Episode 15: Time, The Gentleman, Please. In this Anniversary episode, Portentous is given 200 year old recordings which appear to have been made by The Gentleman, who has only been and gone and got himself stuck in a cupboard in the distant past, the absolute ninny. Guest Starring Natt Tapley as The Gentleman.

Portentous Perils Episode 15

Episode 14: Daisy Daisy. Erudition is summoned once again by the League of Adventuresses, to help them rescue Daisy, an android flower girl, from the clutches of a mysterious professor and his Gentlema... OK, it's clearly Von Pun who's kidnapped her. As the gang go about their heist, it seems that love - and music - is in the air.

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Episode 13: A Distinctly Domestic Affair. Foreign Affairs Correspondent Honora o'Malley reports from a society wedding (look - it's an overseas story to her, she's Irish) where guests Portentous, Erudition & Happiness get into trouble with a mountain of cheesy doom, some very suspicious photographers and the one wedding ring to rule them all. Guest written by and starring Meabh de Brun.

Portentous Perils, Episode 13

Episode 12: One Of Our Draculas Is Missing. Portentous shares clandestine footage taken during her undercover investigation to locate the missing Dracula recently stolen by gangsters from St Bart's As Seen On BBC's Sherlock Hospital. A new uneasy alliance is made, and a new enemy is discovered. Guest starring Alec Chapman and Alex Crouch.

Portentous Perils, Episode 12

Episode 11: The Sad Story of Rosebud The Childhood Sledge. A special episode commemorating the life and work of media mogul The 7th Lord McKenzie, who built a vast broadcasting empire and fortune from nothing but an inherited vast broadcasting empire and fortune, and who also had a beloved childhood sledge, which he called Rosebud.

Portentous Perils Episode 11

Future Dystopian Steampunk SciFi adventures with an intrepid journalist, her aunt and a curiously attractive Media Sales Executive.

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Portentous Perils in the 23rd Century

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