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When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger
When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger is a weekly podcast that watches kids' TV from the eighties and casts a more cynical eye on the shows we used to love. Sometimes funny, usually disappointing, join your hosts Mark and Martyn and ruin a small part of your childhood week by week.
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Episode 556 - Takeover Bid
Bruce Forsyth hosts the "reverse gameshow" where contestants start with prizes and slowly have them taken away despite their best efforts to keep them...
Episode 555 - Vintage Action Figure Adverts: The Real Ghostbusters
The Real Ghostbusters was the perfect toy line for those 3am drawing board ideas nobody else wanted. A binman who turned into a fly? Sure! An old lady...
Episode 554 - Vintage Action Figure Adverts: M.A.S.K.
A range of toy vehicles with hidden weapons and transforming features which included articulated drivers and pilots? The M.A.S.K. toy designers were d...
Episode 553 - Vintage Action Figure Adverts: Transformers
A random assortment of vehicles, objects and creatures that could change into robots were thrown together haphazardly into one toy line, and we used t...
Episode 552 - Vintage Action Figure Adverts: Teenage Mutant Ninja (Hero) Turtles
This week we watch ads for all the original TMNT action figures, and realise that we have owned or played with most of them.
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Episode 551 - Vintage Action Figure Adverts: Masters of the Universe
We have the power to celebrate our spoiled privileged childhoods by watching action figure ads from the 80s. We're starting strong with He-Man, the po...
Episode 550 - Tumbledown Farm
Dick King-Smith lives on a farm where most of the animals are puppets, and most of the farm work involves telling stories. I bet there are kids who gr...
Episode 549 - Love Me, Love Me Not
We usually love a gameshow, but sometimes we love a gameshow not. This is one of those times.
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Episode 548 - Up Our Street
"Up Our Street" sounds quite amusing if you emphasise syllables in a certain way, and that is probably the only funny thing about it.
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Episode 547 - So You Want To Be Top?
Gary Wilmot hosts the weird fake gameshow that asks the only question that really matters.
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Episode 546 - Hokey Cokey
More puppets and imagination-based fun as we watch Hokey Cokey, a show made in a time when searching through bins for props and set decorations was ac...
Episode 545 - Let's Read with Basil Brush
Basil Brush is a puppet fox who is so posh that he probably thinks fox-hunting is a good thing. Makes you think.
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Episode 544 - Connections
Connections is an eighties gameshow about things that are the same as other things, where points don't seem to matter and contestants are replaced eve...
Episode 543 - The Brollys
The Brollys live in a weather house and teach weather facts to a weather-obsessed boy, which sounds boring because it is. But we are middle-aged men w...
Episode 542 - Old Bear Stories
A collection of stuffed animals with incredibly boring descriptive names live together under the watchful eye of Old Bear, so-named because he's old,...
Episode 541 - Dinner For One
In what is now a New Year's tradition for When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger, we watch a clumsy butler trip over a tiger rug whilst getting completely hamm...
Episode 540 - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1988)
Nothing says "Christmas" like weird human-animal hybrids offering suspicious tea to evacuees via furniture-based dimensional portals.
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Episode 539 - Old UK Adverts - Toys & Games (Vol.3)
If we could have watched toy adverts whenever we liked in the 80s, we probably wouldn't have spent so much time looking in catalogues. Well, not at to...
Episode 538 - Old UK Adverts - Toys & Games (Vol.2)
We delve into another showcase of toys from the past, like rummaging through your attic or garage but without the awful smells of dust and damp cardbo...
Episode 537 - Old UK Adverts - Toys & Games (Vol.1)
We embrace nostalgic capitalism in the spirit of the season, as we start a month of watching adverts for old toys and games we definitely wanted and p...
Episode 536 - Puppydog Tales
A sensible dog teaches a naughty dog life lessons and morals, in a boring cartoon which is boring.
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Episode 535 - Grotbags
Grotbags got her own show because everybody prefers the villain. But in a way, Emu was also the villain, attacking celebrities and throwing Rod Hull i...
Episode 534 - The Mouse Factory
The Mouse Factory is not about a factory that produces mice, nor is it about a factory operated and owned by mice. Titles are misleading sometimes, do...
Episode 533 - Pardon My Genie
Pardon My Genie is probably a pun, but if it is one, it isn't a good one. Which is thematically appropriate.
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Episode 532 - The Letter People
KID: "Mum, can we have Sesame Street?"
MOTHER: "We have Sesame Street at home!"
The Sesame Street at home is the Letter People.
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Episode 531 - Teddy Edward
A sexy catalogue model teddy bear goes travelling, mainly to show off his bare bear chest and medallion. This show is real.
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Episode 530 - The Mighty Orbots
Despite being a bit formulaic, The Mighty Orbots appears to have been a good cartoon, which is hard to make fun of and that makes the creators pretty...
Episode 529 - Jem
Whether you love or hate the cartoon adventures of Jem and the Holograms, by the end of this episode, the word "hologram" will have become meaningless...
Episode 528 - Here Come the Double Deckers!
The Double Deckers are some kids who live in a bus and are also a band. One of them might turn into a stuffed tiger, that is not actually made clear. ...
Episode 527 - Think of a Number
Think of a number. No, not that one. It's rude.
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Episode 526 - Pac-Man
Pac-Man is the first tv show to be based on the Pac-Man arcade game. The second one is Most Haunted.
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Episode 525 - ProStars
Three famous American sport players fight crime using their sporting abilities, but one of them is too famous to actually turn up in person.
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Episode 524 - Molly's Gang
A load of sleepy-eyed stop-motion aliens exist, and do things, I expect. Molly's Gang is very forgettable is what I'm saying.
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Episode 523 - Issi Noho
A panda is rescued from a crate and does magic with maths, endangering his young human friends with hilarious consequences.
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Episode 522 - One Man and His Dog
We settle in to watch some sheep dog trials, which is a lot less exciting than it sounds. Or more exciting, depending on your stance on farm work vs l...
Episode 521 - Dino Boy in the Lost Valley
How should we pronounce "Dino Boy?" Is it "Dino Boy," or "Dino Boy?"
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Episode 520 - Box Clever
This week we see what happened when the BBC had access to computer graphics. And a joystick.
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Episode 519 - Keynotes
This week we use our audio-only format to watch a gameshow about guessing a tune with the volume mostly down.
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Episode 518 - Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
A boring gameshow for kids about geography is not made better by including the pursuit of a big robot. Geography is dull.
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Episode 517 - Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
Trying to make an educational cartoon fun is like putting a cherry on top of a dog poo. There, I said it.
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