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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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Now displaying: Category: comedy
Mar 12, 2018

Lovely Wibbly-Wobbly Derek Griffiths teaches us all about, I don't know, miming? Anyway, he's bloody brilliant and we'll fight anyone who says different. Apart from Derek Griffiths. We'd never fight him.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Mar 5, 2018

We've made 150 episodes of this now, which is more than you've done isn't it? So why not celebrate with us by watching the best movie about Karate Kids, the third Karate Kid movie, Karate Kid III.

Also, here are some Karate Kid-based recommendations we mention during the episode;

Daniel is the Real Bully - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Gz_iTuRMM
Sweep The Leg by No More Kings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olQ3vaiv47I
Wax on, F*ck Off - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAtd2r49wFw

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Feb 26, 2018

Back in the eighties, all teenagers looked like they were about 45. That's why kids' sitcom Metal Mickey looks like it's about a group of middle-aged layabouts having nervous breakdowns.

 

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Feb 19, 2018

"The most important... the most beautiful... the most magical... saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world."

It's hard to make fun of Bagpuss, given its status as one of the nation's most fondly-remembered kids' tv shows. Although this episode has some saucy drawings in it so we managed.

Please note - there were some technical issues with the recording, so you may notice more editing than usual. It's free, what more do you want?

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Feb 12, 2018

Forget the Flumps - is the Great Kettle Race availale on Youtube yet? and if not, why not?

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Feb 5, 2018

Tony Hart apparently had the power to bring plasticene to life. And did he use this power for the betterment of mankind? No. No he didn't.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Jan 29, 2018

The Green Goblin from the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie terrorises some cyborgs and a dog/dragon hybrid, in the third installment of our Mark-ology of Fear.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Jan 22, 2018

"Hay-lp, Hay-lp!"

Wacky Racer Penelope Pitstop evades the Hooded Claw in this cartoon for children about attempted murder. Mark faces his childhood fears and we get to re-use jokes we wrote years ago. Good times all round.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Jan 15, 2018

"Wizadora, We adore her, doing things in her very special way..."

Remember Wizadora? We thought we did too. We were wrong.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Jan 8, 2018

A race of one-dimensional creatures whose names reflect the complete gamut of human emotions - Happy, Grumpy, Greedy...Tickle.

It's the Mr Men.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Jan 1, 2018

Remember when Doctor Who was cancelled in the 80s? This is why.

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Dec 25, 2017

"Songs of joy and tears of laughter, are all we need, to lift our hearts..."

If your Christmas Day is boring enough that you're downloading a podcast, it'll take more than Russ Abbot in various fat suits to lift your heart. Still, we'll do our best. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Dec 18, 2017

"Say what you see!"
"Two nearly middle-aged men using a podcast as an excuse to watch old tv shows to relive their youth?"
"Well now I feel sad."

It's Catchphrase.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Dec 11, 2017

Our survey said...do more gameshows! So we did. Although we only surveyed two people. And those people were us.

It's Family Fortunes!

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Dec 4, 2017

"I'm a Tot!"
"Je suis un Tot!"
"Tilly, Tom and Tiny."
"We're the Tots from Tots TV..."
"One, Two, Three..."
"BOO!"

Flat-faced Rose & Jim-type puppets make worrying noises as Martyn and Mark squeeze another episode into a late night recording session when they should have know better.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Nov 27, 2017

A boring educational cartoon disguised as superhero fun. It's only Captain Planet innit? No Don Cheadle though. Wahh.

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Nov 20, 2017

David Hamilton plays hangman with a giant keyboard. But no actual hanging man. It was a family show.

It's like Mel Giedroyc's "Letterbox" but a lot more expensive-looking. I mean a TV show called "Letterbox." Not Mel Giedroyc's actual letterbox at her house. I bet that's quite a reasonably-priced looking letterbox.

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Nov 13, 2017

Put on your bicycle clips and bake a pie made out of songs or dreams or other intangible things. It's Pie In The Sky! No, not that one. The other one.

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Nov 6, 2017

Imagine spending an hour running away from a man in a helicopter. Sounds exciting doesn't it?

Well it isn't. It bloody isn't.

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Oct 30, 2017

Can we pretend that we knew this episode was going to be uploaded the week of Halloween, and use the tenuous link that we're watching Creepy Crawlies, a gentle animation about some friendly insects, in an
attempt to be topical?

No? Bloody sod you then.

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Oct 23, 2017

It's nearly Halloween, so what better way to celebrate than with a rubbish sitcom about the ghost of a Jewish stereotype? Probably by watching almost literally anything else. But it's done now, so shut up.

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Oct 16, 2017

Do you like television? Do you like comics? Then you'll hate ZZZap, the television comic.

It's the final part of our Neil Buchanan trilogy. Or "Neil-ogy." No, sorry, was right the first time, it's "trilogy."

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Oct 9, 2017

How much confetti do you think Finders Keepers used in an average day? More than FunHouse? More than ten weddings?

It's a lot of confetti is what I'm saying.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Oct 2, 2017

"This is an Art Attack... THIS is an Art Attack... THIS IS ART ATTACK!"

Tiny Neil Buchanan lives in a box of art supplies and communicates to the big people via the medium of Art. And attacking.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Sep 25, 2017

"Can I buy a vowel?"
"No, because the idea of the game is to guess the words with only the consonants. You fool."

It's Wheel Of Fortune.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

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