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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
Oct 10, 2022

If Parsley was a lion made out of plant matter, could a vegetarian eat him? It's confusing, where is the line?

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling
Additional musical contributions by R Gill

Oct 3, 2022

What do you get if your garden is full of policemen, dragons and lions? A new house! Or a new prescription.
We watch some classic stop-motion shenanigans with mad old rubbish The Herbs.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Additional musical contributions by R Gill

Sep 26, 2022

Spider in the bath, there's a spider in the bath. Burn the bath, sell the house, spider in the bath!

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Sep 19, 2022

Two incompetent construction workers do a thing while a little girl also exists.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Sep 12, 2022

A haunted biscuit comes alive after dark in a kitchen full of nightmares.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Sep 5, 2022

We've had our summer holiday but that's over now, so time to go back to school. Urgh, Mum, I don't feel well, can I stay at home? First Class was a school gameshow for the weekend, which is the worst thing anyone has ever come up with. Don't try to think of anything worse, this is it.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Jul 25, 2022

There's a little man made out of acorns living in a tree with a load of squirrels. Presumably that means the squirrels are more scared of him than he is of them. Makes you think.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Jul 11, 2022

Trollkins has been described as a combination of the Smurfs and the Dukes of Hazzard. If that doesn't put you off I don't know what will.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Jul 4, 2022

Johnson and friends are a bunch of puppets owned by an Australian who will haunt your nightmares. But enough about the Conservative government, we're watching a show about a fat pink mess who hangs around with a load of scary weirdos. Wait a second...

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Jun 27, 2022

Apparently, fish commit crimes as well, and it'll take a pink shark and some kind of other fish to stop them. They'll solve any mystery, apart from why this cartoon was ever made.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Jun 20, 2022

Picture Pages might be the most boring thing Bill Cosby did, but we definitely don't want to fall asleep...

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Jun 13, 2022

Remember He-Man? This is that. Only worse.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Jun 6, 2022

Pat Coombs and Keith Chegwin are a cat and a dog who live in a box. And play, presumably.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

May 30, 2022

This episode is so good, it'll make you laugh your BLANK or BLANKS off.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

May 23, 2022

After school clubs were always terrible. This one turned out to be especially bad.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

May 16, 2022

Where does a dracula buy a goldfish, or a frankingstein find a hamster? Would you sell a cat to a werewolf? Dr Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop is less interesting that all of these questions.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

May 9, 2022

Every now and then, we watch something genuinely good like Paddington Bear, the incredibly labour-intensive stop-motion animation from Ivor Wood. Don't worry though, I'm sure there will be some willy jokes in here somewhere, and Mark definitely says "boobie."

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

May 2, 2022

A bunch of kids live in a wasteland where the only entertainment is the most boring of all fairground rides. I'd probably talk to snails as well.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Apr 25, 2022

"What do kids like?"
"Cartoons?"
"Of course."
"Action and adventure?"
"Obviously."
"News and current affairs?"
"For the last time John, get out of this meeting."

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Apr 18, 2022

Watch out, Beadle's About! this is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill!

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Apr 11, 2022

Bill and Ben are made of flower pots, or wear flower pots, or just resemble flower pots for some reason...? Anyway, they live in your garden and they come alive at night. Sleep well.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Apr 4, 2022

With a title like this the jokes will write themselves, so I'm not going to bother. Also, Adam West is there, so something something Burt Ward.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Mar 28, 2022

Lassie's owners are constantly being shot at, set on fire, lost in the wilderness, trapped down wells and being caught in the current of fast-flowing rivers. Exactly the kind of people Battersea would probably deem unfit to care for an animal.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Mar 21, 2022

In the 1970s, teenagers were almost indistinguishable from middle-aged adults. Maybe it's because they were all time travellers, or whatever the Tomorrow People are, we don't know, it's confusing.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Mar 14, 2022

Christopher Biggins hosts On Safari whilst looking like Timmy Mallett if he'd eaten Elton John. Also some kids and their parents play games to try and win a telescope or something.  

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

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