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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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Jun 19, 2023

Some nosey kids investigate a spy operation in a castle instead of just calling the appropriate authorities, in predictably boring Enid Blyton fashion. 
         
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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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Jun 12, 2023

Fourways Farm is a stop-motion animation about talking animals voiced by Martin Jarvis. Not that we can hear him in this version. Or see much of the episode. Or care. 
         
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Jun 5, 2023

Des O'Connor forbids the explicit use of positive and negative replies then tries to buy keys from people to stop them opening boxes full of cucumbers. He also made Take Your Pick.
         
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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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May 29, 2023

Tiny dolls have a tiny adventure in this tiny episode, where we watch yet another show about toys that come to life. If Toy Story had been set in the UK in the 1980s, there would have been a lot more haunted and/or racist dolls in it.        

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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May 22, 2023

This probably isn't the Barney you're thinking of. But that's your problem.   

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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May 15, 2023

If you inherit a load of creepy old dolls, should you;
a) play with them,
b) display them proudly, or
c) never turn your back on them, don't even blink, burn them, burn them all and scatter the ashes as far apart as possible...?

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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May 8, 2023

Nerys Hughes is obsessed with alligators. 
"See you later alligator," she would say when waving goodbye. 
But if you replied with "in a while, crocodile," she would get angry. 
She used to make people say "in a while, alligator" instead. 
It doesn't even rhyme.  

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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May 1, 2023

Imagine Rod, Jane and Freddy, but Scottish, and with more kettles. That's this.  

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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Apr 24, 2023

The world's laziest animators film themselves waggling a Hairy Jeremy around. Willy joke, everyone laugh.  

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Apr 17, 2023

We love a good gameshow on this podcast, but we've done all those, so we watched Runway instead.    

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Apr 10, 2023

A Dutch owl puppet reads made up stories from a newspaper in the creepy-pasta-waiting-to-happen, The Daily Fable.    

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Apr 3, 2023

Years before the disaster-based trauma of Thunderbirds, or the Zelda-based trauma of Terrahawks, Gerry Anderson set out to traumatise children with the sleepy-eyed hunchbacked puppets of Torchy the Battery Boy.    

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Mar 27, 2023

After more than 400 episodes, we're getting nostalgic for our own nostalgia. So we decided to face the horror of our own mortality, as all the skin falls off our faces and our skulls disintegrate. We also watch Knightmare again. "Oh dear..."   

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Mar 20, 2023

Remember Spatz? Well this is that, except with ice cream. If you don't remember Spatz, we envy you. 

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Mar 13, 2023

"Ranger... Barbarian... Magician... Thief... Cavalier... and Acrobat!" 
100 more episodes have gone by, so Mark and Martyn re-re-re-revisit the first episode of blah blah blah you know the drill. 

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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Mar 6, 2023

Nice to see 400 episodes, to see 400 episodes, NICE! We thought we'd celebrate with a GOOD GAME, GOOD GAME, but we ended up watching the Generation Game instead. 

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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Feb 27, 2023

Maths was much more exciting in the 80s, when mental space wizards would magically appear and threaten kids with knives until they learned how to maths. Luckily there was a documentary film crew on hand making Maths-In-A-Box to prove I'm not a liar.

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Feb 20, 2023

Nightmare marionette antics with Mumfie, a horrible puppet elephant who hangs around with other horrible puppets, including witches, scarecrows and sometimes TV and radio broadcasting legends.

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Feb 13, 2023

We complete our podcast trilogy with Tom Slick, a racing driver hero whose vehicle is genuinely called the "Thunderbolt Grease-Slapper." Write your own jokes about that, I can't be bothered.

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Feb 6, 2023

Part two of a podcast trilogy, in which a chicken drinks a questionable substance, dresses up like a musketeer and teams up with a lion to fight crime. And it's still better than George of the Jungle.

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Jan 30, 2023

In the first part of a podcast trilogy, we watch George of the Jungle, a cartoon about a clumsy tarzan knock-off with one joke that's already lost its appeal by the end of the intro.

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Jan 23, 2023

The Spooks of Bottle Bay look like the result of ten different art departments each working on one puppet design separately without talking to each other, whilst each art department involved is being terrorised by demons throughout their design process.

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Jan 16, 2023

Roger Ramjet loves "filling up" his jet, if you know what I mean. I mean he completely fills the entire vehicle with his body mass when he's piloting it.

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Jan 9, 2023

"Ooh Betty, yes Miss Diane, my name is Michael Caine."

Now you've experienced every episode of Copy Cats.

You're welcome.

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Jan 2, 2023

A small town police officer is roped in to solve some high profile gruesome murders, and has to go up against a hard-bitten police chief and all the corrupt cops who are determined to stand in his way.

That's not true.

Made it up.

Shouldn't have done.

Sorry.

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