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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: Page 13
May 7, 2018

Have we got The Right Stuff to watch this cartoon Tonight? Only if we take it Step By Step. We'll be Hangin' Tough until 2 In The Morning, so Please Don't Go Girl. Call It What You Want, but If You Go Away you won't Be My Girl. Definitely not My Favorite Girl. More like a Dirty Dawg. So Let's Try It Again, You Got It?

Cover Girl.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Apr 30, 2018

STOP! Hammertime!

No really, please, stop. Stop this Hammertime right now. Please Hammer, don't hurt 'em.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Apr 23, 2018

"I 'ate that duck!" We all 'ate that duck.

Remember when Keith Harris and Orville had a chat show? Neither did we. But here we are anyway.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Apr 16, 2018

Happy Families is a traditional card game, usually with a specially made set of picture cards, featuring illustrations of fictional families of four, most often based on occupation types. The object of the game is to collect complete families. The player whose turn it is asks another player for a specific card from the same family as a card that the player already has. If the asked player has the card, he gives it to the requester and the requester can then ask any player for another card. If the asked player does not have the card, it becomes his turn and he asks another player for a specific card. Play continues in this way until no families are separated among different players. The player with the most cards wins. One of the rules states that a player cannot ask for a certain card to deceive any player if he does not have a card in the set he is asking for. The game can be adapted for use with an ordinary set of playing cards (see Go Fish).

This isn't that.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Apr 9, 2018

What are we watching this week?

Has Spielberg made it?
Have actors played it?
In theatres too?
Give Us A Clue!

Does TV show it?
Do bookworms know it?
One word or two?
Give Us A Clue!
Give Us A Clue!
Give Us A Clue!

Seriously, give us a frigging clue!

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Apr 2, 2018

"Look and Read,

Read and Look,

Eyes eyes eyes,

Books books books."

 

The boys watch Look and Read,and learn how to build words.Badly.

 

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Mar 26, 2018

Wasn't Captain Pugwash full of saucy innuendo? Sorry, I got those words in the wrong order - Captain Pugwash wasn't full of saucy innuendo.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Mar 19, 2018

What the hell is this all about? Crystal Meth and LSD more like. In this episode, we pay for having a really long podcast two weeks ago by having to watch something short.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

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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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

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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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

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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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

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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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

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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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

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