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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: November, 2021
Nov 29, 2021

The Blunders was a cartoon family sitcom that probably didn't exist and we don't remember it. Do you remember it? NO YOU DON'T YOU LIAR!

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

Nov 22, 2021

Take a parody of Grange Hill, add some two-dimensional caricatures of the British Royal family, and you've got Palace Hill. Subversive? Yes. A bit rubbish? Apparently. Did we love it? Of course!

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

Nov 15, 2021

A giant Michael Bentine looms over some pirate puppets as if it's normal in another kids' tv show that sounds like we made it up.

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

Nov 8, 2021

We pay our respects to ever-so-sprightly twice-nightly Richard Whiteley by watching the first ever Countdown and reminiscing about our own Countdown fan fiction from back in the day.

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

Nov 1, 2021

Anything Channel 4 could do, Sky One could do later. Games World had a lot in common with GamesMaster - a scornful mocking host, characters pretending to be good at video games, and Dave Perry hanging around like a bad smell.

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

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