When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger
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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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Episode 530 - The Mighty Orbots
Despite being a bit formulaic, The Mighty Orbots appears to have been a good cartoon, which is hard to make fun of and that makes the creators pretty...
Episode 529 - Jem
Whether you love or hate the cartoon adventures of Jem and the Holograms, by the end of this episode, the word "hologram" will have become meaningless...
Episode 528 - Here Come the Double Deckers!
The Double Deckers are some kids who live in a bus and are also a band. One of them might turn into a stuffed tiger, that is not actually made clear. ...
Episode 527 - Think of a Number
Think of a number. No, not that one. It's rude.
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Episode 526 - Pac-Man
Pac-Man is the first tv show to be based on the Pac-Man arcade game. The second one is Most Haunted.
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Episode 525 - ProStars
Three famous American sport players fight crime using their sporting abilities, but one of them is too famous to actually turn up in person.
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Episode 524 - Molly's Gang
A load of sleepy-eyed stop-motion aliens exist, and do things, I expect. Molly's Gang is very forgettable is what I'm saying.
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Episode 523 - Issi Noho
A panda is rescued from a crate and does magic with maths, endangering his young human friends with hilarious consequences.
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Episode 522 - One Man and His Dog
We settle in to watch some sheep dog trials, which is a lot less exciting than it sounds. Or more exciting, depending on your stance on farm work vs l...
Episode 521 - Dino Boy in the Lost Valley
How should we pronounce "Dino Boy?" Is it "Dino Boy," or "Dino Boy?"
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Episode 520 - Box Clever
This week we see what happened when the BBC had access to computer graphics. And a joystick.
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Episode 519 - Keynotes
This week we use our audio-only format to watch a gameshow about guessing a tune with the volume mostly down.
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Episode 518 - Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
A boring gameshow for kids about geography is not made better by including the pursuit of a big robot. Geography is dull.
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Episode 517 - Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
Trying to make an educational cartoon fun is like putting a cherry on top of a dog poo. There, I said it.
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Episode 516 - Where's Wally?
Wally is a man who is constantly playing hide and seek, and like a toddler who has just discovered the game, continues to hide in the same place forev...
Episode 515 - The Return of Dogtanian
Sequels are always brilliant aren't they? I bet you can't think of a single example of a horribly disappointing sequel. On a completely unrelated note...
Episode 514 - The Magic Ball
If you think we make loads of funny jokes about balls this week, you're wrong. Our jokes are never funny.
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Episode 513 - Theodore Tugboat
We did a show about tugs once before, and invited you to make your own jokes then. We'd advise doing the same again, as ours haven't got any better. ...
Episode 512 - Gruey
Gruey is another dull tv show about a mischievous northern schoolboy, but we spend more time talking about the mischievous projects the main character...
Episode 511 - Street Frogs
You haven't heard of Street Frogs, but it was a real cartoon about frogs, living on a street.
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Episode 510 - Pigsty
Pigsty is about a diner which is run by nightmarish pig-human hybrids and everybody is cool with that, yeah? Nobody questions it, it's fine. Just eat...
Episode 509 - Wonderbug
Wonderbug is about a cheeky car that's alive, but it's completely different from Herbie the Love Bug, so stop saying that it's the same because it isn...
Episode 508 - Lidsville
A boy falls into a hat and hat people live in hats inside the hat and they ride hats around. Also, the boy is Eddie Munster.
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Episode 507 - Frog and Toad Are Friends
A frog and a toad are friends. It's in the title.
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Episode 506 - Alfonso Bonzo
Alfonso Bonzo is a thirty-something exchange student who forces cursed magical items onto a hapless schoolboy, probably to teach him a lesson or somet...
Episode 505 - The Bugaloos
An insect band tries to evade the schemes of a jealous witch with a rat chauffeur.
That's the show.
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Episode 504 - The Adventures of Jeremy/Colargol/Barnaby
What's scarier than a haunted puppet? A haunted puppet with multiple identities ready for a quick escape to another country.
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Episode 503 - The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
Someone should make a tv show based on brine shrimp eggs. Said no-one, ever.
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Episode 502 - Just So Stories
How did the Rhino get its skin? Millions of years of environmental adaptation, or a cake-based prank? In today's post-facts world, there's really no w...
Episode 501 - Dungeons and Dragons (episode 1)
To show how far we've come in the last ten years we present the very first episode of W4B, in which we watch some teenagers dealing with the everyday...
Episode 500 - Asterix the Gaul
In our 500th episode spectacular, we revisit one of Mark's childhood favourites by watching the 1967 Asterix movie with a few of our loyal Patreon mem...
Episode 499 - Readalong
All preschool tv shows about words and pictures used to be obliged to include a puppet from your nightmares. Canada was not exempt from this rule.
Episode 498 - The Adventures of Rupert Bear
Some classic haunted puppet fun this week as we watch Rupert Bear in a decidedly more supernatural setting than his bejumpered and chequered appearanc...
Episode 497 - Dungeons & Dragons Requiem: The Final Episode
It's the 10th anniversary of W4B, and we go back to where it all started by watching Dungeons & Dragons again. But this time, it's the fan-made produc...
Episode 496 - H.R. Pufnstuf
It would be incredibly lazy to make jokes about drug-use when watching H.R. Pufnstuf. So we won't do that. We'll just say it's crap.
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Episode 495 - Wil Cwac Cwac
Dyma nodiadau'r sioe yn Gymraeg. Mae'r bennod hon yn ymwneud â hwyaden. Nid yw'n dda iawn.
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Episode 494 - Dinosaucers
What would it look like if dinosaurs evolved into sentient bipedal spacefaring warriors and fought alongside some kids with magic rings? The most blan...
Episode 493 - Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
The desperate outcome of a late night toy company meeting somehow gets a competent animated series.
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Episode 492 - Denver the Last Dinosaur
If you find a giant mysterious egg, make sure to stick around to ensure the creature inside immediately imprints on you, lest it hatches with murderou...
Episode 491 - Mio Mao
Two claymation cats meet other mysterious animals and learn not to be scared of what they don't understand. Pretty deep for five minutes of plasticine...