Repeat or Delete

Welcome to Repeat Our Delete — the podcast that dives headfirst into the weirdest television ever broadcast and asks the important question: should it be repeated forever… or deleted from history?

This week, Joe, Planty and James enter the baffling world of Runaround (1975–1981), the children’s quiz show where:

• Kids sprint between answers in total confusion
• Wrong answers send you to “the pit”
• Mike Reid shouts “GO GO GO!” at terrified children
• Random men appear with giant bicycles and miniature fairgrounds
• Jonah Lewie turns up for absolutely no reason
• And somehow… this was peak family entertainment

Along the way we discuss:

📺 Lost episodes and ITV chaos

🚲 The world’s largest tricycle

🎡 Tiny mechanised fairgrounds

🎵 “You Will Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties”

🚨 The Semaphore Public Safety Song

📼 Portable TVs, encyclopedias, and deeply confusing prizes

💀 Ask Jeeves finally dying

🎤 Malcolm McLaren telling villagers “Jesus was a sausage”

…and a giant inflatable blue thing that absolutely should not have been on children’s television.

Featuring:

• Mike Reid at maximum confusion
• “Two young ladies in the pit we have”
• “Something gone wrong again?” “No.”
• Mark, who likes watching TV
• The Tittering Chapter Bot of Transubstantiation
• And the terrifying reality competition “Air Castle”

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Were back this week with a little remembered (except for them pesky Belson Boys) Full Swing, the worlds only golf based game show. With very good reason too, because its very very insane. Imagine a bewildering world of VR golf, questions so easy its laughable and jokes so old they could claim their pension.

Thanks a lot Belsons

We dive into Fort Boyard—a bizarre early-2000s game show where “celebrities” tackle confusing challenges in a French fort, guided (and mildly harassed) by Leslie Grantham and Melinda Messenger.

Expect:

• Impossible challenges
• Cryptic riddles
• Constant swimming for keys
• A dungeon, a spinning nightmare machine… and a gimp

Think The Crystal Maze—but messier, meaner, and making far less sense.

Verdict: Chaotic, confusing, weirdly entertaining. Probably should be deleted.

Apologies for our absence but life sometimes gets in the way of these things. Anyways, we are back with a new episode of Repeat or Delete and this time we are going way back to 2002 with a Celebrity Lookalike episode of The Weakest Link.

The show that brought Anne Robinson to the nations attention (make of that what you will) and inspire a whole generation of people to think that being a jerk was cool.

There's all the usual stuff as well as a secret message in there if you listen carefully

Its back in time once again to 2005 Channel 4 docu-hell with Wife Swap. The show where two women swap houses and families and yell at each other.

This is apparently a classic episode starring Penny a woman with hair and another woman called Penny who also has hair. Imagine that!

There's talk of mulllets, boiled meat, chinese dynasties and the always popular "How will Planty get Thatcher into this anecdote"

Continuing our dating show theme for some reason we take you back to the early 2010s with a classic episode of Take Me Out. There's really no way to describe the cocaine fuelled fever dream that this show is so watch/listen along yeah?

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Before there was Love Island and Married at First Sight, there was Blind Date. Hosted by our second favourite scouser Cilla Black, the show has all the grace and charm of a dead horse tumbling towards an orphanage.

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Before there was BTG, before there was X-Factor there was Sky Star Search. Like a non union Opportunity Knocks, Keith Chegwin hosted an insane talent show that is like a Adderall fuelled trip to Buckins.

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"This is the way the podcast ends

Not with a bang but a whimper"

And with that kids, we are done. After nearly 200 episodes we have decided to call it a day. For purely altruistic reasons and not for reasons we cannot discuss.

So thank you all for listening throughout the years.

Do Not Delete The Feed.

Something is coming, in the darkness.

It cannot be seen, or stopped.

This is the link to the Petition we mention at the start about one chode getting his pants in a bunch about a book so go sign it and don't let these pricks tell you how to live.

https://chng.it/Jq64bzcdq7

We are once again somehow in the Craig Charles Universe as we dive headlong into the 2000 C Channel 5 show "Jailbreak" which is sort of like if Big Brother watched The Great Escape while very very drunk.

Contestants have to escape from a fake prison by solving clues so esoteric its baffling. But you can win 100 grand so that's nice.

watch the whole glorious thing here yeah?

https://youtu.be/slUeKg-zbRA?si=07zPIvujtjHs34RZ