Mutants!  We have our last colossal guest star episode, and without it being an out-and-out horror episode, it certainly has the overtones of one.

We have cannibalism, Aubrey Morris being mad, Joan Collins and her legs, Barbara and her jealousy and Colin trying to be politically correct about little people.  The main male guest star is a cross between Zeus and Oliver Reed, Big Ron is a sort of BDSM caveman, and the ship is either 5 or 50 miles wide.  Who knows?

What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they love it, hate it, or ask for a divorce on the spot? The Mackem (Katie) and the Manc (Colin) from England are watching all 48 episodes and, for you the wonderful listener, we hope there's some humor and fun comments. You can also listen and watch at the same time, or just enjoy the banter. Warning - there's a few rude words!  You can email us on

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It's Gwent, the wig, amazing sets and immortality for about the 100th time in a quiet colossal guest star episode. Leo McKern I hope got paid twice for playing 2 different characters. Or did he?

Koenig never got his rest, put at least in real life Paul/Prentis was alright.

What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they love it, hate it, or ask for a divorce on the spot? The Mackem (Katie) and the Manc (Colin) from England are watching all 48 episodes and, for you the wonderful listener, we hope there's some humor and fun comments. You can also listen and watch at the same time, or just enjoy the banter. Warning - there's a few rude words! You can email us on [email protected] or find us on socials @mancmakempodcast (mancmakempod on Twitter, damn you character limit)

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So we are now into Episode 20 and it's a foam party! Before it became all the rage, the population of Moonbase Alpha are gearing up for a night of disco lights and foam party goodness. Somewhere along the lines there is a serious plot about macro space beings and the moon being a virus, but it all goes to shit in the last 10 minutes when Her Majesty's Fire and Rescue dump 16 million kilos of soap into Stage L at Pinewood.

This is also an Italian episode, where Katie decides "Rent-a-Yank" Shane is punching above his weight snagging the Italian hottie Carla. There is a rock weighing 380 tonnes (slightly less than John's ego), silly string, Helena treating patients in a welding mask and Alan in charge of a raft of nuclear charges. What could possibly go wrong?

What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they love it, hate it, or ask for a divorce on the spot? The Mackem (Katie) and the Manc (Colin) from England are watching all 48 episodes and, for you the wonderful listener, we hope there's some humor and fun comments. You can also listen and watch at the same time, or just enjoy the banter. Warning - there's a few rude words! You can email us on [email protected] or find us on socials @mancmakempodcast (mancmakempod on Twitter, damn you character limit)

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Katie has the joy of the first Horror Space:1999 episode - her favourite genre - and also her first Italian one, Mamma Mia! Colin makes references to sitars far too many times that are strictly required.

We enjoy the leading man having three nipples, yet another posh foxy brunette, pyschic plants and Bergman's hair getting longer by each episode. On a serious note, this is one of the best and is pure gothic joy and pleasure. And Basil did the stunning make-up - hurrah!

Post-pod, Katie must have been plugged into our houseplants as she's absoutely aces the post-pod Victor Berman quiz. I didn't know our fuschia knew so much about 70's sci-fi.

What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they love it, hate it, or ask for a divorce on the spot? The Mackem (Katie) and the Manc (Colin) from England are watching all 48 episodes and, for you the wonderful listener, we hope there's some humor and fun comments. You can also listen and watch at the same time, or just enjoy the banter. Warning - there's a few rude words! You can email us on [email protected] or find us on socials @mancmakempodcast (mancmakempod on Twitter, damn you character limit)

Oh dear, it's a bad science episode. Will a bunch of Suzi Quatro's beat the planet of the single middle-aged man who can't open his eyes? And will they work out the basics of newtonian gravity? Katie likes one of the girls hair and Colin thinks he is Brian Cox (the science dude, not the actor).

We work out why you can people from Alpha, Beta and Delta (but not Gamma) and Katie really wants Dionne's dress.

What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they love it, hate it, or ask for a divorce on the spot? The Mackem (Katie) and the Manc (Colin) from England are watching all 48 episodes and, for you the wonderful listener, we hope there's some humor and fun comments. You can also listen and watch at the same time, or just enjoy the banter. Warning - there's a few rude words! You can email us on [email protected] or find us on socials @mancmakempodcast (mancmakempod on Twitter, damn you character limit)

It's a pod from a pod! The Manc and Mackem are on holiday, but that doesn't stop them recording a special episode of the pod(cast) from a pod(glamping) in sunny Scotland.

The most expensive episode of British TV ever made - even though it wasn't even the most expensive episode of Space: 1999. Colin's going with this one regardless of things like facts. Back to the episode it's a real two-parter. The first half sees Moonbase Alpha and half the cast blown up, the second half sees alien coneheads in boxes, shreiking Helena, John being the useless hero and it all being a wast of time. Still, the Hawk IX models were cool.

What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they love it, hate it, or ask for a divorce on the spot? The Mackem (Katie) and the Manc (Colin) from England are watching all 48 episodes and, for you the wonderful listener, we hope there's some humor and fun comments. You can also listen and watch at the same time, or just enjoy the banter. Warning - there's a few rude words! You can email us on [email protected] or find us on socials @mancmakempodcast (mancmakempod on Twitter, damn you character limit)

We have a complete cast-against-type episode and a colossal guest star in this fab story about an immortal alien who loves nothing more to torture us mere humans by throwing us around Big Daddy style and strangling foxy nurses. What a catch. Today's epsiode is trope-central, from undead vampires to a bit of Alien airlock action. There's an update on Sherlock Dog and a kinky story involving today's guest star: Peter Bowles.

What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they love it, hate it, or ask for a divorce on the spot? The Mackem (Katie) and the Manc (Colin) from England are watching all 48 episodes and, for you the wonderful listener, we hope there's some humor and fun comments. You can also listen and watch at the same time, or just enjoy the banter. Warning - there's a few rude words! You can email us on [email protected] or find us on socials @mancmakempodcast (mancmakempod on Twitter, damn you character limit)

The cast of Moonbase Alpha go full caveman in this episode. One of the more amusing editions sees Kaput and Helena turn into cavemen, Alan gets lost, Sandra goes Wilma Flintstone cosplay, and someone nearly gets spit-roasted. Now now calm down it is not that type of show. We further discuss the work of Richard Harding Gardner, and look to see if we can find a mug with Xenia on it. Even though it should have been Zenia.

What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they love it, hate it, or ask for a divorce on the spot? The Mackem (Katie) and the Manc (Colin) from England are watching all 48 episodes and, for you the wonderful listener, we hope there's some humor and fun comments. You can also listen and watch at the same time, or just enjoy the banter. Warning - there's a few rude words! You can email us on [email protected] or find us on socials @mancmakempodcast (mancmakempod on Twitter, damn you character limit)

Fittingly we are back on Breakaway Day - specifically 25 years since we lost the Moon and the 300 brave souls travelling the cosmos on Moonbase Alpha. And today's episode is a cracker - Brian Blessed on an ice planet, Alan being useless once more, formaldehyde ice sets and Valerie Leon's wobbly bits are just some of the highlights. We also start the episode enjoying the alternative theme tune that was used in Japan, and finish talking about the career of the well-mostachioed actor Richard Harding Gardner, who's career highlight after '99 was the kids film Sherlock: Undercover Dog. Will the 2.7 out of 10 it gets on IMDB be an abomination or a miscarriage of justice?

What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they love it, hate it, or ask for a divorce on the spot? The Mackem (Katie) and the Manc (Colin) from England are watching all 48 episodes and, for you the wonderful listener, we hope there's some humor and fun comments. You can also listen and watch at the same time, or just enjoy the banter. Warning - there's a few rude words! You can email us on [email protected] or find us on socials @mancmakempodcast (mancmakempod on Twitter, damn you character limit)

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Colin hates this one, like really hates it. And he never shuts up moaning about it. Katie does her best to cheer people up. So to lighten the mood he goes through the funny titles given to episodes over the world to the episodes such as "Bizarre! A Birth of Space Child" and "Space Destroyer, Nuclear Bomb Ship". God bless Japan. We also finally find a film that Katie remembers watching.