When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger

By W4B

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 h... more

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The podcast currently has 562 episodes available.

When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger episodes:

March 16, 2026 Episode 552 - Vintage Action Figure Adverts: Teenage Mutant Ninja (Hero) Turtles
This week we watch ads for all the original TMNT action figures, and realise that we have owned or played with most of them.

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40min
March 09, 2026 Episode 551 - Vintage Action Figure Adverts: Masters of the Universe
We have the power to celebrate our spoiled privileged childhoods by watching action figure ads from the 80s. We're starting strong with He-Man, the powerful space barbarian with the weak disguise.

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44min
March 02, 2026 Episode 550 - Tumbledown Farm
Dick King-Smith lives on a farm where most of the animals are puppets, and most of the farm work involves telling stories. I bet there are kids who grew up to be farmers who are furious with him right now.

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15min
February 23, 2026 Episode 549 - Love Me, Love Me Not
We usually love a gameshow, but sometimes we love a gameshow not. This is one of those times.

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30min
February 16, 2026 Episode 548 - Up Our Street
"Up Our Street" sounds quite amusing if you emphasise syllables in a certain way, and that is probably the only funny thing about it.

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23min
February 09, 2026 Episode 547 - So You Want To Be Top?
Gary Wilmot hosts the weird fake gameshow that asks the only question that really matters.

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24min
February 02, 2026 Episode 546 - Hokey Cokey
More puppets and imagination-based fun as we watch Hokey Cokey, a show made in a time when searching through bins for props and set decorations was accounted for in the budget.

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24min
January 26, 2026 Episode 545 - Let's Read with Basil Brush
Basil Brush is a puppet fox who is so posh that he probably thinks fox-hunting is a good thing. Makes you think.

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20min
January 19, 2026 Episode 544 - Connections
Connections is an eighties gameshow about things that are the same as other things, where points don't seem to matter and contestants are replaced every two minutes or so anyway.

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29min
January 12, 2026 Episode 543 - The Brollys
The Brollys live in a weather house and teach weather facts to a weather-obsessed boy, which sounds boring because it is. But we are middle-aged men who don't even know how clouds work.

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15min

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