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 566 episodes available.

When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger episodes:

April 13, 2026 Episode 556 - Takeover Bid
Bruce Forsyth hosts the "reverse gameshow" where contestants start with prizes and slowly have them taken away despite their best efforts to keep them, like a metaphor for becoming middle-aged.

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33min
April 06, 2026 Episode 555 - Vintage Action Figure Adverts: The Real Ghostbusters
The Real Ghostbusters was the perfect toy line for those 3am drawing board ideas nobody else wanted. A binman who turned into a fly? Sure! An old lady with a hidden crocodilian jaw? Why not? If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, it's probably a toy from GHOSTBUSTERS!

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30min
March 30, 2026 Episode 554 - Vintage Action Figure Adverts: M.A.S.K.
A range of toy vehicles with hidden weapons and transforming features which included articulated drivers and pilots? The M.A.S.K. toy designers were definitely working overtime, although I can't comment on whether they were also fighting crime, FIGHTING CRIME!

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23min
March 23, 2026 Episode 553 - Vintage Action Figure Adverts: Transformers
A random assortment of vehicles, objects and creatures that could change into robots were thrown together haphazardly into one toy line, and we used to beg our parents to buy them for us because there was a cartoon about them. Also because they were awesome.

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21min
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

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