When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger

Anything Channel 4 could do, Sky One could do later. Games World had a lot in common with GamesMaster - a scornful mocking host, characters pretending to be good at video games, and Dave Perry hanging around like a bad smell.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Some animals have escaped from a pet shop and are pretending that they always lived by a British riverbank, and also that they have human needs and desires. And post offices.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Fruit in clothing is descending from a higher floor. Fruit in clothing is pursuing stuffed animals. This is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Grotbags looks young and Croc looks diseased in the first episode of Emu's World. Rod Hull and Emu continue to look like an elderly woman using a ratty old toy from a car boot sale as an excuse to assault people.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show has it all - Dazzle, Razzle, the Hudson Brothers... and Rod Hull & Emu!

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

We open a portal to hell via Youtube and watch some awful puppets summon Tony Robinson into their infernal domain.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Tony Hart could probably kill you with his little finger, but instead he lives the peaceful life of some kind of monk in an extra-dimensional workshop where you're safe from the horrible real world, but modelling clay comes to life occasionally.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Simon brings his nightmarish doodles to life using magic chalk, or otherworldly sorcery on normal chalk, or mind-altering narcotics. I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

What do you get when you cross the Pink Windmill kids with Let's Pretend? This shambles about a load of over-enthusiastic stage school adults jumping about and singing whilst using half a dressing-up box.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Alphabet Castle is under siege by the soldiers of Number Castle, and they're pouring boiling oil over the parapets to burn all the Number people whilst battering rams smash through the walls!

Or, someone done a painting of a letter whilst wearing a cardboard crown.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling