When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger

80s teenagers mash buttons frantically in First Class, the show hipsters will say they prefer to Gamesmaster. Are hipsters still a thing?

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy

Four Square is a gameshow that nobody has ever watched. It is about squares. At least four of them I bet.

Writing show notes is hard sometimes.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy

Turnabout is the best thing Rob Curling has ever done. Better than presenting sports news on Sky News, better than motivationally speaking as a motivational speaker, better than anything else I find out about him in this Google search I just did.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy

"Nobody tells me what to do, no not me..." Ah Pugwall, Australia's own rebel without a plot. Mark and Martyn revisit the summer holiday time slot filler about a 13 year old boy and his boring family and friends. In the summer - when they go to Japan for some reason. There's racism and disappointment - this is still the most Australian TV show ever made.

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

"Thesp... build me a borg!" shouted Craig Charles, as he awaited the arrival of a blocky virtual reality avatar. But it never arrived. Was there something wrong with Thesp? Were the borgs broken? Or was he just in the B&Q car park again, being all confused?

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Mentioned briefly during our David comma The Gnome episode, Trans World Sport was the program you had to sit through on a weekend morning before kids' tv started. Not good kids' tv though. At least you would learn about sports from around the world. Not good sports though. We were just too lazy to go outside and play. Or even change the channel.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

We finish our Gnome-ology with the first episode of the Smurfs, the smurfiest pile of old smurf we've ever had to smurf.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Who is your favourite Tom Bosley character? Whatever you just said is wrong, because it's actually David comma The Gnome, the tiny sadistic veterinarian who could easily sneak into your house and kill you because he is stronger than 7 men. Luckily for you he prefers hurting animals, but we all know it's only a matter of time...

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Noddy. The little gnome in the red and yellow car. Shakey. A nickname for Shakin' Stevens.

It's the first episode in our gnome-ology, as we start looking at shows about gnomes for some reason. And at least this is the least racist version of Noddy. Probably.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

This is a gameshow for pre-schoolers and the questions are easy and boring, so Mark comes up with some more challenging ones instead.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.