When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger

Part awful horror movie, part awful bawdy comedy, Worzel Gummidge is just as bad and/or good as you remember. Although we only half remember bits and pieces if we're honest. At least the kids aren't particularly annoying though...

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Gentle, calming, good old-fashioned children's classic Thomas The Tank Engine. Even if they wanted to, Mark and martyn couldn't ruin this. Apart from talking all over it. Good job idiots.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

The Goodies add their voices to a fruit-based parody of Captain Marvel in the disappointing Bananaman. Bananas have long been a comedy staple, even though they're not very funny. Maybe it's because the idea of slipping on a banana skin actually comes from the substitution of bananas for dog mess. In that respect, the creators of Bananaman have really paid suitable homage...

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

Mark and Martyn have done 50 podcasts (party popper sound effect), so to mark the occasion they finally get around to one of the biggest franchises of the 80s, Transformers. Not only that, but it's the movie, which is a harrowing bloodbath. Can robots bleed? They can definitely feel pain in this movie. So much pain...

So listen in friends as your hosts are forced to talk to each other for three times longer than usual and see which dies first - all your beloved childhood characters or the W4B boys' enthusiasm?

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

"Ulyssee-ee-ee-ee-ees, no-one else can do the things you do..." Although you do appear to have copied your fair share of popular culture.

Another boring, bearded sci-fi father-figure with a whiny son, annoying robot and generic alien entourage. Ulysses 31 has it all. How can something so technically well-made be so bad?

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

"Hey Hey Hey!" Bill Cosby introduces us to Fat Albert and his friends, and Mark and Martyn pay no attention to the fact that this show isn't from the eighties, or to any of Bill Cosby's recent activities. Whatever they were. We don't know anything about that.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

"Everybody needs good neighbours..." Unfortunately we got boring and confusing neighbours instead.

Another request show, this week Mark and Martyn watch the first episode of long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours. So throw another shrimp on the barbie, open a tinny and look out for brown-eyed mullets in the pool...

Additional YouTube viewing:

http://youtu.be/xUTfBR5LXA8Jim from Neighbours Heart Attack Collection

http://youtu.be/LEwDeNKYYMg28 minute compilation of Neighbours deaths and exits

You're welcome.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

"Eyes of the Hawk, Ears of the Wolf, Bravestarr! (Bravestarr) Strength of the Bear, Speed of the Poo-Ma!"

Everyone's favourite bowel movement-related super power joke from the playgrounds of 1987 is relived as Mark and Martyn watch Bravestarr again. Pssst... It's just cowboy He-Man on Tatooine...

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

To tie-in with this week's episode of If You Like (*cough* go and subscribe to that podcast as well *cough*), Mark and Martyn watch the 80s precursor to the better known X-men animated series from the 90s, full of inexplicable accents and opening credit set pieces.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

"We're walking in the air..."

Mark and Martyn succumb to seasonal peer pressure and do a Christmas special - everyone's favourite boring and depressing tale of impending mortality, Raymond Briggs' The Snowman. Everything dies eventually. Merry Christmas.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy.