RetroTube

BONUS: Cardboard Cinema Club has been sitting around not doing much for a wee bit (due to Adam being too busy for two podcasts), so for a bit of a Halloween bonus, here's the very first episode for anyone who missed it.

In this exciting* first episode of Cardboard Cinema Club, Adam is joined by Alex Pearson to chat about the classic 1981 John Landis horror-comedy, An American Werewolf In London. A naked American man stole th...

Content Warning: This is a chat about the strange and dark world of 1970s British Public Information Films, which deal with child safety, specifically the consequences of playing in farmyards and on railway lines, so there's discussion of fictional child deaths throughout.

It's Halloween month, and this episode Adam is joined by the wonderful Evelyn Mars. Evelyn's an American born in the late 1980s, so what will she make of horr...

Third syllable

Round

Long?

Pipe - is it pipe?

Cylinder

Telescope?

TUBE! TUBE!

Okay, second syllable.

Boat.

Rowing boat.

ROW!

Row-tube

RETROTUBE!

[audience applause]

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Theme Music by Berlin Horse

Mime by Roff Joffl...

Due to unpopular demand, here's a bonus episode covering episodes 5 & 6 of Moondial (after we received complaints that we only covered 1-4) featuring the wonderful Audrey Violet (previously heard on the Escape Into Night and Cardboard Cinema Club: Celine & Julie Go Boating episodes*).

Whereas Heather was a newbie to the world of Moondial, Audrey is an old hand - in fact, it's one of her favourite things ever. So who bett...

It's time to take a trip to deepest rural Lincolnshire, and meet wise old Aunt Mary, jolly Mr World and lovely cuddly Miss Raven - not to mention Maggs the kindly gardener and Mrs Crump, the happiest cook in all the county. Yes, it's Moondial!

It's a perfect excuse for Adam to bang on something tedious about his childhood, but will Heather find anything to enjoy about this tale of spooky tale of time-travelling children, or will...

It's The Muppet Show, yaaaaaaaay! And also two of Heather's favourite things: short men and puppets. In the last episode, we featured two of show business's finest small men, Davy Jones and Steve Marriott. Well, hold onto your potatoes Dr Jones, for this episode we have THREE of show business's finest small men, from the worlds of music, comedy and measuring up to the height requirement for stormtroopers.

But more importantly, ...

Well, RetroTube was almost on a roll, then Adam went and got bloomin' Covid and spent the two and a half weeks he COULD'VE been editing this episode instead lying around on the sofa watching films. Went The Day Well? and Train To Busan is quite the double bill.

Anyway, after all the gloss and action of the last four episodes, courtesy of Heather, it's time for a dog-eared mid-80s quiz show whose set is made from old carboard box...

Spore blimey - it's part 2 of Adam and Heather's chat about Star Trek series 1, and this time they're looking at This Side of Paradise. Spock gets the girl, Bones gets the tonsils and Kirk gets the hump.

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Q. What does this episode of RetroTube have in common with the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix?

A. Start Wreck.

Now I've got that off my chest, it's time for long-term non-Trekker Adam to be introduced to two episodes of Star Trek by Heather, the world's biggest Leonard McCoy fangirl, ho boy, and how, yes indeed. And you'll be pleased to know that a) at no point do they mention the words, "Beam me up, Scotty", and b), you won't hear ...

Heather and Adam have been holding out on you - only two Retrotube episodes so far this year, and the last one in April. What is the world coming to?

To go some way towards atoning for this, and while we prepare our next proper RetroTube episode, here's Heather appearing as a guest on Adam's sibling podcast, Cardboard Cinema Club, talking about their favourite subject, the Beatles' 1964 film, A Hard Day's Night.

It would be a...

Adam has always wanted to wear a bowler hat and Heather has always wanted to punch people... so what better opportunity than Series 4 of swanky spy series, The Avengers? It's British TV's most arch and knowing adventure show, and British TV's most medium theme tune - it's fine, it's sort of in the middle. Actually, I edited out the bit where we talk about it because we rambled on for two hours, and something has to get the chop, bu...

Holy New Season of RetroTube! And it looks like The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder will be up against their most fearsome foes yet. In her vivid blue cape and spangly blue mask, Everton Girl will confound the Dynamic Duo by being all Scouse and that, and having a working knowledge of the off-side rule, flanked as always by eleven henchmen with inexplicable hairstyles and even more inexplicable blue shorts. Meanwhile, The Fop is ...

It's a bonus episode, because we can't leave well enough alone.

Ever wondered what that really odd animation was involving all sorts of insects and woodland creatures, set to a jaunty psychedelic rock song, which would occasionally crop up on TV in the 80s? In this rogue extra outing - it really is the last one for 2021 - Adam inflicts the 3-minute short upon Heather, and they manage to talk about it for over half an hour.

We're all jolly well going to have a splendiferous time, and try not to get scrobbled by rotters, as Adam and Heather head into a fortuitous snowfall to seek out a copy of Box of Delights... only to find that Box of Delights was contained within their own boxes of delight (no sniggering at the back) the whole time - their online TV streaming services! Hooray! Isn't that just the purple pim?

So join them for the last RetroTube of...

It's time for wispy fungus, railway tunnels, men in combat boots and really big cuddly Ewoks - The Web of Fear.

Three hours in, and Adam and Heather are nearing delirium... and they're not even doing it for charity. But never mind, there's light at the end of the tunnel, ho ho, as their Season 5 overview reaches its... well, the point at which they decide to stop, anyway. 'Climax' would probably be putting it too strongly.

Go...

You'll have had yer tea.

We're back for part 2 of our giddy ramble about the legendary Season 5 of Doctor Who: to be precise, episodes 1 & 4 of The Ice Warriors. Two non-consecutive episodes... what could possibly go wrong?

Heather is wearing her finest pop-art PVC outfit, while Adam has drawn on a beard with black marker pen. But will Heather appreciate this stagey malarkey, or will she run off down an ice corridor and s...

Part 1 of Adam & Heather's chat about Season 5 of Doctor Who takes in the first two episodes of Tomb of the Cybermen.

In order to give Heather a flavour of the base-under-siege world of Season 5, we've jumped about across several stories and watched a couple of episodes from each - whether this turns out to have been a good idea or not will become clear at the podcast goes along.

Tomb of the Cybermen took us to the one-ho...

Adam has been kidnapped by sinister agents from TV Cream archive television podcast, and only Heather can rescue him. Disguised as Graham Kibble-White, Heather has infiltrated their base; knocked their butler unconscious; bugged their library; set up a complex pulley system involving a winch, three metres of cable, half a pound of dried figs and a copy of Horse & Hounds; and fashioned a decoy Adam out of plasticine. But is the ...