It's time for Adam and Heather to don their white suits and be each other's imaginary friend - it's Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). But will Adam enjoy this most treasured of all Heather's 60s shows, or will she have him drugged and committed to a grimy psychiatric ward run by a standard-issue dastardly Austrian psychiatrist? Please like, rate, review and subscribe to the podcast, especially if you're wearing pink trousers. https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme Music by Berlin Horse.

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969)

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 all be a big ol' yawn? Please like, rate, review and share the podcast, otherwise you'll get locked in a storeroom with nothing to do but polish your bottle. https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme Music by Berlin 'orse. I wanna take a leak but there's a policeman eying meHe's there every week, I wonder what his query can be.

Moondial (1988)

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, we also meet The Muppets - a community of weird mutations who are so shunned by society that they're forced to perform humiliating sideshow acts just to survive. Luckily, the bleeding heart liberal elite (ie woke pampered celebrities like Rita Moreno) are on hand to try and lend this spectacle some kind of legitimacy. Something something snowflakes something something millennials. Ahem, sorry, I don't know what came over me. Please like, rate, review and share the podcast, otherwise Peter Sellers will get you. https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme Music by Berlin Horse.

The Muppet Show (1976-1980)

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 boxes, glitter and disappointment - it's the reliably awkward Pop Quiz, featuring three of Heather's Short Faves, hooray. Please like, rate, review and share the podcast, otherwise Mike Read will sing an offensive song about you. https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme Music by Adam S. Leslie, Mr Berlin Horse. Correction: at one point, Adam describes Paul Jones as a 6 Music DJ. Paul Jones is, in fact, a BBC Radio 2 DJ - yes, he's *that* swanky. Sorry, Paul.

Pop Quiz (1984)

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. Please like, rate, review and share the podcast, otherwise you'll be condemned to a life of perfect health and blissful happiness. What a nightmare! https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme Music by Adam S. Leslie, aka Berlin Horse. James Baxter!

Star Trek - Series 1: This Side of Paradise (1967) (Part 2)

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 a single note of *that song*. You know the one I mean. We're a classy podcast. This is part one of two - they got a little bit overexcited and talked for two and a half hours. Balance of Terror is discussed in this episode, This Side of Paradise in the next. So, wearing the purple uniform of the Starfleet podcasting division, Adam and Heather buckle up and knuckle down to some serious Trekkery. Will Adam enjoy his taste of Kirk and the gang, or will he not give a TOS? Please like, rate, review and share the podcast, otherwise it's the pink smoke for you. https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme Music by Adam S. Leslie, aka Berlin Horse. Note: in their discussion about female characters with feminine-sounding surnames (Ensign Martine, President Roslin), our RetroTube pals forgot about the most blindly obvious example of all - Star Trek's very own Captain Janeway. Boh.

Star Trek - season 1: Balance of Terror (1967) (Part 1)

Part two of Adam and Heather blethering on about A Hard Day's Night. What are they like, honestly! Please subscribe to Cardboard Cinema Club on your podcast platform of choice. https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/cardboard-cinema-clubemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme tune by Berlin Horse

BONUS: A Hard Day's Night - (1964) Part Two (Cardboard Cinema Club)

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 absolutely lovely if you would be so kind as to have a listen to some of the other episodes of Cardboard Cinema Club, and maybe even consider subscribing - there are some real corkers coming up... films from the 1930s all the way up to the present day. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy our unabashed, unashamed Beatle geek-out - and stay tuned (though not in any literal sense) for part two! https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme Music by Berlin Horse.

BONUS: A Hard Day's Night - (1964) Part One  (Cardboard Cinema Club)

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, but that's the gist. But as TV theme tunes go, it certainly is one. No, it's good. Yeah, it's good, it's fine. I couldn't hum it, I always think of the Danger Man theme, which is the one from Mark and Lard. (Don't tell Heather I said this, she thinks it's the the bee's knees. Actually, she thinks it's the bees' knees, plural, that's how good she thinks it is.) Anyway, it's The Avengers, and we don't mention a certain superhero property once, not even once - aren't you proud of us? Please like, rate, review and share the podcast, otherwise you'll be sent to a special house that's REALLY ANNOYING, so annoying that you'll say, "This is annoying", and you'll get really cross and have to drink some brandy and also have a fight with a Welsh person who looks like Peter Baynham. https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme Music by Adam S. Leslie, that is also called Berlin Horse. Warning: this podcast contains Bluebottle. You rotten swine you.

The Avengers - series 4 (1965)

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 wearing his most fey floral shirt, and is holding Gotham City to ransom by threatening to play In Search of the Lost Chord by The Moody Blues on a dastardly loop, the scoundrel. Be it sight, sound, smell or touch, there is somethink inside we need so much... It's Heather's turn to inflict her glossy 60s shows onto Adam, but will he have any tolerance at all for Batman's bright colours and frivolous plots, or will the whole thing leave him with a sugar rush and toothache? Find out in this week's exciting instalment of - RetroTube! Please like, rate, review and share the podcast, otherwise Frank Gorshin will come and be all wriggly near you. Unless that seems like a good thing, in which case he won't. https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme Music by Adam S. Leslie, what is also called Berlin Horse.

Batman - season 1 (1966)

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