Smersh Pod

In this episode, we'll be solving everything with a nice cuppa and bringing things back down to Eartha... It's The Protectors, who will be investigating 'A Pocket Full of Posies' - with special guest star Ivan Kirby!

This week we’ll be getting our ass to Mars to find out just who’s been meddling with our minds, and just who sells three cupped bras at this time of night. Yes, it’s Total Recall. Joining me to open their mind, is Kuato Dr. Dean Burnett, and Gwat-o Dan Thomas. 

From January 2022! Dean, John and Dan take you to the 26th century to talk about everything in this film, and a lot about Geoff Capes and David Bellamy. This might be the best thing we've all ever done.

Welcome to another Star Trek special. This week we’ll be entering the Nexus, a place where time means nothing, and you can go anywhere you want, and have anything your heat desires. So I am hoping it drops me off at Star Trek 2 Yes, it’s Star Trek : Generations.And joining me to tie an energy ribbon round Enterprise B is Paul Litchfield. 

Hello and welcome to SMERSHPOD, I’m your host John Rain. This time for another of our extra special compilation episodes where we’ve taken the very best parts of SMERSHes gone by, edited them together, realised it’s only 3 minutes long, and then sifted through the bin to see how we can bulk out the running time. Today we’re opening up the 2023 SMERSH vault. Over the next 45 minutes you’ll be hearing from galaxies far, far away, heroes from long, long ago, and another set of adjectives to be inserted here in the final script, must check that before recording.

Welcome to another ChirstSMERSH special. This week we’ll be really getting into the spirit of Christmas by letting a child eat his own weight in chocolate, giving life lessons to an old man, and making some parents feel like utter sh*t.Yes, it’s Home Alone.Joining me to make some bandits wet is Tom Burgess

This week we’ll be finding out just what happens when awful, unscrupulous people take over an airline and cause nothing but fear, panic, terror and chaos, and I’m not talking about Ryanair. Yes, it’s Die Hard 2Joining me to do nude karate while ensuring that his seat is back and his folding trays are in their full upright position, is Paul Gannon.

This week we’ll be looking for true love, lost fathers and six fingers, but enough about those Andre the Giant rumours. Yes, it’s The Princess Bride. Joining me to read a story to a cancelled child, are Tom Neenan and Tom Crowley.

An archive classic all the way from 2017! Grab a massive glass of Advocaat, down it in one and then pour another: it's the first of three Christmas Smershpod specials! Kicking us off, it's Richard Curtis's 2003 romantic-comedy Love Actually. John is joined by the thoroughly brilliant Guardian TV critic Julia Raeside.