When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger

When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger

When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger is a weekly podcast that watches kids' TV from the eighties and casts a more cynical eye on the shows we used to love. Sometimes funny, usually disappointing, join your hosts Mark and Martyn and ruin a small part of your childhood week by week.

Episodes

July 21, 2025 32 mins

A boring gameshow for kids about geography is not made better by including the pursuit of a big robot. Geography is dull. 

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Trying to make an educational cartoon fun is like putting a cherry on top of a dog poo. There, I said it.

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July 7, 2025 33 mins

Wally is a man who is constantly playing hide and seek, and like a toddler who has just discovered the game, continues to hide in the same place forever. 

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June 30, 2025 32 mins

Sequels are always brilliant aren't they? I bet you can't think of a single example of a horribly disappointing sequel. On a completely unrelated note, we watched the Return of Dogtanian. 

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June 23, 2025 17 mins

If you think we make loads of funny jokes about balls this week, you're wrong. Our jokes are never funny.   

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June 16, 2025 24 mins

We did a show about tugs once before, and invited you to make your own jokes then. We'd advise doing the same again, as ours haven't got any better.    

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June 9, 2025 36 mins

Gruey is another dull tv show about a mischievous northern schoolboy, but we spend more time talking about the mischievous projects the main character filmed as an adult.     

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June 2, 2025 21 mins

You haven't heard of Street Frogs, but it was a real cartoon about frogs, living on a street.   

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May 19, 2025 18 mins

Pigsty is about a diner which is run by nightmarish pig-human hybrids and everybody is cool with that, yeah? Nobody questions it, it's fine. Just eat your food and go about your day.  

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May 12, 2025 25 mins

Wonderbug is about a cheeky car that's alive, but it's completely different from Herbie the Love Bug, so stop saying that it's the same because it isn't.    

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May 5, 2025 31 mins

A boy falls into a hat and hat people live in hats inside the hat and they ride hats around. Also, the boy is Eddie Munster.    

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April 28, 2025 16 mins

A frog and a toad are friends. It's in the title.   

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April 21, 2025 31 mins

Alfonso Bonzo is a thirty-something exchange student who forces cursed magical items onto a hapless schoolboy, probably to teach him a lesson or something.   

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April 14, 2025 26 mins

An insect band tries to evade the schemes of a jealous witch with a rat chauffeur.

That's the show.   

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What's scarier than a haunted puppet? A haunted puppet with multiple identities ready for a quick escape to another country.   

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Someone should make a tv show based on brine shrimp eggs. Said no-one, ever.   

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March 24, 2025 21 mins

How did the Rhino get its skin? Millions of years of environmental adaptation, or a cake-based prank? In today's post-facts world, there's really no way to say for sure...  

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To show how far we've come in the last ten years we present the very first episode of W4B, in which we watch some teenagers dealing with the everyday problems of being trapped in a fantasy world with a rubbish unicorn. It's just as good as it sounds. And thanks to our 2015 recording setup it sounds terrible.

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March 10, 2025 77 mins

In our 500th episode spectacular, we revisit one of Mark's childhood favourites by watching the 1967 Asterix movie with a few of our loyal Patreon members.  

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Mark as Played
March 3, 2025 28 mins

All preschool tv shows about words and pictures used to be obliged to include a puppet from your nightmares. Canada was not exempt from this rule. 

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