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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 horrifying British Public Information Films of the 1970s?Instagram @thedevilsworkpodTikTok @thedevilsworkpodcasthttps://letterboxd.com/evelyn_mars/list/the-devils-work-podcast/thedevilsworkpodcast@gmail.comhttps://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.comTheme Music by Adam himself, gosh Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Third syllableRoundLong?Pipe - is it pipe?CylinderTelescope?TUBE! TUBE!Okay, second syllable.Boat.Rowing boat.ROW!Row-tubeRETROTUBE![audience applause]Please like, rate, review and share the podcast, otherwise Beryl will have a word. And whatever you do, no being silly.https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.comTheme Music by Berlin HorseMime by Roff Joffley and Oscar Vambuselem Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 better to cover the rest of Moondial with? No one, that's who.You can find Auds Violet on Twitter @crowviolets, and in the podcasting world on her very own show, The Violet Ghost Train.Heather will be back next time, as we watch... well, something. It's a surprise.*1001 thanks to Iain of the All Of Time And Space for his recommendation of our little Parisian adventure towards the end of the Doctor Who Season 4 retrospective episode, it was a delightful surprise. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.comTheme 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.comTheme Music by Berlin Horse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.comTheme 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.comTheme Music by Adam S. Leslie, aka Berlin Horse.James Baxter! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.comTheme 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.comTheme Music by Adam S. Leslie, that is also called Berlin Horse.Warning: this podcast contains Bluebottle. You rotten swine you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.comTheme Music by Adam S. Leslie, what is also called Berlin Horse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 2021 (and week four of their Patrick Troughton marathon), crack open the eggnog and whiskey mac, steal all the strawberry Quality Street before anyone else can get their hands on them, play with your new Star Wars figures (I got Greedo and Biker Scout, what did you get?) and enjoy... The Box of Delights.Maria Jones says: podcasts are boring, we should all just have gun battles with the latest military hardware, and maybe drop bombs on each other, that's be whizzer! But if you must listen to silly old podcasts - yawn - then the least you could do is like, rate, review and share the podcast, before I blast you with my real Colt Peacemaker, just like cowboys had. Pow pow!Music by Berlin Horse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Good news - there's no dastardly foreigners in this one; but there is a comedy Welshman. Sorry, Huw.Speaking of which, Driver Evans says: well, boyo, it's like this isn't it, I'm not going to like, rate, review or share the podcast. You can like, rate, review and share the podcast if you want, boyo, but not me, I'm not crazy, like. No way, boyo.https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.comTheme Music by Berlin Horse. Yet another remix. Some spanking new Arturia virtual instruments, and the full compliment of the wonderful Analogue Obsession compressors - what's a chap to do? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 scream so loudly it all comes crashing down on top of her?Storr says: ye'll no be liking, rating, reviewing or sharing any podcast, if I have anything to do with it. Podcasts are the work of science - it's all evil. Evil, I tell ye! Any enemy of podcasts is a friend of mine. These podcasters - ye cannae trust a word they say!https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.comTheme Music by Berlin Horsssssse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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-hour mark, so we've split the podcast up into two episodes. Or maybe three, depending on how the next batch of editing goes...Meanwhile, in this episode, find out:What happened when Heather met Frazer and Adam met Debbie.Whether Heather's reaction to the Second Doctor was a deep, profound love or a deep, profound irritation.Which famous Hollywood writer neither Adam nor Heather have any time for.Which of the characters needs a jolly good smacked bottom. (I think I left that part in, anyway)John Viner says: please like, rate, review and share, for God's sake, before they come and kill us all. It's this podcast! Its alive! Alive, I tell you! https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.comTheme Music by Berlin Horse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Adam she now has in the boot of her car the real Adam, or is he too an impostor in disguise?Before his kidnap, Adam was busy watching an episode from the first season of Mission: Impossible, an American espionage/hijinks show featuring some people doing some things. Will Adam enjoy the adventures of Dan Briggs and his assorted pals, or will he tear off his mask and flounce away into the evening?An unprecedented fourth Carl Wilson says (or would've done had he been conscious), please like, rate, review and share the podcasthttps://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.comTheme Music by Berlin Horse, featuring the Dan Briggs Singers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adam is cooking up a brand new money-making scheme selling first years to science and then running a sweepstake on how much profit he makes, while girly old Heather is fretting about what make-up to wear to her make-up-and-boys party to which she is hoping to invite some very cool older boys who look like they should be in Brother Beyond but can't act.Before they do that, they have to watch a couple of episodes from the final season of Imperial-phase Grange Hill - the last to feature Ziggy Greaves, Gonch Gardner, Helen Kelly, Danny Kendall, the mighty Mr Bronson - and, of course, the late Alan Hawkshaw's magnificent Chicken Man theme tune. Mwanap mwah mwaaaah.But will Heather enjoy spending time with so many grubby teenagers and their Norf Landan accents, or will she end up pursuing Adam down a corridor, bellowing at him and issuing all sorts of dire threats?A norse! A norse! My kingdom for a norse!Mrs McClusky says: I'd have expected this from you, Adam, but not the rest of you. I don't want to have to call in your parents, but I shall. In the meantime, I require you all to like, rate, review and subscribe to the podcast, and don't let me catch you using language like that again.https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.comTheme music by Berlin Horse.But I didn't understand. I didn't understand. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While Heather gears up for our next regular episode - and it is turning out to be a slightly involved diversion from the usual formula - Adam is joined by artist, writer, comedian, compere and film studies tutor Crow Violet to talk about ATV's almost mythical 1972 adaptation of Catherine Storr's children's novel Marianne Dreams.Adam and Crow are both huge fans of Bernard Rose's 1988 movie adaptation of the same novel, Paperhouse - but can a low-budget TV version filmed on two sets with a total of five actors possibly live up to it?Check out Crow's wonderful website and her exploration of hauntology and strange spaces here:https://crowviolet.com/If you don't rate and subscribe at all the usual places, mummy will be forced to call Dr Burton again:https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.comMusic by Berlin Horse, neigh Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(Re-upload, now with new improved audio quality! Huzzah!)What's Raphael's favourite film?Turtle Recall.It's time to take a trip into the sewers of New York City to visit the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Harpo, Groucho, Stig, Ron, Barry, Mike, Vyvyan, Neil, Curly and Moe. Or something like that, I wasn't really paying attention. Adam has been kidnapped by the evil Shredder and is being forced to watch episodes of a 1987 animated TV show for some reason. Who could be the mastermind behind this dastardly plot? Why yes, it's Heather "Krang" Wainwright, flexing her brain-tendrils in a most devious fashion.When the evil Shredder attacks,Those turtle boys are wearing their slacks.Would it be accurate to refer to the Turtles as the ultimate Splinter group?Will Adam enjoy this exquisite torture, or will this be the end of Retrotube at the exact one-year mark?Happy Anniversary everyone!Michelangelo says: please like, rate, review and share the podcast, dude. I'd do it myself, but I'm, like, tooootally baked.https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.comTheme Music by Berlin Horse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fair go! Heather's going to the tut this arvo, while Adam is busy lagging to the screws. But Heather's just been made top dog, so Adam's heading for a bashing. But be careful, Adam and Heather, or you'll both end up on a charge!The big question is, though: will Heather enjoy the wild and wacky world of Prisoner: Cell Block H, or will she repeatedly slam Adam's head in a door for making her watch it? And will Adam, by way of revenge, put something toxic in her face powder?He used to give me rosesI wish he would againBut I ran him over with my VolvoAnd now I'm sharing a cell with Lexi Patterson and Alice Jenkins.Please like, rate, review and share the podcast, or Willie will sing for you.https://twitter.com/retro_tubehttps://shows.acast.com/retrotubeemail: retrotubepodcast@gmail.comTheme Music by Berlin Horse.A wheelbarrow? That's no place for yeast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.