BONUS: Another Halloweeny repost from Cardboard Cinema Club! Huazzah! We broach the 21st Century for the first time, as Adam is joined by actual real-life Canadian* Shannon Fay - author of Innate Magic and External Forces - to discuss the infinitely rewatchable horror-comedy (or comedy-horror), Shaun of the Dead. You can find Shannon on Twitter @ShannonLFay and buy her books in all the usual book-buying places. https://twitter.com/retro_tube [at least till Adam sorts a Cardboard Cinema Club twit...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 22 min
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 their balloons - and they never did get the £2 they were promised - but th...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 25 min
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 @the...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Third syllable Round Long? Pipe - is it pipe? Cylinder Telescope? TUBE! TUBE! Okay, second syllable. Boat. Rowing boat. ROW! Row-tube RETROTUBE! [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_tube https://shows.acast.com/retrotube email: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme Music by Berlin Horse Mime by Roff Joffley and Oscar Vambuselem Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 4Ep. 9
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 f...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 4Ep. 8
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 p...
Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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 ...
Jan 10, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 6
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,...
Aug 23, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 4Ep. 5
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_tube https://shows.acast.com/retrotube email: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme Music by Adam S. Leslie, aka Berlin Horse....
Jul 29, 2022•53 min•Season 4Ep. 4
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 p...
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 3
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_tube https://shows.acast.com/cardboard-cinema-club email: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme tune by Berlin Horse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 15, 2022•51 min
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...
Jun 12, 2022•1 hr
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....
Apr 18, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 2
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 ...
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 1
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....
Dec 27, 2021•35 min•Season 3Ep. 16
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 ope...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 3Ep. 15
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 c...
Dec 08, 2021•45 min•Season 3Ep. 14
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: y...
Dec 02, 2021•53 min•Season 3Ep. 13
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 thre...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 12
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 t...
Nov 14, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 11
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 Grea...
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 10
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 ...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 9
(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 behin...
Oct 03, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 8
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 ros...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Donning their best Cockney accents, Adam and Heather are huddled in a chilly transport caff waiting to knock off a consignment of dodgy videos coming over from Rotterdam - old episodes of To The Manor Born and Larry Grayson's Generation Game, plus a cannister containing Marco Polo and episode 4 of The Tenth Planet. But who's this doing 90 'cos they've got the word to go? It's Goodnight Mr Tom and Minder come to nick them, with bonus fisticuffs. Adam and Heather are going to get a right old hidin...
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Well, a lookie-here, if it ain't that most disreputable gang in the whole of the west - the Retrotube Gang, come to shoot the marshal and his deputy full o' holes - with their verbal sparring, of course: there ain't no guns allowed on Retrotube Ranch. Why look, it's Ezekial Retrotube, Norton Retrotube, Clete Retrotube, ol' Gabriel Retrotube, Clayton Retrotube, Isaac Retrotube, Phileas Retrotube, Charlton Retrotube, little brother Seth Retrotube, Mad Merton Retrotube, and worst of all, Ma and Pa ...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Here's a little extra bonus thingy - not so much an actual episode, more supplementary material to go along with the chat with Peter Tunstall. We touched upon the audio tapes that we used to record and post to each other throughout the 90s. If you were at all intrigued by the clips I included in the episode, or just enjoy the whole nostalgic 80s/90s tape cassette culture, I've put together a C90's worth of some of the highlights. It won't be everyone's cup of tea - or even their glass of warm ch...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 30 min
While Heather is on the mend, here's a slightly different episode from normal - I'm chatting to my old pal from primary school, Peter Tunstall. Peter is a writer, brainbox and all-round excellent fellow. We'd intended to talk about some of the TV programmes we watched growing up, but it quickly turned into a more general chat about nostalgia as an idea / sensation. But we do cover Doctor Who, Jackanory and unusual shows which frightened us, amongst other subjects. RetroTube will be back to norma...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Once, a long time ago, there were two nasty ogres, one called Adam and the other called Heather. Now, it was well known that Adam and Heather were the nastiest, meanest, most bad-tempered ogres in all the land - they'd snatch away lollipops from children, they'd knock off old ladies' hats, and worst of all, they'd watch old TV shows and then take it upon themselves to sit in judgment. One day, the two ogres came across a television programme from long, long ago called Grim Tales, which featured ...
Jul 07, 2021•52 min•Season 3Ep. 3
There is great danger ahead, young warriors - Adam and Heather have wandered into the realm and now seek a knowledge more dark and more powerful than any you have yet encountered: is this cheap mid-80s American cartoon tie-in series any good or not? Use the force, Luke... I mean, use your wits, warriors. Only by not watching Dungeons & Dragons can you truly watch Dungeons & Dragons. But beware: it is not Adam you have to please, but the almighty Heather, keeper of the final verdict. She ...
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 2
