It's Man From U.N.C.L.E. time - and Adam gets to be the smooth one with a way with the ladies and who reckons he's the star of the show; while Heather is the grumpy one who thinks she's the sidekick but is actually the one everyone tunes in for. Just you wait, there'll soon be Heather Wainwright related novelty records! It's a glossy 60s spy show, so OF COURSE this is one of Heather's... but will Adam enjoy its fast-paced hijinks (and the presence of two baby-faced American TV legends as guest s...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Part 2 of Adam and Heather's Adventure Game chinwag, in which they leave Paul and Robert far behind... but not Lesley. Oh no, not Lesley - it seems like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, but we get to see a whole other side of her in this episode. You thought Tina Heath getting pregnant was shocking? Think again. Meanwhile, we meet Graeme Garden, Carol Chell and Stretched Adric for a journey through Series 2 Arg, and a very difference place it is too, with different Argonds. These furry tubes a...
Apr 28, 2021•56 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Adam and Heather rambled on something rotten this week, so we've split their conversation about 1980s children's game show The Adventure Game into two parts - series 1 now, and series 2 next time if you're very good and eat up all your vegetables. Moira Stuart is really a lizard person, and she has Heather, Adam and a random civilian trapped in a gloomy cave system, forcing them to complete impossibly convoluted puzzles for her own amusement... or is it all just a particularly baffling dream? An...
Apr 21, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Hey hey we're Adam and Heather And people say we Adam and Heather around. Leonard Nimoy has really become a Vulcan and Michael Nesmith has put his fist through a wall (and it coulda been your face), so it's time to pull on our green woollen hats and double-breasted red shirts and join the world's first manufactured boy band on their tartrazine-fuelled romp around the dispiriting mid-60s music industry. It's The Monkees! But will Adam be nice about Heather's favourite band and TV show, or will he...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Canadian author Shannon Fay joins RetroTube this week for a trip to Doyley Wood to watch the not-that-obscure British animated series, Willo The Wisp. Will Shannon be swept up by the off-kilter surreal charm of this early 80s hand-drawn cartoon, or will she end up cackling like a deranged television and magic the whole thing away with 'er evil spells wot she 'as. You can follow Shannon on Twitter @ShannonLFay and also buy her bloomin' book, Innate Magic , when it comes out please and thank you. ...
Apr 07, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 7
A special feature-length episode of Retrotube, as Adam and Heather don their Fair Isle tank-tops, oversize blue zoot-suit jackets and funny feathery top hats, and drag their Aunt Jessicas onto the Magical Mystery Tour - destination: some grotty off-season seaside resort. But will Who-and-Hollies-and-Monkees-loving Heather be riveted by the Beatles' aimless meanderings, or will she nod off half way through and have a slightly disturbing dream about spaghetti? (Victor Spaghetti, ho ho). Well, will...
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Adam and Heather's clothes are split and in tatters... but then, it was a very large lunch. They've also been watching 1978's The Incredible Hulk, Retrotube's first all-American outing, and the show colour TV was invented for. Marvel fan Heather could watch the big green bloke smashing things up all day - but will childhood nostalgia be enough to carry Adam through the antics and tomfoolery, or will his "rarrr" be more of a "zzzz"? Or will the whole thing be derailed when Heather's uncontrollabl...
Mar 19, 2021•59 min•Season 2Ep. 5
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Sausages, Ice Cream, Bread, A Nice Merlot, Margarine, Celery, Lemonade, Carrot Cake and Peanuts. Lemonade and Peanuts have been assigned. Join Heather in her natty grey suit and Adam in his lovely floofy blue dress as they watch Sapphire and Steel: Assignment 4. But will David McCallum's pretty face and floppy hair be e...
Mar 12, 2021•55 min•Season 2Ep. 4
It's time to hop on over to the TFI Friday studios for... gritty 1967 spy thriller, Man In A Suitcase. Adam and Heather take a trek through the darker and grimier corners of the swinging decade, and get involved in all sorts of espionage shenanigans and undercover jiggerypokery - meeting a very familiar drunken rogue and a very familiar double agent in the process. But will Adam enjoy the show, or will he become distracted by a drunken Shaun Ryder, an ugly bloke and Ocean Colour Scene? Philip Ma...
Mar 05, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Big 10! It's time for Heather and Adam to don their fancy capes, spandex jumpsuits and helmets shaped like birds' heads and take a trip to Centre Neptune for an after-school viewing of Sandy Frank Presents Battle of the Planets. But will Heather enjoy this most disco of all teatime cartoons, or will it take all of her syuper powers to make it through the three episodes: The Thing With 1000 Eyes, Keyop Does It All and Space Rock Concert? Babybabybabybabybabyyyyy I luuuuu woooo babybabybaby. Sexy ...
Feb 26, 2021•58 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Retrotube is back for Season 2, and it's time for Heather and Adam to slip on their unflattering jumpers and take the bus to East Cheam as they enjoy classic 1961 pioneer sitcom Hancock, and the episodes The Bedsitter, The Bowmans and The Blood Donor. But will Adam enjoy Tony's misanthropic right-wing world view, or will he unexpectedly have a funny turn and have to lie on the floor (or both)? Find out inside! NOTE: Adam says Percy Thrower in this episode, when really he means Percy Edwards. He ...
Feb 20, 2021•53 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Raaarrrrr! It's time for another RetroTube Obscurios, and this week Adam is joined by Hannah Cooper (@MrsSimonTemplar) to discuss murky 1981 horror shenanigans, The Nightmare Man. It's Robert Holmes! It's Douglas Camfield! It's Reg Hollis off The Bill! It's well-known Scottish actress, Celie Imrie! It's a lurking, shiny monster with red-tinted eyesight brutally picking off local residents one by one! Exactly the sort of thing to watch when you're six years old. But will Hannah say "Yay!" or will...
Feb 08, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 12
It's time for another poke around the dusty attic of archive television, and this week the sinister presence we can hear scritching about on the floorboards overhead is the 1969 adaptation of Alan Garner's novel, The Owl Service. Adam's guest for this episode is Jezella Pigott - artist, musician and all-round good egg - whose links you can find here: https://www.instagram.com/follow_theredthread/ https://jezellapigott.co.uk/ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/breathedraw-tickets-137837476603 Please ...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 11
While Heather is recuperating from a touch of the Covid (but don't worry, she's firmly on the mend), join Adam and special guest Alex Pearson for a new and occasional dip into the weirder, more obscure and often creepier corners of archive television, Obscurios. For this inaugural episode, we're looking at mid-80s child-terrifier, INTERFERENCE, which went out as part of ITV's Middle English educational programming. Crumbs! If our podcast piques your interest, you can watch the full programme her...
Jan 03, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Adam and Heather are not mountain goats and they prefer walking to anyday - but what will Heather make of classic 1965 comic romp, The Time Meddler: two Carry On stars, a secret Scouser and the presenter of Junior Kickstart get up to all sorts of hijinks and monkery in 11th Century Northumbria. Will Heather turn her nose up at such nonsense, and will Adam bore on at great length about his favourite show? (A hard yes to one of those questions). Hi-Fi the toy panda asks if you could please like, r...
Dec 18, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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_tube https://shows.acast.com/retrotube email: ...
Dec 11, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 8
This week, Adam and Heather look at three episodes of Tales of the Unexpected - What Have You Been Up To Lately, The Wrong 'Un and Royal Jelly. Or is Adam really duping Heather into watching weird old TV shows so that he can steal her diamonds, or is Heather really allowing Adam to steal her diamonds so that he's targeted by the vengeful criminals from which she stole them, or is Adam allowing himself to be targeted by vengeful criminals in order to poison their leader who used to bully him at s...
Dec 04, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 7
We're back, and this week, Adam (#29) and Heather (#71) don their fetching blazers, slacks and deck shoes to wander disconsolately around a pastel-coloured idyll, occasionally stopping to buy a cuckoo clock or bounce around on trampolines like a pair of pillocks. Why, it can only be that most 60s of all 60s show, The Prisoner. But will Adam be placed on a throne and declared king, or will the whole thing prove too baffling and cause him to make a break for it across the beach with Heather's pet ...
Nov 27, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 6
It's time to visit the planet Centero, and meet a comedy robot with a flame-thrower and some smouldering unrequited passion. Meanwhile, it's a bad hair day on board the Ortega - a spaceship fitted with communicators, of all things. Wow. Such luxury, But will Heather enjoy the first season of Blake's 7, or will she sneak off to Freedom City for a refreshing glass of adrenaline and soma instead? NOTE: We're only discussing Series A in this episode. There won't be any spoilers for anything in subse...
Oct 31, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Since you've all been good boys and girls, it's a Retrotube Halloween bonus episode - the notorious Paul Daniels Live At Halloween broadcast from 1987. So let's join Paul Daniels, Debbie McGee, Eugene Burger, Elsie the Owl, Conservative MP Ian Taylor (!) and a rather spiky iron maiden for the most hair-raising television event of the year. But will Heather find the grand finale as shocking as the 1987 viewing public? Will she feel compelled to phone the BBC to complain? The Floor Manager request...
Oct 27, 2020•40 min
Join Adam and Heather this week as they journey back to 1971 to ogle ladies and punch bad guys on the chin - it's the Tony Curtis / Roger Moore ITC romp The Persuaders. Will Adam enjoy its dubious retro charms, or will he sneak back to 2020 while Heather isn't looking and rewatch Ghosts instead? While you're here, maybe we can *persuade* you to like, rate, review and subscribe to the podcast. https://twitter.com/retro_tube https://shows.acast.com/retrotube email: retrotubepodcast@gmail.com Theme...
Oct 24, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Happy day! We've found ourselves trapped in a spooky little village, unable to leave and with only Happy Ones for company (they're posting inspirational memes on Facebook again), and so to while away the day, it's time to inflict 1977's unsettling children's drama Children of the Stones onto Heather. But what will she make of the show's murky narrative, flared trousers and reluctance to mail anything to America? To find out whether you're the kind of man she thinks you are, Margaret Smythe reque...
Oct 17, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Adam is drinking cocktails on Tracy Island while Heather is stranded up in Thunderbird 5 - with John Tracy, not her first choice - resulting in an awkward three-second lag this week. Luckily, it has been skilfully edited out by Tin-Tin Kyrano (who gets all the rotten jobs), so you should barely notice the difference. Joe the Cameraman asks that you like, rate and subscribe, or at the very least STOP THE TRUCK! To join International Rescue and help the Tracy boys save the day every week, you can ...
Oct 10, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Heather and Adam discuss the BBC's 1984 adaptation of John Christopher's The Tripods: a TV serial about three boys wandering slowly across Europe, but disappointingly few of the giant alien machines of the title. The Tripods was Adam's choice - what will Heather (a fan of glossy 60s spy shows) make of this incomplete mid-80s curio? Ozymandias requests that you like, rate and subscribe. 'Tis the only way to reach the White Mountains. To investigate The Tripods yourself - follow this link: https//...
Oct 03, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 1
