RetroTube

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, C...

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...

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, Jack...

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...

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 be...

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...

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 thro...

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 imposs...

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 indu...

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...

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...

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 wi...

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 the...

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...

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, K...

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)? Fin...

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 o...

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/...

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 educat...

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 favourit...

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 yo...

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 him...

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 whol...

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? NOT...

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...