The Worms That Turned

Welcome to a special festive edition of THE WORMS THAT TURNED!   In this episode, we recreate Christmas Day in the nick by locking ourselves in a small room, fermenting our own port from orange juice and air freshener, and watching the 1975 and 1976 Christmas episodes of top prison-based sitcom, Porridge!   Does Porridge belong in the Comedy Hall of Festive Fame or the Dustbin on Comedy Past? List...

Hola! And welcome back to The Worms That Turned - a podcast where we watch old UK TV sitcoms and decide whether they are suitable for our modern, woke world. In this episode, we take a nostalgic look back at the package holiday based sitcom “Duty Free” and ask, “Wish you were there?” "Probably not" is the answer, as we uncover massive xenophobia, attempted infidelity, unwieldy luggage, a...

Welcome back to The Worms That Turned - a podcast where we watch old UK TV sitcoms and decide whether they are suitable for our modern, woke world. In the second part of our deep live into Sorry!, the sitcom that firmly established Ronnie Corbett’s comedy persona, we finally get around to talking about some actual episodes of Sorry!, having spent far too much time debating who is most like Ronnie...

Hello! And welcome to The Worms That Turned - a podcast where we watch old UK TV sitcoms and decide whether they are suitable for our modern, woke world. We’re back for another two-parter, in which we take a long, withering stare at the classic Ronnie Corbett sitcom, Sorry! , about a middle-aged librarian still living at home with his domineering mother. In this episode, we compare our middle-aged...

Welcome to The Worms That Turned ! This week we’ll be planting our own potatoes and making our own fertilizer as we dig down into the rich soil of The Good Life , a much-loved 1970s sitcom about a couple’s attempt to drop out of the corporate rat race and lead an autonomous, self-sufficient lifestyle. In this episode, we too yearn for the simpler, mortgage-free life of a suburban smallholder, free...

Welcome back to The Worms That Turned , and part two of our deep dive into The Good Life. In this episode, we decide whether The Good Life belongs in the Comedy Hall of Fame or on the Compost Heap of Comedy History. Are Tom and Barbara the perfect prototype eco-friendly couple, or insufferably smug, middle-class boomers playing at being poor? You’ll have to listen to the end to find out! Plus, in...

Welcome back to LE WURMS WAT TUNED ! You may be wondering why I have a painting of nude lady hidden in a large sausage, why there is so much wet celery lying about the place, and why I have a cuckoo clock shoved down my trousers.  That recap can only mean one thing… we’re still talking about the classic BBC TV sitcom, ‘Allo, ‘Allo!  In this episode, we decide whether ‘Allo, ‘Allo! belongs in the C...

Good moaning! And well combed to or pood cost, LE WURMS WAT TUNED!  Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once… this week, we are discussing the classic BBC TV sitcom, ‘Allo, ‘Allo!, set during the comedy goldmine that was Nazi occupied France during World War 2.  In this episode, we brush up on World War 2 history and discover we have much in common with a middle-aged café owner / wartime...

We think we've reached our bottom. In this second part of our in-depth exploration of the BBC TV sitcom Bottom, we decide whether it is comedy genius or puerile playground nonsense. In this episode, Rob claims to have cultural superiority as an Englishman, while Will has clearly spent too much time "researching" old back copies of Parade magazine. Warning ⚠️ this episode contains language that som...

BOTTOM'S UP! This week, we delve deep into Bottom to pull out this podcast all about the classic BBC TV sitcom.  In the first of a two-part episode, we discuss the comedy legacy of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson's Bottom... Rob confesses to a schoolboy crime that almost ruined the school disco and Will gets Richie's girl-bait chat-up line wrong... Are these the reasons why they have had no luck w...

“ Christmas was better in the ‘80s ” according to The Futureheads. We thoroughly disprove that statement by rewatching the 1982 Christmas Special of Terry & June. In this bonus Christmas episode of The Worms That Turned , we settle down with a glass of port and a mince pie to reacquaint ourselves with Terry and June Medford and discover that their cosy, suburban misadventures were not the most...

Welcome to The Worms That Turned! This week we'll be look back at the 1970's sitcom classic, Rising Damp, and deciding whether racial prejudice is still an acceptable basis for TV comedy. In this episode, Will takes an academic perspective to explain character motivations with reference to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and Rob does the world's worst Leonard Rossiter impersonation. Do we decide the...

Welcome to The Worms That Turned! This week we'll be taking a look at the long-running BBC TV sitcom "Are You Being Served?" and discussing whether 1970's stereotypes and camp banter are still acceptable family entertainment. In this episode, Rob dissects the social hierarchies inherent in the class-based system of post-war British society, while Will is mostly troubled by teeth. Do we forgive the...