Waffle On Podcast

Waffle On about The Blues Brothers Hello and welcome to this months edition of Waffle On in which Meds is joined by regular guest host Peter Coleman as  Kell takes a break whilst sorting out his wedding arrangements. Here we talk about the classic 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Written by Dan Aykroyd and John landis it stared Aykroyd and fellow Saturday night live comedian and friend John Belushi....

Waffle On about The A-Team Join Meds and kell as they talk about this classic American action (comedy) television series The A-Team. Some serious nostalgia is brought up as we waffle on about the antics of Hannibal, Face, Murdock and Mr T. We play the classic theme tune that we all remember, some audio comments from Jen Rhodes, Dan & Laura Viera, Bryan Dunn, Phil Hayes and a email from Gary Richar...

Waffle On About Monty Pythons Life of Brian. Welcome to this months edition of Waffle On Podcast in which Meds and Kell discuss the brilliant Monty Python film Life of Brian. Often touted as the best comedy film ever made (we agree) it also has caused (unfairly) some controversy. Written and starring John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Eric Idle this film tel...

Waffle On About Only Fools and Horses On this episode Meds and Kell are joined by regular guest Peter Coleman as they discuss the hugely popular British sit com Only Fools and Horses. First broadcast in 1981 the show lasted an impressive 22 years. Starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Buster Merryfield and Lennard Pearce and written by John Sullivan the programme started off slow in the audien...

Waffle On About Magnum P.I. Welcome to this edition of Waffle On Podcast and this time we waffle on about the classic 1980's American show Magnum P.I. It starred moustached legend Tom Selleck and ran from 1980 to 1988. Set on the island of Hawaii Magnum lived at the beautiful beach side residence of writer Robin Masters. Tasked with detective work from the owner, Magnum would often be seen driving...

Waffle On About The Professionals. On this edition Meds and Kell Waffle On about the classic British action drama series The Professionals. Broadcast between 1977 to 1983 It starred Lewis Collins, Martin Shaw and Gordon Jackson and continued a fine tradition of no nonsence, in your face style police drama. As usual we give you behind the scenes info, series details and of course play the theme tun...

Waffle On About The Rocky Horror Picture Show Hello and welcome to this little special edition of Waffle On Podcast.  Not so long ago Meds stood in for Rico Dostie on Treks in Sci Fi and  covered the brilliant 1977 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Now we couldnt let this little gem go so here it is for you excellent listeners. Based on the stage play written by Richard O'brien this film created...

Waffle On About Chopper On this episode Meds and Kell talk about the 2000 film Chopper which shot Eric Bana to international fame. Directed by Andrew Dominik who has recently directed the Brad Pitt film The Assastination of Jesse James this film charts the history of notorious Australian criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read. Its violent, its 'kind of' true and its got some great Aussie slang words. What m...

Waffle On About laurel and Hardy. Hello and Happy New Year to you all may 2011 be a fantastic Waffley One for you all. So we crack on with our new style (kind of) with Laurel and Hardy two fantastic comedians and probably on eof the most well known and influential double acts ever to cross our screens on cinema and television. The duo bring together everything that is great about British and Ameri...

Waffle On About Planes, Trains & Automobiles Hello and welcome to the Christmas edition of Waffle On and what better way than to reminisce about a classic feel good Christmas film from John Hughes. Planes, Trains & Automobiles came out in 1987 and is actually a Thanksgiving set film but hey, come on it feels and looks like a Christmas film and as we in England don't celebrate thanksgiving we class...

Waffle On About Blackadder 2 Hello and welcome to this months edition of Waffle On. On this show we talk about the brilliant 1986 comedy Blackadder 2 set during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the first. Written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton it starred Rowan Atkinson in the title role and was splendidly supported by Stephen Fry, Miranda Richardson, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson and Patsy Byrne. The...

Waffle On About Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Written and Starring Mathew Holness and Richard Ayoade this brilliant comedy series first hit the screens back in 2004. A homage to early (and cheap) 1980's style action programmes Darkplace is set in a hospital over the very gates of hell in Romford. Holness plays the main character Garth Marenghi the horror writer who in turn plays Dr Rick Dagless in, A...

Waffle On Tribute to Norman Wisdom. Welcome to this special tribute podcast to a fantastic comedian and all round entertainer Sir Norman Wisdom who sadly passed away on the 4th of October 2010. A well loved man who's career blossomed in the late 50's and early 60's. His films were not popular with the critics but loved by the general public. Later in life he took to stage work and stand up comedy...

Waffle On About Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Welcome to this months episode of Waffle On. This month we talk about the brilliant 1998 gangster comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. this film launched the directorial career of Guy Ritchie and launched the acting career of Jason Statham. The film has a plethora of British talent including Jason Flemyng, Nick Moran, Dexter Fletcher and V...

Waffle On About Star Trek The Next Generation. Star Trek The Next Generation is as weall  know an American television programme so why are we waffling on about it. Well Its simple. Once a year Waffle On is going to do a show about a prominent American programme that had a big effect on both Meds and Kell. This year its time for TNG. Star Trek TNG hit our screens in the mid 1980's and impressionabl...

Waffle On about Steptoe and Son Hello and welcome to this months edition of Waffle On. This month we talk about the brilliant 1960's comedy tv series Steptoe and Son. Brilliantly written by Galton and Simpson the series made stars of the two actors Harry H Corbett and Wilfred Brambell but also cursed them with the dreaded typecast noose. We as usual ask you love listeners to leave us reviews and c...

Waffle On about Children's TV shows Part One Welcome to this months edition of Waffle On. Here we talk about some children's television shows that we watched back in the 1970's. As you will notice that we have put Part One up in the title and that is because we will be doing another one on shows shown in the 1970's and of course the 1980's. There are so many kids shows we could have talked about b...

Waffle On about Spaced On this episode of Waffle On al about the brilliant channel 4 comedy Spaced. Written by Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson the show first aired in 1999 and lasted for only two series. Directed brilliantly by Edgar Wright the series also featured actors such as Nick Frost, Mark Heap, Julia Deakin, Peter Serafinowicz, John Simm and Katy Carmichael. Full of pop culture, film, tel...

A Waffle On Special with the Ladies from Anomaly Podcast This months podcast is a extra special show. Meds and Kell are joined with Jen and Angela from the brilliant Anomlay podcast and they discuss Monty Pythons second film, the 'Epic' Monty Pythons Search for the Holy Grail. The podcast is packed with clips from the film and listener comments. Its a long show this one my friends but it is well w...

Waffle On about Sherlock Holmes 'The Brett Years' Welcome back to waffle On. In this show Meds and Kell talk about Jeremy Brett's performance as the master sleuth Sherlock Holmes. We talk about the series and Brett himself, along with a brief chat about the other actors in the series. We also talk about other Holmes television series and the odd film but it is Jeremy Brett that we concentrate on....

Waffle On 2010 Hello here is a small mini Waffle welcoming in the new year and letting you good listeners know whats coming soon. Happy New Year Meds & Kell

Waffle On Christmas Special. Hello and Merry Christmas to you all. Its Christmas time and why not settle back and enjoy our Christmas special. On this show Meds talks with Woody (Simon Wood), Ray (David Ray) and Chris (Chris Powell) all about television ad films shown on British television. Obviously because we are enjoying beers and mince pies the whole show goes off on a complete waffle. We've c...

Rentaghost Rentaghost was a classic British children's television comedy show produced and broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 11 June 1984. The shows plot centred on the antics of a number of ghosts who worked for a firm called Rentaghost, which rented out the ghosts for various tasks. Join Meds and kell as they waffle on about this classic TV show, its almost been forgotten except fr...

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet On this months episode Meds and Kell talk about the classic comedy drama Auf Wiederdehen, Pet. Created by Franc Roddam and written by the brilliant Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais it ran from 1983 to 1986 and then from 2004 to 2008. Introducing such actors as Tim Healy, Timothy Spall, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail, Pat Roach, Christopher Hairbank, Gary Holton and later Noel Clarke...