Back to the Eighties

We're continuing Target: 2006, and things are hotting up! Galvatron consolidates his power base, and the Autobots have to employ extreme measures! Also, we get to hear the refrain "Wreck and rule!" for the very first time... (This episode covers issues #81-#84) If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

We're a bit late due to illness, but we're back! And we're starting one of THE most important stories in all of Transformers fiction, as Target: 2006 starts this episode! Join Andy and Glenn as they find out why the US comic's unwillingness to feature movie characters was the best decision ever made! (This episode covers issues #77-#80) If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

It's time for some more retrogaming goodness with Amy and Glenn, and this episode is all about the great (and not so great) Star Wars games of yesteryear! From TIE Fighter to Rogue Squadron, from Power Jedi Battles to Masters of Teräs Käsi, it's all here!  I have a bad feeling about this. Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Andy's back with us from the Smorgaspod for more Transformers UK goodness, with the end of Skids' story from the US, and the Dinobot Eighties action movie awesomeness that is "In the National Interest"! (This episode covers issues #72-#76.) If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

It's time for Brad and Glenn to get together again and talk some Star Wars, but this time they're discussing the latest SW offering from Disney - the long awaited Obi-Wan Kenobi series! But is it any good, or just a load of Bantha poodoo? Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Andy and Glenn are back with more from Marvel UK's Transformers, where Blaster and the Autobots on Cybertron discover the dark secret at the heart of the Space Bridge, and on Earth, Omega Supreme comes online... (This episode covers issues #68-#71.) If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

We have a brand new guest on today's show - the Vindaloo Vixen herself, Emma Daria, joins us to talk about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! There's also some discussion of things 80's antipodean, and we manage to sneak in some Doctor Who in there as well! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Andy and Glenn are back with more from Marvel UK's Transformers, where Buster and Prime share a dream, Megatron and Shockwave fight it out, and we find that Cybertron's Autobots are having a bit of a rubbish one... (This episode covers issues #64-#67.) If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/

Amy and Glenn are back with more retrogaming goodness as we talk about more old games, consoles and our happy memories of playing games back in the day and beyond! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Duncan's back with us for this one, and it's going to get scary and icky, because we're talking about the ups and downs of the Alien franchise! From a gothic horror in space, to all out action, to whatever Alien 3 was supposed to be, it's all here! So suit up, look into my eye, and hope to Yahweh you don't get Ovimorphed! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

We're back with some essential Marvel UK Transformers content, as Andy and Glenn explore the coming of the Special Teams, and the Decepticons realising that menacing humans is far more productive than fighting the Autobots... (This episode covers issues #59-#63.) If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/

In the first of what we hope to be many episodes, join Amy and Glenn as they take a look at Retrogaming in all it's many and varied forms, as well as focusing on particular games, systems, and the culture of retro itself! In this opening episode, we talk about our histories, favourites, and loves of the retrogaming world! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Dave from Sonic the Comic the Podcast joins us again this week, to talk about records that we owned as kids in the 80s! They might not necessarily have been made in our favourite decade, but we would have definitely listened to them, so let's show them some love, shall we? Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Leigh and Glenn are back to take a look at 2022's Easter Special, Legend of the Sea Devils - but was it more akin to Delgado in the original Sea Devil series, or did it have the distinct whiff of the Myrka about it? NB: This was recorded before the announcement of the 14th Doctor. Nerva Beacon on Facebook: facebook.com/NervaBeaconPodcast Nerva Beacon on Twitter: @NervaBeaconPod

We're back with more Transformers UK goodness, this time covering April of the most important year of the franchise at that point! Join Andy and Glenn as they discover who is REALLY behind the giant robot menace, and why Shockwave has a sudden interest in Bumblebee! (This episode covers issues #55-#58.) If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/

Apologies for being late with this one, but Andy from the Smorgaspod is back with us, and you know what that means - it's Transformers time again! And we see the end of the Dinobot Hunt, the return of Megatron AND some brand new Autobots attending a Brick Springhorn concert! (This episode covers issues #50-#54.) If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/

It's been a while, but they're back! Leigh and Glenn return to talk some more Doctor Who, and just in time. With the brand new episode dropping on Easter Sunday, the two go back 16 years to talk about Rose Tyler's departing two-parter, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday! Nerva Beacon on Facebook: facebook.com/NervaBeaconPodcast Nerva Beacon on Twitter: @NervaBeaconPod

Amy's back with us this episode, to have a bit of a natter about retrogaming, and why it means so much to us nostalgia geeks! And as it's us, we also take a few other nostalgic tangents, because why not? Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Hello there! Brad's back with us, to talk about how we think the Book of Boba Fett went, and how excited we are for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series! As well as that, there's all the usual gush and excitement that we have for one of our most favourite franchises! We have spoken. Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

It's time to welcome Wil back to BTTE Towers again, as we delve into the murky, scary world of Public Information Films. We also take a trip to North London to visit Grange Hill, and go off on many a nostalgic tangent as per usual! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Sacha's back with us again, this time to talk about the Lawman of the Future from Mega-City 1, who keeps the streets clean but isn't necessarily our hero...Judge Dredd! From his humble beginnings in a comic that rose from the ashes of Action! through the Megazine, to today! Come join us, or Ol' Stoney Face will put you in for a 10 stretch in the Cubes. Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Andy from the Smorgaspod is back with us, and you know what that means - it's Transformers time again! What delights do Marvel UK have in store for us from 36 years hence? Why, Dinobots, of course, as the Hunt is most definitely ON! (This episode covers issues #46-#49.) If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

This week we're delving into the many, many fantasy movies that appeared in the 80s, a whistle-stop tour if you will! Joining us on that journey is our old mate Duncan from Stacebob and the Dweebs. So gird your loins, grab your broadsword, and hope that we roll a D20, we're going in! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

This week we're joined by the Fluid Goth that is Amy, to talk all about computing and gaming in the late 1980s, but especially that most popular 8-bit system in Europe, the Sega Master System! It may have been all about the NES in the States, but over here in the UK we did love a bit of Sega! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

It's a brand new year, and for Transformers UK a very important one! We start as we mean to go on too, with the story "Crisis of Command!", and then start one featuring a robot-controlling professor who's about to get close with one of the Dinobots... If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

The Bordersdude AKA John is with us this week, and we're talking about the wrestling! From the 1980s until present day, we discuss it all, who are favourites are, which matches we love, and all the superstars from the Eighties until now! Bah gawd, it's a slobberknocker! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Happy New Year! Let's start as we mean to go on, with some more amazing retro content! This week we're taking a look at the Transformers Annual from 1985/86, joined as always for Transformers stuff by Andy from the Smorgaspod! Expect Insecticons, Xaaron, text stories galore and even a board game as we discover what Transformers fandom in the UK looked like just before the Movie hit! If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

It's Christmas 1985, and the Transformers comic has been going a little while now, and finally gives us a proper Christmas issue! Dated 3 days AFTER Christmas Day, but still! We also get a proper Christmassy story, the conclusion of the Creation Matrix Saga, and an iconic image of Optimus Prime. Join myself and Andy as we take a look at Christmas 36 years ago! (This episode covers issues #38-#41.) If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Our old friend Wil's back with more Christmas memories, so expect a hit of festive nostlagia including football at Christmas, cartoons, Dickens, and so much more! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

It's Christmas time again, and we're kicking off the festivities in style with Sonic the Comic the Podcast's Dave Bulmer! We'll be talking about some great Christmas memories including school plays, making Christmas cards, glitter glue, pressies, and also taking a look at the BBC line up on Christmas Day, 1988! Pull up a blanket, grab a cuppa, and get cosy! Sonic the Comic the Podcast: stctp.wigglehe.com Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

We're nearly at the end of the second year of Marvel UK Transformers comics, and things are hotting up with the Creation Matrix story! Will Buster be able to figure out what to do with what's in his head? And will Prime be able to stop Shockwave being able to create a new line of Decepticon warriors? Join Andy from the Smorgaspod and myself to find out!  (This episode covers issues #33-#37.) If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Sacha AKA Coffehound RetroSharka is back with us, this time o discuss the best ways to get into the Retrogaming scene! The best consoles, computers and systems, the games, and even the magazines! It's a real retro riot! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Duncan from Stacebob and the Dweebs is back with us this episode, and we're talking about one of the most important directors that horror has ever seen - John Carpenter! From The Thing to Assault on Precinct 13, it's all here! As are all the tangents that Glenn and Dunc go on in one of their episodes. Please, join us on the ride! It'll be fun, honest! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

The Chibnall Era is swiftly coming to an end, and now we know who's going to be taking over...the show, at least. Russell T Davies is coming back, and we're excited here at the Nerva Beacon! We also take a look at 1985's Vengeance on Varos, a Sixth Doctor adventure that ultimately got the show into hot water...well, hot acid, at the very least. Nerva Beacon on Facebook: facebook.com/NervaBeaconPodcast Nerva Beacon on Twitter: @NervaBeaconPod

Andy's back, and that means it's Transformers time! The Marvel UK comic has gone weekly, so there's 4 issues a month to cover! There's Decepticon Dam-Busters, Shockwave threatening Prime, and an epic battle between the Dinobots and a nasty little surprise left by everyone's favourite monocular Decepticon leader! If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Our old friend Wil Hodgson is back with us in this episode, and they're on the ramble as usual! Join us as we take various trips down 80's Memory Lane and beyond! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

We're joined by someone new this week - Sacha AKA Coffeehound RetroSharka! She's here to talk about one of favourite subjects here at BTTE Towers - computer games of the Microcomputer era! Spectrum, C64, even the BBC Micro, we'll talk about them all, with a few cameos from a few other characters! You think that there was a video game bust in the mid-80s - think again! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Issues #26, #27 and #28 are examined in this month's traverse into the world of Marvel UK's Transformers comics, and this is a biggie, as now it's a weekly publication! That'll really eat up material, but it's ok, because great things are on the horizon. Join Andy and Glenn as they dive into September 1985! If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Bordersdude John from the TFYTC joins us again, this time to talk about his favourite Transformer EVER, Ultra Magnus! But why does John love him so much, and which are his favourite iterations of this much-loved legacy character? Make a cuppa, grab some biccies, pull up a pew, and join us to find out! The Transformers YouTube Community: facebook.com/groups/ttfytc Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

It's issues #24 and #25 in this issue, and we're getting ever closer to Transformers being a weekly publication! In the meantime, can Andy and Glenn handle the terror of Shockwave devastating Blackrock's oil platform, his fight with Megatron over the leadership of the Decepticons, and the smash cut of Planet Terry finally meeting his parents? Listen on to find out! If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

We're coming to the end of the summer, and what better way to mark that than reminiscing about some retro stuff with our old mate Brad from the TFYTC? We'll be talking about Transformers, Star Wars, Retrogaming and even some football of old, so make a cuppa, get some Pink Panther wafers in, and enjoy! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Leigh and Glenn look at one the JNT stories that truly did a deep dive into Doctor Who's own history, bringing the Brigadier back, no less - Mawdryn Undead!  They also discuss the big news - who's likely to take the showrunner reins now that Chibnall's on his way, and who could be the new Doctor? Nerva Beacon on Facebook: facebook.com/NervaBeaconPodcast Nerva Beacon on Twitter: @NervaBeaconPod

We've got Wil Hodgson back with us today, for another lovely jaunt down Memory Lane, this time including such subjects as Star Wars action figure time travelling, school, Office Space and the Kray twins! It'll all make sense, I promise. Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

We're a little bit late with this one, but it's definitely worth it for one of, if not THE most iconic Transformers comic book cover of them all! We're also back with the US stories, and a bit of a change to the UK comic, starting it's metamorphosis into the comic we'd all come to know and love... If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Duncan from Stacebob and the Dweebs is back with us again, and as promised last time he joined us, we're talking about 1991's The Addams Family! Definitely a movie with one foot firmly in the 80s, we talk about how it updated the 60's show, how we remembered watching that show in the 80s, and everything inbetween! JOIN US. Or Thing will find you. Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

He's back again! Our regular Star Wars guy Brad is back to talk about all things Lucasfilmy, as well as this time we have a good old natter about the current state of the Transformersverse! Turns out it's quite healthy, what with loads of fan-pleasing toys coming out, and the Beast Era finally getting it's due. But let's not spoil the podcast, take a listen for yourself! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

It's the final of Euro 2020 today, and would you know it, England are facing Italy! Recorded just before they were going to meet Germany, Wil Hodgson sits down with us to talk of England and tournaments past, not only the football, but everything that came with it! If you're wanting to get into the mood, this is the best way to do it! Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

It's time to look at this month's Transformers Marvel UK issues 19,20 and 21 from June 1985 - it's good summer reading as we end the run of stories from the UK, next month we go back to the cliffhanger from the US! Can Andy and Glenn take it?  If you want to follow along with us, scans can be found here: https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/transformers/ Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

It's Sonic the Hedghog's 30th Birthday today, so please do join Glenn and special guest Timmus_TSET for a bit of a birthday bash! We talk about the blue speedster's origins as a rival mascot for the mighty Mario, his Genesis within Sega itself, and all our personal memories of spending hours and hours attempting speedruns! Happy Birthday, Sonic! Don't run too fast after eating all the cake.  Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Duncan from Stacebob and the Dweebs joins us this week to discuss 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - expect laughs and shocks galore as we explore this new take on Film Noir, complete with all the complexities with making not only a groundbreaking movie, but having to please two powerful studios at the same time! Also: Judge Doom. Bloody scary. Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Amy and Kirsty are back with us this week, to talk about a Star Trek series that, whilst made in the Nineties, still had one foot firmly locked in the Eighties - Voyager! Join us as we talk about the genesis of the series, our favourite characters and episodes, and why Janeway might just be the best Starfleet captain of them all. Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod