Podcasts about Rentaghost

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.This is a collection of highlights from Looks Unfamiliar featuring Lydia Mizon on Smashie And Nicey - The End Of An Era, Katy Brent on Global Hypercolor, Tim Worthington on Wonderwall by The Mike Flowers Pops and the BBC Pinocchio, Ricardo Autobahn on the Panther 6, Mitch Benn on BusyBodies, Joanne Sheppard on The Water Babies and Spine Chillers, Phil Norman on Spy Trap and Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson an dancing reindeer and school recorder ensembles. Along the way we'll be revealing how to avoid getting caught literally Global Hypercolor-handed, averting a Radio Times listing for Starved Robin Askwith, questioning why Richard Herring never has sports cars as guests on RHLSTP, debating the plural of ‘A Ghost Story For Christmas' and querying the value of using Rentaghost as a sort of all-purpose philosophical yardstick.You can find the full versions of all of these shows and lots more editions of Looks Unfamiliar besides at http://timworthington.org/.If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. One of those chains probably even does a Texan Bar Latte. For National Patrick Mower week or something. If there isn't one, there ought to be.

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.This time, in a special festive edition, Tim, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are all crowding into a paper chain-strewn local radio studio ready to take your calls and chat about some of the signs that Christmas was coming that you just don't seem to get any more. So that's Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson being used to back every single local news feature, School Christmas Fairs, weird decorations that were still in use long past their cultural sell-by date, Advent Calendars with no chocolate but plenty of pictures of Shepherds sort of leaning sideways a bit, the toy pages in 'The Catalogue', the bitter rivalry between the Christmas double issues of Radio Times and TV Times, Channel 4 flinging out angular festive fare like Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, festive replacements for the BBC Globe, The Middlesborough Methodist Tableau and much more besides. In a crammed Christmas Cracker of chat we'll be debating the physics of those big televisions with shutters on them, stressing the need for a Loose Cannon reconstruction of Bob's drawing of a Lord 'a'Leaping', attempting to beat Carol Vorderman at Yuletide Maths, deploring the steady stream of one-shoed shoplifters hopping out of Bobby Cannon's, refuting any and every suggestion that clowns have any business being anywhere near anything to do with Christmas, exploring the financial potential of an Advent Calendar with Willie Rushton behind every single door and querying the value of using Rentaghost as a sort of all-purpose philosophical yardstick. Call in and donate some 'Canned Goods' now!You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Bob on Looks Unfamiliar chatting about The Tom O'Connor Roadshow, Giant Hogweed, Can't Get A Ticket (For The World Cup) by Peter Dean, Glee Bars, J. Edward Oliver's ‘Abolish Tuesdays' and How To Be A Wally here, Eighties ‘Tabloid Celebrities', Accidentally Kelly Street by Frente!, The Two Ronnies' ‘Mileaway', Rude Food, Suggs On Saturday and School Folk Songs here and  Tucker's Luck, Pookiesnackenburger, We Wanna Be Famous by Buster Gobsmack And Eats Filth', game show contestants' occupations being booed by the studio audience and the lost ancient art of the paper plate and shaving foam Custard Pie here, and Georgy on Indoor League, Re-Joyce!, the The Animals In The Box sketch, the Paul Squire Fan Club, Pippa Dolls, Pig In The Middle and Good Winter Telly here.If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. If the 'Chocolate Train' calls at your stop you get a Mocha. Sorry, it's the rules.

Here in Episode 142 of the No Name Music Cast, it is Tim's turn to pick the topic and he chooses to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of The Darkness album 'Permission To Land'.We talk about the deluxe box set release with tracks including Black Shuck, Get Your Hands of my Woman and I Believe in a Thing Called Love.We also cover Kylie, The Masked Singer, Radio 2 and Rentaghost!The full 20th Anniversary Box Set can be found HERE! https://www.facebook.com/NoNameMusicCast/

We Americans know that Batman was also popular in the United Kingdom (and many other countries), but there are differences in the level of popularity that was reached and how long it lasted, and also in terms of when “first run” of the show was there. 66 Batman Message Board co-admin Ben Bentley is, in fact, British, so we asked for his assistance in tackling this topic. Our discussion touches on the show's second wind in the ‘70s, Batman references in The Avengers (as in Steed and Peel) and other British TV shows and commercials (on into the '80s!), Adam West's “Kerb Drill” traffic safety PSA, the Carpet King, whether British kids actually jumped from roofs because of Batman, and more. Plus, the Piano AccoMan version of the theme, more of Adam talking with Conan O'Brien, and your reaction to Episode 199's discussion of the Nora Clavicle script!   "Batman: The Super-Sell" (The Tatler, July 16, 1966)   Batmobile-adjacent car on Rentaghost (1983)       Adam's "Batman and Robin" single from 1976   Adam's "Kerb Drill" PSA (1967)   Adam on the Danny Baker Show (1994)   What the Pope admitted about meeting Adam West   Fight scene from The Avengers "The Winged Avenger"   Only Fools and Horses Bat-ref   Austin Rover ad (1987)   Cyril Lord carpets commercial (History of Advertising Trust)Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's "I'm Bored" - reference to Carpet King ad 2 minutes in

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 19th 2023 This week we welcome back PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, from THE SHY LIFE PODCAST and we're going to talk about, in a magic roundabout sort of a way, our various memories of, or reactions to, the children's television that we used to watch when we were growing up. This idea was mostly prompted by two things really; First there was the range of single episodes dating from what many people consider to be a “Golden Age” of children's television that were put out on BBC4 last year as part of the BBC's Centenary celebrations, which gave modern viewers a rare chance to see the likes of THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT, VISION ON, and RENTAGHOST on their televisions for the first time in what seems like an absolute age. Not that our conversation is exclusively restricted to the BBC's output however, because the other prompt for us to have this conversation was the imminent release of the rediscovered masters of Southern Television's classic series WORZEL GUMMIDGE which featured JON PERTWEE, UNA STUBBS and GEOFFREY BAYLDON, which has now been lovingly remastered for a brand new high-definition Blu-Ray set. So, over the course of this hour we mention that, alongside shows like BLUE PETER and the various SATURDAY MORNING options that we were given to view back in the day, and talk about the sort of television that most appealed to us when we were both knee-high to various grasshoppers and hadn't yet graduated to full control rights for the household remote control box. It's a bit of an amiable ramble down memory lane, really, so don't expect any massive insights, or production details, or anything like that, but I do hope you enjoy travelling along those pathways with us. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 4th 2022 This week we welcome back the ever popular and ever erudite LISA PARKER, one half of the team behind the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast, for one of our regular catch ups on what's been happening in her telly world over the past few weeks. It's one of those wide-ranging meandering wanders through various television topics that we've been known to do, and takes us from her reflections on the JODIE WHITTAKER era of DOCTOR WHO and LISA's success at restraining herself from binge-watching GHOSTS, and the whole idea of the binge-watch generally, how it changes how we watch all of those other series where all the episodes magically all appear at once, and how this might affect the idea of the cliffhanger. We also discuss the picture quality of some of the archive television we get to see, from whatever sources they might come from, and the excitement of seeing old television that you might not have seen before, and what sort of television programmes she'd like to see more of. She touches upon the joy of watching shows like RENTAGHOST, 3-2-1, and TREASURE HUNT, and how seeing such shows that were around in your youth transports the viewer to their happy memories, as well as the whole problem of watching QUIZ and GAME shows dating from a time when they simply weren't preserved for future viewing. We chat about the transition to a more cynical age when it comes to contestants on game shows and people stopped in the street for their point of view being far more knowing about the impact simply being on telly can have on their lives than they used to be. In a blatant plug for their own show, ROUND THE ARCHIVES, we discuss the long career of the late, lamented BERNARD CRIBBINS (which they had recently been researching), and which leads to some reflection on the woeful state of the JACKANORY archive, and the whole delightful rabbit hole that comes from watching a lot of your Television via YOUTUBE. When it comes to streaming, however, LISA's most recent television obsessions have been HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS, or FOUR IN A BED, as well as her old favourite MURDER, SHE WROTE and we do talk a little bit about how whole afternoons can be devoured by the addictive nature of a stack of episodes from any particular television show. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

In this episode we discuss brutal murderer Neville Heath, the arrogance of serial killers, the audacity of Madame Tussauds, and a time before Rentaghost and The Cruel Sea.

Visit Audioshows.e-junkie.com for the best Old Radio Audio Show Downloads Life With the Lyons followed and, with Ben and Bebe, featured their children Richard and Barbara Lyon. Although scripted, it expanded on real-life events.The radio series premiered on 5 November 1950 and ended in 1961 was the first situation comedy in the United Kingdom. Writers included Jill Allgood, and Bob Block who created the BBC television series Rentaghost. Molly Weir was their Scottish housekeeper Aggie Macdonald, Doris Rogers the nosy neighbour Florrie Wainwright and Horace Percival played Mr Wimple.

Rovers face a violent cricketing enemy, there's Rentaghost and jumper theft, and Roy's TV breaks down. (Rec: 4/2/21)Join the Iron Filings Society: https://www.patreon.com/topflighttimemachine See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 31st 2021 Be it ABRACADABRA or HOCUS POCUS, the preposterous worlds of prestidigitation or magic and magicians used to have a big part to play in the television schedules, and despite the objections from certain quarters about these dark arts being used for entertainment purposes, our evenings would once feature such household names as DAVID NIXON, ALI BONGO and PAUL DANIELS to entertain and delight us with their demonstrations of “how did they do that” sleight of hand, trickery, and other chicanery. And for families up and down the land, they may very well have claimed to have liked it “not a lot” but, until the dawn of the more flamboyant and spectacular stage magicians, these cosy little tricksters and japesters were as big a part of our collective television lives as the Saturday Night Spectaculars are to modern audiences. Returning guest PAUL CHANDLER - the SHY YETI himself - is back to talk about all kinds of television magic, so, along the way we touch upon what remains of the delightful ACE OF WANDS (and the spin-offs featuring MISTER STABS), the Belor-baffling INTO THE LABYRINTH, CHILDREN OF THE STONES, and THE MAGICIAN amongst others. Paul also touches upon other magical shows such as THE BOX OF DELIGHTS and MOONDIAL before we tiptoe into the strange world of magic as entertainment via the television shows featuring PAUL DANIELS, and we even pause for a moment to consider a whole magical boxful of shows such as CHARMED, SABRINA, JONATHAN STRANGE & MISTER NORRELL, MOON & SON, JONATHAN CREEK, RENTAGHOST and BEWITCHED. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 18th 2021 Episode forty-one of VISION ON SOUND finds regular guest contributor PAUL CHANDLER returning to talk about his passion for watching all manner of Horror stories on television. In another of our rambling conversations roaming around the topic in question, we tiptoe gingerly around such topics as late night horror films, THE HAMMER HOUSE OF MYSTERY & SUSPENSE and its sibling THE HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR before having a wide-ranging conversation that includes THE TWILIGHT ZONE, DOCTOR WHO, SAPPHIRE & STEEL and, perhaps more unexpectedly, MIDSOMER MURDERS and BERGERAC. We carefully - and briefly - creep past the Christmassy horrors of writers like M.R. JAMES, and more obscure series like THE OMEGA FACTOR, THE NIGHTMARE MAN and the writings of NIGEL KNEALE, and the gut-wrenching terrors of DESTINY OF THE DALEKS, before turning our attention towards THE PAN BOOK OF HORROR, TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED, RENTAGHOST, and THRILLER before landing up in Collinsport to appreciate the gothic weirdnesses of DARK SHADOWS and where to find them. Finally, we move on to the anthology horrors of SHADOWS OF FEAR and the real world horrors of THE MAD DEATH, and we discover why he walked away from THE WALKING DEAD, and was drawn towards the domestic horrors of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

My guest this week is crime queen Lynda La Plante - talking about her new novel Judas Horse, and three decades of her most famous creation, Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison. She tells me how she wrote her way out of acting, why so much crime drama now turns her off, why she thinks it's so important to get police work right and let baddies be baddies - and why she's haunted by Rentaghost. 

Sam's guest this week is crime queen Lynda La Plante - talking about her new novel Judas Horse, and three decades of her most famous creation, Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison. She tells Sam how she wrote her way out of acting, why so much crime drama now turns her off, why she thinks it's so important to get police work right and let baddies be baddies - and why she's haunted by Rentaghost. 

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 21st 2021 We try a whole new recoding technique for this edition of VISION ON SOUND in the sense that we bring together LISA & ANDREW from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast and PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI from THE SHY LIFE podcast for a three-way online streamed meeting to talk - at least initially - about the children's television classic RENTAGHOST, before moving on to discuss children's television in general, and then the conversation moves on to the trials and tribulations of watching and enjoying archive TV in general. Well, when you don't consider yourself an expert of a particular aspect of television, it's best to get in touch with some people who actually do know what they're talking about, and I think it makes for an interesting hour to tickle your earholes. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

Who you gonna call? Er, Rentaghost? Join us on the couch as we drink in the '70s atmosphere, enjoy cutting edge graphics (for the '70s) and decide if jesters really are funny.

In this episode, Chris and Mark kick off our spooky season with a rewatch of the classic “Rentaghost”.

In this episode, Chris and Mark kick off our spooky season with a rewatch of the classic “Rentaghost”.

In this episode, Chris and Mark kick off our spooky season with a rewatch of the classic “Rentaghost”. If you’re looking for a proper Halloween scare, check out our ugly […]

Christopher Kenneth Biggins is an English actor and television presenter. He is best known for his role as Lukewarm in the BBC sitcom Porridge, one of the most famous British comedy series starring Ronnie Barker.Born on 16th December 1948 in Oldham in Lancashire, Christopher was raised in Salisbury in Wiltshire. He started his training at Salisbury Repertory Theatre and later at Bristol Old Vic as a prelude to his first West End appearance – creating the role of Head Jumbly in The Owl and The Pussycat Went to Sea.Christopher has also taken part in a successful run of The Play What I Wrote; directed by Kenneth Branagh; and as a regular guest as The Narrator in the National Tour of The Rocky Horror Show.Since the 70s, he has been an ever-present feature of TV output. From television comedy dramas such as Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? and Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, to BBC’s Poldark (1977), Nero and, I Claudius.On children's television, he had a regular role as department store owner Adam Painting in the children's televisionprogramme Rentaghost (1978–1983) and also played Reverend Whiting in Southern Television's Brendon Chase, produced in 1980.In the early 1980s he hosted children's game show On Safari, which had a jungle-themed studio set. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1999, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at the Theatre Royal, Brighton.Christopher also managed to fit in a year with The Royal Shakespeare Company appearing in London Assurance with Judi Dench and Donald Sinden. Other theatre work includes a National tour of Side by Side BY Sondheim, Beyond The Fringe, A Touch of Spring and more recently Cluedo and On Approval. In the summer of 1990 Christopher played and sang the role of Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar at London’s Barbican Theatre.The public crowned him King Of The Jungle in the seventh series of I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out Of Here.He’s an expert in the history of pantomime and his career has seen him playing dames, loveable rogues, and of course,himself!The music for the podcast is Twiggy's version of "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks and can be found on Apple Music at this link https://music.apple.com/gb/album/romantically-yours/693460953If you’ve enjoyed listening to “Tea With Twiggy” please give take a moment to give us a lovely 5 STAR rating on Apple Podcasts. It really helps other people to find the show.If you haven’t done so already please subscribe to this podcast so you auto-magically get the next episodes for free and do tell all your friends and family about it too. If you want to connect with me I’d love to hear from you.You can find me on Twitter @TwiggyOr you can find me on Instagram @Twiggy LawsonMy thanks go to all the people that have helped this podcast happen:● Many thanks to James Carrol and all the team at Northbank Talent Management● Thanks to all the team at Stripped Media including Ben Williams, who edits the show, my producer Kobi Omenaka and Executive Producers Tom Whalley and Dave CorkeryIf you want to know more about this podcast and other produced by Stripped Media please visit www.Stripped.media to find out! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the opening episode of the new series, Doctor Velvet and Blackout fittingly dust off inaugural episodes of Rentaghost and You're Only Young Twice, and place them neatly on the parlour table ready for discussion. Will the systematic postmortem and subsequent dissolution of a theme tune be successfully cathartical to Blackout? As an infant, who had a pathological fear of shouting, stout women? Just who is Ronnie Cobain and why does he have such a penchant for his trusty platignum? Listening to this episode may provide some answers.    The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour is a free podcast from iPorle Media, which holds production copyright. Opinions and recollections expressed are not to be taken as fact. The title and credit music is by Doctor Velvet. Audio segments from television programmes are presented for review and informational purposes only under fair use, and no ownership of these is claimed or implied by this show. For more information, visit http://www.peggymountpod.com

In this episode we chat about Barratt Home, handsome terrorists, gin and tonic, Kate Bush, "The House of Elliot", Mr Perkins from "Rentaghost", Enid Blyton's "Island of Adventure", and Tinker from "Lovejoy". And we talk about Bergerac, too! John Nettles Jim Bergerac Terence Alexander Hungerford Patrick Allen Sir Gervase Ewell Kate Fahy Fleur Ewell Jonathan Kent Mercer Deborah Grant Deborah Dudley Sutton Neldricken Patrick Field Hoesler Robert Cartland Rimbaud (as Bob Cartland) Wolfe Morris Leister Gerald Sim Major Cranshaw Jeffrey Segal Simpson Geoffrey Davies Roger Dubree Cliff Burnett Neville Sean Arnold Crozier Director:  Robert Tronson Writers:  Bill Craig (by), Robert Banks Stewart (series created by) Music is the Bergerac theme by George Fenton, performed by Youngr (many thanks to Youngr for permission to use the track!)

In this edition of the Who's He? Podcast..... The News In another slow news week, the only thing of note is that we will be getting another series of of Doctor Who in 2021 which seems to have annoyed people! Omega's Stats Corner The overnights for The Haunting of Villa Diodati are in as are the official viewing figures for Can You Hear Me? Omega's Tat Corner This week it's Build a Bear tat with a bewildering array of 10th and 13th Doctor furry shenanigans. Review - The Haunting of Villa Diodati Well, this seems to have perked the lads up! Yes, this week, Phil and Paul get stuck into The Haunting of Villa Diodati and the most threatening Cyberman we've seen on screen in a long time! But was this Poltergeist level of scary or was it more Rentaghost in terms of terror? Listen to find out!

This week's episode is all about the Australian soap that was set at Wentworth, in Cell Block H, which would usually appear on K television screens after 11pm - it's Prisoner! Lee from The Foot of Our Stairs joins us to talk all about his favourite Aussie drama, as well as discuss lots of other nostalgic gems such as Telly Addicts, Rentaghost and Chimera! So if you're a fan of Aussie melodrama, this episode's definitely the one for you. The Foot Of Our Stairs on YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCxn70TcSwA18B92Oy8yuA_Q The Foot of Our Stairs on Twitter: @footstairs Back to the Eighties @ Twitter: @BTTEPOD Back to the 80's on Facebook: facebook.com/bttepod

Kathy and Shiv the Claptrap gang enter the spooky and bizarre world of Rentaghost in 1981 episode Super Dobbin. As usual they get distracted along the way, this time by unexpected ladyflashing and first crushes. Shiv would like to apologise for claiming the Meakers were Meekers.

RHLSTP Edinburgh 2109 #2 Lucy Beaumont and Scummy Mummies - Screw You William Wilberforce. What Did You Ever Achieve?Richard can’t believe that he forgot to tell you about the supernatural thing that happened backstage at the Masonic Lodge yesterday, though surely scarier things have happened here.No matter because he’s got a brilliant line-up of guests: Lucy Beaumont and the Scummy Mummies. He talks to Lucy about Hull and Pocklington, sexual super powers, the candour of Maureen Lipman, encounters with ghost animals and alien balloons, the living Hell of marriage and children and ingesting your twin in utero.The Scummy Mummies discuss their fabulous podcast, Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s frustrating inability to have a female child, the infamous rivalry between Jossy’s Giants and Rentaghost, why it’s better to come to the Fringe without your kids and the impressive number of shows they’ve already seen.Come and see RHLSTP at the Fringe and on tour http://richardherring.com/rhlstpt/tourSee Lucy Beaumont’s Space Mam - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/lucy-beaumont-space-mamSee the Scummy Mummies - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/scummy-mummiesListen to their fabulous podcast here - http://www.scummymummies.com/podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Doug's back this week, so get his opinion on the new Titans show, while covering Ian's escapade to Destination Star Trek, Batwoman comics, Hawk & Dove comics and what we got up to for Halloween before we started recording. Safe to say, for a Halloween episode, it's about as frightening as an episode of Rentaghost.   FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/herotalkrebirth/ TWITTER: www.twitter.com/HeroTalkRebirth

As episode 1000 approaches, Dave and Mike debut a new segment in which they each examine television programs from their respective lands that the other has never seen. In this first installment, Mike introduces Dave to Gilligan's Island, then Dave introduces Mike to Rentaghost. They also discuss the horrors British children were subjected to on television, which leads to a live / stunned reaction by Mike. Please visit our Patreon page at patreon.com/earth_2.

As episode 1000 approaches, Dave and Mike debut a new segment in which they each examine television programs from their respective lands that the other has never seen. In this first installment, Mike introduces Dave to Gilligan's Island, then Dave introduces Mike to Rentaghost. They also discuss the horrors British children were subjected to on television, which leads to a live / stunned reaction by Mike. Please visit our Patreon page at patreon.com/earth_2.

As episode 1000 approaches, Dave and Mike debut a new segment in which they each examine television programs from their respective lands that the other has never seen. In this first installment, Mike introduces Dave to Gilligan's Island, then Dave introduces Mike to Rentaghost. They also discuss the horrors British children were subjected to on television, which leads to a live / stunned reaction by Mike. Please visit our Patreon page at patreon.com/earth_2.

As episode 1000 approaches, Dave and Mike debut a new segment in which they each examine television programs from their respective lands that the other has never seen. In this first installment, Mike introduces Dave to Gilligan's Island, then Dave introduces Mike to Rentaghost. They also discuss the horrors British children were subjected to on television, which leads to a live / stunned reaction by Mike. Please visit our Patreon page at patreon.com/earth_2.

In which Stalemates take their podcast to the stage, tell real life ghost stories, get heckled with poetry requests, discuss the vagaries of Punkie Night and explain why Halloween 3 isn't rubbish. PLUS extra aggressive passing Dickensian urchins! All this and Rentaghost too...

Toby Hadoke continues on his five year mission to seek out new interviews, new conversations, with people associated with 54 years of Doctor Who on television!

Welcome back to another Coaxial, with Christian Cawley and Gareth Kavanagh. In this week's show, we're chatting classic British children's TV, and may or may not have covered most of the following... Pre-school: Rainbow, Ivor the Engine, the Mr Men, Get Up and Go (Mooncat), Pipkins, Play School, Play Away, Dramas: Box of Delights, the RTD one (Dark Season), Jossy's Giants, Chocky, Press Gang, Demon Headmaster, Children's Ward, Grange Hill, Secret Garden, Dramarama, Marmalade Atkins Cartoons: Scooby Doo, Ulysses 31, Battle of the Planets, Jamie and the Magic Torch. Films: Watership Down, The Boy from Space, Glitterball (Children's Film Foundation - see also Sammy's Super T-Shirt, The Boy Who Turned Yellow) Information/education: How We Used to Live, Picture Box, You and Me, Stop, Look and Listen (Chris Tarrant), Watch, anything with Johnny Ball, Derek Griffiths, Tony Hart (Take Hart, Hart Beat) and the legendary Mr Bennett. Modern shows: Grandpa in My Pocket, Nina and the Neurons, Do You Know?, Katie Morag. Any memories of your favourite TV shows? Incredulous that we somehow overlooked Rentaghost (so are we)? Tell us in the comments, or tweet us,

EPISODE 9: Fifty Shades Of Podcast In between 'proper' episodes (where we delve into a particular film or franchise) we'll be doing bonus episodes where we talk about wider trends in sequel culture, sequel news, new trailers and whatever the hell we like. Allen and Chris never stop punching in this ‘bonus’ episode, we discuss: Listeners’ weird film crushes! Excellent tie in games on film’s websites! Winston Churchill! Trailer Talk! Allen's Challenge! What Hollywood needs to do get Chris to buy a ticket for a film! Allen’s ghost crisis! Ideomotor response! Rentaghost! Really, we discuss Rentaghost!   LINKS ("view full description" on itunes to access hyperlinks) TRAILER TALK: OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE 50 SHADES DARKER MISCELLANEOUS: Episode Poster Jack Reacher: Never Stop Punching Rentaghost Ideomotor Response   CONTACT LINKS Email us at: diminishingpod@gmail.com Find us at https://www.facebook.com/DiminishingReturnsPod https://twitter.com/diminishingpod  (@diminishingpod) https://diminishingpod.wordpress.com/ https://www.instagram.com/diminishingpod/ YouTube: Diminishing Returns   COMING SOON ON DIMINISHING RETURNS: FRIDAY 13th 1-3 DIMINISHING RETURNS: A comedy podcast about movie sequels, prequels, spin-offs and reboots. Hosted by Allen and Chris. WARNING: Contains Scottish accents and spoilers.

"We've got spooks and ghouls and freaks and fools, at... Rentaghost!" Not to mention all your favourite pantomime rejects and future soap stars. Yes we're back on track (sort of), looking at kids' tv again after a few weeks of old sitcoms. And what more natural route back than via the worst of all children's sitcoms, Rentaghost. Don't go into the cellar! Because there's a dragon, or the ghost of a dragon, or the ghost of a man dressed as a dragon, or something... EMAIL: ifyoulikewagonwheels@outlook.com TWITTER: @spreadthewhimsy FACEBOOK: facebook.com/whenwagonwheelswerebigger W4B theme composed by John Croudy.

00:00 The Who Wars Podcast Theme 00:48 The Front Page; Rob @WhoWars kicks off this episode with discussion of so much happening since episode #33; the passing of Ron Moody and Christopher Lee and strange little links to both at the time of recording; the Who Wars Network and some future plans; Sense8 - a new series on Netflix from Andy and Lana Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski; and this being an epic-length episode. 09:30 FEATURE – TRIBUTE – Christopher Lee remembered by Rob @WhoWars with an obituary and audio clips from his films and a special memory from Vincent Price, featured in an episode of This Is Your Life that Christopher was honoured on. 24:45 INTERVIEW – STAR WARS – Kate @Kamiduu talks to Jason Spisak - American voice actor in animation and video games, and producer and founding member of Blackchalk Productions. Who Wars listeners might know him best as Lux Bonteri in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. 38:20 FEATURE – CONVENTION – Andy @skaromedia gives us a background to the city of Hull in the UK; talks to Steve Bowman from District 14 Events which is running Hull Comic Con and we then hear a promo for the event. Are you going? Hull Comic Conhttp://district14.co.uk/events/hull-comic-con-2015/ 49:27 FEATURE – STAR WARS – Rob @WhoWars continues to watch the Clone Wars TV series in chronological order. Here, he watches the Clone Wars film from 2008. Does he like it more than he did when he last watched it, almost seven years ago? 1:07:50 COMIC – STAR WARS – Star Wars #6 & Darth Vader #6 (Marvel) by Andy @skaromedia and Kate @Kamiduu with them running through the issues individually and then after a musical interlude at 1:32:30 the two of them talk together. 1:49:15 COMIC – STAR WARS – Kanan #3 (Marvel) by Jon @nerdstitute 1:52:42 NOVEL – STAR WARS – Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void by Elaine @tveitlight25  2:05:21 FEATURE – STAR WARS – Rob @WhoWars observes a Twitter interaction between Amanda Ward @realamandaward Jeremy Conrad @ManaByte & Joaquin Slowly @JoaquinSlowly about Star Wars fans who are stuck in the past, for example, denying everything post-Return of the Jedi. Following an expensive recreation of the exchange, Rob discusses the topic and gives his thoughts. Differences between ESB and RotJ toys:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS6aOZ-11M0 RotJ and its place within the trilogy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV6t4B7v5Nc 2:17:42 INTERVIEW – DOCTOR WHO – Kate @Kamiduu talks to Paul Cornell, a British writer best known for his work in Doctor Who fiction and television. As well as Doctor Who, other television credits include Robin Hood, Primeval, Casualty, Holby City and Coronation Street. Cornell has also written for a number of comics, including Marvel and DC titles. 2:30:04 COMIC – DOCTOR WHO – 9th Doctor #2 (Titan) by Rob @WhoWars 2:36:35 COMIC – DOCTOR WHO – 10th Doctor #11 (Titan) by Kate @Kamiduu 2:42:12 INTERVIEW – DOCTOR WHO – Andy @skaromedia talks to Mat Irvine, a Technical Consultant and Visual Effects Designer who worked on television, primarily for the BBC, from the 1970s to the 1990s. As a Technical Consultant, Irvine worked on shows such as The Sky at Night, Tomorrow's World and Robot Wars. As a Visual Effects Designer, Irvine worked on shows such as Doctor Who, Rentaghost, Terry and June, Blake's 7, The Tripods, Edge of Darkness and To the Manor Born. 3:32:26 – The Back Page; closing remarks from Rob @WhoWars, followed by messages to the show from Doc Whom and Baz Hood. 3:43:42 The Who Wars Podcast Credits (including details on how to get in touch with the show).

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 from those kids born in the late sixties to the early seventies. Its a great concept for a show and when you look back at it the word fun comes to mind. Although we do not say it at the beginning we do have comments about Rentaghost and many thanks to Daniel Vieira, Tim Morris and Mike Featherstone. There is also a competition on this episode, yes good people. If you would like to win a CD called Stargazer (ambient music to chill out and watch the stars go by) by the wonderful Rick Moyer then please answer the question that we ask and send your answer to waffleonpodcast@googlemail.com and you could win a great free cd. Usual promos are played at the end plus a secret (doh! told you) Easter Egg promo for Anomaly. :) Enjoy

Just call Rentaghost! Miss Popov and Audrey Roberts phone up for a chat! and if that wasnt enough, there's Nicki French with her new single, Doctors and panto. Drew Cockton from Eazysleep Hotel comes in to drink our tea and tell us about cheese and Paris Hilton. Oh and there's Shirley Bassey's new single too. It's all go!