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Staggering Stories Podcast #10: A Big Ball of Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey, Crashey-Lashey Stuff

Show summary: Andy Simpkins, Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith and Tony Gallichan talk about Doctor Who: Time Crash, Doctor Who: Timelash, the books of Harry Harrison, reviving, reimagining or repeating old Sci Fi TV, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

  • 00.00 – Intro and theme tune.
  • 00.34 — Greetings, yes?
  • 01.16 — Where is Keith???
  • 02.30 — Two and a half minutes in and Tony is already losing the plot.
  • 02.40 – Resurrecting TV from the past.
  • 03.43 — Tony cannot contain himself any longer.
  • 04.45 — Knights of God, isn’t it, look you?
  • 06.09 — Tony’s Rant Number One – Widdecombe!
  • 07.47 — Serenity/Firefly
  • 08.24 — The 25th century is where it all changes.
  • 09.18 — All alone in the night.
  • 10.30 — Blake’s 7.
  • 12.36 — The Tomorrow People (Everyone says no, Tony says yes…guess who’s right? Clue, its not everyone…)
  • 12.42 — Tripods.
  • 13.16 — Star Cops – you just know it won’t be easy….
  • 15.14 — Sapphire And Steel.
  • 16.26 — Oh boy…
  • 16.58 — Sliders.
  • 17.32 — That short-lived programme, Stargate: SG1.
  • 17.48 — Tony’s Rant Number Two – Guinness Book of Dodgy, Made-up-to-sell-books-in-the-USA Records.
  • 18.00 — Quatermass – respect is due.
  • 19.17 — The Clangers – yayyyyy!
  • 19.51 — Don’t tell Professor Nebulous – here comes Bod!
  • 20.53 — Slippery Jim’s first appearance…
  • 21.22 — The BBC’s Ghost Stories.
  • 21.54 — Tony’s Rant Number Three – Anne Robinson (dear Bod, what is he on tonight?)
  • 22.46 — The Boy From Space!
  • 23.52 — Captain Zepp!
  • 24.03 — Noseybonk and The O-Men!
  • 26.04 — Its time to light the lights, apparently.
  • 26.21 — The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water.
  • 28.37 — Tony’s Rant Number Four – British Children’s Telly – look, blame Fake Keith for this one.
  • 29.20 – Doctor Who
  • 29.53 — Timelash – well, our first attempt..um..look, it’s a tricky one, ok?
  • 30.09 – Ok, Time Crash instead….we’ll get back to Timelash later….much later…
  • 30.38 — Tony’s Rant Number Five – Children In Need….oh the humanity…
  • 39.12 – Ok, look, there’s no avoiding it…..Timelash!
  • 42.23 — The Borat! er… is that right?
  • 42.40 — An actual viewer contribution! Good grief!
  • 44.06 — Android, would you like some cake whilst you do science?
  • 44.23 — Crumbly starts having flashbacks to fantasies about Miss Perpugilliam Brown. Oh dear.
  • 45.24 — Never mind the Morlox…
  • 47.36 — The make up of Doom and Vena’s long distance performance…
  • 48.49 — Revenge of the Maylin – this time it’s ham!
  • 53.36 — The plight of Peri – warning, may contain bad innuendo!
  • 56.22 — Borat meets the Skarasen – Cue Cliffhanger!
  • 56.36 – The book report of Crumbly – Not, alas, Terrance Dicks, but Harry Harrison!
  • 57.02 — The Stainless Steel Rat – what a guy!
  • 59.46 — Deathworld
  • 61.52 — To the Stars!
  • 63.07 — West Of Eden
  • 64.34 — Stars and Stripes Forever.
  • 66.45 — Plague From Space! (Aiieeeeee!!!)
  • 66.50 — War With The Robots (Aiieeeeee!!!)
  • 68.17 – *Letters and viewer feedback.* Hit us yourself at show@StaggeringStories.net
  • 73.46 – Fake Keith IS The Law!
  • 87.44 – Goodbyeeeeeeeee!!
  • 88.08 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

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  • Tin Dog Podcast Bloke Says:

    I have the Toworrow People box set coming my way for xmas…

    if you hear norhting from me you know it melted my brain

  • Adam J Purcell Says:

    Did you survive the Tomorrow People box set? Certainly sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me!

  • Staggering Stories « Official Harry Harrison News Blog Says:

    [...] Staggering Stories The guys at Staggering Stories – specifically Andy Simpkins, Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith and Tony Gallichan – discussed Harry Harrison during the course of their podcast #10. The show is a staggering 90-minute, 57Mb download, in which they also discuss tv shows they’d like to see revived, as well as a review of the Doctor Who DVD of Timelash, which has the reputation of being one of the worst stories broadcast. [...]

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