Staggering Stories Podcast #10: A Big Ball of Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey, Crashey-Lashey Stuff
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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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I have the Toworrow People box set coming my way for xmas…
if you hear norhting from me you know it melted my brain
Did you survive the Tomorrow People box set? Certainly sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me!
[…] 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. […]