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The Insanely Dangerous Retro Podshow

The Insanely Dangerous Retro Podshow

著者： Dave Pierce
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The Insanely Dangerous Retro Podshow is your one-stop nostalgia fix, now hosted solo by the irrepressible Dangerous Dave! From the funky 70s through to the chaotic 00s, Dave dives headfirst into the wild world of retro pop culture—movies, music, TV, games, and everything in between. Expect deep dives, personal takes, outrageous trivia, and unfiltered opinions. Whether you’re reliving your childhood or discovering old-school gems for the first time, this is where retro lives loud, proud, and dangerously. New episodes every week—tune in and turn back time!




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  • Season 9 Episode 8 - Inspector Gadget

    Season 9 Episode 8 - Inspector Gadget
    2026/09/09
    Go-Go Gadget Retropodshow!This week, Dangerous Dave heads back to 1983 to investigate one of the most instantly recognisable cartoons of the decade...INSPECTOR GADGET!Grey trench coat? Check.Gadget Copter? Check.Extendable arms? Check.Gadgetmobile? Check.Any idea whatsoever about what Dr. Claw is actually doing?Absolutely not.After last week's perfect 60/60 trip to a galaxy far, far away with The Empire Strikes Back, we're returning to Saturday-morning cartoon territory for the story of the world's most technologically advanced — and possibly least observant — detective.And thankfully, Gaz has finally escaped prehistoric Earth following the Dino-Riders incident!⏰ WHAT HAPPENED WAY BACK WHEN? – 1983First, Dave fires up the Retropodshow time machine and heads back to the year Inspector Gadget first appeared.We're remembering music from Culture Club, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, U2 and Madness, alongside movies including Scarface, Superman III, Octopussy, National Lampoon's Vacation and WarGames.On television, we're revisiting The A-Team, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Terrahawks, Dungeons & Dragons and, of course, Inspector Gadget.Then Retro Headlines remembers some of the stories making news in Britain and America as the 1980s really started gathering momentum.🔎 DANGEROUS DEEP DIVE – INSPECTOR GADGETThen it's time to investigate the history behind the cartoon.Dave explores the creation of Inspector Gadget, its international production and the wonderfully simple idea behind its hero:Take a detective...Fill him with ridiculous mechanical gadgets...Then make him completely useless at detective work.We celebrate Don Adams, whose unmistakable voice helped make Gadget such a memorable character, and look at the formula that kept the series going.Dr. Claw creates another evil scheme.Chief Quimby delivers Gadget's assignment.The message explodes.Gadget misunderstands everything.Brain gets disguised.Gadget fails to recognise his own dog.Penny discovers what's actually happening.Penny and Brain save the world.Gadget gets the credit.And Dr. Claw promises...“I'll get you next time, Gadget!”Only to fail again next week.👧 PENNY – THE REAL INSPECTOR?Dave also gives some overdue credit to the person actually solving most of Gadget's cases...Penny.With her computer book, intelligence and technological abilities, Penny was often several steps ahead of both Inspector Gadget and M.A.D.Which raises an important question...Why wasn't she getting Gadget's salary?Without Penny, most episodes would have ended with Dr. Claw successfully taking over the world while Gadget congratulated himself on a job well done.🐶 BRAIN – THE HARDEST-WORKING DOG IN CARTOONSThen there's Brain.Spy.Detective.Master of disguise.Driver.Bodyguard.And full-time babysitter for Inspector Gadget.Brain spends virtually every episode trying to stop Gadget from getting himself killed...Only for Gadget to mistake him for a M.A.D. agent.The man lives with this dog.Brain puts on a hat...And suddenly Gadget has absolutely no idea who he is.🦾 GO-GO GADGET!Naturally, we're also ranking some of Gadget's greatest inventions.The Gadget Arms.Gadget Legs.Gadget Skates.Gadget Umbrella.And the undisputed number one...GO-GO GADGET COPTER!We also remember the brilliant Gadgetmobile and why Gadget's unpredictable technology was such an important part of the comedy.Sometimes the gadget worked.Sometimes the wrong gadget appeared.And sometimes Gadget simply launched himself into another disaster.😈 DR. CLAWThen we turn our attention to one of the great mysterious cartoon villains...Dr. Claw.The chair.The glove.The metal arm.MAD Cat.That voice.But crucially...No face.Dave argues that keeping Dr. Claw hidden made him far more interesting because kids were allowed to imagine what the mysterious leader of M.A.D. actually looked like.Sometimes...What you don't show is more memorable than what you do.🚧 DANGEROUS DETOUR – WHY WERE 80s CARTOONS SO GOOD?This week's Dangerous Detour asks why the 1980s produced so many cartoons we still talk about today.Transformers.He-Man.ThunderCats.Danger Mouse.M.A.S.K.Centurions.Dungeons & Dragons.The Real Ghostbusters.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.Inspector Gadget.Great characters, unforgettable theme tunes, toys, VHS releases, wild concepts and entire worlds children could continue exploring after the television was switched off.It really was a ridiculous decade for cartoons.📺 BACK IN THE ADS – CADBURY WISPABecause we're visiting 1983, Back in the Ads remembers the national launch of a British chocolate favourite...WISPA!Dave remembers Cadbury's bubbly chocolate bar, the early advertising and why Wispa became such a nostalgic favourite that its eventual disappearance caused fans to campaign for its return.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Five out of five.Unlike most of Inspector Gadget's inventions...Wispa actually worked.🥊 RETRO RUMBLE – INSPECTOR GADGET VS DANGER MOUSETwo legendary cartoon crime fighters enter ...
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  • Season 9 Episode 7 - The Empire Strikes Back

    Season 9 Episode 7 - The Empire Strikes Back
    2026/09/02
    The Empire is coming...This week on The Insanely Dangerous Retropodshow, Dangerous Dave travels back to 1980 and a galaxy far, far away for one of the most celebrated sequels in cinema history...STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACKAfter the extraordinary success of the original Star Wars, George Lucas faced an almost impossible challenge: how do you follow a movie that completely changed popular culture?The answer?Go darker.Go bigger.Separate the heroes.Introduce Yoda.Make Darth Vader even more terrifying.Freeze Han Solo in carbonite.And deliver one of the greatest revelations in movie history.Officially released in 1980 and directed by Irvin Kershner, The Empire Strikes Back took Luke, Han and Leia into a much darker second chapter as the Empire relentlessly hunted the Rebel Alliance.⏰ WHAT HAPPENED WAY BACK WHEN? – 1980Before heading to Hoth, Dave fires up the retro time machine and revisits 1980.There's music from Pink Floyd, Blondie, The Police, Barbra Streisand and Motörhead, while the movie section remembers The Shining, Airplane!, Friday the 13th and The Blues Brothers.On television, we're remembering Magnum, P.I., Hi-de-Hi!, Hammer House of Horror, The Adventure Game and a young Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies.Then Retro Headlines revisits some of the major events making news in Britain and America as the new decade got underway.⭐ DANGEROUS DEEP DIVE – MAKING EMPIREThen it's time for the main event.Dave explores the enormous challenge of following Star Wars and how George Lucas took a huge financial gamble to maintain creative control over the sequel. Lucasfilm itself describes Lucas as effectively gambling the company's future by investing his own money in the production.We look at Irvin Kershner taking over the director's chair, the development of the screenplay and why Empire feels so different from its predecessor.Then we head into the movie itself...❄️ THE BATTLE OF HOTHThe Rebels have been discovered.The Empire attacks.And suddenly enormous AT-AT walkers are marching towards Echo Base.Dave revisits the Wampa attack, Han rescuing Luke from the freezing wilderness, Snowspeeders wrapping tow cables around AT-AT legs and one of the greatest opening battles in science-fiction history.But there's something important about Hoth...The Rebels don't win.They escape.And that sets the tone for everything that follows.🟢 LUKE MEETS YODALuke heads to Dagobah looking for a legendary Jedi Master...And instead finds a strange little green creature rummaging through his belongings.Dave celebrates the creation of Yoda, Frank Oz's performance and the extraordinary puppetry that made audiences forget they were watching an effect.From Luke entering the mysterious cave to Yoda raising the X-wing from the swamp, we revisit some of the most important moments in Luke's journey towards becoming a Jedi.❤️ HAN & LEIAMeanwhile, Han Solo and Princess Leia are busy doing what Han and Leia do best...Arguing.The chemistry between Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher takes centre stage as the Millennium Falcon desperately tries to escape the Empire.There's the asteroid field...The space slug...A broken hyperdrive...And eventually a journey to Cloud City.🟠 LANDO & BOBA FETTWe celebrate two major new additions to the Star Wars universe.Lando Calrissian – charming, stylish and caught in an impossible situation when Darth Vader takes control of Cloud City.And Boba Fett – a character who barely needs to say anything to become one of the coolest people in the entire film.Dave also looks at the collection of bounty hunters who proved that Star Wars could put a strange-looking character on screen for a few seconds and leave generations of fans desperate to know their entire backstory.🧊 HAN SOLO – FROZEN IN CARBONITEThen things get dark.Han is prepared for the carbon-freezing chamber.Leia finally admits how she feels.And Han responds in the most Han Solo way imaginable.He's frozen...Boba Fett gets his prize...And audiences in 1980 are left wondering whether one of the movie's most popular characters will ever return.⚔️ LUKE VS DARTH VADERLuke ignores Yoda and Obi-Wan's warnings and travels to Cloud City.He's convinced he's ready.Vader knows he isn't.What follows is one of cinema's greatest lightsaber battles.Vader toys with Luke...Luke desperately fights back...Until Vader finally stops playing.Luke loses his hand.And then...Everything we thought we knew about Star Wars changes.Dave explores the secrecy surrounding the enormous Vader revelation and why it transformed Star Wars from a simple battle between good and evil into something far more personal.Lucasfilm itself describes Empire as the darker second act that introduced Yoda and left audiences stunned by its cliffhanger.🎼 JOHN WILLIAMSWe also celebrate another extraordinary John Williams score.Yoda's Theme.Han and Leia's music.The Battle of Hoth.And, of course...THE IMPERIAL MARCHFew pieces of movie music are so instantly connected to a ...
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    1 時間 39 分
  • Season 9 Episode 6 - Dino Riders

    Season 9 Episode 6 - Dino Riders
    2026/08/26
    Dinosaurs. Lasers. Futuristic armour. Evil aliens. What more could you possibly want?This week on The Insanely Dangerous Retropodshow, Dangerous Dave heads back to 1988 to celebrate one of the most gloriously bonkers toy lines of the decade — Dino-Riders!We begin with What Happened Way Back When?, revisiting the music, movies and television of 1988, including Guns N’ Roses, Belinda Carlisle, Die Hard, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beetlejuice, Red Dwarf and The Wonder Years. Then Retro Headlines remembers some of the major stories making news in Britain and America.🦖 DANGEROUS DEEP DIVE – DINO-RIDERSDave explores the history of the Dino-Riders toy line and the wonderfully simple idea behind it:Kids love dinosaurs. Kids love lasers. PUT LASERS ON THE DINOSAURS!We meet the heroic Valorians, led by Questar, and the evil Rulons, commanded by the brilliantly bizarre Emperor Krulos.There's a detailed look at the story behind their journey to prehistoric Earth, the Valorians' relationship with the dinosaurs and the Rulons' sinister Brain Boxes, which allowed them to control the prehistoric beasts.Then it's into the toy box as Dave remembers some of the greatest Dino-Riders releases, including the Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Deinonychus, flying creatures, enormous sauropods and, of course...THE T-REX!Because apparently a Tyrannosaurus Rex wasn't dangerous enough already.Someone decided it needed futuristic armour and bloody laser cannons as well.And we salute them for it.Dave also revisits the short-lived animated series and asks why a cartoon with dinosaurs, time travel, aliens and futuristic warfare didn't last much longer.📺 WHY DID DINO-RIDERS DISAPPEAR?The Dangerous Deep Dive also examines the problems facing Dino-Riders.The toys were spectacular...But the biggest sets were expensive.The cartoon didn't last long enough to establish its characters properly.And Dino-Riders entered a toy market already overflowing with Transformers, He-Man, M.A.S.K., Ghostbusters, G.I. Joe and the rapidly emerging Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.Was Dino-Riders a failure?Or simply a brilliant idea released at the wrong time?🚧 DANGEROUS DETOURThis week's Dangerous Detour looks at the wider world of forgotten 1980s toy lines.Why did franchises like Visionaries, Bravestarr, Starcom, Centurions and Dino-Riders disappear while others survived for decades?Dave looks at the importance of cartoons, toy prices, shelf space, changing childhood tastes and the growing influence of video games.📼 BACK IN THE ADSWe're rewinding British television again as Back in the Ads remembers the legendary Milk Tray Man.A mysterious bloke dressed in black risking life and limb...Climbing cliffs...Swimming through dangerous waters...Sneaking into buildings...All to leave behind a box of chocolates.Why?All because the lady loves Milk Tray.Dave remembers the history and impact of one of British advertising's most recognisable characters.🥊 RETRO RUMBLE – DINO-RIDERS VS M.A.S.K.It's dinosaurs versus transforming vehicles!Dino-Riders vs M.A.S.K.!The two franchises battle across concept, toys, cartoons, originality and legacy.Dino-Riders puts up one hell of a fight...But M.A.S.K. narrowly takes the Retro Rumble victory 3–2.⚠️ DANGEROUSLY UNDERRATEDDave returns to the Dino-Riders animated series and argues that its biggest problem wasn't quality...It was that we simply didn't get enough of it.The world had enormous potential for new dinosaurs, characters, Rulon factions and adventures, but the series disappeared before it could properly develop.🧸 TOYBOX TIME MACHINEThe Toybox Time Machine shrinks everything down as we remember...Micro Machines!Tiny cars.Tiny playsets.Tiny vehicles that somehow ended up underneath every piece of furniture in the house.Dave remembers the toys, the brilliant playsets and those unforgettable fast-talking television adverts.🚨 WHERE THE HELL IS GAZ?Normally this would be the point where we hear from Gaz.There's just one slight problem this week...Gaz is missing.Last reports suggest he somehow got himself stranded on prehistoric Earth.We've tried contacting him...Nothing.We've sent Questar to look for him...Nothing.Apparently somebody spotted him running away from a Rulon-controlled T-Rex earlier...So we're sure he's absolutely fine.Probably.Therefore...NO GAZ SEGMENT THIS WEEK!Hopefully Gaz can find the S.T.E.P. device, avoid being eaten and make his way back to the present in time for Episode 7.Good luck, Gaz.You're going to need it.☢️ THE DANGER ZONEFinally, Dave enters The Danger Zone to answer the big question:Did Dino-Riders deserve to become as big as Transformers, He-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?Perhaps not quite...But it certainly deserved to become much bigger than it did.The toys were spectacular.The concept was fantastic.The potential was enormous.What Dino-Riders lacked was enough time to develop its characters and universe.Dave awards Dino-Riders an impressive:51 OUT OF 60⭐⭐⭐...
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    1 時間 8 分
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