The Oblong Babysitter: Recent Episodes
The Oblong Babysitter
Kim and Danni Simmonds chat about telly old and new. Based in the UK. Twitter: @oblongpodcasts Instagram: TheOblongBabysitter Facebook Page: The Oblong Babysitter
Danni and Kim watch the second Disney Classic from 1940, Pinocchio. Hi Diddly De! An actors life for me! This film is not your average fairy tale...
Kim and Danni watch and review the Disney Classic Chicken Little! Is it worth your Disney+ subscription? Listen and find out!
Kim and Danni discuss The Wild, Disneys odd animation with an all star cast. Can it recapture the Lion King's magic for Disney, or is it a massive pile of lion poo?
Is the Lion King Danni's favourite Disney film? If it isn't, it's in her top 5!
Kim and Danni discuss Disney's answer to Hamlet. There's tears, laughter and some scary bits. And that just in this podcast!
Part 2 of Sci-Fi week and Danni and Kim talk Treasure Planet. PIRATES IN SPACE!!!
This film lived in del=velopment hell for years, butcan a stella cast and a space setting keep this 2002 release in the publics imagination?
It's Sci-Fi week and Danni and Kim talk about the 42nd animated classic Lilo and Stitch. With it's Elvis soundtrack, Hawaiian theme and awesome alien weapon story line, has it held up nearly 20 years on?
Hello! WE ARE BACK! Kim and Danni are bringing you the all moff show, featuring the Masked Singer and what we have been watching in Lockdown. With so much TV, why would you want t leave the house?
If you want to see Danni unboxing dolls, then go to her YouTube page www.youtube.com/channel/UCY7tfI0PelKwO1mHmc9bGyA
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How much Phil Collins music does one film need? And can the bad guy from Ghost do a half decent Tarzan yell, or did they get someone else to do it? Danni and Kim talk Tarzan
Danni and Kim talk the Disney classic The Jungle Book. The last film Walt Disney himself oversaw. This film has already had the "live action" treatment. Did it need it? We talk all things Jungle Book!
Danni and Kim talk the timeless Quantum Leap, one of their favourite childhood shows. Join us and let us know what you're favourite episodes were!
Danni and Kim's lives were spent in front of the telly (don't judge) and TV programs weren't the only thing that filtered through. Disney Classics played a huge part in our childhood and we will be watching all of them and reviewing them in the old Oblong style. 2 movies at a time that are paired up to compliment each other. We hope you will listen in.
Danni and Kim talk about one of the biggest shows of all time. WB's Friends was a late 90's/early 2000's icon of the small screen and made huge stars of the 6. Their 20 something lives captured a generation and thanks to endless repeats on E4, Comedy Central and it's recent addition to Netflix it just lingers. Like a bad smell(y cat) or a fond memory of youth? Everyone's got an opinion. Here's ours.
Danni and Kim talk about their favourite TV and discoveries of 2018. Will your favourite be on there?
Simmonds favourite Lee Majors stars in the 1983 TV movie
Starflight One: The Plane that couldn't Land.
Will the plane land? Will bad accents hold? will expert warnings be adhered too???
NO!! And we get this amazing example of bad tv movie that we love!
Kim pulls out of the darkest depths of her brain a TV show for 80's kids tv that even the internet barely remembers.
Sylvester McCoy played host to this bizarre "Choose your own adventure" style program who's only sin may have been it was years ahead of it's time.
What's Your Story?
The second episode can be watched on YouTube, but don't get too into it as this is all there is folks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxjMN5i2hCw&t=10s
Kim and Danni talk Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's all about big video box sets, binge watching in uni dorm rooms and 90's tv relationship syndrome!
Danni and Kim talk rubbish for about 10 minutes, then finally get to the point! Murder Most Horrid, one of the forgotten gems of the 90's and possibly Dawn French's best show.
Just in time for Halloween.
PS Talking of Halloween, join us for the live Ghostwatch along from 8:30 on YouTube! Search Oblong Babysitter to find us and join in the fun
Danni and Kim take a walk on the weird side watching selected episodes from the ITV classic Tales of the Unexpected.
Kim has watched all of the X-Files. She also watched the show when it was out. Danni did not. Can Kim convince Danni that The X-Files is worth watching?
Kim gave her sister a list of the best, and a couple of the worst (for balance) episodes to see if the is some great telly to be mined.
I WANT TO BELIEVE!
This week Danni and Kim switch things around as Danni talks about Programs for Schools.
We talk Look and Read, Through the Dragon's Eye and Near and Far to name a few.
What did you watch at school? And did it fill you with joy when a lesson would be replaced by the telly?
EXTRA OBLONG!!! Danni and Kim finished watching the second season of The Handmaids Tale, Hulu's sci-fi future drama. What did they think? Listen and find out. Also find out that Kim can't remember stuff she watched a week ago.
This week Danni and Kim talk Crimewatch and Crimestoppers. Telly's way to catch criminals for over 30 years
Danni and Kim chat about the 2008 Channel 4 mini series Dead Set - See what we thought, and join us on Facebook to let us know what you thought
This week Danni and Kim talk about the BBC Christmas drama The Stone Tape which was an influence on Ghostwatch and Beasts a 6 part ITV drama where normal people are haunted by Beasts, including one episode when a nightclub owner is bothered by the ghost of a dolphin. No really.
This week Danni and Kim talk about the Godfather of TV Sci-Fi Nigel Kneale. Part 1 discusses The Quatermass Experiment and The Year of the Sex Olympics.