Professor Dave's Ark in Space
193 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsDave and Elizabeth are joined by friends as they discuss around popular media. Sometimes silly, sometimes serious but never boring (OK, occasionally boring), PDAIS is unlike anything else you'll hear.
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PDAIS 5.31 Our Final Episode: The Cool Ones and Rub a Dub Sub
November 21, 2022 00:00 - 47 minutes - 28.9 MBThis is the final episode of the Professor Dave's Ark in Space podcast. Dave passed away on November 3, 2022. This episode was pre-recorded several months ago, and really is us just being us, laughing over two very very silly films. Join us on one last journey to the Ark in Space. And thank you all for being with us. I love you.
PDAIS 5.30 The Mummy 1999
October 02, 2022 17:34 - 46 minutes - 28.4 MBPDAIS looks at the good, the not bad and the downright ugly of The Mummy Trilogy that began in 1999
PDAIS 5.29 Rollercoaster and When Time Ran Out
September 11, 2022 12:41 - 41 minutes - 25.2 MBWe looked at the 1977 thriller Rollercoaster and, having decided that it was not an absolute stinker, we watched the 1980 disaster (in every sense of the word) film When Time Ran Out... We suffer so you don't have to
PDAIS 5.28 Black Books & Randy Rainbow
September 04, 2022 11:04 - 46 minutes - 28.3 MBA grumpy man and a chirpy girl look at Bernard Black, grumpy proprietor of Black Books, and Randy Rainbow, chirpy producer of satirical tunes
PDAIS 5.27 Lionesses and Gregory's Girl
August 20, 2022 18:53 - 53 minutes - 32.6 MBDave and Elizabeth are joined by Karen from the Staggering Stories podcast to celebrate the England Lionesses' victory at UEFA 2022 and Karen's experiences of women's football (it is not soccer!). Then Dave and Elizabeth look at the classic film Gregory's Girl
PDAIS 5.26 Night of the Lepus and Trog
August 07, 2022 13:36 - 37 minutes - 22.8 MBDave and Elizabeth wonder if Trog is the worst film they have looked at, Night of the Lepus says "Hold my jacket"
PDAIS 5.25 Ray Harryhausen Sinbad films
July 24, 2022 15:13 - 45 minutes - 28.1 MBA grumpy man and a chirpy girl sail the seas with assorted Sinbads to celebrate the craft of Ray Harryhausen
PDAIS 5.24 Frankie Howerd Up Pompeii
June 26, 2022 14:00 - 38 minutes - 23.4 MBWe look at Frankie Howerd, a comedy great, and his most successful series Up Pompeii, a great comedy
PDAIS 5.23 Margaret Rutherford, Blithe Spirit and Miss Marple
June 11, 2022 21:45 - 54 minutes - 33.1 MBPDAIS looks at the glorious Dame Margaret Rutherford, including her appearances in Blithe Spirit and as Miss Marple
PDAIS 5.22 Eurovision UK
May 12, 2022 17:53 - 1 hour - 36.5 MBWe are joined by Thomas as we look back at the UK's Eurovision history which includes five wins and five Nil Points. We look at the Good, the Bad, and the Gemini.
PDAIS 5.21 Ben Aaronovitch
May 03, 2022 22:55 - 49 minutes - 30 MBWe look back at Ben Aaronovitch's Doctor Who scripts - Remembrance of the Daleks and Battlefield - then come up to date with Amongst Our Weapons, the latest Rivers of London book featuring Peter Grant
PDAIS 5.20 The Good Life
April 03, 2022 22:23 - 52 minutes - 31.7 MBWe look back at the seventies Britcom The Good Life with a few distractions along the way
PDAIS 5.19 Crossovers
March 27, 2022 15:43 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBWe look at Television crossovers, those weird episodes where shows collide such as Murder She Wrote going to Hawaii and meeting Magnum, Charlie's Angels on The Love Boat or Doctor Who goes to Albert Square, home of the Eastenders As a bonus, after the end music we have included our snarkalong for the CHIPS episode which was meant to be a pilot for a spin off show called Force Seven Dimensions in Time was a Children in Need Special and you can contribute to that charity using this link h...
PDAIS 5.18 Revenge of the Creature and Jaws 3D
March 18, 2022 16:05 - 39 minutes - 24.6 MBThis episode we look at two films seperated by nearly thirty years which are set in Florida marine parks, shot in 3 D and in which you will side against the humans. Listen to us laugh at (or have our spirits broken by) Revenge of the Creature and Jaws 3-D
PDAIS 5.17 Cliff - Serious Charge, Expresso Bongo and The Young Ones
March 06, 2022 21:57 - 43 minutes - 26.6 MBWe look back at Cliff Richard's first three films - Serious Charge, Expresso Bongo and The Young Ones
PDAIS 5.16 Dracula Prince of Darkness
February 20, 2022 12:42 - 49 minutes - 30.3 MBDave and Elizabeth are joined by Mr Paul as they take a jolly carriage ride to Karlsbad for a liquid lunch with Dracula Prince of Darkness
PDAIS 5.15 Are You Being Served
February 13, 2022 20:18 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBSeventies sitcoms have their knockers but we have no objection to getting stuck in to the glory that is Are You Being Served
PDAIS 5.14 Day of the Triffids
January 30, 2022 22:46 - 50 minutes - 31.2 MBIn which a grumpy old man brings flowers to a chirpy girl. Unfortunately the flowers are Triffids which insist on discussing the 1981 BBC TV version of Day of the Triffids as well as the 1962 film
PDAIS 5.13 The Wombles
January 23, 2022 17:22 - 43 minutes - 27 MBWe go overground and underground looking back at The Wombles in print, on television and in music. Oh, and we watch the film
PDAIS 5.12 Melody (SWALK) and Bugsy Malone
January 16, 2022 15:21 - 41 minutes - 25.3 MBWe look back at the early days of Sir Alan Parker's career with his first script Melody (released as SWALK) and his directorial debut Bugsy Malone
PDAIS 5.11 BBC One Christmas Day 1976
December 22, 2021 20:23 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBWe look back at the BBC One lineup for Christmas Day 1976 which included Morecambe and Wise, Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game, Top of the Pops, the films Oliver! and Airport as well as the traditional message from The Queen
PDAIS 5.10 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure & Jaws The Revenge
December 07, 2021 15:09 - 53 minutes - 32.4 MBMichael Caine is one of our finest actors with an enviable body of work stretching over six decades. Anyway, we look at Beyond the Poseidon Adventure and Jaws the Revenge - enjoy
PDAIS 5.09 Phantom of the Opera and Schmigadoon!
November 14, 2021 22:01 - 55 minutes - 33.9 MBWe chat with the rather wonderful Deb about the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera and her backstage experiences on the how before travelling to Schmigadoon!
PDAIS 5.08 The Omen & Friday the 13th
November 03, 2021 11:37 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBThe anti-Christ is born and Jason Voorhees is reborn, it's a whole nature/nurture episode as we look at The Omen and bring our Friday the 13th retrospective to a close looking at the 2009 remake and Jason Rising before giving our countdowns of the films - there are words
PDAIS 5.07 Shocktober Kolchak The Night Stalker and Friday the 13th
October 27, 2021 11:24 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBCarl Kolchak battles evil on the mean streets of Las Vegas, no Seattle, wait Chicago. He gets around as does Jason Voorhees who grabs his machete and stomps across to New Line. PDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture.
PDAIS 5.06 Shocktober The Devil Rides Out, Legend of Hell House and Friday the 13th
October 19, 2021 11:32 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they look at the many faces of Dracula in the Universal films before Dave is joined by Mr Paul Heath from the Pharos Project to look at the Friday the 13th Tommy Jarvis trilogy
PDAIS 5.05 Shocktober Dracula and Friday the Thirteenth parts 4-6
October 11, 2021 11:47 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they look at the many faces of Dracula in the Universal films before Dave is joined by Mr Paul Heath from the Pharos Project to look at the Friday the 13th Tommy Jarvis trilogy
PDAIS 5.04 Shocktober Edgar Allan Poe and Friday the 13th
October 03, 2021 20:07 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they start their celebration of Shocktober! with Edgar Allan Poe and the 1963 very loose film adaptation of The Raven before Dave is joined by Mr Paul Heath from the Pharos Project to look at the first three Friday the 13th films Edgar Allan Poe 0:00 minutes Friday the 13th 45:00 minutes
PDAIS 5.03 Shakespeare
September 19, 2021 19:31 - 1 hour - 36.8 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they look at the influence of William Shakespeare on modern culture from Altair IV to Ta Lo with natters about Forbidden Planet, Kiss Me Kate and Shang Chi among others
PDAIS 5.02 Fawlty Towers
August 29, 2021 13:09 - 55 minutes - 34.3 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they are joined by Thomas (he's been to Barcelona) to look at Fawlty Towers
PDAIS 5.01 The Blue Lamp, Dixon of Dock Green and Hell Drivers
August 08, 2021 21:26 - 1 hour - 39.5 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they look at the classic British film The Blue Lamp and the resulting television series Dixon of Dock Green as well as Hell Drivers, which starred an all star cast shortly before they became stars
PDAIS 4.54 V The Final Battle and Doctor Who - The Dalek Invasion of Earth
July 18, 2021 20:16 - 46 minutes - 29 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they battle alien invasion on both sides of the Atlantic. V The Final Battle sees America fighting back while in the UK Doctor Who battles The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
PDAIS 4.53 Evel Knievel, Viva Knievel, and Black Widow
July 11, 2021 15:03 - 50 minutes - 32.2 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they rev up and celebrate the life and career of the legendary Evel Knievel and two of his films – Evel Knievel and Viva Knievel – before saying a fond farewell to Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow in the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe film
PDAIS 4.52 Caddyshack, National Lampoon's Vacation and The Tomorrow War
July 04, 2021 14:34 - 58 minutes - 36.8 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they celebrate American leisure looking at Caddyshack and National Lampoon's Vacation then arm up for the future and The Tomorrow War
PDAIS 4.51 Hi-De-Hi
June 27, 2021 11:10 - 55 minutes - 34 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they are joined by a wise old owl as they travel back to a carefree time as the fifties turned into the sixties and campers at Maplins greeted the day with a merry HI-DE-HI!
PDAIS 4.50 Flashdance and Academy Award Best Songs
June 20, 2021 20:57 - 57 minutes - 35.9 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they experience a Flashdance looking back at the 1983 musical directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jennifer Beals then have a discussion about how the Academy Awards for Best Song have reflected the times and the medium over the past 87 years
PDAIS 4.49 Nickelodeon and Punky Brewster
June 08, 2021 21:26 - 42 minutes - 26.6 MBPDAIS, a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they look back to the golden - or should that be Orange - era of Nickelodeon as well as both versions of Punky Brewster
PDAIS 4.48 Something Wicked This Way Comes and Cruella (spoilers)
May 31, 2021 12:13 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they discuss the Ray Bradbury novel Something Wicked This Way Comes and it's Disney adaptation. Then they leave the library and get dressed up for the movies and a spoilerish review of Cruella at the 40.50 mark https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/profdave/PDAIS_3.49_I_Tonya.mp3 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/profdave/PDAIS_3.57_Arlo_Guthrie__Sarah_Lee_Guthrie_and_The_Favourite.mp3
PDAIS 4.47 The Batwoman (1968), Santo in the Treasure of Dracula and Army of the Dead
May 23, 2021 17:42 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they are joined by Katie! to discuss two classic Mexican wrestling films - The Batwoman and Santo in the Treasure of Dracula then Paul from the Pharos Project joins Dave to discuss Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead at the 46.31 mark
PDAIS 4.46 Eurovision 2020 and Cats
May 16, 2021 13:39 - 55 minutes - 34.3 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they are joined by a wise old owl and juries from the podcast community to see who would have won the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. Everyone runs away when the Cats DVD comes out leaving the grumpy man and an unusually grumpy girl to suffer
PDAIS 4.45 The Mummy series and Doctor Who Pyramids of Mars
May 09, 2021 20:48 - 59 minutes - 37 MBPDAIS is a free podcast in which a grumpy man and a chirpy girl discuss pop culture. This time they look back at The Mummy (1932) and it's rebooted sequels The Mummy's Hand, The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost and The Mummy's Curse as well as the Doctor Who story Pyramids of Mars
PDAIS 4.44 Children's Film Foundation and The Boy from Space
May 02, 2021 20:35 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBA grumpy man and a chirpy girl talk pop culture. This episode the old fella waxes lyrical about the Children's Film Foundation and The Boy from Space
PDAIS 4.43 Justice League of America
April 22, 2021 22:11 - 43 minutes - 27.2 MBA grumpy man and a chirpy girl talk pop culture. This episode they rathey enjoy Justice League First Frontier, despite what we call it on the podcast, then experience, yes let's say experience, the 1997 Justice League of America TV movie
PDAIS 4.42 Godzilla vs Kong
April 05, 2021 10:53 - 46 minutes - 29 MBA grumpy man and a chirpy girl talk pop culture. This episode two primal creatures fight for dominance then discuss Godzilla vs Kong
PDAIS 4.41 Wandavision
March 21, 2021 21:33 - 39 minutes - 28.8 MBA grumpy man and a chirpy girl talk pop culture. A woman whose incredible powers are not fully explored yet and her husband with an English accent move to a new neighbourhood. Enough about why we have been away, we are back and looking at Wandavision!
PDAIS 4.40 Miranda, Call Me Kat and The Watch
January 13, 2021 18:44 - 49 minutes - 30.8 MBA grumpy man and a chirpy girl talk pop culture. This time they look at Brit-Com Miranda and it's American adaptation Call Me Kat as well as The Watch, oh for shame BBC America
PDAIS 4.39 Revolution of the Daleks, Soul & Wonder Woman 84
January 03, 2021 21:05 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBA grumpy man and a chirpy girl talk pop culture. This time they celebrate the festive season by watching the Doctor Who special Revolution of the Daleks, Pixar's Soul and Wonder Woman 84. It's a slump in the chair and watch TV special
PDAIS 4.38 Scrooged, A Very Murray Christmas and On the Rocks
December 24, 2020 21:21 - 39 minutes - 25.5 MBA grumpy man and a chirpy girl talk pop culture. This time they celebrate Bill Murray through a two thirds festive selection of films - Scrooged, A Very Murray Christmas and On the Rocks
PDAIS 4.37 Dolly Parton 9-5 and Christmas on the Square
December 14, 2020 22:04 - 45 minutes - 30 MBA grumpy man and a chirpy girl talk pop culture. This time they look at Miss Dolly Parton's first film 9-5 and her latest Christmas on the Square.
PDAIS 4.36 V (Miniseries) and Welcome to Our Village, Please invade Carefully
December 02, 2020 21:43 - 47 minutes - 29 MBA grumpy man and a chirpy girl talk pop culture. This time they look at two rather different takes on alien invasion. From the United States we have the 1983 miniseries V and from Britain the radio series Welcome to our Village, Please Invade Carefully