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Brett & Cliff's Flea Circus: A movie and TV podcast - Podcast

Brett & Cliff's Flea Circus: A movie and TV podcast

Two old friends who live 4,000 miles away from each other get together to discuss weird, wonderful and downright awful TV shows, movies, games, bands and albums.


Join Brett and Cliff as they discuss everything from cult cinema classics to daytime TV soaps and critically acclaimed hits to bargain bin rejects.


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Update frequency
every 10 days
Average duration
53 minutes
Episodes
181
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Mulholland Drive (2001): David Lynch's Hollywood dream turns into a nightmare for Naomi Watts

Mulholland Drive (2001): David Lynch's Hollywood dream turns into a nightmare for Naomi Watts

With an aborted 20-minute attempt to watch Mulholland Drive behind him, Brett is forced to watch the full thing, seeing Naomi Watts and Laura Harring's characters unravel before his eyes.


As always wi…

00:49:06  |   Fri 12 Jun 2020
The Chase: What it's like to be on Bradley Walsh's ITV gameshow

The Chase: What it's like to be on Bradley Walsh's ITV gameshow

A slightly different episode this week, as Brett and Cliff welcome champion of The Chase Dan Ward, who talks to us about his experience on the Bradley Walsh-fronted ITV show.


There's also a quiz abou…

00:49:51  |   Fri 05 Jun 2020
Marvellous (2014): Toby Jones stars in the heartwarming movie about Neil 'Nello' Baldwin

Marvellous (2014): Toby Jones stars in the heartwarming movie about Neil 'Nello' Baldwin

Neil Baldwin has lived an extraordinary life - from joining the circus at 16, to greeting students at Keele University for 50 years and from setting up his own football club (with Keven Keegan as pre…

00:49:49  |   Fri 29 May 2020
The Mist: Stephen King's supermarket invasion horror

The Mist: Stephen King's supermarket invasion horror

Brett finally gets Cliff to watch a Stephen King movie, thanks to his beloved Andre Braugher starring in it (until he gets killed by flying monsters).


The Mist takes place inside a supermarket - the …

01:09:01  |   Fri 22 May 2020
The Beatles Anthology: Episode one of the groundbreaking 1995 TV show

The Beatles Anthology: Episode one of the groundbreaking 1995 TV show

In 1995 The Beatles returned to the screen with Anthology the first exhaustive documentary made with all of The Beatles' involvement. It also reunited the remaining three members ad blew Brett and Cl…

00:52:21  |   Fri 15 May 2020
Round the Twist: The fantastical Australian kids TV show

Round the Twist: The fantastical Australian kids TV show

The Aussie show about the lighthouse-dwelling Twist family has elements of fantasy, slapstick and even horror. In this episode we talk about the series two episode Little Squirt, about a disgruntled …

01:15:41  |   Fri 08 May 2020
Women who love inanimate objects

Women who love inanimate objects

Brett suggests a documentary that follows three women with Objectum Sexuality - they fancy objects. Some reckon they get married to them, and some think they can speak to them telepathically. Mad.


We…

00:46:23  |   Fri 01 May 2020
Stars in Their Eyes: The quaint British TV talent show

Stars in Their Eyes: The quaint British TV talent show

We have a trip back to a more innocent time, when we'd gather around the TV on a Saturday night to watch game shows with the family and discuss the Stars in Their Eyes Champion of Champions final fro…

01:03:08  |   Fri 24 Apr 2020
Doctor Who: Midnight - David Tennant's bad day off

Doctor Who: Midnight - David Tennant's bad day off

This week Brett finally forces one of his obsessions on Cliff, and gets him to watch Midnight, a classic episode of Doctor Who from the fourth season with David Tennant as the doctor. There's a stron…

00:43:36  |   Fri 17 Apr 2020
Quantum Leap: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald and conspiracy theories

Quantum Leap: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald and conspiracy theories

Cliff picks the double-header opening salvo from the fifth and final series of time-travel saga Quantum Leap, in which Scott Bakula's Dr Sam Beckett leaps into the body of JFK killer Lee Harvey Oswal…

00:42:18  |   Wed 08 Apr 2020
Dark Matters: The weird world of real-life questionable experiments

Dark Matters: The weird world of real-life questionable experiments

Brett picks Dark Matters: Twisted But True for this week's episode. We also have a quick dip into the crazy world of Netflix's Tiger King and Cliff tries to record outside.


The main topic of discussi…

00:41:42  |   Fri 03 Apr 2020
Carry on up the Corona: The Beatles, Graham Nash, Big and Willy Wonka

Carry on up the Corona: The Beatles, Graham Nash, Big and Willy Wonka

In a slightly different episode, we recommend to each other the music and films that always cheer us up, we chat about the need for positivity and reminisce about borrowing music from the library, se…
00:45:24  |   Fri 27 Mar 2020
Pole Position & Ulysses 31: Two 1980s cartoons with amazing theme tunes

Pole Position & Ulysses 31: Two 1980s cartoons with amazing theme tunes

Two fantastic theme tunes and at least one brilliant cartoon. Find out more about these two shows along with some fairly robust views on C3-PO, a few snippets of singing and a redacted tale from Clif…
00:45:37  |   Fri 20 Mar 2020
The Strangest Village in Britain & Mini: Two documentaries that look at institutionalising people with differences

The Strangest Village in Britain & Mini: Two documentaries that look at institutionalising people with differences

We get a bit more serious in this longer episode that focuses on two documentaries that affected us on first viewing.


The Strangest Village in Britain focuses on Botton in Yorkshire, which has 150 res…

01:02:07  |   Fri 13 Mar 2020
The X Files: Eugene Tooms and his elongated limbs

The X Files: Eugene Tooms and his elongated limbs

Brett picks a classic X Files episode about mysterious, liver-eating stretchy man Eugene Tooms. Before we get there there's a personality test, a discussion of Brett's CV and stories about being flas…
00:41:34  |   Sat 07 Mar 2020
Bravestarr: the 1987 kids' TV show about a native American space cowboy

Bravestarr: the 1987 kids' TV show about a native American space cowboy

You requested more kids' TV shows form the 80s and we delivering them - like a modern milkman who delivers podcasts. A podcastman, In this episode we discuss BraveStarr, a 1987 series about a space c…
00:38:24  |   Fri 28 Feb 2020
Knightmare and Fun House: Nostalgic kids' game shows

Knightmare and Fun House: Nostalgic kids' game shows

Two classic TV game shows from ITV that put kids through the ringer. Four lads from Sunderland break a record on Knightmare, there's a mullet mix-up with Pat Sharp and Brett is stumped by this week's…
00:53:00  |   Fri 21 Feb 2020
Twins of Evil (1971): Peter Cushing gets hot under the collar

Twins of Evil (1971): Peter Cushing gets hot under the collar

Peter Cushing takes in a couple of Playboy pinups in this Hammer classic from 1971, but can he keep them from Count Karstein's evil grip? We discuss the movie, plus find out about when Brett tried to…
00:35:01  |   Fri 14 Feb 2020
Society (1989): The cult horror movie gets a good shunting

Society (1989): The cult horror movie gets a good shunting

Brett watches 1989 cult horror Society for the first time and is not prepared for what he sees. As well as turning him into a night lizard, we discuss Christopher Lambert going for a pint in Newcastl…
00:36:20  |   Sat 08 Feb 2020
You onionhead! Fort Boyard and The Interceptor

You onionhead! Fort Boyard and The Interceptor

There's talk of murder, sleaze and the return of yuppies as we discuss two game shows from the late 1980s and early 1990s - The Interceptor and Fort Boyard. There's a fairly depressing quiz before a …
00:37:39  |   Sat 01 Feb 2020
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