Two Australian blokes discuss movies they watched on Saturday nights while at boarding school in the 1970s
Episodes
Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Two Aussie blokes (Tim Stackpool and Gary Jarjoura) discuss films they watched while at boarding school in the 1970s.
In this episode:
ONE ON ONE
A simple coming of age story about a university student on a basketball scholarship who learns some tough lessons about athletics while dealing with a tough coach and finding love with his senior tutor.
OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN
One year before the 1956 Olympics, an 18-year-old skiing champion suffers a horrific fall during competition. She is fortunate to survive the crash, but is left paralysed.
DAWN!
A 1979 Australian sports biopic about the three-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Dawn Fraser.
Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Two Aussie blokes (Tim Stackpool and Gary Jarjoura) discuss films they watched while at boarding school in the 1970s.
In this episode:
THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD
The story of Captain Sinbad as he embarks on a dangerous quest to find the Fountain of Destiny after discovering a magical golden amulet.
KING KONG
A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.
LOGAN'S RUN
A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.
Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Two Aussie blokes (Tim Stackpool and Gary Jarjoura) discuss films they watched while at boarding school in the 1970s.
In this episode:
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
An attack deep into German-occupied Holland began on Sunday, September 17 and lasted until September 25, when Allied forces surrendered and withdrew south across the Rhine River, abandoning the bridge they set out to destroy.
KELLY'S HEROES
A motley crew of American GIs go AWOL to rob a French bank, located behind German lines, of its stored Nazi gold bars.
ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II
This musical documentary film directed by Susan Winslow juxtaposes Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians with World War II newsreel footage and 20th Century Fox films.
TORA TORA TORA
The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbour, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.
Wednesday Sep 03, 2025
Wednesday Sep 03, 2025
Two Aussie blokes (Tim Stackpool and Gary Jarjoura) discuss films they watched while at boarding school in the 1970s.
In this episode:
TWO MINUTE WARNING
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game.
THE CASSANDRA CROSSING
A motley group of passengers are quarantined on a train destined to prevent the spread of the disease at the cost of their lives.
EARTHQUAKE
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
THE SILVER STREAK
A somewhat-daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man being thrown from the train.