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The Gerry Anderson Show

<p>Dive into an alternative world of humour and wonderment.
 
This is a permanent archive featuring some of Gerry’s best shows from 1984 onwards, 2 episodes added each week.
 
Part of BBC Radio Foyle’s 40th birthday celebrations</p>

BBC Radio Ulster

Sean Coyle pays tribute to 40 years of Gerry - last in the series.

Spinster Of This Parish

Gerry has a cottage, and an angry golfer calls (First Broadcast 27/11/2001)

Never Been Called A Gentleman

What a blacksmiths smelt like, how to talk to a horse, and Geordie's geese (09/05/2001)

The Days Of The Blow Lamp

Is it stick or schtick? and a local celeb cookbook - who's cooking chicken? (06/09/1991)

Gerry's Bad Accents

Gerry becomes Hugo, and Sean strips to his shorts (First Broadcast 24/06/2009)

The Man With The Old Voice

Gerry tries to buy a hub cap, and what's a suppressor? (First Broadcast 09/10/2001)

Protestant Baps, Catholic Buns

Vintage Gerry from 1984, featuring a young Mr Coyle as a certain boxer (22/10/1984)

More Beef On A Crutch

Gerry & Sean discuss tonic wine and smoking (First broadcast 18/01/2010)

Two Words: Shut Up

For Halloween, we revisit Gerry's tour of Crumlin Road Gaol (First Broadcast 29/10/2005)

Gerry's Ghost Hunt

A brief, but legendary moment. Audio quality is poor, but it's the only copy we know of!

A Hypnotised Hen and the Child of Prague.

What tricks did your employer play? (First broadcast 13/03/2012)

Do You Take Sugar?

The phones aren't working, Seamus Heaney meets Bojangles (First Broadcast 26/09/2009)

Hugh's Got Rhythm

Cures for baldness: rainwater and cow pats (First Broadcast 28/09/2011)

A Special Programme About Baldness

Sean has a fan & is it better to dye or wig? (First broadcast 12/08/2008)

To Wig Or Not To Wig

Classic movie talk annoys Gerry, and he doesn't use the toilet brush

The Wee Man Is Very Quiet

How to greet people, and chip shop trickery (First Broadcast 10 09 2008)

Away And Tighten A Vinegar Bottle

The Unforgiven, reimagined Ulster style (First Broadcast 05 12 2007)

Jackie & Daniel In The Wild West

Wigs, and what happened to the chicken? (First Broadcast 06 05 2008)

Stone The Crows

Sean's eye brow, and a first taste of drink

How Does It Rate On The Filth Scale?

Nothing wrong with hugging, and Tony Curtis' horn (First broadcast 27/10/2010)

A Kangeroo Landed In The Garden

How to care for a hedgehog, and Fonsie the Football Coach (First Broadcast 25/10/2007)

No Real Names Any More

The Only Organ That Doesn't Lie

Which animal would you be? Geordie is confused by a rest room (First Broadcast 27/10/09)

No Future In Being A Hyena

Gerry struggles with Jimmy Cricket (First Broadcast 10 11 2008)

Fonsie Sells Nadine A Car

Airports, Derek Bell - and Sean brings Roy Walker back (First Broadcast 27 04 2011)

Gerry's Festival Days

Gerry worries that his star power is fading. (First Broadcast 07/02/2008)

Sean's Sore Arm

The strange tale of Mike Tyson and a pigeon.

Are You Still Keeping Pigeons?

New hair, a wedding ring and the back seat of a car. (First broadcast 30/08/2010)

I Know Where You Got Your Hair

A listener finds a duck, the Isle of Man gets Gerry in trouble (First Broadcast 28/06/06)

Geordie & The Wee Duck

Gerry explains the art of talk shows (First Broadcast 25/09/07)

Two Types Of People

Why attraction loses its lustre & is Gerry's laugh fake? (First broadcast 24/09/2009)

A Play About A Dog

How Gerry got a taste for scotch, and gremlins in the machine. (First Broadcast 17/03/10)

The Whiskey Chronicles

Sean's vanishing posterior and a singing donkey (First Broadcast 27/11/2007)

Pushy Backy Standy Uppy

Valentine's Day, Budgies and a cousin called Kevin (First Broadcast 14/02/2008)

To Have Loved And Lost

How to enjoy a half pint, and baldness (First Broadcast 27/09/2011)

When You Weren't Allowed To Be Bald

A man chases a fox, Geordie buys a cow (First Broadcast 06/04/2009)

To Cuddle A Spaceship

King of the Culchies, and bad plays about Northern Ireland (First Broadcast 14/10/2008)

A Play About Northern Ireland

Gerry went fishing & how to rotivate a lawn (First Broadcast 07/04/2009)

A Bear Ran Down A Hill

Geordie has trouble with a calf and some chewing tobacco (First Broadcast 21/10/2010)

A Spud Sits Weeping In The Attic

How to walk like a Protestant or a Catholic. (First broadcast 16/04/2008)

Go To Bed Little Hedgehog

Do glasses have legs or arms? (First Broadcast 15/03/2011)

A Tale Of Cow Dung & Snuff

Gerry's at the docks, Geordie's at the gin (First Broadcast 11 02 2009)

Gerry The Docker

Gerry is not interested in children's rhymes of yesteryear (First Broadcast 23/10/2007)

Skinny Malink Melodeon Legs

Airport problems and a history of Derry fashion

The Days Of The Big Hand Bag

You're Bernard Ingham! And why less food costs more. (First Broadcast 10/09/2007)

No Peas? That'll Cost You Extra

Gerry, Sean and Geordie meet goats, lamas and cheeky children (First Broadcast 12/5/10)

The Balmoral Show

Sean's riotous past, and an old use for '3d bits' (First Broadcast 22/02/2011)

That Thing The Doctor Used To Do

A football career cut short by a spectacular own goal (First Broadcast 20/11/2004)

Gerry's Own Goal

An unusual promotion in a local bar (First Broadcast 23/06/09)

Seven Pints & A Fish Supper

Gerry dissects local radio ads, Sean won't do Ivan Little (First Broadcast 06/08/2008)

Local Ads For Local People

Michael says he has had several run in's with the 'deceased' (First Broadcast 29 03 2004)

Michael's Haunted House

Why can we put a man on the moon, but not put a man's flick down? (24/10/03)

Men With A Flick

Gerry is writing a musical about the Siege of Derry (First Broadcast 04/05/2009)

Shut That Gate - The Musical

A listener is plagued by crows & Gerry wants back on TV (First Broadcast 20/04/2010)

Attacked By Crows

Gerry wants to talk to people in pubs (First Broadcast 19 01 2006)

How To Talk To People In Pubs

Cowboy museum in the desert & Brendan Bowyer in Vegas (First Broadcast 22/05/1991)

Cowboys & Vegas

Tommy Kelly's in Hong Kong in this vintage edition of the show (First Broadcast 04/01/89)

Tommy Kelly

The price of teabags at airports (First Broadcast 20/08/2005)

Airports & Teabags

Gerry takes a dander round Enniskillen (First Broadcast 26/06/1995)

A Day Out In Enniskillen

Geordie has a ferret problem, Gerry has a level problem (First Broadcast 21/06/2004)

Pregnant Ferret & Loud Levels

A listener loses his budgie & Gerry is in very bad form

Deceased Budgies & Grumpy Gerry

A young Ballymena listener complains about 'pointless' stories (First Broadcast 15/10/06)

Petrol Pumps & Gout

Gerry takes a bus trip to the Ulster Museum (First Broadcast 05/02/2010)

A History of Gerry in 100 Objects

Unusual names for Belfast folk, and a keen whistler (First Broadcast 27/06/2005)

Chipeaters, Whistlers & Wah Wahs

American GIs stuck in Derry, and Charlie Landsborough stops by (First Broadcast 03/11/03)

Derry Wives & Guardian Angels

Hand Dryer usage, greyhounds chasing sausages & how to mingle (First Broadcast 12/01/05)

The Cow With Warts On Her Teat

Gerry & Sean get lost in a Beverly Hills garden (First Broadcast 20/05/1991)

Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive & Coronation Street

Eccentric aunts, crosswords and a man with a broken leg (First Broadcast 09/02/2009)

Talking Teeth & Eating Teeth

Gerry is not happy with this morning's calibre of caller (First Broadcast 04/10/2004)

Sean, I want to talk to you

Gerry plans to run in the NYC Marathon...but plans can change (First Broadcast 27/12/11)

Gerry's Guide to the Big Apple

A golfer is upset, and Gerry talks to director Michael Moore (First Broadcast 12/08/04)

Golfing Gripes & Michael Moore

Gerry takes a taxi tour of San Francisco with Daniel O'Donnell (First broadcast 23/05/91)

San Fran Daniel

Who was The Quiet Man? Gerry is fed up talking about it (First Broadcast 20/12/2004)

The Quiet Man

A bus trip to Ballywalter estate ends in disaster...for a vase (First Broadcast 17/12/88)

A Terrible Thing Has Happened

Sean injures himself with a hatchet and a listener is in love (First broadcast 12/08/03)

Love & Hatchets

Gerry meets a tarot card reader on Venice Beach, takes a tour of Paramount Studios with Jackie Fullerton's uncle and travels to Palm Springs to meet mayor Sonny Bono.