Smersh Pod
Episodes
CLUB CLASSICS: UNDER SIEGE 2: DARK TERRITORY with Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the birthday of Steven Seagal, John takes Dan and Dean for a choo-choo ride and discovers a whole casey of trouble. A Monday Night M...
I BOUGHT A VAMPIRE MOTORCYCLE with Simon Love
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week in a bit of Boon for the show, we’ll test-driving a new hog - but not just any hog, this ride is possessed by a bit of a speed demon. It e...
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination with Martin Fitzgerald
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In a very special episode I'm joined by Martin Fitzgerald to catch up on JFK again, and talk about his new book "The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: W...
LUCY with Dr. Dean Burnett
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be indulging in the time old cliche of travelling the far east in order to find ourselves, connect with new exciting people, and tak...
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY with Tom Crowley
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Star Wars special.This week we’ll be heading to a galaxy, far, far away in order to find out just how a good many things that we’...
HAWK THE SLAYER with Dan Tetsell
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be stepping into a world of swords, sorcery, sisters, secrets and the senseless slaughter of seasoned small screen stars. Yes, ...
THE BLACK HOLE with Jim Maxwell
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be exploring deep space in order to answer the time honoured questions: Why is it that when you leave a man to his own devices, he’...
INDEPENDENCE DAY with Dr. Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be forming a welcoming committee to announce that we, for one, welcome our new alien overlords, and applauding with outrageous gusto...
FAST AND FURIOUS with David Hoare
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be jumping back into the driving seat, and putting our foot down firmly in order to drive as fast as we can in the toppest of gears ...
TERMINATOR: DARK FATE with Dan Thomas and Dr. Dean Burnett
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be going on the run from fate, destiny and the very idea of robots negotiating a complicated loan to purchase a curtain business.&nb...
BLADE RUNNER with Mitch Benn
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be going back to the distant future of 2017 in order to find out who gives the best skin jobs, and just who has eyes for a Batty boy...
STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT with Paul Litchfield
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Star Trek Special!This week we’ll be journeying back in time to look for a particularly warped individual, and find out just who ...
SMERSH HITS: HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be jumping back in time to find out just who has the black dog, while bewaring the moon, and trying not to get sucked off by lads in...
SMERSH HITS: STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be returning to a galaxy far, far away to eat a small bird, commit mutiny, refuse to help the galaxy, and follow a space ship very s...
TRON (LIVE) with Paul Litchfield
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Smersh Pod LIVE from The Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival way back in October of 2025.We’ll be travelling back to the exciting days of 1982 and uplo...
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SMERSH POD: VOL:5
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome to a very special festive SMERSHPOD!This time, ho ho, oh, oh no, it’s another of our extra special compilation episodes – and th...
ARE YOU BEING SERVED? : THE MOVIE with Paul Litchfield
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DING DONG MERRILY ON HIGH!Merry ChristSMERSH!It’s Christmas Day! And what better time to crack open the Quality Street, pour a glass of Baileys, and...
A CHRISTMAS STORY with Kate McCabe
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DING DONG MERRILY ON HIGH!Welcome to another ChristSMERSH special!Happy Christmas Eve to you all!Today we’ll be going back to the past to tell the i...
LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING with Tom Neenan and Tom Crowley
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the final part of our Lord of the Rings specials.It’s Christmas! So where better to celebrate than Middle Earth!We’ll be looking things...
LETHAL WEAPON with David Hoare
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a Christsmersh Special!This week we’ll be bringing back Christmas traditions that have long left us. We’ll be getting a bird down, spen...
TALES FROM THE CRYPT with Anna Savory
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ding Dong Merrily on High! Welcome to a ChristSMERSH Special!Today we’ll be listening to Christmas lectures and trying to raise our spirits in the c...
SMERSH HITS: THE PRINCESS BRIDE
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A tribute to the late, great Rob Reiner. This week we’ll be looking for true love, lost fathers and six fingers, but enough about those Andre the Gi...
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY with Andrew O'Neill
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be running away to join the circus to find out just what these bloody clowns have done with this pesky mole. Yes, it’s Tinker...
ESCAPE TO VICTORY with Paul Whitelaw
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be keeping calm and carrying on as we head back to WW2 in order to lose ourselves in Paris after a Sly game of football with our old...
CLUB CLASSICS: BLUES BROTHERS 2000 with Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded February 23rd 2021In this, the 30th episode of the Monday Night Movie Club, we returned to the man who first brought us together: Dan Aykroyd...
STARSHIP TROOPERS with Tom Crowley and David Hoare
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be heading into future deep space to try and deal with an insect infestation so bad we’ll need the world’s biggest slipper to st...
SPIDER-MAN 2 with Tom Burgess
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Spider-Man special!This week we’ll be swinging back to 2004 to find out just what too much responsibility can do to your fluids, ...
PHENOMENON with Dr. Dean Burnett
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be looking up to the sky in order to eventually head towards the light, while also winning the heart of a lady by showing her our ma...
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT with Tom Neenan and Tom Crowley
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be taking a dip into the complicated world of inter-species-cartoon love, and examining just what the legal implications are of drop...
NO HOLDS BARRED with Andy from The Bang Bang Podcast
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be finding out what happens when a normal wrestler is pushed to the edge and forced to choose between the woman he loves, or the spo...
THE FOG with Toby Hadoke
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Halloween!Today we’ll be heading out to Spivey Point to tell stories around the camp fire all about a pea souper full of sea men - and I’m n...
THE DEAD ZONE with John Thomson
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Halloween Special. This week we’ll be peeking into the future in order to find out who will get hurt running with scissors, ...
DEAD OF NIGHT with Anna Savory
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Halloween Special!This week we’ll be finding room for one more hole in one inside, while playing hide and seek with the man in th...
WARLOCK with Paul Litchfield
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Halloween Special!This week we’ll be time hopping into the future in order to stop a highly dangerous flying ham of sorcery from ...
RE-ANIMATOR with Dr. Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Halloween Special!This week we’ll be finding out how to get A HEAD in science, while also aiming to shock the world of science by...
THE FLY with Dan Thomas
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a Halloween Special! This week we’ll be killing monkeys, wrestling Canadians, sh*gging on a sofa bed, and eating steaks, no it’s n...
TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA with Ashley Blaker
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a Halloween Special! This week we’ll be taking a drink from the hairy caped goblet and seeing just what happens when three men try and sa...
QUATERMASS 2 with Toby Hadoke
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Quatermass Special! This week we’ll be watching on helplessly as an absolute shower invade Hemel Hempstead and try and ruin the p...
THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB with Paul Whitelaw
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be looking to solve an intriguing mystery. That mystery being why Amblin and Netflix poured 60 million dollars into making an episod...
DIRTY DANCING with Kate McCabe
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be putting on our dancing shoes and heading back to the sticky summer of 1963 to find young lust, broken trust, steamy thrusts and a...
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE with Dan Thomas
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be full of Christmas cheer and COUNTing our blessings one more time, as we go out on the piste with Blofeld and find out if he’s a...
THE NEVERENDING STORY with Kate McCabe
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be heading to a magical land where books have power, dreams can come tree, and haunting horse death is all part of a fun kids advent...
THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD with Anna Savory
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Amicus Special.This week we’ll be looking around a house to let. A place where you’d have to be BATS to live there, though unde...
ROCKY IV with Paul Whitelaw
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be punching through the Iron Curtain and giving Christmas a black eye, as we seek to avenge a loved one, and prove to the world that...
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN with Karl Coppack
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be checking in to the Watergate Hotel to find out just who is wandering the halls with torches, microphones and tape recorders, and ...
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT with David Hoare
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another FAST SPECIAL.This week we’ll be heading to the far east in order to get back onto the straight and narrow, but drifting into trou...
CARRY ON GIRLS with Dan Thomas and Paul Litchfield
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be looking deep into the eye of the beholder and pondering just what it’s like to be objectified for the male gaze, while also pos...
ROCKY III with Paul Whitelaw
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be mourning father figures, facing our fears and climbing back in the ring like there’s no tomorrow. Yes, it’s Rocky IIIAnd...
CLUB CLASSICS: SUBURBAN COMMANDO with Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One from 2023 and the Monday Night Movie Club archives.Dan takes Dean and John to the suburbs to meet Shep Ramsey, and save the world. RIP Hulk H...
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY with Ryland Tews
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be away with the fairies as we deal with death, punch some muppets, and try and stop a member of Bros from ending the world.Yes, it’...
JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH with David Hoare
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Jurassic Special!This week we’ll be heading to the Island where all the mistakes are kept. There’s big ones, small ones, ones t...
SMERSH ON SCREEN: SUPERMAN (2025)
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Johnny Candon glides in to have a small chat about the latest Superman adventure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2 FAST 2 FURIOUS with David Hoare
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be driving very fast bright cars and going deep undercover in the dirty and highly dangerous world of vague crime.Yes, it’s 2 Fast...
THE KARATE KID with Steve Hall
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be brushing up on our martial arts as we tackle sand kicking bullies, domineering instructors, and spend a bit too much time with a ...
JURASSIC PARK with Tom Neenan and Tom Crowley
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a podcast 65 million years in the making!This week we’ll be heading to an island in Costa Rica to find out if life really does find a way...
CARRY ON DICK with Dan Thomas and Paul Litchfield
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome to another Carry On special. This time live from the October 2024 Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival!Yes, it’s Carry On Dick. A...
HUDSON HAWK with Paul Gannon
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be joining nun-other than the world’s best cat burglar as he jumps on the Mayflower to Rome in order to turn lead into gold.Yes, i...
CROCODILE DUNDEE with Paul Litchfield
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be heading down under to bring a fish out of water home to America. There’ll be bites, sights, lights and fights, as the greatest ...
SMERSH ON SCREEN: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning Professional Welshman Dan Thomas joins to talk over our feelings regarding Ethan Hunt's last big job. There will be spoliers! Hosted on ...
ALIEN3 with Dr. Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be taking a crash course in prison etiquette and meeting a bunch of stuffy old men who learn the hard way that a woman is always rig...
JAWS 2 with Jim Howick
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be going back to the island and hoping that it’s safe to go back into the water, spoiler alert: It isn’t. There’ll be long hai...
TANGO AND CASH with Kate McCabe
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll meeting the best cops in the business; one who loves to waltz in and take all your drugs, and the other who loves a bit of ATM. ...
THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT with Toby Hadoke
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be coming down to Earth with a bang, and celebrating by making some jelly, visiting the zoo, and hanging around at Westminster Abbey...
ROCKY II with Paul Whitelaw
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be returning to Philadelphia to find out who’s packing meat, who has the hairiest baby, if second time truly is a charm.Yes, it’...
THE MAN WHO HAUNTED HIMSELF with John Thomson
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be literally leading a double life in the fast lane, while also looking into the taking of Pelham 1 and 2. Yes, it’s The Man ...
THE CLONE WARS with Tom Crowley
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be searching the galaxy high and low for a missing baby, and finding out just who wants to hit the Hutt. Yes, it’s The Clone ...
FROM HELL with Karl Coppack
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be heading back the cutthroat streets and alleyways of the the East End of Victorian London and asking the important questions:What ...
CASINO ROYALE with Dan Thomas
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be knowing when to hold them, when to fold them, and when to walk away, as we witness James Bond reborn, regenerated, refurbished an...
TOMBSTONE with Dan Thomas
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be heading to a town built by bloody cowboys to find out just what it takes to get a man out of retirement: revenge, or squirrel. &n...
SPIDER-MAN with Tom Burgess
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a Spider-Man special!This week we’ll be going back to 2002 and dialling up the web to go on the hunt for the best swinger, and find out j...
CLUB CLASSICS: KING SOLOMON'S MINES
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To mark the sad passing of Richard Chamberlain, here's one from the vaults of August 2021: Dan, John and Dean have GOT IT! And try and find some treas...
LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS with Tom Neenan and Tom Crowley
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be following a small naked man who wants to get a good look at our ring, bringing an old man off in front of his daughter, getting M...
THE ELECTRIC STATE with Dr. Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's 1994, and Mr Peanut signed a treaty of surrender with President Clinton.A recent episode of the Monday Night Movie Club from the Smersh Patreon. ...
DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE with Ashley Blaker
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be returning to Castle Dracula to get some much needed exorcise. There’ll be a bit of necking, some heavy petting, and a Brit...
THE MAGIC FLUTE with Madeleine Brettingham
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be entering a magical land where love conquers all, lies have no place, and all the men seem to have the horn 24/7. Yes, it’s...
JFK with Martin Fitzgerald
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be heading down to Dallas to ride the wild rollercoaster of conspiracy. There’ll be thrills, spills, and more twists and turns tha...
TORTURE GARDEN with Anna Savory
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be attending the last night of the fair from a seat on a whirling waltzer, as five unsuspecting people walk into the a show they won...
CLUB CLASSICS: LOOSE CANNONS with Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In view of the sad passing of Gene Hackman, we went back to the archives to June 2020 and dug out an old episode. This was also the very first episode...
OVERBOARD with Kate McCabe
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be gaslighting like there’s no tomorrow, after all as the saying goes, unlucky in love, lucky in finding women with amnesia in a r...
ROCKY with Paul Whitelaw
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be going the distance as we prove that as well as terrapins and goldfish, you can also find underdogs hanging around in pet shops.&n...
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS with David Hoare
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be putting our pedal to the metal and finding out just who’s been doing the worst hijacking, Dom Toretto’s gang, or the screenwr...
DUNE with Paul Litchfield
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be folding space, Navigating time, and asking KWISATZ HADERACH to give the worm a phone. Yes, it’s DuneAnd joining me to...
THE PODSUADERS: THE PROTECTORS: A POCKET FULL OF POSIES
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we'll be solving everything with a nice cuppa and bringing things back down to Eartha... It's The Protectors, who will be investigati...
TOTAL RECALL with Dr. Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be getting our ass to Mars to find out just who’s been meddling with our minds, and just who sells three cupped bras at this time ...
CLUB CLASSICS: Alita: Battle Angel with Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From January 2022! Dean, John and Dan take you to the 26th century to talk about everything in this film, and a lot about Geoff Capes and David Bellam...
STAR TREK: GENERATIONS with Paul Litchfield
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Star Trek special. This week we’ll be entering the Nexus, a place where time means nothing, and you can go anywhere you want...
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SMERSH POD: VOL: 4
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome to SMERSHPOD, I’m your host John Rain. This time for another of our extra special compilation episodes where we’ve taken the ver...
HOME ALONE with Tom Burgess
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another ChirstSMERSH special. This week we’ll be really getting into the spirit of Christmas by letting a child eat his own weight i...
DIE HARD 2 with Paul Gannon
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be finding out just what happens when awful, unscrupulous people take over an airline and cause nothing but fear, panic, terror and ...
THE PRINCESS BRIDE - with Tom Neenan and Tom Crowley
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be looking for true love, lost fathers and six fingers, but enough about those Andre the Giant rumours. Yes, it’s The Princes...
SMERSH HITS! LOVE ACTUALLY with Julia Raeside
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An archive classic all the way from 2017! Grab a massive glass of Advocaat, down it in one and then pour another: it's the first of three Christmas Sm...
END OF DAYS with Dan Thomas
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a Christsmersh Special!This week we’ll be having no sympathy for the devil, thank you very much, as we try and stop the very worst form o...
SMERSH HITS: SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE with Natt Tapley
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A dip into the archive sack for a Christmas special from 2017!Sit astride your robot reindeer for a never-ending eternal night-flight through 1985's&n...
BRAZIL with Paul Litchfield
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be logging in at the ministry and ensuring that all correct paperwork is signed and processed, while maintaining civilised standards...
JURASSIC WORLD with David Hoare
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Jurassic Smersh Pod!This week we’ll be going back to the island to find out if it’s a good idea to open a theme park on the sit...
DIRTY GRANDPA with Madeleine Brettingham
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be finding out what happens if you take Last of the Summer Wine and mix it with equal parts Porkies and late stage Top Gear. Ye...
STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY with Paul Litchfield
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Star Trek Special.This week we’ll be taking the absolute peace, and watching on as art imitates life and we witness the slow, sad...
E.T. with Steve Hall
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Smersh Pod.This week we’ll be recounting the beautiful story of when a small person arrived and touched the World, no it’s not a biopic...
THE PODSUADERS - JASON KING: A PAGE BEFORE DYING
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Stephen Graham and I will be donning our leather pants and turning up our shirt cuffs as the archetypal adventure author, Jason King,...
SNEAKERS with Richard Asplin
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll be hanging out with a young burglar, an old spy, a angry fugitive, a fat delinquent, a blind hippy hacker, and a milfy piano te...