It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge With Mark Thompson

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge (1981) - Mark Thompson joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Peter Parker discreetly declining to be one of the everybody who was Kung Fu fighting in It's Good, Except It Sucks - a movie by movie - and television series by television series - hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.

This time we’re heading into the Multiverse for a look at Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge from 1981, and joining Tim for a chat about Peter Parker discreetly declining to be one of the everybody who was Kung Fu fighting is political commentator Mark Thompson. What will they find to say about Peter Parker enrolling at Greendale Community College, why every advert on ITV was for throat lozenges and the forgotten martial art of ‘being interested in helicopters’, and what does any of this have to do with The Simon And Simon Annual 1983? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

You can also find Mark on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Iron Man 2 here. You can also find Gary Bainbridge on The Amazing Spider-Man here as well as Dr. Strange here, The Incredible Hulk here and Captain America here.

Mark has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about Whiz Kids, Crash ZX Spectrum, Night Shift, Public Information Film family The Blunders, The Last Train and The Drak Pack here, Libby’s Moonshine, A. Mazing Monsters, Agony, Being Erica, Hawkeye Collins And Amy Adams – Can You Solve The Mystery? and We Know Where You Live plus an extra secret bit about watching television on holiday here, V: The Series, Dirty Dick, The Giftie, The Mad Death, The Different Story (World Of Lust And Crime) by Peter Schilling and Space Shuttle here, Twiggy Twiggy (Twiggy Vs. James Bond) by Pizzicato Five, Your Party Needs You, Jasper Carrott’s I’ve Got This Mole, Society, Lost In Austen, Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo and Shadow Chasers here and Lenny Henry’s Square Crisps adverts, Allied Lyons – A Great British Company, The Quiet Earth, Illuminati, The Optimist, Father’s Day and a variety of just about legal payphone ‘workarounds’ here as well as on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Running Scared here.