TFTM Gold: Sam Squaddie Car Sale
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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(Rec: 16/9/21 as ‘The Melchester Odyssey Part 120’) Sam tries to sell a car, Tubby puts his driving gloves on and craves white food, and we learn about Roy’s Bermudan links.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. This is Top Black Time Machine. I am Andy Hot Bodyed Orson. Bopo, bough, bough. I'm Sam Nifty Delaney. So what? |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome along to the Melchester Odyssey. I have in my hand the 8th of January 1983 issue of Roe of the Rovers. |
| 0:31.8 | It always feels very modern when I'm saying 1983 because it was 1981 when we started doing this, |
| 0:37.2 | don't it? |
| 0:38.7 | 83 feels like we've leapt into some kind of fucking future world. At the time you're in 1983, you know, your balls deep into, you know, you're about to begin Thatcher's second term. Yeah, yeah, we've had the Falklands. We've had the World Wedding. the cap final. |
| 0:53.7 | We've had the Falklands. |
| 0:56.1 | I don't know what's... |
| 0:57.3 | The Royal Wedding Yeah, we've had the Falklands. Brighton reached the cap final. We've had the Falklands. |
| 0:56.1 | I don't know what's... |
| 0:57.2 | The Royal Wedding was... |
| 0:59.4 | July 81, wasn't it? |
| 1:01.8 | Oh, was it? |
| 1:02.8 | So for that... |
| 1:03.5 | That doesn't feel like long ago since we did that. |
| 1:05.3 | It must have been a year and a half since we did that, |
| 1:06.9 | and now we're at January 83. |
| 1:09.0 | And I think the... |
| 1:10.4 | What year was the Basran |
| 1:11.8 | terrorist incident was that 86? |
| 1:14.7 | It's not Basran is it? |
| 1:16.4 | Basran's a real place |
| 1:17.6 | It's called |
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