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Geekstorians - With Dave From Geektown
Geekstorians is a documentary-style podcast uncovering the secret history of geek culture — from the first sci-fi fan clubs and comic conventions to video games, cosplay, and streaming fandoms.
Hosted by Dave from Geektown, each episode dives into the stories, creators, and communities that shaped modern pop culture. Discover how fans built the worlds we love: comics, film, gaming, and beyond.
Perfect for anyone obsessed with Doctor Who, Star Wars, Marvel, anime, or the evolution of fandom…
Episodes
Geekstorians - With Dave From GeektownGhostwatch: The Night the BBC Haunted Britain | Geekstorians Halloween Special
Halloween night, 1992. Eleven million people tune in to BBC One to watch Michael Parkinson investigate a haunted house, with Sarah Greene reporting live from…
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Geekstorians: Nothing Ever Ends | What Happens When Geek Culture Wins?
Geek culture got what it wanted. The stories once dismissed as disposable became global entertainment. The budgets arrived. The conventions became marketing…
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Geekstorians: Hollywood Learns To Play | Why It Took Film 30 Years To Understand Video Games
n 1993, Hollywood took the bright colours, bouncing rhythms and cheerful nonsense of Super Mario Bros. and transformed them into a wet cyberpunk dystopia…
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Geekstorians: The Adaptation Trap | Why Faithful Adaptations Can Still Fail
Why can an adaptation reproduce the characters, costumes, lore and famous moments, yet still feel completely wrong? The problem may not be fidelity, but…
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Geekstorians: The Streaming Kingdom | From TV Liberation To Platform Wars
Streaming was supposed to free television. No schedules. No missed episodes. No VHS tapes with the ending accidentally recorded over by Coronation Street. Just…
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Geekstorians: Wearing The Franchise | How Cosplay Became Franchise Visibility
Cosplay began as something gloriously handmade: fans turning up in costumes because they loved a story enough to carry it into the room. But somewhere between…
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Geekstorians: Middle-Earth, Inc. | How Peter Jackson Built The Impossible & What The Machine Did Next
This week on Geekstorians, we travel to Middle-earth, not as tourists, but as slightly suspicious historians with a map, a torch, and some concerns about…
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Geekstorians: The Anime Crossing | How Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon, Ghibli & Crunchyroll Took Anime Mainstream
Anime did not cross into Western culture in one clean movement. It arrived in fragments, through edited TV dubs, bootleg tapes, playground obsessions, fansubs…
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Geekstorians: The Pixel Economy | How Gaming Became The World’s Biggest Entertainment Industry
Video games didn’t just become bigger than film, music and TV. They became places people went, watched, gathered, spent money, and built memories inside. In…
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Geekstorians: The Geek Shall Inherit | How Geek Culture Became A Market Segment – S3E2
In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave looks at the strange five-year window when geek culture stopped being something fans used to find each other, and became…
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Geekstorians: The House That Iron Man Built | How Kevin Feige Built The MCU Machine
Season Three of Geekstorians begins with the moment geek culture stopped knocking on the door and started owning the building. In this episode, Dave looks at…
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Geekstorians: Nothing Went To Plan
This week on Geekstorians, we bring Season 2 to a close with ‘Nothing Went To Plan’. Across the season, we’ve looked at films that nearly vanished, companies…
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Geekstorians: The Accidental Cult | How Rocky Horror, Blade Runner & The Big Lebowski Became Cult Classics
This week on Geekstorians, Dave from Geektown looks at three films that did not behave the way Hollywood expected. ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ arrived as a…
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Geekstorians: Controlled Chaos | Star Trek, Cancellation and the Franchise That Refused To Die
This week on Geekstorians, we’re boldly going into one of the strangest survival stories in geek culture: Star Trek, the franchise that has been cancelled…
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Geekstorians: The Deadpool Leak That Changed Hollywood | Ryan Reynolds, Fox & The Internet vs The Gatekeepers
This week on Geekstorians, we’re looking at the leak that punched a hole through Hollywood’s gates. For years, Fox had Deadpool sitting in development limbo…
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Geekstorians: The Dark Knight Didn’t Have To Exist | How Batman & Robin Accidentally Saved Batman
In Season 2 Episode 6 of Geekstorians, Dave digs into one of the strangest turnarounds in blockbuster history. After Tim Burton redefined Batman for the big…
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Geekstorians: Virtual Worlds, Real Consequences | World of Warcraft, EVE Online and Second Life
Season 2 of Geekstorians continues with the moment virtual worlds stopped being just games and started becoming laboratories. In ‘Virtual Worlds, Real…
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Geekstorians: The Fire Sale Blueprint | Marvel Bankruptcy, Iron Man and the Birth of the MCU
Season 2 of Geekstorians continues with the corporate disaster that accidentally redrew modern pop culture. In ‘The Fire Sale Blueprint’, Dave looks at how…
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Geekstorians: The Wilderness Years | Doctor Who, the BBC and the Show That Wouldn’t Die
Season 2 of Geekstorians continues with one of the strangest survival stories in geek culture. In ‘The Wilderness Years’, Dave looks at what happened after…
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Geekstorians: When Giants Fall | Atari, Sega, Blockbuster and How Empires Collapse
Season 2 of Geekstorians continues with a story about collapse. In ‘When Giants Fall’, Dave looks at three companies that once seemed unstoppable — Atari…
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Geekstorians: The Film That Nearly Deleted Itself | Toy Story 2, Pixar & the Backup Disaster
Season 2 of Geekstorians begins with one of the great near-disasters in modern geek history. This episode tells the story of how Toy Story 2 nearly disappeared…
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Geekstorians Easter Special: The Hidden History Of Easter Eggs In Games, Films & Software
What do ‘Adventure’, the Konami Code, Pixar’s A113, hidden DVD extras, ‘The Beast’, ‘I Love Bees’ and Marvel post-credit scenes all have in common? They are…
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Geekstorians Episode 10: The Secret Language of Geekdom - How Fans Built Modern Geek Culture
Language doesn’t just describe culture. Sometimes, it creates it. In the Season One finale of Geekstorians, Dave explores the hidden history of geek language —…
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Geekstorians Episode 9: The Plastic Empire
Toys were never just toys. In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave traces the rise of the Plastic Empire — the moment when action figures, model kits, bricks…
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Geekstorians Episode 8: The Anime Underground - How Fans Smuggled a Medium Into the West
Anime is everywhere now. Streaming platforms, cinema screens, fashion, music, TikTok, gaming. But it didn’t arrive in the West through studios, marketing…
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Geekstorians Episode 7: D&D & The Satanic Panic
In the 1980s, Dungeons & Dragons became the focus of one of the most unusual moral panics in modern history. A tabletop role-playing game built around…
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Geekstorians Episode 6: Joystick Nation - How Gamers Built a Global Fandom
Gaming didn’t just grow up... it took over. In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave dives into the chaotic, brilliant rise of gaming fandom: from the arcades of…
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Geekstorians Episode 5: The Battle for Canon
n this episode of Geekstorians, Dave dives into one of the most heated and strangely human conflicts in modern fandom: the battle for canon. From the moment…
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Geekstorians Episode 4: The Golden Age of Geek TV
Television didn’t always remember. For decades, episodes reset like clockwork, characters lived in cheerful time loops, and anything resembling continuity was…
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The Hunt for the Star Wars Holiday Special – A Very Geekstorians Christmas
On 17th November 1978, CBS aired the first ever Star Wars spin-off — a chaotic, disco-tinged Christmas variety show featuring Wookiee domestic life, baffling…
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Geekstorians Episode 3: VHS vs The Gatekeepers
In the 1980s, a strange new box arrived in our living rooms — the VHS player. It was noisy, chunky, and occasionally tried to eat your favourite film… but it…
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Geekstorians Episode 2: When Comics Grew Up
In Episode 2 of Geekstorians, Dave from Geektown explores how comic books made the leap from pulp entertainment to serious storytelling. The episode traces the…
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Geekstorians Episode 1: The Birth of Fandom
In the first episode of Geekstorians, Dave from Geektown travels back to the early days of science fiction to explore how fandom really began. Long before…
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Geekstorians — Official Trailer
Geekstorians is a narrative documentary podcast uncovering the secret history of geek culture — from early fandom and pulp magazines to gaming booms, cult TV…