Looks Unfamiliar: Phil Catterall – Here Is Pyramint, Buy Pyramint

Star Wars: Droids (ABC, 1985-88) - listen to Phil Catterall and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is podcaster Phil Catterall, who’s sharing his fringe-of-the-memory memories of Madballs Comic, Channel 4’s youth consumer advice show Wise Up!, the Platoon tie-in computer game, Phantom 2040, a particularly irritating series of adverts for Birdseye Steakhouse Grills and animated Star Wars spin-off Droids. Along the way we’ll be debating whether R1D1 is ‘canon’, revealing when crisps can be considered a vector for healthy living, and noting just which elements of The Untouchables were considered entirely appropriate for a scrolling platform game aimed at children.

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Terry's Pyramint - listen to Phil Catterall and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Birdseye Steakhouse Grills - listen to Phil Catterall and Tim Worthington talking about them in Looks Unfamiliar.

Madballs (Star, 1986) - listen to Phil Catterall and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Phil

Phil Catterall is the co-host of Don’t Let’s Chart, a podcast counting down ridiculous charts and lists of statistics that nobody needed to collate ever, from The Least High Profile Performers At The Royal Variety Performance to The Top Selling Second Hand Pre-Cert Videos. You can find Phil on Twitter at @fil5000.

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There’s lots more about Droids, Ewoks and tons of other imported animations that caused a sensation on BBC1 and ITV – often more of one than they ever had done at home – in The Golden Age Of Children’s TV, available in all good bookshops and from Amazon here and directly from Black And White Publishing here.

You can find more thoughts on Star Wars‘ wilderness years and numerous other contemporary big-screen sci-fi epics – many of them almost a whole fraction as accomplished and successful as the adventures of R2D2 and company – in Can’t Help Thinking About Me, a collection of columns and features with a personal twist. Can’t Help Thinking About Me is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. It really is about time we had a specialist ‘Pyramint’ blend.

Further Listening

You can also find Phil on Looks Unfamiliar talking about the Christmas Specials of On The Hour, The Chris Morris Music Show and Lee And Herring here and the Community Christmas Specials here. There’s also a look at Droids‘ close animated associate Ewoks and The Phantom’s earlier appearances in Defenders Of The Earth with Katy Brent here.

Phil has also appeared on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Iron Man here, Iron Man 3 here, Inhumans here and Deadpool 2 here, and standing in as host to chat to Tim about Guardians Of The Galaxy here and Ant-Man And The Wasp here.

Phil also features in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Emma Burnell on The Patchwork Monkey, Ben Baker on Fiendish Feet, Garreth Hirons on Food Fighters, Stephen O’Brien on The Morecambe And Wise Game, Mark Thompson on Night Shift and Tim on the radio talking to Georgey Spanswick about Denys Fisher’s TV tie-in board games; you can find it here.