Looks Unfamiliar #3: Mark Thompson – I’m Quite Happy With My Passport Colour To Be Honest

The Drak Pack (Hanna-Barbera, 1980) - listen Mark Thompson talking to Tim Worthington about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Looks Unfamiliar 3 – Mark Thompson

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 radio host and political commentator Mark Thompson, who’s wondering why nobody else he knows ever seems to have heard of computer-assisted action series Whiz Kids, Crash ZX Spectrum Magazine and its legally contentious parodies of competitors, ITV Night Time filler Night Shift, Public Information Film family The Blunders, late nineties dystopian thriller The Last Train, and Hanna Barbera horror-adventure hybrid The Drak Pack. Along the way we’ll be finding out why there should be more government warnings about the dangers of hallucinating a disdainful Emma Bunton, how to distinguish an American teenager on a BMX from Arthur Mullard in a school cap, and when it’s appropriate to address Colin Bennett as ‘Vince Purity’.

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About Mark

Mark Thompson is a political commentator, radio host and avid poker player. You can find his blog Mark Reckons here and follow him on Twitter at @MarkReckons.

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You can find a feature on The Last Train and the many other attempts by the BBC and ITV (and Channel 4, Channel 5 and even Sky One) at ‘doing’ sci-fi while Doctor Who was off the air in Tim’s book Well At Least It’s Free, a collection of columns and features and a bizarre thing about looking for the books on Professor Yaffle’s shelf. Well At Least It’s Free is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

Further Listening

Mark has also been on Looks Unfamiliar talking about 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 which you can find here, and about V: The Series, Dirty Dick, The Giftie, The Mad Death, The Different Story (World Of Lust And Crime) by Peter Schilling and Space Shuttle which you can find here.

Mark as also appeared on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Iron Man 2; you can find that here.

Mark also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Ben Baker, Emma Burnell, Phil Catterall, Stephen O’Brien, Garreth F. Hirons, and Tim on the radio talking to Georgey Spanswick about seventies board games, which you can find here.