Looks Unfamiliar: Lisa Parker And Andrew Trowbridge – He Looks Like A Normal Boy With A Nose

Big John Little John (NBC, 1976) - listen to Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge talking to Tim Worthington 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 are Round The Archives hosts Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge, who are sharing their not especially widely shared memories of body-swap sitcom Big John Little John, quirky BBC detective series Virtual Murder, Matchbox Cascade, H.E. Todd’s Bobby Brewster books, Enid Blyton’s Mr. Pink Whistle, and the Jaws Game. Along the way we’ll be finding out how to re-enact Total Wipeout in the comfort of your own home, how many voices ‘Radio’s Man Of A Thousand Voices’ really had, and why The Clown from Camberwick Green could never legitimately qualify as a master of disguise.

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Matchbox Cascade - listen to Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge talking to Tim Worthington about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Lisa And Andrew

Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge are the hosts of Round The Archives, a podcast featuring detailed and irreverent reviews of archive television programmes. You can find Round The Archives here, and follow the show on Twitter at @Roundthearchiv1.

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There’s lots more about Big John Little John and tons of other imported shows like The Banana Splits, Tabitha, The Red Hand Gang and The Monkees that children’s BBC viewers made their ‘own’ in The Golden Age Of Children’s TV, available in all good bookshops and from Waterstones here, Amazon here and directly from Black And White Publishing here.

There’s more about Virtual Murder – and the many other similarly unsuccessful attempts by the BBC and ITV (and others) at making hit ‘genre’ shows while Doctor Who was off the air – in Well At Least It’s Free, a collection of columns and features and way too much detail on books on Professor Yaffle’s shelf. Well At Least It’s Free is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

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Further Listening

Lisa and Andrew have also appeared on Looks Unfamiliar talking about So Haunt Me, Stonkers, Pitfall!, Furzlin’ With Shag Connors And The Carrot Crunchers, Marion Chesney’s ‘Six Sisters’ novels and Le Petit Nicolas here and Big Terror Movie Themes by Geoff Love And His Orchestra, Plug Comic, The Swish Of The Curtain, Dinosaurs, Arthur C. Clarke’s Report On Planet Three and Profiles Of The Future and Are You Being Served Sir? by John Inman here. You can also find Lisa and Andrew talking about Animal Kwackers on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV here.

Lisa and Andrew also appear in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Ben Baker on Mysteries Of Old Peking, Steve O’Brien on High Time and Ice Cold Cube by The Stone Roses, Martin Ruddock on Doomlord, Mark Griffiths on The Bloke Who Pulled His Pants Down On Kilroy, Jem Roberts on an advert reuniting Neil and Vyvyan from The Young Ones and Tim on the radio talking about the deservedly forgotten remake of The Prisoner, which you can find here.