Looks Unfamiliar: Will Maclean – Barnaby’s Apocalypse

Once Upon A Time... Man (FR3, 1978) - listen to Will Maclean 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 writer Will Maclean, who’s hoping that someone out there shares his hazy recollections of educational historical cartoon Once Upon A Time… Man, educational storybook In The Sofa, educational short film Powers Of Ten, sci-fi comedy animation Galaxy High, dangerous dance craze ‘The Snake’, and the episode of The Sooty Show where Sweep’s brain was surgically enlarged. Along the way we’ll be finding out who lived at 9 The Road (Great Britain, The Solar System), questioning the best course of treatment for an incapacitated Emu, and pondering on what happened when the Play School toys ran amok off-camera.

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Powers Of Ten (1977) - listen to Will Maclean and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Will

Will Maclean is a BAFTA-winning television scriptwriter and producer. You can get his novel The Apparition Phase here and his Audible Original comedy series High Strangeness here. You can follow Will on Twitter at @unreal_will.

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Further Listening

You can find another appearance by Will on Looks Unfamiliar – talking about the Zegazoid Chew Bar, The Song And The Story, Look And Read: The King’s Dragon, The Fourth Pan Book Of Horror Stories, The Weekend Book Of Ghosts And Horror and Photographs Of The Unknown – here.

In The Sofa also gets a mention in Looks Unfamiliar with Jonny Morris here, and Once Upon A Time… Man showed up again in Looks Unfamiliar Extra with Melanie Williams here.

Will also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Una McCormack on Screw-Top Virgin Marys, Rae Earl on Codename Icarus, Jacqueline Rayner on Pippa Dolls, Samira Ahmed on Nurdin & Peacock Own Brand Cola, Steve Berry on school hymn book Morning Has Broken and Tim on the radio talking about the theme from The Amazing Adventures Of Morph, which you can find here.