Looks Unfamiliar: Jacqueline Rayner – She Went To The Ball In A Horse-Drawn Bath

Quincy's Quest (ITV/Thames, 1979) - listen to Jacqueline Rayner 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 Jacqueline Rayner, who’s heading to the top of the department store on a mission to find out if anyone else shares her recollections of Tommy Steele’s ITV panto Quincy’s Quest, lurid soft drink Quosh Tropical, comedy battle game Klonks, Bernie Clifton’s comedy character El Bandido, Pippa Dolls and Honey Bear Spread. Along the way we’ll be finding out how to tell if Morecambe And Wise are coming to murder you, the best adventure Doctor Who never had, what measures to take when a runaway horse smashes into a bathroom factory, and why you should avoid German Smarties at all costs. Plus if you can tell us the name of Jac’s mystery scary children’s programme, or alternately who said ‘bastards’ on Radio 4, please let us know…!

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Doctor Who In An Exciting Adventure With Pippa - find out more in Looks Unfamiliar with Jacqueline Rayner. — Doctor Who In An Exciting Adventure With Pippa

About Jacqueline

Jacqueline Rayner is a novelist and dramatist who works extensively in Doctor Who books and audio plays. You can find Jac’s website, which includes the hilarious Amazon Toilet Seat Tweet story, here, and follow her on Twitter at @GirlFromBlupo.

Buy A Book!

You can find a huge feature on Quincy’s Quest in Tim’s book Can’t Help Thinking About Me, a collection of columns and features with a personal twist. Can’t Help Thinking About Me 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’ll do until we get hold of some Quosh Tropical.

Further Listening

There’s more about Pippa with Georgy Jamieson here. The Quosh Tropical conundrum deepens in Looks Unfamiliar with Richard Littler here, and there are more mystery children’s children’s television dramas with Rose Ruane here and Gillian Kirby here.

Jac also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Una McCormack on Screw-Top Virgin Marys, Samira Ahmed on Nurdin & Peacock Own Brand Cola, Steve Berry on Morning Has Broken, Will Maclean on Once Upon A Time… Man, Rae Earl on Codename Icarus and Tim on the radio talking about the theme song from The Amazing Adventures Of Morph, which you can find here.