The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: He’s Not On A Quest To Find Out, He’s Just On A Quest To Get Out

Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar - a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington chats to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to, featuring Lisa Parker And Andrew Trowbridge, Ben Baker, Martin Ruddock, Steve O'Brien, Jem Roberts, Mark Griffiths and some bonus chat about ITV's 2009 remake of The Prisoner...

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.

This is a collection of highlights featuring Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge on the Jaws board game, Ben Baker on Mysteries Of Old Peking, Martin Ruddock on Doomlord, Steve O’Brien on High Time and Ice Cold Cube by The Stone Roses, Jem Roberts on an advert reuniting Neil and Vyvyan from The Young Ones and Mark Griffiths on The Bloke Who Pulled His Pants Down On Kilroy. Along the way we’ll be finding out why nothing is scarier than a playing field in Slough, how to spot Simon Bates in disguise via a series of cryptic clues and what musical genres ‘The Youngs Ones’ were avid followers of. Plus there’s also something you may not have heard – Tim on the radio talking to Mark Thompson about the 2009 revival of The Prisoner, which – perhaps unsurprisingly – everyone seems to have forgotten about…

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Lisa And Andrew – Ben – Martin – Steve – Jem – Mark

Doomlord on the cover of Issue 2 of Eagle (IPC, 1982) - listen to Martin Ruddock and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Jaws Game (Ideal, 1975) - listen to Tim Worthington and Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Mysteries Of Old Peking (MB Games, 1987) - listen to Ben Baker and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

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Further Listening

If you want to hear my thoughts on the actual proper good original version of The Prisoner, then you can find me talking to Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding about Free For All, the election-themed episode of The Prisoner, on The Zeitgeist Tapes here. You can also find Number 6-related chat in Looks Unfamiliar with Mitch Benn on The Laughing Prisoner here and Mic Wright on I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape here.