Looks Unfamiliar: Phil Norman – Salvador Dali’s Scalextric Set

S-S-S-Single Bed by Fox (GTO, 1976) - listen to Phil Norman 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 animator and writer Phil Norman, who’s fairly confident that very few people will recall S-S-S-Single Bed by Fox, ITV schools show Leapfrog, The Country Life Christmas Box, Humrush by KMD, rock musical drama Body Contact, Oscar The Rabbit In Rubbidge, Erasmus Microman and jaw-dropping Anthony Newley film Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humpe And Find True Happiness?. Along the way we’ll also be speculating on what actually went on in the Chock-A-Block factory, revealing Fred Harris’ secret Video Nasty links, chronicling the rival warring factions of the ‘puppets on a black background’ phenomenon (none of whom were responsible for an Off-The-Peg Ian Paisley), and trying our hardest to avoid talking about a cannibalistic emulsified cross between Last Tango In Paris and Straw Dogs. And if you can help in finding three seconds of Sylvester McCoy being hit with planks of wood, please let us know!

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Oscar The Rabbit In Rubbidge (Tyne Tees, 1977) - listen to Phil Norman and TIm Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Country Life Christmas Box - listen to Phil Norman and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Phil

Phil Norman is an animator and writer and the founder of TV Cream. Phil’s book A History Of Television In 100 Programmes is available from Amazon here and you can follow him on Twitter at @MrPhilNorman.

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You can find lots more about the weirder corners of cinematic history 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 is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. I really, really hope there was never a Gold Blend Christmas Box.

Further Listening

You can also find Phil on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Over The Moon, Amityville (The House On The Hill) by Lovebug Starski, I Am The Cheese by Robert Cormier, WFLA Milkshake, Spy Trap, Mediamind, The Black Tower, Soul Train by Swans Way and Paul And Peta Page’s ‘Hot Dogs’ here.

There’s more about preposterous BBC rock operas – this time biblical-riffing sci-fi effort Orion – in Looks Unfamiliar with Mitch Benn here. You can hear more about Newsy Ian Paisley – and the ridiculous television station that inspired it – with Mark Thompson here.

Phil also features in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Jenny Morrill on The Just Seventeen Yearbook, Ben Baker on Looks Familiar, Martin Belam on the Laurel And Hardy cartoon, Tim Worthington on Secrets From The School Underground, Jack Kibble-White on Don’t Give Up Your Day Job by Richard Digance, John Rain on Hello Mum and Tim on The Zeitgeist Tapes talking to Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding about politics in Doctor Who, which you can find here.