Looks Unfamiliar: Paul Abbott – So I Started Writing Stories About Gobots Instead

Zeeb Joins The Band (Golden Acorn, 1979) - listen to Paul Abbott 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 musician Paul Abbott, who’s frantically trawling defunct search engines for any mention of VHS-only documentary The Compleat Beatles, the Cadbury’s Smash spin-off Zeeb And The Martians books, short-lived CBBC puppet Crab E. Crab, Rock Lords spin-off action figure range Narlies, high concept home computer the Commodore Plus/4, Signal Radio’s The Late Night Funster Show, and a couple of extra surprises involving Dudley Moore and Paul’s family record collection. Along the way we’ll be finding out what the rare John Lennon Transformer turned into, recalling the only joke ever told on The Comedians, debating the correct pronunciation of ‘Adrian Mole’ and spelling of ‘Compleat’, and definitely not finding out what time Crab E. Crab is on. Plus there’s a live appearance by a Narlie!

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Winnie The Pooh and Teddy Bear's Picnic by Kenneth Connor and Cheryl Kennedy/Jim Dale (Music For Pleasure, 1969) - listen to Paul Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Rock Lords Narlies - listen to Paul Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about them in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Compleat Beatles (MGM, 1982) - listen to Paul Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Paul

Paul Abbott is a musician – you can find Paul’s website here and follow him on Bluesky at @pablovich.bsky.social. Paul presents The Big Beatles Sort-Out, a podcast ranking all of The Beatles’s songs and other associated recordings, which you can find more about here, as well as the Ed McBain novel review show Hark! The 8th Precinct Podcast which you can find here, and novelty record appreciation show (Music For) The Head Ballet which you can find here.

Buy A Book!

The Compleat Beatles doesn’t cover the legendary unreleased 1967 electronic Beatles track Carnival Of Light, but there’s a huge feature on it in my 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. Please don’t give any more caffeine to Crab E. Crab though.

Further Listening

You can also find Paul on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Disneytime Rotadraw, What Shall We Do Now?: Fun And Games With The Andrex Puppy, Breaking All The Rules, Tomorrow’s World demonstrating Magic Eye pictures, Kirky The HD Hunter, Frog Dreaming and Waddingtons’ The Vampire Game here and the Christmas Special of The Peter Serafinowicz Show here, as well as on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Transformers here.

Paul has also appeared on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Thor: The Dark World here, Iron Fist here and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 here.

Paul also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Anna Cale on Wendy Cracked A Walnut, Jim Sangster on The Ballad Of Lady Di by The Hon. Nick Jones and Ian Macrae, Melanie Williams on Rimmel Coffee Shimmer, Pete Prodge on The Evil Horde, Chris Hughes on The British Banknote Keyring, and Tim Worthington, Vikki Gregorich, Garreth Hirons and Jeff Lewis attempting to play, the Telly Addicts DVD game, which you can find here.