Looks Unfamiliar: Tom Williamson – A Band My Word Processor Hates

Knightmare (ITV/Anglia, 1987-94) - listen to Tom Williamson and Tim Worthington chatting 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 historian Tom Williamson, who’s consulting dusty tomes for evidence of Children’s ITV game show Knightmare, Samurai Pizza Cats, Add N To (X), Civilization spinoff game Colonization, post-rock band Mogwai, and Jeff Goldbum-starring discovery of DNA biopic Life Story. Along the way we’ll be debating whether Knightmare fans are more frightening than Knightmare itself, visiting an in-store promo appearance by the Anglia Knight, getting a Mogwai: Are Bloody Loud And Horrible t-shirt printed, and learning about the associated risks of chewing gum-related historical inaccuracy.

Samurai Pizza Cats (Saban, 1990-91) - listen to Tom Williamson and Tim Worthington chatting about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Tom

Tom Williamson is a historian and co-host of Retrospecticus – The Simpsons And Modern History, Together At Last!, a podcast that looks at an episode of The Simpsons and an event from world history that happened in the week that the episode first aired in America. You can find the Retrospecticus website here and follow Retrospecticus on Twitter at @_Retrospecticus (don’t forget the underscore because they can’t!). You can find Tom on Twitter at @skepticCanary.

Buy A Book!

If you’ve enjoyed this, you’ll enjoy 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’s either that or you fund a biopic on the invention of caffeine.

Further Listening

You can hear Tom’s Retrospecticus co-host Garreth Hirons on Looks Unfamiliar – talking about amongst other things The Yellow Album by The Simpsons – here. Lucy Pope joined me for a chat about similarly high concept late eighties ITV game show Interceptor on Looks Unfamiliar here.

Tom also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Justin Lewis on the original Only Fools And Horses theme tune, Jane Hill on His Land, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on The Llŷn Peninsula Earthquake, Carrie Dunn on Too Close To The Sun and Bob Fischer on Eighties Tabloid Celebrities, which you can find here.