Looks Unfamiliar: Justin Lewis – Tommy Vance’s Pages From Ceefax

Anglo American by Golden (Icerink, 1992) - listen to Justin Lewis 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 Justin Lewis, who’s knocking up a When Was Things? card featuring the original Only Fools And Horses theme tune, Anglo American by Golden, The Rock Year Book, Joy by Isaac Hayes, forgotten Watch With Mother show Thomas, Stand In Line by Impellitteri, sitcom sequel Selwyn and the Glamorgan Tiles advert. Along the way we’ll be critically evaluating a performance by Isaac Hayes’ Toilet Flush Orchestra, making placards for Teddy Edward’s Yippie Uprising, and bidding a fond closedown to Algernon Lunchbiscuit and everyone at BBC2.

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The Rock Yearbook Volume VI by Ian Cranna (Virgin, 1985) - listen to Justin Lewis and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Justin

Justin Lewis is a writer and editor. You can find Justin’s website here and follow him on Bluesky at @whenisbirths.bsky.social. You can get Justin’s book Don’t Stop The Music: A Year Of Pop History One Day At A Time here.

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There’s lots more about Thomas along with tons of other long-forgotten animated residents of the lunchtime slot in The Golden Age Of Children’s TV, available in all good bookshops and from Waterstones here, Amazon here, and directly from Black And White Publishing here.

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 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 can confirm that I want the best one and I won’t ask questions, only with a slightly different theme tune.

Further Listening

You can also find Justin on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Neither Fish Nor Flesh by Terence Trent D’Arby, In One Ear, The London Symphony Orchestra version of Tommy, Orbit, Pop Score and the Welsh Language dubbed version of Trumpton here and I Hate J.R. by The Wurzels, The Uncyclopedia Of Rock, Friends by The Police, Philip Glass’ Sesame Street composition Geometry Of Circles, Walk Right Through by Raissa, Nicholas And The Gang by Rene Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé and Very Hard Questions here. You can also find Justin talking about Emu’s Broadcasting Company on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV here.

Justin also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Jane Hill on His Land, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on The Llŷn Peninsula Earthquake, Carrie Dunn on Too Close To The Sun, Tom Williamson on Samurai Pizza Cats and Bob Fischer on Eighties Tabloid Celebrities plus Tim on It’s An S Pod Thing! talking to Sophie Davies about S Club 7’s ridiculous feature-length time travel escapade S Club 7 – Back To The ’50s!, which you can find here.