Looks Unfamiliar: Joel Morris – No-One In My Family Was Going To Be Conned By Big Battery

View-Master Demonstration Reel - listen to Joel Morris and Tim Worthington talking about View-Master 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 Joel Morris, who’s holding his NostalgiaViewerTM up to the light for a glimpse of Hanna Barbera’s Alice In Wonderland Or What’s A Nice Kid Like You Doing In A Place Like This, Channel 4’s Four-Mations strand, Chutes Away!!!!!, Marks And Spencer’s ‘St. Michael’ gift books, Dungeons And Dragons-inspired TV Movie Mazes And Monsters and the View-Master Demonstration Reel. Along the way we’ll be pondering whether Dad’s Army would have been improved by being entirely about some triangles, flicking through Patrick McGoohan’s Big Book Of Blunders, and nominating our suggestions for inclusion in the View-Master Netflix Universe.

Download– Subscribe – More Episodes

Chutes Away!!!!! (Gabriel, 1975) - listen to Joel Morris and Tim Worthington talking about View-Master in Looks Unfamiliar.

Alice In Wonderland Or What's A Nice Kid Like You Doing In A Place Like This? (Hanna-Barbera, 1966) - listen to Joel Morris and Tim Worthington talking about View-Master in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Joel

Joel Morris is a writer. You can find his podcast Comfort Blanket here and follow him on Twitter at @gralefrit. You can find out more about Joel’s forthcoming book Comedy Basic here.

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 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. They didn’t actually do View-Master ‘Coffee’ reels, unfortunately. I did check.

Further Listening

View-Master – and the Space: 1999 reels in particular – also features in Looks Unfamiliar with Samira Ahmed here. Meryl O’Rourke joined us for a chat about another early Tom Hanks vehicle – flatshare sitcom with a twist Bosom Buddies – here.

Joel also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Joanne Sheppard on Colorado Beetle panic, Emma Burnell on the stage musical version of Dirty Dancing, Samira Ahmed on The Fun Food Factory, Jonny Morris on Battlestar Galactica action figures, Matt Lee on They Might Be Giants’ ‘Dial-A-Song’ service, Shanine Salmon on Neopets and Anna Cale on Diana Dors’ Dors’ Dozen, which you can find here.