Looks Unfamiliar: Juliet Brando – An Adorable Serial Killer

Tab Clear - listen to Juliet Brando 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 and artist Juliet Brando, who’s trying not to get anyone expelled courtesy of hazy recollections of Gideon, Escaping by Asia Blue, The Cuckoo Sister, The Telebugs, Slapwrist Bracelets, Tottie: The Story Of A Dolls’ House and Tab Clear. Along the way we’ll be finding out which crimes are worthy of incarceration in Doll Alcatraz, evaluating which Roxette single will most impress your teenage crush, discussing how to react if you suddenly hear your voice in the background of a bleak American drama series and debating whether a school trip ever actually happened if nobody randomly fell into an oxbow lake.

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The Cuckoo Sister (BBC1, 1986) - listen to Juliet Brando and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Escaping by Asia Blue (Atomic, 1992) - listen to Juliet Brando and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Tottie - The Story Of A Dolls' House (BBC1/Smallfilms, 1984) - listen to Juliet Brando and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Gideon (ITV/Yorkshire, 1979-81) - listen to Juliet Brando and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Telebugs (Telebug Enterprises, 1986-87) - listen to Juliet Brando and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Juliet

Juliet Brando is a writer and artist. You can find Juliet’s art store here and follow her on Bluesky at @sliderulesyou.bsky.social.

Buy A Book!

There’s lots more about The Cuckoo Sister, Gideon, Tottie: The Story Of A Dolls’ House and tons of children’s shows seemingly specifically designed to to disturb girls in particular out of their wits in The Golden Age Of Children’s TV, available in all good bookshops and from Waterstones here, Amazon here, from the Kindle Store 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. Unless they still have any Tab Clear in that discount store.

Further Listening

You can also find Juliet on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Orm And Cheep here.

Juliet also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Mr. Men Songs, Hilary Machell on Enamel Bedroom Door Name Plates, Bibi Lynch on You Just Might See Me Cry by Our Kid, Tim Worthington on Bad Ronald, Mic Wright on Sharky And George and Grace Dent on The Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident which you can find here.

Can’t Beat The Real Thing is a taste test challenge through the history of forgotten off-brand colas; you can find it here. Ghosts, Monsters And Legends (And Tennis Prodigies) takes a look at Children’s BBC’s spooky sci-fi serials of the seventies and eighties; you can find it here; there’s also a look at a handful of one-off spooky Children’s BBC dramas in A Ghost Story For Christmas (For Children) here, and a look at a Smallfilms production with a significantly happier ending – the Bagpuss episode The Frog Princess – in And You And I Would Call Them Dragonflies here.