The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: George Martin In Cahoots With The Zombie People

Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar featuring Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Mr. Men Songs, Hilary Machell on Enamel Bedroom Door Name Plates, Juliet Brando on The Telebugs, 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 and some extra chat with Tim about about A Hard Day's Night, Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford and Karen Gillan's The Hoarding.

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.

This is a collection of highlights from Looks Unfamiliar featuring Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Mr. Men Songs, Hilary Machell on Enamel Bedroom Door Name Plates, Juliet Brando on The Telebugs, 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 along with some extra chat with Tim about about Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford and Karen Gillan’s The Hoarding. Along the way we’ll be scientifically evaluating the Mr. Tickle Event Horizon, playing with the official Amanda Holden Slinky, trying to figure out the logic behind posting on the Internet to say there’s nothing on the Internet about Sharky And George and trying our hardest to repel a shower of ‘refreshed’ Granada announcers and the Test Card Clown – but no Test Card Girl. Plus there’s also a couple of extras you may not have heard – Tim on Good Morning Scotland talking about the proposed Grange Hill film and on Goon Pod chatting about what it was like to see A Hard Day’s Night on the big screen…

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Gabby – Hilary – Juliet – Bibi – Tim – Mic – Grace

Something Outa Nothing Extra

Mr. Men Songs (BBC Records And Tapes, 1978) - listen to Gabby Hutchinson Crouch 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.

You Just Might See Me Cry by Our Kid (Polydor, 1976) - listen to Bibi Lynch and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Bad Ronald (ABC, 1974) - listen to Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Sharky And George (cinegroupe, 1990-92) - listen to Mic Wright and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident - listen to Grace Dent and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford (BBC Records And Tapes, 1986) - listen to Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Karen Gillan in The Hoarding (2020) - listen to Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

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Further Listening

You can find the full version of Goon Pod: The Wrong Box here. You can also find Grace on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Bagpuss here as well as Gabby on Press Gang here, Mic on Around The World With Willy Fog here, Bibi on Playbus here Juliet on Orm And Cheep here and Tim on The Magic Roundabout here.