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 actor and comedian Toby Hadoke, who’s peering over fences when the bad guys aren’t looking for a look at The Red Hand Gang, Einstein A Go-Go by Landscape, the BBC’s After The Bomb season, Children’s BBC’s adaptation of The Machine Gunners, quirky mid-eighties drama series Annika, Winter Flight, Strike It Rich! and Driving Ambition, Can’t Help Falling In Love by Lick The Tins and Golden Wonder Odduns. Along the way we’ll be debating the exact definition of ‘Mutant’ Monster Munch, finding out what happened if The Corrs stayed out after they were supposed to on a school night, revealing how to thwart a vampire armed with just a duvet, placing bets on who would steal whose lunch money out of Albert Einstein and Booga Benson and exposing the secret enmity between Margaret Thatcher and TV’s Sentreal from Doctor Who.

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About Toby

Toby Hadoke is an actor and comedian; you can find his website here and his podcast series Toby Hadoke’s Time Travels here. There’s more about Toby’s comedy club XS Malarkey here and you can follow him on Twitter at @tobyhadoke.bsky.social.

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There’s lots more about The Machine Gunners, The Red Hand Gang and tons of other much-repeated cliffhanging entries in the Children’s BBC drama 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.

You can find the story behind the Strike It Rich! theme single in Top Of The Box, the story behind every single released by BBC Records And Tapes. Top Of The Box is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

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Further Listening

Toby has also been on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Hey Matthew by Karel Fialka, Who Dares Wins, Timeslip, La Cabina, Cadbury’s Cabana, Kit Williams’ Masquerade and Paul Squire, which you can find here.

Toby also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Gary Bainbridge on Googi The Liverpool Duck, Tim Worthington on Ferrero Prestige, Becky Darke on Tubby Turtle, Anna Cale on Grange Hill‘s Ronnie Birtles’ shoplifting storyline, Genevieve Jenner on Boomerang and Mitch Benn on internationally famous celebrities acting in eighties pop videos, which you can find here.

Further Reading

Ghosts, Monsters And Legends (And Tennis Prodigies) takes a look at some of the BBC’s spookier seventies and eighties children’s drama serials; you can find it here. A Ghost Story For Christmas (For Children) is a similar look at the BBC’s one-off spooky seasonal children’s plays which you can find here.

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