Doctor Who And The Looks Unfamiliar: Tim Worthington – The Most ‘Wood’ Anything Could Possibly Be

Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure (1989) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott 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.

This time Tim’s the guest, celebrating sixty years of Doctor Who by joining Paul Abbott for a chat about Pickwick Talking Books’ Doctor Who: State Of Decay, the 1978 BBC version of Pinocchio, Doctor Who: Variations On A Theme, Jon Pertwee radio serials The Paradise Of Death and The Ghosts Of N-Space, the Doctor Who stage musical The Ultimate Adventure, Billie Piper’s turn in The Sally Lockhart Mysteries, forgotten mid-sixties regular character Katarina, David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing, Jodie Whittaker’s introductory mini-episode Meet The Thirteenth Doctor, that time a Dalek turned up on the BBC Schools programme W.A.L.R.U.S. and Doctor Who: The Interactive Electronic Board Game. Along the way we’ll be pondering the difference between a Square CD and a ‘Square’ CD, attempting to steer a 90Mph Dalek, averting a Radio Times listing for Starved Robin Askwith, evaluating a proper professional synthesiser against one demonstrated by ‘the man’ in Tandy and securing Jon Pertwee’s autograph only upside down.

Doctor Who: State Of Decay read by Tom Baker (Pickwick Talking Books/Ditto, 1981) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Pinocchio (BBC1, 1978) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Doctor Who: Variations On A Theme (Metro Music, 1989) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Jodie Whittaker in Doctor Who: Meet The Thirteenth Doctor (BBC1, 2017) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Much Ado About Nothing with David Tennant and Catherine Tate (2011) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Sally Lockhart Mysteries (BBC1, 2006-7) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Katarina in Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan (BBC1, 1965) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

W.A.L.R.U.S. (BBC1, 1984) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Doctor Who: The Paradise Of Death (BBC Radio 5, 1993) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Doctor Who: The Ghosts Of N-Space (BBC Radio 2, 1996) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Doctor Who: The Interactive Electronic Board Game (Toy Brokers, 2005) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Buy A Book!

If you’ve enjoyed this, you’ll enjoy Tim’s book Top Of The Box Vol. 2, a complete guide to every album released by BBC Records And Tapes – including all of the Doctor Who-related ones. Top Of The Box Vol. 2 is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here. You can also find a detailed history of the ‘Sunday Classics’ slot in Not On Your Telly, available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. Tarrazu Valley to go with the ‘Latin Version’ please!

Further Listening

You can find further appearances by Tim as the guest on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Only Way ;by Lisa Stansfield, The Brain, Jackanory‘s live action adaptation of Starstormers, a Public Information Film about boat safety, I Was Made To Love Magic by Nick Drake, Secrets From The School Underground, Skyman and Rubovia here, Stop-Go!, It’s A Shame by Kris Kross, Spider-Woman, I Wanted To See You To See If I Wanted You by Moose, The ITV Encyclopedia Of Adventure, The Young Poisoner’s Handbook, the original version of Right Here by SWV and Radio Tip Top here, California Fever, Galloping Galaxies!, Bad Ronald, In-Flight Entertainment, The Chronicles Of Narmo by Caitlin Moran, Pirate Radio Four, The Collings And Herrin Podcast and What’s That Noise? here, I Was Born On Christmas Day by Saint Etienne Featuring Tim Burgess, Ferrero Prestige, Bod’s Present, A Merry Jingle by The Greedies, Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion by Jenny T. Colgan, Mariah Carey’s rendition of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, Richard Herring’s Christmas Emergency Questions, Iron Man 3, Joe 90 Christmas Special The Unorthodox Shepherd and Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re A Lovely Guy) by Max Headroom here, comedy on BBC Radio 3 here, Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride here, EastEnders spinoff single Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford here and Karen Gillan’s horror short The Hoarding here.

You can also find Tim as the guest on his Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Guardians Of The Galaxy here, The Defenders here, Ant-Man And The Wasp here, Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here and The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special here.

Paul has appeared as a guest on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Compleat Beatles, Zeeb And The Martians, Crab E. Crab, Rock Lords: Narlies, the Commodore Plus/4 and The Late Night Funster Show here and the Christmas Special of The Peter Serafinowicz Show here, and on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Thor: The Dark World here and Iron Fist here. You can also find Paul and Tim talking about the 1964 novelty single I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek by The Go-Go’s here.

You can find more on the ‘Sunday Classics’ on Looks Unfamiliar with Steve O’Brien on Brat Farrar here, as well as Mark Griffiths on the conundrum of having to miss Doctor Who because you were at the Blackpool Doctor Who Exhibition here and Tim chatting about Jodie Whittaker’s debut with Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding here.