Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Ricardo Autobahn – He Was Not Known For His Bendiness All Things Considered

The Pink Panther Bar - listen to Ricardo Autobahn 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 musician Ricardo Autobahn, who’s studying radio signals from Melmac in the hope of finding any trace of Pull The Other One, the Pink Panther Bar, late seventies ‘Car Of Tomorrow’ the Panther 6, Hot Wheels Crack-Ups, ZX Spectrum game Explorer, Inside The Magic Rectangle by Victor Lewis-Smith, I Live In A Giant Mushroom by Eric The Gardener, sentient automobile horror movie The Car, The Sooty Show episode Fun Being Small and the long-lost genre of ‘Thunderclap Pop’. Along the way we’ll be debating how much boggling should appear in the opening titles of any self-respecting ITV sitcom, questioning why Richard Herring never has sports cars as guests on RHLSTP, trying to figure out how ‘Star Wars on land’ might work and vigorously disputing Pob’s influence on eighties chart pop.

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Hot Wheels Crack-Ups - listen to Ricardo Autobahn and Tim Worthington talking about them in Looks Unfamiliar.
Explorer (Electric Dreams, 1986) - listen to Ricardo Autobahn and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Inside The Magic Rectangle by Victor Lewis-Smith (Gollancz, 1995) - listen to Ricardo Autobahn and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
The Panther 6 - listen to Ricardo Autobahn and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Ricardo

Ricardo Autobahn is a musician. You can find his podcast ALFSplaining here or follow him on Twitter at @ricardoautobahn.

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Further Listening

There’s more unexpectedly terrifying moments from Sooty and company with Darrell Maclaine on Learn With Sooty: Be Safe here and Will Maclean on the episode of The Sooty Show where Sweep’s brain got enlarged here. There’s also more early eighties ITV sitcom lack of laughs with Georgy Jamieson on Pig In The Middle here.

Further Reading

There’s much more about comedy on BBC Radio 1 – and how The Mary Whitehouse Experience began – in It’s Time For… It’s Time For… Comic Relief here.

Looks Unfamiliar - 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.

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