Looks Unfamiliar: Paul Abbott – Don’t Make A Puppy A Stage Manager

Disneytime Rotadraw - listen to Paul Abbott 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 Paul Abbott, who’s trying to line up the circular pencil mark fragments to form coherent images of Disneytime Rotadraw, What Shall We Do Now?: Fun And Games With The Andrex Puppy, Trivial Pursuit origin story drama Breaking All The Rules, Tomorrow’s World demonstrating Magic Eye pictures live on air, BBC promotional mascot Kirky The HD Hunter, Frog Dreaming and Waddingtons’ The Vampire Game. Along the way we’ll be keeping an eye out for E.T.’s movie cameos in a cork-rimmed hat, explaining how television peaked with Eve Myles time-travelling into an eighties videotaped studio drama, examining the controversial genre of ‘Andrex Hauntology’, assessing the best way to draw TV’s Simon And Simon and very specifically not asking for Michael Parkinson’s thoughts on the Magic Eye phenomenon. Plus there’s tips on how Blanco from Porridge can help your party go with a swing!

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Waddingtons The Vampire Game - listen to Paul Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

What Shall We Do Now?: Fun And Games With The Andrex Puppy (Bowater Scott, 1982) - listen to Paul Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Frog Dreaming (1986) - listen to Paul Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Paul

Paul Abbott is a musician; you can find Paul’s website here and follow him on Bluesky at @pablovich.bsky.social. Paul co-presents The Big Beatles Sort-Out, a podcast ranking all of The Beatles’ songs and other associated recordings; you can find out more about The Big Beatles Sort Out here and listen Tim joining Paul and Garry for a chat about the Beatles cartoon here and George Martin’s album By George! here. Paul also presents the Ed McBain novel review show Hark! The 8th Precinct Podcast which you can find here, and novelty record appreciation show (Music For) The Head Ballet which you can find here. You can find Tim on (Music For) The Head Ballet talking about Ringing On The Engine Bell by Bernard Cribbins here and I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek by The Go-Go’s here.

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Further Listening

You can also find Paul 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, as well as on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Transformers here and chatting to Tim about The Magic Roundabout here.

Paul has also appeared on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Thor: The Dark World here, Iron Fist here and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 here.

Paul also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Suzy Robinson on Crown Court, Danny Kodicek on Fox Tales, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson on Why Don’t You…?, Genevieve Jenner on Fruitopia, Adam S. Leslie on I Heard Your Name by Martin Rev and Justin Lewis on I Hate J.R. by The Wurzels, which you can find here.