Looks Unfamiliar: Mitch Benn – Argos Blade Runner

How To Be A Complete Bastard by Adrian Edmondson with Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine (Virgin Books, 1986) - listen to Mitch Benn 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, comedian and writer Mitch Benn, who’s tuning in that mysterious extra button on his television in search of any trace of Channel 4’s pre-launch promotional trailers, Imagination by Belouis Some, Space Sentinels, Simon Dutton’s turn as The Saint, How To Be A Complete Bastard by Adrian Edmondson and The Six Million Dollar Man’s toy adversary Maskatron. Along the way we’ll be profiling the ubiquity in popular drama of the Glen Matlock Face, finding out How To Be A Complete Bastard In Space, considering whether Astrea from Space Sentinels is ‘above’ pants and waiting eagerly for the repeat broadcast of Three Women Including Juliet Bravo singing that W-O-M-A-N song.

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Space Sentinels (Filmation, 1977) - listen to Mitch Benn and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Channel 4's pre-launch previews from 1982 - listen to Mitch Benn and Tim Worthington talking about them in Looks Unfamiliar.

Imagination by Belouis Some (Parlophone, 1985) - listen to Mitch Benn and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Saint (ITV/LWT, 1989) - listen to Mitch Benn and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Maskatron - listen to Mitch Benn and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Mitch

Mitch Benn is a comedian, musician, journalist, author, actor and pretty much everything else along those lines you can think of. You can find Mitch’s website here and his Patreon here, and follow him on Bluesky at @mitchbenn.bsky.social.

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There’s lots more about Space Sentinels and tons of other children’s shows that somehow straddled a fine line between movie-level thrills and extra school-level learning by stealth in The Golden Age Of Children’s TV, available in all good bookshops and from Waterstones here, Amazon here, from the Kindle Store here and directly from Black And White Publishing here.

If you’ve enjoyed this, you’ll enjoy Tim’s book Keep Left, Swipe Right available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here..

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Further Listening

Mitch has appeared on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Nobody’s House, Don’t Stand So Close To Me ’86 by The Police, Cyborg and Muton, Orion, Two Stage Self-Assembly Ice Cream Cones and Get Stuffed here, 54321, Logan’s Run The Series, Matchbox Zoomy Balloonies, Action Man’s Atomic Man and Bullet Man, King Swamp and fifties nostalgia in the seventies here, Monday Morning 5.19 by Rialto, The Laughing Prisoner, Oh Baby by Rhianna, Pocketeers, O.T.T. and the original pre-Geoffrey incarnation of Rainbow here, Star Turn Challenge, evil Grange Hill teacher Mr. Hicks, Striker, Lines by The Planets, Night Raven and the rise of international celebrities acting in pop videos here and Stars by Hear’n’Aid, Into Infinity, The Humanoid, A Man Called Sloane, BusyBodies and The Kids Are Alright by The Pleasers here.

Mitch has also appeared on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Captain America: Civil War here.

You can find more of my thoughts on Space Sentinels on TV Cream Stays Indoors here and more about the The Six Million Dollar Man action figure range in Looks Unfamiliar with Richard Littler here. You can also find a chat I had about Belouis Some with Back To Now here.