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Looks Unfamiliar: David Quantick – We Were Excited Because We Saw Hugh Scully’s Makeup Chair

Timeslip (ITV/ATV, 1970) - listen to David Quantick 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 writer David Quantick, who’s trying to avoid having to resort to using a ‘Time Bubble’ to prove the existence of Timeslip, Black Hearts In Battersea by Joan Aiken, Elephant’s Eggs In A Rhubarb Tree, Boxed by Mike Oldfield and Bright’s Boffins. Along the way we’ll be battling to stop the fiendish plots of The Dastardly Man and Captain Wind-Up Toy, debating whether it was worth getting a colour television to see a blue man behind a desk, explaining why Little Lord Fauntleroy was the Minions of 1890, and taking bets on who will get changed first out of Michael Palin putting on an Edwardian bathing suit and Paul McCartney dressing up as a Teddy Boy.

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Black Hearts In Battersea by Joan Aiken (Jonathan Cape, 1965) - listen to David Quantick and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Timeslip (ITV/ATV, 1970) - listen to David Quantick and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Timeslip (ITV/ATV, 1970) - listen to David Quantick and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Elephant's Eggs In A Rhubarb Tree (ITV/Thames, 1971) - listen to David Quantick and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Boxed by Mike Oldfield (Virgin, 1976) - listen to David Quantick and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Bright's Boffins (ITV/Southern, 1970-72) - listen to David Quantick and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About David

David Quantick is a writer; you can find his website here and Substack here and follow him on Bluesky at @quantick.bsky.social.

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You can find much more about Timeslip, Elephant’s Eggs In A Rhubarb Tree and Bright’s Boffins – as well as some shows that do actually still exist in broadcast format – 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.

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. Please make sure not to send that Mike Oldfield album that had a mug of coffee flying down Route 101 or whatever it was on the cover.

Further Listening

You can find plenty more about The Changes in Looks Unfamiliar with Samira Ahmed here and The Golden Age Of Children’s TV with Andy Lewis here.

Further Reading

There’s more about The Changes – and in particular the astonishing BBC Radiophonic Workshop soundtrack – in Opening Theme, Two Bands Of Incidental Music And Closing Theme here.

Looks Unfamiliar - a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington chats to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

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