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Author: Tim Worthington

Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. TV's 'Clangers Expert'.
February 4, 2020November 30, 2025 Tim Worthington

It’s Number Two Hundred, It’s Top Of The Pops!

January 31, 2020April 10, 2026 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Iron Man With Phil Catterall

January 27, 2020April 17, 2026 Tim Worthington

Through The Two Hundredth Window

January 24, 2020November 28, 2025 Tim Worthington

Can’t Beat The Real Thing

January 23, 2020February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: I Have A Photo Of You Admiring That Lettering

January 20, 2020April 10, 2026 Tim Worthington

The $1,000,000 Collection

January 15, 2020November 26, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Ten Least Effective Protest Songs

Enoch Light And The Light Brigade - Spaced Out (Project 3, 1969)
January 10, 2020November 26, 2025 Tim Worthington

Go Down Record Huntin’ (In Charity Shops)

January 7, 2020November 25, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Pilots That Time Forgot

January 3, 2020July 30, 2025 Tim Worthington

Never Too Quickly, Never Too Slowly

January 1, 2020February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Lydia Mizon – There Was No Dicaprio Rhyme

December 24, 2019November 17, 2025 Tim Worthington

Christmas With Children’s ITV: Magpie, Christmas Eve 1976

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The Golden Age Of Children's TV

The Golden Age Of Children's TV by Tim Worthington

The story of children's television from Play School and Pipkins to Pob's Programme and Press Gang and everything in between - get it in all good bookshops and from Waterstones here, Amazon here or from the Kindle Store here. Find out more about what you can find in it here.

New Features

Through The Square Window: Villa Rosie, Humphrey Plugg And The Half-Open University
Through The Square Window: Villa Rosie, Humphrey Plugg And The Half-Open University
Tune in for more highlights from the archives featuring Scott Walker, Blur, Peter Cook, Chris Morris and a book about comedy on BBC Radio 3. Oh and plenty of insulting of Enoch Powell.

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty Two – When You Feel Your Body Shake, Snakedance Snakedance, Then You Know You’ve Got The Break
It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty One – When You Feel Your Body Shake, Snakedance Snakedance, Then You Know You’ve Got The Break
It's 1983, and Doctor Who is celebrating twenty years on air. But you really, really wouldn't know it.

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part 4a: Out On The Wiley, Windy Moors We’d Roald And Lizan And Screens
It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part 4a: Out On The Wiley, Windy Moors We’d Roald And Lizan And Screens
It's 2026, and suddenly we've got two lost episodes of Doctor Who unseen since 1965 to cast an irreverent eye over...

Latest Podcasts

Looks Unfamiliar: Tom Williamson – You Stick Them In And They Go FH-DNK
Looks Unfamiliar: Tom Williamson – You Stick Them In And They Go FH-DNK
Tom joins me for a chat about Going For Gold, Duel by Propaganda, the Mr. Blobby VHS, The Adam And Joe Show and more.

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: The Dublin Gang – Infinity War
The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: The Dublin Gang – Infinity War
Mitch Benn on Channel 4's pre-launch trailers, Ricardo Autobahn on Roadmaker, Donna Rees on The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer, Paul Whitelaw on The Secret Vampire Soundtrack EP by Bis, Ste Brotherstone on TV Tops, Adam S. Leslie on Mystery Train and more.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Wonder Man With Tim Worthington
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Wonder Man With Tim Worthington
Tim joins David Smith for a chat about Simon Williams possibly taking the idea of ‘playing’ Wonder Man on the playground a little too far in Wonder Man.

ALFsplaining: Teatime Without ALF

ALFsplaining: Teatime Without ALF
I join Ben Baker and John Matthews for another look at some of the flimsy imports that ITV regions used to pad out Saturday afternoons with when they couldn't be bothered showing ALF - listen to it here.

Vintage Rock Presents: The Rolling Stones – The Complete Albums Guide

Vintage Rock Presents: The Rolling Stones – The Complete Albums Guide

Including features by me on Performance, The Rolling Stones' early television appearances and more. Find out more here.

RHLSTP Book Club: The Golden Age Of Children's TV

RHSLTP Book Club: The Golden Age Of Children's TV
A chat with Richard Herring about The Golden Age Of Children's TV and thoughts on some of our favourite and indeed least favourite children's television shows - listen to it here.

Completing The Circle

Completing The Circle
My book about the making of Children Of The Stones and other spooky seventies ITV children's serials is now available again from here.

Journey To The Unknown

Journey To The Unknown
Join me for a nerve-jangling selection of little-heard spooky pop discs from the sixties here.

Wolfshead

Wolfshead

Hammer's great lost Robin Hood television pilot comes to Bluray - and decent picture quality - at last. Find out more here.

Patreon

Patreon
New reviews, obscurities from the archives, nonsense about old newspaper ads, exclusive audio and commentaries and much more besides. Find out more here!

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Looks Unfamiliar's Box Of Delights: Richard Marson - I Suspect The Binmen Were Probably Not In That Year's Review Of The Year
Looks Unfamiliar: Mitch Benn - Argos Blade Runner
ALFsplaining: Teatime Without ALF
Through The Square Window: Villa Rosie, Humphrey Plugg And The Half-Open University
What Has Happened To Shaky This Christmas?
Looks Unfamiliar: Tim Worthington - You Can't Exactly Wash The Dishes To You Suffer By Napalm Death
Higher Than The Sun
That Was This Life That Was
The Looks Unfamiliar Sound Spectrum: Tim Worthington - The Old Nationwide Theme
Through The Square Window: Clowns, Colin Zeal And The Utarg Of Utarg

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Can't Help Thinking About Me by Tim Worthington

You can currently get Can't Help Thinking About Me in paperback with 15% off (code EARTHDAY15) from here.

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