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Author: Tim Worthington

Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. TV's 'Clangers Expert'.
February 12, 2025February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The New Mutants With Mic Wright

February 6, 2025September 19, 2025 Tim Worthington

Through The Square Window: Betamax, Bryter Layter And Quatro

January 30, 2025March 11, 2026 Tim Worthington

The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “It’s A Bit Like The A-ha Video”

Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy (BBC1, 1977).
January 21, 2025September 21, 2025 Tim Worthington

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Sixteen: Marco! Herrick! Terry Lee! Gary Tibbs And Yours Truly!

January 12, 2025February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Joanne Sheppard – A Billy Butler For Every Region

January 6, 2025October 18, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “Every Owl She Traced, She’d Be Taking A Selfie”

January 6, 2025September 24, 2025 Tim Worthington

Through The Square Window: Prokofiev, Play Away And Templeton Peck

January 1, 2025November 12, 2025 Tim Worthington

We Might Be Able To Hear Each Planet And Each Star Singing Their Own Song

December 30, 2024January 3, 2026 Tim Worthington

Goon Pod: Billy Liar

December 24, 2024October 28, 2025 Tim Worthington

Last Minute Present Dash

December 24, 2024February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar’s Yuletide Binge: Ben Baker – The Fickleness Of The Long Distance Ratter

December 21, 2024February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: I Am Groot With Ben Baker And John Matthews

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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.

Latest Podcasts

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.

Looks Unfamiliar: Garreth Hirons – Old Jeeves’ Special Truffle And Cheese Popcorn
Looks Unfamiliar: Garreth Hirons – Old Jeeves’ Special Truffle And Cheese Popcorn
Garreth joins me for a chat about Copper Blue by Sugar, Crusader Nuts, The Hobbit on the ZX Spectrum, Too Sussed? by These Animal Men, Spring 1994 by S*M*A*S*H and more.

New Features

Through The Square Window: Milly, Modesty And First Band On The Moon
Through The Square Window: Milly, Modesty And First Band On The Moon
A shared house's worth of highlights from the archives including thoughts on The Cardigans, This Life and Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth, Paul Cornell on Looks Unfamiliar, and some sixties pop singles being played at six in the morning...

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty – Then Maybe If You’re Willing Girl, He’s Gonna Ask For Moreton Harwood
It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Nineteen – Part Twenty – Then Maybe If You’re Willing Girl, He’s Gonna Ask For Moreton Harwood
It's Christmas 1981, and while everyone is waiting to see what the new Doctor Who is like, K9 has a spot of bother with the forces of darkness to contend with...

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Nineteen – Everything Starts With An E-Space
It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Nineteen – Everything Starts With An E-Space
It's 1980, and Doctor Who's new producer has some big ideas for big changes - but are they necessarily for the better...?.

From The Archive

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: Captain Peacock Is Pompous, Move Back Three Spaces
The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: Captain Peacock Is Pompous, Move Back Three Spaces
Highlights featuring Stephen O'Brien on The Morecambe And Wise Game, Garreth Hirons on Food Fighters, Emma Burnell on The Patchwork Monkey, Phil Catterall on the Platoon computer game, Mark Thompson on Night Shift, Ben Baker on Fiendish Feet and more.

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.

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.

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.

Goon Pod: Pickwick

Goon Pod: Pickwick
A chat with Tyler Adams about Harry Secombe's acclaimed turn in the sixties-dominating Charles Dickens-inspired stage musical smash Pickwick - listen to it here.

Wolfshead

Wolfshead

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

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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: Chris Hughes - The Mr. Willmott-Brown Of Chocolate Bars
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The Golden Age Of Children's TV - "Get Your Singing Ringing Tree Here!"
Emergency Questions
Top Of The Box Vol. 2
Amongst Them Trevor The Sheep
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer With Garry Abbott
It's Good, Except It Sucks: I Am Groot With Ben Baker And John Matthews
That Was This Life That Was
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