Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. TV's 'Clangers Expert'.

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Category: Cult Television

December 24, 2020December 15, 2021 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar Selection Box: The Idea Of An Annual Eric Idle Christmas Special

December 9, 2019December 2, 2021 Tim Worthington

A Ghost Story For Christmas (For Children)

December 13, 2018December 8, 2021 Tim Worthington

You Shall Have It Under Your Hand Today

Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons (ITC, 1967).
October 4, 2017May 13, 2021 Tim Worthington

We Know That You Can Hear Us, Earthmen…

Popular Features

Looks Unfamiliar: Richard Littler - This Is All That Is Left... Of A Wall
The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar - You Got How We Used To Live As Well, Did You?
Looks Unfamiliar: John Rain - They Probably Made Mick Fleetwood And Samantha Fox Look Like The Hitman And Her
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: No Way Home
It's Good, Except It Sucks: One-Shots
The Dance Floor Monsters That We're All Getting Down To Right Now
I Get So 'Emotional' Baby, Every Time I Think Of Who
Not On Your Telly
Looks Unfamiliar: Garreth Hirons - I Don't Want To Get All Sepia Tinted Here
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Latest Podcasts

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: You Got How We Used To Live As Well, Did You? The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar – You Got How We Used To Live As Well, Did You?
Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar featuring Grace Dent, Deborah Tracey, Joanne Sheppard, Lucy Pope, Mitch Benn and Ben Baker.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: No Way Home with Gabby Hutchinson Crouch It's Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: No Way Home
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch joins Tim for a chat about Peter Parker, Peter Parker and Peter Parker doing whatever three spiders can in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Looks Unfamiliar: Grace Dent - Be More Chorlton Looks Unfamiliar: Grace Dent - Be More Chorlton
Grace Dent joins Tim for a chat about what makes a perfect Christmas, including Chas'n'Dave's Christmas Knees-Up, Chorlton In The Ice World, John Peel's Festive Fifty and, erm, The Max Headroom Brodcast Signal Intrusion.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Have Yourself A Morlock Little X-Mas with Mic Wright It's Good, Except It Sucks: Have Yourself A Morlock Little X-Mas
Mic Wright joins Tim for a chat about Gambit mistaking the real meaning of Christmas for Cajun Spice in X-Men: Have Yourself A Morlock Little X-Mas.


New Features

Treat People With Kindness Treat People With Kindness
Because you should.

Christmas Emergency Questions Christmas Emergency Questions
I answered one of Richard Herring's Christmas Emergency Questions for each day of Advent... and here they are!

Did You Watch The BBC2 Thing? Did You Watch The BBC2 Thing?
In amongst everything else that's brilliant about Get Back, you can also hear The Beatles talking about what they were watching on television last night... and it's more interesting than you might think.

The Nation's Not-Quite-As-Favourite The Nation's Not-Quite-As-Favourite
Some time ago, I had an idea for a book about comedy on BBC Radio 1. It was the worst possible idea at the worst possible time...


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Top Of The Box by Tim Worthington

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The Singing Ringing Tree

The Singing Ringing Tree

The legendary eerie psychedelic dubbed imported children's serial is now out on Blu-ray - and I've written a book to go with it. Find out more here.


Ben Baker's Christmas Box: The Watch Nativity

Watch: The Nativity

I join Ben Baker for a chat about the television programme that has always meant 'Christmas' to me - BBC Schools show Watch doing The Nativity. You can listen to it here.


The Sitcom Club USA: Friends - The One With The Football

Friends - The One With The Football

I have a chat with George Grimwood about the episode of Friends where the gang's Thanksgiving plans are derailed by Monica and Ross' reginited childhood feud. You can listen to it here.


Go Down Record Huntin’ (In Charity Shops)

Go Down Record Huntin' In Charity Shops

A deep dive into that mouldy box of records in your local charity shop with some of my best, worst and just plain weirdest finds - and stories to match... hear it here.


From The Archive

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Blade II It's Good, Except It Sucks: Blade II

Joanne Sheppard joins Tim for a chat about Eric Brooks finding that those raving vampires are still keeping him up all night in Blade II.
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