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Category: Looks Unfamiliar

November 29, 2024May 15, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Mitch Benn – A Perfect Storm Of Goth

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Looks Unfamiliar: Mic Wright – This Is The Kind Of Thing You Do Not Get From Jane Fonda

October 31, 2024April 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

The Looks Unfamiliar Horror Bag: Steve Berry – Frankenstein’s Monster Ice Lolly Face Disappears When Ice Lolly Removed From Packet

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The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: The Wheatmeal Man Came Round Every Thursday Week

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Looks Unfamiliar: Donna Rees – Michael Palin Is Almost Like A Suit

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Looks Unfamiliar: Danny Kodicek – The Bergerac-Pullover Crossover

August 16, 2024May 1, 2026 Tim Worthington

The Looks Unfamiliar Summertime Special: Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson – Why Would Anyone Want To Eat A Foot-Shaped Ice Cream?

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Looks Unfamiliar: Justin Lewis – I Prolonged J.R.

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Looks Unfamiliar: Paul Abbott – Don’t Make A Puppy A Stage Manager

July 14, 2024March 18, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Genevieve Jenner – It Was The Nineties, Things Were Happening With Fruits

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Looks Unfamiliar: Adam S. Leslie – At Any Point In Any Day Channel 4 Might Be Pranking You

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Looks Unfamiliar: Suzy Robinson – Was Limahl Ever Cool?

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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

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty Three – Come And Give Me Some Of That Yum Yum Chocolate Chip Honey Dip Can I Get A Time Scoop?
It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty Three – Come And Give Me Some Of That Yum Yum Chocolate Chip Honey Dip Can I Get A Time Scoop?
It's 1983, and Doctor Who is celebrating twenty years on air - and this time around, they're going to make sure you know it...

Doogy Rev!
Doogy Rev!
Need some tips on how to get past The Vortex? It's the story of BBC2's Douglas Adams and Dungeons And Dragons-inspired game show, The Adventure Game!

Through The Square Window: Lionel Nimrod, Boss Cat And The Morok Messenger
Through The Square Window: Lionel Nimrod, Boss Cat And The Morok Messenger
In this week's Radio Times - Doctor Who, The Monkees, Belle And Sebastian, Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World and Jailhouse Rock. Not THAT Belle And Sebastian. But also them too.

So Disappointed: Whatever Happened To The Future?

So Disappointed: Whatever Happened To The Future?
I join Paul Whitelaw and Wendy Jordan for a look at why The BBC's science magazine show Tomorrow's World never quite delivered on what it promised, but not in the way we might have expected - listen to it here.

Latest Podcasts

Looks Unfamiliar: David Quantick – We Were Excited Because We Saw Hugh Scully’s Makeup Chair
Looks Unfamiliar: David Quantick – We Were Excited Because We Saw Hugh Scully’s Makeup Chair
David joins me for a chat about Timeslip, Black Hearts In Battersea, Elephant's Eggs In A Rhubarb Tree, Mike Oldfield's Boxed, Bright's Boffins and more.

Looks Unfamiliar: Gareth Randall – Tony Hart’s Tin Machine
Looks Unfamiliar: Gareth Randall – Tony Hart’s Tin Machine
Gareth joins me for a chat about Screen Test Young Film-Maker entry Ice Cream, 'Where's Pepe?', Keep Your Pecker Up by Eugene And The Syncopaters, Captain Micro's Electronic Comic, Tim And The Hidden People, Master Maze, Skirrid, Darren Kimpton, Take Hart On Holiday and more.

Looks Unfamiliar: Mark Thompson – It’s Great For Your Gel Pen Needs
Looks Unfamiliar: Mark Thompson – It’s Great For Your Gel Pen Needs
Mark joins me for a chat about Lenny Henry's Square Crisps adverts, Allied Lyons - A Great British Company, The Quiet Earth, Illuminati, The Optimist, Father's Day and more.

The DNA Of Doctor Who: The Graham Williams Years

The DNA Of Doctor Who: The Graham Williams Years

A new book about Doctor Who in the late seventies, including a chapter by me on the impact that Star Wars had on the then-struggling show. Find out more here.

Shatter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Shatter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Hammer's great lost funked-out soundtrack - available at last. Includes sleevenotes from me on the background to the Shatter score. 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.

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