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Category: Looks Unfamiliar

December 7, 2023November 21, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Katy Brent – I’ve Never Been Though Because Spiders

November 22, 2023January 25, 2026 Tim Worthington

Doctor Who And The Looks Unfamiliar: Tim Worthington – The Most ‘Wood’ Anything Could Possibly Be

October 31, 2023August 1, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar Spooky: Joanne Sheppard – Everyone Knows That’s How Hands Work

October 30, 2023January 17, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Mitch Benn – Spaghetti Star Wars

October 28, 2023November 28, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: Apologies If I’m Nick Drakesplaining

September 30, 2023March 30, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Georgy Jamieson – The Les Dawson Of Darts

August 6, 2023December 19, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Gabby Hutchinson Crouch – Catherine Catherine One Two Three

June 24, 2023October 30, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Bob Fischer – The Thinking Man’s Custard Pie

May 16, 2023December 27, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Bibi Lynch – I’d Go Out Looking Like An Extreme Adam Ant

May 4, 2023November 13, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: Chekhov’s Fire Brigade Band Concert Poster

April 6, 2023January 23, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Nina Buckley – We’re Not Very Sax Positive These Days

March 27, 2023January 11, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Rose Ruane – By Leaves, About Leaves, Maybe Not For Leaves

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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.

New Features

Through The Square Window: Blue Jam, Yaz Khan And Laurie LeMans
Through The Square Window: Blue Jam, Yaz Khan And Laurie LeMans
Another collection of highlights from the archives with a woozy late-night radio vibe... and Bernard Cribbins?

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...?.

Michael Caine Appears In Pulp On Tuesday
Michael Caine Appears In Pulp On Tuesday
It's late December, it's late at night on BBC1, and that can only mean one thing...

Latest Podcasts

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.

Looks Unfamiliar: Athena Kugblenu – FANCY THIS MAN!
Looks Unfamiliar: Athena Kugblenu – FANCY THIS MAN!
Athena joins me for a chat about Street Hawk, Bad Influence!, Murder One, Due South, The Dreamstone and more.

The Golden Age Of Children's TV - Ivor The Engine: The Next Generation
The Golden Age Of Children's TV - Ivor The Engine: The Next Generation
Mitch Benn on Clangers, Hilary Machell on Go With Noakes, Garry Abbott on Button Moon, Paul Kirkley on Saturday Superstore and Andy Lewis on The Changes.

From The Archive

Looks Unfamiliar: Emma Burnell – Jessica Wakefield Is Jessica Fletcher Writ Large
Looks Unfamiliar: Emma Burnell – Jessica Wakefield Is Jessica Fletcher Writ Large
Emma joins me for a chat about Sweet Valley High, Split Second, The Patchwork Monkey, Whose Side Are You On? the Ever Ready 'Power To The People' advert 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.

Patreon

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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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If you enjoy what I do, coffees are very gratefully received here. Do they still do Maxwell House?

What’s Popular?

Hits 5 Revisited
Looks Unfamiliar: Mic Wright - A Very Fall Type Sweet
Through The Square Window: Blue Jam, Yaz Khan And Laurie LeMans
The Dance Floor Monsters That We're All Getting Down To Right Now
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Black Panther With Shanine Salmon
The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: This Car Has Abilities Beyond The Capabilities Of An Ordinary Car
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Avengers: Infinity War (Part One) With Martin Ruddock
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Cloak And Dagger With Ben Baker
The Road To Rawlinson End
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