Tim Worthington

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

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The Golden Age Of Children’s TV
Looks Unfamiliar
It’s Good, Except It Sucks

Category: Tales From Europe

September 10, 2021July 8, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Singing Ringing Tree

May 15, 2019December 1, 2025 Tim Worthington

You’ve Got To Fight For What You Want

January 8, 2018October 1, 2026 Tim Worthington

Je Suis Perdue Dans La Nuit, Dans Cette Ville Où Je Vis

The Golden Age Of Children's TV

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

Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour!
Stand By For Action - it's the story of the Supermarionation-powered adventures of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol... we are about to launch - Stingray!

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty Four – Salateen, Look At You Now
It's 1984, and for Doctor Who it's a year of two Doctors - and they're starting to look at risk of outnumbering the viewers...

Wake Up Sunday!
What would you have been watching first thing on a Sunday morning in the seventies and eighties... and why could nobody quite work out whether they actually enjoyed any of it or not?

Latest Podcasts

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: X-Men '97 With Mic Wright
Mic joins me for a chat about Jean Grey battling to save a timeline where The Young Person’s Guide To Becoming A Rock Star hasn’t happened yet in X-Men '97.

Looks Unfamiliar: Mic Wright – I Have Achieved Some Things
Mic joins me for a chat about the NatWest Piggies, Eerie, Indiana, Musical Chairs by Kinky Friedman, High On A Rocky Ledge by Moondog, The National Record Of Achievement and more.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Daredevil: Born Again With Garry Abbott
Garry joins me for a chat about Wilson Fisk asserting that he’s better than Chuck Swirsky – frickin’ liberal – in Daredevil: Born Again.

Doctor Who 70-79

Includes a chapter by me on Doctor Who's unexpected moment of mass popularity over the summer of 1979. Find out more here.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Countdown To Avengers: Doomsday

Looking for a quicker - and only moderately more sarcastic - way of getting caught up on Marvel's watch list ahead of Avengers: Doomsday? You'll find one here.

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Laurie Johnson's great lost soundtrack for Hammer's original Vampire Slayer - available at last! Includes sleevenotes from me on the background to the Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter score. Find out more here.

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.

RHLSTP 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.

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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