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August 3, 2025August 13, 2025 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Fantastic Four: First Steps With Gabby Hutchinson Crouch

August 3, 2025August 12, 2025 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Fantastic Four: First Steps With Garreth Hirons

August 1, 2025September 17, 2025 Tim Worthington

Through The Square Window: Moonshine, Madeleine And Oink

July 27, 2025December 6, 2025 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Kraven The Hunter With Mic Wright

July 24, 2025August 15, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: It Was Very Rare To See Something Like A Chocolate Biscuit Acknowledged By Children’s Television

July 11, 2025August 16, 2025 Tim Worthington

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Eighteen – Erato, Erato, Put Your Hands All Over My Body

July 9, 2025October 2, 2025 Tim Worthington

Andy Pandy’s Coming To Play!

July 3, 2025October 11, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Paul Whitelaw – It’s Alright For A Bruce Willis Album Track

June 29, 2025December 7, 2025 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Deadpool With Joanne Sheppard

June 14, 2025January 1, 2026 Tim Worthington

Through The Square Window: Oddie, Jodie And Just Seventeen

June 12, 2025August 21, 2025 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Thunderbolts* With David Smith

June 5, 2025November 27, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Ricardo Autobahn – His Airwolf Was Quite Good

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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: Orbit, Hamble And How Do You Do!
Through The Square Window: Orbit, Hamble And How Do You Do!
Another collection of highlights from the archives, including more than a few items that humourless bores would probably rather stayed in the archives - or possibly even weren't in them to begin with...

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...

What Has Happened To Shaky This Christmas?
What Has Happened To Shaky This Christmas?
Time to spread ever more Christmas 'cheer' - it's a look at the 1989 Christmas issue of Smash Hits!.

Latest Podcasts

A Perfect Looks Unfamiliar Christmas: Tim Worthington – You’re Not Doing Toast Properly
A Perfect Looks Unfamiliar Christmas: Tim Worthington – You’re Not Doing Toast Properly
I join Joanne Sheppard for a chat about Merry X-Mess by Rotterdam Termination Source, The Wassailing Song by Blur, BBC2’s A Perfect Christmas, Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings, Victor Lewis-Smith’s Bumper Christmas Cracker Cliché, The Hudsucker Proxy and more.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: No Way Home With Joanne Sheppard
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: No Way Home With Joanne Sheppard
Joanne joins me for a chat about Doctor Strange inadvertently presenting compelling evidence why he is no longer Sorcerer Supreme in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Looks Unfamiliar’s Box Of Delights: Richard Marson – I Suspect The Binmen Were Probably Not In That Year’s Review Of The Year
Looks Unfamiliar’s Box Of Delights: Richard Marson – I Suspect The Binmen Were Probably Not In That Year’s Review Of The Year
Richard joins me for a chat about Jackanory, Play School, Swap Shop, John Craven's Newsround Grange Hill, Blue Peter 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

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

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Last Minute Present Dash
The Christmas Gift You've All Been Looking For...
It's Good, Except It Sucks: I Am Groot With Ben Baker And John Matthews
Through The Square Window: Orbit, Hamble And How Do You Do!
Goon Pod: Billy Liar
The Golden Age Of Children's TV - "A Bloke And A Monkey Filming On A Bus, That's A Usual Sort Of Thing"
Looks Unfamiliar
There Was Always Something Different
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 With Paul Abbott

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