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September 12, 2025January 30, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Ste Brotherstone – A Third Person Videogame With Colin Bennett

August 27, 2025January 30, 2026 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Deadpool 2 With Joanne Sheppard

August 21, 2025September 4, 2025 Tim Worthington

I Can Hear That Sound Again

August 15, 2025September 17, 2025 Tim Worthington

Goon Pod: Pickwick

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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, 2025February 1, 2026 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, 2025January 24, 2026 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!

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

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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.

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.

New Features

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...?.

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...

From The Archive

Looks Unfamiliar: Phil Catterall – Here Is Pyramint, Buy Pyramint
Looks Unfamiliar: Phil Catterall – Here Is Pyramint, Buy Pyramint
Phil joins me for a chat about Droids, Madballs Comic, Phantom 2040, the Platoon computer game, Birdseye Steakhouse Grills 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.

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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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Looks Unfamiliar: Garreth Hirons - Old Jeeves' Special Truffle And Cheese Popcorn
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It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part Nineteen - Everything Starts With An E-Space
Looks Unfamiliar
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Captain America: Brave New World With Gary Bainbridge
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