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March 17, 2025September 14, 2025 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Madame Web With James Cooray Smith

March 4, 2025October 20, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “The Grasshopper That Barely Moved”

March 2, 2025December 12, 2025 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man 3 With Garry Abbott

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We’ve Got A Hot One For You!

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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The New Mutants With Mic Wright

February 6, 2025September 19, 2025 Tim Worthington

Through The Square Window: Betamax, Bryter Layter And Quatro

January 30, 2025October 19, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “It’s A Bit Like The A-ha Video”

Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy (BBC1, 1977).
January 21, 2025September 21, 2025 Tim Worthington

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Sixteen: Marco! Herrick! Terry Lee! Gary Tibbs And Yours Truly!

January 12, 2025November 17, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Joanne Sheppard – A Billy Butler For Every Region

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The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “Every Owl She Traced, She’d Be Taking A Selfie”

January 6, 2025September 24, 2025 Tim Worthington

Through The Square Window: Prokofiev, Play Away And Templeton Peck

January 1, 2025November 12, 2025 Tim Worthington

We Might Be Able To Hear Each Planet And Each Star Singing Their Own Song

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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

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.

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.

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!.

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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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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The Golden Age Of Children's TV - "Ivor The Engine: The Next Generation"
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It's Good, Except It Sucks: The Marvels With Una McCormack
Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Six
Back To Now: Now - The Summer Album
Through The Square Window: Orbit, Hamble And How Do You Do!
Looks Unfamiliar: Danny Kodicek - The Bergerac-Pullover Crossover

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