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April 19, 2025March 9, 2026 Tim Worthington

I’m Wanda, And I’m Known By Many Names…

April 13, 2025February 23, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Donna Rees – As Soon As The Ink Was Dry On The Script It Was Out Of Date

April 10, 2025September 7, 2025 Tim Worthington

Dead Ink Books In Conversation: The Golden Age Of Children’s TV

April 8, 2025November 24, 2025 Tim Worthington

Through The Square Window: Bookshelves, Bowie And Queen Caroline

April 1, 2025February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Georgy Jamieson – Pot Noodle With A Top Hat And A Monocle

March 28, 2025September 10, 2025 Tim Worthington

Shatter

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The Way Back

March 18, 2025March 8, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Mark Thompson – I’m Almost Certain No Battle Elves Appeared In This

BBC Test Card F, as seen on BBC2.
March 18, 2025September 13, 2025 Tim Worthington

Now We Return You To The Test Card, And Some Music…

March 17, 2025March 2, 2026 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”

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

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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.

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Delegation’s What You Need, If You Wanna Have A Twelve-Part-Epic-Inspirin’ Blue-Peter-Episode-Stealin’ Tarranium-Core-To-Mavic-Chen-Handin’ Merry-Christmas-To-All-Of-You-At-Home-Wishin’ Time Destructor, Mmmmmm!
Delegation’s What You Need, If You Wanna Have A Twelve-Part-Epic-Inspirin’ Blue-Peter-Episode-Stealin’ Tarranium-Core-To-Mavic-Chen-Handin’ Merry-Christmas-To-All-Of-You-At-Home-Wishin’ Time Destructor, Mmmmmm!
To celebrate the return of two episodes of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan, here's a look I took at the story a very long time ago...

Through The Square Window: Milly, Modesty And First Band On The Moon
Through The Square Window: Milly, Modesty And First Band On The Moon
A shared house's worth of highlights from the archives including thoughts on The Cardigans, This Life and Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth, Paul Cornell on Looks Unfamiliar, and some sixties pop singles being played at six in the morning...

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty – Then Maybe If You’re Willing Girl, He’s Gonna Ask For Moreton Harwood
It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Nineteen – Part Twenty – Then Maybe If You’re Willing Girl, He’s Gonna Ask For Moreton Harwood
It's Christmas 1981, and while everyone is waiting to see what the new Doctor Who is like, K9 has a spot of bother with the forces of darkness to contend with...

Latest Podcasts

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: The Dublin Gang – Infinity War
The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: The Dublin Gang – Infinity War
Mitch Benn on Channel 4's pre-launch trailers, Ricardo Autobahn on Roadmaker, Donna Rees on The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer, Paul Whitelaw on The Secret Vampire Soundtrack EP by Bis, Ste Brotherstone on TV Tops, Adam S. Leslie on Mystery Train and more.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Wonder Man With Tim Worthington
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Wonder Man With Tim Worthington
Tim joins David Smith for a chat about Simon Williams possibly taking the idea of ‘playing’ Wonder Man on the playground a little too far in Wonder Man.

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.

From The Archive

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: He’s Not On A Quest To Find Out, He’s Just On A Quest To Get Out
The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: He’s Not On A Quest To Find Out, He’s Just On A Quest To Get Out
Highlights featuring Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge on the Jaws Game, Ben Baker on Mysteries Of Old Peking, Martin Ruddock on Doomlord 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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You've Got To Fight For What You Want
It's Good, Except It Sucks: X-Men '97 With Mic Wright
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That Was This Life That Was
Delegation's What You Need, If You Wanna Have A Twelve-Part-Epic-Inspirin' Blue-Peter-Episode-Stealin' Tarranium-Core-To-Mavic-Chen-Handin' Merry-Christmas-To-All-Of-You-At-Home-Wishin' Time Destructor, Mmmmmm!
Through The Square Window: Saboteur, Sizzlin' Bacon And Drak Pack
Can We Hear It Back Now?
It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part Thirteen: Every Little Thing She Does Is Magrik
"Am I Waking You Up?"
Through The Square Window: Brass Eye, Blakey And Doomlord

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