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Tag: BBC1

March 27, 2025October 3, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Way Back

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…

December 24, 2024February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar’s Yuletide Binge: Ben Baker – The Fickleness Of The Long Distance Ratter

August 16, 2024February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

The Looks Unfamiliar Summertime Special: Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson – Why Would Anyone Want To Eat A Foot-Shaped Ice Cream?

December 24, 2023February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

The Looks Unfamiliar Local Radio Countdown To Christmas: Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson – Hot Girl-On-Pudsey Action

December 12, 2023November 27, 2025 Tim Worthington

Like The Jolly Christmas Lights Of Regent Street, They Are To Prove Sadly Deceptive

September 30, 2023February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Georgy Jamieson – The Les Dawson Of Darts

March 18, 2023January 16, 2026 Tim Worthington

Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Prologue

May 14, 2022December 12, 2025 Tim Worthington

Never Call Me Jack Or James

December 22, 2021November 22, 2025 Tim Worthington

…And That’s Christmas – On BBC1!

August 31, 2021February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Deborah Tracey – Relax Now, Dammit

May 22, 2021December 17, 2025 Tim Worthington

Wound Up And Ready To Play

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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 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.

New Features

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...

Through The Square Window: Blue Jam, Yaz Khan And Laurie LeMans
Through The Square Window: Blue Jam, Yaz Khan And Laurie LeMans
Another collection of highlights from the archives with a woozy late-night radio vibe... and Bernard Cribbins?

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...?.

From The Archive

2 Hours Of Wicked Mixes To Keep You Moving All Night Long
2 Hours Of Wicked Mixes To Keep You Moving All Night Long
A look at the very first Now That's What I Call Music spin-off, 1985's Now Dance, and a time when 'Extended Dance Version' involved a lot of Extended and very little Dance.

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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The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: The Dublin Gang - Infinity War
This Is Television Freedom
That Was This Life That Was
The Characters That Time Forgot
It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part Two: Koquillion It Was Really Nothing
Looks Unfamiliar: Jim Sangster - A Horrible Bee-In-A-Jar Type Noise
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Madame Web With James Cooray Smith
The Original Peter
Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Nine
Batman: Still Any Good?

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Top Of The Box Vol. 2 by Tim Worthington

You can currently get Top Of The Box Vol. 2 in paperback with 10% off (code BCORP10) from here.

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