Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. TV's 'Clangers Expert'.

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February 4, 2021February 13, 2021 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar #74: Matt Lee – If The 1950s Produced A Videogame This Would Be It

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Looks Unfamiliar #21: Darrell Maclaine - The Russ Abbot's Madhouse Cosplay Kit
You Shall Have It Under Your Hand Today
When The Levity Breaks
The Zeitgeist Tapes: The Prisoner
My 70s TV Childhood: The Sunday Gang
Knocking On Doors, Opening Windows...
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Thor
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Iron Man 2
Looks Unfamiliar #9: Martin Ruddock - I Made A Plasticine Harold Macmillan
Looks Unfamiliar #20: Paul Kirkley - The Most Memorable Movie Ferret Sacrifice Ever

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Looks Unfamiliar with Matt Lee Looks Unfamiliar #74: Matt Lee - If The 1950s Produced A Videogame This Would Be It
Matt Lee joins Tim for a chat about They Might Be Giants' 'Dial-A-Song' Service, Park St. Under, Wake Up! With Libby And Jonathan, an attempted regional ban on Garbage Pail Kids and more.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Part Three) It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Part Three)
 David Smith joins Tim for a chat about the wild time-hopping genre-switching alternate reality-bending mission to stop history being entirely rewritten by aliens with access to TV Tropes in Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Looks Unfamiliar with Samira Ahmed Looks Unfamiliar #73: Samira Ahmed - The Fifth Beatle Of The Magic Roundabout World
Samira Ahmed joins Tim for a chat about Selfridges' Space: 1999 walkthrough, Dairy Council advice booklet Good Looks Ahead, The Fun Food Factory and more.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: Far From Home It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: Far From Home
 Gabby Hutchinson Crouch joins Tim to chat about Peter Parker trying to recreate National Lampoon’s European Vacation while being interrupted by a giant steam monster in Spider-Man: Far From Home.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Avengers: Endgame It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Avengers: Endgame
 Ben Baker joins Tim to chat about the aftermath of Thanos’ plan to leave everyone arguing over whether Die Hard is a time travel movie in Avengers: Endgame.


New Features

Knocking On Doors, Opening Windows...
A look back at the BBC's devotional children's show - with resident screeching puppet mouse - The Sunday Gang.

Bob Dylan in The Madhouse On Castle Street (BBC, 1963) Desert Island Dylan
Nobody knows very much about Bob Dylan's appearance in the BBC play The Madhouse On Castle Street - but you can find details about it in the most unlikely places...

Take A Giant Step
A look back at The Monkees - or at least The Monkees as we would have seen it on the BBC...


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Higher Than The Sun by Tim Worthington

You can currently get Higher Than The Sun with 10% off in paperback (Code SPRING10) from here.


Not All The Albums Again



I've written the sleevenotes for a box set of the Not The Nine O'Clock News albums. Find out more here.


My 70's TV Childhood - The Sunday Gang



I have a chat with Oliver Colling about BBC1’s early morning religiously-slanted children’s programme featuring a mob of wacky teenagers presenting their somewhat individual slant on Bible stories while a puppet mouse screeched at them in the corner The Sunday Gang. You can listen to it here.


Go Down Record Huntin’ (In Charity Shops)



A deep dive into that mouldy box of records in your local charity shop with some of my best, worst and just plain weirdest finds - and stories to match... hear it here.
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