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Tim Worthington

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Tag: Christmas

December 24, 2019July 11, 2020 Tim Worthington

Christmas With Children’s ITV: Magpie, Christmas Eve 1976

Play School (BBC2, 24th December 1970).
December 24, 2019December 26, 2019 Tim Worthington

Christmas With Children’s BBC: Play School, Christmas Eve 1970

Now - The Christmas Album (Virgin/EMI, 1985).
December 23, 2019 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar Now The Christmas Album Extra: “Just Cross That Four Out And Put A Five In”

Radio Times cover for The Box Of Delights (1984).
December 19, 2019May 26, 2020 Tim Worthington

Ghosts, Monsters And Legends (And Tennis Prodigies)

Lee And Herring, as discussed by Tim Worthington and Phil Catterall in the Looks Unfamiliar Christmas Extra.
December 16, 2019December 16, 2019 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar Christmas Extra: “It’s Like A Choose Your Own Adventure Of News”

Silent Night Deadly Night (Tristar, 1984).
December 6, 2019December 9, 2019 Tim Worthington

The Nightmares Before (And After) Christmas

Karen Gillan as Amy Pond in Doctor Who - The Wedding Of River Song (BBC1, 2011).
December 1, 2019December 8, 2019 Tim Worthington

Dear Father Christmas, I Would Like The Following (In 1986)

Channel 4 at Christmas, as discussed by Tim Worthington and writer and musician Garreth F. Hirons in Looks Unfamiliar.
December 25, 2018December 6, 2019 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar Christmas On 4 Extra: “I Don’t Want To Get All Sepia Tinted Here”

Christmas In Hollis by Run DMC, as discussed by Tim Worthington and writer Stephen O'Brien in Looks Unfamiliar.
December 20, 2018December 5, 2019 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar Christmas Extra: “The Meaning Of Christmas Is No Boris Gardiner”

The Box Of Delights by Roger Limb and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Soundtrack CD from Silva Screen.
December 13, 2018December 4, 2019 Tim Worthington

You Shall Have It Under Your Hand Today

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It's Good, Except It Sucks: Captain America: Civil War
Mitch Benn joins Tim to talk about Earth’s Mightiest Heroes having a bit of a shoving match in an airport car park. Listen to it here.

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: That Terrible Stereotyped Evil James Galway Look
Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar with Shanine Salmon, Lydia Mizon, Al Kennedy, Jenny Morrill, David Smith, Lisa Parker And Andrew Trowbridge and Meryl O'Rourke. Listen to it here.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Jessica Jones
Miriam Kent joins Tim to talk about Jessica swapping a life of costumed superheroics for drunkenly pulling cars out of tow zones. Listen to it here.

Looks Unfamiliar #64: Carrie Dunn – They Just Shoved People Into Swimming Pools
Carrie Dunn on The Glam Metal Detectives, Handful Of Promises by Big Fun, Shock Treatment, The Karen Carpenter Story and more. Listen to it here.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Ant-Man
Ben Baker joins Tim to talk about Scott Lang falling through a procession of plugholes. Listen to it here.

Looks Unfamiliar #63: Justin Lewis – Tommy Vance's Pages From Ceefax
Justin Lewis on the original Only Fools And Horses theme, Anglo American by Golden, The Rock Year Book, Stand In Line by Impelliteri and more. Listen to it here.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Garreth Hirons joins Tim to talk about the race to stop two stroppy teenagers and a mardy robot who’s swallowed a dictionary. Listen to it here.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Daredevil
Gary Bainbridge joins Tim to talk about Matt Murdock beating up gangs in Hell’s Kitchen while never quite being sure which costume to wear. Listen to it here.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Agent Carter
Hanna Flint joins Tim to talk about Peggy Carter trying to make it in a post-War man’s world full of malevolent alien sludge. Listen to it here.


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You Belong In Rock'n'Roll
There are many 'difficult' corners of David Bowie's catalogue, so why do Tin Machine get singled out as the one to forget about?

All The Fun Of The Flares
The pilot of That '70s Show is one of the best sitcom episdes ever. The pilot of UK remake Days Like These isn't. Where did it all go wrong?

The Abandoned Planet
How am I coping with lockdown? Not as well as I'd like, but better than many of the people in charge...

Ferry Cross The Mersey (Unless It’s Raining)
The seasick story of television's most weather-prone Saturday Morning children's show - The Mersey Pirate.

The Top Ten Most Least Best Worst Underrated Overrated Up And Down In And Out Round About Eeny Meeny Macka Racka Rare Are Dominacka Shickeypoppa Dickywhoppa Om Pom Stick TV Programmes In The World… Ever!
What are the Most Underrated TV Shows Of All Time? And Overrated? I've got absolutely no idea, and what's more I could not care less...


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Shindig!



You can get my feature for Shindig! on Tim Buckley's BBC television and radio performances 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.


TV Cream Stays Indoors: Space Sentinels



I have a chat with TV Cream about Filmation's 1977 genre-defining Disco Sci-Fi effort, Space Sentinels. You can find it here.


The Zeitgeist Tapes: The Prisoner



I have a chat with Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding about Patrick McGoohan’s hallucinogenic Cold War nightmare from 1967. You can find 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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