Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

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Tag: Doctor Who

December 24, 2020 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar Selection Box: “The Idea Of An Annual Eric Idle Christmas Special”

December 16, 2020 Tim Worthington

(Music For) The Head Ballet: I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

Christmas With A Dalek! Doctor Who Magazine #559

November 27, 2020 Tim Worthington

Doctor Who Magazine #558

Doctor Who - The Evil Of The Daleks (BBC1, 1967).
May 27, 2020November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

The Abandoned Planet

Chock-A-Block (BBC1, 1981).
May 19, 2020November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

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!

Jenna Coleman and Matt Smith in Doctor Who - The Bells Of Saint John (BBC1, 2013).
May 4, 2020January 7, 2021 Tim Worthington

Doctor Who And The Bells Of Saint John

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 543, including an interview with The Trial Of A Time Lord musician Richard Hartley by Tim Worthington.
April 29, 2020November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

Doctor Who Magazine: Let’s Do The Mindwarp Again

Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in Doctor Who.
April 26, 2020December 19, 2020 Tim Worthington

I Get So ‘Emotional’ Baby, Every Time I Think Of Who

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 528 - including a feature by Tim Worthington on the 1960s Doctor Who Sky Ray ice lolly tie-in campaign.
April 23, 2020November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

Doctor Who And Sky Ray

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It's Good, Except It Sucks: WandaVision with Hanna Flint It's Good, Except It Sucks: WandaVision
Hanna Flint joins Tim for a chat about Wanda Maximoff trying not to reference Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper by mistake in WandaVision.

Looks Unfamiliar with Jonny Morris Looks Unfamiliar Disco Sci-Fi Spectacular: There's No Robots, I'm Not Interested
Jonny Morris joins Tim for a chat about Galaxy Gold by Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra, Battlestar Galactica Action Figures, Space Wars - Fact And Fiction, Season Two of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century and more.

Looks Unfamiliar with Joel Morris Looks Unfamiliar #77: Joel Morris - No-One In My Family Was Going To Be Conned By Big Battery
Joel Morris joins Tim for a chat about View-Master Demonstration Reels, Hanna-Barbera's Alice In Wonderland, Chutes Away!!!!!, Mazes And Monsters, Four-Mations, St. Michael gift books and more.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Helstrom with Vikki Gregorich It's Good, Except It Sucks: Helstrom
Vikki Gregorich joins Tim for a chat about Daimon and Ana having to literally decide whether it’s better the devil you know in Helstrom.

Looks Unfamiliar with Anna Cale Looks Unfamiliar #76: Anna Cale - It Felt Like A Social Realist Jonny Briggs
Anna Cale joins Tim for a chat about Sport Billy, Lindy Layton, Diana Dors' TV-am diet segment, Trev And Simon's Stupid Video, The Incredible Hulk Smash-Up Action Game and more.


New Features

Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd performing Astronomy Domine on The Look Of The Week (BBC, 1967) That Sight, Those Sounds...
When critics started to take pop music seriously in the mid-sixties, Pink Floyd and The Jimi Hendrix Experience began to turn up on television in some very unlikely places...

Let The Melody Shine, Let It Cleanse My Mind
Sometimes, a song is so powerful that it transcends what you think of an artist - and that's exactly what Bitter Sweet Symphony did.

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


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Not On Your Telly by Tim Worthington

You can currently get Not On Your Telly with 15% off in paperback (Code SELL15) from here.


Fawlty Towers - For The Record

Fawlty Towers - For The Record

I've written the sleevenotes for a box set of the Fawlty Towers albums. Find out more here.


My 70's TV Childhood - Pinocchio

The BBC Pinocchio (1978)

I have a chat with Oliver Colling about the BBC’s terrifying art-nouveau re-imagining late seventies adaptation of Pinocchio, with absolutely no comedy crickets or wishing upon a star, but plenty of screeching splintery puppets. 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.


From The Archive

Cloak And Dagger It's Good, Except It Sucks: Cloak And Dagger

Ben Baker joins Tim for a chat about Tandy and Ty healing the streets of New Orleans by shoplifting some Dr. Pepper.
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