Tim Worthington

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

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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, 2020June 3, 2020 Tim Worthington

Doctor Who And Sky Ray

Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons (ITC, 1967).

October 4, 2017October 18, 2019 Tim Worthington

We Know That You Can Hear Us, Earthmen…

Popular Features

Tim Worthington’s Newsround

Latest Podcasts

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.

Looks Unfamiliar #62: Gabby Hutchinson Crouch – He Was Condemned For Being A Time Yewtree
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Parallel 9, Feed The Tree by Belly, The Revenger's Tragedy, Discworld Noir and more. Listen to it here.

New Features

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...

Book Offer

You can currently get The Larks Ascending with 10% off in paperback (Code SAVE10) from here.

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.

From The Archive

Opening Theme, Two Bands Of Incidental Music And Closing Theme
A look at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's soundtrack from The Changes.

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- Can’t Help Thinking About Me
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