Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

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

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January 25, 2021May 8, 2021 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar #73: Samira Ahmed – The Fifth Beatle Of The Magic Roundabout World

September 19, 2020April 30, 2021 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar #68: Mic Wright – A Very Fall Type Sweet

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

Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons (ITC, 1967).
October 4, 2017May 13, 2021 Tim Worthington

We Know That You Can Hear Us, Earthmen…

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Festive Episodes Of All Your Comedy Favourites!
Looks Unfamiliar #25: Tim Worthington - People Don't Really Go On About Psychedelic Blue Peter
Looks Unfamiliar: Mark Thompson - I'm Quite Happy With My Passport Colour To Be Honest
The Sci-Fi That Time Forgot
Je Suis Perdue Dans La Nuit, Dans Cette Ville Où Je Vis
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Looks Unfamiliar #48: Pete Prodge - Paul Nuttalls Of The UCHIPS
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Latest Podcasts

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Deadpool 2 with Phil Catterall It's Good, Except It Sucks: Deadpool 2
Phil Catterall joins Tim for a chat about Wade Wilson leading the newly formed X-Force straight into some overhead power lines in Deadpool 2.

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.


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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Can't Help Thinking About Me by Tim Worthington

You can currently get Can't Help Thinking About Me with 15% off in paperback (Code BOSS15) from here.


Vintage Rock Presents The Beach Boys

Vintage Rock Presents The Beach Boys

I've written a feature on The Beach Boys' legendary unreleased album SMiLE - and lots more besides - for this bookazine celebrating their career. 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

Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. It's Good, Except It Sucks: Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Part Three)

David Smith joins Tim for a chat about Phil Coulson's time-hopping genre-switching alternate reality-bending mission to stop history being entirely rewritten by aliens with access to TV Tropes.
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