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January 12, 2025May 7, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Joanne Sheppard – A Billy Butler For Every Region

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Through The Square Window: Prokofiev, Play Away And Templeton Peck

October 31, 2024July 21, 2026 Tim Worthington

The Looks Unfamiliar Horror Bag: Steve Berry – Frankenstein’s Monster Ice Lolly Face Disappears When Ice Lolly Removed From Packet

July 1, 2024July 26, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Adam S. Leslie – At Any Point In Any Day Channel 4 Might Be Pranking You

March 3, 2024July 21, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Lydia Mizon – There Was Real Peril And Also Vowels And Consonants

November 22, 2023July 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Doctor Who And The Looks Unfamiliar: Tim Worthington – The Most ‘Wood’ Anything Could Possibly Be

February 4, 2022February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Bibi Lynch – Everyone’s A Critic Noel

December 1, 2021November 21, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Watch Nativity Follows Shortly…

October 31, 2020July 27, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Will Maclean – The Radio Telescope End Of Hauntology

October 28, 2020July 27, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Catrin Lowe – A Comedy Panorama Report Meets A Superhero Film

December 24, 2019November 16, 2025 Tim Worthington

Christmas With Children’s BBC: Watch – The Nativity

June 26, 2019April 15, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Anna Cale – Mrs. Mangel’s Living Room Was The Bane Of My Life

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The Golden Age Of Children's TV

The Golden Age Of Children's TV by Tim Worthington

The story of children's television from Play School and Pipkins to Pob's Programme and Press Gang and everything in between - get it in all good bookshops and from Waterstones here, Amazon here or from the Kindle Store here. Find out more about what you can find in it here.

Latest Podcasts

Looks Unfamiliar: Georgy Jamieson – I Bet She Got It From A Catalogue
Looks Unfamiliar: Georgy Jamieson – I Bet She Got It From A Catalogue
Georgy joins me for a chat about Terry's Spartan, the EKCO hostess trolley, A Sharp Intake Of Breath, How To Win Holes By Influencing People, Charlie Chester's Sunday Soapbox and more.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: Brand New Day With Garreth Hirons
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: Brand New Day With Garreth Hirons
Garreth joins me for a chat about Frank Castle challenging Peter and MJ to the world’s worst reboot of Now Get Out Of That! in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Defenders With Andy Miller
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Defenders With Andy Miller
Andy joins me for a chat about The Punisher resolutely failing to turn up whenever anyone could actually have done with his help in The Defenders.

New Features

Adventures Of A Black (And White) Bag
Adventures Of A Black (And White) Bag
Dr. Finlay's Casebook was one of the BBC's biggest drama series of the entire sixties, if not one of the biggest series full stop - so why does it attract so little interest now?

KEN-DALL!
KEN-DALL!
Don't be late for the school bell - we're taking the register for a look at Grange Hill and Tucker's Luck!

Through The Square Window: Bailey’s Comets, bishopslips And Giant Hogweed
Through The Square Window: Bailey’s Comets, bishopslips And Giant Hogweed
It's Saturday Morning, and while you're waiting for TV to 'start', here's a collection of highlights from the archives including Bob Fischer and Chris Shaw on Looks Unfamiliar and thoughts on The Flashing Blade, Blue Jam and Zokko!.

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty Three – Come And Give Me Some Of That Yum Yum Chocolate Chip Honey Dip Can I Get A Time Scoop?
It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty Three – Come And Give Me Some Of That Yum Yum Chocolate Chip Honey Dip Can I Get A Time Scoop?
It's 1983, and Doctor Who is celebrating twenty years on air - and this time around, they're going to make sure you know it...

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Laurie Johnson's great lost soundtrack for Hammer's original Vampire Slayer - available at last! Includes sleevenotes from me on the background to the Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter score. Find out more here.

So Disappointed: Whatever Happened To The Future?

So Disappointed: Whatever Happened To The Future?
I join Paul Whitelaw and Wendy Jordan for a look at why The BBC's science magazine show Tomorrow's World never quite delivered on what it promised, but not in the way we might have expected - listen to it here.

The DNA Of Doctor Who: The Graham Williams Years

The DNA Of Doctor Who: The Graham Williams Years

A new book about Doctor Who in the late seventies, including a chapter by me on the impact that Star Wars had on the then-struggling show. Find out more here.

RHLSTP Book Club: The Golden Age Of Children's TV

RHSLTP Book Club: The Golden Age Of Children's TV
A chat with Richard Herring about The Golden Age Of Children's TV and thoughts on some of our favourite and indeed least favourite children's television shows - listen to it here.

Completing The Circle

Completing The Circle
My book about the making of Children Of The Stones and other spooky seventies ITV children's serials is now available again from here.

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Looks Unfamiliar: James Gent - A Cross Between The Prisoner And Test Match Special
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The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: The Real Bowie Says To The Imagined Bowie
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