Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

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

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Tag: Shanine Salmon

March 8, 2021March 16, 2021 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar #75: Shanine Salmon – By Law You Had To Have A McGann

September 20, 2020November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Black Panther

August 29, 2020November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

Chadwick Boseman

July 4, 2020January 9, 2021 Tim Worthington

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar #10: That Terrible Stereotyped Evil James Galway Look

Jerry Hall's Kept, as discussed by Tim Worthington and Shanine Salmon in Looks Unfamiliar.
April 21, 2020November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar #58: Shanine Salmon – Maybe He Felt This Was Going To Be The New Modern Hymn

Popular Features

It's Good, Except It Sucks: WandaVision
Can We Hear It Back Now?
Looks Unfamiliar Now The Christmas Album Extra: "Just Cross That Four Out And Put A Five In"
Books
Looks Unfamiliar #11: Lisa Parker And Andrew Trowbridge - He Looks Like A Normal Boy With A Nose
Doctor Who And The Thin Ice
Looks Unfamiliar
Christmas With Children's BBC: Bod's Present
That Sight, Those Sounds...
The Books I Couldn't Help Thinking About

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Latest Podcasts

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.


Book Offer

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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