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Tim Worthington

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

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Looks Unfamiliar’s Box Of Delights: Richard Marson – I Suspect The Binmen Were Probably Not In That Year’s Review Of The Year

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The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – Now In Paperback!

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I Just Wanna Be A Winner

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The Golden Age Of Children’s TV

July 11, 2019December 5, 2025 Tim Worthington

A Fast Exciting All-Action Game

May 11, 2019February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Chris Shaw – It’s Half Three And Something Is Happening

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.

New Features

Through The Square Window: Blue Jam, Yaz Khan And Laurie LeMans
Through The Square Window: Blue Jam, Yaz Khan And Laurie LeMans
Another collection of highlights from the archives with a woozy late-night radio vibe... and Bernard Cribbins?

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Nineteen – Everything Starts With An E-Space
It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Nineteen – Everything Starts With An E-Space
It's 1980, and Doctor Who's new producer has some big ideas for big changes - but are they necessarily for the better...?.

Michael Caine Appears In Pulp On Tuesday
Michael Caine Appears In Pulp On Tuesday
It's late December, it's late at night on BBC1, and that can only mean one thing...

Latest Podcasts

Looks Unfamiliar: Garreth Hirons – Old Jeeves’ Special Truffle And Cheese Popcorn
Looks Unfamiliar: Garreth Hirons – Old Jeeves’ Special Truffle And Cheese Popcorn
Garreth joins me for a chat about Copper Blue by Sugar, Crusader Nuts, The Hobbit on the ZX Spectrum, Too Sussed? by These Animal Men, Spring 1994 by S*M*A*S*H and more.

Looks Unfamiliar: Athena Kugblenu – FANCY THIS MAN!
Looks Unfamiliar: Athena Kugblenu – FANCY THIS MAN!
Athena joins me for a chat about Street Hawk, Bad Influence!, Murder One, Due South, The Dreamstone and more.

The Golden Age Of Children's TV - Ivor The Engine: The Next Generation
The Golden Age Of Children's TV - Ivor The Engine: The Next Generation
Mitch Benn on Clangers, Hilary Machell on Go With Noakes, Garry Abbott on Button Moon, Paul Kirkley on Saturday Superstore and Andy Lewis on The Changes.

From The Archive

Looks Unfamiliar: Emma Burnell – Jessica Wakefield Is Jessica Fletcher Writ Large
Looks Unfamiliar: Emma Burnell – Jessica Wakefield Is Jessica Fletcher Writ Large
Emma joins me for a chat about Sweet Valley High, Split Second, The Patchwork Monkey, Whose Side Are You On? the Ever Ready 'Power To The People' advert and more.

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.

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.

Journey To The Unknown

Journey To The Unknown
Join me for a nerve-jangling selection of little-heard spooky pop discs from the sixties here.

Goon Pod: Pickwick

Goon Pod: Pickwick
A chat with Tyler Adams about Harry Secombe's acclaimed turn in the sixties-dominating Charles Dickens-inspired stage musical smash Pickwick - listen to it here.

Wolfshead

Wolfshead

Hammer's great lost Robin Hood television pilot comes to Bluray - and decent picture quality - at last. Find out more here.

Patreon

Patreon
New reviews, obscurities from the archives, nonsense about old newspaper ads, exclusive audio and commentaries and much more besides. Find out more here!

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If you enjoy what I do, coffees are very gratefully received here. Do they still do Maxwell House?

What’s Popular?

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: Chekhov's Fire Brigade Band Concert Poster
You Belong In Rock'n'Roll
The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: That Terrible Stereotyped Evil James Galway Look
Looks Unfamiliar: Bibi Lynch - I'd Go Out Looking Like An Extreme Adam Ant
Looks Unfamiliar: Carrie Dunn - They Just Shoved People Into Swimming Pools
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Jessica Jones With Miriam Kent
It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part Four: Last Train To Trantis/Sentreal
Not On Your Telly
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Avengers: Age Of Ultron With Garreth Hirons
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Daredevil With Gary Bainbridge

Book Offer

Can't Help Thinking About Me by Tim Worthington

You can currently get Can't Help Thinking About Me in paperback with 10% off (code LULUBOOK10) from here.

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