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January 29, 2018December 14, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Rae Earl – I Think It Was A Cerebral Cheggers Plays Pop

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.

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.

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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...?.

Through The Square Window: Orbit, Hamble And How Do You Do!
Through The Square Window: Orbit, Hamble And How Do You Do!
Another collection of highlights from the archives, including more than a few items that humourless bores would probably rather stayed in the archives - or possibly even weren't in them to begin with...

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...

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.

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The Best Pictures Are In The Radio (Times)
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Looks Unfamiliar: Joanne Sheppard - Not Really The Modus Operandi Of Your Average Ghoul
You're Weird, Ronald
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Black Widow With David Smith
It's Good, Except It Sucks: The Amazing Spider-Man With Gary Bainbridge

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The Camberwick Green Procrastination Society by Tim Worthington

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