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Tim Worthington

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

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May 7, 2025February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: What If…? With Al Kennedy

February 9, 2024February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: What If…? With Al Kennedy

April 19, 2023February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks – The Incredible Hulk (1977) With Gary Bainbridge

November 20, 2021February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: What If…? With Martin Ruddock

September 7, 2020February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Thor: Ragnarok With Garreth Hirons

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

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Wonder Man With Tim Worthington
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Wonder Man With Tim Worthington
Tim joins David Smith for a chat about Simon Williams possibly taking the idea of ‘playing’ Wonder Man on the playground a little too far in Wonder Man.

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.

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...

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?

Looks Unfamiliar: Lydia Mizon - There Was Real Peril And Also Vowels And Consonants
Doctor Who And The Human Nature (Incorporating Doctor Who And The Family Of Blood)
A Slight Case Of Reincarnation
Doctor Who And The Long Game
It's Number Two Hundred, It's Top Of The Pops!
Great Lost Synth Sounds Of The Eighties
Meet The Mono Beatles!
It's Good, Except It Sucks: The Incredible Hulk With Gary Bainbridge
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Captain America: The First Avenger With Melanie Williams
The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: It Was Very Rare To See Something Like A Chocolate Biscuit Acknowledged By Children's Television

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The Larks Ascending by Tim Worthington

You can currently get The Larks Ascending in paperback with 15% off (code MANUSCRIPT15) from here.

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