Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

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

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Tag: The Prisoner

Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner - Free For All (ITV, 1967).
April 24, 2020December 11, 2020 Tim Worthington

The Zeitgeist Tapes: The Prisoner

Michael Caine tries to retrieve the gold at the end of The Italian Job (1969).
July 20, 2019November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

Hang On A Minute Lads, I’ve Got A Great Idea…

The AMC remake of The Prisoner (2009), as discussed by Tim Worthington and Mark Thompson in Looks Unfamiliar.
April 9, 2018December 29, 2020 Tim Worthington

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar #2: He’s Not On A Quest To Find Out, He’s Just On A Quest To Get Out

Popular Features

Looks Unfamiliar When Harry Met Sally Extra: "I've Hung Around Enough Bloody Guitar Playing Boys"
Books
Plays For Yesterday
Looks Unfamiliar #21: Darrell Maclaine - The Russ Abbot's Madhouse Cosplay Kit
All Dead, But Still Alive
Looks Unfamiliar #58: Shanine Salmon - Maybe He Felt This Was Going To Be The New Modern Hymn
Looks Unfamiliar #22: James Gent - A Cross Between The Prisoner And Test Match Special
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Iron Man 2
My 70s TV Childhood: The Sunday Gang
Looks Unfamiliar

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Latest Podcasts

Looks Unfamiliar with Emma Burnell Looks Unfamiliar When Harry Met Sally Extra: "I've Hung Around Enough Bloody Guitar Playing Boys"
Emma Burnell joins Tim for a chat about the 2004 stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally.

Looks Unfamiliar with Matt Lee Looks Unfamiliar #74: Matt Lee - If The 1950s Produced A Videogame This Would Be It
Matt Lee joins Tim for a chat about They Might Be Giants' 'Dial-A-Song' Service, Park St. Under, Wake Up! With Libby And Jonathan, an attempted regional ban on Garbage Pail Kids and more.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Part Three) It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Part Three)
 David Smith joins Tim for a chat about the wild time-hopping genre-switching alternate reality-bending mission to stop history being entirely rewritten by aliens with access to TV Tropes in Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D..


New Features

Knocking On Doors, Opening Windows...
A look back at the BBC's devotional children's show - with resident screeching puppet mouse - The Sunday Gang.

Bob Dylan in The Madhouse On Castle Street (BBC, 1963) Desert Island Dylan
Nobody knows very much about Bob Dylan's appearance in the BBC play The Madhouse On Castle Street - but you can find details about it in the most unlikely places...

Take A Giant Step
A look back at The Monkees - or at least The Monkees as we would have seen it on the BBC...


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Higher Than The Sun by Tim Worthington

You can currently get Higher Than The Sun with 10% off in paperback (Code SPRING10) from here.


Not All The Albums Again



I've written the sleevenotes for a box set of the Not The Nine O'Clock News albums. Find out more here.


My 70's TV Childhood - The Sunday Gang



I have a chat with Oliver Colling about BBC1’s early morning religiously-slanted children’s programme featuring a mob of wacky teenagers presenting their somewhat individual slant on Bible stories while a puppet mouse screeched at them in the corner The Sunday Gang. 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.
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