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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Avengers: Age Of Ultron With Garreth Hirons

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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Daredevil With Gary Bainbridge

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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Agent Carter With Hanna Flint

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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Guardians Of The Galaxy With Tim Worthington

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Looks Unfamiliar: Tom Williamson – A Band My Word Processor Hates

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

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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. Find out more about what you can find in it here.

Latest Podcasts

Looks Unfamiliar: Garry Abbott – You’d Have To Go On A Nerds Quest
Looks Unfamiliar: Garry Abbott – You’d Have To Go On A Nerds Quest
Garry joins me for a chat about Lovelife by Lush, Nerds, Challenger – The Adventure Machine, Matchbox Connectables, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Baking Soda-Powered Submarine, The Vibes And Livelee Mixtape and more.

Looks Unfamiliar: Tom Williamson – You Stick Them In And They Go FH-DNK
Looks Unfamiliar: Tom Williamson – You Stick Them In And They Go FH-DNK
Tom joins me for a chat about Going For Gold, Duel by Propaganda, the Mr. Blobby VHS, The Adam And Joe Show and more.

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: The Dublin Gang – Infinity War
The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: The Dublin Gang – Infinity War
Mitch Benn on Channel 4's pre-launch trailers, Ricardo Autobahn on Roadmaker, Donna Rees on The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer, Paul Whitelaw on The Secret Vampire Soundtrack EP by Bis, Ste Brotherstone on TV Tops, Adam S. Leslie on Mystery Train and more.

The DNA Of Doctor Who: The Graham Williams Years

The DNA Of Doctor Who: The Graham Williams Years

A new book about Doctor Who in the late seventies, including a chapter by me on the impact that Star Wars had on the then-struggling show. Find out more here.

New Features

The Satirical Panther
The Satirical Panther
How do you prop up TV Comic's ailing fortunes in the age of home video and Kajagoogoo? By getting The Pink Panther to do topical satire, apparently.

Buckley At The Beeb
Buckley At The Beeb
What actually went on during Tim Buckley's long-lost and surprisingly numerous BBC television and radio appearances?

Through The Square Window: Villa Rosie, Humphrey Plugg And The Half-Open University
Through The Square Window: Villa Rosie, Humphrey Plugg And The Half-Open University
Tune in for more highlights from the archives featuring Scott Walker, Blur, Peter Cook, Chris Morris and a book about comedy on BBC Radio 3. Oh and plenty of insulting of Enoch Powell.

Shatter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Shatter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Hammer's great lost funked-out soundtrack - available at last. Includes sleevenotes from me on the background to the Shatter score. Find out more here.

ALFsplaining: Teatime Without ALF

ALFsplaining: Teatime Without ALF
I join Ben Baker and John Matthews for another look at some of the flimsy imports that ITV regions used to pad out Saturday afternoons with when they couldn't be bothered showing ALF - listen to it 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.

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.

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.

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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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Looks Unfamiliar
The Golden Age Of Children's TV - "A Bloke And A Monkey Filming On A Bus, That's A Usual Sort Of Thing"
Looks Unfamiliar: Garry Abbott - You'd Have To Go On A Nerds Quest
The Golden Age Of Children's TV - "Every Owl She Traced, She'd Be Taking A Selfie"
Looks Unfamiliar's Yuletide Binge: Ben Baker - The Fickleness Of The Long Distance Ratter
We Might Be Able To Hear Each Planet And Each Star Singing Their Own Song
Goon Pod: Billy Liar
Keep Left, Swipe Right
The Golden Age Of Children's TV
Looks Unfamiliar: Joanne Sheppard - A Billy Butler For Every Region

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