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

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Looks Unfamiliar: Georgy Jamieson – Pot Noodle With A Top Hat And A Monocle

March 18, 2025September 29, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Mark Thompson – I’m Almost Certain No Battle Elves Appeared In This

March 17, 2025March 2, 2026 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Madame Web With James Cooray Smith

March 4, 2025October 20, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “The Grasshopper That Barely Moved”

March 2, 2025August 5, 2026 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man 3 With Garry Abbott

February 12, 2025July 18, 2026 Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The New Mutants With Mic Wright

January 30, 2025March 11, 2026 Tim Worthington

The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “It’s A Bit Like The A-ha Video”

January 12, 2025August 19, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Joanne Sheppard – A Billy Butler For Every Region

January 6, 2025July 18, 2026 Tim Worthington

The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “Every Owl She Traced, She’d Be Taking A Selfie”

December 30, 2024April 3, 2026 Tim Worthington

Goon Pod: Billy Liar

December 24, 2024October 28, 2025 Tim Worthington

Last Minute Present Dash

December 24, 2024September 27, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar’s Yuletide Binge: Ben Baker – The Fickleness Of The Long Distance Ratter

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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.

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Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour!
Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour!
Stand By For Action - it's the story of the Supermarionation-powered adventures of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol... we are about to launch - Stingray!

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty Four – Salateen, Look At You Now
It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty Four – Salateen, Look At You Now
It's 1984, and for Doctor Who it's a year of two Doctors - and they're starting to look at risk of outnumbering the viewers...

Wake Up Sunday!
Wake Up Sunday!
What would you have been watching first thing on a Sunday morning in the seventies and eighties... and why could nobody quite work out whether they actually enjoyed any of it or not?

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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: X-Men '97 With Mic Wright
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: X-Men '97 With Mic Wright
Mic joins me for a chat about Jean Grey battling to save a timeline where The Young Person’s Guide To Becoming A Rock Star hasn’t happened yet in X-Men '97.

Looks Unfamiliar: Mic Wright – I Have Achieved Some Things
Looks Unfamiliar: Mic Wright – I Have Achieved Some Things
Mic joins me for a chat about the NatWest Piggies, Eerie, Indiana, Musical Chairs by Kinky Friedman, High On A Rocky Ledge by Moondog, The National Record Of Achievement and more.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Daredevil: Born Again With Garry Abbott
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Daredevil: Born Again With Garry Abbott
Garry joins me for a chat about Wilson Fisk asserting that he’s better than Chuck Swirsky – frickin’ liberal – in Daredevil: Born Again.

Doctor Who 70-79

Doctor Who 70-79

Includes a chapter by me on Doctor Who's unexpected moment of mass popularity over the summer of 1979. Find out more here.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Countdown To Avengers: Doomsday

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Countdown To Avengers: Doomsday
Looking for a quicker - and only moderately more sarcastic - way of getting caught up on Marvel's watch list ahead of Avengers: Doomsday? You'll find one here.

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Laurie Johnson's great lost soundtrack for Hammer's original Vampire Slayer - available at last! Includes sleevenotes from me on the background to the Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter score. Find out more here.

So Disappointed: Whatever Happened To The Future?

So Disappointed: Whatever Happened To The Future?
I join Paul Whitelaw and Wendy Jordan for a look at why The BBC's science magazine show Tomorrow's World never quite delivered on what it promised, but not in the way we might have expected - 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.

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