Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

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

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Tag: Top Of The Pops

Top Of The Pops opening titles (BBC1, 1967).
February 4, 2020 Tim Worthington

It’s Number Two Hundred, It’s Top Of The Pops!

Christmas In Hollis by Run DMC, as discussed by Tim Worthington and writer Stephen O'Brien in Looks Unfamiliar.
December 20, 2018December 5, 2019 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar Christmas Extra: “The Meaning Of Christmas Is No Boris Gardiner”

Has a scene gone missing from Flash Gordon since it was first released? Find out when journalist Martin Belam chats to Tim Worthington in Looks Unfamiliar!
August 11, 2018November 29, 2019 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar #26: Martin Belam – It’s Not Funny Having A Piano Fall On Your Head If Someone’s Just Drawn It

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A Slight Case Of Reincarnation
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Looks Unfamiliar #27: Jack Kibble-White - You'll Never Silence Paul Coia
The Books I Couldn't Help Thinking About
The Characters That Time Forgot
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Latest Podcasts

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Incredible Hulk
Gary Bainbridge joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Bruce Banner’s struggle to control the raging beast that lives inside us all in The Incredible Hulk. Listen to it here.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Iron Man
Phil Catterall joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Tony Stark's jet-propelled escape from Taliban-controlled territory in Iron Man. Listen to it here.

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar #9: I Have A Photo Of You Admiring That Lettering
Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar with Suzy Norman, Richard Littler, Gary Bainbridge, Tim Worthington, Phil Catterall, Ben Baker, Mitch Benn and Darrell Maclaine. Listen to it here.


New Features

A Slight Case Of Reincarnation
Adam Adamant Lives! is back, and here's why you should be listening to it.

Great Lost Synth Sounds Of The Eighties
A guide to some of the sillier synth sounds that pop history forgot...

The Greatest Hits Of Outer Space!
A celebration of the chart-topping sounds from the days when Disco, Sci-Fi and Blake's 7 fans with money to burn collided.

It's Number Two Hundred, It's Top Of The Pops!
Nobody really knows what went on in the two hundredth edition of Top Of The Pops - but it's not quite as lost as you might think...

Through The Two Hundredth Window
I try to work out what happened in the long lost two hundredth edition of Play School from 1965.

Can't Beat The Real Thing
A not especially fond look back at some of the more cost-conscious alternatives to Coke and Pepsi. In particular, Panda Pops Green Cola...

The $1,000,000 Collection
A critic's eye view of some remarkable UK sixties jazz cover art - and the equally remarkable music.


Book Offer



You can currently get The Larks Ascending with 10% off in paperback (Code LULU10) 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.


Round The Archives



I'm on Round The Archives with Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge talking about Here Come The Double Deckers!. 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.


From The Archive


I’m Meaner, I’m Leaner, I Ain’t No Inbetweener
The strange and all too brief career of unlikely pop star Jimmy Ray...

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