Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is broadcaster Georgy Jamieson, who's adding hot oil to some alleged noodles in the hope that it transforms into something reminsicent of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Go For Broke!, Last Chance Lottery, Fry's Five Centres and Vesta Ready Meals. Along the way we'll be finding out what constitutes Tom Bosley Kompromat, presenting Alberto Frog with his ultimate dilemma, evaluating the legendary financial acumen of 'Minted Lamb' and embarking on a quest for the Mystery Newsagent...

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Georgy on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Indoor League, Re-Joyce!, the Animals In The Box sketch, the Paul Squire Fan Club, Pippa Dolls, Pig In The Middle and Good Winter Telly here, some of the signs that Christmas was coming that you just don’t get any more here and a similar Kiss Me Quick Hat-averting Summer-themed chat here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. I think you know which was the best iteration of Five Centres. Yes it was. Stop arguing.

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is political commentator Mark Thompson, who’s off on the campaign trail in search of anyone who remembers Twiggy Twiggy (Twiggy Vs. James Bond) by Pizzicato Five, Your Party Needs You, Jasper Carrott's I've Got This Mole, Society, Lost In Austen, Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo and Shadow Chasers. Along the way we’ll be debating the the importance of elongated faces in topical satire, revealing how to avert attacks by 'soldier ants', setting the Time Variance Authority on ITV schedulers and maybe, just ,maybe, finding out why Week Ending used Party Fears Two as its theme music...

You can more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Mark on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Whiz Kids, Crash ZX Spectrum, Night Shift, Public Information Film family The Blunders, The Last Train and The Drak Pack here, Libby’s Moonshine, A. Mazing Monsters, Agony, Being Erica, Hawkeye Collins And Amy Adams – Can You Solve The Mystery? and We Know Where You Live plus an extra secret bit about watching television on holiday here and V: The Series, Dirty Dick, The Giftie, The Mad Death, The Different Story (World Of Lust And Crime) by Peter Schilling and Space Shuttle here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help support the show by buying us a coffee here. Itsu made mo 'love and peace' (soshite kōhī mo).

Tim Worthington has a new book out called The Golden Age Of Children's TV - all about the best, worst and most just plain baffling shows you grew up with in the sixties, seventies and eighties - and the lines are open now for an hour of fun, facts, laughs and thrills. Joel Morris will be jumping in the Mystery Machine and dropping by to introduce those spooky sleuths in Scooby Doo, Where Are You!. Try out your best quiz questions on Tom Williamson, who'll be sharing some of the behind the scenes secrets of Blockbusters. Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge are catching up with the zaniest new Top Ten stars with the wildest look around - Animal Kwackers. With the latest top selling robots in disguise still selling out everywhere, Paul Abbott is taking a closer look at the Transformers craze. Plus there's a couple of live link-ups from all over the world as Mark Griffiths follows in the footsteps of legendary Norse adventurer Noggin The Nog and Adam S. Leslie heads for the Mediterranean in search of the true history of the Mysterious Cities Of Gold. So if you want to join in the fun - or just swap a Banzai-Tron Action Master for an unopened packet of Blockbusters bubblegum - ring the show now!

You can get The Golden Age Of Children's TV in all good bookshops, and from Amazon here, Waterstones here or directly from Black And White Publishing here - and if you want to know more about what you can find in it, head for timworthington.org!

Tim Worthington has a new book out called The Golden Age Of Children's TV - all about the best, worst and most just plain baffling shows you grew up with in the sixties, seventies and eighties - and the lines are open now for an hour of fun, facts, laughs and thrills. School's out but Emma Burnell is here to take the register for another term at Grange Hill. Mark Thompson will be dropping by to explain why they keep talking about 'bins' in Running Scared. Send in your puns for Al Kennedy, who'll be giving out prizes to any that could work as a Count Duckula episode title. Justin Lewis will be joining us for a live link-up with Emu's Broadcasting Company, and Genevieve Jenner will be going behind the scenes for a look at how they make Faerie Tale Theatre. So if you want to join in the fun - or just swap a copy of You Know The Teacher (What A Smash-Head) for a copy of Count Duckula 2 Featuring Tremendous Terence - ring the show now!

You can get The Golden Age Of Children's TV in all good bookshops, and from Amazon here, Waterstones here or directly from Black And White Publishing here - and if you want to know more about what you can find in it, head for timworthington.org!

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is book reviewer Joanne Sheppard, who's writing in to an early evening BBC magazine show for confirmation that she's not just making up Fax, rival human-ape hybrid thrillers First Born and Chimera, Next Of Kin, Mother Love, I'm Your Number One Fan, BBC Schools show The History Trail, The Yolk Folk, Angela Rippon's Victoria Plum and ITV's attempt at televised Cluedo. Along the way we'll be stocking up on Mark Phillips And His Horses merchandise, declining to eat some fifty year old corned beef, debating which lasted longer out of Whither Tarrant? and Whither Oddie?, finding out what would happen if you described Mark And Lard to your grandparents and finally explaining the ending of Life On Mars via a series of clues relating to Gene Hunt's thumb.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Joanne talking about The December Rose, Colorado Beetle paranoia, Brontosaurus, Will You Wait For Me? by David Bellamy, Timbuctoo, KP Wickers, The Enchanted Castle, Major Morgan The Electronic Organ and Wilderness Road here, The Bump by MC Mallett, Horror Chews, The Strange Affair Of Adelaide Harris, Matchbox Fighting Furies, Mouthtrap, Connoisseur, World Magazine, All Aboard! and The Guinness Book Of Pet Records here, Dramarama: The Exorcism Of Amy, Spine Chillers, Blue Peter’s Witch Puppet Make, Monsters Of The Movies by Denis Gifford, Nothing To Be Afraid Of by Jan Mark, Paperhouse, Dekker Toys’ Movie/TV Horror Make-Up Kit and Remus Playkits Identispook here and Go For It!, What-A-Mess, My Pretty Pony, John Carradine's The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, The Water Babies, The Magnificent Race, Amazon Adventure by Willard Price and Snapper Crocodiles here. You can also find Joanne on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about The Baker Street Boys here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Just make sure Bill Oddie doesn't pay for his own using your PIN number live on air.

Tim Worthington has a new book out called The Golden Age Of Children's TV - all about the best, worst and most just plain baffling shows you grew up with in the sixties, seventies and eighties - and the lines are open now for an hour of fun, facts, laughs and thrills. Bibi Lynch is waiting at the Why Bird Stop to join us on board the Playbus. Rose Ruane will be bringing along some alliterative bits and pieces and telling us all about Bric-A-Brac. Anna Cale is joining us to keep us up to date with the latest headlines direct from the Junior Gazette in Press Gang. Vikki Gregorich will be dropping by to introduce a new animated adventure serial in Ulysses 31 and Bob Fischer is on hand to explain how you too can trace patterns from plates like in The Owl Service. So if you want to join in the fun - or just swap a copy of Press Gang: Public Exposure for a copy of The Making Of The Owl Service - ring the show now!

You can get The Golden Age Of Children's TV in all good bookshops, and from Amazon here, Waterstones here or directly from Black And White Publishing here - and if you want to know more about what you can find in it, head for timworthington.org!

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is broadcaster Ben Baker, who's hoping that nothing will him dismay in a handful of overlooked Christmas Specials of otherwise well-known television shows including The Goodies' ITV debut Snow White 2, Roland Rat's BBC debut Roland's Yuletide Binge and Imelda Davies, Mr, Griffiths and Harriet The School Donkey's debut in Grange Hill For Christmas. Along the way we'll be debating whether it's possible for anything to be more 'ribald' than Phil Cool's rubber face, trying to make it past the first ad break of the first episode of Astronauts, leafing through The Official Steve Nallon Annual 1985 and trying not to dwell on what Rob Newman was doing lurking outside the School Furniture Shed.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org. You can also find Ben on Mr T’s Christmas Dream, There’s Something Wrong In Paradise, God In The House, To Hell With The Devil, Highway, The Flint Street Nativity, the 1990 Bullseye Christmas Special, Adam And Joe’s Fourmative Years and TFI 1998 here, Bernard And The Genie here and the original and now quietly forgotten version of Now - The Christmas Album here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Standing next to a BBC Vending Machine and going 'NYEH-HEHH' is very much optional.

Tim Worthington has a new book out called The Golden Age Of Children's TV - all about the best, worst and most just plain baffling shows you grew up with in the sixties, seventies and eighties - and the lines are open now for an hour of fun, facts, laughs and thrills. Jane Hill will be joining us live from a Bring And Buy Sale and trying to keep Petra off the counter as she takes a look at Blue Peter. Melanie Williams is heading down the Helter-Skelter faster and faster towards Cuckooland and dropping by for a chat about Jamie And The Magic Torch. Phil Norman will be taking a look behind the scenes at a programme that more often than not took a look behind the scenes at itself in Pipkins. Una McCormack is on hand to take us on a tour of The Manor in search of The Children Of Green Knowe, and Grace Dent will be taking us through what she's found in the window of Emily's shop in Bagpuss. So if you want to join in the fun - or just swap a Boots Bagpuss Pyjama Case for a copy of The Blue Peter Book Of Teddy's Clothes - ring the show now!

You can get The Golden Age Of Children's TV in all good bookshops, and from Amazon here, Waterstones here or directly from Black And White Publishing here - and if you want to know more about what you can find in it, head for timworthington.org!

Tim has got a new book out called The Golden Age Of Children's TV - an in-depth and occasionally irreverent look at the story of children's television from Pogle's Wood and Pipkins to Pob's Programme and Press Gang and everything in between. That really is 'everything' - well, everything there is actually something worth saying very much about; sorry, The Country Boy - and anyone who likes Looks Unfamiliar will find plenty to enjoy. It's also the ideal Christmas gift for that difficult to buy for relative who can never quite manage to remember PC Copper's name.

In this special extra instalment of Looks Unfamiliar, Tim joins Garreth Hrons for a chat about the book and what you can find in it, including such evocative names as Outa-Space!, Fingerbobs, On Safari, Space Ghost, Clangers and much much more. You'll also get to find out why Tim thought the BBC was run by a big machine, how to reposition yourself as a Boss Cat hardliner, the secret influence Gran had on David Bowie's Wilderness Years, and a very complicated set of criteria for working out which was 'your' Henry's Cat theme.

You can find out more about The Golden Age Of Children's TV - and where to get it - here.

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is musician, comedian and writer Mitch Benn, who's hoping to prove that he doesn't have no memory of No Memory by Scarlet Fantastic, The Flipside Of Dominick Hide, The Deceivers, Eureka!, Lady Sovereign and Jentina's feud and Mego Pocket Heroes. Along the way we'll be revisiting the genre of Do We Have To Goth, recounting a slightly wrong version of the invention of crisps, trying to make out an individual audible guitar on any given eighties synth duo hit and assessing whether the overall quality of Jor-El action figures is dependent on how straight their legs are.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org. You can also find Mitch on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Nobody’s House, Don’t Stand So Close To Me ’86 by The Police, Cyborg and Muton, Orion, Two Stage Self-Assembly Ice Cream Cones and Get Stuffed here, 54321, Logan’s Run The Series, Matchbox Zoomy Balloonies, Action Man’s Atomic Man and Bullet Man, King Swamp, and fifties nostalgia in the seventies here, Monday Morning 5.19 by Rialto, The Laughing Prisoner, Oh Baby by Rhianna, Pocketeers, O.T.T. and the original pre-Geoffrey incarnation of Rainbow here, and Star Turn Challenge, evil Grange Hill teacher Mr. Hicks, Striker, Lines by The Planets, Night Raven and the rise of international celebrities acting in pop videos here and Stars by Hear’n’Aid, Into Infinity, The Humanoid, A Man Called Sloane, BusyBodies and The Kids Are Alright by The Pleasers here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. If you want to throw in a slightly incorrect re-enactment of the invention of coffee too that would be very much a welcome bonus.