Looks Unfamiliar

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 theatre critic Shanine Salmon, who's trying to remember what email address she used to sign up to ITV's Married With Children remake Married For Life, early social media site Habbo Hotel, BBC2 panel show Blouse And Skirt, late-night action thriller Renegade, short-lived Soap Opera With A Twist Night And Day, and virtual four legged friend service Neopets. Along the way we'll be learning how to communicate with trees using HTML, querying how 'Night And Day Nights' would work, asking a parent or guardian to fax their consent, and debating just how many hours of airtime Graham Norton devoted to a robot dog walking very very slowly across the studio floor.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. To be honest you might need one if you're going to stay up for Renegade.

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 for a special theatrical edition is journalist Emma Burnell, who's faking an orgasm in a restaurant over the 2004 stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally starring Alyson Hannigan and Luke Perry. Along the way we'll be listening to Harry Connick Jr.'s cover of Ghostbusters, finding out whether Dirty Dancing can have too much dancing in it, learning about the influence a giant floating image of Patrick Swayze had on the civil rights movement, and berating Leonard Cohen for wiping all those episodes of Doctor Who. Plus we'll also be remembering Richard Herring remembering the Mars Bar...

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Emma on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Whose Side Are You On?, Sweet Valley High, Scoubidou, The Patchwork Monkey, Split Second, and the Ever Ready ‘Power To The People’ advert here, The Royal Potwasher, Melody Radio, Channel 4’s Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, A Woman In Your Own Right, The Lords Of Midnight and Herman’s Head here and Christmas-themed episodes of The West Wing here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Just don't get up to any 'diner scene' shenanigans with it.

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 director Matt Lee, who's rifling through lines of code in search of ITV comedy pilot Wake Up! With Libby And Jonathan, Cheers-prefiguring sitcom Park St. Under, ideologically dubious computer game Terramex, They Might Be Giants' 'Dial-A-Song' service, Cola Spread and an attempted regional ban on Garbage Pail Kids. Along the way we'll be critically evaluating Leslie Grantham's 'shocked' face, revealing how not to wow the opposite sex by listening to the b-side of Birdhouse In Your Soul, and recalling some favourite quotations from Beer: A Book by George Wendt.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. If Park St. Under don't do coffees, then I'm sure Cheers will be along to 'borrow' the idea soon enough.

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 Samira Ahmed, who's on the hunt for the perfect recipe for remembering Selfridges' Space: 1999 Walkthrough, Dairy Marketing Council lifestyle booklet Good Looks Ahead, Saturday Morning television show and accompanying cookbook The Fun Food Factory with Nanette Newman, and lots more about obscure ViewMaster reels, the Italian theme tune from The Return Of The Saint, the surprising link between Peeping Tom and Chigley, the identity of the other children from The Magic Roundabout and much more besides. Along the way we'll be investigating the Kennedy-esque 'Paul Is Dead' rumours surrounding The Magic Roundabout, revealing why you should never send the Camberwick Green Clown through the post, learning how to make Angel Delight Surprise, and finding out why the answer to pretty much everything is Drink More Milk.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Samira on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Saturday Banana, Havoc, The Changes, Childhood Misapprehensions About The News, Nurdin & Peacock Own Brand Cola, The School Computer and that time that Picture Box used a clip from Cleopatra Jones here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. A black coffee please. I won't tell the Dairy Marketing Board.

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.

In this special Christmas edition, writer Stephen O'Brien joins Tim on a a trip back to 1984 for a look at how the BBC's acclaimed adaptation of The Box Of Delights was received at the time by its target audience - long before it started to find itself recognised as a 'Television Classic', and when in many ways it was just another children's programme. There are plenty of tales about the unexpected resonance that The Box Of Delights has taken on since then, taking in adventures in hunting down television tie-in paperbacks in somewhat less than upmarket bookshops, searching for the The Box Of Delights theme single and then in turn the album that the theme single was extracted from in even more bizarre surroundings, trying to impress dates with your intricate knowledge of John Masefield's more arcane historical references, and attempting to wrestle the soundtrack of an episode from a video cassette onto an audio cassette in the days when the chances of actually owning a copy of The Box Of Delights in any form seemed as remote as Arnold Of Todi's island hideaway. There's also room for discussion of many similar serials that the BBC broadcast in a similar timeslot around the same time including Aliens In The Family, The Moon Stallion, The Children Of Green Knowe and - uh-oh - Billy's Christmas Angels...

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Not a bloody 'posset', thank you very much.

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.

This time it's an all-star festive lineup of entertainment as Tim is joined by a series of guests to talk about television Christmas Specials that seem to have slipped under the radar despite featuring very big names or coming from very popular shows, featuring Darrell Maclaine on Rutland Weekend Television, Phil Catterall on Community, Ben Baker on Bernard And The Genie, Garreth Hirons on Futurama, Tim Worthington on Doctor Who, Emma Burnell on The West Wing and Paul Abbott on The Peter Serafinowicz Show. As well as revisiting some of the lesser-seen small-screen yuletide offerings of years gone by, we'll also be discussing how to tackle an Out Of Control Eric Idle, what happens if someone drops We Didn't Start The Fire on the floor and smashes it, being legally forced to refer to Trevor McDonald as 'Indeterminate Newscaster', assessing how to qualify as one of Internet's Leading Simpsonsmen, lamenting Russell T. Davies' slapdash adherence to Thames Riverbed Continuity, considering whether President Bartlet should have hired The Goodies, and working out how many times it's possible to say the word 'impression' in one sentence.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. One of those ones with the flimsy Styrofoam cups and chunky plastic lids that they carry at weird angles in The West Wing, please.

As a special extra treat for subscribers, here are a couple of unused extracts from the forthcoming Looks Unfamiliar Christmas Specials...

This is an episode of It's Good, Except It Sucks - Tim's other podcast - which turned out so well and has gone down so well that it deserves a wider platform. Enjoy!

It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.

This time it’s Captain Marvel from 2019, and joining Tim to talk about Carol Danvers 'borrowing' a bit of Terminator 2 - Judgement Day to the sound of Elastica 'borrowing' a bit of Wire is writer Una McCormack. What will they find to say about the nineties view of the thirties view of the future today, whether it's possible to digitally de-age Clark Gregg and the effect of cats coughing up hairballs on genre fiction, and what does any of this have to do with Vila from Blake's 7? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://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 writer and podcaster Sophie Davies, who’s not stopping and never giving up on the hope of finding that someone else remembers short-lived pop sensation *allSTARS, ITV variety spectacular The All Star Impressions Show, InseKtorS, BBC Three sci-fi sitcom Clone, The Grott Street Gang by Terry Deary, and Matt Berry's religious opus AD/BC: A Rock Opera. Along the way we'll be assessing the role of incorrect capitalisation in pop music, ranking celebrity impressions of the Jamaican Louis Walsh, and debating whether the Sorry! theme is in fact a gateway drug to Acid Folk addiction.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Sophie on It's Good, Except It Sucks talking about Blade here and Spider-Man 2 here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by getting one of Tim's books here or by buying us a coffee here. Please don't ask the poor barista to write '*allSTARS' on the cup though.

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 novelist Will Maclean, who's finding himself haunted by recollections of the Zegazoid Chew Bar, The Song And The Story, Look And Read: The King's Dragon, The Fourth Pan Book Of Horror Stories, The Weekend Book Of Ghosts And Horror and Photographs Of The Unknown. Along the way we'll be formulating a low quality Richard Carpenter conspiracy theory, debating how ghosts answer the phone, finding out why the tie-in Xtro Bar was never marketed, and trying to figure out exactly what Wordy actually was other than being a floating pedantic bastard. Plus we may be getting a visit from the Grange Hill Walled-Up Ghost…

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Will on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Once Upon A Time… Man, Galaxy High, In The Sofa, Powers Of Ten, The Snake and The Episode Of The Sooty Show Where Sweep Had Brain Surgery here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help support the show by buying us a coffee here. I mean you could get a Zegazoid Chew Bar instead but you'd probably need a time machine for that.