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 are game developer Jeff Lewis and writer and board game collector Vikki Gregorich, who are going back three spaces in the hope of finding anyone else who remembers Animalympics, Conrad's War by Andrew Davies, The Last American, fantasy author Paul Biegel, Harry Harrison's Deathworld series and The Secret Cabaret. Along the way we'll be evaluating the lack of viable life choices for anyone named 'Ulysses S. Pilgrim', debating the identity of 'soft lad who stood on a pole' and perusing adverts for Genuine One Hundred Percent Legal Generic Seeds..

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Vikki on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about Ulysses 31 here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not help to support the show by buying us a coffee here? If it has to be one made by a goth-industrial magician using an angle grinder and juggling, so be it.

Some additional chat with Mark on the subject of watching television while on holiday, taking a look at ropey old American anthology series, French dubbed versions of The Professionals, and whatever in the name of whateverness NUTS! actually was.

You can find 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, 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 and 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 here. You can also find Mark talking about Running Scared on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not help to support the show by buying us a coffee here? Apparently they do a mean cortado at The Pin-Up Club.

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 offering his polling predictions for the chances of people remembering hillbilly-themed soft drink Libby's Moonshine, the A. Mazing Monsters books, L!ve TV's Agony, Being Erica, Hawkeye Collins And Amy Adams, and Channel 5 sketch show We Know Where You Live. Along the way we'll be revisiting the forgotten link between Rupert And The Frog Song and Cannibal Holocaust, speculating on how many hours of L!ve TV Richard Herring might have watched, and learning the terrible fate of The Sheep That Knew Too Much.

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, 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 and 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 here. You can also find Mark talking about Running Scared on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not help to support the show by buying us a coffee here? Do not allow Stanley Stoat and his brother Irvine anywhere near it.

It's time for a creepy treat from the archives as Tim Worthington, Ben Baker and Phil Catterall count down the Top Twenty Five Things That You Were Scared Of As A Youngster That Weren't Supposed To Be Scary! Yes, it's time to hide behind the sofa from Camberwick Green, Return To Oz, Test Card F, Picture Box, Raggerty, World In Action, Professor Yaffle, The Open University, Angie Baby, Ode To Billie Joe, Spitting Image, Vrillon Of Ashtar Galactic Command, The Blue Peter Boat and much, much, terrifyingly more. Along the way we'll be waving cheerfully to some Video Nasties to avoid looking at the Children's section, meeting Parky The Lion, learning why The Muppets aren't frightening but their eyes are, finding out which family friendly cinematic icon was really a man who exploded and went inside out, and in a lighter moment recalling the classic scene where Terry Scott falls through a chair. And right at the end, there's our very own scary broadcast intrusion featuring a dog dressed as an elephant... stitch that, 'Pipes'!

You can find more episodes of Looks Unfamiliar 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 John Rain, host of SMERSH Pod, who's querying the lack of public recognition for Your Mother Wouldn't Like It, E.T. Cola Creams, flop one-off charity event Trading Places Day, Murder In Space, Hello Mum and Oink!. Along the way we'll be finding out Jaws' favourite corn snack flavour, enduring a sleep deprivation-derived Showaddywaddy-based hallucination, discussing how to keep Doctor Who on the air by eating crisps and witnessing the single worst attempt at asking Catherine Tate on a date ever.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find John on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about Grange Hill here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. You'll need one to get through the three in the morning bit of ITV Telethon, frankly.

Grab some popcorn and take a seat for a Double Bill of monster movie mayhem from the archives! First up, we're off to the video shop with Tim Worthington and Ben Baker for a chat about 'Video Nasties', then grab your 3D glasses and head for the Drive-In as Garreth F. Hirons tells us all about the old-skool city-smashing antics of Godzilla. Along the way we'll be meeting the Japanese Donovan, queueing up behind Phil Cool to rent Zombie Creeping Flesh, and getting thoroughly fed up of the endless 'affair with an octopus' storylines on EastEnders.

Find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar 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 animator and writer Phil Norman, who's hoping that someone else other than himself and Sir Featherskweek remembers S-S-S-Single Bed by Fox, ITV schools show Leapfrog, The Country Life Christmas Box, Humrush by KMD, rock musical drama Body Contact, Oscar The Rabbit In Rubbidge, Erasmus Microman and jaw-dropping Anthony Newley film Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humpe And Find True Happiness?. Along the way we'll also be speculating on what actually went on in the Chock-A-Block factory, revealing Fred Harris' secret Video Nasty links, chronicling the rival warring factions of the 'puppets on a black background' phenomenon (none of whom were responsible for an Off-The-Peg Ian Paisley), and trying our hardest to avoid talking about a cannibalistic emulsified cross between Last Tango In Paris and Straw Dogs. And if you can help in finding three seconds of Sylvester McCoy being hit with planks of wood, please let us know!

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Phil on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Over The Moon, Amityville (The House On The Hill) by Lovebug Starski, I Am The Cheese by Robert Cormier, WFLA Milkshake, Spy Trap, Mediamind, The Black Tower, Soul Train by Swans Way and Paul And Peta Page’s ‘Hot Dogs’ here, and talking about Pipkins on The Golden Age Of Children's TV here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. I really, really hope there was never a Gold Blend Christmas Box.

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 Jenny Morrill, who's rifling through an eighties teenager's diary in search of any evidence of Boots Global Collection, the Just Seventeen Yearbook, a P&O Advert using La Mer, an Eastern European animation about a bird that gets turned into a bat, Melody Maker column Diary Of A Manic Street Preachers Fan, and a film her dad remembers about some sheep. Along the way we’ll also be finding out which face mask Oasis fans favoured, who 'Andrew' was in Rainbow and which is the most animated out of Thom Yorke and a poster of Thom Yorke, not to mention the worrying volume of evidence of The Snowman's sinister culture-jamming agenda.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Jenny talking about The Elvis Special 1983, The Home And Away Special 1990, The Sun Annual For Girls 1974, The Daily Mirror Book For Girls 1980 and The V Annual 1986 here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. As long as it's not as patronisingly named as anything from the Boots Global Collection.

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 edition of Looks Unfamiliar, Tim is joined by Ben Baker for a look back at the show that gave Looks Unfamiliar its name - ITV's light-hearted Denis Norden-fronted nostalgia show Looks Familiar.

Looks Familiar is itself the stuff of hazy dust-caked photo-pages-falling-out-of-library-book recollections now, but how does it stand up in a world where irony is more important than accuracy when it comes to 'remembering' things? Is nostalgia really not what it used to be? Join Tim and Ben as they watch a couple of editions of Looks Familiar and have a bit of a chat about the timeless comic potential of endless clips of men dressed as women falling into some water, Richard Murdoch's cameo in The Wire and the cinematic careers of Alan Cowboy and 'Britain's Rin Tin Tin' Ian The Dog. Plus - find out who we'd book for a revival of Looks Familiar!

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Ben on Looks Unfamiliar talking about TV Mayhem, The Onion Bag, Fiendish Feet, the early internet craze for misidentifying every comedy song as ‘by’ Weird Al Yankovic, Bingo Brown, and the International Youth Service penpal scheme here, ITV’s daytime nostalgia show Looks Familiar here, Toksvig, The Whizzkid’s Guide, Mysteries Of Old Peking, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, Go (the 1999 film), and Making Your Own TV Listings Magazines here, 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, The Goodies: Snow White 2, Roland’s Yuletide Binge and Grange Hill For Christmas here, the original version of Now – The Christmas Album here and Bernard And The Genie here. You can also find Ben on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about Round The Bend here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Although there were doubtless Mellow Birds adverts in the middle of Looks Familiar, please try not to be influenced by them.

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 Jack Kibble-White, who's sharpening up his witty topical nostalgic lyrical skills for a look at Don't Give Up Your Day Job by Richard Digance, Sky One's Games World, United Kingdom: Working For The Enemy, Arken Sword, Children's ITV filler Who's Next, and the Compose A New Theme Tune For This Morning competition. Along the way we'll be finding out why there are no jesters in Star Wars, which videos Morrissey sneakily rented from the top shelf, what would have happened in the tragically uncommissioned reality show Definitely Madeley and why an interview with Pat Mills is more exciting than a night on the town with Angelina Jolie, plus there's a bit of chat about a theatre troupe who came to Jack's school and stole some cheese...

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. As long as it isn't made by a barista that Richard Digance has had cause to sing Don't Give Up Your Day Job to.