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 entertainment journalist Steve O'Brien, who's hazily sketching chalkmark representations on a wall of Simon In The Land Of Chalk Drawings, KP Sky Divers, BBC sitcom Health And Efficiency, High Time and Ice Cold Cube by The Stone Roses, BBC Sunday Classics serial Brat Farrar and Alfred Hitchcock And The Three Investigators. Along the way we’ll be finding out who is officially the most punchable Doctor Who alien, what constitutes The Vindaloo Of Corn Snacks, and exactly how many volumes of Michael Winner's Choose Your Own Adventure were published.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Steve talking about Bagpuss 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. Preferably one as virulently strong as Salt And Vinegar KP Sky Divers.

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 Round The Archives hosts Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge, who are hoping that the magic water somehow confirms that they are not alone in remembering Big John Little John, Virtual Murder, Matchbox Cascade, H.E. Todd's Bobby Brewster books, Enid Blyton's Mr. Pink Whistle and the Jaws Game. Along the way we’ll be finding out how to re-enact Total Wipeout in the comfort of your own home, how many voices 'Radio's Man Of A Thousand Voices' actually had, and why The Clown from Camberwick Green could never legitimately qualify as a master of disguise.

Lisa and Andrew have also appeared on Looks Unfamiliar talking about So Haunt Me, Stonkers, Pitfall!, Furzlin’ With Shag Connors And The Carrot Crunchers, Marion Chesney’s ‘Six Sisters’ novels and Le Petit Nicolas here and Big Terror Movie Themes by Geoff Love And His Orchestra, Plug Comic, The Swish Of The Curtain, Dinosaurs, Arthur C. Clarke’s Report On Planet Three and Profiles Of The Future and Are You Being Served Sir? by John Inman here. You can also find Lisa and Andrew talking about Animal Kwackers on The Golden Age Of Children's TV here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not buy us a coffee here? It’ll do until Big John finds that Magic Water.

As a special extra Christmas treat for Looks Unfamiliar listeners, here's a compilation of highlights from the archives, with extracts from Christmas-themed podcasts of Christmases past by Tim Worthington, Ben Baker, Phil Catterall and Darrell Maclaine-Jones. A lot of this hasn't been available for years, and a lot of it is still rather funny, so we hope you enjoy it! Along the way we talk about Now - The Christmas Album, Val Doonican, A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector, School Fairs, Department Store Grottos, Last-Minute Shopping and Disastrous Office Parties; run down charts of Bad Santas, The Worst Ever Christmas Songs and The Best Ever Christmas Quotes; and listen to bewildering Christmas Singles by Russ Conway, Rotterdam Termination Source, Mr. Christmas, Percy Sugden from Coronation Street and The Count from Sesame Street. We'll also be finding out who Tim thinks is more important than Father Christmas, who Ben suspects might be Father Christmas, what happened when Phil went carol singing, and what the other tape in Darrell's house was. Not to mention who recorded a song called 'Santa's A Big Fat Fuck'...

Ben Baker's Festive Double Issue is an informative and hilarious book looking at the good, the bad and the plain baffling from forty years of Christmas TV, from Morecambe And Wise and The Box Of Delights to some thing with Willy Rushton as Santa stuck in the Wild West. No I'm not making that up. It comes very highly recommended and you can get it in time for Christmas from https://benbaker.ecwid.com/Ben-Bakers-Festive-Double-Issue-Forty-Years-Of-Christmas-TV-p95383976

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 Mark Griffiths, who's trying to find a suitably off-beat sound effect to go with his recollections of Five Minutes by Mainframe, The Bloke Who Pulled His Pants Down On Kilroy, Disneyland by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Charles Hawtrey appearing as a vampire on Runaround, BBC Records And Tapes' Off Beat Sound Effects, and missing the first episode of a new series of Doctor Who because you were at the Doctor Who exhibition in Blackpool. Along the way we’ll be speculating on how Robert Kilroy-Silk's personal archives are organised, trying to figure out what 'Door Creak With Eno' might sound like and debating how to respond if faced with a Doctor Who-themed Sophie's Choice.

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

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Preferably with no accompanying 'coffee mug smash' sound effect.

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 Martin Ruddock, who's trying to interest Inspector Lestrade in the clues he's found to prove the existence of The Baker Street Boys, Doomlord, Robotix, The Faery Tale Adventure, The Legend Of Tim Tyler and Britpop band Thurman and their somewhat mysterious past. Along the way we'll be finding out why history has failed to recognise the Baker Street Girls, why Slough's playing fields are to be avoided at all costs and why a song called 'Evil' might not quite have the intended effect on its target audience. Also, if anyone can solve our Tim Tyler-related mystery, please get in touch!

You can find more episodes of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can find Martin on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about The Adventure Game here.

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. You can always send The Baker Street Boys round to get one. I'm sure they won't be doing anything important.

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 comedy historian Jem Roberts, who's haring around a supermarket set in search of an advert reuniting Neil and Vyvyan from The Young Ones, ZX Spectrum game Dizzy, Doop, Nibbit Wheelz, powdered drink Alien Blood and the dim and distant days of Wet Wet Wet Actually Being Any Good. Along the way we'll be finding out the best techniques for constructing a 'sandwich car', learning how not to confuse E.T. with a gardener and wondering who actually smoked 'Rococan' and if they were able to still form actual sentences afterwards.

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. Don't get any wild ideas about dunking Wheelz into 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 writer and broadcaster Ben Baker, who's simultaneously hoping to roll a six and hoping not to roll a six on his not exactly widely shared memories of Children's ITV magazine show Toksvig, The Whizzkid's Handbook, Mysteries Of Old Peking, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, post-Tarantino shock-comedy Go and the entirely sensible hobby of making your own TV listings magazines. Along the way we'll be taking some advice from a Charcoal Jeremy Beadle, finding out why Ben had to hide his secret drawings of the Yorkshire TV logo, assessing whether Sandi Toksvig was at risk of exploding at any moment, and revealing which Shane Meadows film is not as good as a hat.

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, 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, ITV’s daytime nostalgia show Looks Familiar here, the original version of Now – The Christmas Album here, Bernard And The Genie here and EastEnders spinoff single Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford here, as well as Round The Bend on The Golden Age Of Children's TV here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not buy us a coffee here? Please do not follow any Whizzkid’s Handbook instructions for making coffee.

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 journalist Emma Burnell, who is raising funds for the cause of remembering Which Side Are You On? - Music For The Miners, Sweet Valley High, short-lived playground craze Scoubidou, children's horror novella The Patchwork Monkey, Rutger Hauer vehicle Split Second and the Ever Ready 'Power To The People' advert. Along the way we'll be discussing the sociocultural ramifications of an earnest man talking to some earnest men, assessing the potential risk factors inherent in hiring videos from 'a van' and speculating on the potential psychotropic effects of smoking a Fanta Yo-Yo.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Emma on Looks Unfamiliar talking about 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, her role in an ITV Saturday Morning TV Show that never actually happened here, the The West Wing Christmas Specials here and the stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally here. You can also find Emma 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. That's whose side I'm on.

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, broadcaster and quizmaster Ben Baker, who's filling out a form in the hope of finding a penpal who remembers early Chris Evans vehicle TV Mayhem, football comic The Onion Bag, novelty yoghurt range Fiendish Feet, the early internet craze for misidentifying every comedy song as 'by' Weird Al Yankovic, Betsy Byars' Bingo Brown novels and the International Youth Service penpal scheme. Along the way we'll be getting some unconventional yoghurt-related gardening tips, recalling the classic horror film 'Dracula Vs. The Skeleton', discussing whether Fangs-A-Lot is an appropriate choice of family heirloom, and finding out how the least politically correct gag in history ended up at the end of a right-on charity fundraising joke book. And Colin Foley, if you're out there, please get in contact.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Ben on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Toksvig, The Whizzkid’s Handbook, Mysteries Of Old Peking, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, Go (the 1999 film), and Making Your Own TV Listings Magazines here, ITV's daytime nostalgia show Looks Familiar here, the original version of Now - The Christmas Album here, Bernard And The Genie here and EastEnders spinoff single Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford 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. They don't do Fiendish Feet yoghurt though. Thankfully.

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 Stephen O'Brien, who's patiently pointing out that he doesn't mean that one he means the other one whenever he mentions Steven Moffat sitcom The Office, early 'lad mag' LM, You Can Do The Cube, KLF-affiliated early Stock Aitken Waterman act Brilliant, The Beachcombers and other last-minute ITV emergency schedule replacement standbys and The Morecambe And Wise Board Game. Along the way we'll be finding out how many issues of 'Razzle And Wise' were published, how many characters Stefan Dennis can play on stage at once, and which seventies action serial is slightly less preferable to actually being at school.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Stephen on Looks Unfamiliar talking about his favourite forgotten eighties Christmas Singles - taking in The Snowmen, Frank Sidebottom, George Cole And Dennis Waterman, Band Aid II, Run DMC, Madge and Harold from Neighbours and more - here and what it was like to watch The Box Of Delights on its original broadcast and to then spend a long time afterwards hunting down the tie-in paperback and theme single here. You can also find Stephen on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about Press Gang here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Not in a novelty Rubik's Cube mug though. I mean for a start they're entirely the wrong shape.