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 the NEW SEASON, and Tim, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are all crowding into a local radio studio where they have been tasked with taking listeners through the highlights coming to your TV this autumn, ready to take your calls about the Good Winter Telly - and the not-so-good - that kept us entertained on frosty back-to-school evenings in years gone by. In a Bob's Full House of a chat we'll be discovering Tommy Cooper's stance on the suedehead phenomenon, wading through Margaret Thatcher's torrent of letters to Boxpops, encountering Emmerdale Farm Hauntology and Trades Union Congress Folk Horror, disputing the branched timeline of Alan Partridge's headmasters, not buying a Merlin Tonto Optimus Prime Victorian Time Machine Opening Titles Of The Wombles Marvellous Mechanical Mouse-Organ, querying the lack of a Terry And June synopsis and why this might point towards a crossover with The Wire, revealing why Professor Yaffle had 'beef' with The Two Davids, attending a demonstration by the Derek Jameson Wokerati and generally debating whether or not to watch There's Fucking Millions Of Us Presenting This, Barbara Cartland's Condensation and Last Of The Ewok Summer Wine. Not to mention trying to work out what on Earth those TV Times 'genre' icons were actually about. Call in and tell us if you know what time The Kraken is on now!

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. Bob and Georgy joined me for similarly seasonal chats about some of their favourite forgotten Christmas trimmings here, the rain-lashed joys of the Great British Summertime here, the spooky and sparkly delights of Halloween and Bonfire Night here and chocolate-scoffing Easter standbys here, You can also find Bob on Looks Unfamiliar chatting about The Tom O’Connor Roadshow, Giant Hogweed, Can’t Get A Ticket (For The World Cup) by Peter Dean, Glee Bars, J. Edward Oliver’s ‘Abolish Tuesdays’ and How To Be A Wally here, Eighties ‘Tabloid Celebrities’, Accidentally Kelly Street by Frente!, The Two Ronnies’ ‘Mileaway’, Rude Food, Suggs On Saturday and School Folk Songs here and Tucker’s Luck, Pookiesnackenburger, We Wanna Be Famous by Buster Gobsmack And Eats Filth’, game show contestants’ occupations being booed by the studio audience and the lost ancient art of the paper plate and shaving foam Custard Pie here, and Georgy on Indoor League, Re-Joyce!, the The Animals In The Box sketch, the Paul Squire Fan Club, Pippa Dolls, Pig In The Middle and Good Winter Telly here, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Go For Broke!, Last Chance Lottery, Fry’s Five Centres and Vesta Ready Meals here and the EKCO Hostess Trolley, Terry’s Spartan, A Sharp Intake Of Breath, John Cleese’s How To Win Holes By Influencing People, Charlie Chester’s Sunday Soapbox and tuning your radio in to the television signal here. You can also find Georgy and Bob on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about Bod here and The Owl Service here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Just avoid that lot from Houseparty while you're about 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 Martin Fitzgerald, who's determined to prove that the FBI have redacted their files on his eyewitness accounts of Dallas, The Rock'n'Roll Years, Shoot Magazine's 'Focus On' profiles and Jackpot comic. Along the way we'll be travelling to Knots Landing-616 to meet a monochrome Sue Ellen, questioning whether a larger crowd would turn up to meet Andy Gray or London Zoo's new pantropical spotted dolphin 'Harold', estimating how many titles on the Video Nasties list Ian Wright might have hidden behind the sofa from and trying our best not to win a bathtubful of lemonade.

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. A bathtubful of THAT is acceptable.

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, trying to distribute heat evenly between her recollections of the ECKCO Hostess Trolley, Terry's Spartan, A Sharp Intake Of Breath, John Cleese's How To Win Holes By Influencing People, Charlie Chester's Sunday Soapbox and the lost art of tuning your radio in to the television signal. Along the way we'll be declining to try Heston Blumenthal's Bouncing Casserole, finding out when Ronnie Corbett looks more like Ronnie Corbett than Ronnie Corbett, trying not to think about what a 'Super-Bath' might involve and watching what happens when Peter Cook takes John Cleese's advice on how to write a letter to Bob Fischer...

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 and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Go For Broke!, Last Chance Lottery, Fry’s Five Centres and Vesta Ready Meals here. as well as joining Bob Fischer for a festively tinged chat about some of the signs that Christmas was coming that you just don't get any more here and a similarly Kiss Me Quick Hat-averting Summer-themed chat here, standing well back for a joint Halloween slash Bonfire Night party here and trying to stage their own ill-advised 'Easter Parade' here. Georgy also gave us her milkshake-questioning thoughts on Bod in 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. They didn't do a Coffee Spartan. Or at least as far as anyone can tell from that one smudgey photo of the back of a box of 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 David Quantick, who's trying to avoid having to resort to using a 'Time Bubble' to prove the existence of Timeslip, Black Hearts In Battersea by Joan Aiken, Elephant's Eggs In A Rhubarb Tree, Boxed by Mike Oldfield and Bright's Boffins. Along the way we'll be battling to stop the fiendish plots of The Dastardly Man and Captain Wind-Up Toy, debating whether it was worth getting a colour television to see a blue man behind a desk, explaining why Little Lord Fauntleroy was the Minions of 1890 and taking bets on who will get changed first out of Michael Palin putting on an Edwardian bathing suit and Paul McCartney dressing up as a Teddy Boy.

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. Please make sure not to send that Mike Oldfield album that had a mug of coffee flying down Route 101 or whatever it was on the cover.

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 broadcast historian Gareth Randall, who's trying to decide whether he'd really rather not have any confirmation of his recollections of notorious Screen Test Young Film-Maker Of The Year entry Ice Cream, Pepe Jeans' 'Where's Pepe?' advertising campaign, Keep Your Pecker Up by Eugene And The Syncopaters, Captain Micro's Electronic Comic, Tim And The Hidden People by Sheila K. McCullagh, Master Maze, Skirrid, 'one-man body band' Darren Kimpton and Take Hart On Holiday. Along the way we'll be assessing the commercial potential of the Lib Dems of jeans, finding out how to get two Blue Peter badges by mistake, casting an eye over the Paul Daniels Video Nasty, explaining why Morph is legally 'different' if he has a mohican but not if he has a knotted handkerchief on his head and cheering on a team of swearing nuns. Plus there's yet another attempt at answering the longstanding question of whether Mike Oldfield really did the theme music for Aubrey...

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. With an endorsement scribbled on by the barista vigorously confirming that they have heard of the word '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 political commentator Mark Thompson, who's hoping that it's not too weird remembering Lenny Henry's Smiths Square Crisps adverts, the 'Allied Lyons - A Great British Company' campaign, The Quiet Earth, Steve Jackson Games' Illuminati, early Channel 4 sitcoms The Optimist and Father's Day and a variety of just about legal payphone 'workarounds'. Along the way we'll be predicting which would prove most profitable out of Findus Crisps and Golden Wonder Shark Jumps, explaining how Roy Jay was too weird for 'It's Weird...', revealing how to repel adolescent phone box miscreants armed only with Red Red Wine by UB40 and considering whether Channel 4 could actually have happened without John Alderton's old shirts.

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, 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, 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, as well as Running Scared 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. Don't bother with the Lyons website though. The more you read it, the more confused you'll get over whether it's actually available or not.

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. Andy Miller will be dropping by with an armful of books and a few recommendations for your next trip to your local library with a quick flick through the pages of Jackanory. Rae Earl will be joining us live from where she thinks may actually be the real life village that inspired Camberwick Green. If you're off to a fancy dress party Jim Sangster has a few costume tips courtesy of Mr. Benn, Richard Littler will be taking your calls with a few handy hints for useful finds in your local junk shop that might be the next The Magic Ball and Tim Worthington will be introducing Garreth Hirons to the wacky sights and sounds of the latest pop sensation The Banana Splits. So if you want to join in the fun - or just swap an Aurora Banana Buggy Model Kit for a copy of 123456789Benn- ring the show now!

You can get The Golden Age Of Children's TV in all good bookshops, and from Waterstones here, Amazon here, from the Kindle Store here and 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 musician Garry Abbott, who's sending out a Bicarbonate Of Soda-fuelled message in a bottle in the hope of reaching anyone else who remembers Lovelife by Lush, Nerds, Challenger - The Adventure Machine, Matchbox Connectables, Kellogg's Corn Flakes Baking Soda-Powered Submarine and The Vibes And Livelee Mixtape. Along the way we'll be trying to decode a waterlogged baking soda-infused secret message with 'SECRET' written on it, finding out what happened when 'Les' left The Beatles, debating the politeness of actually turning up to a party you have been cordially invited to, exploring the commercial potential of Talking Sherbet and finally revealing why the key to global unity lies somewhere between Housing Data Analytics and Happy Hardcore.

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

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Please do not get Vibes and/or Livelee to read out the Serving Suggestion.

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, in a special Easter edition, Tim, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are all crowding into a local radio studio where listeners have been begged not to send in any more home-made Hot Cross Buns, ready to take your calls about some of the over-ostentatiously seasonally-repackaged chocolate that you just don't seem to get any more. So that's incomprehensible classroom 'projects', television schedules crammed with sentient Volkswagens, Easter Eggs devoid of separately packaged confectionary 'extras' and more. In a Jif Lemon Day of a chat we'll be navigating the EU Pancake Mountain, tuning in for the Telly Addicts Whit Special, declining to tune in for Why Don't Fucking You...?, discovering whether The Flying Pickets prefer real chocolate or a 'candy'-derived substitute, querying whether Graham Hill can effectively introduce clips from Fantasia going at that speed, storylining Tiger Tots: Infinity War, debating the merits of the theme from dull 'zoo vet' drama One By One, and generally berating Bob for his lack of Terry Scott Research, Call in and tell us if you know the lyrics to 'Welcome Jolly Easter' now!

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. Bob and Georgy joined me for similarly seasonal chats about some of their favourite forgotten Christmas trimmings here, the rain-lashed joys of the Great British Summertime here and the spooky and sparkly delights of Halloween and Bonfire Night here. You can also find Bob on Looks Unfamiliar chatting about The Tom O’Connor Roadshow, Giant Hogweed, Can’t Get A Ticket (For The World Cup) by Peter Dean, Glee Bars, J. Edward Oliver’s ‘Abolish Tuesdays’ and How To Be A Wally here, Eighties ‘Tabloid Celebrities’, Accidentally Kelly Street by Frente!, The Two Ronnies’ ‘Mileaway’, Rude Food, Suggs On Saturday and School Folk Songs here and Tucker’s Luck, Pookiesnackenburger, We Wanna Be Famous by Buster Gobsmack And Eats Filth’, game show contestants’ occupations being booed by the studio audience and the lost ancient art of the paper plate and shaving foam Custard Pie here, and Georgy on Indoor League, Re-Joyce!, the The Animals In The Box sketch, the Paul Squire Fan Club, Pippa Dolls, Pig In The Middle and Good Winter Telly here and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Go For Broke!, Last Chance Lottery, Fry’s Five Centres and Vesta Ready Meals here. You can also find Georgy and Bob on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about Bod here and The Owl Service here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Regardless of whether it is one a penny or two a penny.

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 historian Tom Williamson, who thinks that the heat is on and the time is right for remembering Going For Gold, Duel by Propaganda, Constructor, the Mr Blobby VHS and The Adam And Joe Show. Along the way we'll be soliciting Gary Lineker's opinion on Napalm Death, debating the advisability of sending a pimped-up Viscount biscuit through the post, studying the phenomenon of the Traditional Scottish Head-Turn Wink, celebrating Mr. Blobby's success rate in exposing 'love rats' and trying to figure out why there were so many Pearly Kings all over Saturday Night TV in the late eighties.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Tom on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Knightmare, Samurai Pizza Cats, Add N To (X), Colonization, Mogwai and Life Storyhere, as well as talking about Blockbusters 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. Do not order it in the pronunciation style recommended by th at 'British' voice coach.

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 is a collection of highlights from Looks Unfamiliar featuring Mitch Benn on Channel 4's pre-launch trailers, Ricardo Autobahn on Roadmaker, Donna Rees on The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer, Paul Whitelaw on The Secret Vampire Soundtrack EP by Bis, Ste Brotherstone on TV Tops, Adam S. Leslie on Mystery Train and Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson on The Fireworks Code. Along the way we'll be profiling the ubiquity in popular drama of the Glen Matlock Face, waiting eagerly for the repeat broadcast of Three Women Including Juliet Bravo singing that W-O-M-A-N song, playing Make Your Own East India Tea Company and a cardboard remake of Grand Theft Auto, questioning what Margaret Thatcher was doing hogging a double seat at the back of the bus, declining to take style tips from a Karl Howman Mod, celebrating the notorious Video Nasty The Horse Who Came From The Sea, attempting to use ALF as a barometer of celebrity status, debating the optimal costume options for a double-page poster of Arthur English, receiving firework safety advice from the cast of Hot Metal, purchasing a Brian May Firework Assortment from the local supermarket’s John Johnson Counter and trying our hardest not to think about Richard Herring’s imaginary middle of the night television schedules. Plus there's also Tim talking about Harry Secombe on Goon Pod and the build-up to Tim Burton's Batman on Still Any Good? and chats about The Golden Age Of Children's TV with Richard Herring on RHLSTP Book Club and with Andy Miller from Backlisted, and Paul Whitelaw's recollections of watching The Monkees during the school holidays...

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

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Unlike Micky Dolenz, you do not have time for a bit of conversation-oh.

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 and writer Garreth Hirons, who's sitting through the loading screen waiting for any sign of Copper Blue by Sugar, the Crusader Nuts advert, The Hobbit on the ZX Spectrum, Too Sussed? by These Animal Men, Spring 1994 EP by S*M*A*S*H and Ghoulies Horror Bar. Along the way we'll be querying why ZX Spectrum games with 'Way Of' in the title refused to load, catching up on Season Four of The Weird Butcher Man That Comes And Stands Next To You At The Bar, debating whether the New Wave Of New Wave could have been saved by selling more trousers, revealing how Brett Anderson disqualified himself from appearing on compilations and - of course - trying to attack Thorin with the Trolls' Path.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Garreth on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Bigger The God, Food Fighters, Saboteur, The Triangle Of Terror, Sizzlin’ Bacon Monster Munch, and Fun At The Funeral Parlour here, The Yellow Album by The Simpsons, the Frankie Goes To Hollywood computer game, Sweet 75, Linc's, Transformers 'Action Masters', The Way Of The Tiger and Quatro here, The Ghosts Of Oxford Street here and the Futurama Christmas Specials here, and on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about Trap Door here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. We already know Crusader doesn't have any.

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 comedian Athena Kugblenu, who's frantically pressing pause on the video recorder in the hope of catching glimpses of Street Hawk, the 'I Do Like A Ski, Man' ad campaign, Bad Influence!, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, Murder One, Due South and The Dreamstone. Along the way we'll be assessing Serena Williams' prowess on the school P.E. apparatus, attempting to stage a Barbenheimer-style double bill of Bagpuss and Roots, rating the Mountie-Adjacent Superhunks and debating whether the Milk Tray man would have had more romantic success if he'd traded exclusively in yoghurt.

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. I do like a Lavazza, man.

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. If you're looking for a new hobby to take up and fancy a bit of fresh air, Hilary Machell has a few tips for getting out and about with Go With Noakes. Andy Lewis will be joining us in the studio for a look at some of the locations used in the exciting new serial The Changes. Garry Abbott will be giving us all the up to the minute scientific facts and figures on the latest expedition to Button Moon, Mitch Benn will be dropping by to show us how you can sound like the stars of Clangers, and do we have a rival in our midst? Paul Kirkley is on hand to man the phones and check out the score down at Saturday Superstore. So if you want to join in the fun - or just swap a copy of Noakes At Large for a copy of Super Claire by Claire Usher - ring the show now!

You can get The Golden Age Of Children's TV in all good bookshops, and from Waterstones here, Amazon here, from the Kindle Store here and 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.

This time Tim's joining guest host Joanne Sheppard for a festively-tinged chat about Merry X-Mess by Rotterdam Termination Source, The Wassailing Song by Blur, BBC2's A Perfect Christmas, Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings, Victor Lewis-Smith's Bumper Christmas Cracker Cliché and The Hudsucker Proxy. Along the way we'll be debating whether 'latex lampoonery' can work in audio only, discovering how Terry Collier invented AI, providing Richard Herring with some Ftone Fuftenance tips, watching Merchant Ivory's A Door With A Hinge, explaining why Ernie Wise was basically every panellist on every panel show ever and taking bets on who would 'win' out of Howard The Duck and The Signalman

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Tim as the guest with a festive twist talking about I Was Born On Christmas Day by Saint Etienne Featuring Tim Burgess, Ferrero Prestige, Bod's Present, A Merry Jingle by The Greedies, Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion by Jenny T. Colgan, Mariah Carey's rendition of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Richard Herring's Christmas Emergency Questions, Iron Man 3 (which is a Christmas Film), Joe 90 Christmas Special The Unorthodox Shepherd and Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You're A Lovely Guy) by Max Headroom here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Not to be brought by whoever it is that's going around with 'white' toast.

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 for a Special Assignment is writer Richard Marson, author of the definitive history of Children's BBC Box Of Delights - not to mention Doctor Who Magazine veteran and former Blue Peter Editor - Richard Marson. We'll be hearing some of the stories behind the making of Jackanory, Play School, Multicoloured Swap Shop, Grange Hill, John Craven's Newsround and Blue Peter as well as our own memories of watching the shows as younger viewers - including which Kenneth Williams-read story was wiped before it could be repeated, the shocking truth about Hamble's Cage, the betting odds on who would 'win' out of Giant Pandas and Giant Hogweed and the uninspiring saga of The Caring Binmen.

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. Do not try throwing it over on a fork.

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 Tim’s joining guest host Paul Abbott for a chat about the mid-nineties 'loungecore' compilation series The Sound Gallery, and in particular the little-heard spinoff volume The Sound Spectrum. Along the way we'll be debating the relative merits of a whining bloke over-emoting a rewrite of the Weetos jingle and a bloke in another room singing through a cardboard tube, failing to buy an album worth five thousand quid for twenty pence, learning how to throw shade with a rogue capital letter, pondering the proliferation of Johns and Alans in library music and definitely not watching anything whatsoever late at night on SAT1.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Paul standing in for chats with Tim about California Fever, Galloping Galaxies!, Bad Ronald, In-Flight Entertainment, The Chronicles Of Narmo by Caitlin Moran, Pirate Radio Four, The Collings And Herrin Podcast and What’s That Noise? here, Pickwick Talking Books’ Doctor Who: State Of Decay, the BBC Pinocchio, Doctor Who: Variations On A Theme, The Paradise Of Death and The Ghosts Of N-Space, Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure, The Sally Lockhart Mysteries, Katarina, David Tennant and Catherine Tate’s Much Ado About Nothing, Meet The Thirteenth Doctor, that time a Dalek turned up on the BBC Schools programme W.A.L.R.U.S. and Doctor Who: The Interactive Electronic Board Game here, Karen Gillan’s horror short The Hoarding here and The Magic Roundabout here, as well as a chat with Garreth Hirons about Wonderwall by The Mike Flowers Pops here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. If you were planning to go to Bistro Erotica Italia, please remember that it's invitation only. Though I'm sure Jarvis Cocker would be happy to bring one out for you.

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 tuning in that mysterious extra button on his television in search of any trace of Channel 4's pre-launch promotional trailers, Imagination by Belouis Some, Space Sentinels, Simon Dutton's turn as The Saint, How To Be A Complete Bastard by Adrian Edmondson and The Six Million Dollar Man's toy adversary Maskatron. Along the way we'll be profiling the ubiquity in popular drama of the Glen Matlock Face, finding out How To Be A Complete Bastard In Space, considering whether Astrea from Space Sentinels is 'above' pants and waiting eagerly for the repeat broadcast of Three Women Including Juliet Bravo singing that W-O-M-A-N song.

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, Stars by Hear’n’Aid, Into Infinity, The Humanoid, A Man Called Sloane, BusyBodies and The Kids Are Alright by The Pleasers here and No Memory by Scarlet Fantastic, The Flipside Of Dominick Hide, The Deceivers, Eureka!, Lady Sovereign and Jentina's feud and Mego Pocket Heroes here, as well as Clangers 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. Don't be a complete bastard with it.

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. If you're a fan of The Adventure Game, Martin Ruddock will be taking your calls and offering a few hints and tips on how to beat the puzzlers and make it across the Drogna Board. They're The Monkees, but Paul Whitelaw will be in the studio for a look at what you can look forward to when Micky, Davy, Mike and Peter take over your television. Ste Brotherstone will be joining us with a few ideas of how you can stay top of the class for the new term at Grange Hill, Danny Kodicek has the long and short on Big John Little John, and Juliet Harris will be coming to us live from Teddington as she meets the stars of The Sooty Show. So if you want to join in the fun - or just swap a copy of Grange Hill Graffiti for a copy of Drogna on the BBC Micro - ring the show now!

You can get The Golden Age Of Children's TV in all good bookshops, and from Waterstones here, Amazon here, from the Kindle Store here and 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.

This time, in a special Halloween slash Bonfire Night edition, Tim, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are all crowding into a local radio studio with rubber spiders hanging from the walls and a box of indoor fireworks with DO NOT USE written on it, ready to take your calls about some of the politely spooky crepe paper stylings and milk bottle-launched rockets that you just don't seem to get any more. So that's plastic fangs that never fitted anybody, Paul Daniels' notorious 'live' Halloween hoax, Blue Peter's Halloween 'makes', sparkler-themed Public Information Films, the gunpowder-fuelled rivalry between Standard and Brocks, horror-themed sweets and snacks like Trebor Mummies and Count Dracula's Deadly Secret, fireworks with unnecessarily detailed illustrations on them that nobody would see, Words And Pictures exploring the supernatural for primary school audiences and much more besides. In a firework that doesn't go off but we don't dare return to of a chat we'll be lending an ear to Erasure's Bagpuss-esque EP, recalling Timmy Mallett's Inspiral Carpets phase and Jane Asher's Occult Cakes, debating the theoretical existence of Schrödinger's Firework Money, receiving firework safety advice from the cast of Hot Metal, purchasing a Brian May Firework Assortment from the local supermarket's John Johnson Counter, adhering to the image rights restrictions of Fawkes Inc., questioning whether an antique firework can legitimately be described as in 'Near Mint' condition, examining whether 31st October really is the night when seventies ventriloquist puppets be walkin' and issuing a stern warning never to go back to an edition of Crackerjack! that you don't properly remember. Call in and tell us if you ever went bobbing for Wotsits now!

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. Bob and Georgy joined me for similarly seasonal chats about some of their favourite forgotten Christmas trimmings here, the rain-lashed joys of the Great British Summertime here and our very own Easter Parade here. You can also find Bob on Looks Unfamiliar chatting about The Tom O’Connor Roadshow, Giant Hogweed, Can’t Get A Ticket (For The World Cup) by Peter Dean, Glee Bars, J. Edward Oliver’s ‘Abolish Tuesdays’ and How To Be A Wally here, Eighties ‘Tabloid Celebrities’, Accidentally Kelly Street by Frente!, The Two Ronnies’ ‘Mileaway’, Rude Food, Suggs On Saturday and School Folk Songs here and Tucker’s Luck, Pookiesnackenburger, We Wanna Be Famous by Buster Gobsmack And Eats Filth’, game show contestants’ occupations being booed by the studio audience and the lost ancient art of the paper plate and shaving foam Custard Pie here, and Georgy on Indoor League, Re-Joyce!, the The Animals In The Box sketch, the Paul Squire Fan Club, Pippa Dolls, Pig In The Middle and Good Winter Telly here and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Go For Broke!, Last Chance Lottery, Fry’s Five Centres and Vesta Ready Meals here. You can also find Georgy on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about Bod here and Bob on The Owl Service here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. If you're caught with it just say your name is 'Maxwell House'.