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.

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. Donna Rees will be joining us live from Festive Road to see if there's anything in her pocket to help her to remember Mr. Benn. Chris Shaw will be taking a seat next to Derek Griffiths to give us the latest movie news and all the reviews of what's on at your local Roxy in Film Fun. Suzy Robinson has a few tips on how you can make good use of the things that you find and the things that the everyday folks leave behind with The Wombles. Lydia Mizon is on head to lead another couple of teams through the thrills and spills and general mucky messiness of the Fun House, and Deborah Tracey is lining up with the Pink Windmill Kids for another viral song and dance sensation in Emu's All-Live Pink Windmill Show. So if you want to join in the fun - or just swap a copy of Shake Your Groove Thang by Pat'n'Mick for The Reluctant Pote by Rod Hull - 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 journalist Mic Wright, who’s rummaging around in a crisp bag in search of Cargo by Men At Work, Rocko's Modern Life, Party Animals, Solitary Fitness by Charles Bronson and Tazos. Along the way we'll be discussing how to avoid Ebeneezer Goode Syndrome, ruminating on The Thinking Man's Pog, trying to swap a duplicate Michael Parkinson Tazo for three Matt Smiths and revealing just how close Tupac Shakur came to appearing in Ballykissangel.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Mic on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Adventures Of Pete And Pete, Army And Navy Sweets, Emergency by 999, Rock On by David Essex, Thunderbirds comic and the murky origins of a certain unsavoury playground rumour here and I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape by The Times, Clarissa Explains It All, 2000 AD strip Nikolai Dante, Sharky And George, Jeff Lint and The Game here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not buy us a coffee here? I'd say they should do a Kenco Tazo, but... it would probably logistically have to be a set based on Tenko.

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. Joanne Sheppard will be dropping in to follow some unreasonably cryptic - and unreasonably perilous - clues left by Sherlock Holmes for The Baker Street Boys. For all you budding Doc Crocs out there, Ben Baker has a few tips on how to get ahead in actual literal gutter journalism in Round The Bend. Ricardo Autobahn will be putting his pop chart stardom to good use by becoming the latest third member of Rod, Jane And in Rainbow. Carrie Dunn has a few tips on why girls are smarter than boys and she's seen Maid Marian And Her Merry Men to prove it, and Georgy Jamieson is ready to take your calls about the philosophical ramifications of citrus milkshakes in Bod. So if you want to join in the fun - or just swap a copy of The Giant Spitting Image Komic Book for Derek Griffiths' Bent Outta Shape - ring the show now!

You can get The Golden Age Of Children's TV in all good bookshops, from Amazon 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 for a suitably spooky chat is writer Steve Berry, who’s hoping to dazzle the crowds at the village hall Halloween Disco with his knowledge of Words And Pictures' Witches Of Halloween, Smiths Horror Bags and Vincent Price's ill-fittingly horror-themed adverts for MB Games. Along the way we’ll be questioning Richard Herring's historical sources for the story of St. Ian, asking Wittgenstein if he'd like a Dracula's Deadly Secret, pitching a combined biography of Henry Woolf, Wolfe Morris and Gabriel Woolf, estimating how many copies of MB Games' Voice Of The Mummy were piled up at Neverland Ranch and trying to work out exactly where a 'VHS Fonz' fits in to the Classic Horror tradition.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at timworthington.org. You can also find Steve on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Single Versions Of Pop Songs That Never Get Played Any More, Elastoplast Heroes, United States Of Television, Skoal Bandits, Starblazer Electronic Space Command Belt and Morning Has Broken here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. They never did find a way of making it Dracula-themed. But you can bet they tried.

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. Estelle Hargraves will be getting into gear and hitting the street to tell us why No. 73 was less chaotic than some actual shared houses she's lived in, live on-air snake bites and all. Gabby Hutchinson Crouch would like to hear from anyone with a hot tip on a story for the Junior Gazette in Press Gang, and she's especially keen to hear from Colin. Jonny Morris will be showing us how, despite Chas'n'Dave's promise in the theme lyrics to 'catch you out', you can win at Crackerjack! (CRACKERJACK!) by cheating. Mic Wright is heading off Around The World With Willy Fog, and Garreth Hirons has a more serious message to impart about why you shouldn't open that Trap Door. So if you want to join in the fun - or just swap a copy of The Richard Stilgoe Letters for a boxed Camberwick Green Village Playset - ring the show now!

You can get The Golden Age Of Children's TV in all good bookshops, from Amazon 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.

This is a collection of highlights from Looks Unfamiliar featuring Suzy Robinson on Crown Court, Danny Kodicek on Fox Tales, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson on Why Don't You...?, Paul Abbott on Disneytime Rotadraw, Genevieve Jenner on Fruitopia, Adam S. Leslie on I Heard Your Name by Martin Rev and Justin Lewis on I Hate J.R. by The Wurzels. Along the way we'll be revealing when BBC Test Card F might actually be your less terrifying viewing option, listening to a 1970s heroin-y version of They Might Be Giants, arguing over whether the best Catatonia album was the first one or the first one, assessing the best way to draw TV’s Simon And Simon, remaking the Bitter Sweet Symphony video with the bloke out of The Wurzels, speculating on the efficacy of Kiss-Me-Quick-Hats sported by popular television puppets, revisiting Jamiroquai’s duet with some puppet caterpillars, soliciting The Jesus And Mary Chain’s theories on Who Shot J.R.?, organising a day trip to the exact spot where Roland Rat pushed Kevin The Gerbil down a hill, shuddering at the thought of The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow’s most repulsive exhibit and and revealing why the hippy trail is strewn with striking dustbins, cough medicine and Crown Court. Plus there’s tips on how Blanco from Porridge can help your party go with a swing! Also there's extracts from Tim talking about Billy Liar on Goon Pod Film Club, Now - The Summer Album on Back To Now and George Martin's By George! on The Big Beatles Sort Out, and an extra bit of Bob and Georgy questioning Will Smith's approach to summertime scheduling...

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. It's doubtful WIll Smith would have enough time for one though. Unless he drank it very, very quickly.

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 actor Donna Rees, who's hoping that the double groove will land on eerie ITV children's serial King Of The Castle, The Monty Python Matching Tie And Handkerchief, The Innes Book Of Records and early seventies romantic teen comedy Melody. Along the way we'll be revealing why The Milky Bar Kid is more attractive when 'in space', pouring scorn on Nigel Farage's prowess as a long-haulage lorry driver, lamenting the loss of a shed autographed by Eric Idle and revealing what happens if you tell a Starbucks barista your name is 'Throat-Wobbler Mangrove'...

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

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not buy us a coffee here? Presumably the presenter of 'Coffee Club' will be entirely saWUARGHFP*SPLONSH*