Looks Unfamiliar
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A podcast looking at all of the things that you remember that nobody else ever seems to.
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This is The Camberwick Green Procrastination Society, and it's a collection of some of my features on some of the more mind-frazzling corners of television. Think The Banana Splits turned up to eleven. Currently 20% off in paperback (Code BOOKSALE20).
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The Camberwick Green Procrastination Society
The Camberwick Green Procrastination Society – a collection of columns and features by Tim Worthington.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is The Camberwick Green Procrastination Society, and it's a collection of some of my features on some of the more mind-frazzling corners of television. Think The Banana Splits turned up to eleven. Currently 20% off in paperback (Code BOOKSALE20).
timworthington.org/books/the-ca...
timworthington.org/books/the-ca...
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Can't figure out what to get for Christmas for that difficult to buy for relative? I think I've got the answer...
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The Christmas Gift You’ve All Been Looking For…
Are you struggling to think of what to get for that difficult to buy for relative? Then look no further…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Can't figure out what to get for Christmas for that difficult to buy for relative? I think I've got the answer...
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Radio dramas like The Psychedelic Spy, Earthsearch, Paul Temple, Ricochet and Radio 4's epic adaptations of The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings were massive in their time but rarely mentioned now. Which ones deserve a little more attention slash repeats?
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December 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Radio dramas like The Psychedelic Spy, Earthsearch, Paul Temple, Ricochet and Radio 4's epic adaptations of The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings were massive in their time but rarely mentioned now. Which ones deserve a little more attention slash repeats?
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It's Panto Day! Episode 2 is out now.
We look at Babes In The Wood via budgie lovers, grape crushing, middle names, the Diana conspiracy, fake Maltesers, joystick breaking computer games and lots, lots more!
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We look at Babes In The Wood via budgie lovers, grape crushing, middle names, the Diana conspiracy, fake Maltesers, joystick breaking computer games and lots, lots more!
In vision at:
YouTube youtu.be/dt7ItJ0qVMk?...
Spotify open.spotify.com/show/73eCUvH...
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
It's Panto Day! Episode 2 is out now.
We look at Babes In The Wood via budgie lovers, grape crushing, middle names, the Diana conspiracy, fake Maltesers, joystick breaking computer games and lots, lots more!
In vision at:
YouTube youtu.be/dt7ItJ0qVMk?...
Spotify open.spotify.com/show/73eCUvH...
We look at Babes In The Wood via budgie lovers, grape crushing, middle names, the Diana conspiracy, fake Maltesers, joystick breaking computer games and lots, lots more!
In vision at:
YouTube youtu.be/dt7ItJ0qVMk?...
Spotify open.spotify.com/show/73eCUvH...
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The Adam And Joe XFM Podcast - Song War-predating Text The Nation evolutionary ancestor rambling chats before RambleChats filling in time between The Go Team! records with musings on cinema trailer etiquette and how sweets can be made more annoying.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The Adam And Joe XFM Podcast - Song War-predating Text The Nation evolutionary ancestor rambling chats before RambleChats filling in time between The Go Team! records with musings on cinema trailer etiquette and how sweets can be made more annoying.
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As b-sides go, The Police's Don't Stand So Close To Me flip Friends - basically Andy Summers extolling the positive virtues of cannibalism in a rural-sci-fi dystopia - must have thrown a fair few unsuspecting pop fans...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
As b-sides go, The Police's Don't Stand So Close To Me flip Friends - basically Andy Summers extolling the positive virtues of cannibalism in a rural-sci-fi dystopia - must have thrown a fair few unsuspecting pop fans...
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Mic Wright joins me for a chat about Rocko's Modern Life, Party Animals, the Tazo craze, Cargo by Men At Work and Solitary Fitness - an exercise guide by Britain's most notorious prisoner Charles Bronson...
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Looks Unfamiliar: Mic Wright – This Is The Kind Of Thing You Do Not Get From Jane Fonda
Looks Unfamiliar with Mic Wright talking to Tim Worthington about Cargo by Men At Work, Rocko’s Modern Life, Party Animals, Solitary Fitness by Charles Bronson, Tazos and more…!
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December 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Mic Wright joins me for a chat about Rocko's Modern Life, Party Animals, the Tazo craze, Cargo by Men At Work and Solitary Fitness - an exercise guide by Britain's most notorious prisoner Charles Bronson...
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From The Box Of Delights, The Children Of Green Knowe and The Moon Stallion to Codename: Icarus and Aliens In The Family, a complete guide to the BBC's spooky slash sci-fi run-up-to-Christmas children's serials. It really is a box of... *some* delights.
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Ghosts, Monsters And Legends (And Tennis Prodigies)
From The Box Of Delights to Aliens In The Family, a look back at the BBC’s spooky sci-fi run-up-to-Christmas children’s serials.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
From The Box Of Delights, The Children Of Green Knowe and The Moon Stallion to Codename: Icarus and Aliens In The Family, a complete guide to the BBC's spooky slash sci-fi run-up-to-Christmas children's serials. It really is a box of... *some* delights.
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More highlights from the archives with Samira Ahmed and Steve Berry on Looks Unfamiliar plus a look at a swinging sixties BBC soap opera, a book about the evolution of psychedelia and the strange story of fifties throwback pop star Jimmy Ray.
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Through The Square Window: Mary Quant, Metal Mickey And The Newcomers
More early Saturday Morning-styled mayhem from the archives including Samira Ahmed and Steve Berry on Looks Unfamiliar and some thoughts on mid-sixties BBC soap opera The Newcomers, a book looking …
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December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
More highlights from the archives with Samira Ahmed and Steve Berry on Looks Unfamiliar plus a look at a swinging sixties BBC soap opera, a book about the evolution of psychedelia and the strange story of fifties throwback pop star Jimmy Ray.
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Day 4 of the ITV Sitcom Advent Calendar, and it's a Carry On spinoff in all but name as Sid James launches into a tirade against racial intolerance whilst deploying 'unfortunate' gags - and wearing a spacesuit - in All This - And Christmas Too!
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December 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Day 4 of the ITV Sitcom Advent Calendar, and it's a Carry On spinoff in all but name as Sid James launches into a tirade against racial intolerance whilst deploying 'unfortunate' gags - and wearing a spacesuit - in All This - And Christmas Too!
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BBC2's Christmas Globe from 1974 - like when one of the people in your office who's been saying you 'might as well just skip' the decorations this year since August gets made to help put some up on 17th December.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
BBC2's Christmas Globe from 1974 - like when one of the people in your office who's been saying you 'might as well just skip' the decorations this year since August gets made to help put some up on 17th December.
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MB Games' Hangman. Even aside from the fact that you could just play it yourself with a pencil and paper, Vincent Price may have been an impressive 'get' for the box art, but... *seriously*??
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December 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
MB Games' Hangman. Even aside from the fact that you could just play it yourself with a pencil and paper, Vincent Price may have been an impressive 'get' for the box art, but... *seriously*??
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Have to admit, whenever I hear The Dave Clark Five, I can't help but think of the sustained factual takedown of the 'unloveable' second tier beat band with retrospective ideas above their station in this...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Have to admit, whenever I hear The Dave Clark Five, I can't help but think of the sustained factual takedown of the 'unloveable' second tier beat band with retrospective ideas above their station in this...
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Top Of The Box - the story behind every single released by BBC Records And Tapes. Paperback (20% off code BOOKSALE20) or Kindle from here.
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Top Of The Box
Top Of The Box by Tim Worthington – the story behind every single released by BBC Records And Tapes.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Top Of The Box - the story behind every single released by BBC Records And Tapes. Paperback (20% off code BOOKSALE20) or Kindle from here.
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The Incredibly Strange Film Show, Jonathan Ross' late eighties Channel 4 series on cult filmmakers whose work was still mostly nominally banned in the UK, was enormously important to me. A glimpse into a world you would otherwise have known nothing about.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Incredibly Strange Film Show, Jonathan Ross' late eighties Channel 4 series on cult filmmakers whose work was still mostly nominally banned in the UK, was enormously important to me. A glimpse into a world you would otherwise have known nothing about.
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You probably think ALF was that corny Saturday afternoon sitcom where a puppet alien lived with a family. Well it was, but it's a LOT weirder than that. Here's what happened when I joined ALFSplaining for a chat about an episode where ALF rigs the TV ratings...
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ALFsplaining: Prime Time
I join Ben Baker and John Matthews for a look at an episode of baffling eighties sitcom ALF in which the puppet alien discovers his favourite show is at risk of cancellation…
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December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
You probably think ALF was that corny Saturday afternoon sitcom where a puppet alien lived with a family. Well it was, but it's a LOT weirder than that. Here's what happened when I joined ALFSplaining for a chat about an episode where ALF rigs the TV ratings...
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For something that specifically parodies a specific type of broadcaster at a specific point in their career - long before Dave Nice might have thought twice about taking his computer 'in' - Smashie & Nicey: The End Of An Era really is timelessly funny.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
For something that specifically parodies a specific type of broadcaster at a specific point in their career - long before Dave Nice might have thought twice about taking his computer 'in' - Smashie & Nicey: The End Of An Era really is timelessly funny.
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This week on HAMMER TIME we open up Princess Ananka's tomb and face THE MUMMY (1959). Join Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and me as we chat about another Christopher Lee monster movie, and potentially have our first podcast parting of ways, opinion-wise 😬😅 Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
December 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This week on HAMMER TIME we open up Princess Ananka's tomb and face THE MUMMY (1959). Join Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and me as we chat about another Christopher Lee monster movie, and potentially have our first podcast parting of ways, opinion-wise 😬😅 Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
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Horror Bags - Hammer House Of Corn Starch Classic Horror in extruded maize snack form gambit, proffering rib, fang, bone, claw and bat-shaped Universal-adjacent self-scaring crisps with Video Nasty-strength flavouring. Not quite Mary Whitehouse's 'bag'.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Horror Bags - Hammer House Of Corn Starch Classic Horror in extruded maize snack form gambit, proffering rib, fang, bone, claw and bat-shaped Universal-adjacent self-scaring crisps with Video Nasty-strength flavouring. Not quite Mary Whitehouse's 'bag'.
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More highlights from the archives with thoughts on the Smash Hits/Number One rivalry and the enduring esoteric appeal of French sixties pop music plus Looks Unfamiliar with Rae Earl on Battle Of The Planets and Lisa and Andrew on Big John Little John...
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Through The Square Window: Smash Hits, Sky Divers And Keyop
A swingorilliant trip through the archives with FREE GIANT POSTERS plus features on Smash Hits and France Gall and Looks Unfamiliar on Big John Little John, Battle Of The Planets and KP Sky Divers.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
More highlights from the archives with thoughts on the Smash Hits/Number One rivalry and the enduring esoteric appeal of French sixties pop music plus Looks Unfamiliar with Rae Earl on Battle Of The Planets and Lisa and Andrew on Big John Little John...
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It's a very strange fact that as these books got progressively better and better, they sold fewer and fewer copies. Although I don't imagine either cover for That's Me In The Corner really helped much...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It's a very strange fact that as these books got progressively better and better, they sold fewer and fewer copies. Although I don't imagine either cover for That's Me In The Corner really helped much...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Here are twelve radio programmes that I think deserve a bit more attention than they currently get, from creaky old sci-fi to a Radio 3 sitcom to a Peter Cook panto to David Quantick being rude about Morrissey, it's all here...
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Twelve Radio Programmes That Need To Be Given A Proper Release
A handful of radio shows that never seem to get the attention they deserve, and why I think it’s time that changed…
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December 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Here are twelve radio programmes that I think deserve a bit more attention than they currently get, from creaky old sci-fi to a Radio 3 sitcom to a Peter Cook panto to David Quantick being rude about Morrissey, it's all here...
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Blackgang Chine - erosion-prone Isle Of Wight theme park primarily composed of nautically-themed rides interspersed with gigantic fibreglass brigands and occasional dinosaur, now updated to incorporate a 'virtual' beach.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Blackgang Chine - erosion-prone Isle Of Wight theme park primarily composed of nautically-themed rides interspersed with gigantic fibreglass brigands and occasional dinosaur, now updated to incorporate a 'virtual' beach.
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
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Day 3 of the ITV Sitcom Advent Calendar, and Reg Varney and The Other One are celebrating the birth of our saviour with targeted sexual harassment of female colleagues and playing vindictive pranks on poor old Blakey. On The Buses? Fuck Off, The Buses.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Day 3 of the ITV Sitcom Advent Calendar, and Reg Varney and The Other One are celebrating the birth of our saviour with targeted sexual harassment of female colleagues and playing vindictive pranks on poor old Blakey. On The Buses? Fuck Off, The Buses.
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