Tim Worthington
@outonbluesix.bsky.social
Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. TV's 'Clangers Expert'.
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Looks Unfamiliar: Athena Kugblenu – FANCY THIS MAN!
Looks Unfamiliar with Athena Kugblenu talking to Tim Worthington about Street Hawk, I Do Like A Ski Man, Bad Influence!, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, Murder One, Due South, The Dreamstone and more&#…
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New! Athena Kugblenu (@athenakugblenu.bsky.social]) joins me for a chat about Street Hawk, the ‘I Do Like A Ski, Man’ advert, Bad Influence!, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, Murder One, Due South, The Dreamstone, useless school gym equipment and more!
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Not being allowed Parma Violets as a child.
I have a game. What were you "known" for on Twitter?
I'll go first. I'm the woman who caused Dave Ramsey to mass-block Royals Twitter.
I'll go first. I'm the woman who caused Dave Ramsey to mass-block Royals Twitter.
June 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Not being allowed Parma Violets as a child.
The 1987 Doctor Who story Time And The Rani - Sylvester McCoy's debut - isn't exactly the most widely loved in the show's history. I love it though, and not only do I not care who knows it, I'm only happy to explain why. At considerable length...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part One
It’s 1987, and the Doctor Who story Time And The Rani is about to start – but so far, we only know the title…
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January 24, 2026 at 10:35 PM
The 1987 Doctor Who story Time And The Rani - Sylvester McCoy's debut - isn't exactly the most widely loved in the show's history. I love it though, and not only do I not care who knows it, I'm only happy to explain why. At considerable length...
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Stop. Telling. People. Off. For. Not. Using. This. Place. 'Properly'.
January 24, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Stop. Telling. People. Off. For. Not. Using. This. Place. 'Properly'.
Doctor Who got new opening titles and a new version of the theme music in 1987. Nobody seems to like them much now, but take it from someone who read Number One Magazine as avidly as Doctor Who Magazine - they were very impressively '1987' at the time...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Two
The brand new opening titles of the Doctor Who story Time And The Rani are pretty exciting… but will that excitement last?
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January 24, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Doctor Who got new opening titles and a new version of the theme music in 1987. Nobody seems to like them much now, but take it from someone who read Number One Magazine as avidly as Doctor Who Magazine - they were very impressively '1987' at the time...
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So, about that time the new Doctor Who was unveiled on Blue Peter...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Three
The epic length look back at Doctor Who story Time And The Rani continues – but The Doctor is apparently too busy choosing a new coat…
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January 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM
So, about that time the new Doctor Who was unveiled on Blue Peter...
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I appreciate I'm in something of a minority in actually liking the 1987 version of the Doctor Who theme, but I really do and won't apologise for it. Plus it was exciting when they unexpectedly showed you how it was made one Saturday Morning...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Four
The look back at Doctor Who story Time And The Rani continues, and Sophie Aldred is here to show us how the new theme music ‘works’…
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January 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
I appreciate I'm in something of a minority in actually liking the 1987 version of the Doctor Who theme, but I really do and won't apologise for it. Plus it was exciting when they unexpectedly showed you how it was made one Saturday Morning...
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Doctor Who wasn't the only franchise that got a divisive reboot in the late eighties - there was also Superman, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, that weird William Tell series that ITV tried to legally get out of showing and, erm, Mind Your Language...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Five
The epic-length look back at Doctor Who story Time And The Rani continues… but there are a lot of other shows on if you aren’t bothered. Some of them even starring Sylvester McCoy.
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January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Doctor Who wasn't the only franchise that got a divisive reboot in the late eighties - there was also Superman, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, that weird William Tell series that ITV tried to legally get out of showing and, erm, Mind Your Language...
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Did anyone in the 90s do a parody called "Mars Mice from Byker"? If so, please invent time travel. Thanks.
January 24, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Did anyone in the 90s do a parody called "Mars Mice from Byker"? If so, please invent time travel. Thanks.
If you're new to what I do, you can find LOADS of episodes of my anti-nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar - a show about everything you remember that nobody ever seems to - here. There's big name guests and names you might not know but you really ought to. Enjoy!
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Looks Unfamiliar
Looks Unfamiliar – a podcast in which Tim Worthington chats to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.
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January 24, 2026 at 5:01 PM
If you're new to what I do, you can find LOADS of episodes of my anti-nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar - a show about everything you remember that nobody ever seems to - here. There's big name guests and names you might not know but you really ought to. Enjoy!
timworthington.org/looksunfamil...
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Pure nostalgia! Did anyone else read the Hardy Boys? We’ve got a good stock of them in @pandasbooksandrecords
January 24, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Pure nostalgia! Did anyone else read the Hardy Boys? We’ve got a good stock of them in @pandasbooksandrecords
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Heard a mention on the radio of cheque guarantee cards. Took my brain a hot minute to remember them. A second signature to compare the signature to, but too small and on branded plastic. What a strange episode they now feel. Only abandoned in 2011, apparently.
January 24, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Heard a mention on the radio of cheque guarantee cards. Took my brain a hot minute to remember them. A second signature to compare the signature to, but too small and on branded plastic. What a strange episode they now feel. Only abandoned in 2011, apparently.
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Genuinely thought this was meant to be Noel Gallagher
January 24, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Genuinely thought this was meant to be Noel Gallagher
The Dreamstone - Mike Batt-soundtracked Melua-pilfered mid-concept animated odyssey concerning green bears assisting Gandalfy good-doer The Dream Maker in nightly allocation of non-nightmarish subconscious nocturnal thought patterns. 'Lessons' inevitably abounded.
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January 24, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The Dreamstone - Mike Batt-soundtracked Melua-pilfered mid-concept animated odyssey concerning green bears assisting Gandalfy good-doer The Dream Maker in nightly allocation of non-nightmarish subconscious nocturnal thought patterns. 'Lessons' inevitably abounded.
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Due South - tail-end of post-Twin Peaks quirky drama mini-boom meets even mini-er momentary Mountie craze in oddball offbeat Canadian In Chicago quasi-Slattery culture clash comedy crimebust. Unclear however whether this particular Mountie always got his can.
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January 24, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Due South - tail-end of post-Twin Peaks quirky drama mini-boom meets even mini-er momentary Mountie craze in oddball offbeat Canadian In Chicago quasi-Slattery culture clash comedy crimebust. Unclear however whether this particular Mountie always got his can.
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Murder One - monolithically linear legal procedural with added allegorical undertones alluding to decline of social contract, introduced by heavyweight cast moodily reflected on fragmenting shards of 'justice'. Steven Bocho credit should not serve as a mystery.
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January 24, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Murder One - monolithically linear legal procedural with added allegorical undertones alluding to decline of social contract, introduced by heavyweight cast moodily reflected on fragmenting shards of 'justice'. Steven Bocho credit should not serve as a mystery.
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Just for the avoidance of doubt, if a four year old post on my website includes a link to Twitter, this should not be taken as an endorsement of Elon Musk. Well, it should be taken as an endorsement of Elon Musk feeding himself into a woodchipper. Which to be fair is a very non-'woke' thing to do.
January 24, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Just for the avoidance of doubt, if a four year old post on my website includes a link to Twitter, this should not be taken as an endorsement of Elon Musk. Well, it should be taken as an endorsement of Elon Musk feeding himself into a woodchipper. Which to be fair is a very non-'woke' thing to do.
Just been alerted to the fact that someone who gave a very snippy - and moderately libellous - review to The Golden Age Of Children's TV is a self-published author who routinely gives his own books five star reviews. I'm surprised these people are allowed *shoes*.
January 24, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Just been alerted to the fact that someone who gave a very snippy - and moderately libellous - review to The Golden Age Of Children's TV is a self-published author who routinely gives his own books five star reviews. I'm surprised these people are allowed *shoes*.
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe - late to the party cross-console cash-in on post-Rollerball vogue for safely fictitious extreme sports, set in far-flung fantasy world where on-pitch hooliganism and backstage corruption are actively tackled and legislated against.
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January 24, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe - late to the party cross-console cash-in on post-Rollerball vogue for safely fictitious extreme sports, set in far-flung fantasy world where on-pitch hooliganism and backstage corruption are actively tackled and legislated against.
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Not On Your Telly. The TV That Time Forgot, all the way from lost Top Of The Pops performances to forgotten Play School toys. Which is probably only the length of a corridor but there you go.
Paperback or Kindle from here.
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Paperback or Kindle from here.
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Not On Your Telly
Not On Your Telly by Tim Worthington – excursions into the dustier corners of the archives in search of the television that we never get to see…
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January 24, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Not On Your Telly. The TV That Time Forgot, all the way from lost Top Of The Pops performances to forgotten Play School toys. Which is probably only the length of a corridor but there you go.
Paperback or Kindle from here.
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Paperback or Kindle from here.
timworthington.org/books/not-on...
In much the same way as I found Ghost Stories all the more powerful for leaning back towards seventies British horror dramas, Werewolf By Night going full-tilt black and white Universal style is genuinely thrilling. In this instance, less really is more.
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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Werewolf By Night With Vikki Gregorich
Vikki Gregorich joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Jack Russell giving an unexpected answer to the suggestion that man is the most dangerous animal of them all in Werewolf By Night.
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January 24, 2026 at 9:07 AM
In much the same way as I found Ghost Stories all the more powerful for leaning back towards seventies British horror dramas, Werewolf By Night going full-tilt black and white Universal style is genuinely thrilling. In this instance, less really is more.
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Bad Influence! - Parent-Teacher Association-baiting Children's ITV controller-waggling jump into the exciting new world of gaming consoles courtesy of Andy Crane and Violet Berlin and pause button-occasioning rapid fire info text barrage the 'Datablast'.
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January 24, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Bad Influence! - Parent-Teacher Association-baiting Children's ITV controller-waggling jump into the exciting new world of gaming consoles courtesy of Andy Crane and Violet Berlin and pause button-occasioning rapid fire info text barrage the 'Datablast'.
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Frankly there has not been enough investigation into Gerry Marsden's powers of levitation.
July 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Frankly there has not been enough investigation into Gerry Marsden's powers of levitation.
My epic-length look back at much-detested Doctor Who story Time And The Rani continues with some thoughts on how, not so long ago, if we wanted to know everyone else's opinion on something, magazines were all we had to go on...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Six
The epic look back at Doctor Who story Time And The Rani continues… but in between instalments, why not have a look at a couple of magazines?
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January 24, 2026 at 7:29 AM
My epic-length look back at much-detested Doctor Who story Time And The Rani continues with some thoughts on how, not so long ago, if we wanted to know everyone else's opinion on something, magazines were all we had to go on...
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I Do Like A Ski, Man - Kinks-retouching post-slacker Bill S. Preston-adjacent attempt at repositioning Ski as cool dude sugary glop of choice for the Gameboy generation. Small wonder Ray Davies felt compelled to make like an Apeman.
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January 23, 2026 at 10:17 PM
I Do Like A Ski, Man - Kinks-retouching post-slacker Bill S. Preston-adjacent attempt at repositioning Ski as cool dude sugary glop of choice for the Gameboy generation. Small wonder Ray Davies felt compelled to make like an Apeman.
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January 23, 2026 at 9:54 PM