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Tim Worthington

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6d

New! The upcoming Bluray of Hammer Films' The Men Of Sherwood Forest also includes the little-seen 1969 Robin Hood television pilot Wolfshead - with a commentary on it by me!

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Wolfshead

Hammer’s great lost Robin Hood television pilot comes to Bluray – and decent picture quality – at last…

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 27m

There's currently 15% off both volumes of my complete guide to every single and album released by BBC Records And Tapes in paperback with the code PRINTPROJECT15 (also available for Kindle). Covering Russell Grant's entire discography!

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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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Sophie Hell 😈 @sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 1h

Maoam Broomstixx Sour: Wowee wow they are not messing about at Maoam are they, bloody hell. You've got the "Halloween monster approved" stamp, you've got that weird green bloke at the bottom, little spider buddy on the letters, the sweets look like broomsticks.. I'm absolutely knackered. 4/5

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1h

As the child of two teachers, I grew up with an acute awareness of how politicians would blame people like my parents for anything that they could not be fucking bothered lifting a finger to tackle themselves. Lazy bastards who won't do their own job lecturing others on how to do theirs.

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Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1h

If you've never listened to It's Good, Except It Sucks because you don't know anything about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, here's Joanne Sheppard chatting with me about Avengers Assemble despite not even knowing who most of the characters are...

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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Avengers Assemble With Joanne Sheppard

Joanne Sheppard joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Loki’s complete failure to understand what Doc Brown was actually up to at the Clock Tower in Avengers Assemble.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2h

Out 23rd October!

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 6h

I was in sixth form, so we were allowed to go into town at lunch, so we'd regularly go to Tesco and buy a multipack each, since you were guaranteed a Tazo in the outer bag and often got one inside one of the packs too.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 6h

My brother was banned from the corner shop because he'd feel up the bags, crunching up all the crisps, to find the ones with Tazos in.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6h

As it's apparently 'spooky season', when all manner of unloved movies find themselves celebrated as schlocktacular lost classics, here's me and James on why you should give eighties-tinged duelling vampire misfire Morbius a chance. Possibly.

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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Morbius With James Cooray Smith

James Cooray Smith joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Doctor Michael Morbius apparently being infected with nineties industrial-goth photoshoot energy in addition to vampirism in Morbius.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 6h

One of my proudest achievements is that I acquired a full set of Star Wars Tazos without even having to send off for the last few to complete the collection. (I had a few school mates who were collecting them too, which helped.)

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Tom Burgess @nottomburgess.bsky.social · 7h

I've still got my complete binder of Star Wars Tazos circa '97! Never had a Pog in the house, unconvinced they existed.

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Becky Darke @bunnydarke.bsky.social · 1d

The new episode of HAMMER TIME is out now! Kev and I discuss our first Hammer Horror film in depth: THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (1955) 🚀

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7h

Tazos. The Thinking Man's Pog.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7h

Solitary Fitness is an exercise guide by Britain's most notorious - and most blurrily photographed - prisoner Charles Bronson, and there's a detail about it in this Looks Unfamiliar that it took me a full two minutes to recover my composure from...

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 8h

As much as I loved the BBC's post-This Life Matt Smith-centric New Labour lives and loves and lobbying drama Party Animals at the time, I'm honestly not sure how I'd find it now. It feels like it belongs to - and yes, I really am typing this - a more innocent era.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 8h

Given how often it was mentioned by 'clever' journalists in the same sentence as Ren And Stimpy and The Simpsons, it's odd that Rocko's Modern Life is largely forgotten now. For a show about a put-upon corporate Wallaby it had a lot of amusing points to make.

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Simon Finbow @simonfinbow.bsky.social · 8h

This was a staple in the family car in the 80s. Not heard it for over 40 years but I bet I still know every word!

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 9h

This is *fantastic*.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 9h

This is Men At Work's second album Cargo - the one with less well remembered Overkill and even less well remembered Dr. Heckyll And Mr. Jive on it - and without wanting to be rude about that cover, you do have to wonder if they even wanted it to sell...

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 9h

Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social) 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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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 9h

You're probably not unreasonably assuming that Spy Trap is something I've just made up as a joke and cannot possibly have existed. I can assure you it's all too real...

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Looks Unfamiliar: Phil Norman – A Milkshake For Robert Elms

Looks Unfamiliar with Phil Norman talking to Tim Worthington about Over The Moon, Amityville (The House On The Hill) by Lovebug Starski, I Am The Cheese by Robert Cormier, WFLA Milkshake, Spy Trap,…

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 9h

TV THAT TIME FORGOT: Spy Trap (BBC1, 1985)

Perestroika-averse late stage Cold War Children's BBC quiz show for aspirant long-coated code breakers, with observation rounds via rifle sight overseen by Bill Homewood and random outbreaks of star jumps marshalled by Bill Pertwee.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 19h

Catherine Catherine Un Deux Trois!

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · Feb 6

"The Return of The Thin White Duke/throwing darts at Bully's Prize".

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 20h

I was always a little concerned at how The Man apparently continually "laughs, and kicks and rolls up his sleeves". That's not exactly a formula for getting very far down the street.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 20h

Is that who the Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson song was about?

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