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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Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Clarissa Explains It All, Sharky And George, I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape by The Times, Nikolai Dante, Steve Aylett's 'Jeff Lint' hoax and tons more besides...
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Looks Unfamiliar: Mic Wright – Film Noir But It’s Fish
Looks Unfamiliar with Mic Wright talking to Tim Worthington about I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape by The Times, Clarissa Explains It All, Nikolai Dante, Sharky And George, Jeff Lint, The Game and …
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January 26, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Clarissa Explains It All, Sharky And George, I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape by The Times, Nikolai Dante, Steve Aylett's 'Jeff Lint' hoax and tons more besides...
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Top Of The Box - the story behind every single released by BBC Records And Tapes. Paperback (15% off code BOOKBUNDLE15) 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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January 26, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Top Of The Box - the story behind every single released by BBC Records And Tapes. Paperback (15% off code BOOKBUNDLE15) or Kindle from here.
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They're small. They're pathetic. They're disorganised. They'd mostly be in prison three seconds into a hard drive check. They don't outnumber us.
What they might outnumber, however, is people who can be bothered to vote. The risk isn't worth it.
What they might outnumber, however, is people who can be bothered to vote. The risk isn't worth it.
January 26, 2026 at 12:56 PM
They're small. They're pathetic. They're disorganised. They'd mostly be in prison three seconds into a hard drive check. They don't outnumber us.
What they might outnumber, however, is people who can be bothered to vote. The risk isn't worth it.
What they might outnumber, however, is people who can be bothered to vote. The risk isn't worth it.
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In 'Nobody Ever Tells Me Anything' news, at some point a load more Horrible Histories eps dropped including my Sayyida al-Hurra sketch in the Pirates ep which I thought had been cut so that's nice www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Horrible Histories - Series 11: 9. Putrid Pirates and Salty Seadogs
Captain Ratbeard takes to the high seas and sets sail on his maiden voyage, taking a look at everything from who not to kidnap if you’re a pirate to the dangers of pooing inside a submarine.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:34 PM
In 'Nobody Ever Tells Me Anything' news, at some point a load more Horrible Histories eps dropped including my Sayyida al-Hurra sketch in the Pirates ep which I thought had been cut so that's nice www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Proud to announce that today I am officially launching The Missing Episodes Party.
Manifesto:
1. Find Space Pirates 5
2. KBE for Ian Levine
3. Telesnap Bank Holiday
Manifesto:
1. Find Space Pirates 5
2. KBE for Ian Levine
3. Telesnap Bank Holiday
January 26, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Proud to announce that today I am officially launching The Missing Episodes Party.
Manifesto:
1. Find Space Pirates 5
2. KBE for Ian Levine
3. Telesnap Bank Holiday
Manifesto:
1. Find Space Pirates 5
2. KBE for Ian Levine
3. Telesnap Bank Holiday
Sharky And George - The Crimebusters Of The Sea. They worked so hard to keep the oceans safe, and yet... well who even remembers them now??
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January 26, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Sharky And George - The Crimebusters Of The Sea. They worked so hard to keep the oceans safe, and yet... well who even remembers them now??
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Retro-futrurist anarchic crusader for a stable society Nikolai Dante enjoyed a fifteen year run in 2000AD, yet you'll scarcely ever hear him mentioned alongside Rogue Trooper and Judge Dredd. It's always suprising what does and doesn't become iconic...
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January 26, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Retro-futrurist anarchic crusader for a stable society Nikolai Dante enjoyed a fifteen year run in 2000AD, yet you'll scarcely ever hear him mentioned alongside Rogue Trooper and Judge Dredd. It's always suprising what does and doesn't become iconic...
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There aren't *many* songs about films or television shows that really capture the spirit of what they are referencing - or even have halfway accurate lyrics - but The Times' early eighties indie hit I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape is a notable exception.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:38 PM
There aren't *many* songs about films or television shows that really capture the spirit of what they are referencing - or even have halfway accurate lyrics - but The Times' early eighties indie hit I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape is a notable exception.
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Clarissa Explains It All - early nineties fourth wall-breaking teen sitcom before Fleabag had even so much as shoplifted some lipstick, featuring Melissa Joan Hart as snarky adolescent with a pet alligator who was as alt-rock as 'the networks' allowed.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Clarissa Explains It All - early nineties fourth wall-breaking teen sitcom before Fleabag had even so much as shoplifted some lipstick, featuring Melissa Joan Hart as snarky adolescent with a pet alligator who was as alt-rock as 'the networks' allowed.
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OTT - the short-run late-night 'Adult Tiswas' from 1982. Where Tiswas was mucky in the literal phlan-phlinging Wunda Gloo-abundant sense of the word, OTT was simply grubby and - Lenny/Alexei aside - you do have to wonder who was staying up for it and why.
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January 26, 2026 at 1:06 PM
OTT - the short-run late-night 'Adult Tiswas' from 1982. Where Tiswas was mucky in the literal phlan-phlinging Wunda Gloo-abundant sense of the word, OTT was simply grubby and - Lenny/Alexei aside - you do have to wonder who was staying up for it and why.
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They're small. They're pathetic. They're disorganised. They'd mostly be in prison three seconds into a hard drive check. They don't outnumber us.
What they might outnumber, however, is people who can be bothered to vote. The risk isn't worth it.
What they might outnumber, however, is people who can be bothered to vote. The risk isn't worth it.
January 26, 2026 at 12:56 PM
They're small. They're pathetic. They're disorganised. They'd mostly be in prison three seconds into a hard drive check. They don't outnumber us.
What they might outnumber, however, is people who can be bothered to vote. The risk isn't worth it.
What they might outnumber, however, is people who can be bothered to vote. The risk isn't worth it.
Barcode Battler - early attempt at interactive online-ish gaming where running riot around a supermarket scanning - but crucially not buying - barcodes from random retail items could clock you up an unspecified amount of 'points'. Not exactly Pokemon Go.
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January 26, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Barcode Battler - early attempt at interactive online-ish gaming where running riot around a supermarket scanning - but crucially not buying - barcodes from random retail items could clock you up an unspecified amount of 'points'. Not exactly Pokemon Go.
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Matchbox Fighting Furies - spar-tastic kicking and thumping score system-abiding battling action figures based on historical marauders, horror archetypes and so forth. Including several 'representations' that you just wouldn't get away with now...
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January 26, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Matchbox Fighting Furies - spar-tastic kicking and thumping score system-abiding battling action figures based on historical marauders, horror archetypes and so forth. Including several 'representations' that you just wouldn't get away with now...
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Five To Eleven. Panpipe-heralded mid-morning BBC1 'contemplative' filler slot with sombre thespians reading out quasi-spiritual prose and poetry designed to make viewers reflect on the beauty of flowers and the ugliness of industrial waste. Not relaxing.
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January 26, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Five To Eleven. Panpipe-heralded mid-morning BBC1 'contemplative' filler slot with sombre thespians reading out quasi-spiritual prose and poetry designed to make viewers reflect on the beauty of flowers and the ugliness of industrial waste. Not relaxing.
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Ten Million Points if you know where this terrifying contextless seventies television clown - because there weren't enough of THOSE around, obviously - is from...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Ten Million Points if you know where this terrifying contextless seventies television clown - because there weren't enough of THOSE around, obviously - is from...
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Highlights with @redskyatnight.bsky.social on Matchbox Fighting Furies, @mitchbenn.bsky.social on O.T.T., @deborahtracey.bsky.social on Five To Eleven and @gracedent.bsky.social on a mysterious terrifying clown who appeared on television from nowhere...
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The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar – You Got How We Used To Live As Well, Did You?
Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar with Tim Worthington and Grace Dent on a mysterious clown that leaned into the television screen and waved, Deborah Tracey on Five To Eleven, Joanne Sheppard on Mat…
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January 26, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Highlights with @redskyatnight.bsky.social on Matchbox Fighting Furies, @mitchbenn.bsky.social on O.T.T., @deborahtracey.bsky.social on Five To Eleven and @gracedent.bsky.social on a mysterious terrifying clown who appeared on television from nowhere...
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What if in Never Never by The Assembly, the 'it' that Feargal Sharkey laments 'never happens to me' was getting a Kit Kat where there was no biscuit in it and it was all chocolate?
January 26, 2026 at 10:07 AM
What if in Never Never by The Assembly, the 'it' that Feargal Sharkey laments 'never happens to me' was getting a Kit Kat where there was no biscuit in it and it was all chocolate?
It's doubtful that there was a more 'nineties' cosmetic than sweet-themed hazardously edibility-evoking vogueish must-have Hard Candy Nail Polish, sadly not pictued here in its uber-virulent green variant.
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January 26, 2026 at 10:02 AM
It's doubtful that there was a more 'nineties' cosmetic than sweet-themed hazardously edibility-evoking vogueish must-have Hard Candy Nail Polish, sadly not pictued here in its uber-virulent green variant.
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@benbaker.bsky.social 100 Years Of Television! I hope you're watching The Boot Street Band to celebrate.
January 26, 2026 at 9:49 AM
@benbaker.bsky.social 100 Years Of Television! I hope you're watching The Boot Street Band to celebrate.
It's fair to say BBC Three's animated sketch show Monkey Dust divided people at the time - but was it just unfairly caught up in a backlash against mostly not very good 'dark' comedy? Find out here!
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January 26, 2026 at 9:35 AM
It's fair to say BBC Three's animated sketch show Monkey Dust divided people at the time - but was it just unfairly caught up in a backlash against mostly not very good 'dark' comedy? Find out here!
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So, about that unmade final episode of the Dungeons And Dragons cartoon...
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January 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM
So, about that unmade final episode of the Dungeons And Dragons cartoon...
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Topical references may date, but what really strikes me about Victoria Wood As Seen On TV now is how much she very clearly HATED Norman Fowler.
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Topical references may date, but what really strikes me about Victoria Wood As Seen On TV now is how much she very clearly HATED Norman Fowler.
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Short thread- Not far from Crowborough is a place called Maresfield. An old army base there was used to house Vietnamese refugees (Boat People) in the late 70s/early 80s. Nobody was bothered about them being there at the time. No protest against them. Nothing.- www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Thousands march in Crowborough over asylum plan for former military camp
Protesters walk to Sussex market town from base where Home Office plans to house up to 500 asylum seekers
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January 26, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Short thread- Not far from Crowborough is a place called Maresfield. An old army base there was used to house Vietnamese refugees (Boat People) in the late 70s/early 80s. Nobody was bothered about them being there at the time. No protest against them. Nothing.- www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Mr. Men Songs - collection of soft rock odes to assorted Mr. Men sung by session singers and occasional disinterested Arthur Lowe that unlike most records based on popular children's characters mostly adheres to the original stories. Mostly.
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January 26, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Mr. Men Songs - collection of soft rock odes to assorted Mr. Men sung by session singers and occasional disinterested Arthur Lowe that unlike most records based on popular children's characters mostly adheres to the original stories. Mostly.
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Mr. Men Songs, Monkey Dust, Hard Candy Nail Polish and the unmade final episode of Dungeons And Dragons with @scriblit.bsky.social.
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Looks Unfamiliar: Gabby Hutchinson Crouch – I Ate My Necklace, It Was Too Tasty
Looks Unfamiliar with Gabby Hutchinson Crouch talking to Tim Worthington about Mr. Men Songs, Monkey Dust, the unmade final episode of Dungeons And Dragons, TimeSplitters 2, They Might Be Giants…
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January 26, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Mr. Men Songs, Monkey Dust, Hard Candy Nail Polish and the unmade final episode of Dungeons And Dragons with @scriblit.bsky.social.
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