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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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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New!!! We read-along with the ALF Story And Cassette 'ALF Goes Wild'. It's on patreon.com/ALFsplainingExtra but the first half is FREE FOR ALL on YouTube.
Enjoy the tale of the Hooved Hoofer.
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Enjoy the tale of the Hooved Hoofer.
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ALFsplaining reads ALF GOES WILD (Read-Along Cassette Story Book)
YouTube video by ALFsplaining
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January 26, 2026 at 7:21 AM
New!!! We read-along with the ALF Story And Cassette 'ALF Goes Wild'. It's on patreon.com/ALFsplainingExtra but the first half is FREE FOR ALL on YouTube.
Enjoy the tale of the Hooved Hoofer.
youtu.be/2EIOlcg6R-k?...
Enjoy the tale of the Hooved Hoofer.
youtu.be/2EIOlcg6R-k?...
Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania. It's got its problems to say the least, and it's a *massive* comedown after the first two Ant-Man movies, but did it really deserve the kicking it got? Here's some thoughts on just that...
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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania With Kirsten Howard
Kirsten Howard joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Scott and Hope finding out where all those errant Lego pieces wind up in Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania.
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January 26, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania. It's got its problems to say the least, and it's a *massive* comedown after the first two Ant-Man movies, but did it really deserve the kicking it got? Here's some thoughts on just that...
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It’s my birthday today and I was very pleased with these presents!
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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I adore this book. This and the Ultimate Alphabet kept me busy for hours as a kid.
January 25, 2026 at 8:52 PM
I adore this book. This and the Ultimate Alphabet kept me busy for hours as a kid.
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I tried to get in, but it's sealed.
January 25, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I tried to get in, but it's sealed.
Higher Than The Sun. A book all about four brilliant albums released by one brilliant label late in 1991. Paperback or Kindle from here.
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Higher Than The Sun
Higher Than The Sun by Tim Worthington – the story of Screamadelica by Primal Scream, Foxbase Alpha by Saint Etienne, Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub, and Loveless by My Bloody Valentine &#…
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January 25, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Higher Than The Sun. A book all about four brilliant albums released by one brilliant label late in 1991. Paperback or Kindle from here.
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Was Blade: Trinity a lazy directionless Buffy-plagiarising BBC Three adaptation of Dracula only less interesting than that sounds, or... well, there's only really one answer to that. But here's a chat with @redskyatnight.bsky.social about it...
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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Blade: Trinity With Joanne Sheppard
Joanne Sheppard joins Tim for a chat about Eric Brooks finding himself up against BBC Three’s idea of Dracula in Blade: Trinity.
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January 25, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Was Blade: Trinity a lazy directionless Buffy-plagiarising BBC Three adaptation of Dracula only less interesting than that sounds, or... well, there's only really one answer to that. But here's a chat with @redskyatnight.bsky.social about it...
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Very early on, EastEnders did a storyline about the teenage residents of Albert Square forming a band which led to two real-life hit singles. It was aimless and daft and I *loved* it, and I explain exactly why to @benbaker.bsky.social here...
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Looks Unfamiliar: Tim Worthington – A Kind Of Home Bargains KLF
Tim Worthington joins Ben Baker for a chat about the 1986 EastEnders spinoff hit single, Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford.
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January 25, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Very early on, EastEnders did a storyline about the teenage residents of Albert Square forming a band which led to two real-life hit singles. It was aimless and daft and I *loved* it, and I explain exactly why to @benbaker.bsky.social here...
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Traumatized me for life, back in the day, whenever I used a phone box, I always kept my foot in the door...True!
January 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Traumatized me for life, back in the day, whenever I used a phone box, I always kept my foot in the door...True!
Gary Bainbridge (@garybainbridge.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about the 1978 Doctor Strange television pilot - Macho seventies mystical mumbo jumbo, mirrorball disco visuals and some spectacular overacting from Jessica Walter. Basically it's, well, strange.
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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Dr. Strange With Gary Bainbridge
Gary Bainbridge joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Stephen Strange’s rarely acknowledged stint as Office Lothario Supreme in Dr. Strange.
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January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Gary Bainbridge (@garybainbridge.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about the 1978 Doctor Strange television pilot - Macho seventies mystical mumbo jumbo, mirrorball disco visuals and some spectacular overacting from Jessica Walter. Basically it's, well, strange.
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Venom is, of course, a movie where the primary threat to decent and polite society is the prospective sale of a social media platform to some malevolent amorphous alien gunge masquerading as a genius tech entrepreneur. Here's @invaderace2000.bsky.social on it...
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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Venom With Garreth Hirons
Garreth Hirons joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Eddie Brock’s bid to thwart the sale of a popular social media platform to a carnivorous alien life form in Venom.
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January 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Venom is, of course, a movie where the primary threat to decent and polite society is the prospective sale of a social media platform to some malevolent amorphous alien gunge masquerading as a genius tech entrepreneur. Here's @invaderace2000.bsky.social on it...
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Kit Williams' Masquerade - high concept puzzle book with post-concept album artwork which saw an obsessed nation literally haring around with compasses and shovels on the hunt for an actual literal golden hare. Suitably bizarre backstory too...
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January 25, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Kit Williams' Masquerade - high concept puzzle book with post-concept album artwork which saw an obsessed nation literally haring around with compasses and shovels on the hunt for an actual literal golden hare. Suitably bizarre backstory too...
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Cabana - elaborate 'sophisticated' cocktail-esque coconut and cherry-based not for the likes of you exotic and aspirational chocolate bar with correspondingly prohibitive price tag.
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January 25, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Cabana - elaborate 'sophisticated' cocktail-esque coconut and cherry-based not for the likes of you exotic and aspirational chocolate bar with correspondingly prohibitive price tag.
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La Cabina - simple low-key but bloody terrifying short film about a man trapped in a telephone box, and... well it would be a crime to give away the ending, much beloved of BBC2 and Channel 4 and not quite so beloved of viewers who saw it by chance...
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January 25, 2026 at 3:41 PM
La Cabina - simple low-key but bloody terrifying short film about a man trapped in a telephone box, and... well it would be a crime to give away the ending, much beloved of BBC2 and Channel 4 and not quite so beloved of viewers who saw it by chance...
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Oh my god I can TASTE the blue cocktails and Sobranies
January 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Oh my god I can TASTE the blue cocktails and Sobranies
Timeslip - one-off Channel 4 pilot starring Duran Duran's John Taylor as 'The Hacker', a clandestine tech whiz who spies on cautionary tales involving the residents of a near-future hi-tech apartment block. Is it possible for anything to *be* more 1985?
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January 25, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Timeslip - one-off Channel 4 pilot starring Duran Duran's John Taylor as 'The Hacker', a clandestine tech whiz who spies on cautionary tales involving the residents of a near-future hi-tech apartment block. Is it possible for anything to *be* more 1985?
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Channel 4's complaint-baiting edgy late-night comedy sketch show Who Dares Wins. Genuinely rock star massive at the time but barely ever even mentioned now. Even by pandas.
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January 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Channel 4's complaint-baiting edgy late-night comedy sketch show Who Dares Wins. Genuinely rock star massive at the time but barely ever even mentioned now. Even by pandas.
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Hey Matthew by Karel Fialka - art-pop synth-panpipe-driven socially aware genius with an ahead of its time message about media saturation or preachy pleased-with-itself spoilsporty earworm... or both?
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January 25, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Hey Matthew by Karel Fialka - art-pop synth-panpipe-driven socially aware genius with an ahead of its time message about media saturation or preachy pleased-with-itself spoilsporty earworm... or both?
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Toby Hadoke (@tobyhadoke.bsky.social) recounts the terrible tale of his stolen Cabana Bar, along with Hey Matthew by Karel Fialka, Kit Williams' Masquerade, La Cabina, Who Dares Wins, P.S. It's Paul Squire and a sci-fi pilot starring Duran Duran's John Taylor..
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Looks Unfamiliar: Toby Hadoke – You’ll Go To Prison For False Accusation
Looks Unfamiliar with Toby Hadoke talking to Tim Worthington about Hey Matthew by Karel Fialka, Who Dares Wins, Timeslip, La Cabina, Cadbury’s Cabana, Masquerade by Kit Williams, Paul Squire …
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January 25, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Toby Hadoke (@tobyhadoke.bsky.social) recounts the terrible tale of his stolen Cabana Bar, along with Hey Matthew by Karel Fialka, Kit Williams' Masquerade, La Cabina, Who Dares Wins, P.S. It's Paul Squire and a sci-fi pilot starring Duran Duran's John Taylor..
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