For no other reason than that I feel like it, let's have a thread of quotes from On The Hour. "They have parked, and they have parked, and they have parked... they *will not park again*".

Not sure Lou Reed would be especially amused by anyone pointing out that Satellite Of Love apparently turns into to the Yellow Pages 'Let Your Fingers Do The Walking' jingle at the end but, well, it's his own fault really. "Do you have a copy of The Velvet Underground by Michael Leigh?".

It's fair to say The Fantastic Four have a less than fantastic history of big-screen adaptations, but when Marvel got the rights back did they finally get them right? Here's what me and Gabby (@scriblit.bsky.social) thought on the day it came out. Flame On! timworthington.org/2025/08/03/i...

"Why is nobody watching Daredevil: Born Again?", asks newspaper that has spent the past six years whining about 'superhero fatigue'.

A long time before he started spending his Sundays singing hymns in the middle of dual carriageways, Harry Secombe spent almost the entire sixties heading the smash stage musical Pickwick - and I'm on @goonpod.bsky.social taking a look at this lost phenomenon... timworthington.org/2025/08/15/g...

Hammer's great lost funked-out Martial Arts meets down-at-heel gangsters soundtrack - available at last! Includes sleevenotes by me on the surprisingly complicated history of David Lindup's Shatter score. Find out more here... timworthington.org/2026/04/29/s...

Tim knows everything about telly, so this episode is one of the deepest dives we've done so far... We'll be back next month to finish season 3. See you soon! open.spotify.com/episode/5tT8...

It's an impenetrable eighties pop culture reference overload as I join @benbaker.bsky.social and @ricardoautobahn.co.uk on @alfsplaining.bsky.social for a look at ALF's battle to save his favourite television show from cancellation... timworthington.org/2024/10/21/a...

Before home video, the only way you really had of 'watching' Doctor Who again was listening to Tom Baker reading a Talking Book of that one with the space vampires - and it was introduced by some very peculiar music indeed... timworthington.org/2025/08/21/i...

The Larks Ascending - a history of comedy on BBC Radio 3. It's like a lost world of humour hidden away in the small print in Radio Times. Paperback (10% off code PRINTED10) or Kindle from here. timworthington.org/books/the-la...

‘People assume we’re grifters’: disabled Britons report rise in abuse over blue badges

Joanne Sheppard (@redskyatnight.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Deadpool 2 - but can we make it right the way through without being cancelled? timworthington.org/2025/08/27/i...

Night Shift - fantastic no-budget middle-of-the-night ITV filler where Colin Bennett went around doing Vox Pop interviews with security guards, hot dog vendors and assorted overnight workers. Low-effort television that ironically a lot of effort went into. timworthington.org/2025/09/12/l...

Available as 50th anniversary edition from @bigfinish.bsky.social www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/r...

Load Runner - bold attempt at creating 2000 AD/Eagle-style photostory-strewn comic for all comers in the early home computer boom, undermined only by strip action inevitably outstripping narrative depth of actual computer games of the era. timworthington.org/2025/09/12/l...

Did you know the Ghostbusters computer game was based on an aborted version of Car Wars game?

Car Wars - 2000 AD meets Haynes Manual perpetually expandable role playing game built around heavily armoured cars on interstate treks in a dystopian future where it's probably best to just let them overtake. Satirical basis possibly lost on teenage boys. timworthington.org/2025/09/12/l...

TV Tops - short-run putative channel-straddling non-compelling Look-In rival, notoriously home to a strip in which Kings Of The Wild Frontier-era Adam Ant was catapulted into deeply surreal post-Sapphire And Steel adventures pitting him against elemental forces. timworthington.org/2025/09/12/l...

Rebecca's World by Terry Nation - Alice In Marinus putative children's novel series-initiator from Dalek creator, developed in tandem with Davros and followed in short order by Survivors and Blake's 7; deceptive whimsy masking more menace then all three combined. timworthington.org/2025/09/12/l...

World Of The Vorgans - Barretts-proffered collectable picture card series sketching slow-motion narrative about IP-averting Posh Paws-esque alien dinosaur nobleman on some form of precarious diplomatic mission, given away with not yet verboten 'Sweet Cigarettes'. timworthington.org/2025/09/12/l...

Ste Brotherstone from Scarred For Life (@scarredforlife.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about World Of The Vorgans, Rebecca's World by Terry Nation, TV Tops, Car Wars, Load Runner, Night Shift and more...! timworthington.org/2025/09/12/l...

A look back at what was on television on those icy winter days late in 1966. Yes I know it's April. You'll understand why when you read it. timworthington.org/2025/09/15/t...

I went to see the Thunderbirds 4K restoration on the big screen and thought it looked fantastic... but didn't it *always* look fantastic? It also led me realise that Richard Herring invented two separate additional Tracy Brothers... timworthington.org/2025/09/23/f...

Mystery Train - deepest darkest Friday Night BBC2 shlock horror slot with a door-minding Richard O'Brien presiding over b-movie shockers, angular award-winning animations and episodes of Kolchak: The Night Stalker while waiting at Quatermass-adjacent Tube station. timworthington.org/2025/09/29/l...

Living In America is about as emptily trebly style over substance as the eighties got. It sounds somewhere between someone trying to set the taste of New Coke to music and James Brown pledging his allegiance to an ice cream van.

Juggernaut - ocean liner-boarding thriller approaching the Disaster Movie craze from entirely the wrong trajectory as a cast list worthy of a Toast Of London anecdote strive to defuse an oddly specific quantity of incendiary devices and Roy Kinnear's infinite gags. timworthington.org/2025/09/29/l...

Peter Mandelson should be in prison. He isn't. If that's not the point that's pressed first and foremost, all of this will happen again whether it's with somebody else or even with *him*.

Absolutely not saying nobody else should be held to account for all this, but Mandelson for the umpteenth time is the actual villain here and again for the umpteenth time seems to be wriggling out of it while everyone else is looking elsewhere. He should be in prison, and isn't.

Garry Abbott (@garryabbott.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about 'evil' Peter Parker's greasy-haired jazz piano antics in Spider-Man 3 - aptly named as it seems to be trying to be about three films at once, not all of which necessarily have Spider-Man in. timworthington.org/2025/03/02/i...

FREDDIE MERCURY: They call me Mister Fahrenheit! EDITOR: In America only. FREDDIE MERCURY: Sorry? EDITOR: The rest of the world they'd call you Mister Centigrade.

Can't Help Thinking About Me. Your key to Barnaby In The Sky With The BBC Schools Diamond, Mary, Mungo And Mindfulness and Cheggers Plays Zen. Paperback (10% off code PRINTED10) or Kindle from here. timworthington.org/books/cant-h...

Piece Of Cake- ironically-monickered ITV wartime drama of debatable planeage taking sudden sharp mid-series mid-air manoeuvre from 'bally'-spouting ballyhoo to tragically heroic derring-do to not inconsiderable of aircraft-fixated audience of adolescent boys. timworthington.org/2025/09/29/l...

It's a seven-decade saga that charts the changing fortunes of the very long desk, co-starring ashtrays, telephones, banquettes, pulpits, piano lids and an over-enthusiastic electric fan. My history of BBC election studio furniture: nearertotheend.co.uk/2026/04/25/b...

Rainbow Read-Along Books And Tapes - simplified blockbuster summaries for edification of anyone too young to get in to see a PG, toting bizarre juxtaposition of authentic music and effects and voices done by some bloke and his mates with jarring 'turn page' tones. timworthington.org/2025/09/29/l...

I stomped through the swamps of the Daily Mail’s Meghan coverage.

Must have been a different Melania Trump who wore a jacket reading "I Really Don't Care, Do You?" whilst inspecting a migrant detention centre.

Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor) by Abigail Mead And Nigel Goulding - schoolboy-enticing everyone else-annoying assembly of R. Lee Ermey's Kubrick-shepherded drill sergeant barks set to second unit director's idea of that new 'rap' music. timworthington.org/2025/09/29/l...

Adam S. Leslie (@adamsleslie.bsky.social) on Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor), Return Of The Jedi Read-Along Book And Tape, Michael Davies, Piece Of Cake, Juggernaut, Richard O'Brien's Mystery Train and more! timworthington.org/2025/09/29/l...

Once again, not a fan but considering the sheer volume of inquiries that shower of rats either refused to hold or refused to cooperate with, they have a fucking cheek and need to be reminded of that first and foremost.

The now available 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! timworthington.org/2025/10/03/w...

Good morning! Peace has been restored in the Big 60s Sort Out camp, as we both agree in the latest ep that Ray Charles was bloody brilliant! Listen now to find out why! pod.link/1531129636/e...

I recently had a chat about all three Deadpool films with @redskyatnight.bsky.social. Riotous fun but we *do* risk cancellation a couple of times... timworthington.org/2025/10/10/i...

The Golden Age Of Children's TV - the story of children's television from Play School and Pipkins to Pob's Programme and Press Gang and everything inbetween. timworthington.org/2025/10/23/t...

A look at one of the weirdest comic strips of all time as Josie And The Pussycats battle to exorcise a malevolent spirit intent on possessing their lead singer... timworthington.org/2025/10/26/t...

So I'm an archae, olo - you get the gist Looking for things that no longer exist Hoping they aren't just all bloody Scotch Mist One Foot In The Past

Just when I thought I could not be stopped When my chance came to be king The ghosts of my life Blow wilder than the wind

Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are back for a chat about how we used to 'do' Halloween and Bonfire Night. Don't pick up that dropped sparkler!! timworthington.org/2025/10/28/t...

Miriam Kent (@miriamkent.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Black Widow, a fun and thought-provokingly challenging movie that was dogged by delays caused by everything from lockdown to boardroom politics and has since been almost forgotten... timworthington.org/2024/09/26/i...

The Camberwick Green Procrastination Society. Imagine that timeslot first thing on a Saturday morning where they used to put all the gaudy quirky imported cartoons, only in a slightly more portable book form. Paperback or Kindle from here. timworthington.org/books/the-ca...

If you missed me on the radio on Halloween playing a nerve-jangling selection of little-heard spooky sixties hits - or if you were just too frightened to listen in the first place - here it is again... timworthington.org/2025/10/31/j...