Tim Worthington
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Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. TV's 'Clangers Expert'. timworthington.org
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New! Mitch Benn (
@mitchbenn.bsky.social
) joins me for a chat about How To Be A Complete Bastard by Adrian Edmondson, Space Sentinels, Maskatron, Imagination by 'Belouis' 'Some', Channel 4's launch previews, the revival of The Saint with Simon Dutton and more...
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Looks Unfamiliar: Mitch Benn – Argos Blade Runner
Looks Unfamiliar with Mitch Benn talking to Tim Worthington about Channel 4’s pre-launch trailers, Imagination by Belouis Some, Space Sentinels, Simon Dutton as The Saint, How To Be A Complet…
https://timworthington.org/2025/11/19/looks-unfamiliar-mitch-benn-argos-blade-runner/
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Sarah Dempster
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When I was just a little girl I asked my mother, what will I be Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? Here's what she said to me: No.
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Blimey, Madame Web is on Netflix. Skip to about thirty seven minutes in if you want to see if my assertion in this that there's a good twenty odd minutes where it actually turns into a halfway decent horror film is in any sense correct.
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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Madame Web With James Cooray Smith
James Cooray Smith joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Anya Corazón’s origin story somehow becoming Britney Spears’ origin story in Madame Web.
https://timworthington.org/2025/03/17/its-good-except-it-sucks-madame-web-with-james-cooray-smith/
about 5 hours ago
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Really looking forward to Doctor Who And The Jocks And The Geordies.
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Steve Williams
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This was an absolute revelation at the time, absolutely stuffed with things I'd never seen, beautifully compiled
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Fun At One - the story of comedy at BBC Radio 1. If you spent your evenings listening to Mark Radcliffe, Lee And Herring and Collins And Maconie's Hit Parade, this book is for you! Paperback (30% off code GIFT30) or Kindle from here.
timworthington.org/books/fun-at...
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Fun At One
Fun At One by Tim Worthington – the story of comedy at BBC Radio 1, from Kenny Everett to Chris Morris and beyond.
https://timworthington.org/books/fun-at-one/
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The Wizard Of Speed And Time - orientation-troubling satire slash love story slash just plain wilful oddness about a special effects, well, wizard's determination to get his movie about a man running across America very very fast against the wishes of the industry.
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It's a shame that streaming has left little room for the sort of curated genre-specific compilations of obscurities that were tailor made for CD, like this collection of hapless sixties pop hopefuls playing at being 'psychedelic'...
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Adam And Joe's Fourmative Years - where Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish take a trip through Channel 4's archives - is exactly how you should do a clip show. Context, jokes, rarely seen footage and honesty about the quality or otherwise of the shows themselves.
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Lydia Mizon joins me for a chat about Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray, Smashie And Nicey: The End Of An Era, Adam And Joe's XFM Podcast, Through The Dragon’s Eye, Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia by Cuban Boys and more...
timworthington.org/2024/03/03/l...
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Looks Unfamiliar: Lydia Mizon – There Was Real Peril And Also Vowels And Consonants
Looks Unfamiliar with Lydia Mizon talking to Tim Worthington about Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray, Smashie And Nicey: The End Of An Era, The Adam And Joe XFM Podcast, Forklift Driver Klaus – …
https://timworthington.org/2024/03/03/looks-unfamiliar-lydia-mizon-there-was-real-peril-and-also-vowels-and-consonants/
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What makes a really good ending? I think I know, and here are ten of my favourites...
timworthington.org/2019/07/20/h...
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Hang On A Minute Lads, I’ve Got A Great Idea…
How to do an ending properly – with ten of the films, television shows and, erm, Teletext Services that got it exactly right.
https://timworthington.org/2019/07/20/hang-on-a-minute-lads-ive-got-a-great-idea/
about 14 hours ago
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Fun At One - the story of comedy at BBC Radio 1. If you spent your evenings listening to Mark Radcliffe, Lee And Herring and Collins And Maconie's Hit Parade, this book is for you! Paperback (30% off code GIFT30) or Kindle from here.
timworthington.org/books/fun-at...
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Fun At One
Fun At One by Tim Worthington – the story of comedy at BBC Radio 1, from Kenny Everett to Chris Morris and beyond.
https://timworthington.org/books/fun-at-one/
about 9 hours ago
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The Wizard Of Speed And Time - orientation-troubling satire slash love story slash just plain wilful oddness about a special effects, well, wizard's determination to get his movie about a man running across America very very fast against the wishes of the industry.
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
about 9 hours ago
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It's a shame that streaming has left little room for the sort of curated genre-specific compilations of obscurities that were tailor made for CD, like this collection of hapless sixties pop hopefuls playing at being 'psychedelic'...
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
about 10 hours ago
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Scarred For Life
about 11 hours ago
PLAY CHESS appeared in the BBC's Christmas 1980 morning schedules with an unfathomably menacing (though beautiful) title sequence. It's got real 'old-school Soviet' vibes.
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Adam And Joe's Fourmative Years - where Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish take a trip through Channel 4's archives - is exactly how you should do a clip show. Context, jokes, rarely seen footage and honesty about the quality or otherwise of the shows themselves.
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
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Ricardo Autobahn
about 12 hours ago
Three cheers to Lydia for celebrating the Cuban Boys when nobody else does. Our star burnt blindingly brightly but only for about a fortnight.
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Lydia Mizon joins me for a chat about Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray, Smashie And Nicey: The End Of An Era, Adam And Joe's XFM Podcast, Through The Dragon’s Eye, Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia by Cuban Boys and more...
timworthington.org/2024/03/03/l...
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Looks Unfamiliar: Lydia Mizon – There Was Real Peril And Also Vowels And Consonants
Looks Unfamiliar with Lydia Mizon talking to Tim Worthington about Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray, Smashie And Nicey: The End Of An Era, The Adam And Joe XFM Podcast, Forklift Driver Klaus – …
https://timworthington.org/2024/03/03/looks-unfamiliar-lydia-mizon-there-was-real-peril-and-also-vowels-and-consonants/
about 12 hours ago
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Al Kennedy
about 23 hours ago
If you know me, and I mean, like, at all, you know that I have a pretty high tolerance for bad media. Poor movies, comics, TV, all that. So you know things must be bad when you know I'm sitting here at twenty five to one in the morning watching Alien vs Predator
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What makes a really good ending? I think I know, and here are ten of my favourites...
timworthington.org/2019/07/20/h...
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Hang On A Minute Lads, I’ve Got A Great Idea…
How to do an ending properly – with ten of the films, television shows and, erm, Teletext Services that got it exactly right.
https://timworthington.org/2019/07/20/hang-on-a-minute-lads-ive-got-a-great-idea/
about 14 hours ago
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Well At Least It's Free - my first collection of writing, including some at-the-time reactions to Russell T Davies' Doctor Who and the booklet from the unreleased Hardwicke House DVD. Paperback (30% off code GIFT30) or Kindle from here!
timworthington.org/books/well-a...
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Well At Least It’s Free
Well At Least It’s Free by Tim Worthington – a collection of columns and features including more than you imagined anyone would need to know about the books on that shelf behind Bagpuss…
https://timworthington.org/books/well-at-least-its-free/
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Another huge influence on me - a small scale fanzine with big design ambitions, but more importantly the first place that I had seen something as mundane as television production treated like it had a story to tell. Also Andrew Pixley's first venture!
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Still haunted by the story in this -
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- about seeing a live touring version of Bullseye on Christmas Day with Jim Bowen in no mood to host it and not caring if the festively tipsy audience knew it...
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As we're already starting to get a few decorations in shops - and also starting to get people complaining about it - here's me, Bob and Georgy on some of the old-skool - and indeed old *school* - signs that Christmas was on its way...
timworthington.org/2023/12/24/t...
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The Looks Unfamiliar Local Radio Countdown To Christmas: Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson – Hot Girl-On-Pudsey Action
In a special festive edition, Tim, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are all crowding into a paper chain-strewn local radio studio ready to take your calls and chat about some of the signs that Chris…
https://timworthington.org/2023/12/24/the-looks-unfamiliar-local-radio-countdown-to-christmas-bob-fischer-and-georgy-jamieson-hot-girl-on-pudsey-action/
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We really didn't know how lucky we were with radio comedy in the early nineties, with Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and Lee And Herring up to all kinds of nonsense on several BBC Radio stations at once. Here's an attempt at explaining how great it was.
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Looks Unfamiliar: Phil Catterall – It’s Like A Choose Your Own Adventure Of News
Looks Unfamiliar with Phil Catterall talking to Tim Worthington about the Christmas Specials of On The Hour, The Chris Morris Music Show and Lee And Herring. Merry Christmas!
https://timworthington.org/2019/12/16/looks-unfamiliar-christmas-extra-its-like-a-choose-your-own-adventure-of-news/
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Well At Least It's Free - my first collection of writing, including some at-the-time reactions to Russell T Davies' Doctor Who and the booklet from the unreleased Hardwicke House DVD. Paperback (30% off code GIFT30) or Kindle from here!
timworthington.org/books/well-a...
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Well At Least It’s Free
Well At Least It’s Free by Tim Worthington – a collection of columns and features including more than you imagined anyone would need to know about the books on that shelf behind Bagpuss…
https://timworthington.org/books/well-at-least-its-free/
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Another huge influence on me - a small scale fanzine with big design ambitions, but more importantly the first place that I had seen something as mundane as television production treated like it had a story to tell. Also Andrew Pixley's first venture!
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
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Where's the *atmosphere* in New Bullseye? It's like the audience think they're in a school assembly.
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Still haunted by the story in this -
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
- about seeing a live touring version of Bullseye on Christmas Day with Jim Bowen in no mood to host it and not caring if the festively tipsy audience knew it...
1 day ago
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As we're already starting to get a few decorations in shops - and also starting to get people complaining about it - here's me, Bob and Georgy on some of the old-skool - and indeed old *school* - signs that Christmas was on its way...
timworthington.org/2023/12/24/t...
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The Looks Unfamiliar Local Radio Countdown To Christmas: Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson – Hot Girl-On-Pudsey Action
In a special festive edition, Tim, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are all crowding into a paper chain-strewn local radio studio ready to take your calls and chat about some of the signs that Chris…
https://timworthington.org/2023/12/24/the-looks-unfamiliar-local-radio-countdown-to-christmas-bob-fischer-and-georgy-jamieson-hot-girl-on-pudsey-action/
1 day ago
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We really didn't know how lucky we were with radio comedy in the early nineties, with Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and Lee And Herring up to all kinds of nonsense on several BBC Radio stations at once. Here's an attempt at explaining how great it was.
timworthington.org/2019/12/16/l...
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Looks Unfamiliar: Phil Catterall – It’s Like A Choose Your Own Adventure Of News
Looks Unfamiliar with Phil Catterall talking to Tim Worthington about the Christmas Specials of On The Hour, The Chris Morris Music Show and Lee And Herring. Merry Christmas!
https://timworthington.org/2019/12/16/looks-unfamiliar-christmas-extra-its-like-a-choose-your-own-adventure-of-news/
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Always loved how the video for Love And Pride by King appears to take place in a 2000AD-inspired post-apocalyptic landscape where there is nonetheless free and limitless access to a trading bloc-sized quantity of hairspray.
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Chris Webb
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“Elise”
2 days ago
One day, if you’re all very good, I’ll tell you what it was like to be the only kid in primary school with the Rednex CD-ROM computer game.
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Music for that other room in the student union that the girls off your course you only knew by sight danced into in a sort of Bacardi Breezer-hoisting rave conga line.
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In our house we used to go 'SCHWSSSSSS' very loudly as a sort of witty parody of the phasing on Never Ending Story. You had to make your own entertainment in those days.
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I Feel For You straddles about eight different mid-eighties genres at once and still sounds like it was recorded yesterday.
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ARE WE BEING SET UP?
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Shakin' Stevens with Here's To The Future off Doctor Who And The Delta And The Bannermen.
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Matt Owen
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Sir Prancelot
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Why's Murray Head come dressed for a series one edition of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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I'm not sure there are electric eyes that you *can* ignore.
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Now The Human League are borrowing a synth from the Orm And Cheep theme.
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In Sentences I Never Thought I'd Hear Myself Saying news, this isn't actually as good as the Bruce Willis version, is it.
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“Elise”
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Is “brining” a typo or a suggestive reference to The Land and The Sea?
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Justin Lewis
2 days ago
Probably will advertise the book during this one.
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Bizarrely we had to study Hard Habit To Break for Music GCSE. From a book of Chicago sheet music with a photo of them on the front that looked like the Neighbours cast photo from the BBC1 continuity slide.
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Something Outa Nothing really was based very closely on Warning Sign, wasn't it.,#totp
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Warning Sign is brilliant apart from that guitar apparently on loan from the Take The High Road theme.
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Paul Bassett Davies
2 days ago
Keeping things low-key with my Christmas tree this year. No lights, no decorations. Also it’s not in my house. It’s somewhere in a forest, probably, so I’ll just leave it there and think about it occasionally.
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