Oh man, Car Wars. I remember buying that little set and one of the map pack books. I loved everything about it except the experience of actually playing it :) It my head it was a riot of dust and screeching; in reality it was moving 10" an hour and doing lots of trigonometry...

Really quite made up that this chat with Ste Brotherstone from @scarredforlife.bsky.social about World Of The Vorgans, Night Shift, Car Wars, TV Tops, Rebecca's World and Load Runner has gone down so well. It's here if you've not heard it yet! timworthington.org/2025/09/12/l...

That's the 2nd image of Guildford Cathedral to have crossed my timeline in less than 15 minutes.

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

Make sure you have a listen to Tim on to RHLSTP Book Club chatting with Richard Herring about his new book The Golden Age Of Children's TV - and here's definitive proof that Johnny Ball really *did* balance a gold bar on his back in Think Of A Number... timworthington.org/2025/05/17/r...

Just catching up with the latest @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social episode and I love that @outonbluesix.bsky.social mentions Flesh and Blood, the "answer" track to The Word Girl by Ranking Ann during the Cupid & Psyche '85 discussion. That track was way ahead of its time.

Wrap your ears around me being a guest on the @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social #podcast with @outonbluesix.bsky.social chatting about a Vesta culinary tour of the world- as long as you like beef- Fry’s Five Centres & the Go For Broke board game. timworthington.org/2025/04/01/l...

That would be this one! timworthington.org/2023/08/06/l...

I recorded a @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social about Catherine! She was a ghost in the upper girls toilets, she had hung herself there in the Victorian days or possibly 60s, if you said Catherine Catherine, 1 2 3 she would get you, possibly through the mirror. One girl had DEFINITELY seen her.

I covered this on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social but the episode where Sooty wished himself lifesize was *horrifying*

Just spent my morning walk laughing out loud listening to the latest @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social episode with @redskyatnight.bsky.social. I remembered Billy Butler on lunchtime TV as going around on a bike (Biking Butler) visiting random places a lunchtime show. Also Fax! and First Born.

@smershpod.bsky.social, @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social and @eggpod.bsky.social have got me through so many hours of sitting in Liverpool John Lennon and Ronaldsway airports. Thank you!

My parents turned up with a gift as I was listening to myself on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social in the kitchen. I'm sure they're big fans. (Oh, I'm on the Looks Unfamiliar Christmas Special btw, available wherever people arent sick of my sodding voice.)

Looking forward to listening to this Chrismas episode of @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social with @benbaker.bsky.social later pca.st/episode/865b...

Looks Unfamiliar (@looksunfamiliar.bsky.social) Tim Worthington and a host of guests spend an hour or so chatting about the things from our cultural past that might have slipped into the memory hole. Even when you do remember them, it's a good listen! timworthington.org/looksunfamil...

One of my presents this Christmas by @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social podcast host @outonbluesix.bsky.social looking forward to reading it

⭐️7: Looks Unfamiliar The walking, talking living doll of encyclopaedic tv history @outonbluesix.bsky.social chats with a guest about half forgotten shows, songs, books & more. Loved the recent episodes promoting the fab book The Golden Age of Children’s Television @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social

Here's me joining @goonpod.bsky.social for a chat about Billy Liar and the wider long-lost black and white world of Britain in the early sixties. How can something made before The Beatles even took off still have so much resonance? Join us and find out! timworthington.org/2024/12/30/g...

New! Stand back and marvel at Tiny Clanger's spectacular cosmic concerto in the last episode of Clangers... and at how it was actually one interstellar signal ahead of the real world 'Space Race'?? timworthington.org/2025/01/01/w...

More fun from the archives with Jonny Morris, Paul Kirkley and Darrell Maclaine on Looks Unfamiliar, a quest for the best commercially released version of the Play Away theme, and a look at BBC Schools show Music Time's animated version of Lieutenant Kije. timworthington.org/2025/01/06/t...

NEW! @bibilynch.bsky.social on Playbus, @regretteruane.bsky.social on Bric-A-Brac, @real-meaning.bsky.social on Press Gang, @iheartbigface.bsky.social on Ulysses 31 and @bobfischer.bsky.social on The Owl Service. timworthington.org/2025/01/06/t...

If @bibilynch.bsky.social was too old to be watching Playbus and didn't even like it anyway, why did she get so much of a shock watching the Why Bird Stop one day? Bear in mind it was even more of a shock than The Why Bird itself... timworthington.org/2025/01/06/t...

He got into them via tmbg's video podcasts for preschoolers that they made in the noughties, which hardly anyone knows about but I talked about on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4Gxv...

The very first ever Looks Unfamiliar, as Phil Catterall joins me for a chat about semi-canonical animated Star Wars spinoff Droids, the ZX Spectrum game based on The Untouchables, unwanted toy range Madballs' tie-in comic, Channel 4 youth show Wise Up! and more... timworthington.org/2017/09/08/l...

There's a chat in this about those hilariously effort-free adverts you used to get for Boxing Day sales at stores like MFI, Tommy Ball's and Johnson's, with a static image and semi-enthusiastic at best voiceover. What was your regional discount warehouse? timworthington.org/2023/12/24/t...

ITV SITCOM ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 1: The Dustbinmen Jack Rosenthal's Socialist Workerite refuse collectors mock-swearing about lack of tips and inevitability of encountering a woman called Mary with a baby during festive rounds. Postmodernity with bins. timworthington.org/2017/12/01/f...

This is what happened when I tried to watch a Christmas Special of a seventies or eighties ITV sitcom for every day of advent without completely losing it and hurling the entire lot at a blazing yule log. Fans of On The Buses, look away now... timworthington.org/2017/12/01/f...

I've longed for @georgyjamieson.bsky.social to be a guest on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social for a long, long time, and oh my word. She doesn't disappoint!! She has such comedy knowledge and infectious enthusiasm, she's brilliant.