122 - Mic Wright - This Is The Kind Of Thing You Do Not Get From Jane Fonda

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Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is journalist Mic Wright, who’s rummaging around in a crisp bag in search of Cargo by Men At Work, Rocko's Modern Life, Party Animals, Solitary Fitness by Charles Bronson and Tazos. Along the way we'll be discussing how to avoid Ebeneezer Goode Syndrome, ruminating on The Thinking Man's Pog, trying to swap a duplicate Michael Parkinson Tazo for three Matt Smiths and revealing just how close Tupac Shakur came to appearing in Ballykissangel.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Mic on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Adventures Of Pete And Pete, Army And Navy Sweets, Emergency by 999, Rock On by David Essex, Thunderbirds comic and the murky origins of a certain unsavoury playground rumour here and I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape by The Times, Clarissa Explains It All, 2000 AD strip Nikolai Dante, Sharky And George, Jeff Lint and The Game here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not buy us a coffee here? I'd say they should do a Kenco Tazo, but... it would probably logistically have to be a set based on Tenko.

The Looks Unfamiliar Horror Bag - Steve Berry - Frankenstein's Monster Ice Lolly Face Disappears When Ice Lolly Removed From Packet

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time for a suitably spooky chat is writer Steve Berry, who’s hoping to dazzle the crowds at the village hall Halloween Disco with his knowledge of Words And Pictures' Witches Of Halloween, Smiths Horror Bags and Vincent Price's ill-fittingly horror-themed adverts for MB Games. Along the way we’ll be questioning Richard Herring's historical sources for the story of St. Ian, asking Wittgenstein if he'd like a Dracula's Deadly Secret, pitching a combined biography of Henry Woolf, Wolfe Morris and Gabriel Woolf, estimating how many copies of MB Games' Voice Of The Mummy were piled up at Neverland Ranch and trying to work out exactly where a 'VHS Fonz' fits in to the Classic Horror tradition.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at timworthington.org. You can also find Steve on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Single Versions Of Pop Songs That Never Get Played Any More, Elastoplast Heroes, United States Of Television, Skoal Bandits, Starblazer Electronic Space Command Belt and Morning Has Broken here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. They never did find a way of making it Dracula-themed. But you can bet they tried.

121 - Donna Rees – Michael Palin Is Almost Like A Suit

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is actor Donna Rees, who's hoping that the double groove will land on eerie ITV children's serial King Of The Castle, The Monty Python Matching Tie And Handkerchief, The Innes Book Of Records and early seventies romantic teen comedy Melody. Along the way we'll be revealing why The Milky Bar Kid is more attractive when 'in space', pouring scorn on Nigel Farage's prowess as a long-haulage lorry driver, lamenting the loss of a shed autographed by Eric Idle and revealing what happens if you tell a Starbucks barista your name is 'Throat-Wobbler Mangrove'...

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not buy us a coffee here? Presumably the presenter of 'Coffee Club' will be entirely saWUARGHFP*SPLONSH*

120 - Danny Kodicek – The Bergerac-Pullover Crossover

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is actor Danny Kodicek, who’s listening well to Grandpa Fox's stories of Fox Tales, Pullover, Simon Bates doing a live action version of Our Tune as part of Good Morning With Anne And Nick, Radio 5 youth shows WICR and Brassic and defunct puzzle website Time Hunt. Along the way - after we've finished taking a look behind the scenes at The Saturday Show - we'll be revisiting Jamiroquai's duet with some puppet caterpillars, hunting for the Bootleg Pullover Millions and recalling the epochal cultural impact of 'Terry' from Grange Hill.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not buy us a coffee here? Make sure not to pick up Ronni Ancona's double espresso by mistake.

The Looks Unfamiliar Summertime Special: Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson - Why Would Anyone Want To Eat A Foot-Shaped Ice Cream?

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

This time, in a special summer edition, Tim, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are all crowding into a sweltering local radio studio with only a lone copy of the Capital Radio DJs' Dot Cotton and Thatcher impression-led parody cover of The Holiday Rap by MC Miker G And DJ Sven to hand, ready to take your calls about some of the seaside tat and summer holiday boredom that - perhaps thankfully - you just don't seem to get any more. So that's morning television being full of crackly old repeated imports and Why Don't You...?, Breakfast Television insisting on presenting daily roving 'saucy' reports from seaside towns, everyone watching the tennis and cricket coverage for the theme music and then switching off, the Radio 1 Roadshow, badly-planned interminable car journeys to rain-lashed resorts, those weird shops that sold plastic fishing nets and fold-up aviator shades and arcades that had one lone solitary 'Space Invaders' machine, the newsagent wheeling out that big freezer for another summer of rivalry between Wall's and Lyons Maid and much more besides. In a drizzly heatwave of a chat we'll be speculating on the efficacy of Kiss-Me-Quick-Hats sported by popular television puppets, searching for Ian Botham's constantly moving speakeasy, visiting the Motorway Service Station Mirror Universe, revisiting the BBC's 'Summer Apes' Season, celebrating the work of the Gary Davies Elvis fairground artist, despairing of the rival rivalries between Mr. Freeze and Ice Pops and The Halfwits and The Dingbats, revealing why all ice cream vans have an army of Mods in hot pursuit, organising a day trip to the exact spot where Roland Rat pushed Kevin The Gerbil down a hill, going to see Confessions Of A Ventriloquist starring Robin Askwith and Richard Herring, not staring at Erika Roe on an on-the-spot report live from a joke shop and debating whether summer is ever truly summer if you haven't spent the entirety of it throwing a tennis ball against a wall. Call in and tell us the most you've ever won on a 'one-armed bandit' now!

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Bob and Georgy on Looks Unfamiliar taking a look at some of their favourite forgotten Christmas trimmings here as well as Bob on The Tom O’Connor Roadshow, Giant Hogweed, Can’t Get A Ticket (For The World Cup) by Peter Dean, Glee Bars, J. Edward Oliver’s ‘Abolish Tuesdays’ and How To Be A Wally here, Eighties ‘Tabloid Celebrities’, Accidentally Kelly Street by Frente!, The Two Ronnies’ ‘Mileaway’, Rude Food, Suggs On Saturday and School Folk Songs here and Tucker’s Luck, Pookiesnackenburger, We Wanna Be Famous by Buster Gobsmack And Eats Filth’, game show contestants’ occupations being booed by the studio audience and the lost ancient art of the paper plate and shaving foam Custard Pie here, and Georgy on Indoor League, Re-Joyce!, the The Animals In The Box sketch, the Paul Squire Fan Club, Pippa Dolls, Pig In The Middle and Good Winter Telly here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. In a mug large enough to spare Erika Roe's modesty please.

119 - JUSTIN LEWIS - I PROLONGED J.R.

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is writer Justin Lewis, who's hanging a sign on the back of his car to confirm that he remembers I Hate J.R. by The Wurzels, The Uncyclopedia Of Rock, Friends by The Police, Philip Glass' Sesame Street composition Geometry Of Circles, Walk Right Through by Raissa, Nicholas And The Gang by Rene Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé and Very Hard Questions. Along the way we'll be celebrating Michael Nyman's Pac-Man High Score, debunking the Great Andy Summers Video Nasty Hoax, remaking the Bitter Sweet Symphony video with the bloke out of The Wurzels, soliciting The Jesus And Mary Chain's theories on Who Shot J.R.? and finally revealing just how many biscuits Elon Musk is actually entitled to.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Justin on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Neither Fish Nor Flesh by Terence Trent D’Arby, In One Ear, The London Symphony Orchestra version of Tommy, Orbit, Pop Score and the Welsh Language dubbed version of Trumpton here and the original Only Fools And Horses theme tune, Anglo American by Golden, The Rock Year Book, Joy by Isaac Hayes, Thomas, Stand In Line by Impelliteri, Selwyn and the Glamorgan Tiles advert here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not buy us a coffee here? We are unclear on whether Andy Summers likes to drinks it.

118 - PAUL ABBOTT - DON'T MAKE A PUPPY A STAGE MANAGER

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is musician Paul Abbott, who's trying to line up the circular pencil mark fragments to make up coherent images of Disneytime Rotadraw, What Shall We Do Now?: Fun And Games With The Andrex Puppy, Trivial Pursuit origin story drama Breaking All The Rules, Tomorrow's World demonstrating Magic Eye pictures live on air, BBC promotional mascot Kirky The HD Hunter, Frog Dreaming and Waddingtons' The Vampire Game. Along the way we'll be keeping an eye out for E.T.'s movie cameos in a cork-rimmed hat, explaining how television peaked with Eve Myles time-travelling into an eighties videotaped studio drama, examining the controversial genre of 'Andrex Hauntology', assessing the best way to draw TV's Simon And Simon and very specifically not asking for Michael Parkinson's thoughts on the Magic Eye phenomenon. Plus there's tips on how Blanco from Porridge can help your party go with a swing!

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Paul on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Zeeb And The Martians, Crab E. Crab, Rock Lords: Narlies, the Commodore Plus/4, and The Late Night Funster Show here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not buy us a coffee here? In a special Looks Unfamiliar Magic Eye mug where if you concentrate for long enough, you can see... I don't know, a Pyramint or something? Sort of.

117 - Genevieve Jenner - It Was The Nineties, Things Were Happening With Fruits

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is writer Genevieve Jenner, who's tilting the high school soda vending machine in search of any trace of The Hilarious House Of Frightenstein, What A Way To Go! and karmically aware soft drink Fruitopia. Along the way we'll be debating whether Count Chocula is an appropriate breakfast option for 'special occasions', critically assessing Michael Powell's Xtro, shuddering at the thought of The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow's most repulsive exhibit and and revealing why the hippy trail is strewn with striking dustbins, cough medicine and Crown Court.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Genevieve on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Boomerang, Over The Top, Bossa Nova, Thorazine Shuffle by Bongos Bass And Bob, Wizard’s Hall by Jane Yolen and OK Soda here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. No there is no way in which it can be improved by Fruitopia.

116 - ADAM S. LESLIE - AT ANY POINT IN ANY DAY CHANNEL 4 MIGHT BE PRANKING YOU

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is novelist and screenwriter Adam S. Leslie, who's fiddling with the radio in the hope of picking up stray mysterious signals containing evidence of Maths-In-A-Box, I Heard Your Name by Martin Rev, Noble And Silver: Get Off Me!, The Great Reality TV Swindle, Codename MAT and 1, 2, 3 And Away!. Along the way we'll be encountering a Folk Horror Sean Maguire, listening to a 1970s heroin-y version of They Might Be Giants, recalling your school's 'Special Space Treat Day' and arguing over whether the best Catatonia album was the first one or the first one.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. If bloody Codename MAT doesn't zap the mug out of space first.

115 - SUZY ROBINSON - WAS LIMAHL EVER COOL?

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is writer and soprano Suzy Robinson, who's pressing the Magic Button in the hope of conjuring up recollections of Crown Court, Now That's What I Call Music! 4, Nicol Williamson's reading of The Hobbit, Floodtide and Gus Honeybun's Magic Birthdays. Along the way we'll be finding out how Morten Harket accidentally ended up in Dorking, writing in to Stanley Spencer's Magic Birthdays, revealing when BBC Test Card F might actually be your less terrifying viewing option and debating whether J.R.R. Tolkien's prose is better enhanced by deeply ingrained record scratches or by Bernard Cribbins banging his head on the studio ceiling.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Or you could write in to Gus Honeybun, I suppose, but even though he almost certainly had his own branded mugs where the transfer came off the first time you washed them, I severely doubt he had his own Magic Birthdays Roast.

THE BEST OF LOOKS UNFAMILIAR - HE ALSO ATE A LOT OF TEXAN BARS

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

This is a collection of highlights from Looks Unfamiliar featuring Lydia Mizon on Smashie And Nicey - The End Of An Era, Katy Brent on Global Hypercolor, Tim Worthington on Wonderwall by The Mike Flowers Pops and the BBC Pinocchio, Ricardo Autobahn on the Panther 6, Mitch Benn on BusyBodies, Joanne Sheppard on The Water Babies and Spine Chillers, Phil Norman on Spy Trap and Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson an dancing reindeer and school recorder ensembles. Along the way we'll be revealing how to avoid getting caught literally Global Hypercolor-handed, averting a Radio Times listing for Starved Robin Askwith, questioning why Richard Herring never has sports cars as guests on RHLSTP, debating the plural of ‘A Ghost Story For Christmas’ and querying the value of using Rentaghost as a sort of all-purpose philosophical yardstick.

You can find the full versions of all of these shows and lots more editions of Looks Unfamiliar besides at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. One of those chains probably even does a Texan Bar Latte. For National Patrick Mower week or something. If there isn't one, there ought to be,

114 - RICARDO AUTOBAHN - HE WAS NOT KNOWN FOR HIS BENDINESS ALL THINGS CONSIDERED

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is musician Ricardo Autobahn, who's studying radio signals from Melmac in the hope of finding any trace of Pull The Other One, the Pink Panther Bar, late seventies 'Car Of Tomorrow' the Panther 6, Hot Wheels Crack-Ups, ZX Spectrum game Explorer, Inside The Magic Rectangle by Victor Lewis-Smith, I Live In A Giant Mushroom by Eric The Gardener, sentient automobile horror movie The Car, The Sooty Show episode Fun Being Small and the long-lost genre of 'Thunderclap Pop'. Along the way we'll be debating how much boggling should appear in the opening titles of any self-respecting ITV sitcom, questioning why Richard Herring never has sports cars as guests on RHLSTP, trying to figure out how 'Star Wars on land' might work and vigorously disputing Pob's influence on eighties chart pop.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. 

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. If they've finally synthesised some sort of Pink Panther Bar-flavoured syrup then that would not go amiss either.

113 - JOANNE SHEPPARD - A SPEAKING WALL FOR OUR TIMES

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is book reviewer Joanne Sheppard, who's putting a little bit in to get a little bit out of remembering 'keep fit'-themed magazine show Go For It!, Frank Muir's What-A-Mess, My Little Pony ancestor My Pretty Pony, John Carradine's The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, The Water Babies, The Magnificent Race, Amazon Adventure by Willard Price and Snapper Crocodiles. Along the way we'll be finding out how bending up and down while holding the back of a chair can make you the next Steve Ovett, meeting Frank Muir 'making friends', critically evaluating The Vintage Car Cinematic Universe and assessing just how useful My Little Pony would be for hand to hand combat, as well as debating Danny Kendall's hidden influence on modern society and culture.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Joanne talking about The December Rose, Colorado Beetle paranoia, Brontosaurus, Will You Wait For Me? by David Bellamy, Timbuctoo, KP Wickers, The Enchanted Castle, Major Morgan The Electronic Organ and Wilderness Roadhere, The Bump by MC Mallett, Horror Chews, The Strange Affair Of Adelaide Harris, Matchbox Fighting Furies, Mouthtrap, Connoisseur, World Magazine, All Aboard! and The Guinness Book Of Pet Records here and Dramarama: The Exorcism Of Amy, Spine Chillers, Blue Peter’s Witch Puppet Make, Monsters Of The Movies by Denis Gifford, Nothing To Be Afraid Of by Jan Mark, Paperhouse, Dekker Toys’ Movie/TV Horror Make-Up Kit and Remus Playkits Identispook here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Please note this does not include any that Hal and Roger Hunt have 'liberated' from natives on their Fairtrade-averting 'Coffee Adventure'.

112 - LYDIA MIZON - THERE WAS REAL PERIL AND ALSO VOWELS AND CONSONANTS

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is QI Elf Lydia Mizon, who's pushing the lever marked Let's Rock on Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray, Smashie And Nicey: The End Of An Era, The Adam And Joe XFM Podcast, Forklift Driver Klaus - The First Day On The Job, Look And Read: Through The Dragon's Eye and Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia by The Cuban Boys. Along the way we'll gauging the optimal moment to set off a fire alarm during Father Ted, accusing Posh Spice of smelling like your nan, discussing why bad dangers should not be allowed anywhere near the Mobile Spice Phone and debating who would 'win' out of Ricardo Autobahn and Cliff Richard.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Lydia talking about Stoppit And Tidyup, Fervour, Alphabet Castle, Roseanne And The Magic Mirror, Party Mania and a book about Lydia who hated cress here and Look Around You, Mongrels, Karma Hotel by Spooks, The Smurfs Go Pop!, Lift Off, Secret Agent: The Hunt For Red Rock Rover, Math Rescue, Ceefax Backchat and 4-Tel MegaZine here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. In one of those heat-activated Spice World mugs where they all moved very very slightly apart from Mel B, please.

THE LOOKS UNFAMILIAR LOCAL RADIO COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS: BOB FISCHER AND GEORGY JAMIESON – HOT GIRL-ON-PUDSEY ACTION

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

This time, 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 Christmas was coming that you just don't seem to get any more. So that's Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson being used to back every single local news feature, School Christmas Fairs, weird decorations that were still in use long past their cultural sell-by date, Advent Calendars with no chocolate but plenty of pictures of Shepherds sort of leaning sideways a bit, the toy pages in 'The Catalogue', the bitter rivalry between the Christmas double issues of Radio Times and TV Times, Channel 4 flinging out angular festive fare like Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, festive replacements for the BBC Globe, The Middlesborough Methodist Tableau and much more besides. In a crammed Christmas Cracker of chat we'll be debating the physics of those big televisions with shutters on them, stressing the need for a Loose Cannon reconstruction of Bob's drawing of a Lord 'a'Leaping', attempting to beat Carol Vorderman at Yuletide Maths, deploring the steady stream of one-shoed shoplifters hopping out of Bobby Cannon's, refuting any and every suggestion that clowns have any business being anywhere near anything to do with Christmas, exploring the financial potential of an Advent Calendar with Willie Rushton behind every single door and querying the value of using Rentaghost as a sort of all-purpose philosophical yardstick. Call in and donate some 'Canned Goods' now!

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Bob on Looks Unfamiliar chatting about The Tom O’Connor Roadshow, Giant Hogweed, Can’t Get A Ticket (For The World Cup) by Peter Dean, Glee Bars, J. Edward Oliver’s ‘Abolish Tuesdays’ and How To Be A Wally here, Eighties ‘Tabloid Celebrities’, Accidentally Kelly Street by Frente!, The Two Ronnies’ ‘Mileaway’, Rude Food, Suggs On Saturday and School Folk Songs here and  Tucker’s Luck, Pookiesnackenburger, We Wanna Be Famous by Buster Gobsmack And Eats Filth’, game show contestants’ occupations being booed by the studio audience and the lost ancient art of the paper plate and shaving foam Custard Pie here, and Georgy on Indoor League, Re-Joyce!, the The Animals In The Box sketch, the Paul Squire Fan Club, Pippa Dolls, Pig In The Middle and Good Winter Telly here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. If the 'Chocolate Train' calls at your stop you get a Mocha. Sorry, it's the rules.

THE LOOKS UNFAMILIAR POPS PRESENT: TIM WORTHINGTON – WHEN THESE ANIMAL MEN DO THE THEME FROM CHARLIE CHALK I’LL BE IMPRESSED

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

This time Tim’s joining guest host Garreth Hirons for a festively-tinged chat about unlikely Christmas Hit and possibly the most mid-nineties artefact there is, the CD Single of Wonderwall by The Mike Flowers Pops. Along the way we'll be revisiting Andrew Collins' superhero origin story. averting the musical equivalent of Shovelware, and revealing why Lou Reed has never seen a chicken in any degree of proximity to a road but still finds the thought of it getting to the other side hilarious.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.You can also find Tim and Garreth chatting about I Was Born On Christmas Day by Saint Etienne Featuring Tim Burgess, Ferrero Prestige, Bod’s Present, A Merry Jingle by The Greedies, Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion by Jenny T. Colgan, Mariah Carey’s rendition of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, Richard Herring’s Christmas Emergency Questions, Iron Man 3 (which is a Christmas Film), Joe 90 Christmas Special The Unorthodox Shepherd and Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re A Lovely Guy) by Max Headroom here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Even if backbeat the word on the street is that the fire in your heart is out, I'm sure the kettle's still working.

111 - PHIL NORMAN - A MILKSHAKE FOR ROBERT ELMS

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is writer Phil Norman, who's swinging by the sweat room for some punishment with Pertwee in the hope of finding any trace of BBC junior science show Over The Moon, Amityville (The House On The Hill) by Lovebug Starski, I Am The Cheese by Robert Cormier, WFLA Milkshake, Children's BBC game show Spy Trap, educational textbook Mediamind, The Black Tower, Soul Train by Swans Way and Paul And Peta Page's 'Hot Dogs'. Along the way we'll be charting the rise and fall of 'Frisps Chic', assessing the commercial viability of a Hauntological Space Hopper, speculating on whether Derek Griffiths' vocal extemporisations were a coded warning about AI, listening to Morrissey's Classic Horror Impressions and trying to determine the difference between a Home Bargains Morph and Bloke Who Stands Next To The Genie.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Phil talking about S-S-S-Single Bed by Fox, Leapfrog, The Country Life Christmas Box, Humrush by KMD, Body Contact, Oscar The Rabbit In Rubbidge, Erasmus Microman and Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humpe And Find True Happiness? here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Unfortunately as there's no 'U' in WFLA there's not really any opportunity for a Looks Unfamiliar-related 'wacky' acronym but that's a milkshake anyway.

110 - KATY BRENT - I'VE NEVER BEEN THOUGH BECAUSE SPIDERS

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is novelist Katy Brent, who's scouring 'the market' for any trace of Round The Twist, Ewoks, Global Hypercolor, Boglins, Out Of This World, Defenders Of The Earth and Garbage Pail Kids. Along the way we'll be discussing the ethical ramifications of a relationship founded on the Round The Twist theme, debating the plural of Those Spidery Octopus Things That Rolled Down Windows, revealing how to avoid getting caught literally Global Hypercolor-handed and estimating the street value of Corroded Charlie and his likely effect on the plot development of any further series of The Wire.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. In a heat-activated colour-changing mug, obviously. But without telltale handprints.

DOCTOR WHO AND THE LOOKS UNFAMILIAR: TIM WORTHINGTON – THE MOST ‘WOOD’ ANYTHING COULD POSSIBLY BE

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

This time Tim's the guest, celebrating sixty years of Doctor Who by joining Paul Abbott for a chat about Pickwick Talking Books' Doctor Who: State Of Decay, the 1978 BBC version of Pinocchio, Doctor Who: Variations On A Theme, Jon Pertwee radio serials The Paradise Of Death and The Ghosts Of N-Space, the Doctor Who stage musical The Ultimate Adventure, Billie Piper's turn in The Sally Lockhart Mysteries, forgotten mid-sixties regular character Katarina, David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing, Jodie Whittaker's introductory mini-episode Meet The Thirteenth Doctor, that time a Dalek turned up on the BBC Schools programme W.A.L.R.U.S. and Doctor Who: The Interactive Electronic Board Game. Along the way we'll be pondering the difference between a Square CD and a 'Square' CD, attempting to steer a 90Mph Dalek, averting a Radio Times listing for Starved Robin Askwith, evaluating a proper professional synthesiser against one demonstrated by 'the man' in Tandy and securing Jon Pertwee's autograph only upside down.

You can find further appearances by Tim as the guest on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Only Way by Lisa Stansfield, The Brain, Jackanory's live action adaptation of Starstormers, a Public Information Film about boat safety, I Was Made To Love Magic by Nick Drake, Secrets From The School Underground, Skyman and Rubovia here, Stop-Go!, It’s A Shame by Kris Kross, Spider-Woman, I Wanted To See You To See If I Wanted You by Moose, The ITV Encyclopedia Of Adventure, The Young Poisoner’s Handbook, the original version of Right Here by SWV and Radio Tip Top here, California Fever, Galloping Galaxies!, Bad Ronald, In-Flight Entertainment, The Chronicles Of Narmo by Caitlin Moran, Pirate Radio Four, The Collings And Herrin Podcast and What’s That Noise? here, I Was Born On Christmas Day by Saint Etienne Featuring Tim Burgess, Ferrero Prestige, Bod’s Present, A Merry Jingle by The Greedies, Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion by Jenny T. Colgan, Mariah Carey’s rendition of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, Richard Herring’s Christmas Emergency Questions, Iron Man 3, Joe 90 Christmas Special The Unorthodox Shepherd and Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re A Lovely Guy) by Max Headroom here, comedy on BBC Radio 3 here, Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride here, EastEnders spinoff single Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford here and Karen Gillan's horror short The Hoarding here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Tarrazu Valley to go with the 'Latin Version' please!

LOOKS UNFAMILIAR SPOOKY - JOANNE SHEPPARD - EVERYONE KNOWS THAT'S HOW HANDS WORK

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time for a suitably spooky chat is book reviewer Joanne Sheppard, who's braving the walk home from Brownies and all the witches she can't leave the house without tripping over to tell the world about Dramarama: The Exorcism Of Amy, Children's BBC Ghost Story slot Spine Chillers, Blue Peter's Witch Puppet Make, Monsters Of The Movies by Denis Gifford, Nothing To Be Afraid Of by Jan Mark, Paperhouse, Dekker Toys' Movie/TV Horror Make-Up Kit and Remus Playkits Identispook, plus there's an extra bit of chat with Tim about that time that Josie And The Pussycats were possessed by a vengance demon. Along the way we'll be leafing through M.R. James' Whistle And I'll Be Some Stairs, debating the plural of 'A Ghost Story For Chirstmas', witnessing a rare sighting of the Blue Peter Haunted Galleon, remembering that time Magnus Magnusson picked a fight with TV 'Clown' and calling the selection process for 'King Of The Gorillas' into question.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Joanne on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The December Rose, Colorado Beetle paranoia, Brontosaurus, Will You Wait For Me? by David Bellamy, Timbuctoo, KP Wickers, The Enchanted Castle, Major Morgan The Electronic Organ and Wilderness Road here, and The Bump by MC Mallett, Horror Chews, The Strange Affair Of Adelaide Harris, Matchbox Fighting Furies, Mouthtrap, Connoisseur, World Magazine, All Aboard! and The Guinness Book Of Pet Records here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. If the handle's come off the mug, DO NOT try sticking it back on with that Dekker stuff.