THE BEST OF LOOKS UNFAMILIAR 09 - I HAVE A PHOTO OF YOU ADMIRING THAT LETTERING

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 Suzy Norman on Hugo The Hippo, Richard Littler on the episode of The Waltons with a Poltergeist, Gary Bainbridge on Radio City's Jack Your Body parody Deadly Boring, Tim Worthington on It's A Shame by Kris Kross, Phil Catterall on the On The Hour Christmas Special, Ben Baker on Now - The Christmas Album, Mitch Benn on Two-Stage Self-Assembly Ice Cream Cones and Darrell Maclaine on Blockbusters Bubblegum. Along the way we'll be finding out what Richard Stilgoe rhymed with ‘poltergeist’, speculating on what local radio’s obsession with records with ‘Of The’ in the title was all about, recounting how the cast of The Sullivans got caught up in a Southside-Eastside turf war, debating Steve Ditko’s role in the invention of the Cornetto, going to see a time-travelling Candy Flip, investigating how the ‘Hand Jive’ era of Blockbusters was entirely illicitly funded by holes in grandparents’ pockets, revisiting Peter Skellern’s ‘Lurpak Years’, lamenting the terrible fate of the Breakaway theme music, and unveiling our new foolproof scheme for alluding to now-disgraced celebrities without actually naming them. Plus there's also a bit of extra chat with Richard about an unusual BBC showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and something you might not have heard before - Tim on The Zeitgeist Tapes talking to Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding about the long-forgotten Clangers Election Special Vote For Froglet!

You can find the full editions of all of these shows - and plenty more besides - at http://timworthington.org/

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053 - RICHARD LITTLER - THIS IS ALL THAT IS LEFT... OF A WALL

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 illustrator and custodian of Scarfolk Museum Richard Littler, who’s hearing things that go bump in the night that he thinks might just be the episode of The Waltons with a poltergeist, the Star Wars tableau in the 1978 Blackpool Illuminations, mysterious annual Ghost Special No. 2, MAD Magazine’s Protect And Survive parody Meet Mr. Bomb, the Six Million Dollar Man’s adversary Maskatron, railway safety film The Finishing Line, BBC Records And Tapes’ Sound Effects No. 13 – Death And Horror, ITV children’s horror serial Come Back Lucy and Richard Williams’ animated version of A Christmas Carol. Along the way we’ll befinding out what Richard Stilgoe rhymed with ‘poltergeist’, debating ‘Giant Haystacks Bloke’s position in Star Wars continuity, announcing our nominations for the Weird Mechanical Chicken Award and scrutinising Terry Wogan’s controversial C3P0 origin story. And there’s more about that elusive Quosh Tropical too…

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

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. Just ignore The Waltons if they start claiming that the mug moved by itself.