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The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: The Acceptable Mike Reid

Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar with Tim Worthington talking to Mitch Benn about Matchbox Zoomy Balloonies, Catrin Lowe about Heartthrob - The Dream Date Game, Mic Wright about Army And Navy Sweets, Darrell Maclaine about Rutland Weekend Television, Mark Thompson about The Giftie, Will Maclean about The Fourth Pan Book Of Horror Stories, Stephen O'Brien about The Box Of Delights, Sophie Davies about The All Star Impressions Show and Ben Baker and Phil Catterall about A Christmas Lantern, plus some extra chat with Paul Abbott about Ringing On The Engine Bell by Bernard Cribbins.

Wound Up And Ready To Play

Peter The Postman - the very first episode of Camberwick Green - was first broadcast in January 1966. But what audiences saw then was a little different to what they would see now...

Vintage Rock Presents The Beach Boys

Vintage Rock Presents The Beach Boys is a new bookazine taking a look at every aspect of The Beach Boys' extraordinary career, from Surfin' Safari right up to That's Why God Made The Radio, and all of the unexpected twists and turns along the way - both on vinyl and off. There's a huge feature by me in it about the legendary unreleased 1967 album SMiLE, looking at the lead-up to and making of Brian Wilson's 'American Gothic Trip', the real reasons why the sessions collapsed into disarray, how much of SMiLE actually found official release at the time (it's more than you think), whether the emergency re-recording Smiley Smile is actually any good or not, and the album's complicated legacy both for The Beach Boys themselves and for pop music in general. Taking in possessed studio tapes that wouldn't burn, psychedelic ice cream vans, people being spied on by characters in films, John Lennon guarding a public convenience and someone getting angry about a crow, it's safe to say that enjoyed the opportunity to make sense of this most nonsensical of stories.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Deadpool 2

Phil Catterall joins Tim to chat about Wade Wilson leading the newly formed X-Force straight into some overhead power lines in Deadpool 2.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: WandaVision

Hanna Flint joins Tim Worthington to chat about Wanda Maximoff trying not to reference Hangin' With Mr. Cooper by mistake in It's Good, Except It Sucks.

That Sight, Those Sounds…

A look back at the mind-blowing edition of BBC2's Sound Of The Sixties devoted to performances from the archives from Pink Floyd, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and more - many of them unseen since their original broadcast.

Looks Unfamiliar Disco Sci-Fi Spectacular: “There’s No Robots, I’m Not Interested”

Looks Unfamiliar Disco Sci-Fi Spectacular with Jonny Morris talking to Tim about Galaxy Gold by Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra, Battlestar Galactica action figures, the second season of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, H.G, Wells’ The Shape Of Things To Come, Fall Out by DATA, Space Wars - Fact And Fiction and more...!

Looks Unfamiliar #77: Joel Morris – No-One In My Family Was Going To Be Conned By Big Battery

Looks Unfamiliar with Joel Morris joining Tim Worthington to talk about Hanna Barbera's Alice In Wonderland Or What's A Nice Kid Like You Doing In A Place Like This, Channel 4's Four-Mations, Chutes Away!!!!!, Marks And Spencer 'St. Michael' Gift Books, Mazes And Monsters, the View-Master Demonstration Reel and more...!

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Helstrom

Vikki Gregorich joins Tim Worthington to chat about Daimon and Ana having to literally decide whether it's better the devil you know in It's Good, Except It Sucks.

Looks Unfamiliar #76: Anna Cale – It Felt Like A Social Realist Jonny Briggs

Looks Unfamiliar with Anna Cale talking to Tim Worthington about Sport Billy, Silly Games by Lindy Layton, Joni Jones, The Girl In The Picture, Return To Eden, The Incredible Hulk Smash-Up Action Game, Trev And Simon's Stupid Video, Dors' Dozen and more...!