Tim Worthington's Blog: Tim Worthington's Quickreads, page 31

Let The Melody Shine, Let It Cleanse My Mind

Sometimes, a song is so powerful that it transcends what you think of an artist - and that's exactly what Bitter Sweet Symphony did.

Fawlty Towers – For The Record

I'm very pleased to announce that I've written the sleevenotes for a long overdue box set reissue of all four Fawlty Towers albums - Fawlty Towers, Second Sitting, At Your Service and A La Carte - along with the first ever vinyl issue for two further albums featuring the remaining episodes which have previously only been available on cassette and CD.

My 70s TV Childhood: Pinocchio

You can currently hear me on My 70’s TV Childhood talking to Oliver Colling about the BBC's late seventies adaptation of Pinocchio for the 'Sunday Classics' slot - a terrifying art-nouveau re-imagining of the original source material with absolutely no comedy crickets or wishing upon a star, but plenty of screeching splintery puppets capering around amongst human actors and eye-infuriating special effects with a harsh classical soundtrack.

Looks Unfamiliar #75: Shanine Salmon – By Law You Had To Have A McGann

Looks Unfamiliar with Shanine Salmon talking to Tim Worthington about Married For Life, Habbo Hotel, Blouse And Skirt, Renegade, Night And Day, Neopets and more...!

Looks Unfamiliar When Harry Met Sally Extra: “I’ve Hung Around Enough Bloody Guitar Playing Boys”

Looks Unfamiliar with Emma Burnell talking to Tim Worthington about the 2004 stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally, starring Alyson Hannigan and Luke Perry.

Knocking On Doors, Opening Windows…

Knocking on doors and opening windows with a a look back at the BBC's devotional children's show - with a screeching puppet mouse - The Sunday Gang.

My 70s TV Childhood: The Sunday Gang

You can currently hear me on My 70's TV Childhood talking to Oliver Dowden about The Sunday Gang, BBC1's early morning religiously-slanted children's programme featuring a mob of wacky teenagers presenting their somewhat individual slant on Bible stories while a puppet mouse screeched at them in the corner. And yes, THAT theme song.

Desert Island Dylan

Bob Dylan's appearance in the 1963 BBC play The Madhouse On Castle Street was shown once and then lost, but you can still find new information about it in the most unlikely places...

Looks Unfamiliar #74: Matt Lee – If The 1950s Produced A Videogame This Would Be It

Looks Unfamiliar with Matt Lee talking to Tim Worthington about Wake Up! With Libby And Jonathan, Park St. Under, Terramex, They Might Be Giants' 'Dial-A-Song' service, Tesco Cola Spread, an attempted regional ban on Garbage Pail Kids and more...!

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Part Three)

David Smith joins Tim for a chat about the wild time-hopping genre-switching alternate reality-bending mission to stop history being entirely rewritten by aliens with access to TV Tropes in Series Seven of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D..