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January 23, 2020
The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar #9: I Have A Photo Of You Admiring That Lettering
Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar with 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, Darrell Maclaine on Blockbusters Bubblegum, and Tim talking to Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding about the Clangers Election Special.
January 20, 2020
The $1,000,000 Collection
A critic's eye view of some spectacular examples of UK Sixties Jazz album artwork - and the equally spectacular music.
January 15, 2020
The Ten Least Effective Protest Songs
A look at the songs that were not going to change the world...
January 10, 2020
Go Down Record Huntin’ (In Charity Shops)
Thrilling tales and baffling sounds from my days spent hunting for records in charity shops.
January 9, 2020
Doctor Who Magazine #547
I'm in the new Doctor Who Magazine reviewing The War Master: Anti-Genesis and The Robots.
January 7, 2020
The Pilots That Time Forgot
Ten of the most almost-there (but-not-quite) pilots ever made for hit TV shows.
January 5, 2020
Well At Least It’s Free
Well At Least It's Free is a book collecting many of my earlier columns and features, most of them about cult television old and new but there's also a good deal about films, music and, erm, some people in Quality Street getup marching around a park playing an out-of-tune version of Ain't Go No - I Got Life on brass band instruments they had clearly never picked up before.
January 2, 2020
Never Too Quickly, Never Too Slowly
A look at what happened when the residents of Trumpton found that their phone lines were mixed up...
January 1, 2020
Looks Unfamiliar #55: Lydia Mizon – There Was No Dicaprio Rhyme
Looks Unfamiliar with Tim Worthington talking to Lydia Mizon about Stoppit And Tidyup, Fervour for the Acorn Archimedes, Alphabet Castle, Roseanne And The Magic Mirror, Party Mania and more...!
December 24, 2019
Christmas With Children’s BBC: Play School, Christmas Eve 1970
How Play School celebrated Christmas Eve in 1970.
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