Tim Worthington
@outonbluesix.bsky.social
Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. TV's 'Clangers Expert'.
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Looks Unfamiliar: Mitch Benn – Argos Blade Runner
Looks Unfamiliar with Mitch Benn talking to Tim Worthington about Channel 4’s pre-launch trailers, Imagination by Belouis Some, Space Sentinels, Simon Dutton as The Saint, How To Be A Complet…
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New! Mitch Benn (@mitchbenn.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about How To Be A Complete Bastard by Adrian Edmondson, Space Sentinels, Maskatron, Imagination by 'Belouis' 'Some', Channel 4's launch previews, the revival of The Saint with Simon Dutton and more...
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Day 1 of the #ALFventCalendar 2025 - and of course it's ALF pogs!
Listen to ALFsplaining at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
Listen to ALFsplaining at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Day 1 of the #ALFventCalendar 2025 - and of course it's ALF pogs!
Listen to ALFsplaining at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
Listen to ALFsplaining at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
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I may have owned this … 🫣
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I may have owned this … 🫣
The Uncyclopedia Of Rock - Radio Active-aligned HeeBeeGeeBees-adjacent popumentary spoof on radio in London and in handy book form everywhere else, riven with 'Paul Is Dead' gags and Band Aid-baiting with never-delivered promise of 'The Interesting Years'.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Uncyclopedia Of Rock - Radio Active-aligned HeeBeeGeeBees-adjacent popumentary spoof on radio in London and in handy book form everywhere else, riven with 'Paul Is Dead' gags and Band Aid-baiting with never-delivered promise of 'The Interesting Years'.
timworthington.org/2024/08/04/l...
timworthington.org/2024/08/04/l...
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It *might* have been this but not 100pc confident
December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It *might* have been this but not 100pc confident
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I had this, and also a different branded similar thing that was on more durable, thick cardboard. Sadly I have no memory of its brand name
December 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I had this, and also a different branded similar thing that was on more durable, thick cardboard. Sadly I have no memory of its brand name
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Not On Your Telly. The TV That Time Forgot, from lost Top Of The Pops performances to forgotten Play School toys.
Paperback (30% off code BOOKGIFT30) or Kindle from here.
timworthington.org/books/not-on...
Paperback (30% off code BOOKGIFT30) or Kindle from here.
timworthington.org/books/not-on...
Not On Your Telly
Not On Your Telly by Tim Worthington – excursions into the dustier corners of the archives in search of the television that we never get to see…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Not On Your Telly. The TV That Time Forgot, from lost Top Of The Pops performances to forgotten Play School toys.
Paperback (30% off code BOOKGIFT30) or Kindle from here.
timworthington.org/books/not-on...
Paperback (30% off code BOOKGIFT30) or Kindle from here.
timworthington.org/books/not-on...
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Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray - for those moments when you want to smell posh, and also simultaneously sporty, scary, ginger and, erm, 'baby'. Woe betide the man you've never met before that suddenly gives YOU flowers...
timworthington.org/2024/03/03/l...
timworthington.org/2024/03/03/l...
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray - for those moments when you want to smell posh, and also simultaneously sporty, scary, ginger and, erm, 'baby'. Woe betide the man you've never met before that suddenly gives YOU flowers...
timworthington.org/2024/03/03/l...
timworthington.org/2024/03/03/l...
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Schools Television rarely got more spooky than the Words And Pictures with the Witches Of Halloween song and the macabre stop-motion tale of a jack-o-lantern that enjoyed scaring people, but you do have to feel for teachers coping with terrified kids...
timworthington.org/2024/10/31/t...
timworthington.org/2024/10/31/t...
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Schools Television rarely got more spooky than the Words And Pictures with the Witches Of Halloween song and the macabre stop-motion tale of a jack-o-lantern that enjoyed scaring people, but you do have to feel for teachers coping with terrified kids...
timworthington.org/2024/10/31/t...
timworthington.org/2024/10/31/t...
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A look at the making of Brass Eye, that time Parsley The Lion fought a witch, Looks Unfamiliar on BBC Off Beat Sound Effects and The Legend Of Tim Tyler, and an Advent Calendar's worth of seventies ITV Sitcom Christmas Specials...
timworthington.org/2024/06/16/t...
timworthington.org/2024/06/16/t...
Through The Square Window: Brass Eye, Blakey And Doomlord
A trip through the archives with a look at a documentary about Brass Eye and that time Parsley The Lion met a witch, Looks Unfamiliar tackling terrifying sci-fi photostrip stories and comedy sound …
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December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A look at the making of Brass Eye, that time Parsley The Lion fought a witch, Looks Unfamiliar on BBC Off Beat Sound Effects and The Legend Of Tim Tyler, and an Advent Calendar's worth of seventies ITV Sitcom Christmas Specials...
timworthington.org/2024/06/16/t...
timworthington.org/2024/06/16/t...
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Roadmaker - laminated junior Town Planning for youngsters who yearned to feel the grit of real cardboard beneath their Matchbox wheels, composed of interlocking parts that should have been too big to 'lose' but found their way deep behind sofas regardless.
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Roadmaker - laminated junior Town Planning for youngsters who yearned to feel the grit of real cardboard beneath their Matchbox wheels, composed of interlocking parts that should have been too big to 'lose' but found their way deep behind sofas regardless.
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
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Justin Lewis joins me for a chat about The Uncyclopedia Of Rock, I Hate J.R. by The Wurzels, Friends by The Police, Walk Right Through by Raissa, Philip Glass' Sesame Street music, Very Hard Questions and more...
timworthington.org/2024/08/04/l...
timworthington.org/2024/08/04/l...
Looks Unfamiliar: Justin Lewis – I Prolonged J.R.
Looks Unfamiliar with Justin Lewis talking to Tim Worthington about I Hate J.R. by The Wurzels, The Uncyclopedia Of Rock, Friends by The Police, Geometry Of Circles, Walk Right Through by Raissa, N…
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December 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Justin Lewis joins me for a chat about The Uncyclopedia Of Rock, I Hate J.R. by The Wurzels, Friends by The Police, Walk Right Through by Raissa, Philip Glass' Sesame Street music, Very Hard Questions and more...
timworthington.org/2024/08/04/l...
timworthington.org/2024/08/04/l...
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This is an excellent book that dispenses with all of the tiresome 'mad Syd Barrett' stories - most of which do not stand up to scrutiny - and concentrates on what he recorded and when, and actually ends up giving a stronger picture of him as an artists.
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This is an excellent book that dispenses with all of the tiresome 'mad Syd Barrett' stories - most of which do not stand up to scrutiny - and concentrates on what he recorded and when, and actually ends up giving a stronger picture of him as an artists.
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
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TFI Friday really is an odd show to look back on now. Was it a window for carefree fun in exhausting times or the dawn of consequence-free bullying culture... or a little of both?
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December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
TFI Friday really is an odd show to look back on now. Was it a window for carefree fun in exhausting times or the dawn of consequence-free bullying culture... or a little of both?
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
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If you're doing a Hawkeye rewatch, it's episode two today and here's my look at it along with a deep dive on Kate's comics background...
timworthington.org/2024/11/24/t...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
If you're doing a Hawkeye rewatch, it's episode two today and here's my look at it along with a deep dive on Kate's comics background...
timworthington.org/2024/11/24/t...
timworthington.org/2024/11/24/t...
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The story behind The Flashing Blade, the stylish swashbuckling dubbed imported serial that the BBC never quite got around to showing in full. Until they did a comedy redub of it of course. And then there's THAT theme song...
timworthington.org/2019/05/15/y...
timworthington.org/2019/05/15/y...
You’ve Got To Fight For What You Want
The story behind The Flashing Blade, the dubbed imported serial that the BBC never quite managed to show in full…
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December 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The story behind The Flashing Blade, the stylish swashbuckling dubbed imported serial that the BBC never quite got around to showing in full. Until they did a comedy redub of it of course. And then there's THAT theme song...
timworthington.org/2019/05/15/y...
timworthington.org/2019/05/15/y...
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BBC1's Christmas Globe from 1968. A Mary Quant-adjacent version of one of those big massive decorations where you're never sure where it came from or where to put it and which never loses any glitter despite several tons of it coming away on your hand.
timworthington.org/2021/12/22/a...
timworthington.org/2021/12/22/a...
December 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
BBC1's Christmas Globe from 1968. A Mary Quant-adjacent version of one of those big massive decorations where you're never sure where it came from or where to put it and which never loses any glitter despite several tons of it coming away on your hand.
timworthington.org/2021/12/22/a...
timworthington.org/2021/12/22/a...
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Day 1 of the ITV Sitcom Advent Calendar, and the sweary Trade Unionist types who make up the crew of corporation dustcart 'Thunderbird Three' have their own thoughts on Christmas Spirit in shouty lefty piggin'-this-and-bleedin'-that-fest The Dustbinmen...
timworthington.org/2017/12/01/f...
timworthington.org/2017/12/01/f...
December 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Day 1 of the ITV Sitcom Advent Calendar, and the sweary Trade Unionist types who make up the crew of corporation dustcart 'Thunderbird Three' have their own thoughts on Christmas Spirit in shouty lefty piggin'-this-and-bleedin'-that-fest The Dustbinmen...
timworthington.org/2017/12/01/f...
timworthington.org/2017/12/01/f...
Not On Your Telly. The TV That Time Forgot, from lost Top Of The Pops performances to forgotten Play School toys.
Paperback (30% off code BOOKGIFT30) or Kindle from here.
timworthington.org/books/not-on...
Paperback (30% off code BOOKGIFT30) or Kindle from here.
timworthington.org/books/not-on...
Not On Your Telly
Not On Your Telly by Tim Worthington – excursions into the dustier corners of the archives in search of the television that we never get to see…
timworthington.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Not On Your Telly. The TV That Time Forgot, from lost Top Of The Pops performances to forgotten Play School toys.
Paperback (30% off code BOOKGIFT30) or Kindle from here.
timworthington.org/books/not-on...
Paperback (30% off code BOOKGIFT30) or Kindle from here.
timworthington.org/books/not-on...
Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray - for those moments when you want to smell posh, and also simultaneously sporty, scary, ginger and, erm, 'baby'. Woe betide the man you've never met before that suddenly gives YOU flowers...
timworthington.org/2024/03/03/l...
timworthington.org/2024/03/03/l...
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray - for those moments when you want to smell posh, and also simultaneously sporty, scary, ginger and, erm, 'baby'. Woe betide the man you've never met before that suddenly gives YOU flowers...
timworthington.org/2024/03/03/l...
timworthington.org/2024/03/03/l...
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🚨 SHOCKING DEVELOPMENTS ON THIS WEEK'S ALF 🚨
(Spoilers: Anne Schedeen is pregant, so Kate is too)
👶 Kate wears a horrible outfit in the garage!
👶 Kate wears a more horrible outfit at work!
👶 ALF makes a Kate shrine!
👶 Willie goes on strike! (at work, not home)
Tune in at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
(Spoilers: Anne Schedeen is pregant, so Kate is too)
👶 Kate wears a horrible outfit in the garage!
👶 Kate wears a more horrible outfit at work!
👶 ALF makes a Kate shrine!
👶 Willie goes on strike! (at work, not home)
Tune in at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🚨 SHOCKING DEVELOPMENTS ON THIS WEEK'S ALF 🚨
(Spoilers: Anne Schedeen is pregant, so Kate is too)
👶 Kate wears a horrible outfit in the garage!
👶 Kate wears a more horrible outfit at work!
👶 ALF makes a Kate shrine!
👶 Willie goes on strike! (at work, not home)
Tune in at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
(Spoilers: Anne Schedeen is pregant, so Kate is too)
👶 Kate wears a horrible outfit in the garage!
👶 Kate wears a more horrible outfit at work!
👶 ALF makes a Kate shrine!
👶 Willie goes on strike! (at work, not home)
Tune in at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
Schools Television rarely got more spooky than the Words And Pictures with the Witches Of Halloween song and the macabre stop-motion tale of a jack-o-lantern that enjoyed scaring people, but you do have to feel for teachers coping with terrified kids...
timworthington.org/2024/10/31/t...
timworthington.org/2024/10/31/t...
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Schools Television rarely got more spooky than the Words And Pictures with the Witches Of Halloween song and the macabre stop-motion tale of a jack-o-lantern that enjoyed scaring people, but you do have to feel for teachers coping with terrified kids...
timworthington.org/2024/10/31/t...
timworthington.org/2024/10/31/t...
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Are there composers who specialise in those brief logo music stings you get for computer consoles, streaming services and adverts?
This is still my favourite. I'm always singing it in the shower? What's yours?
youtube.com/watch?v=mgtT...
This is still my favourite. I'm always singing it in the shower? What's yours?
youtube.com/watch?v=mgtT...
Danone
YouTube video by SLN! Media Group
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December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Are there composers who specialise in those brief logo music stings you get for computer consoles, streaming services and adverts?
This is still my favourite. I'm always singing it in the shower? What's yours?
youtube.com/watch?v=mgtT...
This is still my favourite. I'm always singing it in the shower? What's yours?
youtube.com/watch?v=mgtT...
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Tom Stoppard special BBC Front Row tonight. Emma Fielding, who was in the original Arcadia, Michael Billington and biographer Hermione Lee among the guests. 715pm R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Tom Stoppard special BBC Front Row tonight. Emma Fielding, who was in the original Arcadia, Michael Billington and biographer Hermione Lee among the guests. 715pm R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
A look at the making of Brass Eye, that time Parsley The Lion fought a witch, Looks Unfamiliar on BBC Off Beat Sound Effects and The Legend Of Tim Tyler, and an Advent Calendar's worth of seventies ITV Sitcom Christmas Specials...
timworthington.org/2024/06/16/t...
timworthington.org/2024/06/16/t...
Through The Square Window: Brass Eye, Blakey And Doomlord
A trip through the archives with a look at a documentary about Brass Eye and that time Parsley The Lion met a witch, Looks Unfamiliar tackling terrifying sci-fi photostrip stories and comedy sound …
timworthington.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A look at the making of Brass Eye, that time Parsley The Lion fought a witch, Looks Unfamiliar on BBC Off Beat Sound Effects and The Legend Of Tim Tyler, and an Advent Calendar's worth of seventies ITV Sitcom Christmas Specials...
timworthington.org/2024/06/16/t...
timworthington.org/2024/06/16/t...
Roadmaker - laminated junior Town Planning for youngsters who yearned to feel the grit of real cardboard beneath their Matchbox wheels, composed of interlocking parts that should have been too big to 'lose' but found their way deep behind sofas regardless.
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Roadmaker - laminated junior Town Planning for youngsters who yearned to feel the grit of real cardboard beneath their Matchbox wheels, composed of interlocking parts that should have been too big to 'lose' but found their way deep behind sofas regardless.
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...