Tim Worthington
@outonbluesix.bsky.social
Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. TV's 'Clangers Expert'.
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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.
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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...
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.
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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...
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?
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timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
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...
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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...
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timworthington.org/2024/11/24/t...
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.
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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...
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...
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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...
The Wizard Of Speed And Time - orientation-troubling satire slash love story slash just plain wilful oddness about a special effects, well, wizard's determination to get his movie about a man running across America very very fast against the wishes of the industry.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Wizard Of Speed And Time - orientation-troubling satire slash love story slash just plain wilful oddness about a special effects, well, wizard's determination to get his movie about a man running across America very very fast against the wishes of the industry.
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
It's a shame that streaming has left little room for the sort of curated genre-specific compilations of obscurities that were tailor made for CD, like this collection of hapless sixties pop hopefuls playing at being 'psychedelic'...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It's a shame that streaming has left little room for the sort of curated genre-specific compilations of obscurities that were tailor made for CD, like this collection of hapless sixties pop hopefuls playing at being 'psychedelic'...
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
Adam And Joe's Fourmative Years - where Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish take a trip through Channel 4's archives - is exactly how you should do a clip show. Context, jokes, rarely seen footage and honesty about the quality or otherwise of the shows themselves.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Adam And Joe's Fourmative Years - where Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish take a trip through Channel 4's archives - is exactly how you should do a clip show. Context, jokes, rarely seen footage and honesty about the quality or otherwise of the shows themselves.
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
Another huge influence on me - a small scale fanzine with big design ambitions, but more importantly the first place that I had seen something as mundane as television production treated like it had a story to tell. Also Andrew Pixley's first venture!
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November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Another huge influence on me - a small scale fanzine with big design ambitions, but more importantly the first place that I had seen something as mundane as television production treated like it had a story to tell. Also Andrew Pixley's first venture!
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
Still haunted by the story in this - timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l... - about seeing a live touring version of Bullseye on Christmas Day with Jim Bowen in no mood to host it and not caring if the festively tipsy audience knew it...
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Still haunted by the story in this - timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l... - about seeing a live touring version of Bullseye on Christmas Day with Jim Bowen in no mood to host it and not caring if the festively tipsy audience knew it...
Always loved how the video for Love And Pride by King appears to take place in a 2000AD-inspired post-apocalyptic landscape where there is nonetheless free and limitless access to a trading bloc-sized quantity of hairspray.
November 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Always loved how the video for Love And Pride by King appears to take place in a 2000AD-inspired post-apocalyptic landscape where there is nonetheless free and limitless access to a trading bloc-sized quantity of hairspray.
I get asked quite often if it's possible to get my book about Children Of The Stones and all of ITV's other spooky fantasy-based seventies children's serials from the long-deleted DVD release from anywhere? Well, it's now available here... www.patreon.com/posts/comple...
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I get asked quite often if it's possible to get my book about Children Of The Stones and all of ITV's other spooky fantasy-based seventies children's serials from the long-deleted DVD release from anywhere? Well, it's now available here... www.patreon.com/posts/comple...
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The Big Bus - sarcasm and slapstick-propelled Airplane before Airplane sendup of the disaster movie boom set aboard overelongated interstate charabanc equipped with swimming pool and lounge bar. Satirical nuances were generally lost on amenity-dazzled youngsters.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Big Bus - sarcasm and slapstick-propelled Airplane before Airplane sendup of the disaster movie boom set aboard overelongated interstate charabanc equipped with swimming pool and lounge bar. Satirical nuances were generally lost on amenity-dazzled youngsters.
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...
As anthologies of previously published writing go, this is pretty much the gold standard as it's just arranged so coherently and imaginatively with enough new material to leave the reader feeling engaged. Not an easily set bar to try to live up to, mind...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
As anthologies of previously published writing go, this is pretty much the gold standard as it's just arranged so coherently and imaginatively with enough new material to leave the reader feeling engaged. Not an easily set bar to try to live up to, mind...
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
Highway - Sunday teatime spiritual reflection with a scorching Kraftwerk-meets-church-organ theme as Harry Secombe traverses the UK serenading blacksmiths from the bit in the middle of a dual carriageway about how God made the trees.
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timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Highway - Sunday teatime spiritual reflection with a scorching Kraftwerk-meets-church-organ theme as Harry Secombe traverses the UK serenading blacksmiths from the bit in the middle of a dual carriageway about how God made the trees.
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
The Box Of Delights rewatch reaches episode two, and yes - it *is* the one with that really long animated interlude...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The Box Of Delights rewatch reaches episode two, and yes - it *is* the one with that really long animated interlude...
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"There's no Christian b flat and secular b flat... there's just b flat"
Stryper, the Christian Glam Metal band, got a Channel 4 Christmas Special in all their devotional glory. The fact that they and their fans are so normal only makes it weirder still...
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Stryper, the Christian Glam Metal band, got a Channel 4 Christmas Special in all their devotional glory. The fact that they and their fans are so normal only makes it weirder still...
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"There's no Christian b flat and secular b flat... there's just b flat"
Stryper, the Christian Glam Metal band, got a Channel 4 Christmas Special in all their devotional glory. The fact that they and their fans are so normal only makes it weirder still...
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
Stryper, the Christian Glam Metal band, got a Channel 4 Christmas Special in all their devotional glory. The fact that they and their fans are so normal only makes it weirder still...
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
Garbage Pail Kids - right-thinking and indeed Right-thinking infuriating highly confiscated bubblegum card collection of hideously mutated youngsters who still somehow managed to look more appealing and less revolting than actual Cabbage Patch Kids.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Garbage Pail Kids - right-thinking and indeed Right-thinking infuriating highly confiscated bubblegum card collection of hideously mutated youngsters who still somehow managed to look more appealing and less revolting than actual Cabbage Patch Kids.
timworthington.org/2023/12/07/l...
timworthington.org/2023/12/07/l...
Looking forward to yet another fascinating set of extras on yet another brilliant HD Hammer restoration. Well, I probably won't be listening to my own commentary track, but apart from that...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Looking forward to yet another fascinating set of extras on yet another brilliant HD Hammer restoration. Well, I probably won't be listening to my own commentary track, but apart from that...
timworthington.org/2025/10/03/w...
timworthington.org/2025/10/03/w...