Tim Worthington

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Deadpool With Joanne Sheppard Joanne Sheppard joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Negasonic Teenage Warhead trying to find the correct emoji to express Wade Wilson’s lameness in Deadpool.

So @redskyatnight.bsky.social didn't really know much about Deadpool beyond the name, but apparently she found that there's a great deal in his big screen debut to identify with. Please nobody tell *him* that, though...

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I've seen this repeated a lot but the Lenny ads date back to 1981, which is a good few years before Roy Jay was big enough to be considered for adverts.

c/w Them Skellington Ones Who Were Never In It

A Radio Times entry for Heathcliff - The Cat from Feb 86

"Whats your favourite cartoon?"
"Heathcliff."
"Heathcliff - The Cat?"
"Yes."
"Good. I am glad."

Here are the people/you ca... actually, fuck that.

The Golden Age Of Children’s TV Do you live in a town? Was it Bill or was it Ben? Who is The Phantom Phlan Plinger? Can you guess what is in it today? Why don’t you just switch off your television set and go out and do something …

Do you want to read my take on the story of children's television from this side of the screen from the late fifties right up to the late eighties, with almost every show worth commenting on commented on? Then you're in luck! Available now in all good bookshops.

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Hot Wheels Crack-Ups - modified traditional toy cars with dubious if novel twist of displaying mounting degrees of bloke outside pub tut-occasioning minor bodywork damage on skirting board-chipping impact which duly reverted right back to 'undamaged'.

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The Panther 6 - limiteder-than-limited edition six-wheeled Car Of The Future Today, more Joe 90 than James Bond and packed with largely purposeless push-button gadgetry that would scarcely have facilitated a quick docklands getaway from The Professionals.

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The Pink Panther Bar - slinkily-themed Inspector-troubler embossed tie-in swankily-wrapped comesitble confection rendered in impossibly smoothed appropriately-hued distant relative of chocolate infused with indeterminate yet definite 'pink' flavour

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Looks Unfamiliar: Ricardo Autobahn – He Was Not Known For His Bendiness All Things Considered Ricardo Autobahn joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Pull The Other One, the Pink Panther Bar, the Panther 6, Hot Wheels Crack-Ups, Explorer, Inside The Magic Rectangle by Victor Lewis-Smith, I …

Ricardo Autobahn (@ricardoautobahn.co.uk) joins me for a chat about Pink Panther Bars, Victor Lewis-Smith Inside The Magic Rectangle, Hot Wheels Crack-Ups, I Live In A Giant Mushroom by Eric The Gardener, a terrifying giant Sooty and more!

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Honestly, I only have to see this cover artwork and I can instantly bear two dozen descant recorders discordantly chirping their way through Men Of Harlech at no discernible unified tempo and they WILL NOT STOP.

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TOMORROW ON ALFSPLAINING.

Willie does his best Marlon Brando!

Watch the episode 'Running Scared' in advance of the podcast dropping tomorrow at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining

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The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was horrific. I saw it in the late 70s, at the same time were being fed endless warnings never to accept sweets from strangers, and somehow the two things became one in my brain. Absolutely convinced he was real.

Yes, I saw Return to Oz and that scared the stuffing out of me - I had nightmares for months

Spy Trap - one-series wonder mid-eighties Children's BBC game show with Bills Homewood and Pertwee putting juvenile aspirant espionage operatives through their paces by testing their observation skills and, erm, making them do star jumps.

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Inspired by the chat about The Water Babies in this - timworthington.org/2024/05/24/t... - were you ever terrified by a film you saw in an actual cinema? Too nervous to leave but too petrified to keep watching? Child or adult, it's time to confess all...

The BBC Pinocchio - screechy splintery real puppet leaping about amongst actual humans including some with manky animal heads on in operatic nightmarish retelling nobody asked for, who looked like he could 'get' you and in all likelihood probably could.

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I have a photo of my best mate in one of these, dancing with a Russian teen that had come over for a holiday via the Chernobyl children charity, so very 90’s. (I was well jel of that tshirt).

Global Hypercolor - rave-adjacent heat-sensitive colour-changing clobber brand beloved of E-scoffing revellers trying to get a frug in before the coppers showed up and canoodling teens who reckoned without its hue-shifting grassing-up potential alike.

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For something that specifically parodies a specific type of broadcaster at a specific point in their career - long before Dave Nice might have thought twice about taking his computer 'in' - Smashie & Nicey: The End Of An Era really is timelessly funny.

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Once again I implore Nigel Farage to consider what he's said to the Mail on Sunday. Then to find a physical copy of it, with all the supplements, then to roll it up very very tightly and push it completely up his racist arse.

Obviously I'll go on a pop culture nostalgia podcast and talk about six wheeler cars because I am a maverick.

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: He Also Ate A Lot Of Texan Bars Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar featuring Lydia Mizon on Smashie And Nicey – The End Of An Era, Katy Brent on Global Hypercolor, Tim Worthington on Wonderwall by The Mike Flowers Pops and th…

Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar with @ricardoautobahn.bsky.social on the Panther 6, @redskyatnight.bsky.social on The Water Babies and Spine Chillers, @bobfischer.bsky.social and @georgyjamieson.bsky.social on school recorder ensembles and more!

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Christmas With BBC Records And Tapes BBC Records And Tapes released some exceptionally strange Christmas Singles,. Not ALL of them featuring Keith Harris And Orville…

You probably won't be very surprised to learn that BBC Records And Tapes released some very peculiar Christmas singles indeed. Seriously, though, you probably don't have any real idea of just *how* deeply odd they really were...

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Ghosts, Monsters And Legends (And Tennis Prodigies) From The Box Of Delights to Aliens In The Family, a look back at the BBC’s spooky sci-fi run-up-to-Christmas children’s serials.

From The Box Of Delights, The Children Of Green Knowe and The Moon Stallion to Codename: Icarus and Aliens In The Family, a complete guide to the BBC's spooky slash sci-fi run-up-to-Christmas children's serials. It really is a box of... *some* delights.

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The Young Ones Computer Game - 8-bit Balowski-averting exercise in platform-adventure utter barstardry as Neil, Rik, Vyv and Mike pick up and put down the so-called 'girly' dress in a bit to... be the first to exit the house? Nobody's quite sure.

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The Return Of Bruno - inter-David Addison/John McClane oddity starring Bruce Willis as spoof sixties rocker that time forgot hitting the comeback trail, accompanied by album of straight non-comic covers that everyone thought was just him doing it for real.

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The Secret Vampire Soundtrack EP by Bis - lo-er than lo-fi indiepop assortment of scratchy guitar-accompanied shouting about how great it is to be a teenager who likes stuff nobody in your class has heard of, scoring unsigned trio an unlikely TOTP appearance.

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Spider-Man Strikes Back - big-screen wall-crawling cut-and-shut of a handful of webhead's Nicholas Hammond-portrayed stuntman-hazard strewn late seventies television escapades, specifically drawn from ITV-averted two-parter The Deadly Dust. It's no No Way Home.

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Legal Man by Belle And Sebastian - sitar-twanging tongue-in-cheek romantic terms and conditions-applying stray hit that took the camera shy indie kids on to Top Of The Pops to the Brits-trounced chagrin of Steps.

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