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Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. TV's 'Clangers Expert'. timworthington.org
Stars by Hear'n'Aid - Twisted Sister-tastic Heavy Metal does Band Aid charity fundraising famine relief single with about twenty seven million guitar solos and the baffling presence of an entirely straight-faced Spinal Tap in the great big choir bits.
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Star Turn/Star Turn Challenge - Children's BBC's celeb parlour game smackdown fronted by Bernard Cribbins in the guise of notion-having deerstalker-adjusting detective Ivor Notion. Oddly forgotten now for a show with so many none-more-seventies guests.
timworthington.org/2022/11/04/l...
Why is someone ALWAYS trying to reboot The Prisoner when we've already got Stephen Fry and Jools Holland??
timworthington.org/2021/11/09/l...
Atomic Man and Bullet Man - avowedly catching on-averse attempts at updating and expanding the Action Man range with a sort of copyright-skirting Six Million Dollar Man clone and Jet Age-helmeted sort of superhero possibly. The Intruder had scant cause for concern.
timworthington.org/2020/10/20/l...
Round The Twist - often quite literally down under sitcom about lighthouse-dwelling Pete, Linda and Bronson Twist and their weird encounters with reverse-doubles, pants-losing ghosts, all too effective magic lipstick and scatalogically defensive seagulls.
timworthington.org/2023/12/07/l...
Mitch joins me for a chat about No Memory by Scarlet Fantastic, The Flipside Of Dominick Hide, Eureka!, The Deceivers, the Lady Sovereign/Jentina feud, Mego Pocket Heroes and more...
timworthington.org/2024/11/29/l...
Mitch Benn joins me for a chat about Stars by Hear'n'Aid, Into Infinity, The Humanoid, A Man Called Sloane, BusyBodies, bands that only seemed to exist on children's television and more.
timworthington.org/2023/10/30/l...
Mitch Benn joins me for a chat about Star Turn Challenge, Striker, evil Grange Hill teacher Mr. Hicks, Marvel's Night Raven, New Wave band The Planets, eighties celebrity cameos in pop videos and more...
timworthington.org/2022/11/04/l...
Monday Morning 5: 19 by Rialto. One of those Britpop-era singles that sounded like it was going to be a massive hit but possibly arrived a little too late in the day and well after the backlash had started. Still sounds mighty though. Other lost belters?
timworthington.org/2021/11/09/l...
Bands that were launched with a huge fanfare who you expected to do better than they ever actually did. Did anyone out there have unreasonably high hopes for Love And Rockets, King Swamp or The Lemon Trees?
timworthington.org/2020/10/20/l...
TV and Movie tie-in toy cars - and branded lines like Zoomy Balloonies, and even celebrity ones if they did Elvis' milk float or something. Which did you have, which did you wish you had, and which were just any old toy car with a logo slapped on it?
timworthington.org/2020/10/20/l...
Get Stuffed - negative-budget small hours camera-bigger-than-room ITV filler with roster of students showing how to smash instant noodles, Primula and Schwartz chilli con carne seasoning together into something allegedly edible and still have change from 20p.
timworthington.org/2019/10/03/l...
It's 1966, and it's Series Four of Doctor Who. The Cybermen take over from The Daleks, Patrick Troughton takes over from William Hartnell, and Polly gets asked to make some coffee...
timworthington.org/2023/06/29/i...
Yes it's still November, but if you want to join in with my traditional 'advent calendar' of ITV Sitcom Christmas Specials, you'll probably need to start hunting them down online slash on Talking Pictures TV round about now...
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Mitch joins me for a chat about Pocketeers, O.T.T., The Laughing Prisoner, Rialto, Rhianna - not THAT one - and the original pre-Geoffrey line-up of Rainbow. Including THAT Bungle...
timworthington.org/2021/11/09/l...
Logan's Run the spinoff TV series. No it's not as good as the movie, but for many youngsters it was the first they knew of the franchise and they accepted and enjoyed it on face value. The same goes for a lot of similar spinoffs that get sneered at now.
timworthington.org/2020/10/20/l...
Also this happens in Ever Decreasing Circles, and frankly the Two-Stage Self-Assembly Ice Cream Cone is just about the most Howard And Hilda ice cream delivery system imaginable.
timworthington.org/2019/10/03/l...
Apparently Two-Stage Self-Assembly Ice Cream Cones were officially branded as the 'Coola Bar'. Which it has to be said is exactly the sort of trying to be cool but ending up feeling like school type of name that the ever-square Lyons Maid would have given it.
timworthington.org/2019/10/03/l...
Stars by Hear'n'Aid - Twisted Sister-tastic Heavy Metal does Band Aid charity fundraising famine relief single with about twenty seven million guitar solos and the baffling presence of an entirely straight-faced Spinal Tap in the great big choir bits.
timworthington.org/2023/10/30/l...
HAPPY MAX HEADROOM BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION DAY! and to all who celebrate!!!
22.11.2024 20:08 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
@gracedent.bsky.social Almost forgot - Happy Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident Day!
22.11.2024 20:05 β π 111 π 20 π¬ 7 π 3
Several Odd-Bods model car kits.
I had a few of these Odd-Bods model car kits. Cheap two-coloured plastic snap-together model kits of strange cars, each one with a deliberate design flaw that caused allowed the car to change in some odd way. The photo is all I can find on them.
22.11.2025 21:24 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Star Turn/Star Turn Challenge - Children's BBC's celeb parlour game smackdown fronted by Bernard Cribbins in the guise of notion-having deerstalker-adjusting detective Ivor Notion. Oddly forgotten now for a show with so many none-more-seventies guests.
timworthington.org/2022/11/04/l...
Had a fair few ones as a kid - still got most of them. Dug out these cartoon onesβ¦
22.11.2025 20:37 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Why is someone ALWAYS trying to reboot The Prisoner when we've already got Stephen Fry and Jools Holland??
timworthington.org/2021/11/09/l...
Iβm on Soho Radio tomorrow! Brilliant!! Listen in from 1600 to see if Iβve got any better at playing records sohoradio.com/schedule/
22.11.2025 19:12 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Atomic Man and Bullet Man - avowedly catching on-averse attempts at updating and expanding the Action Man range with a sort of copyright-skirting Six Million Dollar Man clone and Jet Age-helmeted sort of superhero possibly. The Intruder had scant cause for concern.
timworthington.org/2020/10/20/l...
Round The Twist - often quite literally down under sitcom about lighthouse-dwelling Pete, Linda and Bronson Twist and their weird encounters with reverse-doubles, pants-losing ghosts, all too effective magic lipstick and scatalogically defensive seagulls.
timworthington.org/2023/12/07/l...
Skyscraper off the Japanese issue of their album is a particular fave of mine.
22.11.2025 17:38 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Mitch joins me for a chat about No Memory by Scarlet Fantastic, The Flipside Of Dominick Hide, Eureka!, The Deceivers, the Lady Sovereign/Jentina feud, Mego Pocket Heroes and more...
timworthington.org/2024/11/29/l...
