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There's So Much More In TV Times Part 10: The Trousers That Look After...
Unlike the square old Radio Times and its inset photographs of well-turned out broadcasters with smart haircuts and nice ties, TV Times was always right at the cutting edge of fashion. And never more...
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Looks Unfamiliar #6: Emma Burnell - Jessica Wakefield Is Jessica Fletcher...
Looks Unfamiliar 6 - Emma BurnellLooks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else...
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There's So Much More In TV Times Part 11: Here's The Curtain Track You've...
So you're all set. You've cut that page out of TV Times, you've got your leftovers all nicely stored in the fridge, you've got your oversized novelty chef's hat on, and it's time to make whatever that...
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Manchester
"Tony Wilson, who around this time was regularly featuring punk and New Wave acts on his Granada Television arts show So It Goes, was well known for his aesthetic tastes, interest in futuristic design,...
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Can We Hear It Back Now?
Carnival Of Light is probably the most obscure track The Beatles ever recorded. Specifically created for a live art installation, it was heard twice in public and has never resurfaced. Not even on the...
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It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part Eight: There's A...
When Doctor Who returned for its seventh run in 1970, it was almost a different programme. Much like we very nearly drew a line under this series of articles after the end of the black and white era,...
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A Ghost Story For Christmas (For Children)
Between 1971 and 1978, it was something of a tradition for BBC1 to scare festive viewers out of their wits with A Ghost Story For Christmas. Inspired by Jonathan Miller's superlative 1968 adaptation of...
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Twelve Radio Programmes That Need To Be Given A Proper Release
The Psychedelic Spy (BBC Radio 4, 1990)Writer Andrew Rissik was responsible for this witty, action-packed pastiche of every last military-jacketed secret agent from lurid late sixties pulp paperbacks...
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The TV That Time Forgot: Rubovia
While Camberwick Green and Trumpton are widely-quoted cornerstones of any self-respecting conversation about old children's television, it's difficult enough to find anyone who remembers Chigley with a...
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Loaded
Higher Than The Sun, a book telling the story of four albums by Saint Etienne, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and Teenage Fanclub that were released within days of each other late in 1991, was a...
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BEEB's Greatest Hits
Launched by BBC Records And Tapes in 1974, the Beeb imprint was intended as a more focused and coherent outlet for some of the more commercially viable material from BBC shows, particularly session...
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Looks Unfamiliar #7: Ben Baker - Just A Bit Massively Stereotypical
Looks Unfamiliar 7 - Ben BakerLooks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever...
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Stop Getting 'Clown' Wrong!
Early in 1967, BBC Engineer George Hersee unwittingly created a modern design icon. Back in the days when anyone who owned a television would have owned an analogue set that relied on a cathode ray...
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There's So Much More In TV Times Part 12: The Changing Face Of Cyril Shaps
From the very earliest days of Gala Night At The Mayfair and Inaugural Speeches By The Lord Mayor, The Postmaster General And The Chairman Of The Independent Television Authority Sir Kenneth Clark, if...
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BWAMmM it’s ZOKKO!
It Started With Swap Shop was the name of a light-hearted retrospective broadcast by BBC2 in 2006, ostensibly celebrating thirty years of Saturday morning television but concentrating on one particular...
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E Arth Welcome... In Blue Jam
Since his last appearance on the station on Boxing Day 1994, there had been an open invitation of sorts for Chris Morris to do some more work for Radio 1. The following two years had been taken up with...
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Here Is A Box (Set)
For a limited time, you can get four books full of stuff by me - that's Well At Least It's Free, Not On Your Telly, The Camberwick Green Procrastination Society and Tim Worthington's Bookshelf - as one...
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There's So Much More In TV Times Part 13: Anybody Seen A Tea-Stained Cardigan?
If you've been following this series of cuttings from old issues of TV Times, then you're probably of the opinion that it's already got pretty odd at times. We've seen plenty that's best described as...
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You've Got To Fight For What You Want
It’s unusual for a television series to find popularity in two different decades, though some have managed it through judiciously-placed repeats. Finding popularity in two different genres, though, is...
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Looks Unfamiliar #8: Jem Roberts - ET Is A Definite Thing
Looks Unfamiliar 8 - Jem RobertsLooks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else...
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