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There's So Much More In TV Times Part 14: Parky's Perfect Dinner Party
Imagine, if you will, a time when Peter Davison was a widely-loved television star who, in spite of the occasional bit of wishy-washy fence sitting that even in its full context hardly adopts an actual...
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Wrapped Up In Books
It’s something of a recurring theme among the dubbed imported children’s serials shown by the BBC in the sixties and seventies that they went on to find additional fame in another, entirely unrelated...
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A Fast Exciting All Action Game
Entrepreneur, engineer and inventor of the Spirograph, Denys Fisher was the creative driving force behind an enduring and very very 'British' toys and games company. No, seriously. You really don't...
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Autumn View(ing)
Originally invented by Americans as a way of flogging even more cars than usual, the idea of the 'Autumn Season' is deeply embedded in television scheduling culture. Although the BBC never actually had...
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We Love TV (But We Don't Love We Love TV!)
Basically, more or less everything about We Love TV was just plain wrong. A light-hearted quiz show about all things televisual, it ran on Friday nights on ITV between 1984 and 1986, and is sometimes...
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62-39 Was His Number
According to Smash Hits, Elvis Presley made about three million films, all of which were called either Elvis Has A Kiss-Up In Hawaii or Elvis Says It's Swinging, Pops. And, if you watched BBC1 during...
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If You're Looking For New Blog Posts...
...then from now on, you'll find them here:http://timworthington.orgSee you there!
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Take Five Really Swings!
Hello! If you're wondering why things have been a bit quiet around here, that's because I've got a brand new website, the front page of which can be found here. Please update bookmarks and links on...
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The Big Newsround Roundup Collected Comics Bound Volume Bonanza (*Ask Your...
I don't know, you wait ages for a new article by me, and then six come along all at once!In case you'd missed the poster campaign, the skywriters flying over Jeremy Corbyn's conference speech and the...
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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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"If This Were Really Happening, What Would You Think?"
Brass Eye finally made it to air, ‘with its satirical teeth slightly blunted but still intact’ as a jaw-droppingly brazen and self-absolving Channel 4 press release put it, early in 1997 and it was...
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Looks Unfamiliar #6: Martin Ruddock - I Made A Plasticine Harold Macmillan
Looks Unfamiliar 9 - Martin RuddockLooks 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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Looks Unfamiliar #10: Mark Griffiths – It Was Definitely An Audience Member,...
Looks Unfamiliar 10 - Mark GriffithsLooks 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...
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Looks Unfamiliar Christmas Extra: “CRISMAS by BEETLES”
Looks Unfamiliar Christmas Extra: “CRISMAS by BEETLES”As a special extra Christmas treat for Looks Unfamiliar listeners, here’s a compilation of highlights from the archives, with extracts from...
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Looks Unfamiliar #11: Lisa Parker And Andrew Trowbridge – He Looks Like A...
Looks Unfamiliar 11 - Lisa Parker And Andrew TrowbridgeLooks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they...
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Looks Unfamiliar #12: Steve O’Brien – E.T. Pretzel Design
Looks 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 does. Joining Tim this time...
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Looks Unfamiliar #13: Rae Earl – I Think It Was A Cerebral Cheggers Plays Pop
Looks 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 does. Joining Tim this time...
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Looks Unfamiliar #14: Samira Ahmed – They All Had Hair Like Russ Tamblyn
Looks Unfamiliar 14 - Samira AhmedLooks 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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Looks Unfamiliar #15: Steve Berry – I Survived The Great Nostalgia Wars Of 1989
Looks Unfamiliar 15 – Steve BerryLooks 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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