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Tim Worthington

@outonbluesix.bsky.social
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Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. TV's 'Clangers Expert'. timworthington.org

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 9h
Pssst - there's a book with the full story behind I Wanna Be A Winner in it here... timworthington.org/books/top-of...
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Top Of The Box
Top Of The Box by Tim Worthington – the story behind every single released by BBC Records And Tapes.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 9h
Just been reminded of the futile majesty of this miniature drama of an advert, in which Noel Edmonds is held up to public ridicule for his ownership of a new Raleigh bike. youtu.be/BcdZ6s6U03I?...
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Noel Edmonds - Raleigh Bikes (1978)
YouTube video by QuirkyFilms
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 10h
@benbaker.bsky.social EHR KNOW TOHBEYYYY
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 10h
Is that Gonch Gardener on drums?
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Dame Bibi Lynch @bibilynch.bsky.social · 10h
Gonna buy this and call it ‘Pearl’. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I’m so alone. #OneForTheKidz
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 10h
Spider-Man doing the Rubik's Cube is cheating.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 10h
Not enough Skip And Fuffy and The Oddball Couple in this collection of Swap Shop 'highlights'.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 10h
No idea whether it was me or @benbaker.bsky.social but one of us, long before he became a horror, edited Graham Linehan's Wikipedia page to say he was working on a series for the leprechauns from Live And Kicking. Not only did it stay there for YEARS, it was reported as fact in The Guardian.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 10h
Interesting we can have repeats with Schofield in but not Barrowman.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
While we're about it, here's a look at and indeed a listen to the rival pop ambitions of the Swap Shop and Tiswas teams. Never mind Blur and Oasis, this was the REAL chart battle... timworthington.org/2024/11/11/i...
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I Just Wanna Be A Winner
Never mind Blur and Oasis – the real chart battle was between Swap Shop and Tiswas…
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
While we're all raising a glass to Swap Shop, here's a chat I had with Children's BBC's own Richard Marson about the story behind the show and what it was like to see that first ever edition go out... timworthington.org/2025/12/15/l...
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Looks Unfamiliar’s Box Of Delights: Richard Marson – I Suspect The Binmen Were Probably Not In That Year’s Review Of The Year
Richard Marson joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Jackanory, Play School, Noel Edmonds’ Multicoloured Swap Shop, Grange Hill, John Craven’s Newsround, Blue Peter and more…!
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 11h
There's a whole lost world of bloketastic 'Classic Rock' in that episode of Auf Weidersehen, Pet that opens with Mark Knopfler quoting from the theme from The Good, The Bad And The Ugly only he goes 'why-ay-ayyye' instead of 'WA-WAH-WAAAAAAA'.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 11h
Well At Least It's Free. An early collection of my reviews of mostly long-cancelled television shows. Paperback or Kindle from here. timworthington.org/books/well-a...
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Well At Least It’s Free
Well At Least It’s Free by Tim Worthington – a collection of columns and features including more than you imagined anyone would need to know about the books on that shelf behind Bagpuss…
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 13h
Always everyone else's fault these days, isn't it. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
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‘Goodbye Whoniverse. God, that was fun!’: Russell T Davies on writing the end of Doctor Who
In an extract from his new memoir, the screenwriter bids farewell to the show he helped save – and welcomes its new future, whatever that is
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 18h
Back when it was much more difficult to see archive material, I loved *any* programme that featured 'old stuff', even ITV's Denis Norden-fronted cosy nostalgia show Looks Familiar. I took another look at it with @benbaker.bsky.social here. timworthington.org/2018/09/10/l...
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Looks Unfamiliar: Ben Baker – If You’re One Of Those People Who Sells Crack…
Ben Baker joins Tim Worthington for a look at the show that gave Looks Unfamiliar its name – ITV daytime staple Looks Familiar. Is nostalgia REALLY not what it used to be…?
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 19h
It's fair to say that myself and Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social) were both looking forward to The Punisher: One Last Kill, but it's also equally fair to say that it wasn't quite what either of us were expecting... timworthington.org/2026/06/09/i...
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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Punisher: One Last Kill With Mic Wright
Mic Wright joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Frank Castle going for a stroll around the block only with more hooting in The Punisher: One Last Kill.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 21h
It's Series Five of Doctor Who, and skirts are getting shorter - or is it longer? - while The Yeti expand their minds... timworthington.org/2023/07/04/i...
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It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Six: Foam, If You Want To, All Around The World
It’s Series Five of Doctor Who, and skirts are getting shorter – or is it longer – while The Yeti expand their minds…
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The House Of Splain @thehouseofsplain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
💥50 Years Of Swap Shop!💥 Ever-topical, we might have a little something for you on YouTube tomorrow! Visit youtube.com/@thehouseofs... for your nonstop Saturday morning fun.
House of Splain look at "the worst annual ever?" with a picture of Noel Edmonds looking shamefaced, like he's just killed another member of the public or had all his money stolen by the Midland Bank griffin or something.
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 21h
Biddu's story is remarkable, and I can't wait to read Alwyn's take on it. You might not know his name, but you've definitely heard, or danced to, some of his productions.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 22h
The story behind The Flashing Blade, the stylish swashbuckling dubbed imported serial that the BBC never quite got around to showing in full. Until they did a comedy redub of it of course. And then there's THAT theme song... timworthington.org/2019/05/15/y...
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You’ve Got To Fight For What You Want
The story behind The Flashing Blade, the dubbed imported serial that the BBC never quite managed to show in full…
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Singing Ringing Tree - nightmare-evoking quasi-hallucinogenic dubbed imported unsubtle 'wealth is not fulfilling' fairytale allegory shot behind the Iron Curtain and through coloured cellophane and accompanied by shrieky crackles of discordant electronica. timworthington.org/2021/09/10/t...
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The Singing Ringing Tree
Once upon a time, a prince journeyed many miles and for many days, to seek the hand of a beautiful princess in a far-off land. – but she wanted an unusual gift first…
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
During lockdown, I answered one of @herring1967.bsky.social's Emergency Questions every morning. It was both a lot of fun and a handy distraction from everything that was going on; and now, here's an annotated collection of some of my favourite answers... timworthington.org/2021/09/13/e...
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Emergency Questions
Answers to some of Richard Herring’s Emergency Questions. Not that one though.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New! It's 1984, and for Doctor Who it's a year of two Doctors - and they're starting to look at risk of outnumbering the viewers... timworthington.org/2026/09/29/i...
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It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty Four – Salateen, Look At You Now
It’s 1984, and for Doctor Who it’s a year of two Doctors – and they’re starting to look at risk of outnumbering the viewers…
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Firestar, H.E.R.B.I.E., 7-Zark-7, Orko, Bat-Mite, Lt. M'Ress, N'Kima, Mr. Cool and all those other new 'fun' characters that found their way into animated franchise spinoffs - let's just say some of them were more welcome additions than others... timworthington.org/2021/08/20/t...
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The Ten Most Non-Canonical Non-Canonical Cartoon Characters
From 7-Zark-7 and Firestar to Mr. Cool and Bat-Mite, a look at the hastily added new characters that not EVERYBODY loved…
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
On the other hand, we might have ended up with him yodelling A Love Supreme on an Austrian hillside, which... isn't that much different really.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
All I'm saying is that if Maria Von Trapp had tried some of John Coltrane's favourite things, The Sound Of Music might have been a slightly different film.
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The House Of Splain @thehouseofsplain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don't forget, tomorrow morning at 9am to kick off your weekend... youtu.be/gef6LUf8rmY?...
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Is this the worst annual ever printed?
YouTube video by The House Of Splain
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
And when I got home Fell on its head This bird was dead So I took it back "No it's not true Norwegian Blue"
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hugh Burden is he. #totp
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I do not say this lightly. He Ain't Heavy is an *insult* to everything The Hollies did before it. On A Carousel? Jennifer Eccles? King Midas In Reverse? All light years ahead of this phatic dirge. #totp
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Love in the 2.2 Degree' #totp
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jacqui always looked like she wanted to be in any other band than Bananarama. #totp
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Those awful Noel's House Party trumpets. #totp
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I will personally spit in every fiftieth burger. #totp
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I would *love* to see Lenny Henry's parody of One Moment In Time again. #totp
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I went on a family holiday to Barry Island in 1988 and roughly 93% of the teenage girls looked like Hazell Dean does here. #totp
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bono dressed as every man that refuses to move down the train carriage, there. #TOTP
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Quite apt really as it's no I Believe In Miracles. #totp
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
...and that message in a bottle said 'no not aaaaaahhhhh'. #totp
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Apocryphon of John in the original coptic. #totp
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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looking forward to #totp tonight
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
God, I love it when I’m wrong.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@benbaker.bsky.social HEAR IT'S SOME NEWWWWWWS
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh that Chris Morris! Whatever will he think of next?! #totp
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As a very small child, I genuinely thought Video Killed The Radio Star featured the lyric "in my mind and in my heart/The Country Wine, we've gone too far", and thought "... isn't that those old men?". #totp
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Possibly the angriest thing I have writer written in quite some time. The rest of it is quite silly though. timworthington.org/2026/09/29/i...
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Iron Maiden proving yet again that if you stick determinedly to doing both what you like and what your fans like, you'll always sound both exciting and different. #totp
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Gina @brokenbiros.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trying to be mod but have ended up funeral directors / first court appearance
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honestly, people - Avengers: Doomsday is not going to 'get' you.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They look like Sixties Pop Group from Viz. #totp
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