About this episode

Tim Worthington hosts a discussion with Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson about nostalgic TV highlights for the autumn season.

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 seems to. This time it's the NEW SEASON, and Tim, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are all crowding into a local radio studio where they have been tasked with taking listeners through the highlights coming to your TV this autumn, ready to take your calls about the Good Winter Telly - and the not-so-good - that kept us entertained on frosty back-to-school evenings in years gone by. In a Bob's Full House of a chat we'll be discovering Tommy Cooper's stance on the suedehead phenomenon, wading through Margaret Thatcher's torrent of letters to Boxpops , encountering Emmerdale Farm Hauntology and Trades Union Congress Folk Horror, disputing the branched timeline of Alan Partridge's headmasters, not buying a Merlin Tonto Optimus Prime Victorian Time Machine Opening Titles Of The Wombles Marvellous Mechanical Mouse-Organ, querying the lack of a Terry And June synopsis and why this might point towards a crossover with The Wire , revealing why Professor Yaffle had 'beef' with The Two Davids, attending a demonstration by…

People in this episode

Host: Tim Worthington

Guests: Bob Fischer, Georgy Jamieson

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: There's Fucking Millions Of Us Presenting This, Barbara Cartland's Condensation, Last Of The Ewok Summer Wine, Terry And June, The Wire, Emmerdale Farm Hauntology, Trades Union Congress Folk Horror, Merlin Tonto Optimus Prime Victorian Time Machine Opening Titles Of The Wombles Marvellous Mechanical Mouse-Organ

Places: local radio studio

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