004 - Stephen O'Brien - The Classic 'Four Calculators' Sketch

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.Joining Tim this time is writer Stephen O'Brien, who's wondering why he gets blank looks all round whenever he mentions Steven Moffat sitcom The Office, early 'lad mag' LM, eighties puzzle cash-in paperback You Can Do The Cube, KLF-affiliated early Stock Aitken Waterman act Brilliant, The Beachcombers and other last-minute ITV emergency schedule replacement standbys and The Morecambe And Wise Board Game. Along the way we'll be finding out how many issues of 'Razzle And Wise' were published, how many characters Stefan Dennis can play on stage at once, and which seventies action serial is slightly less preferable to actually being at school.You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Stephen on Looks Unfamiliar talking about his favourite forgotten eighties Christmas Singles - taking in The Snowmen, Frank Sidebottom, George Cole And Dennis Waterman, Band Aid II, Run DMC, Madge and Harold from Neighbours and more - here and what it was like to watch The Box Of Delights on its original broadcast and to then spend a long time afterwards hunting down the tie-in paperback and theme single here. You can also find Stephen on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about Press Gang here.If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Not in a novelty Rubik's Cube mug though. I mean for a start they're entirely the wrong shape.