069 - Mitch Benn - Thunderbird One Is Blue You Weirdo

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 musician, comedian and writer Mitch Benn, who's wafery fondant his recollections of chocolate bar 54321, the Logan's Run television series, Matchbox Zoomy Balloonies, King Swamp, Action Man spinoff figures Atomic Man and Bullet Man, and the fifties nostalgia boom of the late seventies. Along the way we'll be finding out where REM didn't get their name from but secretly did, questioning the viability of the Official Mike Lindup From Level 42 Toothbrush and wondering whether it's actually physically or legally possible to prevent Paul McCartney from dressing up as a Teddy Boy.You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Mitch on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Nobody’s House, Don’t Stand So Close To Me ’86 by The Police, Cyborg and Muton, Orion, Two Stage Self-Assembly Ice Cream Cones and Get Stuffed here, Monday Morning 5.19 by Rialto, The Laughing Prisoner, Oh Baby by Rhianna, Pocketeers, O.T.T. and the original pre-Geoffrey incarnation of Rainbow here, Star Turn Challenge, Mr Hicks from Grange Hill, Striker, Lines by The Planets, Night Raven and international celebrities acting in pop videos here, Stars by Hear’n’Aid, Into Infinity, The Humanoid, A Man Called Sloane, BusyBodies and The Kids Are Alright by The Pleasers here, No Memory by Scarlet Fantastic, The Flipside Of Dominick Hide, The Deceivers, Eureka!, Lady Sovereign and Jentina's feud and Mego Pocket Heroes here and Channel 4’s pre-launch trailers, Imagination by Belouis Some, Space Sentinels, Simon Dutton as The Saint, How To Be A Complete Bastard by Adrian Edmondson and Maskatron here, as well as Clangers on The Golden Age Of Children's TV here.If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not buy us a coffee here? It’s sort of vaguely linked to fifties nostalgia in the seventies after all. Sort of.