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William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE (born 7 July 1941 in Rochdale, Lancashire), is a British comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician. ...
Tim Brooke-Taylor (April 2000) Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor, (born 17 July 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of The Goodies comedy trio and in the comedy radio shows Im Sorry I Havent a Clue, and...
Graeme Garden, as a Beefeater in The Goodies (TV series) episode The Tower of London David Graeme Garden (born February 18, 1943) is a British comedy writer and performer. ...
| Nationality:
 British | | Genre: Sketch comedy, Surreal humour | | Media | | Television, Theatre, Audio Recordings | | Years active | | (1970-1982) (2005-) | | Members | Tim Brooke-Taylor
Graeme Garden
Bill Oddie
| | Notable works | The Goodies television series (1970-1982)
The Goodies — stage shows (2005-) | Other notable works
(starring all three Goodies) | I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (1964-1973) (25th anniversary special 1989)
Broaden Your Mind (1968) | | Official website | | The Official Goodies Rule — OK! | - This article discusses the Goodies trio and the origins of their comedy TV series
- For information about the television series, see The Goodies (TV series)
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Tim Brooke-Taylor (April 2000) Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor, (born 17 July 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of The Goodies comedy trio and in the comedy radio shows Im Sorry I Havent a Clue, and...
Graeme Garden, as a Beefeater in The Goodies (TV series) episode The Tower of London David Graeme Garden (born February 18, 1943) is a British comedy writer and performer. ...
William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE (born 7 July 1941 in Rochdale, Lancashire), is a British comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician. ...
The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ...
Im Sorry, Ill Read That Again was a long-running BBC radio comedy programme that originally grew out of the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus. ...
Broaden Your Mind was a British television comedy series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, joined by Bill Oddie for the second series. ...
The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ...
Tim Brooke-Taylor (April 2000) Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor, (born 17 July 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of The Goodies comedy trio and in the comedy radio shows Im Sorry I Havent a Clue, and...
Graeme Garden, as a Beefeater in The Goodies (TV series) episode The Tower of London David Graeme Garden (born February 18, 1943) is a British comedy writer and performer. ...
William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE (born 7 July 1941 in Rochdale, Lancashire), is a British comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician. ...
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The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ...
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Cambridge University The three actors in The Goodies met as students at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, where Tim Brooke-Taylor was studying law, Graeme Garden was studying medicine, and Bill Oddie was studying English. It was as undergraduate students at the University that Tim, Bill and Graeme also met John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle, who would later become founding members of Monty Python. This group of students became close friends and studied together, including Tim Brooke-Taylor and John Cleese (who were both law students, but at different colleges within the university) swapping lecture notes, which gave them a more complete perspective on mutual subjects than they would have if they had only studied with their own colleges. They all became members of the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club, with Tim Brooke-Taylor becoming president in 1963, and with Graeme Garden succeeding Tim as president in 1964.[1] The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ...
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Dr. Graham Arthur Chapman (January 8, 1941 – October 4, 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. ...
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Graeme Garden was himself succeeded as the Footlights Club president in 1965 by Eric Idle, who had initially become aware of the Footlights Club when he auditioned for a Pembroke College "smoker" for Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. Full name Pembroke College Motto - Named after Countess of Pembroke, Mary de St Pol Previous names Marie Valence Hall (1347), Pembroke Hall (?), Pembroke College (1856) Established 1347 Sister College(s) Queens College Master Sir Richard Dearlove Location Trumpington Street Undergraduates ~420 Postgraduates ~240 Homepage Boatclub Pembroke College is a...
Career before The Goodies Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie were cast members of the highly successful 1960s BBC radio comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which also featured John Cleese, David Hatch and Jo Kendall, and lasted until 1973. I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again resulted from the successful 1963 Cambridge University Footlights Club revue A Clump of Plinths. After having its title changed to Cambridge Circus, the revue went on to play at West End in London, England, followed by a tour of New Zealand and Broadway in New York, United States of America (including an appearance on the top rating Ed Sullivan Show). For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...
Im Sorry, Ill Read That Again was a long-running BBC radio comedy programme that originally grew out of the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus. ...
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Sir David Hatch attended the University of Cambridge, where he was also a member of the prestigious Cambridge Footlights Club. ...
Jo Kendall is a British actress. ...
Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Cambridge Circus is a comedy revue that played in London in the 1960s. ...
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They also took part in various TV shows with other people, including Tim Brooke-Taylor in At Last the 1948 Show (with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman), and Tim Brooke-Taylor taking part in Marty (with Marty Feldman, John Junkin and Roland MacLeod). Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie took part in Twice a Fortnight (with Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Jonathan Lynn), before Tim, Bill and Graeme worked on the late 1960s TV show Broaden Your Mind (of which only about ten minutes survives). At Last the 1948 Show was a satirical TV show made by David Frosts Paradine Productions (although they werent credited on the actual programmes) in association with Rediffusion London for Britains ITV network during 1967, bringing Cambridge Footlights type-humour to a broader audience. ...
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Dr. Graham Arthur Chapman (January 8, 1941 – October 4, 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. ...
Martin Alan Marty Feldman (8 July 1934[1] – 2 December 1982) was an English writer, comedian and BAFTA award winning actor, notable for his bulging eyes, which were the result of a thyroid condition known as Graves Disease. ...
For other articles with the name Marty, check the Marty (disambiguation) page Marty is a British television sketch comedy series, with Marty Feldman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Roland MacLeod, which was made in 1968. ...
Martin Alan Marty Feldman (8 July 1934[1] – 2 December 1982) was an English writer, comedian and BAFTA award winning actor, notable for his bulging eyes, which were the result of a thyroid condition known as Graves Disease. ...
John Francis Junkin (January 29, 1930, Ealing, London - March 7, 2006, Aylesbury) was a British radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter. ...
Roland MacLeod (born 1935 in London, England), was an actor of film and television. ...
Twice a Fortnight, which was made in 1967, was a British sketch comedy television comedy series with Terry Jones. ...
Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. ...
Terence Graham Parry Jones (born in Colwyn Bay, Wales, on February 1, 1942) is a British comedian, screenwriter and actor, film director, childrens author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. ...
Jonathan Lynn (born April 3, 1943), is a British actor and comedy writer. ...
Broaden Your Mind was a British television comedy series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, joined by Bill Oddie for the second series. ...
The Goodies television series The Goodies was created and co-written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ...
The music for the show was written by Bill Oddie, and The Goodies' theme music was co-written by Bill Oddie and Michael Gibbs. The show also benefited greatly from the input of director Bob Spiers. Michael Clement Irving Gibbs (born September 25, 1937 in Harare) is a jazz composer, conductor, arranger and producer as well as a trombonist and keyboarder. ...
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The television series ran from November 1970 to February 1982 on BBC 2, with 70 episodes, mostly thirty minutes in length except for two forty-five minute Christmas specials (The Goodies and the Beanstalk and The Goodies Rule – O.K.?). The costume designer for this episode was famous BBC costume designer Dee Robson. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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The Goodies and the Beanstalk is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. ...
The Goodies Rule - OK.? is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. ...
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It was one of the first shows in the UK to use chroma key and one of the first to use stop-motion techniques in a live action format. Other effects include hand editing for repeated movement, mainly used to make animals "talk" or "sing", and play speed effects as used in the episode "Kitten Kong". This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: it is patent nonsense. ...
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Kitten Kong is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. ...
The threesome travelled around on, and frequently fell off, a three-seater bicycle called the trandem.[3][4] One of these trandems was later cycled across Africa, a trip immortalised in the resultant book Three Men on a Bike.
Although The Goodies are well known for performing spectacular but comedic stunts, it was Tim Brooke-Taylor who performed most of them. Tim Brooke-Taylor (April 2000) Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor, (born 17 July 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of The Goodies comedy trio and in the comedy radio shows Im Sorry I Havent a Clue, and...
The Goodies was nominated for a BAFTA award in 1976, as the Best Light Entertainment Programme, but lost out to Fawlty Towers. BAFTA Award The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...
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The Goodies never had a formal contract with the BBC, and when the BBC Light Entertainment budget for 1980 was exhausted by the production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV series, they signed a contract with London Weekend Television for ITV. However, after one half-hour Christmas special ("Snow White 2") in 1981, and a six-part series in early 1982, the series was cancelled. In recent interviews the cast suggest the reasons were mainly economic — a typical Goodies sketch was more expensive than it appeared. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,[1] was a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adamss The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy broadcast in January and February 1981 on BBC Two. ...
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Snow White 2 is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. ...
TV series: releases and repeats
In Britain Unlike most long-running BBC comedy series, The Goodies has not enjoyed extensive repeats on terrestrial television in the UK, the BBC in fact refusing to allow them since 1986 because the controller of the BBC during the 1980s did not personally like the series. The series also appeals to children for its visual humour, with the result that, in Britain, it is often incorrectly described as a children's programme. Therefore, the series has never enjoyed the same artistic respect as contemporaries such as Peter Cook and the Monty Python team. Also, when the BBC released two videos of the series in the 1990s, the BBC did not seem enthusiastic about promoting them. Rerun van Pelt is the name of Linus and Lucys younger brother in the comic strip Peanuts. ...
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In the late 1980s, the pan-European satellite-channel Super Channel broadcast a couple of episodes and the short-lived Comedy Channel broadcast some of the later Goodies episodes in the early 1990s. Later UK Gold screened many of the earlier episodes, often with commercial timing cuts. The same episodes subsequently aired on UK Arena, also cut. When UK Arena became UK Drama, later UKTV Drama, The Goodies was dropped along with its other comedy and documentary shows. Super Channel was a satellite television channel based in the United Kingdom that broadcast accross Europe. ...
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UKTV Gold, (previously known as UK Gold until March 8, 2004), is a British television channel that shows mainly classic BBC entertainment programmes. ...
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The cast finally took matters into their own hands and arranged for the release of a digitally-remastered "best of" selection entitled The Goodies ... At Last on VHS and Region 0 DVD in April, 2003. A second volume, The Goodies ... At Last a Second Helping was released on Region 2 in February, 2005. Series 9 was released on Region 2 as The Goodies - The Complete LWT Series on 26th March 2007. Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard. ...
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They also did the Christmas 1976 Disney Time from the toy department of Selfridges store in London. It was broadcast on Boxing Day at 5.50pm. Disney Time was a television series that ran in the UK on the BBC, and also ITV at one point. ...
In 2004, an episode of the BBC documentary series Comedy Connections was devoted to the Goodies. Comedy Connections is a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that aired from 2003 to 2007. ...
Christmas 2005 saw a 90-minute Goodies special, including a documentary about the series, Return of the Goodies, broadcast on BBC Two. For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation). ...
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Early on in 2006 a single episode about the Winter Olympics was broadcast on BBC Two but was not followed by any more. A runner carries the Olympic torch The Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics for short but more correctly The Olympic Winter Games, are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games. ...
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In February 2007, the 1982 LWT series was repeated on pay-TV channel Paramount 2.
In Australia In Australia, the series has had continued popularity and many Australians are surprised to learn of its absence from British screens. It was repeated through the 1970s and 1980s by the ABC — although, as the show was typically broadcast in the 25-minute 5:30 p.m. children's timeslot (6.00 p.m. in Queensland), portions often had to be cut. The unedited episodes were repeated frequently on the pay television channel UK.TV during the 1990s and early 2000s. The DVDs are available in Australia under different titles to the UK releases: The Goodies: 8 Delicious Episodes and The Goodies: A Tasty Second Helping, respectively. The Goodies' DVDs are also available in a box set with a commemorative booklet (The Goodies: The Tasty Box). This collection contains the same 16 episodes as the original two DVD releases but with additional material such as commentaries on several episodes and the original scripts of some episodes in PDF format. Picture quality has been greatly improved using digital restoration techniques and the episode Come Dancing, which was originally thought to only have survived in black and white, is presented in low-band colour from a chroma-keyed video recording. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC is Australias national non-profit public broadcaster. ...
UKTV is a subscription television channel in Australia and New Zealand, screening UK entertainment programming, sourced mainly from the archives of the BBC, TALKBACKThames and ITV Plc. ...
Come Dancing is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. ...
In the United States and Canada In the United States, the series was shown widely in syndication during the late 1970s and early 1980s, but has been little seen since. It was shown also on PBS stations, sometimes in tandem with Monty Python's Flying Circus. The series was also shown in Canada on the CBC national broadcast network during those same years, in the traditional "after school" timeslot. Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ...
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In Germany In Germany, The Goodies was shown in the late seventies as part of the variety show Engelbert and the Young Generation. The show was dubbed into German, and, because the jokes were more visual than dialogue based, it translated very well. For other uses, see Dialogue (disambiguation). ...
Goodies books As well as being very successful on the TV screen, in their heyday The Goodies also produced successful books, e.g.: - The Goodies File
- The Goodies Book of Criminal Records
- The Making of The Goodies Disaster Movie
Goodies songs The Goodies also had a string of successful chart singles penned by the musically talented Oddie.
In 1975, they chalked up five hit singles in twelve months including "The Inbetweenies" and "Funky Gibbon" (both songs are performed during the episode "The Goodies – Almost Live". The Goodies – Almost Live is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. ...
"Funky Gibbon" reached number 4 in the charts in Britain, and The Goodies made an appearance on Top of the Pops with the song. They also performed it during the Amnesty International show A Poke in the Eye (with a Sharp Stick). Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ...
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The World of the Goodies (LP cover) The Goodies on Record is about The Goodies releases: LP – CD – DVD – VHS The Goodies releases included the following titles, among others: // All Things Bright and Beautiful Ride My Pony Stuff That Gibbon Mummy I Dont Like My Meat Show Me the...
Other collaborations Tim Brooke-Taylor was a writer/performer on the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show (which also included John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman in the cast), in which Bill Oddie guest starred in some of the episodes. The famous "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch was co-written by the four writers/performers of the series — Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman. The sketch was one of the few that survived the destruction of the series (by the tapes being wiped), by David Frost's Paradine Productions (which produced the series). The sketch appears on the DVD of At Last the 1948 Show. It is fortunate that any episodes remain after their wholesale destruction — and these were only saved because John Cleese discovered to his horror that the tapes for "At Last the 1948 Show" were being destroyed and fought to save the remaining five episodes from suffering the same fate. There were originally thirteen episodes of the series altogether — so more than half of the series have been lost to posterity (all the surviving material was released on DVD in 2005). At Last the 1948 Show was a satirical TV show made by David Frosts Paradine Productions (although they werent credited on the actual programmes) in association with Rediffusion London for Britains ITV network during 1967, bringing Cambridge Footlights type-humour to a broader audience. ...
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Dr. Graham Arthur Chapman (January 8, 1941 – October 4, 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. ...
Martin Alan Marty Feldman (8 July 1934[1] – 2 December 1982) was an English writer, comedian and BAFTA award winning actor, notable for his bulging eyes, which were the result of a thyroid condition known as Graves Disease. ...
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Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE (born April 7, 1939) is an English television presenter. ...
At Last the 1948 Show was a satirical TV show made by David Frosts Paradine Productions (although they werent credited on the actual programmes) in association with Rediffusion London for Britains ITV network during 1967, bringing Cambridge Footlights type-humour to a broader audience. ...
Tim Brooke-Taylor was a cast member of the television comedy series Marty with Marty Feldman and John Junkin — a compilation of the two series of Marty has been released on a DVD with the title of It's Marty. For other articles with the name Marty, check the Marty (disambiguation) page Marty is a British television sketch comedy series, with Marty Feldman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Roland MacLeod, which was made in 1968. ...
John Francis Junkin (January 29, 1930, Ealing, London - March 7, 2006, Aylesbury) was a British radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter. ...
Brooke-Taylor was also a cast member of John Cleese's special How to Irritate People. Cover of the DVD version. ...
Along with John Junkin and Barry Cryer, Brooke-Taylor was a regular cast member of the long running Radio 2 comedy sketch show Hello, Cheeky!, which ran from 1973 to 1979. The series also transferred to Yorkshire Television for two series in 1975 and 1976. John Francis Junkin (January 29, 1930, Ealing, London - March 7, 2006, Aylesbury) was a British radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter. ...
Barry Cryer (born March 23, 1935 in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK) is a writer and comedian. ...
Hello, Cheeky! was a series broadcast on BBC Radio 2 between 1973 and 1979. ...
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Tim Brooke-Taylor also appeared on BBC's hospital comedy TLC, as well as the sitcoms You Must Be The Husband (with Diane Keen and Sheila Steafel), and Me and My Girl (with Richard O'Sullivan and Joan Sanderson). He also played in a televised pro-celebrity golf match opposite Bruce Forsyth. TLC TLC publicity shot TLC (Tender Loving Care) was a darkly surreal sitcom set in a fictional NHS hospital called South Middlesex where coffee is traded like drugs and pretty much everyone has a personality problem. ...
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You Must be the Husband is a British comedy television series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor in the title role of Tom Hammond, and Diane Keen as his wife, Alice Hammond, with Sheila Steafel as Alices literary agent, Miranda Shaw. ...
Born on July 29, 1946, Diane Keen was a regular on TV screens during the 1970s, starring in sitcoms such as The Cuckoo Waltz and The Sandbaggers. ...
Sheila Steafel (Born 1935-05-26, Johannesburg) is an actress who, having been born in South Africa, has lived all her adult life in Britain. ...
Me and My Girl is a popular British stage musical, with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay. ...
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Bruce Forsyth, CBE (born Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson on 22 February 1928, is a British showman and entertainer who achieved celebrity on the show Sunday Night at the London Palladium, and became a household name in the UK, going on to present the television shows The Generation Game, Play Your...
Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie were writers/performers on the television comedy series Twice a Fortnight (which also included Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn in the cast). Twice a Fortnight, which was made in 1967, was a British sketch comedy television comedy series with Terry Jones. ...
Terence Graham Parry Jones (born in Colwyn Bay, Wales, on February 1, 1942) is a British comedian, screenwriter and actor, film director, childrens author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. ...
Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. ...
Jonathan Lynn (born April 3, 1943), is a British actor and comedy writer. ...
Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden were writers/performers on the television comedy series Broaden Your Mind, with Bill Oddie joining them for the second series. Broaden Your Mind was a British television comedy series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, joined by Bill Oddie for the second series. ...
The three writers and performers also collaborated on the 1983 animated children's programme Bananaman, where they played various (voice) roles. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Bill Oddie has occasionally appeared on the BBC Radio 4 panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, on which Garden and Brooke-Taylor are regular panellists. Im Sorry I Havent a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC or simply Clue, is a BBC radio comedy which has run since 11 April 1972. ...
Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie worked on the television comedy Doctor in the House: they co-wrote most of the first series and all of the second. Doctor in the House was a British television comedy series produced by London Weekend Television from 1969 to 1970. ...
In 1982 Garden and Oddie wrote, but did not perform in, a six-part science fiction sitcom called Astronauts for Central and ITV. The show was set in an international space station in the near future. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
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Astronauts was a British science fiction sitcom. ...
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Garden was a regular team captain on the political satire game show If I Ruled the World. Brooke-Taylor appeared as a guest in one episode, and during the game "I Couldn't Disagree More" he proposed that it was high time The Goodies episodes were repeated. Garden was obliged by the rules of the game to refute this statement, and replied "I couldn't disagree more...it was time to repeat them ten, fifteen years ago." This was followed by uproarious applause from the studio audience. If I Ruled the World is a song, originally from the West End musical, Pickwick, based on Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers. ...
In 2004, Garden and Brooke-Taylor were co-presenters of Channel 4's daytime game show Beat the Nation, in which they indulged in usual game show "banter", but took the quiz itself seriously. Oddie hosts a very successful series of nature programmes for the BBC. This article is about the British television station. ...
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Beat The Nation was a quiz show on the UK commercial channel Channel 4 that ran for just one series in early 2004. ...
Goodies reunion shows
2005 Australian reunion shows The trio reunited in Australia for The Goodies (Still A)Live on Stage as part of Sydney's Big Laugh Comedy Festival in March 2005. The show toured the country, visiting Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra and selling out most of the 13 performances. [5] This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ...
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A further Australian tour by the Goodies, sans Bill, took place during November and December 2005. [6]
2006 UK reunion shows Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden took their Goodies Live show to the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe festival. The show was similar to the second leg of the Goodies Australian tour, with Bill Oddie participating via video (due to his many filming commitments).[7] A street performer on the Royal Mile, with volunteer (2004). ...
The show was performed at the Paramount Comedy Festival in Brighton in October [8] Brighton is located on the south coast of England, and together with its immediate neighbour Hove forms the city of Brighton and Hove. ...
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Please improve the article by adding references. See the talk page for details. (June 2007) | It may be argued that The Goodies' antics brought the surrealist adventure traditions of The Goon Show to the television screen without diverting into areas of coarseness or topical satire to the same extent as other British television series like Till Death Us Do Part, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Not Only But Also, Not the Nine O'Clock News or, much later, The Young Ones. There were satirical episodes of The Goodies including: South Africa (apartheid) — Punky Business (punk) — and Gender Education (satirising Mary Whitehouse's influence on television). Image File history File links Emblem-important. ...
The Goon Show was a popular and influential British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 on the BBC Home Service. ...
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This article is about the television series. ...
Not Only. ...
Not the Nine OClock News is a comedy television programme that was shown on the BBC, broadcast from 1979 to 1982. ...
The Young Ones was a popular British sitcom, first seen in 1982, which aired on BBC2. ...
The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ...
Punky Business is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. ...
Gender Education is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. ...
The Goodies appealed to adults on an intellectual level, and also had a level of appeal to children as a consequence of its visual humour and slapstick. Although there are similarities to the television series The Monkees, with the group members employing music, slapstick comedy, bad puns and camera tricks; and all living in the same house together and working together — a tradition also borne out of the films of The Beatles — The Goodies owes nothing to either. Instead, the comedy of The Goodies originated with the Cambridge University Footlights Club's revues.[1] The Monkees were a pop-rock quartet created and based in Los Angeles in 1965 for an NBC American television series of the same name. ...
The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ...
The ADC Theatre is the home of the Footlights. ...
The Official Goodies fan club's (Goodies Rule-OK!) newsletter, is called the Clarion & Globe. It was named after the newspaper in The Goodies' episode "Fleet Street Goodies" (a.k.a. "Cunning Stunts"). Look up Newsletter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Fleet Street Goodies is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. ...
During the 70s Cor!! comic, released by Fleetway publications had a Goodies comics strip. When the comic later merged with Buster, the Goodies did not move across, although the TV show was still running. Cor!! was a British comic book that ran from (issues dates) 6 June 1970 to 15 June 1974, when it merged with Buster. ...
Fleetway, also known as Fleetway Publications and Fleetway Editions, was a publishing company, mainly producing comic magazines for the U.K.. Fleetway began life as Amalgamated Press, the company owned by Alfred Harmsworth, who were based in Fleetway House. ...
Buster was a long-running British comic (28 May 1960 - 4 January 2000) which carried a mixture of humour and adventure strips, although the latter genre would become a rarer occurrence as the comic went on. ...
Stella, an American trio, has a show on Comedy Central that is very similar to The Goodies in terms of basic plot line — with the trio even riding a tandem. The television series premiered in the United States on June 28, 2005. Stella was a television series that originally ran June 28, 2005 - August 30, 2005 on the American television channel Comedy Central, created by and starring Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain, the three members of the sketch comedy troupe of the same name and former cast members of...
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Australian rock band Spiderbait released an album and EP that had a rocked up fast cover version of the Goodies song "Run". Spiderbait are an Australian rock band who have had two top ten albums and another three albums reach the Australian top 40. ...
Australian theatre company Shaolin Punk produced a short play titled "A Record or an OBE", written by Melbourne comedian and actor Ben McKenzie, and featuring Tim and Graeme as characters. Set in 1975, the two remaining Goodies struggle to carry on after Bill leaves the group to pursue a music career. The play premiered in the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival, where it was highly commended in the Comedy category, and will also be performed for the Adelaide Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2008.[9] Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
The Melbourne Fringe Festival is an annual alternative arts festival held in Melbourne, Australia. ...
The Adelaide Fringe Festival is an arts festival held annually in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. ...
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Fatal effect On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers" in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a black pudding-wielding Bill Oddie (master of the ancient Lancastrian martial art "Ecky-Thump") in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye." After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure. His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant.[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Kings Lynn is a town and port in the English county of Norfolk. ...
Fatal Hilarity is death as a result of laughter. ...
Kung Fu Kapers is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. ...
A piper playing the Great Highland Bagpipe. ...
References - ^ a b From Fringe to Flying Circus — 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980' — Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980.
- ^ The Goodies Still Alive on Stage - the Official Souvenir Program - Australian Tour 2002
- ^ "The Penguin TV Companion" (2nd Edition) — Jeff Evans, Penguin Books Ltd., London, 2003
- ^ "Laughs to the Power of Three" — Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ "The Second Australian Tour" — The Goodies official website
- ^ Goodies Live Show at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival — The Goodies official website
- ^ Paramount Comedy Festival in Brighton — The Goodies official website
- ^ McKenzie, Ben. Shaolin Punk >> A Record or an OBE. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
- ^ Death by Laughing
- ^ The Complete Goodies — Robert Ross, B T Batsford, London, 2000.
- ^ Man Dies Laughing at The Goodies, "Daily Mail", London (29 March 1975)
- ^ A Goodies Way to Go — Laughing, "Eastern Daily Press", Norwich (29 March 1975)
- ^ Slapstick! The Illustrated Story of Knockabout Comedy — Tony Staveacre, Angus & Robinson 1987
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ...
Further reading - The Complete Goodies — Robert Ross, B T Batsford, London, 2000
- The Goodies Rule OK — Robert Ross, Carlton Books Ltd, Sydney, 2006
- TV Heaven — Jim Sangster & Paul Condon, HarperCollinsPublishers, London, 2005
See also The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ...
The Goodies — Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden This is a list of episodes in the British comedy television series The Goodies. ...
The World of the Goodies (LP cover) The Goodies on Record is about The Goodies releases: LP – CD – DVD – VHS The Goodies releases included the following titles, among others: // All Things Bright and Beautiful Ride My Pony Stuff That Gibbon Mummy I Dont Like My Meat Show Me the...
A listing of some of the guest stars who appeared on The Goodies, and the episodes in which they appeared. ...
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The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ...
Tim Brooke-Taylor (April 2000) Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor, (born 17 July 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of The Goodies comedy trio and in the comedy radio shows Im Sorry I Havent a Clue, and...
Graeme Garden, as a Beefeater in The Goodies (TV series) episode The Tower of London David Graeme Garden (born February 18, 1943) is a British comedy writer and performer. ...
William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE (born 7 July 1941 in Rochdale, Lancashire), is a British comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician. ...
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