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The Goodies

  • TV Series
  • 1970–1982
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
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Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie in The Goodies (1970)
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The adventures of a crazy trio whose motto is "we do anything, anytime, anywhere."The adventures of a crazy trio whose motto is "we do anything, anytime, anywhere."The adventures of a crazy trio whose motto is "we do anything, anytime, anywhere."

  • Creators
    • Tim Brooke-Taylor
    • Graeme Garden
    • Bill Oddie
  • Stars
    • Tim Brooke-Taylor
    • Graeme Garden
    • Bill Oddie
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    • Creators
      • Tim Brooke-Taylor
      • Graeme Garden
      • Bill Oddie
    • Stars
      • Tim Brooke-Taylor
      • Graeme Garden
      • Bill Oddie
    • 24User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
      • 2 wins & 3 nominations total

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    Tim Brooke-Taylor
    Tim Brooke-Taylor
    • Tim Brooke-Taylor…
    • 1970–1982
    Graeme Garden
    Graeme Garden
    • Graeme Garden…
    • 1970–1982
    Bill Oddie
    Bill Oddie
    • Bill Oddie…
    • 1970–1982
    Corbet Woodall
    • Newsreader…
    • 1970–1980
    Roland MacLeod
    • James Burke…
    • 1970–1980
    Ernie Goodyear
    • 1977–1980
    Patrick Moore
    Patrick Moore
    • Patrick Moore
    • 1973–1980
    Sheila Steafel
    • The Queen…
    • 1973–1977
    David Rappaport
    David Rappaport
    • Robot…
    • 1981–1982
    Stuart Fell
    Stuart Fell
    • Bank clerk…
    • 1977–1982
    Michael Barratt
    • Nationwide Presenter…
    • 1975–1977
    Marcelle Samett
    • 1973–1980
    Norman Mitchell
    Norman Mitchell
    • Gerald…
    • 1971–1980
    Michael Aspel
    Michael Aspel
    • Michael Aspel
    • 1971–1975
    The Fred Tomlinson Singers
    • Black and White Minstrels…
    • 1973–1977
    James Muir
    • 1977
    Erik Chitty
    Erik Chitty
    • Eye Witness…
    • 1973–1976
    Barry Cryer
    Barry Cryer
    • Newsreader
    • 1975–1980
    • Creators
      • Tim Brooke-Taylor
      • Graeme Garden
      • Bill Oddie
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    roisinmoriarty-1

    The Funkiest Gibbons In Town!

    It's funny how the controller of BBC2 can allow repeats of "The Good Life" and "Fresh Prince Of Bel Air" (to name but two admittedly excellent comedies) to be shown over and over but her reasoning for not repeating "The Goodies" is that she doesn't want to air too many repeats. But the good, nay utterly brilliant, news is that Messrs Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie themselves have bought the rights to their classic show and plan on releasing it on DVD and video. At this time it's unknown whether they'll publish the whole lot with loads of fabulous DVD extras (a commentary from the trio would be wonderful) but the fact that us Goodies fans can finally get to see our wacky heroes any time we like is reason for the most joyous of celebrations.

    The jokes that sailed too close to the wind and the occasional mis-fired episode have already been discussed here but it still remains that these were some of the funniest guys of the Seventies (and beyond) and deserve a good deal more recognition than they currently enjoy. "Kitten Kong" and "Bunfight at the OK Tearooms" are no doubt their best known sketches but their take on "Bright Eyes" was hilarious and their flat-capped Yorkshiremen knocking nine bells out of each other with blackpuddings were side-splitting (unless you're from Yorkshire and therefore fed up to the back teeth with that kind of "eckie-thoomp" stereotype).

    It's about time we finally got to see The Goodies on DVD but while we wait I can highly recommend that you listen to the BBC Radio 4 "quiz" show "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" which features both Graeme and Tim.
    BlackArt

    One of the forgotten classics of British Comedy

    The Goodies are a very funny British comedy group that grew out of a radio show called "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" (sometimes called "The Wonder Show".) The radio series also had John Cleese and a few others.

    The writing for this group is always very sharp and filled with unexpected and dreadful puns.

    If you can find a copy of this, rent, buy or borrow it! (That goes for any of their other movies.)
    bibimimi

    "I spy with my little eye..."

    I would not miss these guys along with Python when I was in high school, and I'm sure it warped me. I recall a jockey's uprising, no longer able to withstand the indignities of "Apart-Height". There was a couple of lucky scone miners who got squirted in the face when they hit a vein of strawberry jam. And of course, the longest game of 'I Spy' on record with only one piece of furniture in the room. Out of context, yeah, sounds daft, kinda like quotes from "The Aqua Teen Hunger Force".
    Infofreak

    Classic English comedy from the 1970s!

    'The Goodies' were one of the things that made growing up in the Seventies so much fun! This show may be dated fashion- and special effects-wise, but the humour is still as original and hilarious as ever.

    Oddie, Garden and Brooke-Taylor shared a similar background and history to most of the Monty Python team. They also began as comedians while studying at University and various combination of Goodies and Pythons performed and wrote together for many television and radio comedies throughout the Sixties. Not long after Monty Python debuted on TV in 1969 The Goodies followed with their own series, which ended up lasting much longer. The Pythons aimed at adults, The Goodies at children, but for all their surface differences they shared a similar surreal Goons inspired wit, with an emphasis on wonderfully inventive sight gags.

    Unlike Python, the show wasn't a sketch comedy. The basic premise was that out heroes would do anything, anywhere, anytime, which meant that they got into increasingly bizarre situations, which were often just an excuse for silly goings on and funny stuff. And the show WAS funny! Even today the best episodes stand up, and 'Kitten Kong', the unforgettable episode about a giant kitten terrorizing a city, must surely rank as one of THE highlights of television comedy, any decade!
    oiyou

    One of the funniest shows

    One of the funniest UK comedy shows. The episode "Bunfight at the OK Tearooms" features the best western saloon bar poker game scene ever filmed (using toast for cards and biscuits as chips then pies and cakes and finally a three-tier wedding cake as the stakes got higher). The poker game is played entirely to piano music with no dialogue. The celebrity safari park one was great too. Especially when they released Tony Blackburn back into the wild and someone shot him. The show was derived from the radio show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again which was also part of Monty Python's ancestry featuring John Cleese in the cast and Eric Idle and Graham Chapman among the writers.

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    • Trivia
      According to the program Curious and Unusual Deaths (2009), this show caused an English man to laugh so long in 1975 that he died.
    • Quotes

      [the Goodies have been told there's half an hour to go before the end of the world]

      Tim: At least there's time to do the ironing.

      [Brings in the ironing board and a basket of laundry]

      Tim: Just think, this is the end of Derby County... and the Muppets!

      Graeme: The Muppets?

      Tim: Yes, when we go, they'll go too, you know... oh, I do hope they don't suffer.

      Graeme: They're not real, you know!

      Tim: Well, of course they're real!

      Graeme: Don't be silly... the Muppets are just dollies!

      Tim: If they're "dollies", how come they can sing and dance and make sophisticated funny remarks?

      Graeme: Look, Kermit the frog is a green sock.

      Tim: [suddenly disturbed] What?

      Graeme: Kermit the frog is a man on his knees with a green sock on his hand!

      [to demonstrate, he uses a green sock as a glove puppet and imitates Kermit]

      Graeme: "Hello frog lovers, and welcome to the Muppet Show! I'd like to welcome our very special guest, Miss Piggy. Yay-ay-ay-ay!"

      Tim: Well she has GOT to be real.

      Graeme: Pair of old y-fronts and a mop head.

      [He holds up a pair of underpants and a mop head, and speaks like Miss Piggy]

      Graeme: "Hello Kermit, spawn of my heart, frog of my dreams!"

      [as Kermit]

      Graeme: "Hi there Miss Piggy, and what can I do for you?" Fozzie Bear is a brown woolly jumper with a hat on!

      [Holds up a brown pullover and a hat and speaks like Fozzie]

      Graeme: "Oh boy, funn-y! Oh Kermit, I hope those two old guys don't heckle me!"

      [Holds up two sponge balls and imitates Waldorf and Statler]

      Graeme: "Boo boo, the bear's a comedian, the comedian's a bear! Boo, boo!"

      [Waves a feather duster in Tim's face and bellows]

      Graeme: "A-NI-MAL!"

      Tim: [Nearly hysterical] No, stop it! Lies! LIES!

      Graeme: [holds up the green sock again and sings] "Halfway up the stairs is the stair where I"...

      Tim: NO!

      [runs into the kitchen, screaming]

      Graeme: I'll release his inhibitions through anger and violence! My life's work is at an end. I can die a happy man.

      [Tim emerges screaming from the kitchen and throws the gas cooker at Graeme]

      Graeme: You shouldn't have hit me with that! You'll ruin the cake!

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      Featured in Comedy Classics of the 80's (1991)

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    • Release date
      • November 8, 1970 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Narrow Your Mind
    • Production companies
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
      • London Weekend Television (LWT)
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    • Runtime
      • 30m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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