As an Australian kid in the 1970s, from Monday to Thursday at 6pm, we were spoiled with the Goodies followed by Doctor Who. Every family, and I mean every family, watched these 2 shows and it remains the best of the best memories of my childhood. Foe crying out loud, these two shows out rated the programs on all the other channels at the time. You know, little shows like the evening news.
We watched them also on the ABC in the 70's. We were at uni in Toowoomba in a a residential college...only one TV in the common room. Haha... then changed channels for MASH.
100%. I Grew up in rural Australia and could only get two TV channels. Thank God one was the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), which showed The Goodies and Dr Who. Our family watched both religiously in the 1970s, as did every other family I knew. I recall going to school one day and it seemed like half the students were reenacting the “I’m 106 today”bit …there were kids flopping to the ground all over the place. Great show and great memories.
@@helixator3975 I grew up in Canberra, where we too only had the 2 channels. I remember one kid in my class, every morning, would go round to every kid and ask. "Did you watch the Goodies, did you watch Doctor Who?" He didn't want to discuss the shows, he just wanted to confirm we watched them, and all was right with the Universe.
As an old fart of 57 years of age , I stand with hand on heart and testify that the goodies series was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING 👏. I grew up watching this series and loved every second 😊. Thank-you to this magical trio ✨️. Peace out ✌️
@@Glamrockqueen , do you think the young people nowadays would understand the goodies brand of comedy ? ....nah ...they don't understand GOOD tongue in cheek comedy . Peace out ✌️
@@andrewbull3537 Not being rude duck, dunna be daft! We grew up in a time when you had a good old belly laugh at what you saw and heard. Comedians didn't have to resort to the gutteral stuff to get a laugh. Yes, there might have been a bit of smut and saucy language, but it went right over my head, I was just being entertained xx
@@Glamrockqueen ,yes OK 👍, I stand corrected ,....but the comedy when we was little easy out weights the comedy (if you can call it that )of this day and age .....never will we see the likes of monty python,basil fawlty,black adder .
'The Goodies' were popular in Australia and were repeated into the 1980s. I would watch them after school and the show helped me thru a difficult time, so I am always grateful to The Goodies. I loved the comedy but also loved the strange adventures they would have. In some episodes their house could actually drive and it would drive by itself while they would be chatting to each other in the house.
I watched the shows in Australia as they first aired and in numerous reruns. I bought the DVDs. I bought their books. I adored all of the. But Tim was definitely my favourite. I was ridiculously emotional when I heard he had died from Covid-19. 😢😢😢
I remember 5:00 pm everyday after school, ABC would show this and Doctor who together. I have the box set and have recorded every episode on my Foxtel box. The only thing l didn’t like about the Foxtel recordings is they left out the episode Skatty Safari where they capture and breed thousands of Rolf Harris’s.
I was born in '70 so the Goodies were a must-watch for me and my family. Although I don't remember any specific episodes, I just remember them as being hilarious, but quite heart-warming and endearing at the same time. There was never any malice in their comedy. It was all just good (pun intended) clean SILLINESS. Giant cats climbing the Post Office Tower? Excellent! Back then I used to watch BBC 2 avidly. It was just rammed full of wonderful comedies of all types. In the late 90's they had the "comedy zone" on Friday nights. THREE half hour comedy shows back to back including The Fast Show (fabulous!). Then something changed in the BBC and it all went downhill. I don't watch TV at all now let alone BBC. It's great that someone from the USA as you obviously are, are interested in parochial British comedy shows. Well done!
But not a single mention of Bill Oddie's obsession with ornithology. TBH, If you mention Bill Oddie to anyone in the UK, the first thing we associate him with is his wildlife interests. I'd almost forgotten that he used to be a comedian.
As your Americans talking about our great an funny show the GOODIES .... I would have thought that you would have mentioned that an American was watching this show with his wife, and laughed so much that he did in fact die of laughter?? His wife wrote to the Goodies stating that although he had died laughing, she wanted to thank them for making his last moments full of the joy of laughter 🤓 this is a true and documented account.... Must have missed it in your FACT'S FIRST...🤫☠️🇬🇧💯🕊️⁉️
I tried to post the link but comment removed. If you look for Goodies Alex Mitchell died laughing you will see the sketch. If I remember, it was the Scotsman scene that tipped the scales.
@@GregoryElliott1973 Yes. That was the link I put in my comment that was removed, so I put the search words in instead. So funny. We need these kind of shows back again.
The Goodies were staple in our household - and Tim was right, the best thing the BBC could have done in recent years would have been to show Goodies reruns!
Them singing Wild Thing - oh gosh, so hilarious, Tim’s facial expressions. Like many other posters, I’m an Aussie who grew up with The Goodies in the 70s. The three of them had chemistry, timing, innovation and were easy to like. Bill trying to break Tim’s national anthem record was a classic in the bloopers.
The decision to move the broadcast time to 9pm led to a notable phenomenon - the weekly "Battle of the Goodies" between the kids, who wanted to stay up to watch it, and their parents who wanted them to go to bed. The kids nearly always won, but it was often a pyrrhic victory. Everyone of my generation remembers sitting down to the Goodies at nine o'clock, exhausted after hours of arguing.
I now know everything about the Goodies except why it was cancelled - other than they wanted to move on which was explained in the narrative not by the cast and wasn't even accurate. I found this with a simple Google search. ... after one half-hour Christmas special ("Snow White 2") in 1981, and a six-part series in early 1982, the series was cancelled. In later interviews the cast suggest the reasons were mainly economic, and that a typical Goodies sketch was more expensive than it appeared.
Yeah, this vid is rubbish, the lads just moved on and did other things. Typical American spouting a load of crap about something he knows nothing about!
Oh I loved this when I was growing up! Every episode was a half-hour of the most unique, absurd silliness. It was wonderful! One thing you didn't expand much on was just how much they used trick shots - particularly those "fast motion" sequences but also the sudden cuts with replaced props. They made it their style, even more than their contemporaries Monty Python.
Growing up in Australia in the 70's meant that the Goodies (and Dr Who) were a part of my daily life and I am just introducing my daughter to them. The Goodies Rule OK!
I remember watching The Goodies in the 70's as a child with my younger brother. I'm sure most of the content went over our heads, but I remember the simple fun and silly comedy that filled the show. My brother and I developed an inner alarm clock that would make us stop doing what we were doing to sit down in front of the television for the start of The Goodies. We never missed an episode.
The Goodies thrived on the in house capabilities of BBC television in the 1970s. The Three Goodies wrote and starred in the show but also had a hand in the production which stretched and challenged the visual effects people and costume designers. All the various BBC departments would sit around the table with the script and let their creative abilities soar. For example, when the script asked for flat caps in the episode bun fight at the ok tea rooms, the costume department would make the hat the largest possible. At the end of the run, they moved to LWT which did not have in house facilities and more things had to be outsourced which meant individual jokes had to be costed. So, one year into a three year contract with LWT, the show was cancelled over the cost to make it. In addition, the BBC did not repeat the series possibly as they moved to LWT. The Goodies should have received more UK repeats in line with other comedies from the 1970s. On Dec 23 1973, the very last ISIRTA was aired on BBC radio and on Dec 24 1973 the Xmas special Goodies and the Beanstalk first aired. I doubt either will be marked by the BBC. A wonderful series, well loved by many.
I think the reason The Goodies rarely got repeated on BBC is because, by the mid-80s, there was a growing recognition (whether we agree with it or not) that some of the material in it was simply unacceptable. For instance, there were various episodes that saw The Goodies dressed up in blackface make-up, or as stereotype 'mad Highlanders,' like 'South Africa' and 'Kung-Fu Capers.' It's clear from reports that these had people at the Corporation cringing, an effect that got even more pronounced by the late-1990s. There is also an unmistakable tone of homophobia in some episodes e.g. when Tim was dressed up in drag and Graeme suggested that it meant he was 'sick' and 'twisted'. Not recognised as a problem at the time of production, but increasingly understood as being cheap and cruel by later generations.
The reason The Goodies was cancelled had nothing to do with them "simply wanting to move on". In 1980, they were informed by the BBC that it would not be allocating a budget for their 1981 series since the latter wanted to spend the money instead on a new comedy series they had planned - 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'. If the new show wasn't a success, they were told, a budget would be greenlit for a 1982 series of The Goodies. Naturally, they weren't very impressed with this arrangement, so they took the show to ITV, the main commercial network in the UK, and were snapped up by regional ITV affiliate London Weekend Television, which committed to a three-year contract. Under LWT, they made a Christmas special for 1981 and a full series for 1982. However, LWT quickly realised how expensive The Goodies was to make (ITV didn't have the huge, in-house resources of the BBC required to make such a visually-complex show) and so informed the trio that they wouldn't produce the other two series they'd agreed upon, although Tim, Bill, and Graeme would still be paid in full as per the contract. This meant, however, that until the contract expired in 1985, they also couldn't take the show to anyone else. When it did finally expire, they tried going back to the BBC, who, still unhappy at their 'defection' several years earlier, refused - also regarding them as yesterday's news. Consequently, there simply wasn't anyone left willing to make the show. So they moved on to other things, like Bananaman in 1985. However, they had always produced other stuff alongside The Goodies - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, for example, had already been going since 1972. It was the BBC and others who wanted to move on from them, not vice-versa.
Thankyou. This rings true. Much more than the weak explanation given in this video commentary The Goodies were so iconic and a big part of the staple diet for anyone of our generation ( I was born mid 50s) Having watched and read the comments, now I need to go and find me some episodes to watch …..
As a kid growing up in Australia in the 1970's everyone in our small town school watched the show and referenced it all the time. Later as a backpacker there was one place in London I had to visit because of The Goodies, Cricklewood. 😀
I followed "The Goodies" from the first episode & all I can say is.... "KITTEN KONG"! Its off-beat humour was sublime & uniquely British but as you pointed out, it transferred to other countries with ease.
I really loved how this Vodcast basically said nothing in so many different ways. You could take out the key words: "The Goodies" and substitute _anything else_ and you would be none the wiser. Something the Vodcasters are using to effect on all their posts.
FUN FACT 101: The Goodies has in part stayed alive due to Australia and other countries showing re-runs every few years for a long time. The BBC have not rerun the series,
The Goodies, Kenny Everett Video Show, Doctor Who and Monkey Magic... my weekly evening viewing in Australia in the 80's. I have all the Goodies episodes on DVD so I can still enjoy them.
Here in Australia, The Goodies were my go-to afternoon TV show on arriving home from school through the 70's & 80's (when doing my homework) & was a foundation of my childhood / teens. At 58yo now I STILL watch The Goodies regularly. Other classic UK comedy shows such as Monty Python, Please Sir, Mind your Language, Love Thy Neighbour, On The Buses, The Dave Allen Show, Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Black Books, I.T. Crowd etc, all built on the same foundation before wokeness ruined everything. I recommend parents show the odd episode to their kids to nurture their sense of humour & wit.
This video doesn't mention that whilst other shows of the era such as Monty Python and Fawlty Towers were repeated endlessly on BBC, the Goodies was stubbornly absent. It's an enduring mystery which points to some bitterness within the management of the BBC that has never been fully explained.
I had heard there was some beef between head of light entertainment/comedy at the Beeb and TBT, both I don't know if that makes sense when TBT was on BBC Radio for so many years. Like you I'd love to know the truth......
This and DrWho were my favourite shows of the seventies and eighties as they were both on every afternoon on the abc in Australia. You cannot get enough of these shows, no matter how many times you’ve watched them.
Tim Brooke-Taylor said in an interview wit Parkinson that he had no idea why the show was cancelled and it came as an unwelcome shock to the three creators as its ratings continued to be good. I suspect that when they switched from BBC to ITV the powers that be did not see the ratings they were expecting and canned the show after a single season.
I literally wet myself once from laughing during the episode when Tim Brooke-Taylor became emperor of Rome. when they were escaping from Rome burning, they jumped on the back of a 2-wheel horse cart, with very long poles between the horse and the cart. When the horse was thrown into the air by them jumping on the back of the cart was when I pissed myself.
I grew up as a young boy watching The Goodies. I loved that show which always brings back my fantastic memories of growing up in the 1970's, arguably the best decade to grow up in.
Always remember the episode they we’re having a go at each others names, and they said Bill Oddie ? Bill oddie? Billoddie stupid, (bloody stupid) lol 😂
I worked with them from 1974 until their final BBC series. I dubbed the one-off special "The Twenty First Century Show made by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie in 1979... it was never shown. Bill Cotton's (Controller of BBC) secretary didn't like some of the sketches and they were re-shot. In the end, the Goodies had had enough and joined ITV. I remember loads more.......
I remember the episode about Seth Efrica. When they walked into the embassy there was a guy playing a piano that had all the white keys on one side and the black keys on the other.
Me and my mate aged 10 went around the Birmingham streets with homemade rubber black puddings and flat caps shouting ecky thump . I now live in Yorkshire
"Monty Python for kids" was one of the descriptions used back in the day. I especially loved the way continuity was completely disregarded at times; for example some episodes would see all thee main characters killed off only to have them pop up again next week alive and well.
Watched the original airings as a Uni student living in a shared house in Australia. Required viewing. Way ahead of its time. Privatised Royal Mail anybody?
I'm Old. Way back before internet and even before remote controls, there were certain shows that if not watched would make one a social outcast or at least not 'up to date' at school next day. The Goodies was one such show, along with Dr Who, Dad's Army, Monty Python et al
I loved this show as a kid and still love it. Unique, brilliant and timeless comedy. Vale Tim, gone but never, never forgotten. Thanks for the decades of great memories Bill, Graeme and Tim.
I.m from the UK. And born in 1966 and basically grew up watching show. It was absolutely brilliant. I still remember the episode with the giant kitten 😂😂
I was born in 72. so only vaguely recall the Goodies from the first time around, certain episodes shine out in memory though, but I can't be certain the memory is from the orignal airing or a rerun I saw sometime in the 80's or a combination of both. I have entertained friends whose english wasn't great by putting on a Goodies episode ('Kung Fu capers' as I recall), their humour breaks the language barrier as a lot of it is physical, entire episodes can be carried with little to no dialog understanding whatsoever.
In the early 80's as a kid, my afternoons were Grange Hill, Danger Mouse, the Goodies then Doctor Who.
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The Goodies was not reshown in the UK, it was in Australia and some other countries, but not at home. The Goodies was deliberately not reshown by the BBC, as the BBC was unhappy that they "defected" to ITV, and made a version of "The Goodies" on a rival channel. it has recently been shown on "That's TV" channel after decades off the air. Not sure where they got the idea it was shown in "syndication", as the UK TV Industry does not work like that.
Another thing that all 3 members have said is that the contract they signed with Thames TV (who made the ITV series) meant that Thames got all the rights to the Goodies name to the extent that The BBC couldn't show their episodes and Graham, Bill and Tim couldn't even say they were members of The Goodies.
And yet there are several other acts that 'defected' to ITV from the BBC who are still revered and still admired today. The obvious one is Morecambe and Wise, who originally played on ITV, then defected to the BBC as they promised to make their shows in colour (pity they destroyed some of them), and then in the early 1980's they went back to ITV (reasons unknown) After a couple of seasons, Eric suffered a tragic fatal heart attack. But, the BBC still cosiders M&W THEIR property and regularly screen repeats, particularly over the Christmas period. Its still a mystery as to why the BBC have come down so hard on 'Goodies' repeats, and I believe not screened any since reluctantly since a handful of shows for the 40th anniversary. Time for some more I think - they are still as funny now as they were 50 years ago (although a little dated in places). NB other acts who 'defected' include Frankie Howard, Benny Hill, John Cleese/Graham Chapman (to write the 'Doctor' series), and Tony Hancock (another one that the BBC see as 'theirs'). Probably lots of others, but I'm still intrigued as to why they are so down on 'The Goodies'.
Australia grew up in the 70s and 80s with reruns of the Goodies Dr Who (Tom Baker or Jon Pertwee)Kenny Everette video show etc. usually around 5-6.30 pm on the ABC. We didn't have the rerun embargo that Uk had so were on a lot. If you notice early eps were very similar to Monty Python as Tim was involved with the writing. Once it became only Oddie and Garden scripts it became a lot less funny. On the commentary on the DVD it is mentioned that BBC did cancel the next lot of eps and so ITV offered them to air on their station but not to use any ideas or scripts from BBC due to copywrite. The ITV shows are poor and boring. Clearly run out of ideas.
The title of this video is misleading: it does not cover why the Goodies was cancelled. I had always assumed that the series had simply run its course and so thought that this video would reveal something different, so I was intrigued and fooled into watching it. As a review of the TV show it's quite good, and I probably would still have watched it if it had a more accurate title. Act is I was annoyed at bearing misled about the content
Born in 70, I always loved this show although being so young I wouldn't have understood lots of it, but there was enough content there for all ages. Don't really remember much as it was such a long time ago, but can't forget the one with the giant kitty, lol.
They were very funny when they began, but after a few years they ran out of ideas. The end came when they did a sketch on ITV parodying the talent show "New Faces" as "New Faeces". That was scraping the bottom of the toilet and I knew they were done for.
Ah, Tim Brooke-Taylor - I thought he was brilliant. He was superb in ISIHAC, as was Graeme Garden. The Goodies was basically Monty Python for a more populist, and younger audience. As a child I loved them. Since the show was cancelled, for some reason, it was never repeated. A great shame - it was a real landmark in British comedy - a lovely piece of silliness!
As a kid in the 70s and 80s in Australia, I couldn’t get enough of this show! In the mid 70s I lived in a part of southern Tasmania where we only got reception from 1 of our 2 TV stations at the time, the ABC. This show was a staple on the ABC. We had to watch in black and white though. Colour only became available in Australia in 1975, and we couldn’t afford that. “Do, do, do the funky gibbon”! “String, string, string, string, everybody loves string”!
Ah… the goodies “any time, anywhere “. Was their motto. I was fortunate enough to see dear Bill when he did a Goodies tour of Australia quite a few years back. It was great seeing him in person. There were people who dressed up in costumes. And people who were holding large imitation sausages (ecky thump sketch) The Goodies was a massive hit in Australia and it developed a cult culture of its own with people using sayings from the shows etc. oh.. and Bill did say, that they never got along with the bicycle. He said they always kept falling off and cutting their legs all the time. He said trying all of us to stay on it at once was an almost impossible task. If you look at the clip, you’ll notice that bill has his legs way out away from the pedals . That’s the reason ! Cheers Colin 🇦🇺
I watched it as a young lad, I have shown one episode to my son years later, he found ut as good as I did years earlier. The episode incidentally was the ecki thump one.
Hamish and Dougal is only filthy if you want it to be - but the innuendo is certainly applied thickly. What you really need to listen to with Hamish and Dougal, is the fabulous wordplay: Mrs N : Tea? Dougal: Thank you Mrs Naughty Mrs N: A meringue? Dougal: No, you're quite right, that is indeed a cup of tea...
One “guest star” that people used to go on about admitted that he’d never actually appeared in the show, one episode had the Goodies catching wild ‘Rolf Harris’s’ for a wildlife park, but it later turned out that Rolf Harris was never in the episode.
Yes I did watch the show when it was originally aired. But did you know that the trio would go on to voice characters in the superhero spoof/parody Bananaman?
One thing they didnt mention is that the filming was very expensive. The BBC were planning The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy and couldn't fund both shows, so the Goodies went to ITV. ITV cancelled them after one season, but their contract stopped them returning to BBC for about 5 years, so they petered out.
As an older fart of 60 and three quarters I totally agree with Andrew, the annuals were a staple Christmas present and were entertaining for all ages. It was one of those few programs where I watched with my parents and we all found something appealing. It was far far cleverer than just slapstick.
As a kid in Australia I watched the Goodies every day. Spent hours laughing and thinking about all their antics. Every day was another Adventure with the Goodies. Even to this day I can still remember so much of the Goodies. Modern children need to watch the Goodies as today's rubbish on tv is pure crap.
This explanation for the cancellation is quite untrue. The real reason the show was cancelled was that in 1981, the BBC had decided that it had carried on too long, which is a fair conclusion after 11 years. Its main appeal back in 1970 had been how non-establishment it was, but by 1981, with its growing age and familiarity, it had become an establishment show itself, meaning it had lost its central dynamic with the regular audience. As a secondary reason, the BBC also needed to make extra budget available for the very expensive television adaptation of The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Because of the technical complexity of The Goodies, it was a money-hungry show to make, so that meant cancelling it would open up quite a bit of cash for Hitch Hiker. So the BBC pulled the plug. The Goodies therefore accepted an offer to move to London Weekend Television, broadcasting on the ITV network, and signed an initial contract to make three seasons, with the first made and broadcast in 1982. The problem was that LWT was a tiny production company compared to the BBC, with only a fraction of the resources, and the controllers at LWT hadn't realised just how expensive the average episode of The Goodies was to make. So during the making of the first season, LWT soon found itself in financial bother, with The Goodies' production costs seen as a primary reason, and so they put the second season on hold. Realising that LWT could never realistically afford to bring the show back, the controllers simply never took it off hold afterwards. With the contract still in place with LWT for another two seasons, and it being way too expensive to buy the contract out, it was legally impossible for The Goodies to make any more shows under that banner or format with anyone else, and so that was effectively the end of the road. (As far as I know, the contract is STILL in place even today with LWT's current owner, Granada Television.) The idea that The Goodies were splitting up to do other things is nonsense; just a year after the LWT season, the same trio were working together to provide the voices on the very silly but amusing 'Bananaman' cartoons on BBC.
Did i miss something here? No cast member revealed anything. Why title this as such? Loved the goodies by the way but mystified by the title of this video.
Grew up watching "The Goodies" & I still have their original LP with those crazy hits such as "Working The Line", "Funky Gibbon", "Rock With A Policeman", "Please Let Us Play", "I'm A Teapot" & "Nappy Love". Loved the series & I don't think I missed a single episode. (though it's hard to say for sure).
They were brilliant when i was a teenager ,back then you could laugh at anything , today comedians have there hands tied behind there backs ,we need humour to survive these days .Guys you were great .
I still remember the spaghetti western spoof with the 'gun fight' (squirting tomato ketchup) at each other near the 'clotted cream mines' in Cornwall. IMHO that was the best episode - it would be good if the BBC could rerun some of the programs.
I enjoyed the Goodies, probably more than Python. It had more of the anarchic humour of the Goon show than Python, which appealed to me - and still does.
Well, well! So that's why the 'show' was cancelled, eh? To think for all those years I though yes, the 'show' definitely was "zany", but simply was NOT funny.
The biggest mistake they made early on was advertising it as a kids program & putting it in the kids schedules, when it was more for teenagers & adults. Loved it when they were on.
I am a 53 boy so I watched the Goodies, along with Monty Python who are just as funny now as they were s then. I loved the episode of British Marshal arts where Bill Oddy became grand master of Eckythump
Lovely, but you didn’t answer the question (that the Goodies themselves have frequently asked) as to why British television have never repeated their episodes, despite repeating many other inferior programmes. Maybe no one except for the BBC executives know. At least they were spread across the world and are still shown in other countries. I bought the DVD’s to show them to my children.
I was born in '71 here in Australia. Our version of the BBC (ABC) was airing The Goodies, Kenny Everett and Dr Who. What a great time to grow up in.
Yeah I'm Aussie born in 72 great times the late 70s, early 80s🇦🇺
Don't forget Monkey Magic and Battle of The Planets ( G Force).
Kenny Everett well there is another legend. I was so, so sad when he passed away.
Great show along with Dr who, catweazle , dick emery, more camber and wise and benny hill.
The best 3 shows to ever grace our screens. Loved growing up in Australia in the 70's.
The Goodies is one of the greatest British comedy series of all time. I was a kid in the 70s and couldn't get enough of it. An absolute classic.
me too
I also remember having a goofy Goodies book as a kid in the 80s 😂
I watched the whole series recently with my kids. They loved it - it really still holds up, although some of the references are a tad dated!
I was an adult in the 70s and couldn't get enough of it
As an Australian kid in the 1970s, from Monday to Thursday at 6pm, we were spoiled with the Goodies followed by Doctor Who. Every family, and I mean every family, watched these 2 shows and it remains the best of the best memories of my childhood.
Foe crying out loud, these two shows out rated the programs on all the other channels at the time. You know, little shows like the evening news.
We watched them also on the ABC in the 70's. We were at uni in Toowoomba in a a residential college...only one TV in the common room. Haha... then changed channels for MASH.
100%. I Grew up in rural Australia and could only get two TV channels. Thank God one was the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), which showed The Goodies and Dr Who. Our family watched both religiously in the 1970s, as did every other family I knew. I recall going to school one day and it seemed like half the students were reenacting the “I’m 106 today”bit …there were kids flopping to the ground all over the place. Great show and great memories.
@@helixator3975 I grew up in Canberra, where we too only had the 2 channels.
I remember one kid in my class, every morning, would go round to every kid and ask. "Did you watch the Goodies, did you watch Doctor Who?"
He didn't want to discuss the shows, he just wanted to confirm we watched them, and all was right with the Universe.
Early 80s I was in my early 30s when they re-ran them ... Dr Who , The Goodies and Monkey ... magic
One of my punishments when I was a kid was to be banned from watching the Goodies and Dr Who for the week... It was devastating!
As an old fart of 57 years of age , I stand with hand on heart and testify that the goodies series was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING 👏.
I grew up watching this series and loved every second 😊.
Thank-you to this magical trio ✨️.
Peace out ✌️
Couldn't make it today unless one of them was blaque, one was a woman and one was gay.
I'm an old fart of almost 60. I loved the Goodies. No-one does comedy like them anymore x
@@Glamrockqueen , do you think the young people nowadays would understand the goodies brand of comedy ? ....nah ...they don't understand GOOD tongue in cheek comedy .
Peace out ✌️
@@andrewbull3537 Not being rude duck, dunna be daft! We grew up in a time when you had a good old belly laugh at what you saw and heard. Comedians didn't have to resort to the gutteral stuff to get a laugh. Yes, there might have been a bit of smut and saucy language, but it went right over my head, I was just being entertained xx
@@Glamrockqueen ,yes OK 👍, I stand corrected ,....but the comedy when we was little easy out weights the comedy (if you can call it that )of this day and age .....never will we see the likes of monty python,basil fawlty,black adder .
'The Goodies' were popular in Australia and were repeated into the 1980s. I would watch them after school and the show helped me thru a difficult time, so I am always grateful to The Goodies. I loved the comedy but also loved the strange adventures they would have. In some episodes their house could actually drive and it would drive by itself while they would be chatting to each other in the house.
Early 80s there was Monkey , Dr Who and the goodies on the ABC from 5 through til 7 ... magic programming
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The house car episode is still my most memorable episode.
I watched the shows in Australia as they first aired and in numerous reruns. I bought the DVDs. I bought their books. I adored all of the. But Tim was definitely my favourite. I was ridiculously emotional when I heard he had died from Covid-19. 😢😢😢
So was i, like losing an old friend.
Damn, I just learnt that right now
Same. Tim seemed like he would be such a nice bloke
i watched in Brisbane, late 70s early 80s. 🌏
I remember 5:00 pm everyday after school, ABC would show this and Doctor who together. I have the box set and have recorded every episode on my Foxtel box. The only thing l didn’t like about the Foxtel recordings is they left out the episode Skatty Safari where they capture and breed thousands of Rolf Harris’s.
I was born in '70 so the Goodies were a must-watch for me and my family. Although I don't remember any specific episodes, I just remember them as being hilarious, but quite heart-warming and endearing at the same time. There was never any malice in their comedy. It was all just good (pun intended) clean SILLINESS. Giant cats climbing the Post Office Tower? Excellent!
Back then I used to watch BBC 2 avidly. It was just rammed full of wonderful comedies of all types. In the late 90's they had the "comedy zone" on Friday nights. THREE half hour comedy shows back to back including The Fast Show (fabulous!). Then something changed in the BBC and it all went downhill. I don't watch TV at all now let alone BBC.
It's great that someone from the USA as you obviously are, are interested in parochial British comedy shows. Well done!
But not a single mention of Bill Oddie's obsession with ornithology. TBH, If you mention Bill Oddie to anyone in the UK, the first thing we associate him with is his wildlife interests. I'd almost forgotten that he used to be a comedian.
Suits you , Sir !
I would remember the Fast Show but I'm afraid I was , very very drunk
@@ScrotieBoogerballsMc I'll get me coat then.
@@alexguest9937 someone's sitting there mate and BRILLIANT !!!!!!!
Stuck in hole, in the middle of the night, in the fog, WITH AN OWEL!!!
As your Americans talking about our great an funny show the GOODIES .... I would have thought that you would have mentioned that an American was watching this show with his wife, and laughed so much that he did in fact die of laughter?? His wife wrote to the Goodies stating that although he had died laughing, she wanted to thank them for making his last moments full of the joy of laughter 🤓 this is a true and documented account.... Must have missed it in your FACT'S FIRST...🤫☠️🇬🇧💯🕊️⁉️
Cool
It was an English fella that died ? From Kings Lynn
I tried to post the link but comment removed. If you look for Goodies Alex Mitchell died laughing you will see the sketch. If I remember, it was the Scotsman scene that tipped the scales.
@@hannosolo it was the icky thump episode
@@GregoryElliott1973 Yes. That was the link I put in my comment that was removed, so I put the search words in instead. So funny. We need these kind of shows back again.
The Goodies were staple in our household - and Tim was right, the best thing the BBC could have done in recent years would have been to show Goodies reruns!
Them singing Wild Thing - oh gosh, so hilarious, Tim’s facial expressions. Like many other posters, I’m an Aussie who grew up with The Goodies in the 70s. The three of them had chemistry, timing, innovation and were easy to like. Bill trying to break Tim’s national anthem record was a classic in the bloopers.
I loved this show growing up. The take on Jack and the Beanstalk unforgettable 😂♥️
The decision to move the broadcast time to 9pm led to a notable phenomenon - the weekly "Battle of the Goodies" between the kids, who wanted to stay up to watch it, and their parents who wanted them to go to bed. The kids nearly always won, but it was often a pyrrhic victory. Everyone of my generation remembers sitting down to the Goodies at nine o'clock, exhausted after hours of arguing.
I now know everything about the Goodies except why it was cancelled - other than they wanted to move on which was explained in the narrative not by the cast and wasn't even accurate.
I found this with a simple Google search.
... after one half-hour Christmas special ("Snow White 2") in 1981, and a six-part series in early 1982, the series was cancelled. In later interviews the cast suggest the reasons were mainly economic, and that a typical Goodies sketch was more expensive than it appeared.
Indeed. This video is a nothingburger, with a highly misleading caption.
Yeah, this vid is rubbish, the lads just moved on and did other things. Typical American spouting a load of crap about something he knows nothing about!
@@Twirlip2 Sounded like it was written by ChatGPT on a bad day
Agree. The title is misleading and the script sounded too much like it was AI written.
Oh I loved this when I was growing up! Every episode was a half-hour of the most unique, absurd silliness. It was wonderful!
One thing you didn't expand much on was just how much they used trick shots - particularly those "fast motion" sequences but also the sudden cuts with replaced props. They made it their style, even more than their contemporaries Monty Python.
They stole stuff shamelessly from absolutely everywhere ... marvellous
Growing up in Australia in the 70's meant that the Goodies (and Dr Who) were a part of my daily life and I am just introducing my daughter to them. The Goodies Rule OK!
Me too, both of my kids are Goodies and Dr Who fans now.
I remember watching The Goodies in the 70's as a child with my younger brother. I'm sure most of the content went over our heads, but I remember the simple fun and silly comedy that filled the show. My brother and I developed an inner alarm clock that would make us stop doing what we were doing to sit down in front of the television for the start of The Goodies. We never missed an episode.
The Goodies thrived on the in house capabilities of BBC television in the 1970s. The Three Goodies wrote and starred in the show but also had a hand in the production which stretched and challenged the visual effects people and costume designers. All the various BBC departments would sit around the table with the script and let their creative abilities soar. For example, when the script asked for flat caps in the episode bun fight at the ok tea rooms, the costume department would make the hat the largest possible. At the end of the run, they moved to LWT which did not have in house facilities and more things had to be outsourced which meant individual jokes had to be costed. So, one year into a three year contract with LWT, the show was cancelled over the cost to make it. In addition, the BBC did not repeat the series possibly as they moved to LWT. The Goodies should have received more UK repeats in line with other comedies from the 1970s. On Dec 23 1973, the very last ISIRTA was aired on BBC radio and on Dec 24 1973 the Xmas special Goodies and the Beanstalk first aired. I doubt either will be marked by the BBC. A wonderful series, well loved by many.
I think the reason The Goodies rarely got repeated on BBC is because, by the mid-80s, there was a growing recognition (whether we agree with it or not) that some of the material in it was simply unacceptable.
For instance, there were various episodes that saw The Goodies dressed up in blackface make-up, or as stereotype 'mad Highlanders,' like 'South Africa' and 'Kung-Fu Capers.' It's clear from reports that these had people at the Corporation cringing, an effect that got even more pronounced by the late-1990s. There is also an unmistakable tone of homophobia in some episodes e.g. when Tim was dressed up in drag and Graeme suggested that it meant he was 'sick' and 'twisted'. Not recognised as a problem at the time of production, but increasingly understood as being cheap and cruel by later generations.
Watched it growing up. Absolutely brilliant. Loved it. Clever as well as funny.
The reason The Goodies was cancelled had nothing to do with them "simply wanting to move on". In 1980, they were informed by the BBC that it would not be allocating a budget for their 1981 series since the latter wanted to spend the money instead on a new comedy series they had planned - 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'. If the new show wasn't a success, they were told, a budget would be greenlit for a 1982 series of The Goodies. Naturally, they weren't very impressed with this arrangement, so they took the show to ITV, the main commercial network in the UK, and were snapped up by regional ITV affiliate London Weekend Television, which committed to a three-year contract. Under LWT, they made a Christmas special for 1981 and a full series for 1982.
However, LWT quickly realised how expensive The Goodies was to make (ITV didn't have the huge, in-house resources of the BBC required to make such a visually-complex show) and so informed the trio that they wouldn't produce the other two series they'd agreed upon, although Tim, Bill, and Graeme would still be paid in full as per the contract. This meant, however, that until the contract expired in 1985, they also couldn't take the show to anyone else.
When it did finally expire, they tried going back to the BBC, who, still unhappy at their 'defection' several years earlier, refused - also regarding them as yesterday's news. Consequently, there simply wasn't anyone left willing to make the show. So they moved on to other things, like Bananaman in 1985. However, they had always produced other stuff alongside The Goodies - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, for example, had already been going since 1972. It was the BBC and others who wanted to move on from them, not vice-versa.
Thankyou. This rings true. Much more than the weak explanation given in this video commentary
The Goodies were so iconic and a big part of the staple diet for anyone of our generation ( I was born mid 50s)
Having watched and read the comments, now I need to go and find me some episodes to watch …..
As a kid growing up in Australia in the 1970's everyone in our small town school watched the show and referenced it all the time.
Later as a backpacker there was one place in London I had to visit because of The Goodies, Cricklewood. 😀
50 years later and I'm still doing the funky gibbon...
I followed "The Goodies" from the first episode & all I can say is.... "KITTEN KONG"!
Its off-beat humour was sublime & uniquely British but as you pointed out, it transferred to other countries with ease.
Ecky thump was another classic episode. That was the episode that caused someone to die laughing, too.
I really loved how this Vodcast basically said nothing in so many different ways.
You could take out the key words: "The Goodies" and substitute _anything else_ and you would be none the wiser. Something the Vodcasters are using to effect on all their posts.
I watched the whole video to get the answer to the title question, why did the series was cancelled…. And never got the answer 🙄
FUN FACT 101: The Goodies has in part stayed alive due to Australia and other countries showing re-runs every few years for a long time. The BBC have not rerun the series,
Put simply, they were great. Thank you boy's from an 80 year old youngster, born 17 days before Graeme. RIP Tim.
The Goodies, Kenny Everett Video Show, Doctor Who and Monkey Magic... my weekly evening viewing in Australia in the 80's. I have all the Goodies episodes on DVD so I can still enjoy them.
Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, and Joe Pesci took inspiration from the goodies for their roles in The Goodfellas. Thank you Tim, Graemem and Bill !
Here in Australia, The Goodies were my go-to afternoon TV show on arriving home from school through the 70's & 80's (when doing my homework) & was a foundation of my childhood / teens. At 58yo now I STILL watch The Goodies regularly. Other classic UK comedy shows such as Monty Python, Please Sir, Mind your Language, Love Thy Neighbour, On The Buses, The Dave Allen Show, Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Black Books, I.T. Crowd etc, all built on the same foundation before wokeness ruined everything. I recommend parents show the odd episode to their kids to nurture their sense of humour & wit.
This video doesn't mention that whilst other shows of the era such as Monty Python and Fawlty Towers were repeated endlessly on BBC, the Goodies was stubbornly absent. It's an enduring mystery which points to some bitterness within the management of the BBC that has never been fully explained.
Exactly! I can remember when the cast asked why there were no repeats. I have never seen a good answer.
I had heard there was some beef between head of light entertainment/comedy at the Beeb and TBT, both I don't know if that makes sense when TBT was on BBC Radio for so many years. Like you I'd love to know the truth......
I heard that they were banned for a little while in the UK because of increasing political correctness
This and DrWho were my favourite shows of the seventies and eighties as they were both on every afternoon on the abc in Australia. You cannot get enough of these shows, no matter how many times you’ve watched them.
Tim Brooke-Taylor said in an interview wit Parkinson that he had no idea why the show was cancelled and it came as an unwelcome shock to the three creators as its ratings continued to be good. I suspect that when they switched from BBC to ITV the powers that be did not see the ratings they were expecting and canned the show after a single season.
3:45 What's the name of the episode with that dog ? I think Ive seen every episode, but not that one.
These guys were hilarious! Loved every episode. 😂
Should also mention The Wonder Show (I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again) which was a radio precursor and was excellent in it's own right.
I literally wet myself once from laughing during the episode when Tim Brooke-Taylor became emperor of Rome. when they were escaping from Rome burning, they jumped on the back of a 2-wheel horse cart, with very long poles between the horse and the cart. When the horse was thrown into the air by them jumping on the back of the cart was when I pissed myself.
RIP Tim brook Taylor , sadly missed . One of my favourite childhood shows . A
" Goodies . . . .Goodie - Goodie yum yum !!" 😂
I grew up as a young boy watching The Goodies.
I loved that show which always brings back my fantastic memories of growing up in the 1970's, arguably the best decade to grow up in.
Always remember the episode they we’re having a go at each others names, and they said Bill Oddie ? Bill oddie? Billoddie stupid, (bloody stupid) lol 😂
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I grew up watching The Goodies and could recognise Tim Brooke-Taylor's voice in the animated Bananaman.
They were all in Bananaman.
I worked with them from 1974 until their final BBC series.
I dubbed the one-off special "The Twenty First Century Show made by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie in 1979... it was never shown. Bill Cotton's (Controller of BBC) secretary didn't like some of the sketches and they were re-shot. In the end, the Goodies had had enough and joined ITV. I remember loads more.......
Fun stuff, thank you so much for sharing your life story. What other types of video would you like to see on our channel?
I remember the episode about Seth Efrica.
When they walked into the embassy there was a guy playing a piano that had all the white keys on one side and the black keys on the other.
Me and my mate aged 10 went around the Birmingham streets with homemade rubber black puddings and flat caps shouting ecky thump . I now live in Yorkshire
"Monty Python for kids" was one of the descriptions used back in the day. I especially loved the way continuity was completely disregarded at times; for example some episodes would see all thee main characters killed off only to have them pop up again next week alive and well.
Watched the original airings as a Uni student living in a shared house in Australia. Required viewing. Way ahead of its time. Privatised Royal Mail anybody?
I still sing Don’t cry for me Marge and Tina😂
so do I! Glad someone else remembers that :)
I'm Old.
Way back before internet and even before remote controls, there were certain shows that if not watched would make one a social outcast or at least not 'up to date' at school next day.
The Goodies was one such show, along with Dr Who, Dad's Army, Monty Python et al
As a child at the time I thought the Goodies was hilarious. 4:43 With a suit like that you wouldn't need to put the central heating on all winter.
I loved this show as a kid and still love it. Unique, brilliant and timeless comedy.
Vale Tim, gone but never, never forgotten.
Thanks for the decades of great memories Bill, Graeme and Tim.
I.m from the UK. And born in 1966 and basically grew up watching show. It was absolutely brilliant. I still remember the episode with the giant kitten 😂😂
I was born in 72. so only vaguely recall the Goodies from the first time around, certain episodes shine out in memory though, but I can't be certain the memory is from the orignal airing or a rerun I saw sometime in the 80's or a combination of both.
I have entertained friends whose english wasn't great by putting on a Goodies episode ('Kung Fu capers' as I recall), their humour breaks the language barrier as a lot of it is physical, entire episodes can be carried with little to no dialog understanding whatsoever.
Did I miss the part where they said why it was cancelled?
In the early 80's as a kid, my afternoons were Grange Hill, Danger Mouse, the Goodies then Doctor Who.
The Goodies was not reshown in the UK, it was in Australia and some other countries, but not at home. The Goodies was deliberately not reshown by the BBC, as the BBC was unhappy that they "defected" to ITV, and made a version of "The Goodies" on a rival channel. it has recently been shown on "That's TV" channel after decades off the air. Not sure where they got the idea it was shown in "syndication", as the UK TV Industry does not work like that.
Another thing that all 3 members have said is that the contract they signed with Thames TV (who made the ITV series) meant that Thames got all the rights to the Goodies name to the extent that The BBC couldn't show their episodes and Graham, Bill and Tim couldn't even say they were members of The Goodies.
And yet there are several other acts that 'defected' to ITV from the BBC who are still revered and still admired today. The obvious one is Morecambe and Wise, who originally played on ITV, then defected to the BBC as they promised to make their shows in colour (pity they destroyed some of them), and then in the early 1980's they went back to ITV (reasons unknown) After a couple of seasons, Eric suffered a tragic fatal heart attack. But, the BBC still cosiders M&W THEIR property and regularly screen repeats, particularly over the Christmas period. Its still a mystery as to why the BBC have come down so hard on 'Goodies' repeats, and I believe not screened any since reluctantly since a handful of shows for the 40th anniversary. Time for some more I think - they are still as funny now as they were 50 years ago (although a little dated in places). NB other acts who 'defected' include Frankie Howard, Benny Hill, John Cleese/Graham Chapman (to write the 'Doctor' series), and Tony Hancock (another one that the BBC see as 'theirs'). Probably lots of others, but I'm still intrigued as to why they are so down on 'The Goodies'.
Australia grew up in the 70s and 80s with reruns of the Goodies Dr Who (Tom Baker or Jon Pertwee)Kenny Everette video show etc. usually around 5-6.30 pm on the ABC. We didn't have the rerun embargo that Uk had so were on a lot. If you notice early eps were very similar to Monty Python as Tim was involved with the writing. Once it became only Oddie and Garden scripts it became a lot less funny. On the commentary on the DVD it is mentioned that BBC did cancel the next lot of eps and so ITV offered them to air on their station but not to use any ideas or scripts from BBC due to copywrite. The ITV shows are poor and boring. Clearly run out of ideas.
The title of this video is misleading: it does not cover why the Goodies was cancelled. I had always assumed that the series had simply run its course and so thought that this video would reveal something different, so I was intrigued and fooled into watching it. As a review of the TV show it's quite good, and I probably would still have watched it if it had a more accurate title. Act is I was annoyed at bearing misled about the content
The Jack and the beanstalk Christmas special was hilarious.
Born in 70, I always loved this show although being so young I wouldn't have understood lots of it, but there was enough content there for all ages. Don't really remember much as it was such a long time ago, but can't forget the one with the giant kitty, lol.
I was born in 1962 and i loved the goodies, it was funny and the stories where great ,
Another 70’s baby here. The Goodies were brilliant.
Both my husband and I watched this as kids, now we have shown it to our children and they love it. Some of the best humour ever.
They were very funny when they began, but after a few years they ran out of ideas. The end came when they did a sketch on ITV parodying the talent show "New Faces" as "New Faeces". That was scraping the bottom of the toilet and I knew they were done for.
I was a total fan. My Dad and I looked forward to seeing the show every week 👍🏻❤️👍🏻
Ah, Tim Brooke-Taylor - I thought he was brilliant. He was superb in ISIHAC, as was Graeme Garden. The Goodies was basically Monty Python for a more populist, and younger audience. As a child I loved them. Since the show was cancelled, for some reason, it was never repeated. A great shame - it was a real landmark in British comedy - a lovely piece of silliness!
As a kid in the 70s and 80s in Australia, I couldn’t get enough of this show! In the mid 70s I lived in a part of southern Tasmania where we only got reception from 1 of our 2 TV stations at the time, the ABC. This show was a staple on the ABC. We had to watch in black and white though. Colour only became available in Australia in 1975, and we couldn’t afford that.
“Do, do, do the funky gibbon”!
“String, string, string, string, everybody loves string”!
Ah… the goodies “any time, anywhere “. Was their motto. I was fortunate enough to see dear Bill when he did a Goodies tour of Australia quite a few years back. It was great seeing him in person. There were people who dressed up in costumes. And people who were holding large imitation sausages (ecky thump sketch)
The Goodies was a massive hit in Australia and it developed a cult culture of its own with people using sayings from the shows etc. oh.. and Bill did say, that they never got along with the bicycle. He said they always kept falling off and cutting their legs all the time. He said trying all of us to stay on it at once was an almost impossible task. If you look at the clip, you’ll notice that bill has his legs way out away from the pedals . That’s the reason ! Cheers Colin 🇦🇺
The guys cut their teeth in the radio show I'm Sorry I'll Read that Again. Well worth a listen if you can find any episodes on line.
I watched it as a young lad, I have shown one episode to my son years later, he found ut as good as I did years earlier.
The episode incidentally was the ecki thump one.
If you have a filthy mind, listen to Hamish and Dougal - You'll Have Had Your Tea. It's hysterical. And filthy.
Hamish and Dougal is only filthy if you want it to be - but the innuendo is certainly applied thickly. What you really need to listen to with Hamish and Dougal, is the fabulous wordplay:
Mrs N : Tea?
Dougal: Thank you Mrs Naughty
Mrs N: A meringue?
Dougal: No, you're quite right, that is indeed a cup of tea...
One “guest star” that people used to go on about admitted that he’d never actually appeared in the show, one episode had the Goodies catching wild ‘Rolf Harris’s’ for a wildlife park, but it later turned out that Rolf Harris was never in the episode.
“Kitten Kong”, “Don’t Cry for me Marge and Tina”, complete lunacy. Preferred ISIRTA on the radio.
Why the random pic of LITTLE & LARGE at Minute 07:53 ?
Yes I did watch the show when it was originally aired. But did you know that the trio would go on to voice characters in the superhero spoof/parody Bananaman?
Growing up in Australia in the late 1970s/ learly 80s this was everybody’s favourite along with Monkey Magic. Best tv ever.
The Goodies was one show not to be missed when I was growing up.
One thing they didnt mention is that the filming was very expensive. The BBC were planning The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy and couldn't fund both shows, so the Goodies went to ITV. ITV cancelled them after one season, but their contract stopped them returning to BBC for about 5 years, so they petered out.
As an older fart of 60 and three quarters I totally agree with Andrew, the annuals were a staple Christmas present and were entertaining for all ages. It was one of those few programs where I watched with my parents and we all found something appealing. It was far far cleverer than just slapstick.
Many people forget how good the books and records were.
As a kid in Australia I watched the Goodies every day. Spent hours laughing and thinking about all their antics.
Every day was another Adventure with the Goodies. Even to this day I can still remember so much of the Goodies.
Modern children need to watch the Goodies as today's rubbish on tv is pure crap.
This explanation for the cancellation is quite untrue.
The real reason the show was cancelled was that in 1981, the BBC had decided that it had carried on too long, which is a fair conclusion after 11 years. Its main appeal back in 1970 had been how non-establishment it was, but by 1981, with its growing age and familiarity, it had become an establishment show itself, meaning it had lost its central dynamic with the regular audience.
As a secondary reason, the BBC also needed to make extra budget available for the very expensive television adaptation of The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Because of the technical complexity of The Goodies, it was a money-hungry show to make, so that meant cancelling it would open up quite a bit of cash for Hitch Hiker. So the BBC pulled the plug.
The Goodies therefore accepted an offer to move to London Weekend Television, broadcasting on the ITV network, and signed an initial contract to make three seasons, with the first made and broadcast in 1982.
The problem was that LWT was a tiny production company compared to the BBC, with only a fraction of the resources, and the controllers at LWT hadn't realised just how expensive the average episode of The Goodies was to make. So during the making of the first season, LWT soon found itself in financial bother, with The Goodies' production costs seen as a primary reason, and so they put the second season on hold. Realising that LWT could never realistically afford to bring the show back, the controllers simply never took it off hold afterwards.
With the contract still in place with LWT for another two seasons, and it being way too expensive to buy the contract out, it was legally impossible for The Goodies to make any more shows under that banner or format with anyone else, and so that was effectively the end of the road. (As far as I know, the contract is STILL in place even today with LWT's current owner, Granada Television.)
The idea that The Goodies were splitting up to do other things is nonsense; just a year after the LWT season, the same trio were working together to provide the voices on the very silly but amusing 'Bananaman' cartoons on BBC.
Did i miss something here? No cast member revealed anything. Why title this as such? Loved the goodies by the way but mystified by the title of this video.
Excellent in the early days, not so good after 1977, when the shows weren't as funny.
I recently finished my mate's funeral with the Funky Gibbon as we were both huge fans of the Goodies.
God bless guys, thanks for a great childhood,
The Goodies were an important part of my childhood, and Tim and Graham continued to make me laugh for decades thereafter.
That's G R A E M E. From the episode where they're encased in concrete.
Grew up watching "The Goodies" & I still have their original LP with those crazy hits such as "Working The Line", "Funky Gibbon", "Rock With A Policeman", "Please Let Us Play", "I'm A Teapot" & "Nappy Love".
Loved the series & I don't think I missed a single episode. (though it's hard to say for sure).
They were brilliant when i was a teenager ,back then you could laugh at anything , today comedians have there hands tied behind there backs ,we need humour to survive these days .Guys you were great .
I still remember the spaghetti western spoof with the 'gun fight' (squirting tomato ketchup) at each other near the 'clotted cream mines' in Cornwall.
IMHO that was the best episode - it would be good if the BBC could rerun some of the programs.
I was born in 1960 so I grew up watching them. I have the complete DVD set and watch regulally. The episode 'Clown Virus' was eerily prophetic.
I enjoyed the Goodies, probably more than Python. It had more of the anarchic humour of the Goon show than Python, which appealed to me - and still does.
I WAS BORN END OF 1961 THE Goodies WERE PART OF MY LIFE BLOODY LOVED THEM
Well, well! So that's why the 'show' was cancelled, eh?
To think for all those years I though yes, the 'show' definitely was "zany", but simply was NOT funny.
Another interesting fact is that a man suffered a heart attack and died as a result of laughing so hard at an episode of "The Goodies".
The biggest mistake they made early on was advertising it as a kids program & putting it in the kids schedules, when it was more for teenagers & adults. Loved it when they were on.
I am a 53 boy so I watched the Goodies, along with Monty Python who are just as funny now as they were s then.
I loved the episode of British Marshal arts where Bill Oddy became grand master of Eckythump
One of my favourite episodes, having been born in Lancashire, England.
@arnolddavies6734 well mum was also from Lancashire and they did it well including brass band music which was so much part of Lancs
I still use the phrase 'CAN YOU HEAR ME!!!' from an episode where they looked after a Lighthouse. Plus many other catch phrases.
Pretty sure Spike Milligan never appeared in The Goodies.
Yes I wondered about that statement.
I must have missed the bit where "the cast reveal why the series was cancelled"
They also did the voices to Bananaman
I'm an entertainer and I loved The Goodies as a child in the 70s. Some of my humour and approach to my work draws on this influence.
Lovely, but you didn’t answer the question (that the Goodies themselves have frequently asked) as to why British television have never repeated their episodes, despite repeating many other inferior programmes. Maybe no one except for the BBC executives know. At least they were spread across the world and are still shown in other countries. I bought the DVD’s to show them to my children.