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The Goodies is a British television comedy series shown in the 1970s and early 1980s, which starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie.The series, which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy, was broadcast by the BBC, initially on BBC2 but soon repeated on BBC1, [1] from 1970 until 1980.
Garden also has a daughter, Sally, and a son, John, from his previous marriage to Mary Elizabeth Wheatley Grice. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] His son John "JJ" Garden is the occasional keyboardist for the music group Scissor Sisters , [ 13 ] and shares songwriting credit on the song "The Other Side" from their 2006 album Ta-Dah .
Kitten Kong" (episode seven from series two) is the only episode of The Goodies that is officially missing from the BBC archives, the original video tape was wiped for reuse by the BBC in the 1970s. An expanded, more elaborate version of the original transmitted episode called Kitten Kong: Montreux '72 Edition does exist.
The Goodies were a trio of British comedians: Tim Brooke-Taylor (17 July 1940–12 April 2020), Graeme Garden (b. 18 February 1943) and Bill Oddie (b. 7 July 1941). The trio created, wrote for and performed in their eponymous television comedy show from 1970 until 1982, combining sketches and situation comedy.
Graeme makes references to Space Invaders, an early and extremely popular arcade game and plays with an oversized prop Rubik's Cube in one scene. On the DVD audio commentary, Bill Oddie notes that the card game played in this episode, 'Spat', bears some resemblance to Mornington Crescent from Brooke-Taylor and Garden's radio series I'm Sorry I ...
The Goodies hit the town to show off their new looks. Tim is sporting a curly blonde wig, beauty spot and false teeth. Graeme is given curly mop hair, a hairy chest and Groucho Marx-style glasses, nose and moustache. Bill sports a bouffant hairdo, platform shoes and ridiculous false chin. The Goodies wait to meet up with their dates, and soon ...
At Lord's Cricket Ground, Tim Garden finds a tiny urn full of ashes in a cupboard. Assuming that the urn was full of dust, Tim Garden empties the ashes onto the floor. Then, he finds a discarded cricket box, and, assuming that it is a hat of some sort, he places it on his head. Tim Garden also puts the stumps and cricket bat to a new and novel use.
Traditional, adapted by Graeme Garden Battle Of The Whispering Mouse: Brian Cooke, Graeme Garden, David McKellar, Johnnie Mortimer, Bill Oddie, and Peter Vincent "If Folk Singers Went to College" (with interpolations of "Eton Boating Song", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", and "Ball of Kerrymuir") Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, and Jo Kendall