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The Best Medicine: Graeme Garden's Book of Medical Humour compiled and illustrated by Graeme Garden, published by Robson Books Ltd., London (1984), ISBN 0-86051-295-9; The Skylighters; The Seventh Man; Graeme Garden's Compendium of Very Silly Games; Stovold's Mornington Crescent Almanac; Co-written with the other members of The Goodies: The ...
The first book is dedicated to Tim Brooke-Taylor, 2 years since his death from COVID-19 complications and published with the backing of Tim's family and the 2 remaining Goodies: Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, with a percentage of the royalties going to the charity Tim was President of for over 25 years – Thames Valley Adventure Playground.
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.
The Goodies tell of the time when their ancestors were young men, and how their ancestors met for the first time. Graeme's family were Highlanders who lived in bleak conditions in Scotland, where initiation of the young men of the village included being dunked in porridge and catching a wild haggis .
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 discover that the computer organised three elderly ladies to be their companions for the night.
Tim Brooke-Taylor (later one of the three members of The Goodies).He wrote humorous books on subjects including cricket and golf. He was a member of the cast of the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman, and later appeared in Feldman's television comedy series Marty.
"Animals Are People Too" is the last ever episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode, which was made by LWT for ITV, was written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, with songs and music by Bill Oddie. It marked the last regular on-screen appearance of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie.
The titles of the Goodies episode pages (apart from one) are now in accordance with the recently published book "The Goodies Rule OK" by Robert Ross. As the book contains contributions by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, as well as a lot of information about the television series (including backgrounds of the episodes etc.), and ...