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A DEVOTED FAN OF THE GOODIES

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The day I met two of the goodies, my grandest idols, is imprinted on my brain forever, until an alien scoops it out and eats it. In case your dumb and are not familiar with their brilliance, here is a brief and dissapointing history... lol... I have all of their... EVERYTHING!!! dvds... t-shirts... whatever.
Too bad they were spent on my mum's generation and not mine... oh well. This pic was taken at our restaurant... In which they booked themselves in as "the goodies"and made themselves a TOTAL give-away... lol... it was unbelieveable. They were doing a show the next night, they were touring aus... and... i amost screamed when they mentioned that they had met me... O_O.... They are GODS. anyway, heres a brief history...


The Goodies
The Goodies (TV series) ran from November 1970 to February 1982 on BBC2, 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 — OK!"). 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.

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" and 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 (no. 4 in the charts).

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The making of the television programme
The Goodies (TV series) was created and co-written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden 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 benefited greatly from the input of director Bob Spiers, who later directed Absolutely Fabulous, Press Gang, some episodes of Fawlty Towers and the film Spiceworld.

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Repeats and commercial releases
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. The BBC released two videos of the series in the 1990s, but did not seem enthusiastic about promoting them.

In the late 1980s, the pan-European satellite-channel Super Channel broadcast a couple of episodes. Sky's 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.

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.

In Australia, the series has had continued popularity. It was repeated through the 1970s and 1980s by the ABC — although, as the show was typically broadcast in the 25-minute 5:30pm children's timeslot, portions often had to be cut. The unedited episodes were repeated frequently on the pay television channel UKTV during the 1990s. The DVDs are available in Australia under different titles to the UK releases. The DVD titles in Australia are 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), though their content is unchanged.

In the United States, the series was shown widely in syndication during the late 1970s and early 1980s, but has been little seen since. The series was also shown in Canada on the CBC national broadcast network during those same years, in the traditional "after school" timeslot.

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.

In 2004, an episode of the BBC documentary series Comedy Connections was devoted to the Goodies.

Christmas 2005 saw a 90-minute Goodies special, including a documentary about the series, Return of the Goodies, broadcast on BBC Two.

Early on in 2006 a single episode about the Winter Olympics was broadcast on BBC Two but was not followed by any more.
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Hi, I'm a UK fan and I met all three Goodies in January 2019 when they signed copies of their new DVD set after their show at Slapstick Festival in Bristol. Did you know there is now a complete set of all the BBC episodes (except the original version of Kitten Kong)? It's available from Network Distribution. I especially love Bill. The organisers were telling us we could only get one item signed each but as I'd had a unique 'Distinctly Giddie' t-shirt made (based on the sleeve of his 1967 LP Distinctly Oddie), I asked Bill if he would mind signing it - and he kindly did, remarking that it was like going back to the 70s, signing shirts! Well, I wanted to ask for a hug but it was busy so they were kind of pushing us through - and I feared I might get overexcited, to be frank - so I gave his shoulder a rub instead. I got to touch Bill!!!!!