The Goodies is a British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s. The series, which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy, was made by BBC 2 from 1970 to 1980 — and was then made by the ITV company LWT from 1981 to 1982.
The show was co-written and starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie (as "The Goodies"). Bill Oddie also wrote the music for the series — while "The Goodies Theme" was co-written by Bill Oddi...
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The Goodies is a British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s. The series, which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy, was made by BBC 2 from 1970 to 1980 — and was then made by the ITV company LWT from 1981 to 1982.
The show was co-written and starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie (as "The Goodies"). Bill Oddie also wrote the music for the series — while "The Goodies Theme" was co-written by Bill Oddie and Michael Gibbs. The directors/producers of the series were John Howard Davies, Jim Franklin and Bob Spiers.
An early title which was considered for the series was Narrow Your Mind (following on from Broaden Your Mind) and prior to that the working title was Super Chaps Three.
The series' basic structure revolved around the trio offering themselves for hire — with the tagline "We Do Anything, Anytime" — to perform all sorts of ridiculous but benevolent tasks. Under this pretext, the show explored all sorts of off-the-wall scenarios for...
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