The Goodies

Dec 30, 2005

The Goodies finally return to television after nearly 25 years with a compilation of classic clips, interviews and new material.

Sep 24, 1972

A lack of finances sees Tim filling out a Tax Evasion form for the Goodies, with Graeme’s computer providing timely reminders of the bizarre items which he is trying to claim for.

Dec 25, 1972

In a super-condensed series of Christmas themed events, Tim, Graham and Bill sing a number of carols, put the boy to bed and then arrange for a visit from Santa...

Feb 27, 1972

Originally shown as part of the 'Engelbert With the Young Generation' series and subsequently compiled into 'A Collection of Goodies' (aka 'Special Tax Edition').

Dec 01, 1978

The Goodies sing "A Man's Best Friend is His Duck" on Crackerjack.

Dec 15, 1969

Very little exists of the 1968/1969 pre-cursor to The Goodies. Presented here are the 35mm film inserts to one show that would have been seen at various points in the episode interspersed with other material recorded on videotape in the studio. This material is sourced directly from the original film and is presented without the audience reaction, which would have been part of the original broadcast.

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Jul 11, 2010

Jun 28, 2026

Scenes and commentary on the problems facing the restoration team.

Jun 28, 2026

Jun 28, 2026

Short clip explaining the pre-aired timeclock counting down to live for broadcast of one of the episodes. Includes audio of Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor yelping and scrambling to get ready with 10 seconds to air.

Jun 28, 2026

BBC station identification leading in to opening credits.

Jun 28, 2026

Existing 16mm film elements were examined by Amanda Whitby and digital copies of the existing analogue videotape recordings were compared to ascertain the best source, along with some new transfers from the original 2-inch mastertapes. Colour grading, noise reduction and reconstruction of 'Come Dancing' episode by Jonathan Wood.

Apr 22, 1975

Jun 23, 1975

Nov 11, 1975

Dec 09, 1975

Nov 04, 2010

The Goodies were once again reunited when the BBC one show, entitled "The One Show", brought them back. It concluded with Tim riding a tandem alone while the others stared / watched.

Jun 07, 2018

Live onstage appearance from Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor as they discuss their popular 1970s television series at the Leicester Square Theatre in June 2018. In conversation with comedian Stewart Lee and television expert Dick Fiddy, the stars talk about the successes and highlights of their career while taking questions from the audience.

Nov 08, 1970

The Goodies are asked to assist in discovering who is stealing the Beefeaters' beef.

Nov 15, 1970

The Goodies are asked to market a bedtime drink called 'Venom'. They decide that the first thing needed is a name change to 'Snooze'.

Nov 22, 1970

The Goodies are hired to improve the image of the police with the general public.

Nov 29, 1970

The Goodies are asked to recover some sexually explicit photographs of politicians.

Dec 06, 1970

The Goodies go on holiday to a Cornish village that has been subjected to military takeover.

Dec 13, 1970

The Goodies take a job helping out at a stately home, and meet sweet Cecily, who is not all that she seems...

Dec 20, 1970

The Goodies open a pirate radio station - and post office.

Oct 01, 1971

The Goodies help a suicidal zookeeper to locate a monster for London Zoo's Snowdon Monster House.

Oct 08, 1971

The Goodies take part in the Commonwealth Games as the British team against the August Bank Holiday Islands - with the entire Commonwealth at stake.

Oct 15, 1971

The land is covered in pollution and the Goodies suspect corruption.

Oct 22, 1971

The Goodies are asked to find Professor Knutts who went missing whilst leading an expedition to find the Lost Tribe of the Orinoco in 1951. They eventually find him - in Sevenoaks.

Oct 29, 1971

Musicians are being kidnapped all over the country, so The Goodies become famous musicians too, eventually get stolen and come face-to-face with their arch-enemy - The Music Master.

Nov 05, 1971

Tim's crusade to stop rich Americans from buying all of Britain's art treasures sees him bidding a huge amount of money for one painting, forcing the Goodies to take drastic action to pay for it.

Nov 12, 1971

The Goodies' Animal Clinic looks after various problem animals, including Twinkle the kitten who, thanks to Graeme's growth formula, grows to a massive size and terrorises London.

Nov 19, 1971

Asked to be part of a formation dancing team, the Goodies find that dancing isn't as gentle and pure as they thought, especially when they encounter Delia Capone and her corrupt team.

Dec 10, 1971

Disgusted at the awful cuisine served up at Ye Olde Shepherds Restaurant, the Goodies head to the farm of Tim's uncle for some fresh country food, only to be further disappointed upon arrival.

Dec 17, 1971

Bill reports Graeme and Tim to the Women's Liberation Front after he disapproves of their treatment of Graeme's new totty. As a punishment, they are sent to work for Lord Charles (a male chauvinist) - Graeme as the butler and Tim as the maid.

Dec 31, 1971

In response to a proposed appalling BBC film (for schoolchildren, mark you) on S-E-X education, Mrs. Desiree Carthorse - the self-proclaimed most powerful person in the field of television, if not the world, enlists The Goodies to make her version: 'How to Make Babies by Doing Dirty Things'.

Jan 07, 1972

The Goodies are bouncing on space hoppers from London to Brighton for charity. However, they continue to bounce on around the world much to the horror of their tight-fisted sponsor.

Jan 14, 1972

The Goodies' bid to win the Nice Person of the Year Award is being sabotaged by the mysterious Dr. Petal and his evil robot doubles of them and other famous people.

Apr 09, 1972

The Goodies' Animal Clinic looks after various problem animals, including Twinkle the kitten who, thanks to Graeme's growth formula, grows to a massive size and terrorises London.

Feb 04, 1973

The Goodies need a new office, but after being ripped off in the local estate agent they decide to build their own - a Graeme designed mobile disused railway station.

Feb 11, 1973

Tim is off to spend the weekend at Tally-Ho Towers with his rich Great Uncle Butcher-Fitzsimmons. He is dressed as a Guardsman in the hope that this will impress the old man into leaving him all his money in his will. Bill and Graeme think this is despicable, disgusting - and a very good idea, so they invite themselves along.

Feb 18, 1973

The Goodies agree to be Britain's team in the Winter Olympics at the North Pole (there's apparently been a lot of snow there recently).

Feb 25, 1973

Witch Hazel's problems with casting spells leads the Goodies to help her to contact lost souls via a seance, and Graeme's mystical powers eventually see him turned into a gibbon.

Mar 04, 1973

Graeme's urge to recreate an early Viking expedition and find the Lost Island Of Munga sees the Goodies shipwrecked and at the mercy of an old foe from a previous show.

Mar 11, 1973

The failure to find any kids willing to go to an adventure school forces the Goodies to attend disguised as children, only to find that the school is being used for a far more sinister cause.

Jul 07, 1973

Appalled at the offensive songs in the hit parade, the Goodies perform a sickly sweet song on the Maxie Grease Show, but Bill is exploited and turned into a superstar by an unscrupulous agent.

Dec 01, 1973

Tim's Uncle King Arthur (actually Arthur King, but appearing as 'King, Arthur' in the phone book) is away on holiday and the Goodies have to look after his home, firstly turning it into a tourist attraction, then having to defend it from the clutches of the local town planner.

Dec 08, 1973

Graeme's attempt to send rabbits to the moon seems to be a failure until Bill and Tim's space voyage discovers plots of vegetables and the menacing presence of Big Bunny.

Dec 15, 1973

A bad experience with the hospital system forces the Goodies to become doctors themselves and attempt to fix up the health system with the help of Graeme's magic elixir.

Dec 24, 1973

The Goodies have hit rock-bottom and are forced to sell Buttercup for a tin of baked beans. In an act of desperation, Graeme plants one of the beans...

Dec 29, 1973

Graeme discovers an ancient tunnel below the Goodies' office and his penchant for potholing soon finds them stuck inside the stomach of a tyrannosaurus rex.

Jan 05, 1974

A timid policeman needs the Goodies' help in boosting his tally of arrests, but their fiendishly cunning bank robbery sees them locked away in prison and desperate to escape.

Jan 12, 1974

A wrong turn to Skegness sees the Goodies winning the Tour de France cycling race, so they decide to also enter Le Mans and convert their disused railway station office into a car.

Feb 10, 1975

The Goodies buy a movie studio and attempt to revitalise the British film industry, but ultimately descend into chaos when they each try to shoot their own film at the same time.

Feb 17, 1975

A job to dispose of a harmless can of 'tomato soup' for an American military base sees the whole British population turned into clowns and ripe for an invasion by US troops.

Feb 24, 1975

Tim has become rather flabby while the others have been away fishing, but trims himself down thanks to a brainwashing radio DJ and enters the Miss Housewife of the Year Contest.

Mar 03, 1975

An invitation to an eisteddfod in Wales has the Goodies in all sorts of trouble with the Reverend after they dare to break many of the puritanical local laws and actually try to entertain people.

Mar 10, 1975

Graeme's dog breeding venture gets out of hand and Tim's only chance to win at Crufts is to dress Bill in a dog costume, which forces Graeme to create a shaggy monster of his own.

Mar 17, 1975

The main attraction at The Goodies Star Safari Park, Tony Blackburn, is hearing the call of the wild and pining for his freedom. The trio realise that they can no longer keep such a magnificent beast in captivity, and release him. But who should they get to replace him?

Mar 24, 1975

Bill reveals himself to be a Grand Master of the infinitely more subtle and superior Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump.

Mar 31, 1975

The Goodies answer an advert for 'a little light housekeeping' and find themselves stuck for five years in charge of an 'overgrown lamp post'.

Apr 07, 1975

In 55AD the early Goodies venture to Rome to provide entertainment for the fruit-fancying Emperor, but are eventually confronted by Attila the Hun and the invading Barbarians.

Apr 14, 1975

Bill is fired from the Goodies' newspaper for being a hopeless reporter and after he is rejected by the love of his life, he decides to end it all by entering the Eurovision Raving Loony Contest.

Apr 21, 1975

The Goodies are forced to emigrate to South Africa where the absence of black people forces a new form of segregation called apart-height, mainly affecting short people like jockeys and Bill.

Apr 28, 1975

With hardly a penny to their name, the Goodies go prospecting for gold - and discover Cornish cream.

May 05, 1975

The Goodies’ office accidentally gets covered in concrete, leaving them trapped for a century. They desperately try to survive while they grow hungry and slightly mad…

Dec 21, 1975

The unwanted Goodies finally hit the big time after years of failure, only for the government to topple and all forms of fun to be banned, requiring a civil uprising and a puppet government.

Sep 21, 1976

Cod have become so scarce that there is nothing to make fish fingers from.

Sep 28, 1976

Tim invites Bill and Graeme to perform on the talent show he presents.

Oct 05, 1976

Goodies Holidays is creating an exciting mystery tour aboard the Orient Express for the Detectives Club, but things go astray when the train is hijacked and taken to the Le Boring Contest.

Oct 12, 1976

Graeme has established a rest home for clapped-out old animals and is sent a pantomime horse, which Tim trains before it is callously stolen by Bill to enter in the Grand National.

Oct 19, 1976

A series of too honest ads sees revenue for the Goodies' advertising agency plummet, until Tim discovers the joys of string, and Bill and Graeme set about ripping him off.

Oct 26, 1976

The futuristic sons of the Goodies have become bored with the extremely violent forms of modern entertainment and seek to revive something truly civilised from their fathers' era - cricket.

Nov 02, 1976

A concert featuring many of The Goodies' best known songs, including Cactus in my Y-Fronts, Funky Gibbon, Black Pudding Bertha, Bounce, Last Chance Dance and Wild Thing.

Nov 01, 1977

A historical look back at the ancestors of the Goodies; Celtic Kilty (Graeme), County Cutie (Tim) and Kinda Kinky (Bill) and how they were captured by the evil television slave traders.

Nov 08, 1977

Disgusted by Tim and Graeme's love of hunting, Bill vows to protect the last dodo.

Nov 22, 1977

Tim indoctrinates Bill and Graeme into the Scouts, but they take things to extremes resulting in the movement being declared illegal.

Nov 29, 1977

The punk phenomenon grips Britain as even grannies reject niceness.

Dec 06, 1977

The revised Royal Variety Show hosted by Graeme is so well received by the royal family that they enter showbiz but end up in hospital, requiring the Goodies to act as their replacements.

Dec 22, 1977

It's Christmas Eve, and as The Goodies prepare for Christmas they learn that the world is about to end.

Jan 14, 1980

Graeme is faced with selling the image of two potential Prime Ministers to the nation; Bill as the revolutionary Che Monyou and Tim as the stunning Timita.

Jan 21, 1980

Bill decides to open Disco Bilius and introduces a mixed dancing competition.

Jan 28, 1980

The British Olympic team is broke. Tim joins them and competes against Graeme and Bill's Rest of the World team.

Feb 04, 1980

The strange alien abductions of trombonists prompt Bill to solve the mystery.

Feb 11, 1980

Tim becomes an animal rights activist, so Bill becomes a vegetable rights activist and a Watership Down parody ensues.

Feb 18, 1980

The Goodies are grown-up babies who are sent off to boarding school during the war years, and are asked by Churchill to go behind enemy lines to buy him a box of German cigars.

Dec 27, 1981

The Goodies find themselves living next door to Snow White and the seven dwarfs.

Jan 09, 1982

Due to dire financial conditions, Bill is fired and replaced with a baby robot; however Tim and Graeme need help with raising it and hire a strange, bearded, Swedish nanny.

Jan 16, 1982

Bill the soccer hooligan is in fine form as Tim becomes Chief of Police in a bid to stamp out such boorish conduct, with football then becoming so boring that its fans flock to the ballet instead.

Jan 23, 1982

The Goodies set off to the Canadian Rockies in search of the mythical Arthur C. Clarke, but find all sorts of other weird creatures including the legendary Bigfoot.

Jan 30, 1982

Bill's 40th birthday makes the Goodies decide to close the business due to old age.

Feb 06, 1982

A supposedly relaxing holiday in the seaside village of Dunsquabblin turns very stressful when the Goodies are trapped inside for 17 days due to heavy rain and snow.

Feb 13, 1982

Graeme's pet shop has a special new line - people dressed up as animals, but they also suffer from being dumped so Tim sets up a protection society, while Graeme cruelly puts the strays to work.