Goodies

Starring:Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
Director: John Howard Davies, Bob Spiers, Jim Franklin (III)
Studio: Jef Films Inc.
Product Type: DVD

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The Goodies
Director: John Howard Davies , Bob Spiers , and Jim Franklin (III)
Manufacturer: Televista
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Release Date: 2007-03-20

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Yes, it's the Goodies - alias Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, in three of their funniest episodes! KITTEN KONG: The Goodies Animal Clinic is open for business and Twinkle the 23 year old kitten is one of their first customers-or-casualties! Graeme's growth serum has certainly proved successful. SCATTY SAFARI: Welcome to the Goodies Safari Park - which is proving to be quite a financial success for our intrepid trio, until the star attraction goes to meet the great Radio 1 Controller in the sky. SCOUTRAGEOUS : So that's where Tim's been sneaking off to every Thursday night dressed in a beige mac with a bag over his head. The scouts of all places!

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What a rip-off
You'd be daft not to buy this - a hit with the new generation

The Goodies [Region 2]
Director: John Howard Davies , Bob Spiers , and Jim Franklin (III)
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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What a rip-off.......2007-01-13

All this time and a person here in the states still can't get a DVD of the Goodies!!! What's wrong with the people that make these? Don't they realize that there are alot of us from the 70's who watched these guys along with Monty Python's Flying Circus? These guys were hilarious. Come-on get off the pot and get with it!

You'd be daft not to buy this - a hit with the new generation.......2006-12-23

Created, written and performed by comedians Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor, 'The Goodies' was a very zany hit British BBC comedy that ran for nine seasons until 1981. In the show the trio set themselves up as an agency for hire and call themselves 'The Goodies' (as they were supposedly the good guys), with the motto `We do anything, anytime'. To quote TVTome: "Using a unique blend of sketch comedy, slapstick and almost cartoon-like humour the show was often outrageously madcap, and only rarely failed to hit the mark". During their BBC years The Goodies twice won the Silver Rose of Montreux (Europe's top comedy TV award) - one was for 'Kitten Kong' on this DVD set. Conspiracy theories abound on why none of 'The Goodies' hit episodes were ever re-run by the BBC.

I bought this 2 DVD set of the BBC TV series for my daughter (11) after she watched 'The Goodie years' documentary on TV recently and seemed to like the humour. She is very very taken with the eight 30 minute episodes here on the two DVDs (Tower of London, Kitten Kong, Gender Education, Kung Fu Capers, Lighthouse Keeping Loonies, Earthanasia, Saturday Night Grease, The Goodies and the Beanstalk). I told her that around a hundred Goodies episodes were actually made. Her comment after viewing the few here throughout the weekend was 'Why don't they release all the episodes on DVD, anyone would be stupid not to buy them'. She likens The Goodies to the single 'Monkees' DVD she has that she also likes (The Monkees - our favourite episodes).

So we have now ordered 'The Goodies - a second helping' (another 2 DVD set). As I write my son (10) is now sitting down with her in her bedroom laughing at the Goodies antics. My daughters favourites are Kung Foo Capers, Lighthouse keeping Goodies and Saturday night grease (although she hasn't actually seen Grease). My son thinks the Goodies are 'very funny and stupid'. They obviously really go for the childish humour and visual gags, as my family and I did 30 years ago.

Picture quality is good if slightly noisy on the older 1970's episode but seems to improve as the episodes go toward 1980 (and they are all in colour). Sound is fine (mono on my Amazon resellers set). I don't actually find the Goodies that dated, as well as a lot of clever 'pantomime' slapstick, they had a sharp script, lots of boyish enthusiasm and a pretty unique visual style, although naturally some aspects are very period like the cars and BBC presenters. The only programme that came near to it in concept was probably the earlier UK TV children's show 'Do not adjust your set' (that also featured The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band as guests) - although the recent 'My parents are aliens' has a similar witty nutty style. It is very English, although the slightly puerile humour is more slapstick than Monty Python, and so is probably more accessible to a transatlantic audience.

So great value laughs for the kids, and highly recommended. Now mum and dad are looking forward to watching them again - 'Goody goody dum dum'. Don't pay much more than $30 from Amazon resellers though, otherwise try ebay.

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