Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Clip Photos Top cast Edit. Corbet Woodall Newsreader as Newsreader …. David Rappaport Robot as Robot …. Stuart Fell Bank clerk as Bank clerk ….
Norman Mitchell Gerald as Gerald …. Barry Cryer Newsreader as Newsreader. More like this. Storyline Edit. The Goodies are a three-man agency whose motto is to do 'anything, anytime'. This gave the series carte blanche to do whatsoever it pleased, which did turn out to be absolutely anything, all with a cartoon-like surrealism and a heavy reliance on slapstick.
Anytime, anyplace, anywhere. Did you know Edit. Trivia According to the program Curious and Unusual Deaths , this show caused an English man to laugh so long in that he died. Connections Featured in Comedy Classics of the 80's User reviews 18 Review.
Top review. More surreal than Monty Python. Python was surreal and got well known for it. Personally I think "The Goodies" was more consistently funny than Python and, for the most part, as surreal the chase at the end of "Saturday Night Grease" should be enough to confirm that!
I just wish that they were as popular so that more programmes were available on DVD! Details Edit. Release date November 8, United Kingdom. Michael Palin refers to The Goodies many times in his published diaries, including criticisms of such elements as their "MOR" music career.
During the July entries, Palin states that BBC producer "Jimmy" Gilbert had rejected two Goodies scripts for the very first time, on the grounds that they weren't funny enough. Bill Oddie insisted that the content regarding "Punky Business" was the reason it was rejected, a decision later rescinded. Bill also contradicted Palin's statement by stating that the earlier South Africa was also rejected, and extra jokes were requested before the BBC would agree to make it. An episode that gives the impression it was written to give Bill chance to put more songs into the show, this one is inventive and lightly amusing; albeit one you may admire rather than love.
Henry McGee does his best with his villainous role, the Goodies battling "supervillains" perhaps not one of the show's finest motifs. Yet look out for a scene where all three leads sing as a gospel troupe with afro wigs During the s the BBC would erase many recordings to save on tape and space storage, with lots of archive television still missing from the archives.
The Goodies fares better than most, with just a couple of episodes existing only in black and white, and only one the original Kitten Kong lost altogether. Come Dancing was a third episode that existed only on black and white film, before a low quality PAL video was discovered in the s, and colour boosted for a DVD release. Although, as the image above illustrates, this is far from broadcast quality, it's a nice curio to own on disc, and a fairly amusing episode.
One highlight of many Goodies episodes are the times when Bill Oddie almost loses it and cracks up on camera. Notable moments include his dressing up as "Helga" in the LWT episode Robot , or slipping over on a rug in series three's Hunting Pink. Look out for the moment here where Joan Sims, as a Mafioso trying to break into ballroom dancing, pours milk down the front of his trousers Bill can hardly contain his mirth. As just the second episode of series two, it marks a series of changes that would be taken up and expanded upon later in the programme, from fully kick-starting Tim's "Tory" persona, down to Tim and Bill having an argument, the first time on screen the regulars have had a serious disagreement.
Perhaps most significant of all is that this is the first time, chronologically, that the leads are transformed into human cartoons.
Before this, other than "quick change" and Bill's lemon sherbert visions, the Goodies had done things that only normal humans can do This is also the first to sidestep a continuing loose narrative, whereby the Goodies would exist in the real world and accept consequences This is the second of two episodes along with Playgirl Club to exist only in black and white, and the available footage is in quite bad condition.
However, the aforementioned "Bill's bending legs" sequence was selected to appear in the title sequence each week, meaning a screen capture of colour material from the episode was possible. An age when people would laugh at Graeme getting his own breakfast in bed by a system of pullies, or the team inventing a high-powered hot chocolate that can send you to sleep. It's not "edgy" comedy, despite the presence of the suggestion that Bill spends his time in bed masturbating.
It's very much in the ethos of late 60s TV comedy, which could lean more towards a staid narrative, and veer away from coarser, more spontaneous material. This is not an express criticism of Snooze, more an acknowledgement that it, along with the majority of the first series, had a very different feel to a lot of what came afterwards.
Possibly the least typical episode of the first series, a macabre tale with the Goodies childminding and looking after a haunted house. The humour isn't as overt, and the pace more relaxed, though there's an increase in surrealism. As early as series two The Goodies could be human cartoons, but this first run sees them only react to situations that could conceivably happen, odd sight gags like the "quick change room" or Bill's sherbert aside.
For the series, Bill Oddie and Michael Gibbs would craft songs to underscore the programme's slapstick montage sequences. One of the best would be "Needed", which is somewhat undermined by it appearing in every single series one episode, and eight of series two.
A broad and amusing satire on the NHS, this one sees the Goodies set themselves up as an alternative service and, thanks to Graeme's elixirs, put the NHS out of business. There's lots of corny gags that work on style alone Tim offering to show Bill and Graeme the ropes sees him literally show them some ropes and the playing is infectious.
Look out for Harry H.
0コメント