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The Goodies have to tackle a gigantic white kitten which is terrorising London. A special episode, based on the original 1971 Goodies' "Kitten Kong" episode. The special was called "Kitten Kong: Montreux '72 Edition", and was first broadcast in 1972. The original 25 minute episode is thought to no longer exist, making it the only Goodies episode which is officially lost; however, the expanded and more elaborate version for the 1972 Montreux festival is said to have only minor differences with its 1971 prototype. One difference is the ending; in the original the giant mice are represented by stock footage of real mice inserted into the footage using chroma-key (CSO). In the Montreux version, giant model mouse heads are seen crashing through polystyrene walls.
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.
The Goodies finally return to television after nearly 25 years with a compilation of classic clips, interviews and new material.
The Goodies "Christmas Night With The Stars" 1972 Clip.
Originally shown as part of the 'Engelbert With the Young Generation' series and subsequently compiled into 'A Collection of Goodies' (aka 'Special Tax Edition').
The Goodies sing "A Man's Best Friend is His Duck" on Crackerjack.
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.
Scenes and commentary on the problems facing the restoration team.
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.
BBC station identification leading in to opening credits.
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.
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. Show air date was November 4th 2010
Filmed on Thursday June 7 2018 - Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie reunite on stage for a unique evening to talk yet again about the trio's career and the enduring popularity of series.
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.
The Goodies are asked to assist in discovering who is stealing the Beefeaters' beef.
The Goodies are asked to market a bedtime drink called "Venom." They decide that the first thing that is needed is a name change - to "Snooze."
The Goodies are hired to improve the image of the police with the general public.
The Goodies are asked to recover some sexually explicit photographs of politicians.
The Goodies go on holiday to a Cornish village that has been subjected to military takeover.
The Goodies take a job helping out at a Stately Home, and meet sweet Cecily, who is not all that she seems ...
The Goodies open a pirate radio station - and post office.
The Goodies help a suicidal zookeeper to locate a monster for London Zoo's Snowdon Monster House.
The Goodies take part in the Commonwealth Games as the British team against the August Bank Holiday Islands - with the entire Commonwealth at stake.
The land is covered in pollution and the Goodies suspect corruption.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In response to a proposed appaling 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."" However, she dismisses it as too rude without even watching it. So a rebellious Bill starts making video nasties for the BBC.
The Goodies are bouncing on spacehoppers from London to Brighton for charity. However, they continue to bounce on around the world much to the horror of their tight-fisted sponsor.
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 the Goodies and other famous people.
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.
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.
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 Tim all his money in his will. Bill and Graeme think this is despicable, disgusting - and a very good idea, so they invite themselves along.
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).
Witch Hazel's problems with casting spells leads the Goodies to help her to contact lost souls via a séance and Graeme's mystical powers eventually see him turned into a gibbon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Graeme's attempt to send rabbits to the moon seems to be a failure until Bill and Tim's space voyage discovers plots of vegies and the menacing presence of Big Bunny.
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.
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 ...
Graeme discovers an ancient tunnel below the Goodies' office and his penchant for potholing soon finds the Goodies stuck inside the stomach of a prehistoric tyrannosaurus rex.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 custom-make a shaggy monster of his own.
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?
Bill reveals himself to be a Grand Master of the infinitely more subtle and superior Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump.
The Goodies answer an advert for ""a little light housekeeping"" and find themselves stuck for five years in charge of an ""overgrown lamppost.""
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.
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.
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.
With hardly a penny to their name, the Goodies go prospecting for gold - and discover Cornish cream.
The Goodies are trapped inside a 350-foot block of concrete, with ""turps for burps"", changing religion, cannibalism and I-spy all on the agenda while being stuck at close quarters for so long.
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
An extension to the Eskimos fishing limits soon has Britain codless, so the Goodies smuggle a cod back from Greenland and grow it to a huge size, but still have to ward off the Eskimos.
Tim's nasty tv talent show is a flop after Bill and Graeme's folk singing is a hit with the judges, so Tim sets about creating the rock ‘n roll revival and becomes a loony tv director.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Disgusted by Tim and Graeme's love of hunting, Bill vows to protect the last dodo from extinction, even though it has all sorts of horrible behavioural problems for him to contend with.
Tim indoctrinates Bill and Graeme into the Scouts. But they take things to extremes resulting in the movement being declared illegal.
The rapidly growing punk craze sees Tim as the lone defender of shiny shoes and niceness after both Graeme and Bill have sunk to punk, but even Tim wants to be able to go the Trendsetters Ball.
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.
It's Christmas Eve, and as The Goodies prepare for Christmas they learn that the world is about to end.
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.
Bill decides to open Disco Bilius and introduces a mixed dancing competition.
The British Olympic team is broke. Tim joins them and competes against Graeme's and Bill's Rest Of The World team.
The strange alien abductions of trombonists cause Bill to take up the ‘bone in a bid to solve the mystery, while Graeme constructs EBGB the robot to help Tim out at his Knutters Knoll Knitespot.
Tim becomes an animal rights activist. So Bill becomes a vegetable rights activist, and a Watership Down parody ensues.
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.
The Goodies are kicked out of the Seven Dwarves for being too tall and are lost and unemployed until they attempt to enter the castle controlled by the princesses.
Due to dire financial conditions, Bill is fired and replaced with a baby robot; however Tim and Graeme need help with raising the robot and hire a strange bearded Swedish nanny to look after it.
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.
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.
The Goodies are preparing to close their business due to old age until the threat of the robot taking over forces them to undertake the Standard Test to see if they are still capable of being Goodies.
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.
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.
